Folks, I just heard from Paul Saunders, another of our patrons who is ABEND at the moment.

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, and the world makes you King for a day, / Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, and see what that guy has to say.

[…] without this rest, and these seasons, it is impossible to make these Clayes harrow, or yeelde any good mould at all.

it is not therefore so much the understanding that constitutes, among animals, the specifical distinction of man, as his quality of a free agent.