""I am not desirous, even were it practicable,"" he said, ""to defend the use of opium, or rather the abuse of it. I can only say, that the substitutes you propose are not suited to my condition. The world has now no enticements for me; society no charms. Love, fame, wealth, honor, may engross the attention of the multitude; to me they are all shadows; and why should I grasp at them? In the solitude of my own thoughts, looking on but not mingling in them, I have taken the full gauge of their hollow vanities. No, leave me to myself, or rather to that new existence which I have entered upon, to the strange world to which my daily opiate invites me. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1922 года (издательство "Boston, Gould and Lincoln; New York, Sheldon and company; [etc., etc.]"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Tales And Sketches (John Greenleaf Whittier)