It is good to abstain, and teach others to abstain, from all that is sinful or hurtful.

But making a business of it leads to emaciation of character, unless one feeds largely also on the more nutritious diet of active sympathetic benevolence.
-- I don't believe one word of what you are saying,--spoke up the angular female in black bombazine.
I am sorry you disbelieve it, Madam,--I said, and added softly to my next neighbor,--but you prove it.
The young fellow sitting near me winked; and the divinity-student said, in an undertone,--Optime dictum.
Your talking Latin,--said I,--reminds me of an odd trick of one of my old tutors.

He read so much of that language, that his English half turned into it.

He got caught in town, one hot summer, in pretty close quarters, and wrote, or began to write, a series of city pastorals.

Eclogues he called them, and meant to have published them by subscription.