Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

Poets and dramatists smoked until all ignoble ideas were driven from them, and into their place rushed such high thoughts as the world had not known before.

Petty jealousies no longer had hold of statesmen, who smoked, and agreed to work together for the public weal.

Soldiers and sailors felt, when engaged with a foreign foe, that they were fighting for their pipes.

The whole country was stirred by the ambition to live up to tobacco.