True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

i.

GEO. WASHINGTON-Social Maxims.
Friendship.

The surest bulwark against evil is that of friendship.

j). YONGE'S Cicero. De Finibus.

What room can there be for friendship, or who can be a friend to any one whom he does not love for his own sake? And what is loving, from which verb (amo) the very name of friendship (amicitia) is derived, but wishing a certain person to enjoy the greatest possible good fortune, even if none of it accrues to oneself?

k.

YONGE'S Cicero. De Finibus.

I know we shall behold them raised, complete,

The dust shook off, their beauty glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God

light.

p. E. B. BROWNING-Sonnet. Futurity with the Departed.

But ask not bodies doomed to die,
To what abode they go;
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy,
It is not safe to know.

զ.

DAVENANT — The Just Italian.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead. LONGFELLOW-A Psalm of Life.

r.

Act V.

Sc. 1.

Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting how?

S. BULWER-LYTTON-The First Violets.

O visions ill forseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil only.

't. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. XI.

When we die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams; we have only lost our sleep. а. RICHTER.

Haste, holy Friar,

Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!
Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
ს. SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Canto Y, St. 22.
And, father cardinal, I have heard you say,
That we shall see and know our friends in
heaven,

If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
For, since the birth of Cain, the first male
child,

To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.

C.

King John. Act III. Sc. 4.

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1.

d.

Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life;
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others, that we know not of?
f. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1.

What a world were this
How unendurable its weight, if they
Whom Death hath sundered did not meet
again!

g. SOUTHEY- Inscription XVII. Epitaph. The glories of the Possible are ours. h. BAYARD TAYLOR - The Picture of St. John. Bk. II. St. 71.

The great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God. i. TENNYSON-In Memoriam. Pt. LIV. Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear,

O'er the rabble's laughter;

And, while Hatred's fagots burn,
Glimpses through the smoke discern
Of the good hereafter.

j. WHITTIER-Barclay of Ury.

A time there is, like a thrice-told tale,
Long-rifled life of sweet can yield no more.
k. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night IV.
Line 37.

Individualism.

Genius is to Wit as the whole is in proportion to its parts.

f. DE LA BRUYERE -- The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Every work of genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

g. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. h.

ISAAC DISRAELI-- Curiosities of Literature. Poverty of the Learned. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV.

i.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. GEO. HENRY LEWES-The Spanish Drama. Ch. II.

q.

All the means of action-
The shapeless mass, the materials—
Lie everywhere about us. What we need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal, bright and clear.
That fire is genius!

7. LONGFELLOW-The Spanish Student. Act I. Sc. 5.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the character of the individual who possesses it. MADAME DE STAEL-Corinne. Bk. VII. Ch. I.

じ。

When genius is united with true feeling, our talents multiply our woes.

w.

MADAME DE STAËL-Corinne. Bk. XV. Ch. VI.

Genius can never despise labour.

X.

ABEL STEVENS-Life of Madame de Staël. Ch. XXXVIII.

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Cel. Let us sit, and mock the good housewife, Fortune, from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.

Ros. I would we could do so; for her benefits are mightily misplaced: and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.

t. As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2.

Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

u. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. I.

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind,
More than quick words, do move a woman's
mind.