To know it intimately and thoroughly, to be on entirely free terms with it, to depend upon it just so far as dependence is safe, to have a sure understanding of what it can do and what it cannot, you must arduously cultivate it.

"DEAR ME, WHAT A DISAGREEABLE SMELL! WONDER WHAT IT CAN BE?" Lady.

By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeing ruined cities in the ashes, Asking sadly Of the Past what it can ne'er restore them.

By the fireside there are youthful dreamers, Building castles fair with stately stairways, Asking blindly Of the Future what it cannot give them.

I'm dead certain he's figuring out some sort of thing that's going to give the rest of us a big surprise, when he sees fit to spring it on us; but for the life of me I can't guess what it can be.

"Listen, Max," said Steve, while this exchange was taking place, "there's something queer out yonder aways; and I want you to try and make out what it can mean.

The Indian never concerns himself, as the botanist and the poet, with the plant's appearances and relations, but with what it can do for him.

When the weather decides, after behaving well for some weeks, to show what it can do in another direction, it does the thing thoroughly.

He is the only he that tries the true strength of wisdom, what it can do of itself without the help of fortune; that with a great deal of virtue conquers extremities; and with a great deal more; his own impatience, and obtains of himself not to hate men.

What it can do.

" The Government should provide material and tools, and having the people entirely on its hands, get out of them what it can.

I wonder what it can be."

If the brute is free from care, it is also, in this sense, without hope; in either case, because its consciousness is limited to the present moment, to what it can actually see before it.

You are too young, Louisa, said Melanthe, to have experienced the wonderful effects of that passion in yourself, and therefore cannot be expected to have much compassion for what it can inflict on others.

I wonder what it can mean.

"She has gone to help Miles to do some work outside, though what it can be I'm sure I don't know," grumbled Phil, who was sleepy and wanted to get to bed.

"The Roman Church does what it can.

A grosse pièce of a hundred sous, one sees that, one knows what it can dobut for the other!'

It is selfish, and self-indulgent, cares for nothing but itself, and what it can get for itself.

Of course, all this is not so to you, my good friends, who read it without the most distant idea what it can mean; but there are people in the world to whom it has meant and will mean much, and who will see in the present happiness of our respectable friend something even ominous and sorrowful.

"I don't know what it can be," replied her governess, "unless it refers to the strange expression sometimes used, 'howling with delight.'

The praise ought not to be general, because the mind is lost in the extent of any indefinite idea, and cannot be affected with what it cannot comprehend.

I have, on the contrary, always urged, with the utmost emphasis that war is not only possible but extremely likely, so long as we remain as ignorant as we are concerning what it can accomplish, and unless we use our energies and efforts to prevent it, instead of directing those efforts to create it.

The mind that is not profound enough to perceive and believe even what it cannot comprehend,that is the shoal.

But the brave heart, failing to do what it would, does what it can.