We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.