I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

There is a crack in everything God has made

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Real action is in silent moments.