For, just when our ideas fail us,

A well-coined word may best avail us.

Words are best weapons in disputing,

In system-building and uprooting,

To words most men will swear, though mean they ne’er so little,

From words one cannot filch a single tittle.

Student.

Pardon me, if I trespass on your time,

Though to make wisdom speak seems scarce a crime;

On medicine, too, I am concerned