The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities—whereas the sentimental French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew—and pays no tax.

The American is always out to conquer fresh fields of commerce, and so their famous “Gaztite” rings and many other comic gadjets find their way out here and to other countries as well.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle […]

Throughout his life, Josiah [Clark] Nott corresponded with many interesting and outstanding men of science. He became embroiled with the leaders of Protestant orthodoxy in a vitriolic argument over the unity of mankind. Nott believed that the races were created separately, as opposed to the biblical idea that all humankind came from Adam and Eve.