An Artist's Business Is Only To See.

The Spring Is Here, Young And Beautiful As Ever, And Absolutely Shocking In Its Display Of Reckless Maternity; But The Judas Treewill Bloom For You On The Bosphorus If You Get There In Time. No One Ever Loved The Dog-wood And Judas Tree As I Have Done, And It Is My One Crown Of Life To Be Sure That I Am Going To Take Them With Me To Heaven To Enjoy Real Happiness With The Virgin And Them.

Society' In America Means All The Honest, Kindly-mannered, Pleasant- Voiced Women, And All The Good, Brave, Unassuming Men, Between The Atlantic And The Pacific. Each Of These Has A Free Pass In Every City And Village, 'good For This Generation Only,' And It Depends On Each To Make Use Of This Pass Or Not As It May Happen To Suit His Or Her Fancy.

The Difference Is Slight, To The Influence Of An Author, Whether He Is Read By Five Hundred Readers, Or By Five Hundred Thousand; If He Can Select The Five Hundred, He Reaches The Five Hundred Thousand.

Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

Even Theologians, Even The Great Theologians Of The Thirteenth Century, Even Saint Thomas Aquinas Himself Did Not Trust To Faith Alone, Or Assume The Existence Of God.