"For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something." --Emerson, "Compensation"

The 692 in the April 2, 2009, midday Pennsylvania lottery is the same number that is the subject of a commentary in "Is Nothing Sacred?" (March 9, 2000). The 377 in the April 2, 2009, evening Pennsylvania lottery is the same number mentioned in "A Chautauqua for Chautauqua" (June 26, 2002)-- the page number illustrated below.

Note that the "line from Thoreau" that Phaedrus remembers on page 377 is actually the line from Emerson quoted above.