Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains.

-EMERSON.

Men of loftier mind manifest themselves in their equitable dealings; small-minded men in going for gain. -CONFUCIUS.

O what a glory doth this world put on

For him, who, with a fervent heart goes forth,
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent;
For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves,
Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings.
-LONGFELLOW.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -HORACE.

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.-GEORGE MEREDITH.

That is best blood that hath most iron in't
To edge resolve with, pouring without stint,
For what makes manhood dear.

They well deserve to have

-LOWELL.

That know the strong'st and surest way to get.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Don't jedge a man's knowledge o' race hosses by th'

clothes he wears.-UNCLE HENRY.

The good newspaper has circulation; the good preacher has crowded congregations; the good doctor has many patients; the good worker has big wages; and the complaints about the lack of success are almost always due to the lack of some necessary quality, to some fatal inclination, or to downright laziness.

-Saturday Evening Post.

It is a fallacy to suppose that any schools, however good they may be, can educate. Their work is to give instruction, and as Bishop Butler said long ago: "Instruc- 9 tion is the least part of education."

-CHARLES ELIOT NORTON.

Eyes need glasses, ears need trumpets and drums, but the tongue never wears out.-Saturday Evening Post. The desire to get something for nothing makes men pay something for nothing.-Saturday Evening Post.

We are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are, the freer we are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve.-JOHN L. SPALDING.

I have heard Cardinal Imperiali say: There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life, but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window.

-MONTESQUIEU.

Can hoarded gold dispel the gloom that death must shed around his tomb?-HATEM TAI.

No government has the moral right to invest a company of men with powers which enable them to coin money of the needs of the people, and which practically doom

the people to suffering or to unquestioning acquiescence in their exactions.—GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

"Truth forever on the scaffold,

Wrong forever on the throne;
Yet the scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God, within the shadow,

Keeping watch above his own."

We have among mankind in general three orders of beings-the lowest, sordid and selfish, which neither sees nor feels; the second, noble and sympathetic, but which neither sees nor feels, without concluding or acting; and the third and highest, which loses sight in resolution and feeling in work.-RUSKIN.

The art of meditation can be exercised at all hours, and in all places; and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the mind inward, can form an artificial solitude, retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly. -ISAAC DISRAELI.

Epochs of faith are epochs of fruitfulness, but epochs of unbelief, however glittering, are barren of all permanent good.-GOETHE.

Perplexed in faith, but pure indeed,

At last he beat his music out.

There lies more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

-TENNYSON.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.-EMERSON.

There is not a more prudent maxim than to live with our enemies as if they may one day become our friends. -CHESTERFIELD.

Valuable and powerful as are love and beauty, the one virtue that is absolutely indispensable is courage.

-WOODS HUTCHISON.

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and to make knowledge valuable you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.-Emerson.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and like good marksmen to hit the white, at any distance.-SENECA.

"Before philosophy can teach by experience, the philosophy has to be in readiness, the experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded."

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is in our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.-THOREAU.

"A scant breakfast in the morning of life sharpens the appetite for a feast later in the day. Your present want will make prosperity all the sweeter."

What a different thing a forest is to different men! He who gives an axe receives a mast. He who gives

taste receives a picture. He who gives imagination, receives a poem. He who gives faith hears the "goings of God in the tree-tops."-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

When we know the nature of all things, we are relieved from superstition, freed from the fear of death, and not disturbed by ignorance of circumstances from which often arise fearful terror.-CICERO.

Tie down a hero and he feels the puncture of a pin; throw him into battle and he is almost insensible to gashes. So in war impelled by hope and fear, stimulated by revenge, depressed by shame or elevated by victory, the people become invincible. No privation can shake their fortitude, no certainty break their spirit.

-JOHN C. CALHOUN.

Dr. Johnson once turned upon one of his flatterers, and addressed him thus: "Sir, you have but two topics -yourself and me. I am sick of them both."

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine old age have left me naked to mine enemies.-WOLSEY.

A man was born, not for prosperity, but to suffer for the benefit of others, like the noble rock maple, which all around our village bleeds for the service of men. --EMERSON.

"Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we may draw forth the harmonies that lie sleeping in the silent octaves."