The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom