The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?