A Soul Occupied With Great

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring.

I Want To Be A Free Rover On The Breezy Common Of The Universe.

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.

While Feeling Far Less Injured By Toil Than My Friends Took For Granted I Must Be, I Yet Was Always Aware Of The Strong Probability That My Life Would End As The Lives Of Hard Literary Workers Usually End, - In Paralysis, With Months Or Years Of Imbecility.

This Noble Word [women], Spirit-stirring As It Passes Over English Ears, Is In America Banished, And 'ladies' And 'females' Substituted: The One To English Taste Mawkish And Vulgar; The Other Indistinctive And Gross.