The dragon was never in better health and spirits than on the morning when Perseus came down upon him. It is said that Andromeda told Perseus she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking. He had got up quite in his usual health—and so on.
When I said this to Ballard Life and Habit, [225] he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets.
I looked at him. “Ballard,” I said, “I also am ‘the poets.’”
Self-Confidence
Nothing is ever any good unless it is thwarted with self-distrust though in the main self-confident.
Wandering
When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow.
Poverty
I shun it because I have found it so apt to become contagious; but I fancy my constitution is more seasoned against it now than formerly. I hope that what I have gone through may have made me immune.