Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.
Americans will listen but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
