The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-30
[For the Dispatch. !
Climbing.

An artist should be tit for the best society,
and should keep out Of it.-Rasslein.
Science is an edged tool with which men
play like children and cut their own fin
gers-T. l.. Peacock.
There is something terrible in the sight
OF highly. gifted man lying under obiiga-
! tions to Il fool.-Goethe.
Weary OF liberty, the horse suffered HIM
self to be saddled and bridled, and-was
ridden to death for his pains. Goethe.
1t is pcrlous to make n chasm in human
affections; not that they cape so long and
wide, but so quickly close again.-Ud,c-
| Hor1.e.
What sorrow is in man that will not
finally fret itself to sleep? Conquering, at
last, gates Of brass or pyramids of granite,
why should it be a marvel to lis or triumph
to time that he is able to conquer frail
human heart DE QutRcey.
1t is but Just that men, who so often AZ
rogate to their own merit the good of which
they arc but instruments, should attribute to
themselves the absurditics which they could
not prcvent.-BecktOrd.
knowledge and thought are at once the
delight and the prcro@atiye OF man; but
they are also q part OF the wealth OF nations,
and often afford to them an abundan' in
identification for the more sparing best stuwal
OF natural riches.-Hum6oidt.
! Man is the reelected spirit OF Nature {:
Poetry is the wand bv which all that is
beautiful in nature is retraced OH the soul
of man, animates him, and renews and en-
| ats him.-Lttmartine.
Alas all the conversation OF men is alike !;
the ideas they exchange are almost always
the same: but in the interior of these iso-
| lated machines what secret folds, what COM
rartmcnts unknown! Each OF them carries
about world in himself, world unknown,
which is born and dies in silence. What
solitudcs are those human hearts !'-Al-
| fred Gle MuSset.
What life mine has been Half-edu-
Gated, almost wholly neglected or left to
myself: stufing my head with most non
sensicai trash, and undervalued by most of
nv companions for 4 time; then getting
| toward, and held bold and clever fellow,
contrary to the opinion of all who thought
me mere dreamer; broken-hearted for
two wears; my heart handsomely pierced
again, but the crack will remain till my
dying day. Rich and poor four or five
| times; once on the verge OF ruin, yet
| opcncd a new source Of wealth almost
overflowing now to be broken in my pitch
| OF pride because London chooses to be in
uproar, and in the tumut Of bulls and
bears a Door, inofensiye lion like myself is
pushed to the wall-Sir Walter Scott.
Great men, great countries, whole na-
tons, whole centuries, have had to bear up
against Injustice; and the truth is that vice
has so often taken the place Of virtue, evil
of good, and error OF truth, some have been
| Judged so severely and others so leniently,
| that could the book OF redress be written,
not only would it be too yoluminous, but 1t
would also be too painful to peruse. Honest
people would feel shame to see the ludS-
ments before which many great mind has
had to bend: and how often party spirit,
either religious or political, moved by the
basest passions-such as hatred, envy, rival
rv, vengeance, fanaticism, intolerance, self
| love-has been preteXt for diSfguring in
the eyes OF the public the greatest and no.
blest characters Countess Gaticcioh.
These minor planets being all included
within Il belt of very moderate extent, it
follows that numbers of them will at some
times be comparatively near together, and
fhe apnearance OF the heavens ut one OF
these will he peculiarly striking. Many
bright planets will be scattered over every
part OF the trmament-somc appearing as
their silver crescentS like the new moon,
some half-moons, and others with fully illu-
minated discs; some so distant as to be in
distincuishable from stars, and others sur
passing the moon itself in magnitude and
splendor, their orbits crossing and over
tapping in every direction, and the planets
thus circling in and out among each other
as if in the mazes of some majestic dance
some winging their fight far away to the
most distant parts of their orbits beyond
the sun, and others perhaps approaching so
near rs to fill half the armament with their
glorious blaze, and travelling along for days
and weeks together, so near that their gl-
gantic inhabitants might almost clear, at a
bold leap, the airy gulf that separates their
worlds from one another.-R. HALEY MI
Ter in has q HRomance of Astronomy"