The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

If I am not I, who will be?

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.