He tried to starve himself to-day at lunch; and I refrained from pointing out to him that abstinence from meat at lunch was not the _unum necessarium_, for fear of confusing the ingenuous mind.

I like to see people grasp the concrete issue in one of its bearings.

The principle will gradually develop itself; from denying themselves in one point, they will or may grow to be generally temperate; when confronted with overmastering and baser impulses, it may be they will say, 'Let me be [Greek: egkrates emautou] even here.' "So much for Edward's lesson; now for my own.

My first impulse was to loathe and reject the poor object, body and soul.

He was merely the embodiment of long-continued vice.