For in life and in business, despatch is better than discourse; and the shortest answer of all is, DOING.

"In matters of great concern, and which must be done," says Tillotson, "there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution--to be undetermined when the case is so plain and the necessity so urgent.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it,--this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to another, until he is starved and destroyed." There needs also the exercise of no small degree of moral courage to resist the corrupting influences of what is called "Society." Although "Mrs.Grundy" may be a very vulgar and commonplace personage, her influence is nevertheless prodigious.

Most men, but especially women, are the moral slaves of the class or caste to which they belong.

There is a sort of unconscious conspiracy existing amongst them against each other's individuality.