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 Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

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.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.