One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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.

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.