Beautiful Thoughts

Pergian provcrb; Tlio lieart !s the only thing tliat is better by being broken. It is more slinmefiil to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by tlicm. Emile Souvestre : Good company and good coiiversütlon are tlie very sinews of virtue. Charles Pudley Warner: Next to an effeminate man there is notfaing so disngreeable as a mamiish woman. Gcorgc Eliot: Wlien do:ith, thc grr.it reconciler has come, it is never our tenderama we repent of, but our severity. Franklin: He thatotice did you a kindness wiU be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged. Kouchefoucauld : True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.' Kinslay : What can a man do more than (lie for his countrymen ' Live for tliein ; it is a longer work, and thercfore a more difflcult and noble one. Dante: "Behold the savage beast witli the pointed tall that passes mountains and breaks through walls and weapons. Behold him that pollutes the lióle world," Thus bcgnn my guide to speak to mu, and the uncleanly image of Fraud carne forward. Emerson : Couversatlon filis all gaps, supplies all deliciencies. What a good trait ia that recorded of Madame de Maiutenon, tlmt, luriiigdinner, the servant whispered ather side, "Picase, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day. Anón: Oncean not help secing that the sense of live beauty is a blessing ; that the ideal is foreverthe real; the only live thing in the universe of mlnd and matter. Once the truth is understood, the bonds of tyranny are but rotten wlthes; methods are hut inciclents. , üulwer: Of all the weaknesses which little men rail at, there is i:one that they are more apt to rail ut than n tendeney to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt , heart ard feeble head, the tem eney to iucredulily is the surest Eeal philosphy . seeks rither to solve than to deny. Plato : O beloved Pan, and all ye other ' godsof thÍ8 place, grant me to become beautifui in the inner man, and that whatever outward things I have mny be at peacc with ( tfjose within. May I deern the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold ' as none but a prudent man eau eltber bear 1 or eniülov. f George Eliot: There is no hopelessness o sad as that of early youth, wheu the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no super-added lifein the life of others, though we who look out think lightly of sucli premature detpair, as if our visión of the future lighted the blind suflerer's present. Goethe : He who wishes to exert a useful iulluence must be careful to insult nothing. Let hiin not be troubled by what teeau absurd, but let him consécrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. ;He must raise temples wliere mankind may come and pártate of the purest pleasure. Tiacke!ay it c oniy a few who weep for sheer affection. When you think that the eyes of your childhood dried at the glfcht of a pieceof ginger-bread, and .that plumcake was a compensation for the agony of partIng with you mamma and sisters, O my friend and brother, you n ed not be too confldent of your own fine feeling3. Anon : The work of destruction is justas necessary as the work of construction : Wc must exposé the false in order to establish the true. We must tear down the old and the useless that we may build up the new and MM-tul. Johnson : All theother powers of literature are coy and haughty; they must be long ooortea, and at last are not always gained ; but criticlsm is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance- she will meet the slow and encouraite the ti morons. The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.