Of All Animals, He Alone Attains To

An Unsophisticated Forecaster Uses Statistics As A Drunken Man Uses Lamp-posts - For Support Rather Than For Illumination.

Again, If There Are Really No Fairies, Why Do People Believe In Them, All Over The World? The Ancient Greeks Believed, So Did The Old Egyptians, And The Hindoos, And The Red Indians, And Is It Likely, If There Are No Fairies, That So Many Different Peoples Would Have Seen And Heard Them?

There's A Joy Without Canker Or Cark, There's A Pleasure Eternally New, 't Is To Gloat On The Glaze And The Mark Of China That's Ancient And Blue.

O Grant Me A House By The Beach Of A Bay, Where The Waves Can Be Surly In Winter, And Play With The Sea-weed In Summer, Ye Bountiful Powers! And I'd Leave All The Hurry, The Noise, And The Fray, For A House Full Of Books, And A Garden Of Flowers.

He Missed An Invaluable Opportunity To Hold His Tongue.