I like the springs, and, however natural they may be, I don't find anything impure in them.

Why I love the Bible is because it is so very modern." "You don't think, then, that it is yet obsolete, Mr.Courtland ?" "No book that deals so truly with men and women can ever be obsolete, the fact being that men and women are the same to-day as they were ten thousand years ago, perhaps ten million years ago, though I'm not quite so sure of that.

The Bible, and Shakspere, and Rofudingding, a New Guinea poet, who ate men for his dinner when he had a chance, and, when he had finished, sang lyrics that stir the hearts of all his fellow-islanders to this day,--he lived a hundred years ago,--dealt with men and women; that is why all are as impressive to-day as they were when originally composed.

Men and women like reading about men and women, and it is becoming understood, nowadays, that the truth about men and women can never be contemptible." "Ah, but how do we know that it is the truth ?" "Therein the metaphysician must minister to himself.

I cannot suggest to you any test of the truth, if you have none with you.