FROM indolence, despondency and indiscretion, may I specially be preserved.

John Quincy Adams.

PUT not your trust in money, but put your money in

trust.

Holmes.

I HAVE discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold; it is—" Pay as you go!"

John Randolph.

EARTHLY treasures are disappointing in pursuit, dissatisfying in enjoyment, and uncertain in possession.

Blair's Rhetoric.

MODERN criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is, therefore, read by the discerning not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

Colton.

NOTHING ages like laziness.

Bulwer Lytton.

PLEASURES are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow-falls in the river,
A moment white-then melts forever.

MELANCHOLY is the convalescence of grief.

Burns.

Madame Dubrenoy.

As old as the centuries and as young as the future.

Bulwer, (on the Christian Church).

EARNEST Work for Christ is the best means of spiritus:

culture.

Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D.D,

SILENCE is the virtue of the feeble.

Auguste Prèault.

THE best of men and the most earnest workers will make enough of mistakes to keep them humble. Thank God for mistakes and take courage. Don't give up on account of mistakes!

Moody.

My greatest sorrows are those of my own heart. Outward troubles serve rather to steady than to disconcert me. Rev. George Paul.

It is the little rift within the lute,

That by and by will make the music mute,
And, ever widening, slowly silence all.

Tennyson.

WE are all wicked; what one of us blames in another each will find in his own breast.

Seneca.

THE conjurer does not deceive the man who beats the gong for him.

Chinese Proverb.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Trublet.

To contemplate things lovely is always an ascent.

David Swing.

MAN is by nature a fighting and quarreling animal.

Lord Palmerston.

PLANTING Colleges and filling them with studious young men and women, is planting seed-corn for the world.

Rev. Dr. Judson.

THE imagination is the retina of the universe.

Ruskin.

TASTE and smell are chemical, touch is mechanical, the ear is emotive, and the eye is intellectual.

Tyndall.

THE strangeness of foreign life throws one back into himself. John Henry Newman.

NOTHING sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Chesterfield.

SARCASM is the natural language of the devil.

A DECENT boldness ever meets with friends.

Carlyle.

Pope.

A LETTER shows the man it is written to, as well as the

an it is written by.

Chesterfield.

EDUCATION is the cheap defense of nations.

Burke.

POVERTY is the sixth sense.

German Proverb.

IN many things, a comprehensive survey of a subject is the shortest way of getting at a precise knowledge of a particular division of it.

Princeton Review.

It seems to be nearly impossible to be moderate. If we are calm and deliberate enough to be just, we are almost sure to be indifferent

A. P. Russell.

MYTHOLOGY is religion growing wild.

STATEMENT is argument.

Schelling.

Shedd.

A GARBLED quotation may be the most effectual perversion of an author's meaning; and a partial representation of an incident in a man's life may be the most malignant of all calumnies.

McCosh.

THE double sense of prophesy is aptly illustrated by mountain-peaks or gas-lights seeming as one in the distance. Charles Wordsworth, D.D.

"WHAT a fool you are, Paley," said a young man in a British university, "to be wasting your time in idleness and dissipation. You have talents which might raise you to eminence. I have none; and it is of no consequence how I act." Paley took the hint, though roughly made, laid it to heart, and rose like a clear light, and shed a lustre on the age and the literature of his nation.

Albert Barnes.

XXV.

NUT-SHELLS.

THE fourth gospel is written by the hand of an angel.

Herder.

THE fourth gospel is the heart of Christ.

Ernesti.

You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Sheridan.

I BELIEVE Plato and Socrates; I believe in Jesus Christ. Coleridge.

THE material universe is so great that the highest intelligence in heaven can never fully grasp or know it. Through all eternity, should its limits ever be found, the mind would be shocked.

A GOOD library is a statesman's workshop.

John Foster.

John Randolph.

SOME books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Bacon.

Sheffield.

TEN censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

IF Adam fell in the days of innocency,

Pope.

How could you expect Falstaff to stand
In the days of villainy?

Shakespeare.

ONE that would peep and botanize
Upon his mother's grave!

Wordsworth.

Fuller.

THE negro is the image of God cut in ebony.

THE task-master is the image of the devil cut in ivory.

Horace Smith.