Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call 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.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!