OF all the thoughts of God that are, Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, For gift or grace surpassing this— E. B. Browning. GOOD OOD nature is the beauty of the mind, and like personal beauty, wins, almost without anything else—sometimes, indeed, in spite of positive deficiencies. Harvey. TRUE goodness is like the glowworm in this, of heaven are upon it. Hare. 'HE world was sad, the garden was a wild, THE And man the hermit sighed-till woman smiled. 252525252525252525252525252525252525252525 WOMAN is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Whately. 'TIS thought and digestion which makes books serviceable and gives health and vigour to the mind. To walk always upon crutches is the way to lose the use of our limbs. Jeremy Collier. ONE NE being asked what could be the reason why weeds grew more plentifully than corn, answered: "Because the earth is the mother of weeds, but the stepmother of corn." That is, the one she produced of her own accord, the other not till she was compelled to it by man's toil and industry. This may not be unfitly applied to the human mind, which, on account of its intimate union with the body, and commerce with sensible objects, easily and willingly performs the things of the flesh, but will not bring forth the spiritual fruits of piety and virtue unless cultivated with assiduity and application. I KNOW from experience that habit can, in direct opposition to every conviction of the mind, and but little aided by the elements of temptation, induce a repetition of the most unworthy actions. The mind is weak when it has once given way. It is long before a principle restored can become as firm as one that has never been moved. It is as in the case of the mound of a reservoir; if this mound has in one place been broken, whatever care has been taken to make the required part as strong as possible, the probability is that, if it give way again, it will be in that place. John Foster. OODNESS does not only communicate favours and kindnesses-it even in some measure communicates itself. Just as those who have been long among the most fragrant objects, not only are delighted with the odour that breathes from them, some of the very fragrancy cleaves to and remains with them. They become fragrant themselves, by staying long among objects that are so. Seed. 252525 2525252525252525252 WHAT may seem a loss of time will be more than compensated by that spirit of order and regularity which the stated observance of religious exercises tends to produce. It will serve as an edge and border to keep the web of life from unravelling. Bishop Hall. LIKE IKE the night-blooming ceres that sheds its And opens its blossoms midst darkness and gloom. IKE the weak worm that gems the starless night, L' Moves in the scanty circlet of its light, And is it strange that he withdraws the ray, That guides too well the night-birds to their prey. 2525252525252525252525 MACA 5252525 ACAULAY said of England's progress: "A wave may go out but the tide is coming in." IT has been said of some beaux that they were like the cinnamon-tree, their bark was better than their body. A GREAT mind is equal to comprehension of the trifling as well as the important, as the trunk of an elephant can pick up a pin or uproot a tree. LAZINESS grows on people. It begins in cob webs and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economise his time. S the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast and sometimes fair, alternately tempestuous and serene-so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and pains. 2525252525 Burton. 5252 |