Select Sayings

Address makes opportunities, the want of it gives them. - Bovee. Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defence of manners. - Chesterfield. Extreme self-love will set a man's house on fire. though it were but to roasi nis tgg. - iifiwf. Let friendship cross gently to a height ; if it rush to it, it may socn run itself out of breath,- Fnller. He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.- Sir Philip Sidney. We have all wept ; the happy at least once for sorrow ; the unhappy at least once for joy. - Richter. The iirefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we once rest, we darken. - Baüey. The vanity of human lite is like a river, constantly passing away,and vet constantly coming on. - Pope. A man's business is just to do his duty; God takes upon himself the feeding and the clothing.- Qeorge MaeDonald. ■ Fallare after long perseverance is nmch grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George EHot. So soon as an earnest conviction has cooled into a phrase, its work is over, and the best tliat can be done víittx it i 8 to bury it. - Lowell. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this - that where an injury began on hia part, the kindness sliould begin on ours. - Tillotson. Man carries under liis hat a private theatre, wherein a greater drama is acted than is ever peformed on the mi mie stage, beginn ing and ending in eternity. - Carlyle. Weshould act with as much energy as tliose who expect everything from t hemselves ; and we should pray with as much earnestness is those who erpect everytliing trom God. - Lavon. Doctor Terry. better known as "oíd Doe Terry," Hved f or a number oL yeara on tlie baaka of the Illinois river, and kept a ferry. He was known for miles around, and was reputed to keep the best and most bountiful table in the county, A stranger stopped one day and asked for employment. The Doctor at that time was in need of a hand, and the man was engaged. As the man was about to begin work, the Doctor called him back and told him that he had forgotten to mention the fact that he depended on bis employee's gun for ineat- that, if he killed a duck, they had breakfast; if he killed another they had dinnerr if he failed to get one for supper they went without that meal. The stranger looked for a moment at the Doctor, and asked him if he permitted his employee to eat at the same table with the employer. He replied that he did. "Very well," said the man. "if you can stand it, I can."