Severe and saintly righteousness

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.

I have something more to do than to feel.

I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.