The moth
The moth
Themoth looks like a butterfly, but it is not so beautiful. The moth usually flies by night, and the butterfly by day.
There are many kinds of moth; some are large and some are small. You often see moths flying into the lamp or candle, of a summer evening.
Persons who are so fond of pleasure as to injure themselves in the pursuit of it, are compared to the silly moth, which is dazzled with the light, flies into it, and perishes.
Pleasure is a good thing, and I love to see children pursue it—but some kinds of pleasure are dangerous, and are as fatal to young persons as the blaze of the lamp or candle to the heedless fly or moth.