condescend to take a bit.
--SWIFT.

Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for
our vanity.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,
Save he who courts the flattery.
--HANNAH MORE.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.--PROVERBS 20:19.

Men are like stone jugs,--you may lug them where you like by the ears.
--DR. JOHNSON.

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will
receive you into their bosoms.--FIELDING.

FLOWERS.--Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and
forgot to put a soul into.--BEECHER.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares:
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers
On its leaves a mystic language bears.
--PERCIVAL.

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed
round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.--MRS. L.M. CHILD.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to
look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly
Maker.--SOUTH.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and
botanize them.--H.N. HUDSON.

And with childlike credulous affection
We behold their tender buds expand;
Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems of the bright and better land.
--LONGFELLOW.

FOOLS.--He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity,
is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.--TILLOTSON.

The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has been
said that herein lies the difference,--the follies of the fool are
known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the
wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.--COLTON.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think
themselves wise.--LADY MONTAGU.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in
others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools
ourselves than to have others so.--POPE.

Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters
them.--BISHOP HALL.

It would be easier to endow