Ir a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Benjamin Franklin.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge-who knows who has written, and where it is to be found. Rev. Dr. A. A. Hodge.

I HOLD it as a great point in self-education, that the student be continually engaged in forming exact ideas, and in expressing them clearly by language.

Faraday.

CERTAIN thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo.

WHEN I open a noble volume I say to myself: "Now the only Croesus that I envy is he who is reading a better book than this."

Philip Gilbert Hamerton.

READ only the masterpieces in literature-the strongest men on their strong points.

Prof. John Fraser.

INSIST on reading the great books, on marking the great events of the world. Then the little books may take care of themselves, and the trivial incidents of passing politics and diplomacy may perish with the using.

Dean Stanley.

A PAGE digested is better than a book hurriedly read.

Macaulay.

I HAVE Sought for rest everywhere, but I have found it nowhere, except in a little corner with a little book. Thomas à Kempis.

SOCIETY is a strong solution of books. It draws the virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves.

CHOOSE your author as you choose your friend.

Holmes.

Roscommon.

A BOOK is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to our longing with full instruction, but pursues us never. It is not offended at our absent-mindedness, nor jealous if we turn to other pleasures, of leaf, or dress, or mineral, or even of books. It silently serves the soul without recompense-not even for the hire of love. And, yet more noble, it seems to pass from itself and to enter the memory, and to hover in a silvery transformation there, until the outward book is but a body and its soul and spirit are flown to you, and possess your memory like a spirit.

Beecher.

GET into some good library and read. First read the Bible and then William Shakespeare. It will do no harm to read one in the morning and the other at night. I am not speaking ridiculously to you now, for, with a complete knowledge of these two greatest delineators of human nature, you will have a key, and can, as it were, lift off the skull-cap and read a man's utmost thoughts.

John A. Murphy, M.D.

AND while some books, like steps, are left behind us by the very help which they yield us, and serve only our childhood or early life, some others go with us, in mute fidelity, to the end of life, a recreation for fatigue, an instruction for our sober hours, and solace for our sickness or sorrow. Except the great outdoors, nothing that has so much life of its own, gives so much life to us.

Beecher.

THERE is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will know as well what to expect from the one as the other. Bishop Butler.

Or all the reproaches which arise against a man in his chamber of study, there is none more bitter than these two: the sight of his own books unread, and the sight of his own books read. The one accuses him of waste, the other accuses him of inattention. We are slothful in not reading; we are slothful also in reading. Examine yourself, grapple with the demon of inattention, and make each book, each page, each sentence, give account of itself to you.

Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D.

THERE are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative-books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive, so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that, though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are: 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like; or, in Shakespeare's phrase,

"No profit goes where is no pleasure ta en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

Emerson.

WHEN a new book comes out, I read an old one.

INSIPID books soon find the way to that have life compel the world to read the reading lead to anger and hostility.

Samuel Rogers.

oblivion, but books them, even though

Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker..

GET at the root of things. The gold mines of Scripture are not the top soil; you must open a shaft. The precious diamonds of experience are not picked up in the roadway; their secret places are far down. Get down into the vitality, the solidity, the veracity, the divinity of the Word of God, and seek to possess with it the inward work of the Spirit.

THERE are passages of Scripture that glow with the poetry of heaven and immortality.

Greyson Letters.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs, they pass into laws, they pass into doctrines, they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted. Dean Stanley.

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DIAMOND FLASHES.

TEACH the children! it is painting in fresco.

Emerson.

CHILDREN have more need of models than of critics.

Joubert.

BEGIN with the infant in his cradle; let the first word he lisps be Washington!

Mirabeau.

WE constantly underrate the capacity of children to understand and to suffer.

John B. Gough.

CHILDREN keep us at play all our lives.

Calvert.

WOULD God, some one had taught me, when young, the names of the grasses and constellations!

Carlyle.

EVERY first thing continues forever with the child; the first color, the first music, the first flower, paint the foreground of his life. The first inner or outer object of love, injustice, or such like, throws a shadow immeasurably far along his after years.

Richter.

In the man whose childhood has known tender caresses, there is a fibre of memory which can be touched to gentle issues.

George Eliot.

In children, a great curiousness is well,
Who have themselves to learn, and all the world.

Tennyson.

HAPPY the child who is suffered to be, and content to be, what God meant it to be-a child while childhood lasts. Happy the parent who does not force artificial manners, precocious feelings, premature religion.

F. W. Robertson.

You never know what child in rags and pitiful squalor that meets you in the street may have in him the germ of gifts that might add new treasures to the storehouse of beau tiful things or noble acts.

John Morley.

A MOTHER loses a child. It ever remains to her a child. It is only she that can be said to have a child. She remembers it as it was.

Dickens.