Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

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