Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.