16. Rough work, honorable or not, takes the life out of us.—Ruskin.
17. The elected chieftains had rather authority to persuade than power to command.—Motley.
18. Not only were the labors of Hannah More extended to the ignorant and degraded by the establishment of schools, but she employed her pen in their behalf.—Lord.
19. They neither get fairly hold of their subject, nor, what is more important, does it get hold of them.—Lowell.
20. The rough work is, at all events, real, honest, and, generally though not always, useful; while the fine work is, a great deal of it, foolish and false as well as fine, and therefore dishonorable.—Ruskin.
21. To detect the flavor of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection, than to find beauty in the colors of a sunset.—Stevenson.
22. All the ground was covered, not with grass and green leaves, but with radiant corollas.—Muir.
23. The world is filled with the voices of the dead; they speak not from the public records of the great world only, but from the private history of our own experience.—O. Dewey.
24. And where now the steamers of all nations may be seen resting at anchor, on that day one solitary ship from France discharged her cargo and was viewed with lingering interest by every colonist in Quebec.—Mrs. Catherwood.
25. Before him and facing him, two paces in front, stood Dan, his arms still bound to his sides, his head uncovered, and his legs free.—Caine.