History is the new poetry.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

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.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.