You are intelligent, you are well-informed, and your charity, if one may call it charity, would be discriminating.

You are rich and unoccupied, so that it might be abundant.

Therefore, I say, you are a person to do something on a large scale.

Bestir yourself, dear Rowland, or we may be taught to think that virtue herself is setting a bad example." "Heaven forbid," cried Rowland, "that I should set the examples of virtue! I am quite willing to follow them, however, and if I don't do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have not recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

Pray, what shall I do?
Found an orphan asylum, or build a dormitory for Harvard College?
I am not rich enough to do either in an ideally handsome way, and I confess that, yet awhile, I feel too young to strike my grand coup.