Women are very like religion--we must take them on faith, or go without.
Moreover, Dr.Claudius had but an indifferent appreciation of the value of money; partly because he had never cared for what it would buy, and had therefore never examined its purchasing power, and partly because he had never lived intimately with people who spent a great deal.

He knew nothing of business, and had never gambled, and he did not conceive that the combination of the two could be of any interest.

Compared with the questions that had occupied his mind of late, it seemed to make no more difference whether a man were rich or poor than whether he had light hair or dark.

And if he had seriously asked himself whether even those great problems which had occupied the minds of the mightiest thinkers led to any result of importance, it was not likely that he would bestow a thought on such a trivial matter as the question of pounds, shillings, and pence.
So, before he went to bed, he took out a sheet of paper and an envelope--he never bought but one package of envelopes a year, when he sent his New Year's card to the other doctors of the University--and wrote a short letter to Messrs.

Screw and Scratch of Pine Street, New York.