or sixty years! Yet, if estimated by their merit, are not worth the price of a chick the moment it is hatched.

William Shenstone.

87. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule, may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Cicero.

88. There are two things in which men, in other things wise enough, do usually miscarry-in putting off the making of their wills and their repentance, till it be too late. Archbishop Tillotson.

89. The only thing which we are sure to want in this world, and we never purchase, is a coffin; and the act performed by our friends, of which we cannot complain, is our funeral. Colton.

UNCLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS.

WISE SAYINGS OF NOTED AUTHORS.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking, and upon occasion, may be the fullest and safest answers.

-Wm. Penn.

UNCLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS.

I. He that will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius.

2. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. Henry Fielding. 3. A small debt produces a debtor ; a large Publius Syrus.

one an enemy. 4. Curiosity is looking over other people's affairs, and overlooking our own. H. L. Wayland.

5. The eye of the master will do more work than both of his hands: not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.

Franklin.

6. A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men. Old Proverb.

7. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Addison.

8. Faith is like love: it cannot be forced. As trying to force love begets hatred, so trying to compel religious belief leads to unbelief. Schopenhauer.

9. A fool can no more see his folly than he can see his ears. Thackeray.

10. If you would know the value of money, go and borrow some. He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

Franklin.

II. To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself, or have angels for hearers. George Whitefield.

12. Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith.

13. The darkest hour in the history of any young man is, when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it. Horace Greeley.

14. When a man has not a good reason for doing thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Thomas Scott.

15. Every man's task is his life-preserver. Emerson.

16. The difference between a puppy and a fool is this—the one is born blind and continues so for nine days only, while the other remains with his eyes shut all his life.

W. S. Downey.