Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.
Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.