s only a cracked stone and a worn-out
inscription (for the Hercules in St. Paul's is
unrecognizable) but he dwells where he would wish to
dwell--in the loving memory of men.

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL: _Transmission of Dr. Johnson's
Personality_, 1884

3. So, my fellow citizens, the reason I came away from
Washington is that I sometimes get lonely down there. There
are so many people in Washington who know things that are not
so, and there are so few people who know anything about what
the people of the United States are thinking about. I have to
come away and get reminded of the rest of the country. I have
to come away and talk to men who are up against the real
thing and say to them, "I am with you if you are with me."
And the only test of being with me is not to think about me
personally at all, but merely to think of me as the
expression for the time being of the power and dignity and
hope of the United States.

WOODROW WILSON: _Speech to the American Federation
of Labor_, 1917

4. But if, Sir Henry, in gratitude for this beautiful tribute
which I have just paid you, you should feel tempted to
reciprocate by taking my horses from my carriage and dragging
me in triumph through the streets, I beg that you will
restrain yourself for two reasons. The first reason is--I
have no horses; the second is--I have no carriage.

SIMEON FORD: _Me and Sir Henry_ (Irving), 1899

5. Literature has its permanent marks. It is a connected growth
and its life history is unbroken. Masterpieces have never
been produced by men who have had no masters. Reverence for
good work is the foundation of literary character. The
refusal to praise bad work or to imitate it is an author's
professional chastity.

Good work is the most honorable and lasting thing in the
world. Four elements enter into good work in literature:--

An original impulse--not necessarily a new idea, but a new
sense of the value of an idea.

A first-hand study of the subject and material.

A patient, joyful, unsparing labor for the perfection of
form.

A human aim--to cheer, console, purify, or ennoble the life
of the people. Without this aim literature has never sent an
arrow close to the mark.

It is only by good work that men of letters can justify their
right to a place in the world. The father of