Do you not feel pleased when you give up your pipe after having smoked all the tobacco in it--when you see that nothing is left but some ashes ?" "It is true." "Well, there are two pleasures in which your senses have certainly nothing to do, but I want you to guess the third, and the most essential." "The most essential?
It is the perfume." "No; that is a pleasure of the organ of smelling--a sensual pleasure." "Then I do not know." "Listen.

The principal pleasure derived from tobacco smoking is the sight of a smoke itself.

You must never see it go out of the bowl of your pipe,--but only from the corner o your mouth, at regular intervals which must not be too frequent.

It is so truly the greatest pleasure connected with the pipe, that you cannot find anywhere a blind man who smokes.

Try yourself the experiment of smoking a pipe in your room, at night and without a light; you will soon lay the pipe down." "It is all perfectly true; yet you must forgive me if I give the preference to several pleasures, in which my senses are interested, over those which afford enjoyment only to my soul." "Forty years ago I was of the same opinion, and in forty years, if you succeed in acquiring wisdom, you will think like me.