A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming";

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.