Riches Are Chiefly Good Because They Give

Reader, If You Are Gifted With Nerves Like Mine, Aspire To Any Character But That Of A Wit.

Oh For A Tongue To Curse The Slave Whose Treason, Like A Deadly Blight, Comes O'er The Councils Of The Brave, And Blasts Them In Their Hour Of Might!

I Mean Your Borrowers Of Books - Those Mutilators Of Collections, Spoilers Of The Symmetry Of Shelves, And Creators Of Odd Volumes.

Your Absence Of Mind We Have Borne, Till Your Presence Of Body Came To Be Called In Question By It.

I Know That A Sweet Child Is The Sweetest Thing In Nature, Not Even Excepting The Delicate Creatures Which Bear Them.