DEEDS.—Deeds are greater than words. Deeds have such a life, mute but undeniable, and grow as living trees and fruit-trees do. They people the vacuity of time, and make it green and worthy. Why should the oak prove logically that it ought to grow and will grow? Plant it, try it; what gifts of diligent, judicious assimilation and secretion it has, of progress and resistance, of force to grow, will then declare themselves.—Carlyle.