The Anatomy of Tobacco/Book I, Chapter V

Chapter V

NOW as to the contingent unnecessary matter (e. g., tobacco-jars) and impossible matter (e. g., cabbage-leaves) I will say nothing. And the reason of this is that I have got nothing to say, and since I am not of sufficiently ripe experience in arte nihil dicendi, let this be enough; and so much for the matter of Smoking, which is the first part of this book.