Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. - Lord Byron

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

Tis sweet to hear the watchdog’s honest bark
Bay deep-mouth’d welcome as we draw near home;
’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come;
’Tis sweet to be awaken’d by the lark,
Or lull’d by falling waters; sweet the hum
Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds,
The lisp of children, and their earliest words.