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The great masterpieces of the world are thus, quite apart from
the charm and solace they give us, the master instruments of a solid
education.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 23: From "The Choice of Books," 1891. Printed here by
permission of The Macmillan Company.]
[Footnote 24: Books intensely desired.]
[Footnote 25: Thing said in passing.]
[Footnote 26: Floating scattered on the vast abyss.]
[Footnote 27: "And here my books--my life--absorb me whole," Cowper's
translation of Milton's Latin Epistle to Diodati.]
[Footnote 28: This will destroy that.]


ON GOING A JOURNEY[29]
WILLIAM HAZLITT

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I
like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors,
nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when
alone.
"The fields his study, nature was his book."
I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am
in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. I am not for
criticising hedge-rows and black cattle.


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