After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.