Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

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.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.