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

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

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.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.