You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to ind…

The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wa…

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves…

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.