We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

A man is known by the books he reads.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.