Like Cato give his little Senate laws And sit attention to his own applause. Johnson, so far from being king of his company, was a sort of Irish Member in his own Parliament. Addison was a courteous superior and was hated. Johnson was an insolent equal, and therefore was loved by all who knew him and handed down in a marvellous book which is one of the mere miracles of love. _'What's Wrong with the World.'_ SEPTEMBER 19th Brave men are all vertebrates: they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. _'Tremendous Trifles.'_ SEPTEMBER 20th The teetotaller has chosen a most unfortunate phrase for the drunkard when he says that the drunkard is making a beast of himself. The man who drinks ordinarily makes nothing but an ordinary man of himself. The man who drinks excessively makes a devil of himself. But nothing connected with a human and artistic thing like wine can bring one nearer to the brute life of Nature. The only man who is, in the exact and literal sense of the words, making a beast of himself is the teetotaller. _'Charles Dickens.'_ SEPTEMBER 21st _ST. MATTHEW'S DAY_ The abyss between Christ and all His modern interpreters is that we have no record that He ever wrote a word, except with His finger in the sand. The whole is the history of one continuous and sublime conversation. It was not for any pompous proclamation, it was not for any elaborate output of printed volumes; it was for a few splendid and idle words that the cross was set up on Calvary and the earth gaped, and the sun was darkened at noonday. _'Twelve Types.'_ SEPTEMBER 22nd So with the wan waste grasses on my spear, I ride for ever seeking after God. My hair grows whiter than my thistle plume And all my limbs are loose; but in my eyes The star of an unconquerable praise: For in my soul one hope for ever sings, That at the next white corner of a road My eyes may look on Him. _'The Wild Knight.'_ SEPTEMBER 23rd An error is more menacing than a crime, for an error begets crimes.... A free lover is worse than a profligate. For a profligate is serious and reckless even in his shortest love; while a free lover is cautious and irresponsible even in his longest devotion. _'Tremendous Trifles.'_ SEPTEMBER 24th If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would be simply running with the blood of philanthropists. _'Charles Dickens.'_ SEPTEMBER 25th Pessimism says that life is so short that it gives nobody a chance; religion says that life is so short that it gives everybody his final chance. _Introduction to 'Nicholas Nickleby.'_ SEPTEMBER 26th In short, one Pankhurst is an exception, but a thousand Pankhursts are a nightmare, a Bacchic orgy, a witch's sabbath. For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately, but horrible in a crowd.