Daily Dose

From William Cowper's Letters: A Selection, edited by E. V. Lucas

NO COMPLAINT

"You complained of being stupid, and sent me one of the cleverest letters.  I have not complained of being stupid, and sent you one of the dullest.  But it is no matter; I never aim at anything above the pitch of every day's scribble, when I write to those I love."

From a letter to John Johnson, Esq., dated Weston, Dec. 18, 1790