WISDOM.

The efforts given in tracing wisdom's ways,
Gird on the armor for the coming days
Of toil and strife, and, when the race is run,
We sigh to think that we have scarce begun.

-J. C. H.

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.

-Cicero.

How often, when life's summer day
Is waning, and its sun descends,
Wisdom drives laughing wit away
And lovers shrivel into friends.

-Walter S. Landor.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone, lead life to sovereign power.
Yet not for power . . . but to live by law,
Acting the law we live by, without fear,
And, because right is right, to follow right,
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

-Tennyson.

But as to the ills of men, hear how I made those, who were before senseless as children, intelligent and possessed of wisdom. I shall tell

you, not with the view of throwing blame upon them, but to show my kindly feelings from what I gave them; who, at first seeing, saw not, and hearing, heard not. But like to the baseless fabric of a dream, for a long time they used to huddle together all things at random: naught they knew about brick-built houses, sun-ward, nor the rafted roof; but, like tiny ants, they dwelt in the excavated earth, in sunless depths of caves. They had no certain sign of winter, or flowerperfumed spring, or fruitful summer; but they did everything without judgment, till I instructed them to mark the rising of the stars and their setting, a harder science yet. And verily I discovered for them numbers, the most surprising of all inventions, and the union of letters, and memory, the active mother of all wisdom. I also first taught the patient steer to bear the yoke; and in order with their bodies they might assist mortals in their severest toils, I taught steeds to whirl cars obedient to the reins, to grace the pride of wealth. And no one else than I invented the canvas-winged chariots of mariners that roam over the ocean.

-Eschylus.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Learning is an addition beyond
Nobility or birth; honor or blood

Without the ornament of knowledge, is
A glorious ignorance.

For it is impossible for those who have low, mean, and grovelling ideas, and who have spent

their lives in mercenary employments to produce anything worthy of admiration, or to be a possession for all times. Grand and dignified expressions must be looked for from those, and those alone, whose thoughts are ever employed on glorious and noble objects.

-Longinus.

To know

That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.

-Milton.

But thou alone cannot engross all gifts of heaven; to one man God has granted the knowledge of what belongs to the affairs of war, to another the power of dancing, to another song and music; but in the breast of another loudthundering Jove places the spirit of wisdom, of which many enjoy the fruit, for by him cities are preserved, and he himself specially feels the value of the precious gift.

-Homerus.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as others.

He gets wisdom in a fortunate way, who gets wisdom at another's expense.

-Plautus.

'Tis knowledge gained on every hand
Which forms the wisdom of the land;
While jokes and nonsense now and then
Are relished by the best of men.

Every man, however wise, requires the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. -Plautus.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited in space, and infinite in duration.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

-Quarles.

I think it best not to dispute where there is no probability of convincing.

-Whitefield.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

--Charles Kingsley.

That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides:
All else is towering frenzy and destruction.
-Addison.

Knowledge roams creation o'er,
Telling what the ages say;
Silent Wisdom evermore

Holds the lamp to light the way.

-Annie E. Cole.

The cares of life, they say, if carried too far, bring more of pain than pleasure, and war against the health. Thus I praise less what is in extreme than the sentiment of "Nothing in excess," and the wise will agree with me.

-Euripides.

O wisdom! if thy soft control

Can soothe the sickness of the soul,
Can bid the warring passions cease,
And breathe the calm of tender peace,-
Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway,
And ever, ever will obey.

-Mrs. Barbauld.

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want common-sense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valor, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellences, if he wants that inferior art of life and behavior called good breeding.

-Steele.

Knowledge dwells

In heads replete with thoughts of other menWisdom, in minds attentive to their own.

Learned men not only instruct and educate those who are desirous to learn, during their life, and while they are present among us, but they continue to do the same after death by the monu