"The stupid and the children of genius alike emancipate themselves from conventions."

"There are so many ways that persons of intelligence have of expressing themselves. Some of these ways have little in …"

"There certainly is at present, then, no standard English, either in writing or in speaking, that is easily and cheapl…"

"Letters of friendship, of love, of hate, of business, of state, have come into new value within the last twenty-five …"

"The letter writer who spends his individuality in faddish paper, colored ink, and enigmatic paging, who 'crosses' his…"

"Going to college was a thing quite by itself, an experience to be reckoned with--something like Platonic love, or get…"

"By 1870... Vassar did not stand, even in the funny papers, any longer for prigs, freaks, social rebels, or eloquent a…"

"As an instructor in English literature, Miss Jordan's success has been marked. The magnetism, thoroughness, and sympa…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"