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.

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

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.