Frost kills the flowers that bloom out of season... - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

St. Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame!