Waste. November 18.

Thrift of the heart, thrift of the emotions -- how are they wasted in these days in reading sensation novels! while British literature -- all that the best hearts and intellects among our forefathers have bequeathed to us -- is neglected for light fiction, the reading of which is the worst form of intemperance -- dram-drinking and opium-eating, intellectual and moral.

Lecture on Thrift.