NLY a sweet and virtuous soul, ON Like seasoned timber never gives; But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives. George Herbert. IT T is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most A HELPING word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railway track-but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. H. W. Beecher. LIKE as rust consumes iron, so does envy devour the envious. 25252 Antisthenes. 52525252525252525 252525 SOME ÔME men are very entertaining for a first interview; but after that they are exhausted and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them very flat and monotonous; like the hand-organ, we have heard all their tunes; but unlike those instruments, they are not new barrelled so easily. THE Colton. 'HE Persians say of noisy unreasonable talk: I meal. READING without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by wandering eyes. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. Edward Bulwer. IT is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Sir Walter Scott. 172525252525252525 77775 TO-DAY, to-morrow, every day, to thousands, the end of the world is close at hand: and why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times from the Great Cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir, we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes out before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave, that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into eternal life? Longfellow. SENSE is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. Young. THOUGHT engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought there which has no bottom; the more you draw from it the more clear and fruitful it will be. 25252 G. A. Sala. 525252529 LIKE an inundation of the Indus is the course of Time. We look for the homes of our childhood-they are gone! for the friends of our childhood-they are gone! The loves and animosities of youth, where are they? Swept away like the craft that had been pitched in the sandy bed of the river. Longfellow. GOD, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us by the wise economy of His providence how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. Fénelon. THE 'HE garland forest, which the gray walls* wear Like laurels on the bald first Cæsar's head. Byron. A MAN'S usefulness in the Christian life depends far more on the kindness of his daily temper than on great and glorious deeds that shall attract the admiration of the world and shall send his * Coloseum. 2525 name down to future times. It is the little rivulet, that glides through the meadow and that runs along day and night by the farmhouse that is useful, rather than the swollen flood or the noisy cataract. Albert Barnes. HE sendeth sun, he sendeth shower— Alike they're needful to the flower; And joys and tears alike are sent As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father, thy will, not mine, be done. Sarah F. Adams. IT T is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand as to recall a word once spoken. WHEN Alaric was threatened by the Roman ambassadors with the innumerable army which they could bring against him, he replied: "The thicker the grass the easier it is mowed." 5252 |