George Herbert.

A VERSE may find him who a sermon flies.

THOUGHT is the property of those only who can entertain it.

I LOVE to lose myself in other men's minds.

Emerson.

Charles Lamb.

WORDS only live when worthy to be said.

Bulwer.

WORDS are things, and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

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Byron.

WHAT gems of painting or statutary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking.

Holmes.

It is the masterful will that compresses a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the

centuries.

William Mathews.

THE multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that everything must now be reduced to extracts.

Voltaire.

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades-nature's framework of their picture-so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.

David Swing.

OUR thoughts are ever forming our characters, and whatever they are most absorbed in will tinge our lives.

IDEAS strangle statutes.

Phila. Ledger.

Wendell Phillips.

IDEAS go booming through the world louder than cannon; thoughts are mightier than armies.

Rev. Dr. W. M. Paxton.

IDEAS often reach the people

just as they are leaving the

schools, and often, on the other hand, the schools go on spinning their tough threads long after the

all their interest.

people have lost

Guesses at Truth.

OUR great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.

Thackeray.

THE key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Emerson.

EVERY man is in one sense an historical production. The ideas which form his life have come to him through the course of development in which he moves.

Neander.

THE restless mind of man cannot but press a principle to the real limit of its application, even though centuries. should intervene between the premises and the conclusion. Liddon.

In the end thought rules the world. There are times when impulses and passions are more powerful, but they soon expend themselves, while mind, acting constantly, is ever ready to drive them back and to work when their energies are exhausted.

M'Cosh.

MAN is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a reed which thinks; the universe need not rise in arms to crush him; a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But were the universe to crush him, man would still be greater than the power which killed him; for he knows that he dies, and of the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing.

Pascal.