A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.