in your inventory, and you'll have a pretty accurate result.-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

Patiently to accept the misfortunes that can neither be hindered nor avoided is a proof of wisdom.

-Turkish Proverb.

When a man's pulse is temperate and healthy he is least likely to be the sport of fantastic and lawless visions.-PLATO.

As one man is pleased with improving his farm, another his horse, so I am daily pleased in growing better.-SOCRATES.

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness and a tight hand strength.-BUXTON.

It is not fortune or personal advantage, but our turning them to account, that constitutes the value of life. Fame adds no more than does length of days; quality is the thing.-CHARLES WAGNER.

"The so-called man of letters is too often a man of one letter."

When Pericles went up to the Bema to speak, he prayed the gods that no word might slip unaware, unsuitable to the matter and the occasion. There was a rude fellow who dogged and reviled him, all the afternoon, and at night followed him home, still reviling him at the door. Pericles called his servant, and told him to get a lantern and light the man home.-PLUTARCH. "Be not buried in the present; today becomes yesterday so fast."

The men and women who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. -ELIZABETH HARRISON.

Since no one can hold life in check, is it not better to respect it and use it than to go about making other people disgusted with it?-The Simple Life.

"Everything comes to the man who waits, but that is no inducement to wait, for no man wants everything." “A man is a ship, with advice for the tiller; you push the tiller one way and the man goes the other."

Practice restraint if you are irritable; endure if you are abused; be not vexed if treated with dishonor. -EPICTETUS.

Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done?-MISS MULOCH.

Education, like the mass of our age's inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it.-The Simple Life.

No age was e'er degenerate,

Unless man held it at too cheap a rate;

For in our likeness still we shape our fate.

-J. R. LOWELL.

Be thy own deeds good or evil, look to thyself alone; all, when their work is ended, reap the harvest they have sown.-HAFIZ,

We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary-words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't care most for those flat-pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. -HOLMES.

"I hate inconstancy-I loathe, detest,
Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made
Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast

No permanent foundation can be laid."

Free-heartedness, and graciousness, and undisturbed trust, and requited love, and the sight of the peace of others, and the ministry to their pain-these, and the blue sky above you, and the sweet waters and flowers of the earth beneath, and mysteries and presences, innumerable, of living things-these may yet be here your riches; untormenting and divine; serviceable for the life that now is, nor, it may be, without promise of that which is to come.-RUSKIN.

Once more, speak clearly, if you speak at all;
Carve every word before you let it fall.

-HOLMES.

"Keep out evil thoughts; perhaps you cannot keep a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent its building a nest in your hair."

"Many so-called bright men are drawing small salaries, because they never felt the necessity of settling down to learn any one thing well.”

No star is ever lost we once have seen

We always may be what we might have been.
-ADELAIDE PROCTER.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race.—Ruskin.

'Tis not too late tomorrow to be brave

If honor bids.

-ARMSTRONG.

The man of brains sees difficulties, surmounts or avoids them; the fool knows no difficulties.

-LA BRUYÈRE.

Hope on, though things unseen may baffle thy research; mysterious sports we hail beyond the Veil; despair not. -HAFIZ.

To learn and then to practise opportunely what one has learned-does not this bring a sense of satisfaction? -CONFUCIUS.

"The first thing to do, if you have not done it, is to fall in love with your work."

"Misrepresent nothing. No permanent success was ever built upon a foundation of fraud."

"He who loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping."

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.-J. STUART MILL.

"Don't try to maintain two ratings-the one for the Commercial Agency, and the other for the Lord's treasury."

"The boy is helpful who is taught to help himself."

"It is better to make our descendants proud of us, than to be proud of our ancestry.”

When God wants to make an oak, he takes one hundred years; but when he wants to make a squash, he takes six months.-HORACE GREELEY.

"It has ever been the man with an idea which he puts into practical effect, who has changed the face of Christendom."

"Be ready for your opportunity when it comes."

"Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place."

"Practical education introduces a man to mankind, and acquaints him intimately with himself."

When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance.

-CONFUCIUS.

"The truest success is the result of an equal development of mind, body and soul.”

"Learn to place value."

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common sense.-SMILES.