Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

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.