Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it ?--and that this is specially true of a man's own self?
If you herd with Ratler, men will take it for granted that you are a Ratlerite, and no more.

If you consort with Greshams and Pallisers, you will equally be supposed to know your own place." "I never knew a Mentor," said Phineas, "so apt as you are to fill his Telemachus with pride." "It is because I do not think your fault lies that way.

If it did, or if I thought so, my Telemachus, you may be sure that I should resign my position as Mentor.

Here are Mr.Kennedy and Lady Glencora and Mrs.Gresham on the steps." Then they went up through the Ionic columns on to the broad stone terrace before the door, and there they found a crowd of men and women.

For the legislators and statesmen had written their letters, and the ladies had taken their necessary rest.
Phineas, as he was dressing, considered deeply all that Lady Laura had said to him,--not so much with reference to the advice which she had given him, though that also was of importance, as to the fact that it had been given by her.