Your practical man, poor wretch, will try to help this and that, and torment his soul with ways and means, and preventives and forestallings; your philosopher quietly says--It can't be helped.

If it ought to be, it will be--if it is, it ought to be.

We did not make the world, and we are not responsible for it .-- There is the sum and substance of all true wisdom, and the epitome of all that has been said and written thereon from Philo the Jew to Hypatia the Gentile.

By the way, here's Cyril coming down the steps of the Caesareum.

A very handsome fellow, after all, though lie is looking as sulky as a bear.' 'With his cubs at his heels.