I'd Like To Grow Very Old As

For God's Sake (i Never Was More Serious) Don't Make Me Ridiculous Any More By Terming Me Gentle-hearted In Print.

To Be Thankful For What We Grasp Exceeding Our Proportion Is To Add Hypocrisy To Injustice.

I Have Been Trying All My Life To Like Scotchmen, And Am Obliged To Desist From The Experiment In Despair.

I Never Knew An Enemy To Puns Who Was Not An Ill-natured Man.

Summer, As My Friend Coleridge Waggishly Writes, Has Set In With Its Usual Severity.