and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.