Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.