If millions are offered me, I wave them back: _Retro_, _Sathanas_!--Evil one, begone! Fix your mind on my example; despise riches, avoid the debasing influence of cities.
Hygiene--hygiene and mediocrity of fortune--these be your watchwords during life!' The Doctor's system of hygiene strikingly coincided with his tastes; and his picture of the perfect life was a faithful description of the one he was leading at the time.

But it is easy to convince a boy, whom you supply with all the facts for the discussion.

And besides, there was one thing admirable in the philosophy, and that was the enthusiasm of the philosopher.

There was never any one more vigorously determined to be pleased; and if he was not a great logician, and so had no right to convince the intellect, he was certainly something of a poet, and had a fascination to seduce the heart.

What he could not achieve in his customary humour of a radiant admiration of himself and his circumstances, he sometimes effected in his fits of gloom.
'Boy,' he would say, 'avoid me to-day.