Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.


Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834)


Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.