V.

LIVE COALS.

Ir is a great privilege to be present at the spectacle of

CRITICS are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Longfellow.

CERTAIN critics resemble closely those people who, when they would laugh, show ugly teeth.

Joubert.

THE instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than its wisest men.

Kossuth.

THE subjective conscience must not be placed above the objective law.

Bismarck.

CONTEMPORARIES seldom render justice; so that in order to fulfill our mission, one must have faith in and conscientiously appreciate his duty.

Louis Napoleon.

To say that a thing good in itself is bad because sometimes abused, is as absurd as to say that the beautiful Ohio river is an evil because it at times overflows its banks.

Hon. Walter Forward.

IMPATIENCE of study is the mental disease of the present generation.

Dr. Samuel Johnson.

SINCE I cannot govern my tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I. hope to govern the tongues of others.

Franklin.

GRATITUDE for the past, content in the present, and trust for the future, constitute the trinity of happiness.

Rev. Dr. A. A. Willits.

THE more you lose your isolated self, and the thoughts and feelings which cluster round it, and take, instead, into you the thoughts and feelings of others, the richer and the more varied, the more complex and the more interesting, and therefore the more vividly individual, becomes your being.

Stopford A. Brooke.

HUMAN virtue should be equal to human calamity.

Gen. R. E. Lee.

OFFENDED vanity is the great separator in social life.

Helps.

THE silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Shakespeare.

THERE is a moral excellence attainable by all who have the will to strive after it; but there is an intellectual and physical superiority which is above the reach of our wishes, and is granted only to a few.

Crabbe.

HAVE the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sidney Smith.

A MAN's hobby rides him a great deal oftener than he rides it.

Rev. Dr. Furness.

O THAT we had spent one day in this world thoroughly well!

Thomas à Kempis.

HALF the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Rev. Dr. E. R. Beadle.

GRAY hairs are the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Bacon.

OFTEN the grand meanings of faces, as well as written words, may be chiefly in the impressions of those who look on them.

George Eliot.

We know not how grateful we should be to those who take the trouble to be rich for us.

Renan.

THE house is spiritually empty so long as the pearl of great price is not there, although it may be hung with all the decorations of earthly knowledge.

Dr. Arnold.

To form a correct judgment concerning the tendency of any doctrine, we should rather look at the forms it bears in the disciples than in the teacher, for he only made it—they are made by it

Hare.

I CONFESS that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used

Hillard.

LOOKING within us, we find in conscience an observatory higher than that of physical science ever was, from which to gaze upon the supreme harmonies of the universe.

Joseph Cook.

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet when things vex or grieve us. There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help in the right way.

Miss Alcott.

MUCH of the charm of life is ruined by the exacting demands of confidence. Respect the natural modesty of the soul; its more delicate flowers of feeling close their petals when they are touched too rudely.

Stopford A. Brooke.

THERE is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

TRUE dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the patient hour of silent thought.
Can still suspect and still revere himself.

Helps.

Wordsworth.

OUR estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. We find it difficult to think well of those by whom we are thwarted and depressed, and we are ready to admit every excuse for the vices of those who are useful or agreeable to us.

Macaulay.

On! the exquisite English in many parts of our version

of the Scriptures! I sometimes think that the translators as well as the original writers, must have been inspired. Samuel Rogers.

To try to suppress the human side of the Bible, in the interests of the purity of the Divine Word, is as great a folly as to think that a father's talk with his child can be best reported by leaving out everything which the child said, thought and felt.

W. Robertson Smith.

How will my last day on earth find me ?-struggling in vain for more of this mortal life, or anticipating with seraph glow my entrance upon life eternal ?

Rev. Samuel Dunn.

ALL our other sorrows are storms that beat upon us from without; but remorse, sorrow on account of sin, ever arises and haunts us from within.

Rev. Dr.W. Rudder.

YOUNG men who spend many years at school and college are too apt to forget the great end of life, which is to be and to do; not to read and brood over what other men have been and done.

William Mathews.

THE Code of society is stronger with some persons than that of Sinai, and many a man who would not scruple to thrust his fingers in his neighbor's pocket, would forego peas rather than use his knife as a shovel.

James Russell Lowell.

STYLE is only the frame to hold our thoughts. It is like the sash of a window-a heavy sash will obscure the light, Emmons.

THIS is such a serious world that we should never speak at all unless we have something to say.

Carlyle.