Pearls of Thought

Ideas.-After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and hope.-George Eliot.

Our ideas are transformed sensations.-Condillac.

In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.-Heinrich Heine.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other.-Holmes.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.-Taine.

Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones caprices.-X. Doudan.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.-Joubert.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.-Voltaire.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Idleness.-If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.-Sydney Smith.

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.-Spurgeon.

In idleness there is perpetual despair.-Carlyle.

Doing nothing with a deal of skill.-Cowper.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.-Colton.

The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.-Dickens.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.-Chesterfield.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.-Jeremy Taylor.

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.-Ovid.

Ignorance.-Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.-Sydney Smith.

There is no calamity like ignorance.-Richter.

'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as ignorance!-Montaigne.

Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense.-Joubert.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.-Coleridge.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.-Alcott.

The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance.-Lady Morgan.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.-George Eliot.

The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.-George Herbert.

Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.-Johnson.

Illusion.-In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.-Madame Swetchine.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.-Voltaire.

Imagination.-We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.-George Eliot.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.-Spurgeon.

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.-Joubert.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.-Johnson.

Imitation.-Imitators are a servile race.-Fontaine.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.-Dr. Vinet.

"Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate!" So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name to me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee."-Lessing.

Immortality.-When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.-Cicero.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable.-Aristotle.

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.-Milton.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.-Socrates.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.-Marcus Antoninus.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.-George MacDonald.

Impatience.-Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.-Jeremy Taylor.

Impossibility.-One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.-Democritus.

Improvement.-Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.-Mazzini.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.-Goldsmith.

Improvidence.-How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence.-Bovée.

Income.-Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.-Colton.

Inconsistency.-Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than words of course.-L'Estrange.

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.-George Eliot.

Inconstancy.-The catching court disease.-Otway.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.-Addison.

Indifference.-Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.-J. Petit Senn.

Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.-Ouida.

Indigestion.-Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.-Sydney Smith.

Individuality.-There are men of convictions whose very faces will light up an era, and there are believing women in whose eyes you may almost read the whole plan of salvation.-T. Fields.

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.-Richter.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.-Mazzini.

Indolence.-I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive.-Chesterfield.

Lives spent in indolence, and therefore sad.-Cowper.

Days of respite are golden days.-South.

So long as he must fight his way, the man of genius pushes forward, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome by a Capua! Ease and fame bring sloth and slumber.-Charles Buxton.

Nothing ages like laziness.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Indulgence.-One wishes to be happy before becoming wise.-Mme. Necker.

Industry.-Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.-Addison.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest we must sow the seed.-Bailey.

Infidelity.-There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. He who believes no thing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all.-Carlyle.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.-Richter.

If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on the other, and that the difficulties are more pressing on that side which is destitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matter as satisfactory to a wise man as a demonstration.-Tillotson.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.-Cecil.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you would once convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon drop off.-Swift.

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable has a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.-Dr. Chalmers.

Infirmities.-Never mind what a man's virtues are; waste no time in learning them. Fasten at once on his infirmities.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Influence.-He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but let him consecrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasures.-Goethe.

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.-George MacDonald.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.-Chapin.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received.-Macaulay.

In families well ordered there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Ingratitude.-The great bulk of mankind resemble the swine, which in harvest gather and fatten upon the acorns beneath the oak, but show to the tree which bore them no other thanks than rubbing off its bark, and tearing up the sod around it.-Scriver.

One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensiveness of his bounty.-Paley.

Injustice.-The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often his mercy.-Madame Swetchine.

Ink.-A drop of ink may make a million think.-Byron.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.-Shakespeare.

The colored slave that waits upon thought.-Mrs. Balfour.

Oh, she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again!-Shakespeare.

My ways are as broad as the king's high road, and my means lie in an inkstand.-Southey.

Innocence.-He's armed without that's innocent within.-Pope.

There is no courage but in innocence.-Southern.

There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.-Montaigne.

Innovation.-The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my blood!-Schiller.

Dislike of innovation proceeds sometimes from the disgust excited by false humanity, canting hypocrisy, and silly enthusiasm.-Sydney Smith.

Insanity.-Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature.-Taine.

Inspiration.-Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.-George Eliot.

Contagious enthusiasm.-Mrs. Balfour.

Instinct.-The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.-Newton.

Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals as religion does the interior of men.-Jacobi.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.-Aimé Martin.

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instruction.-Paley.

Insult.-It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society do you think it is taken as an insult?-Lady Hester Stanhope.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.-Charles Buxton.

Insurrection.-Insurrection unusually gains little; usually wastes how much! One of its worst kind of wastes, to say nothing of the rest, is that of irritating and exasperating men against each other by violence done; which is always sure to be injustice done, for violence does even justice unjustly.-Carlyle.

Intellect.-The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades, he links the four quarters of the globe.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Intelligence.-The higher feelings, when acting in harmonious combination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless scope for gratification; their least indulgence is delightful, and their highest activity is bliss.-Combe.

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.-Colton.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.-Kossuth.

Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes useless, sometimes fatal. It is a torch or a fire-brand according to the use one makes of it.-Fernan Caballero.

Intemperance.-The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that particle of the divine spirit.-Horace.

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.-Junius.

