Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. -JOHNSON.

"Base envy withers at another's joy, and hates that excellence it cannot reach."

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. -SIR T. BROWNE.

"Be in peace with many, nevertheless, have but one counsellor of a thousand."

Be it how it will, do right now.-EMERSON.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Be not simply good-be good for something.

-Bible.

-THOREAU.

Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.-Bible.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. -FRANKLIN.

Be watchful of thy body if thou wouldst rightly exercise thy mind. Descartes.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.-Bible.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

Beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.-BOVEE. Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil is understanding.-Bible.

"Being ahead of time may spoil a minute; being behind time may waste a day."

"Better shed light than cast a shadow. lens than a shutter."

Better be a

For who knows most, him loss of time most grieves. -DANTE.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.-Bible. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are.-SAMUEL SMILES. Four things come not back-the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. -Anon.

Frost is not more destructive to harvest fields than harshness is to the creative faculties.

-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Gaze not on the marks and blemishes of others, and ask not how they came.-WASHINGTON.

General ideas are generally wrong.-M. W. JACOBUS. Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. —JOUBERT.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame; there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.-MME. DE STAEL.

Genius is health, and beauty is health, and virtue is health.-EMERSON.

Genius is intensity.-BALZAC.

Genius is nothing but a continued attention.

-HELVETIUS.

Genius is only a protracted patience.-BUFFON. Genius is the infinite art of taking pains.-CARLYLE. Genius would soon starve and pine away, if not ceaselessly fed by memory.-MATTHEWS.

"Get rich, get rich!

But get money honestly, or it

will be a withering curse."

Getting into debt is getting into a tanglesome net. -FRANKLIN.

Give me a standing-place and I will move the world. -ARCHIMEDES.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. -MILTON.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.-Bible.

Go to your banquet, then, but use delight,
So as to rise still with an appetite.

-HERRICK.

God dwells upon the luminous summits of moral perfection.-BISHOP BERRY.

God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it

into the nest.—HOLLAND.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over-measure.-BEECHER.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.-WILLIAM PENN. "God's in his heaven; all's right with the world." "Good breeding alone can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents."

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.-ADDISON.

Good cheer is no hinderance to a good life.-ARTIPPUS. Good counsels observed are chains of grace.-Fuller. Good humor makes all things tolerable.-BEECHER. Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls.-SHAKESPEARE.

Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.-BEECHER.

Good sense is the master of human life.-BOSSUET. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one.-JEFFREY.

Goodness and earnestness are nearly the same things. What in the New Testament we translate a good. man, in Greek is literally earnest.-ROBERTSON.

Goodness lies in abstaining not merely from injustice, but from the desire for injustice.-DEMOCRITUS. Goodness must have some edge to it-else it is none. -EMERSON.

"Gossiping and lying go together." Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.-GEORGE S. HILLARD.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.-T. W. HIGGINSON.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise. -CARLYLE.

Great things through great sacrifices are achieved, and then they shine.-BEAUMONT.

Greater than genius, greater than power, greater than riches, is the ability to pour out one's life for the uplifting of others.-CLAYTON S. COOPER.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of lifeought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.-HOLMES.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

-AUGUSTINE.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature.-CARLYLE. "Happiness is like sunshine; it is made up of very little beams."

Happiness is not the end of life; character is.

-BEECHER. "Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts on others as the April sun on violets."

Hard thinking opens naturally into strong doing. -F. G. PEABODY. "Hard work is not all that is necessary to success in life. Misdirected energy and zeal will send a man to the penitentiary."

Hate makes vehement partisans, but love still more so. -GOETHE.

Have something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-THOMAS CHALMERS.

Have something to say, say it, stop talking.

-GEORGE HORACE LORIMER.

"He grieves more than is necessary, who grieves before it is necessary."

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.-EMERSON.

He is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man.-SHAKESPEARE.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

-EMERSON.