-_Hiram Powers._

543

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

--_La Harpe._

544

He who has seen much of the world, is very prone to exaggeration.

545

Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he has himself given the
example.

--_Phaedrus._

546

Noble examples excite us to noble deeds.

547

He who makes excuses, himself accuses.

548

A man must often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick.

--_Sir W. Temple._

549

I am no longer the fool I was, I have learned by experience.

550

All is but lip-wisdom, which wants experience.

--_Sir Philip Sidney._

551

Among all classes of society we see extravagance keeping pace with
prosperity, and indeed outstripping it, realizing Archbishop Whately's
paradox: "The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it."

--_Hugh S. Brown._

F

552

A clouded face
Strikes deeper than an angry blow.

553

FACE PICTURES.

We write our lives upon our faces, deep,
An autograph which they will always keep.
Thoughts cannot come and leave behind no trace
Of good or ill; they quickly find a place
Where they who will may read as in a book,
The hidden meaning of our slightest look.

554

Nature has written a letter of credit on some men's faces which is
honored wherever it is presented.

--_Thackeray._

555

The surest way not to fail, is to determine to succeed.

--_Sheridan._

556

THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER.

In Ross-shire, Scotland, there is an immense mountain gorge. The rocks
have been rent in twain, and set apart twenty feet, forming two
perpendicular walls two hundred feet in height. On either side of these
natural walls, in crevices where earth has collected, grow wild flowers
of rare quality and beauty. A company of tourists visiting that part of
the country were desirous to possess themselves of specimens of these
beautiful mountain flowers; but how to obtain them they knew not. At
length they thought they might be gathered by suspending a person over
the cliff by a rope. They offered a Highland boy, who was near by, a
h