It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend…

the "lightning of the mind." We feel an instantaneous kindness and reverence towards an author

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

Sooth't were a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do But just to blow a shepherd's reed, The silent season thro' And just to drive a flock to feed,— Sheep—quiet, fond and few!

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own— 'T is "love in Idleness".

No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.

Two hats, we grant, may be better than one; yet is one enough at a time. It is so with the head. It should be sole and self-relying. We like to wear ours in single blessedness on our own shoulders, and not let it hanker after a place on …