A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.-Shakespeare.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.-Ruskin.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.-
Achilles Poincelot.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.-Emerson.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius, in the power of executing.—Blair.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an arti ficial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.-Disraeli.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.-Bovee.

May not taste be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it? —Lord Greville.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.-Rochefoucauld.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observances of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.-Burke.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum maris accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.-Shenstone.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.-Fielding.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulation of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure.-Burke.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.Sir J. Reynolds.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.-Shenstone.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.Sir A. Alison.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you will find two of a face as soon as of a mind. Pope.

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.Willmott.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.-Rochefoucauld.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion. Folly borrows its mask, and walks out with Wisdom arm in arm. Like virtues of greater dignity, it is assumed.- Willmott.

Taste is the mind's tact.-De Boufflers.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.-Southey.

True purity of taste is a quality of the mind; it is a feeling which can, with little difficulty, be acquired by the refinement of intelligence; whereas purity of manners is the result of wise habits, in which all the interests of the soul are mingled and in harmony with the progress of intelligence. That is why the harmony of good taste and of good manners is more common than the existence of taste without manners, or of manners without taste.

Ræderer.

I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.-Addison.

Taste is the next gift to genius.-Lowell.

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment, by an involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it. Willmoti

A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression.-Gay.

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Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general suscepti bility to truth and nobleness; a sense discern, and a heart to love and reverence, all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever and in whatsoever forms and accomplishments they are to be seen.-Carlyle.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and misery, and makes us sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind.-Hume.

Be careful that you believe not hastily strange news and strange stories; and be much more careful that you do not report them, though at the second hand; for it it prove an untruth (as commonly strange stories prove so), it brings an imputation of levity upon him that reports it, and possibly some disadvantage to others.-Sir Matthew Hale.

Talkers are no good-doers.-Shakespeare.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.—Schiller.

The excessive pleasure we feel in talking of ourselves ought to make us apprehensive that we afford little to our auditors.-Rochefoucauld.

TAVERN.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.―Johnson.

A tavern is the throne of human felicity.Johnson. TAXES.

The taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement.-Franklin.

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village, and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Emerson.

Put a man into a factory, as ignorant how to prepare fabrics as some teachers are to watch the growth of juvenile minds, and what havoc would be made of the raw material! Horace Mann.

If ever I am an instructress, it will be to learn more than to teach.—Madame Deluzy.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.-Goethe.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.-Ruffini.

It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.-Machiavelli.

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a race-horse in a mill.-Colton.

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.-Mrs. Sigourney.

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.-Aristotle.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.-Milton.

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for a want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.—

J. F. Boyes.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.-Horace Mann.

what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.-Plato.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.— Isocrates.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.-Burke.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the appetites and affection; otherwise you make so many asses laden with books.-Montaigne.

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.-Michelet.

The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.-Shaftesbury.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

Montaigne.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.-J. F. Boyes.

A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.-Fuller.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.-Bishop Liguori.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.-Aristotle.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to the measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.-Tupper.

TEARS.

when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches in the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do; nay, which brings to view even the throne of God, and pierces that nebulous distance where are those eternal verities in which true life consists.

Beecher.

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

Shakespeare.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping;

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.-Landor.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.-Bovee.

O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.—Richter.

Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest; there is nothing like wet weather for transplanting.-Holmes.