My aspirations are cut out with a broad sword. My results with a pen knife. * * * * * The mathemetician can measure a world, yet he cannot weigh the secret thing which stirs a poet's heart. * * * * * Man has waited for ages for heaven to help him. Heaven has waited equally long for man to help himself. * * * * * Slaves are bound with fetters of steel--poor men with fetters of law. One corrodes with age, the other is perpetually renewed. * * * * * The devil fish of the sea claws his victim, then sinks to the bottom. The devil fish of the land claws his, then rises to the top. * * * * * Want issues from the womb of greed. * * * * * Justice will be done when greed dies. * * * * * Sympathy is the sheet-anchor of the Ship of Life. * * * * * One tear is more potent for good than a thousand laws. * * * * * Charity, though white of plumage, is born of black parents. * * * * * The avenger strikes down one evil and creates a thousand. * * * * * Universal love is, but another name for universal happiness. * * * * * Life without hope is death without a grave wherein to find rest. * * * * * A man is not only responsible for his acts, but for their influence. * * * * * To know, and not to do is vile--to do and not to know, an accident. * * * * * The white flowers of sympathy shall yet bloom over graves in which the rich rot. * * * * * Luxury lulls--poverty dulls. * * * * * A fat priest and a poor flock. * * * * * The hooked fish has an open mouth. * * * * * The money lender loves a close shave. * * * * * Preachers and brokers, alike, deal in future options. * * * * * Humility is sweet but its path is strewn with bitter herbs. * * * * * The change for which every woman prays--a change of name. * * * * * Passengers inside the coach 'Prosperity,' never see the galled steeds. * * * * * The knout pinches the slave's back. The combine, the free man's belly. * * * * * The ball dress is diplomatic, in that it reveals what it pretends to conceal. * * * * * There is colour in the statement that one nigger in a missionary report throws a shadow greater than ten white men. * * * * *