man are, to talk little, to hear much,
to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's
own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.--ECCLESIASTES 12:1.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always
produces the thistle.--J.T. FIELDS.

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

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to
be.--GOETHE.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.--FRANKLIN.

Oh! the joy
Of young ideas painted on the mind,
In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads
On objects not yet known, when all is new,
And all is lovely.
--HANNAH MORE.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood,
there is no such word as fail.--LYTTON.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin
anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.--GOETHE.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be
so.--DR. METCALF.

As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so
I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the
youth.--CICERO.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due
consideration.--RIVAROL.

ZEAL.--Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of
exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.--COLERIDGE.

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more
disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.--BARROW.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is
lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place
himself that knowledge may grow.--BUDDHA.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief,
while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.--SHENSTONE.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden
thread that ties their hearts together.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the
latter is divine.--HOSEA BALLOU.

It is a coal from God's altar must