Knowledge is better, and goodness is better, and to come down to purely personal blessings, health is better, and so is common-sense better, and in the long run there are dozens of things infinitely better worth having and better worth aiming for.

It's a good enough thing to have in addition, but as to its being the sum and substance, the Alpha and Omega, of any sensible woman's life, that's all foolishness.

Let's have done with it and order in the lights.

I want to get at Euclid again.

It will never do for that conceited Yale brother of mine to get ahead of me.