Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.