Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

He was called a good fellow, - only a little lumpish, - and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shipmaster. But when came the business of mak…

Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that there was developed of him, at present, w…

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail d…