As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.