Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.