ACQUAINTANCE.-If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.-Johnson.

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.-Bacon,

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.-Bp. Horne.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.-Johnson.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years. — Lavater.

Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him.-Lavater.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.-Alexander Smith,

ACQUIREMENT.-That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are commonly more careful of it than those by whom it may have been inherited.-Colton.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks: he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.Metastasio.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.-Jeremy Taylor.

ACTION.-Heaven never helps the man who will not act.-Sophocles.

Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action.Disraeli.

Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.-E. B. Hall.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimily at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.-Carlyle.

Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm.Richter.

Every noble activity makes room for itself. Emerson.

Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.-Heine.

The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them

Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play.Thomas.

Great actions, the lustre of which dazzles us, are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion. Thus the war between Augustus and Antony, supposed to be owing to their ambition to give a master to the world, arose probably from jealousy.-Rochefoucauld.

A right act strikes a chord that extends through the whole universe, touches all moral intelligence, visits every world, vibrates along its whole extent, and conveys its vibrations to the very bosom of God!T. Binney.

Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet toward men are little better than good dreams except they be put in action.Bacon.

Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.-Ruskin.

Activity is God's medicine; the highest genius is willinguess and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.-R. S. MacArthur.

That action is not warrantable which cither fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.-Quarles.

A holy act strengthens the inward holiIt is a seed of life growing into more life.-F. W. Robertson.

ness.

ACTION.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life-if you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty: for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.Walter Scott.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.-Locke,

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.Lavater.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.-E. P. Whipple.

To do an evil act is basc. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.-Plutarch.

All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light.-W. T. Bacon.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: actions and actions only determine the worth.-Fichte.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the door's need.-Calderon.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.-Colton.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.-E. L. Magoon.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts.—II. Mann.

Think that day lost whose slow descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.-J. Bobart.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.-Hazlitt.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.Swedenborg.

Life though a short, is a working day.Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.-Hannah More.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.Thomas.

It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.— Sharpe.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.— Cicero.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.-Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.-Shakespeare.

We must be doing something to be happy.-Action is no less necessary to us than thought.-Hazlitt.

Active natures are rarely melancholy. -Activity and sadness are incompatible.Bovee.

In all exigencies or miseries, lamentation becomes fools, and action wise folk.-Sir P. Sidney.

Nothing, says Goethe, is so terrible as activity without insight.-Look before you leap is a maxim for the world.-E. P. Whipple.

Actions are ours; their consequences belong to heaven.-Sir P. Francis.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it.-Shakespeare.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.Carlyle.

The fire-fly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.-Bailey.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.- Wordsworth.

What man knows should find expression in what he does.-The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a performing manhood.-Bovee.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.-W. Humboldt.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.-E. H. Chapin.

Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of soleinn meaning.-Carlyle.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.-Shirley.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women in it merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.—Shakespeare.

An actor should take lessons from the painter and the sculptor. Not only should he make attitude his study, but he should highly develop his mind by an assiduous study of the best writers, ancient and modern, which will enable him not only to understand his parts, but to communicate a nobler coloring to his manners and mien.Goethe.

It is with some violence to the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters they assume upon the stage.-Lamb.

A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place. -Alex. Dumas.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.—Cervantes.

ADDRESS.-Brahma once asked of Force, Who is stronger than thou?" She replied, "Address."- Victor Hugo.

Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them.-Bovee.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning to own them: they solicit him to enter and possess.-Emerson. The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.Couper.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode

ADMIRATION.

daughter of ignorance.-Franklin.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.-Addison,

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.-Lady Blessington.

Few men are admired by their servants. Montaigne.

We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.-Rochefoucauld.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them.Ruskin.

Admiration must be kept up by the novelty that at first produced it; and how much soever is given, there must always be the impression that more remains. Johnson.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.-It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.-Carlyle.

It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.-A. Helps.

There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.-Tillotson.

ADVERSITY.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.-Burke.

ADVERSITY.-(See "AFFLICTION.") Adversity is the trial of principle.-Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.-Fielding.

Adversity is the first path to truth.Byron.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.Anon.

Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain,-cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.-Walter Scott.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then, especially, being free from flatterers.-Johnson.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.-Plutarch.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtuc.—Mallet.

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.—Spurgeon.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.-Leighton.

I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good.-I have never heard of a Christian on his death bed complaining of his afflictions.-A. Proudfit.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.-John Owen.

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.-Joanna Baillie.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.-Horace.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.-Hazlitt.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.-Leighton.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.-Seneca.

Adversity, sage useful guest, severe instructor, but the best; it is from thee alone we know justly to value things below.— Somerville.

Prosperity has this property: It puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.-Plutarch.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.-Rochefoucauld.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.-Johnson.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.Shakespeare.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.-Sir P. Sidney.

In this wild world, the fondest and the best are the most tried, most troubled, and distrest.-Crabbe.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.—Bacon.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.-Bp. Horne.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.-E. H. Chapin.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.—Fielding.

He that has no cross will have no crown.Quarles.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is

our helper.

ADVERSITY.

This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.— Burke.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.-Schiller.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.-Mad. Swetchine.

Though losses and crosses be lessons right severe, there's wit there ye'll get there, ye'll find no other where.-Burns.

A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.—Anon.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.Sir P. Sidney.

Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.Anon.

Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish. Arrowsmith.

He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; for as it surrounds us with friends, who tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects.- Colton.

God kills thy comforts to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness; poverty to kill pride; reproaches to destroy ambition.-Flavel.

God lays his cross upon those whom he loves, and those who bear it patiently gain much wisdom.—Luther.

It is good for man to suffer the adversity of this earthly life: for it brings him back to the sacred retirement of the heart, where only he finds he is an exile from his native home, and ought not to place his trust in any worldly enjoyment.-Thomas à Kempis.

So your fiery trial is still unextinguished. But what if it be but His beacon light on your upward path ?-F. R. Havergal.

It is not the so-called blessings of life, its sunshine and calm and pleasant experiences that make men, but its rugged experiences, its storms and tempests and trials. Early adversity is often a blessing in disguise.— W. Mathews.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.-Phillips Brooks.

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.—Addison.

How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in comparison with those of guilt!—Blair. ADVICE.-Let no man presume to give advice to others who has not first given good counsel to himself.-Seneca.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.—Bacon.

When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.-Chesterfield.

Advice is a superfinity. a superfluity. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred people don't take it. The hundredth they do take it, but with a reservation.-Then of course it turns out badly, and they think you an idiot, and never forgive you.-L. Malet.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.-Massilon.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.-Bacon.

A thousand times listen to the counsel of your friend, but seek it only once.-A. S. Hardy.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.-Young.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.—Addison.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching.— Shakespeare.