Intolerance.-Nothing dies so hard, and rallies so often, as intolerance.-Beecher.

Intolerance is the curse of every age and state.-Dr. Davies.

Invective.-Invective may be a sharp weapon, but over-use blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true, it is an error of art to indulge in it too long.-Tyndall.

Invention.-Invention is a kind of muse, which, being possessed of the other advantages common to her sisters, and being warmed by the fire of Apollo, is raised higher than the rest.-Dryden.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.-Sir J. Reynolds.

Irony.-Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Irresolution.-Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.-Feltham.

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.-Addison.

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth.-Cervantes.

Irritability.-Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon as sloth does too late.-Cecil.

An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.-Hood.

Ivy.-The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at last.-Dickens.

The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces, as every twig is furnished with innumerable little fingers, by which it draws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old rough stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an abundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It might also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered, which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreading its green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature.-Mrs. Stowe.

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Jealousy.-What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes.-Gay.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths.-Cervantes.

'Tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.-Shakespeare.

Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous.-Ninon de L'Enclos.

A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.-Mlle. de Scudéry.

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels.-Boufflers.

Jesting.-Jests-Brain fleas that jump about among the slumbering ideas.-Heinrich Heine.

The jest loses its point when the wit is the first to laugh.-Schiller.

And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of other's memory.-Bacon.

Jewelry.-Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.-Douglas Jerrold.

Jews.-Talk what you will of the Jews; that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why Christians hate one another as much.-Selden.

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids.-Lamb.

Joy.-The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.-Pope.

Worldly joy is like the songs which peasants sing, full of melodies and sweet airs.-Beecher.

Redundant joy, like a poor miser, beggar'd by his store.-Young.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Joy is the best of wine.-George Eliot.

Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which in the morning only appears in the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of day casts its triumphal arch over the east, or morning sky.-Richter.

Judgment.-The more one judges, the less one loves.-Balzac.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.-Wellington.

Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Noah was a sailor.-Shakespeare.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.-Goethe.

In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.-Thomas à Kempis.

I have seen, when after execution judgment hath repented o'er his doom.-Shakespeare.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!-Carlyle.

Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other.-Mazzini.

The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt.-Gladstone.

Upon any given point, contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the man who has mastered the laws of evidence, but he knows little of the laws of evidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; and without this last knowledge a man of action will not attain to the practical, nor will a poet achieve the ideal.-Bulwer-Lytton.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.-Southey.

Justice.-It is the pleasure of the gods-that what is in conformity with justice shall also be in conformity to the laws.-Socrates.

Justice delayed is justice denied.-Gladstone.

Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to be shed.-Corneille.

Justice is truth in action.-Joubert.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.-Pope.

Strike if you will, but hear.-Themistocles.

When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.-Wendell Phillips.

But Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.-?schylus.

God's mill grinds slow but sure.-George Herbert.

Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, "It is there?" Justice is like the kingdom of God-it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.-George Eliot.

Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community.-Goethe.

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Kindness.-Yes! you may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence.-Sydney Smith.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.-Béranger.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.-Pascal.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.-Johnson.

To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a reproach.-Demosthenes.

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hair.-O. Feuillet.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.-Mme. de Sta?l.

Kings.-Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court.-Rousseau.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.-Patrick Henry.

A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored tomb.-Alfieri.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.-Thomas Paine.

He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.-Corneille.

Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.-Dryden.

Kisses.-It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It pre?xisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it.-Haliburton.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.-Tennyson.

Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.-Ben Jonson.

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate-he was lost upon the coral reefs.-Douglas Jerrold.

Eden revives in the first kiss of love.-Byron.

You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.-Charles Buxton.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.-George Eliot.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.-Leigh Hunt.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.-Bulwer-Lytton.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,-these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.-Bovée.

Knavery.-Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they always keep them in hope.-Burke.

After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.-Junius.

By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.-Zimmerman.

Knowledge.-The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.-G. W. Curtis.

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced," in order to be known.-Whipple.

The pleasure and delight of knowledge far surpasseth all other in nature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety; and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well that they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty which pleased, not the quality; and therefore we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable.-Bacon.

What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?-George Eliot.

The truth is, that most men want knowledge, not for itself, but for the superiority which knowledge confers; and the means they employ to secure this superiority are as wrong as the ultimate object, for no man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.-Sydney Smith.

He who knows much has much to care for.-Lessing.

Properly, there is no other knowledge but that which is got by working: the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of in schools; a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till we try and fix it.-Carlyle.

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.-Bible.

To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it.-Montaigne.

He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, he may be a teacher of others.-Confucius.

A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full extent of its capacity.-Locke.

Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over prejudice, and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fast learning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not imply necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole world is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy of mind, genius, power, wheresoever it exists, may speak out in any tongue, and the world will hear it.-Daniel Webster.

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.-Tyndall.

The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them.-Bolingbroke.

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth; the tree of knowledge is not that of life.-Byron.

The seeds of knowledge maybe planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.-Johnson.

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.-Cowper.

It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments helps to new conquests.-Daniel Webster.

The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the infirm excitement of passions and vices.-Beecher.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.-Johnson.

We always know everything when it serves no purpose, and when the seal of the irreparable has been set upon events.-Théophile Gautier.

All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity.-Bulwer-Lytton.