Year: 1874

laugh Is worth hundred grOaus in any market


Charles Lamb.


You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you hav


fulfilled that Of being pleasunt.-Charles Buxton.


When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs


when we come to act we cannot bear provoking


word.-IH. More.


They who know the truth, says confucius, are no


equal to those who revere it, and they who revere


are not equal to those who find pleasure in it.


Every nature must have the sub soil plowing Of sor


row before it can recognize either its present poverty


or its possible wealth.-IGeOrge Macdonald.


There is some virtue in almost every vice except


hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a moekery Of
virtue, Is at the same time omplmcnt to it,. Hnz.
lit.


Distrust is the death of the soul belief is its life.
The just shall live by faith. Infdelity is the sban-
donmeut Of life, suicide of the sprit[ Prof Swing.


Man is physically as well as metnphysicaly thing
Of shrcds and patches, borrowed unequay from good
and bad ancestors, and a misft from the start
Emerson.


To be able to practice FIVE things everywhere under
heaven constitutes perfect virtue Gravity, generosity
Of soul. sincerity, earnestness and kindness-[COn
fucius


Worldly faces never look SO worldly at funeral
They have the same effect Of grating incongruity
the sound Of coarse voice breaking the solemn ST.
lence Of nigbt--TG. Eliot.


hate anything that occupies more space than it is
worth hate to see q load Of band-bOXes go along
the street, and I hate to a parcel Of big words
- .-...st-:-.- - th,r, u.-


The taste for emotion may become dangerous
taste we should be very cautious how attempt to
squeeze out Of human life more ecstasy and pAroE-
ysm that it can well AHOrd.-Isydney Smith.


A mans own religion, though contrary to- is better
than the faith Of another. let it ever be SO well fol-
lowed. 1t is good to die in ones faith, for
others faith beareth fear.-IBhngyat GheetR.


The man who strives to make himself different
thing from other by much reading, gains this,
his chiefest good, that among all fortunes be has
something to comfort himself withRl.-[Selde


The attempt to make perfect men in fiction and
biography are great failures. I would 60 Eve miles
across lots to avoid one of these, and to spend day
with one would be tedious indeed.-[Henry Ward
Beecher.


Books are the only thing that connect the past with
the present and futures without them, the deeds and
words Of men would never be handed down beyond
the generation Immediately succeeding them, and,
without books, the very of the worlds heroes
would perish from the earth Bishop Potter.


The love Of study j, in us almost the only eternal
passion all the others quit in proportion as this
miserable machine which gives them to approaches
Its ruin. Study has been with the sovereign
remedy against all disgusts Of life having had
cbagrin which an hours reading has not put to
flight MOntesquieu.


Might give counsel to any young hearer, I would
say to him. Try frequent the company of your bet
tiers; in books and life that is the most wholesome
society learn to admire rightly, the great pleasure
of life is that. Note what the great admire
they admire great things; marrow spirits admire
bRsey and worship meanly.-IThackeray.


Our habitual life is like wall hung with pictures,
which has been shone by the suns Of many years
take of the pictures away and it leaves definite,
blank space, to which eyes can never turn with
out sensation of discomfort Nay, the involuntary
oss Of any familiar object almost always brings
chill, as from an evil omen is to be the first
fnger-shadow of advancing death.-[G. Eliot.


The poor copies Of Christ's life which presented
to US even in the lives Of the sincere Christians
resemble the copies Of good pictures made by little
children The proportions are all faulty and the 4
eolOrs do not blend together. There is likeness, |
but SO imperfect one that must not take pattern
by the copy but ascend up to the original and study
its every feature, there where alone it is perfect
Maria Hare.


As the ignorant perform the duties Of life from the
hope of reward so the wise men, out of respect to
the opinions and prejudice Of mankind, should per-
form the same without motives Of interest he should
not create a division in the understandings of the
ignorant, who are inclined to outward works. The
learned man, by industriOusly performing all the du
tes Of life, should induce the vulgar to attend to
them.-[Bhagrat Gbeeta.


Ill health should be avoided, of course, by state
action as well as personal care, inasmueh as it di-
mnshes mental and physical force but as We are all
under sentence of capital punishment, is it worth
while to make the enormous fuss everybody is now
doing about everything which makes, or possibly
may make, death come a little quicker9 Is there no
force in Fredericks apOpthegm, he caned the hy-
ing soldier. " You rascal do you want to live for



The London Times closes the obituary of Agassiz
thus T" In Agassiz the world has lost philosopher
and naturalist whose name viii be remembered along
with those Of Button, cuvier, and humboldt, and of
whom both his native Switzerland and his adopted
Auerica MIGHT we'll he nroud