"You have not tact," was his reply, when the old man asked how one could succeed so well where the other had failed.
According to an old custom a Cape Cod minister was called upon in April to make a prayer over a piece of land.

"No," said he, when shown the land, "this does not need a prayer; it needs manure." To see a man as he is you must turn him round and round until you get him at the right angle.

Place him in a good light, as you would a picture.

The excellences and defects will appear if you get the right angle.

How our old schoolmates have changed places in the ranking of actual life! The boy who led his class and was the envy of all has been distanced by the poor dunce who was called slow and stupid, but who had a sort of dull energy in him which enabled him to get on in the world.