comfortable, who do not have some upward avenue of hope before them.-BENJAMIN HARRISON.

Let not a day pass without exercising your powers of speech. There is no power like that of oratory. Cæsar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author, that of the other continues to this day.-HENRY CLAY.

When men have learned to reverence a life of passive, unreasoning obedience as the highest type of perfection, the enthusiasm and passion of freedom necessarily decline.-LECKY.

Every now and then some chronic pessimist obtrudes himself on the public with his harsh, stringent philosophy of a world made for misery and becoming necessarily more wicked and miserable as it grows older.

-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt. It is the sneer of the satire or the ridicule that galls and wounds.-WASHINGTON GLADDEN.

"There is no outer liberty apart from inner liberty; control of affairs is first control of self, and ungoverned passions must forever mean shipwreck of life, destruction, and death."

"It is better to pass for a man of plain, common sense, in ordinary conversation, than attempt to be brilliant or facetious at an expense which you cannot well bear for any length of time.”

Would you know who is the most degraded and the most wretched of human beings-how deep the misery of man can reach? Then look for a man who has practised a vice so long that he curses yet clings to it, because he feels a great law of his nature driving him on to it; yet reaching it, feels that it will gnaw at his heart and tear his vitals, and make him roll himself in the dust of anguish.-SIDNEY SMITH,

The gods in bounty work up storms about us,
That give mankind occasion to exert,

Their hidden strength, and throw out in practice,
Virtues which shun the day.

--ADDISON.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world. -RUSKIN.

When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift-no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course-he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom.

-HOLMES.

Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and pattern of which can be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded they are obscured and lost. PLUTARCH.

The flighty purpose ne'er is overtook,
Unless the deed go with it.

-SHAKESPEARE.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast--alternately tempestuous and serene-so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains.-BURTON.

For violent fires soon burn out themselves;

Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes.
-SHAKESPEARE.

A bending staff I would not break,
A feeble faith I would not shake,
Nor even rashly pluck away

The error which some truth may stay.

Whose loss might leave the soul without
A shield against the shaft of doubt.

-WHITTIER.

Respect your wife; heap earth around her like a flower, but never drop any in the chalice.-ALFRED DE MUSSET.

It's 'cause exper'nce is bo't dearly, no doubt, that so many people try ter borrer it.-UNCLE HENRY.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food for fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit,
Will condescend to take a bit.

-SWIFT.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,

But cheerfully seek how to redress their harms.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Call no one "mad" because he happens to have a new idea, for time may prove such "madness" a merely perfected method of reason.-CORELLI.

Of every noble work the silent part is best,

Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
-W. W. STORY.

It may be true that poets is happy, but it's 'cause they're easy fed.-UNCLE HENRY.

One by one earth's ties are broken,

As we see our love decay;
And the hopes so fondly cherished
Brighten but to pass away.
One by one our hopes grow brighter,
As we near the shining shore;
For we know across the river

Wait the loved ones gone before.

-A Friend.

If my life has been worth anything, it has been because I have insisted to the best of my ability that these three things, love of God, love of country, and manhood, are the essential and fundamental things.

-GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR.

Peace is more strong than war; and gentleness,

Where force were vain, makes conquest o'er the wave; There is no vice so simple but assumes

Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Though losses and crosses

Be lessons right severe,

There's wit there ye'll get there,

Ye'll find no other where.

-BURNS.

"Some men may doubt some other men's interpretation of God, but no real man ever doubts God."

The price of retaining what we know is always to seek to know more. We preserve our learning and mental power only by increasing them.-HENRY DARLING.

"A man's reputation is like a shadow, which sometimes follows, sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally shorter, occasionally longer than he is.”

We shape ourselves the joy or fear,
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere

With sunshine or with shade.

-WHITTIER.

It is a part of the necessary theory of republican government, that every class and race shall be judged by its highest types, not its lowest.

-THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

Religion is not an opinion about righteousness, it is the practice of righteousness. A religious education is not education, it is ethics. A religious education is the training of the religious nature.-LYMAN ABBOTT.