“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books,…”

“In years that bring the philosophic mind.”

“They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures,…”

“Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.”

“There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,-- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.”

“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”