Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.