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"I believe so I should be very sorry to live here long at home I can always go out and find society that refreshes me." "You have set yourself a high standard," he said, with no displeased expression of the lips. "I have been charged with that," said Fleda; "but is it possible to set too high a standard, Mr. Carleton?" "One may leave one's-self almost alone in the world."
He showed that this habit arose not from goodness of heart, or from the desire to make others happy, but from the wish to spare one's-self the troublesome duty of formulating the truth so that it would perform its heavenly office without wounding those whom it was intended to heal.
Why then are cunning and deceit admitted to be excellent as comic motives, so long as they are used with no malicious purpose, but merely to promote our self-love, to extricate one's-self from a dilemma, or to gain some particular object, and from which no dangerous consequences are to be dreaded?
But how often may we meet people to whom we are, ourselves, under obligation, without its even occurring to us!" "It is nature to communicate one's-self; it is culture to receive what is communicated as it is given." "No one would talk much in society, if he only knew how often he misunderstands others."
There is no surer method of arriving at the Hall of Fantasy than to throw one's-self into the current of a theory; for, whatever landmarks of fact may be set up along the stream, there is a law of nature that impels it thither.
"Come, let's have a touch of the `bravoory." "I've got a piece," said the clarionet slowly, looking at the sky with a pathetic air, "a piece as I composed myself. I don't often play it, 'cause, you know, sir, one doesn't 'xactly like to shove one's-self too prominently afore the public.
I wonder why we are subjected to such surprises so constantly, and then it's so perplexing too, because one will never be able to remember that she's not a fisherwoman as she used to be, and will call her Jessie in spite of one's-self; and how it ever came about, that's another puzzle.
Since the days of old Harry Baillie of the Tabard in Southwark, no one had excelled Giles Gosling in the power of pleasing his guests of every description; and so great was his fame, that to have been in Cumnor without wetting a cup at the bonny Black Bear, would have been to avouch one's-self utterly indifferent to reputation as a traveller.
This is really being firmly established and satisfactory to one's-self, though still progressing, I hope, for I don't see why there should be a limit Pray tell me, neighbours," added he, good-naturedly enough, "how it fares with all the rest of you. I should like to know that your roots are as long, and slim, and orange coloured as mine; doing as well, in fact, and sinking as far down.
It is good to be at peace with our brethren, but to be at peace with one's-self is better. At peace with conscience, one can afford, if God will have it so, to be at war with all men.
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