Fill a glass jar full of plant matter, leaving an inch of space. (I prefer to tincture each herb separately and mix combinations as I need them.) Completely cover plants with 100-proof vodka, brandy, or vinegar and secure the lid tightly.

Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.

The appeals to the public were also expressed differently: that is to say, much less by fallacious argumenta ad populum that played on the fears of the addressees, than by an appeal to rational insights, humanity and democracy.

But I saw a glow-worm near, / Who replied: ‘What wailing wight / Calls the watchman of the night?