It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in…
He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.
Fleas Adam Had 'em. originally entitled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes"