Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Build therefore your own world.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.