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!

The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

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

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?