It is not utilitarian value: what is merely for usefulness can be easily acquired, it has very little beauty.

It is not for the sake of that commonplace usefulness that we should care to spend trouble upon permanent foundations in any tongue.

The mind is satisfied only by the genius of the language, its choicest forms, its characteristic movement, and, most of all, the possession of its literature from within, that is to say of the spirit as it speaks to its own, and in which the language is most completely itself.
The special fitness of modern languages in a girl's education does not appear on the surface, and it requires more than a superficial, conversational knowledge to reap the fruit of their study.

The social, and at present the commercial values are obvious to every one, and of these the commercial value is growing very loud in its assertions, and appears very exacting in its demands.

For this the quack methods promise the short and easy way, and perhaps they are sufficient for it.