The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. - Samuel Johnson

OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.