When I Play With My Cat, Who

I Am One Of Those Who Hold That Poetry Is Never So Blithe As In A Wanton And Irregular Subject.

To Smell, Though Well, Is To Stink.

He That Had Never Seen A River, Imagined The First He Met With To Be The Sea.

I Do Not Understand; I Pause; I Examine.

'as A Man Who Knows How To Make His Education Into A Rule Of Life Not A Means Of Showing Off; Who Can Control Himself And Obey His Own Principles.' The True Mirror Of Our Discourse Is The Course Of Our Lives.