He confers a kindness twice on a poor man who gives quickly.

He who overlooks one fault, invites the commission of another.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.

"God has often found for us remedies worse than the dan- which many cities have perished from lack of a general." gers in which we are involved."

A man is beside himself when he is in a passion. you wish to proclaim.

The best remedies for injuries is to forget them. dergoing some hazard.

BORN A.D. 40-DIED ABOUT A.D. 118. MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS, the most celebrated of Roman rhetoricians, was a native of Calagurris (Calahorra), in the upper valley of the Ebro. Though educated at Rome, he seems to have returned to Spain, as we find him accompanying Galba to Rome A.D. 68. He acquired some

Admonish your friends secretly, praise them reputation at the bar, though he was chiefly disopenly.

TO PERISH.

tinguished as a teacher of eloquence. Among his pupils were Pliny the younger, and the two grandnephews of Domitian. By this emperor he was

It is a great consolation to perish with all the adorned with the insignia of the consulship, and

world.

TO FEAR.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

MISER.

The miser is in as much want of that which he has as of that which he has not.

HASTY COUNSELS.

Hasty counsels are quickly followed by repent

ance.

TO BE KNOWN.

You wish to be known to all; you will know no

one.

FLATTERY.

Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now a custom.

SHIPWRECK.

was the first public instructor, who received a regular salary from the imperial exchequer. The great work of Quintilian is a complete system of rhetoric, in twelve books, entitled "De Institutione Oratoris Libri XII.," dedicated to his friend Marcellus Victorius.

ORATOR.

Now, according to my definition, no man can be a complete orator unless he is a good man.

GENIUS.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE MIND.

As birds are provided by nature with a propensity to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage so the working and the sagacity of the brain is peculiar to man; and hence it is that his mind is

That man foolishly blames the sea who is a sec-supposed to be of divine original. ond time shipwrecked.

"If a man deceive me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me."

THE DULL.

The dull and the indocile are in no other sense

WHAT IS BORN.

A WICKED CONSCIENCE.

For there is nothing so distracted, of such different forms, so cut up and tortured by many and various apprehensions, as a wicked conscience. For while it is contriving the ruin of another, itself is under the torture of uncertainty, anxiety, and dread. Nay, even when it is successful in iniquity, it is tormented with disquiet, remorse, and the expectation of the most dreadful punishments.

SEARCH AFTER TRUTH.

While we are searching all things, sometimes we find the truth where we least expected it.

So Isaiah lv. 6:"Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near."

TO DESTROY ONE'S NEIGHBOR.

For it would have been better that man should

Everything comes to an end which has a begin- have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason,

rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

VIRTUE MUST RECEIVE A FINISHING-STROKE
FROM LEARNING.

Virtue, though she in some measure receives her beginning from nature, yet gets her finishing excellencies from learning.

EASY TO BE VIRTUOUS.

Nature has formed us with honest inclinations, and when we are so inclined, it is so very easy to be virtuous, that, if we seriously reflect, nothing is more astonishing than to see so many wicked.

OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD.

Cultivate innocence, and think not that your deeds, because they are concealed, will be unpunished; you have committed them under the canopy of heaven-there is a more powerful witness.

DANGER OF SUDDEN CHANGE OF FORTUNE.

Nothing is more dangerous among men than a sudden change of fortune.