Generally speaking,
I do not give advice nowadays. As a very young man I was generous
with it. I have since come to the conclusion that responsibility
for my own muddles and mistakes is sufficient. However, I make an
exception in Edith's case, knowing that never by any chance will she
follow it."
"Speaking of editors," said the Philosopher, "Bates told me at the
club the other night that he had given up writing the 'Answers to
Correspondents' personally, since discovery of the fact that he had
been discussing at some length the attractive topic, 'Duties of a
Father,' with his own wife, who is somewhat of a humorist."
"There was the wife of a clergyman my mother used to tell of," said
the Woman of the World, "who kept copies of her husband's sermons.
She would read him extracts from them in bed, in place of curtain
lectures. She explained it saved her trouble. Everything she felt
she wanted to say to him he had said himself so much more forcibly."
"The argument always appears to me weak," said the Philosopher. "If
only the perfect may preach, our pulpits would remain empty.
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