TRUTH.

"Truth is honest, truth is sure;
Truth is strong and must endure;
Falsehood lasts a single day,
Then it vanishes away."

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

COLTON.

Defeat is the school in which Truth always grows strong.

H. W. BEECHER.

In fact there's nothing that keeps its youth So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

O. W. HOLMES.

Be always precisely true in whatever thou relatest of thy own knowledge; that thou mayst give an undoubted and settled reputation for veracity.

THOMAS FUller.

"The truth of truths is love."

Shuffling may serve for a time, but truth will most certainly carry it at the long run.

L'ESTRANGE.

""Tis not the many oaths that make the truth, But the plain vow that is vowed true."

"The nimble lie

Is like the second-hand upon a clock.

We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen And wins at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal."

USE OF TIME.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer- the rest on nature fix.

SIR EDW. Coke.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

SIR WM. JONES.

Eight hours and a half to school allot,

To soothing slumber nine,

The rest to home and friends devote,
Excepting three-to dine.

A. L. COWAN.

Eight hours to study give, to dreamland nine, Three more to deeds of love, and two to dine, Two to amusement say, but all to God divine.

LOUISE ROUSSEL.

VICE-VIRTUE.

Vice is a monster of such hideous mien
That to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

POPE.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his understanding, and makes his mind paralytic.

Burke.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff, you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture, so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened in vice. BARROW.

VIRTUE.

The four cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance and patience.

PALEY.

All virtue lies in a power of denying our own desires where reason does not authorize them. LOCKE.

All true virtues are to honor true religion as their parent, and all well-ordered commonwealths to love her as their chief stay.

HOOKER.

If thou do ill, the joy fades not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

GEORGE ELIOT.

That's what I always say, if you wish a thing to be well done

You must do it yourself; you must not leave it

to others.

LONGFELLOW.

Do not look for wrong and evil,
You will find them if you do;
As you measure for your neighbor,
He will measure back for you.

ALICE CARY.

WISDOM.

Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop

than when we soar.

WORDSWORTH.

He is the wisest man who is most susceptible of alteration.

BACON.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living?

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

Never be ashamed to own you were in the wrong, which is but saying you are wiser to-day

than yesterday.

O. W. HOLMES.

WOMEN.

These poor silly women-things-they've not the sense to know it's no use denying what's proved.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

A woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her.

GEORGE ELIOT.

O, what is woman! what her smile,
Her lips of love, her eyes of light!
What is she, if her lips revile

The lowly Jesus? Love may write
His name above her marble brow,
May linger in her curls of jet,

The light spring flowers may scarcely bow Beneath her feet — and yet—and yet — Without that meeker grace, she'd be

A lighter thing than vanity.

N. P. WILLIS. (From an unpublished poem.)