There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

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.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

Every noble work is at first impossible.