Pray, Pray Be Composed, And Do Not

For What Do We Live, But To Make Sport For Our Neighbors And Laugh At Them In Our Turn?

Every Man Is Surrounded By A Neighborhood Of Voluntary Spies.

I Begin Already To Weigh My Words And Sentences More Than I Did, And Am Looking About For A Sentiment, An Illustration, Or A Metaphor In Every Corner Of The Room. Could My Ideas Flow As Fast As The Rain In The Storecloset It Would Be Charming.

Lovely & Too Charming Fair One, Notwithstanding Your Forbidding Squint, Your Greazy Tresses & Your Swelling Back, Which Are More Frightful Than Imagination Can Paint Or Pen Describe, I Cannot Refrain From Expressing My Raptures, At The Engaging Qualities Of Your Mind, Which So Amply Atone For The Horror, With Which Your First Appearance Must Ever Inspire The Unwary Visitor.

But There Are Some Situations Of The Human Mind In Which Good Sense Has Very Little Power.