New Haven Daily Herald

From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

Messrs. Editors:—Your remarks upon the phrase "Quem Deus vult perdere," &c. are correct; but can you tell me where the sentence, "God tempers the wind to the shorn Lamb," is found? It is not in the Bible, though by your smiling you would seem to say so. It has been quoted some fifty thousand times or more, and many a worthy divine would be quite shocked if he was told, (as is the fact,) that one Lawrence Sterne is the author. You will find it in his "Sentimental Journey," Vol. 2. It is said of "poor Maria." The Latin maxim. "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamus cum illis." so very frequently quoted, is not from Virgil or Horace, or any other classic. It is found in an obscure Latin author,—one Epictetus. You often hear the expression from the Bible, "he that is not for me is against me," quoted as a clinching argument against quiet, uninterfering, no party folks. But the good book, unfortunately, or rather fortunately, also says: "he that is not against me is for me." I once heard the Rev. John Lowell by mentioning this, raise a laugh against the Hon. J. Q. Adams, who quoted the former words, in a discussion in the American Academy at Boston.