LIFE is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels.

Horace Walpole.

THERE is no fiercer hell than failure in a great attempt.

EVERY man is great just because he is a man.

Keats.

W. E. Channing.

NEVER mind where you work; care more about your

NOTHING can work me damage but myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me; and I am never a real sufferer but by my own fault.

St. Bernard.

Or all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart -is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

Auerbach.

THE golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Chapin.

THE reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not know the value of five minutes.

Napoleon.

THERE is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually and morally, than thorough ventilation.

Ruskin.

INSTEAD of saying that man is the creature of circumstances, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstances. Our strength is measured by our plastic power.

George H. Lewes.

AND we, poor waifs, whose life-term seems,
When matched with After and Before,

Brief as a Summer wind's or wave's,
Breaking its frail heart on the shore,-
We-human toys-that Fate sets up
To smite or spare, I marvel how

These souls shall fare, in what strange sphere,
A thousand years from now.

Paul Hamilton Hayne.

III.

CLUSTERED SPARKLES.

FAME is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Socrates.

THERE is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once be

gotten.

George Eliot.

WE want downright facts at present more than anything

else.

Ruskin.

ACTUALLY, or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.

Emerson.

EVIL is like the nightmare-the instant you bestir yourself, it has already ended.

PRETENSION is nothing; power is everything.

Richter.

E. P. Whipple.

PLAGIARISTS, at least, have the merit of preservation.

D'Israeli.

LIVE with thy inferiors as thou wouldst have thy superiors live with thee.

Epictetus.

I TRY to make my enmities transient, and my friendships eternal.

Cicero.

WHEN God does his best work he needs the best men to help him.

George Eliot.

OUR earth is as solemn in its continuance as it would be in its ending.

David Swing.

THE finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished

man.

Humboldt.

Ir takes away much of the flavor of life to live amongst those with whom one has not anything like one's fair value.

Helps.

THE man in jest is the key to the man in earnest.

French Proverb.

THE men who make history do not write it very well. Gen. Sherman.

No man, with any true nobility of soul, can ever make his heart the slave of another's condescension.

Ike Marvel.

A GOOD heart will at times betray the coolest head in the world.

THERE is no such thing as forgetting.

Fielding.

DeQuincey.

So act that your principle of action would bear to be made a law for the whole world.

Ir is easy to see-hard to foresee.

Kant.

Franklin.

MASSENA was not himself until the battle began to go against him.

Napoleon.

Do not speak of your happiness to a man less fortunate than yourself.

GIVE me an honest laugher.

Plutarch.

Walter Scott.

George McDonald.

THERE is an aching that is worse than any pain.

BE courageous and noble-minded; our own heart, and not other men's opinion of us, forms our true honor.

Schiller.

VOLCANOES throw up stones, and revolutions cast up men. Victor Hugo.

SOCIETY prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Buckle.

No man needs money so much as he who despises it.

PLAIN living and high thinking are no more.

Richter.

Wordsworth.

MODESTY has its sins, and a kiss its innocence.

Mirabeau.

You do not know yet, my son, with how little wisdom the world is politically governed.

A MAN's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Huxley.

THE passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable.

Tyndall.

WE call this a Christian country, but the only offense we can never overlook is the forgiveness of an injury.

Theo. Tilton.