Excerpt from Spare Hours Every man should know and lament (to himself) his own shortcomings - should mourn over and mend, as be best can, the confusions of his wasted youth he should feel how ill he has put out to usury the talent given him by the Great Taskmaster how far he is from being a good and faithful servant; and he should make this rather understood than expressed by his man ner as a writer while at the same time, every man should deny himself the luxury of taking his hat off to the public, unless he has something to say, and has done his best to say it aright; and every man should pay not less attention to the dress in which his thoughts present themselves, than he would to that of his per son on going into company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.