I heard two persons on the Wengern Alp talking by the hour together of the names of ferns; not a word about their characteristics, uses, or habits, but a medley of crack-jaw titles and nothing more. They evidently thought that they were ventilating their botany, and kept each other in countenance by alternate volleys of nonsense. Education alone is a branchless tree, and little worth. Knowledge lies not in mere words.—SPURGEON.
