O charm the girls he never spoke—
Although his voice was fine;
He found the most convenient way
Was just to drop a line.
And many a gudgeon of the pond,
If they could speak to-day,
Would own, with grief, this angler had
A mighty "taking" way.
John Godfrey Saxe, Poems.
AM always afraid of a fool: one cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
W. Hazlitt, Characteristics.
HE people is much given to stoning its prophets that it may worship their reliques with the greater fervency: dogs that bark at us to-day lick our bones to-morrow with true canine fidelity.
Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Beorne.
