tures.

32. Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on towards age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength and feaJ. Foster. 33. Time is the old justice that examines all offenders. Shakespeare. 34. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

35. Nothing is more precious than time, yet nothing less valued.

St. Bernard.

36. Actions measured by time, seldom prove bitter by repentance. L. Murray.

37. Be busy about some rational thing, so that Satan may always find thee occupied. St. Jerome.

38. He is idle that might be better employed. The idle man is more perplexed what to do, than the industrious is doing what he ought. Socrates.

39. "There is a time to be born, and a time to die," says Solomon, and it is the memento of a truly wise man; but there is an interval between these two times of infinite importance. Leigh Richmond. 40. As nothing truly valuable can be at

tained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry, without deep sense of the value of time. Mrs. Sigourney.

41. We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing what we ought to do; we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Seneca.

42. Life, however short, is made still shorter by the waste of time. 43. If you have time, do time.

Johnson. not wait for

Franklin. 44. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of. Archbishop Whately. 45. Time consists of two days,—one for thee, the other against thee.

Arabian Proverb.

46. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise; to-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve.

CHAPTER XXI.

VANITY AND PLEASURE.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Scott.

1. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. Seneca.

2. Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word, "satiety." Quarles.

3. Our pleasant vices are made the whip to scourge us. Shakespeare.

4. In diving to the bottom of pleasures, we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balsac.

5. He buys honey too dear, who licks it from thorns. French Proverb. 6. Put this restriction on your pleasures: "Be cautious that they injure no being that lives." Zimmerman.

7. Not to enjoy life, but to employ life, ought to be our aim and aspiration. John Macduff.

8. Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. Washington.

9. He who feasts every day, feasts no day. C. Simmons. 10. Too much is vanity; enough is a feast. Quarles. 11. A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. Lavater.

12. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. Colton.

13. Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. Addison.

14. A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that has not any head. Anon.

15. The differenc between false pleasure and true pleasure is but thus: for the true,

the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it. John Foster.

16. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

17. He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure, would not mind to turn villain for the purchase. Marcus Aurelius. 18. Play not for gain, but sport; he who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart. George Herbert.

19. Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life. Jeremy Taylor.

20. They whose sole bliss is eating, can give but that one brutish reason why they live. Juvenal.

21. We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate. Longfellow.

22. The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

La Bruyère.

23. Unlawful desires are punished after