All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

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.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.