A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies.

PART I.

Ethics and Character.

Ethical Fragments.

1.

Bacon says, how wisely! that "there is often as great vanity in withdrawing and retiring men's conceits from the world, as in obtruding them." Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. When I see people haunted by the idea of self,--spreading their hands before their faces lest...