Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.