The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.