141. Our lodging-places must be the simple homes of Gaelic-speaking Presbyterians, in whose eyes we should be foreigners, not to say heathen.—Bolles.
142. Dr. Bushby is said to have kept his hat on in the presence of King Charles, that the boys might see what a great man he was.—Lubbock.
143. Look strictly into the nature of the power of your Goddess of Getting-on; and you will find she is the goddess—not of everybody’s getting on—but only of somebody’s getting on.—Ruskin.
144. Now, Tabaqui knew as well as any one else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.—Kipling.
145. The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man, but I am inclined to doubt whether he is a wise one who allows himself to act upon its first hints.—Lowell.
146. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.—Emerson.
147. Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.—Higginson.
148. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own.—Irving.
149. There are more fools and fewer hypocrites than the wise world dreams of.—Schreiner.
150. It has been well said that an Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable; that a Scotchman is never at home but when he is abroad; that an Irishman is never at peace but when he is at war.—Walker.