Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

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.