Oh, that mine enemy had written a book!--and that it were my life;
unless indeed it provoked my friend to write another.
It has always appeared to me a strong argument for the non-existence of
spirits that these friendly microscopic biographers are not haunted by
the ghosts of the unfortunate men whom they persist in holding up to
public contempt.--SIR A. HELPS. _Thoughts in the Cloister._