Contempt Is Egotism In Ill- Humor.

Call Not That Man Wretched, Who Whatever Else He Suffers As To Pain Inflicted, Or Pleasure Denied, Has A Child For Whom He Hopes And On Whom He Doats.

It Is A Flat'ning Thought, That The More We Have Seen, The Less We Have To Say.

Works Of Imagination Should Be Written In Very Plain Language; The More Purely Imaginative They Are The More Necessary It Is To Be Plain.

Method Means Primarily A Way Or Path Of Transit. From This We Are To Understand That The First Idea Of Method Is A Progressive Transition From One Step To Another In Any Course. If In The Right Course, It Will Be The True Method; If In The Wrong, We Cannot Hope To Progress.

It Is Saying Less Than The Truth To Affirm That An Excellent Book (and The Remark Holds Almost Equally Good Of A Raphael As Of A Milton) Is Like A Well-chosen And Well-tended Fruit Tree. Its Fruits Are Not Of One Season Only. With The Due And Natural Intervals, We May Recur To It Year After Year, And It Will Supply The Same Nourishment And The Same Gratification, If Only We Ourselves Return To It With The Same Healthful Appetite.