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1 1. Elliott was too clever not to see that many of the persons who accepted his

invitations did so only to get a free meal and that of these some were stupid and some

worthless.

2. You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!-always wanting me to play and

sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you

would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before

those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.

3. Twenty years had passed since then. He kept up a busy correspondence with

various great ladies and his letters were amusing and chatty. He never lost his love for

titled persons and paid much attention to the announcement in the Times of their

comings and goings. He perused the column which records births, deaths, and

marriages, and he was always ready with his letter of congratulation or condolence.

4. Often enough ---- and often justifiably ---- ordinary lover of Nature has been

accused of sentimentality. He prattles, so his condemners say, of the sweet twitter of

birds and of the flowers that bloom in the spring. He disregards the seamy side of

things and sees the world in greeting-card terms.

5. If to feel a false emotion based upon a deliberately incomplete view of the facts is

to be guilty of sentimentalism, then the view that Nature is consistently violent and

cruel is as sentimental as its opposite. She is no more characteristically red in tooth

and claw than she is characteristically a kind mother.

2 6. Probably in nothing have man's inventive powers been so active as in his endeavor

to triumph over the terrors of darkness. Light is among the first needs man has

supplied for himself in his struggle against it. Yet darkness has its gracious gifts. As it

descends upon the world nature prepares itself for rest and sleep, and in the silence

men recover strength of mind and body for the duties and burdens of the new day.

7. Maybe the gradual actualization of this solidarity was the result of scientific and

hence technological progress which caused distances to shrink and required ever

expanding markets. But it is a preconceived and entirely unwarranted idea to believe

this technological unification to have been a primary cause.

8. A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in

Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was

pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-passengers, but she replied:

“I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got liberty now.” It did not occur to the dear

old lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road

it also entitled the cab-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty

would be universal chaos.

9. Foolishly arrogant as I was, I used to judge the worth of a person by his intellectual

power and attainment. I could see no good where there was no logic, no charm where

there was no learning. Now I think that one has to distinguish between two forms of

intelligence, that of the brain, and that of the heart, and I have come to regard the

second as by far the more important.

10. The educated man is presumed to know what is wrong in the world, and what

should be done to rectify it. If his education has amounted to anything, it should have

increased his ability to think clearly and scientifically, and thus to know how to get at

the cause and effect of political, social, economic, industrial evils. No man has right to

consider education as merely a personal benefit enabling him to be more prosperous

and happy in the world. He must look upon it as imposing upon him a responsibility

to increase the welfare of others. Too many regard it as their own possession, and do

not realize that it is something to be shared with others, and to be used for the good of

society at large.