Wisdom.

TRUE wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.

H. Humphrey.

Knowledge is proud that he knows so much; Wis-
Cowper.

dom is humble that he knows no more.

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who labored in his fields but did not sow. Saadi.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Bacon.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life-in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color. Seneca.

Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. Grymestone.

When did Wisdom covet length of days?

Or seek its bliss in pleasure, wealth, or praise?

No; Wisdom views with an indifferent eye
All finite things, as blessings born to die.

Thus wisdom's words discover
Thy glory and thy grace,
Thou everlasting Lover

Of our unworthy race!

Thy gracious eye surveyed us
Ere stars were seen above;
In wisdom thou hast made us,

And died for us in love.

Hannah More.

Cowper.

Wit.

THERE are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.

Fuller.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us—at least, without our participation-like everything inspired.

Joubert.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

William Penn.

Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. E. P. Whipple.

Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat— and both meeting make the best fire.

Sir Thomas Overbury.

True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find That gives us back the image of the mind.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume,
The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;
When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;
Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

Pope.

Young.

Woman.

WOMEN are the poetry of the world in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind.

F. Hargrave.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze,

but breaks not in the tempest.

Whately.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character that at times it approaches to sublimity. Washington Irving.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.

Bovee.

Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men. Bruyère.

Win her and wear if you can. She is the most delightful of God's creatures-Heaven's best gift-man's joy and pride in prosperity-man's support and comfort in affliction, Percy B. Shelley.

Those who allow the influence which female graces have in contributing to polish the manners of men, would do well to reflect how great an influence female morals must also have on their conduct.

O fairest of creation, last and best

Blair.

Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet.

Milton.

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sighed-till woman smiled.
Thomas Campbell.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung,
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue;
She, when apostles fled, could danger brave,
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.

E. S. Barrett.

But never, in her varied sphere,
Is woman to the soul more dear
Than when the homely task she plies,
With cheerful duty in her eyes;
And, every lowly path well trod,
Looks meekly upward to her God.

Caroline Gilman.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat;
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight;
Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.

Lord Lyttleton.

Woman, contented, in silent repose,
Enjoys in its beauty life's flower as it blows,
And waters and tends it with innocent heart,
Far richer than man with his treasures of art;
And wiser, by far, in her circle confined,
Than he with his science and lights of the mind.

Schiller.