The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth.

The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
One is sure to be struck by the liberal way in which Australasia spends money upon public works--such as legislative buildings, town halls, hospitals, asylums, parks, and botanical gardens.

I should say that where minor towns in America spend a hundred dollars on the town hall and on public parks and gardens, the like towns in Australasia spend a thousand.

And I think that this ratio will hold good in the matter of hospitals, also.

I have seen a costly and well-equipped, and architecturally handsome hospital in an Australian village of fifteen hundred inhabitants.