He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.