ess with them.--DUNCAN.

In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in
proportion to the worth of the thing given.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to
proportion His blessings to our alms.--BEVERIDGE.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his
simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother
to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.
--SPURGEON.

GENIUS.--Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble.--CARLYLE.

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.--LAVATER.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who
has but one talent for a genius.--HELPS.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham
in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.--OUIDA.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a
forest of oaks.--BEECHER.

The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of
truth.--GOETHE.

Genius can never despise labor.--ABEL STEVENS.

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower--
Its flash is still the same.
--LYDIA M. CHILD.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--DRYDEN.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and
brings it out.--LADY BLESSINGTON.

One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
--POPE.

I know no such thing as genius,--genius is nothing but labor and
diligence.--HOGARTH.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing
meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.--LONGFELLOW.

Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a
palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are
without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.--HANNAH MORE.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are
out of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can
teach, and which no industry can acquire.--SIR J. REYNOLDS.

GENTLEMAN.--Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are
the two main characteristics of a gentleman.--BEACONSFIELD.

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good
clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man,--no
more,