People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

In the one branch he most needed

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.