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If you have superiors in intellect or in character, avoid them; for they may inspire you with ambition, which is the most restless and - to one who holds my philosophy - the most uncomfortable and thankless of all passions. On the same principle, be much with your inferiors; then shall you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER OF CONGRATULATION. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

I am dreamy and romantic. I found Granada perfect, but unhappily Granada disagreed with me. I had been there but two days when my Moorish reveries began to be interrupted by - colic. I tried to walk it off. It was no use. The more I walked the worse was the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM A LETTER. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

If it would be deemed unjust that a professor of history or philosophy should deliver a carefully prepared lecture to one half of those who had taken his elective, while the other half were rendered incapable of profiting by it from being engaged in the same room in an examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

But that a man whose instruction is really valuable should thus break in upon the hour, is something to us quite incomprehensible, not only when we consider that he thus deprives one part of his class from any benefit in his instruction, but also from the difficulty which most persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

These readings, it is hoped, will prove the most pleasant sequel to the discussion of any particular dramatic author.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRENCH CLUB. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »