It is the higher mental development which induces philosophy and that fortitude which refuses to dwell upon such things--refuses to be made to suffer by their consideration.

The common type of mind is exceedingly keen on all matters which relate to its physical welfare--exceedingly keen.

It is the unintellectual miser who sweats blood at the loss of a hundred dollars.

It is the Epictetus who smiles when the last vestige of physical welfare is removed.
The time came, in the third year, when this thinking began to produce results in the Warren Street place.

The tide of patronage dropped a little below what it had been at its best since he had been there.