I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.