It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Examples are few of men ruined by giving.
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.