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107. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.-Shakespeare

108 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

109. Be wise and use thy wisdom well;

Who wisely speaks must live it too.
He is the wisest who can tell

-Bacon.

How first he lived, then spoke the true.

-Bonar

110 The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.

-Wordsworth.

111 So let us live, that if misfortune's blast
Come like a whirlwind to our hearths at last,
Sunbeams may break from one small spot of blue
To guide us safe life's dreary desert through.

112.

-J. T. Fields

He that has more knowledge than judgment, -Penn. is made for another man's use more than his own.

119.

120.

One by one the sands are flowing;

One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,—
Do not strive to grasp them all.

One by one thy duties wait thee;
Let thy whole strength go to each;

Let no future dreams elate thee,

Learn thou first what these can teach.

One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,-
Do not fear an armed band;

One will fade as others greet thee,—

Shadows passing through the land.—Anon.

When it rains, let it rain. When there are calms let there be calms. Regrets are both useless and sinful.-Rev. Dr. Poor.

121.

To me the world's an open book,
Of sweet and pleasant poetry;

I read it in the running brook
That sings its way towards the sea.
It whispers in the leaves of trees,

The swelling grain, the waving grass,
And in the cool, fresh evening breeze
That crisps the wavelets as they pass.

-Geo. P. Morris.

126.

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.-Shaks.

127. God hath a presence, and that ye may see
In the fold of the flower, the leaf of the tree;
In the sun of the noonday, the star of the night,
In the storm-cloud of darkness, the rainbow of light;
In the waves of the ocean, the furrows of land;
In the mountain of granite, the atom of sand;
Turn where ye may, from the sky to the sod,
Where can ye gaze that ye see not a God?

-Eliza Cook.

128. Moral beauty comprises two distinct elements, -equally, but diversely beautiful,-justice and charity, respect and love of men. He who expresses in his conduct justice and charity, accomplishes the most beautiful of all works; the good man is, in his way, the greatest of all artists.- Victor Cousin.

129. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,

The oak-tree and the cedar-tree

Without a flower at all.

We might have had enough, enough

For every want of ours,

For luxury, medicine, and toil,

And yet have had no flowers.

-Mary Howitt.