Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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.

Worship is transcendent wonder.