He would have some discreet men to disswade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent, or by absence allaied; for it is intempestive at first, to give counsell, as it is, to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to no purpose to prescribe Narcoticks, Cordialls, Nectarines, potions, […]

Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log.

We flash across the level. / We thunder thro' the bridges. / We bicker down the cuttings. / We sway along the ridges.

It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.