City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

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.

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.

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

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