Respectable Professors Of The Dismal Science.

Biography Is The Most Universally Pleasant And Profitable Of All Reading.

Secrecy Is The Element Of All Goodness; Even Virtue, Even Beauty Is Mysterious.

A Man Must Indeed Be A Hero To Appear Such In The Eyes Of His Valet.

A Battle Is A Terrible Conjugation Of The Verb To Kill: I Kill, Thou Killest, He Kills, We Kill, They Kill, All Kill.

Poverty, We May Say, Surrounds A Man With Ready-made Barriers, Which If They Do Mournfully Gall And Hamper, Do At Least Prescribe For Him, And Force On Him, A Sort Of Course And Goal; A Safe And Beaten, Though A Circuitous, Course. A Great Part Of His Guidance Is Secure Against Fatal Error, Is Withdrawn From His Control. The Rich, Again, Has His Whole Life To Guide, Without Goal Or Barrier, Save Of His Own Choosing, And, Tempted, Is Too Likely To Guide It Ill.