True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Idleness induces caprice.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.