Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over...
...undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
...games. The close man who takes the outward things in earnest acts in a foolish manner. It is as if the children in the market place should take their artificial money for real and horde it away. You have a contempt for the boy who looses his temper at play; we should take an example from this in real life...
...people, said he, have been so low in social conditions that they have not felt the need of some expression of the peculiar temper of their age. Even in the midst of the British invasions upon England, the harp and song accompanied and perpetuated the deeds of these rough warriors. There is no question that there existed before the arrival of the Romans a distinct Celtic literature which gained its peculiar character from the domination of the Druids...
...peculiar merits of the Celtic character were the quick eye, the responsive mind and the sensitive soul. They were naturally gifted with a light and airy temper. It made them appreciate the beauties of nature to a wonderful degree, and gave them their exquisite sense of a fine expression of a fine thought. They were the very opposite of he phlegmatic Saxons. These latter proved the conquerors in physical force, but the Celts no less in intellectual life...