No outfit, no capital to start with? Young man, go down to the library and get some books, and read of what wonderful mechanism God gave you in your hand, and in your foot, in your eye, in your ear, and then ask some doctor to take you into the dissecting-room and illustrate to you what you have read about, and never again commit the blasphemy of saying you have no capital to start with. Equipped? Why, the poorest young man is equipped as only the God of the whole universe could afford to equip him.

-T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and, indeed, of every age in the world, have passed through the fiery persecution.-ADDISON.

Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

-POPE.

"Open evil at all events does this good: It keeps good on the alert. Where there is no likelihood of an enemy's approaching, the garrison slumbers at its post."

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss, in all things good; but in all things bad, getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.-HARE.

Should nature refuse to obey this law of losing life in order to save it, man's world would become one vast Sahara waste, an Arctic desolation.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

"There's always a river to cross,
Always an effort to make,
If there's anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take;
Yonder's the charming scene;
But deep and wide,

With a troubled tide,

Is the river that lies between."

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.-CICERO.

There never was an idea started that woke men up out of their stupid indifferences, but its originator was spoken of as a crank.-HOLMES.

Call your opinion your creed, you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end. -PHILLIPS BROOKS.

The mind of man, a particle plucked from the intellect of the Almighty, can be compared with nothing else, if we may be forgiven for saying so, than God himself. -CICERO.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard-some man of every nation has done that; 'tis the living up to it that's so difficult.-T. W. HANDFORD.

"Love, hope, fear, faith-these made humanity;

These are its sign and note and character."

When heaven itself opens its arms, he who is fainthearted deserves not anything. It is this want of faith that often keeps heaven from bestowing its blessings; and even when they come down it is apt to send them away. -CORNEILLE.

Start flush and fair with all that's gone before;
Know that, then first: old straw-heaps thrash not o'er.
Be prophet, and not scribe. The nations wait
New gospels. Truth's at dawn-investigate!
-JAMES BUCHANAN.

Our culture must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not be dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self-collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder; let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob, by the absolute truth of his speech and the rectitude of his behavior.-EMERSON.

We are created in ignorance and in weakness, for the very purpose of enabling us to feel the conscious delight of gathering in knowledge and of growing stronger in virtue.-HORACE MANN.

Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,

A foundered horse will oft debate
Before he tries a five-barred gate.
A dog by instinct turns aside

Who sees the ditch too deep and wide.

But man we find the only creature
Who, led by folly, combats nature;
Who, when she loudly cries-forbear!
With obstinacy fixes there;
And where his genius least inclines,
Absurdly bends his whole designs.

-SWIFT.

"No one can accomplish anything great in this world. who is contented with little, who is confident that he was made for little things, or is satisfied with what happens to come his way."

Those who make the least noise do the most work. An engine that expends all its steam in whistling, has nothing left with which to turn wheels.-CHAS. WAGNER.

"How happy is he born and taught, that serveth not another's will; whose armor is his honest thought, and simple truth his utmost skill; Lord of himself, though not of lands; and having nothing, yet hath all.”

"Immodest words admit of no defense,

For want of decency is want of sense.

In general, those who lose their souls do so not because they fail to rise to difficult duty, but because they neglect to perform that which is simple.-The Simple Life.

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!" "Mountains interposed make enemies of nations, who had else, like kindred drops, been mingled into one."

"Man is the noblest growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky."

And lo! In a flash of crimson splendor, with blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, and heralding his majestic approach, God's sun rises upon the world. -THACKERAY.

"The higher grade of development of ideas, of intellect, and reason, which raises man so much above the brute, is intimately connected with the rise of language."

When a man takes upon himself to correct the manners of his neighbor and to reprove his faults, who will forgive him if he has deviated in the slightest degree from the precise line of his duty?-CICERO.

Happy the man who tills the field,

Content with rustic labor;

Earth does to him her fulness yield,

Hap what may to his neighbor;

Well days, sound nights, ho, can there be,

A life more rational and free?

-RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.-EMERSON.

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.-HORACE MANN.,