"Egotism of this kind is pardonable; and there is a great deal of it which is peculiar to the mists and strange refractions of youth. When the sun of a clearer and larger knowledge chases away the fog, a right-minded young person emerges from this egotistical, too self-conscious period of his life, and finds a new adjustment for himself in the great and serious world."
"He who is always enquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him."
"Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."
Lowell.
JUNE 14
"'Freedom' is not the power to do what we like, but to be what we ought to be."
Charles Gore.
"There is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right."
Bishop Temple.