EDUCATION.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.-Napoleon.

No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. -Burnap.

The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault.

And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are natually sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.-Fuller.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.-Aristotle.

It is by education I learn to do by choice, what other men do by the constraint of fear.-Aristotle.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.-H. Mann.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.—Brougham.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.—Horace Mann.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character.—That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.-Hannah More.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him if he is a walking university.-E. H. Chapin.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.—Everett.

Early instruction in truth will best keep out error. Some one has well said, "Fill the bushel with wheat, and you may defy the devil to fill it with tares."-Tryon Edwards.

Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of illustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images, and illustrations; it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without being undignified and absurd.-Sidney Smith.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but

if we work upon immortal minds, and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.-Daniel Webster.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady only, but to be a man, a woman.Herbert Spencer.

It is on the sound education of the people that the security and destiny of every nation chiefly rest.—Kossuth.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.-Bulwer.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.Jonathan Edwards.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.-Haliburton.

"Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.-Pope.

Education does not consist in mastering languages, but is found in that moral training which extends beyond the schoolroom to the playground and the street, anl which teaches that a meaner thing can be done than to fail in recitation.--Chadbourne.

No part of education is more important to young woman than the society of the other sex of her own age.-It is only by this association that they acquire that insight into character which is almost their only defence.-Burnap.

Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance; with handfuls of flowers in green dells, on hills, and daisy meadows with birds' nests admired, but not touched: with creeping ants, and almost imperceptible emmets; with humming-bees and glass beehives; with pleasant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones and words to nature, to beauty, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue, and to the source of all good-to God Himself!-Anon.

Thelwall thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it had come to years of discretion to choose for itself.-I showed him my garden, and I told him it was my botanical garden.—"How so?" said he; "it is covered with weeds."—" -"0," I replied,

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"that is only because it has not yet come to its age of discretion and choice. The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil toward roses and strawberries."-Coleridge.

Education is our only political safety.— Outside of this ark all is deluge.-H. Mann.

EFFORT. (See "LABOR.")

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.-Garfield.

The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched. Charles Buxton.

If you would relish food, labor for it before you take it; if enjoy clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.—Franklin.

EGOTISM.-Egotism is the tongue of vanity.-Chamfort.

It is never permissible to say "I say."Mad. Neckar.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.-Zimmerman.

An egotist is a man who talks so much about himself that he gives me no time to talk about myself.-H. L. Wayland.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.Lavaler.

Egotism is more like an offence than a crime, though 'tis allowable to speak of yourself provided nothing is advanced in your own favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.-Zim

merman.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.-Pascal. There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.-Shakespeare.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.-Montaigne.

Christian piety annihilates the egotism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.-Pascal.

The personal pronoun "I," might well be the coat of arms of some individuals.Rivarol.

I shall never apologize to you for egotism.-I think very few men in writing to their friends have enough of it.-Sidney Smith.

It is a false principle, that because we

are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. -The contrary inference is the fair one.Hazlitt.

The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this-they are ever talking of themselves.-Rochefoucauld.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves!—-Our words sound so humble while our hearts are so proud.— Hare.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.-Bruyère.

We often boast that we are never bored; but we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.-Rochefoucauld.

ELEGANCE.—When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.-Landor.

Elegance is something more than easemore than a freedom from awkwardness and restraint.-It implies a precision, a polish, and a sparkling which is spirited, yet delicate.-Hazlitt.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, are of no mean importance in the regulations 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, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.—Burke.

ELOQUENCE.-True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.-Rochefoucauld.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.— Cicero.

Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.Shakespeare.

The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence; it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.-Daniel Webster.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.-Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Eloquence is relative.--One can no more pronounce on the cloquence of any composi

ELOQUENCE.

tion, than on the wholesomeness of a medicine without knowing for whom it is intended. Whately.

The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.-Bulwer.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.—Churchill.

No man ever did, or ever will become most truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. -Fisher Ames.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.-Tacitus.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.— William Pitt.

Eloquence is logic on fire.-Lyman Beecher.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity— Cecil. There is no eloquence without a man behind it.-Emerson.

Eloquence is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done.—John B. Gough.

There is not less eloquence in the voice, the eye, the gesture, than in words.Rochefoucauld.

If any thing I have ever said or written deserves the feeblest encomiums of my fellow countrymen, I have no hesitation in declaring that for their partiality I am indebted, solely indebted, to the daily and attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures, the source of all true poetry and eloquence, as well as of all good and all comfort.Daniel Webster.

Speech is the body; thought, the soul, and suitable action the life of eloquence.C. Simmons.

Talking and eloquence are not the same. To speak and to speak well are two things. -A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.Ben. Jonson.

True eloquence does not consist in speech. -It cannot be brought from far.-Labor and learning may toil for it in vain.Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it.It must consist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.-Daniel Webster.

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The manner of speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.-Chesterfield.

The pleasure of eloquence is, in greatest part, owing often to the stimulus of the Occasion which produces it-to the magic of sympathy which exalts the feeling of

EMOTION.

each, by radiating on him the feeling of all.-Emerson.

Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.-Sterne.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.-Hazlitt.

EMINENCE.-Every man ought to aim at eminence, not by pulling others down, but by raising himself; and enjoy the pleasures of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity.-Johnson.

The road to eminence and power from obscure condition ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.-Burke.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness for him to be affected by it.-All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.-Addison.

EMOTION. All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life.-Richter.

The taste for emotion may become a dangerous taste; we should be very cautious how we attempt to squeeze out of human life more ecstasy and paroxysm than it can well afford.-Sydney Smith.

Emotion has no value in the Christian system save as it is connected with right conduct. It is the bud, not the flower, and is of no value until it expands into the flower.-Every religious sentiment, every act of devotion which does not produce a corresponding elevation of life, is worse than useless it is absolutely pernicious, because it ministers to self-deception, and tends to lower the tone of personal morals. -Murray.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.-J. Sterling.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, whether raised at a puppet-show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.Bulwer.

EMPIRE.

Emotion which does not lead to and flow out in right action is not only useless, but it weakens character, and becomes an excuse for neglect of effort.-Tryon Edwards,

EMPIRE.-As a general truth, nothing is more opposed to the well-being and freedom of men, than vast empires.-De Tocqueville.

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor.-Johnson.

It is not their long reigns, nor their frequent changes which occasion the fall of empires, but their abuse of power.-Crabbe.

EMPLOYMENT. (See "OCCUPATION," and "TIME.")

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.-Galen.

Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.Jerome.

Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task, no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.-Every man's task is his life-preserver.-G. B. Emerson.

"I have," says Richter, "fire-proof, perennial enjoyments, called employments"; and says Burton, "So essential to human happiness is employment, that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery."

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.-Jewish Maxim.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and wellpaid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.-Daniel Webster.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.—Spurgeon.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow, is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy, will find himself equally unaffected by irretrievable losses.—Johnson.

Not to enjoy life, but to employ life, ought to be our aim and inspiration.Macduff.

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.-Mad. Deluzy.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are

alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.-Hannah More.

The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading.-Paley.

Life's cares are comforts, such by heaven designed; he that has none must make them or be wretched.-Cares are employments, and without employ the soul is on a rack-the rack of rest to souls most adverse :-action all their joy.-Young.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.-L. E. Landon.

EMPTINESS.-Four things are grievously empty a head without brains, a wit without judgment, a heart without honesty, and a purse without money.—Earle.

EMULATION.-Emulation is a noble. passion. It is enterprising, but just withal. -It keeps within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous; striving to excel, not by depressing others, but by raising itself.—Beaumont.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. -Balzac.

Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspiration. To excite it is worthy only of the commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose ambition is to show what fine scholars he can turn out, that he may get the more pupils.-G. Macdonald.

Emulation, in the sense of a laudable ambition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.-Bp. Hall.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.-Johnson.

The emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his cotemporaries. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seeks to vie are the dead.-Bulwer.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold.But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found wanting.-Colton.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat.-Colton.

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation.-Richter.

Without emulation we sink into meanness, or mediocrity, for nothing great or

ENCOURAGEMENT.

excellent can be done without it.-Beaumont.

ENCOURAGEMENT.-Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. Rutherford.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.-Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.— Goethe.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke. -Johnson.

All may do what has by man been done.Young.

END.-Let the end try the man.-Shake

speare.

If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us, not the fight.-Herrick.

The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, time, will one day end it. Shakespeare.

All's well that ends well; still the finis is the crown.-Shakespeare.

ENDURANCE.-Not in the achievement, but in the endurance of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur, and its alliance with the infinite God.—E. H. Chapin.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.-Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -Epicurus.

The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, and even so the character of man. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom.-Kossuth.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.-Seneca.

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. It is thus we enter upon the most perilous plans after having had the shame of failing in more simple ones.-Rapin.

He conquers who endures.-Persius.

By bravely enduring, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.-Old Proverb.

ENEMIES.-Make no enemies.-He is insignificant indeed who can do thee no harm.-Colton.

Have you fifty friends?-it is not enough. -Have you one enemy?-it is too much. Italian Proverb.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.-Longfellow.

There is no little enemy.-Franklin.

Those who get through the world without enemies are commonly of three classes : the supple, the adroit, the phlegmatic. The leaden rule surmounts obstacles by yielding to them; the oiled wheel escapes friction; the cotton sack escapes damage by its impenetrable elasticity.—Whately.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.-Feltham.

However rich or powerful a man may be it is the height of folly to make personal enemies; for one unguarded moment may yield you to the revenge of the most despicable of mankind.-Lyttleton.

We should never make enemies, if for no other reason, because it is so hard to behave toward them as we ought.-Palmer.

Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never.- Cato.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.-Antisthenes.

To love an enemy is the distinguished characteristic of a religion which is not of man but of God. It could be delivered as a precept, only by him who lived and died to establish it by his example.

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.-Rojas.

Our worst enemies are those we carry about with us in our own hearts. Adam fell in Paradise and Lucifer in heaven, while Lot continued righteous in Sodom.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us, and endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.-Plutarch.

I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend.-Fitzosborne.