The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

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.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

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

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.