His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.