Word: heart
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Hangs loose o'er the heart 't is its duty...
...hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study...
...large nor too small, too wide nor too high. The books are not too brightly gilt, nor are they too sombre. But this is the very thing that leads me to doubt. I cannot believe that, however sincere in construction the book-case may be, the owner's heart is in his books. I fear that the book-case is only there because it does harmonize with the room. I am afraid that the books, if not bought by the cubic foot, were purchased more for the sake of the gilded leather than the printed paper. Let us leave this...
...fond heart listens to thy singing...
...friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness, I am quite sure that they cannot have done you any harm, and I think that it is possible that...