It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.