It was ours because we earned it, and not because we were born to it.

Eh, Burns ?" The Scotchman nodded assent, and the Greek sculptor went on.
"I am not vindictive myself, Homer," he said.

"Nobody has hurt me, and, on the whole, I don't think sculpture is in such a bad way, after all.
There's a shoemaker I wot of in the mortal realms who can turn the prettiest last you ever saw; and I encountered a carver in a London eating-house last month who turned out a slice of beef that was cut as artistically as I could have done it myself.

What I object to chiefly is the tendency of the times.

This is an electrical age, and men in my old profession aren't content to turn out one _chef-d'oeuvre_ in a lifetime.
They take orders by the gross.