"Still studying Dante ?" said the intruder into the workshop of as true a man of culture as we have known on this continent.

"Yes," was the prompt reply; "always studying Dante." A man's intellectual character is determined by what he habitually thinks about.

The mind cannot always be consciously directed to definite ends; it has hours of relaxation.

There are many hours in the life of the most strenuous and arduous man when the mind goes its own way and thinks its own thoughts.

These times of relaxation, when the mind follows its own bent, are perhaps the most fruitful and significant periods in a rich and noble intellectual life.