"But make it short, because, as it is, the world will find it a long way through two antechambers into the passengers'-room of the Book.--Joke in the beginning.--Seldom does a man bowl all the Nine Muses on the literary ninepin-alley.--The conclusion from the reflection.--Bring out many resemblances between the title Hesperus and the Evening Star, or Venus, of which the following must be specimens: That mine, like the latter, is full of high, sharp mountains, and that both owe their greater splendor to their unevenness; further, that the one as well as the other, in its transit across the sun (of Apollo), appears only as a black spot.--(In your copy-book of letters you must have made numbers of such allusions.)--The world expects that the Evening Star in the second edition will come up from below, as Lucifer, or Morning Star, and that the glorified body of the paper will tabernacle a glorified soul: let it pass, and bring the world to its right bearings.--Regard pedants, who sustain and fodder themselves on words, not on things, as like the after-moths, which devour and digest wax cakes, but no honeycomb.--No one so very much resembles as pedants do the magpies, which are at once thievish and _garrulous_: they dilute and filch.--Into the critical hell precisely those classes of persons are not cast, which the Talmud also exempts from the Jewish, namely, the poor, those who cannot count, and those who are carried off by the diarrh[oe]a.--Be a fox, and cajole the critical billiard-markers who announce loss and gain."----