One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
We all grow on somebody's grave.
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
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!