"I shall never forget," said he, "the relish and delight that I felt on supposing it to be dried wheat, nor the bitterness and despair I suffered on discovering that the bag contained pearls." It is an interesting fact in this money-getting era that a poor author, or a seedy artist, or a college president with frayed coat-sleeves, has more standing in society and has more paragraphs written about him in the papers than many a millionaire.

This is due, perhaps, to the malign influence of money-getting and to the benign effect of purely intellectual pursuits.

As a rule every great success in the money world means the failure and misery of hundreds of antagonists.

Every success in the world of intellect and character is an aid and profit to society.
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Dr.
Hunter said: "No man was ever a great man who wanted to be one." Artists cannot help putting themselves and their own characters into their works.