The fallen soldier (the word “hero” appears to be a later invention) has such humble honors as it is possible to give. His part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the Summer hills Is that his grave is green. True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of whom no memory remains to honor, but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage: A master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

If life were not worth having,' said the preacher, / 'T would have in suicide one pleasant feature.' / 'An error,' said the pessimist, 'you're making: / What's not worth having cannot be worth taking.

The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Still must our ears without redress submit / To hear you play the solemn hypocrite / Walking in spirit some high moral level, / Raising at once his eye-balls and the devil?

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising for contemplating the misery of another.