On a warm summer's evening On a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler

Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.

This short-term plan deals with the next few days.

[W]ho can deny but that the rod of Gods mouth is indeed Virga virtutis, a rod of strength, an iron rod, able to deale with all humane reaſonings, as a hammer with a potſherd, which though to the hand of a man it may feele as hard as a rocke, yet is too brittle to endure the blow of an iron rod?