_--These children of the meadows, born of sunshine and of
showers!

--_Whittier._

598

_Flowers._--Pretty daughters of the Earth and Sun.

599

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a
face without a smile--a feast without a welcome Are not flowers the
stars of the earth? and are not the stars we see at night the flowers of
heaven?

600

It is my faith that every flower which blows
Enjoys the air it breathes.

--_Wordsworth._

601

How many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

--_Gray._

602

I never cast a flower away,
The gift of one who cared for me;
A little flower--a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly.

--_L. E. Landon._

603

Flowers are the pledges of fruit.

--_From the Danish._

604

He who gives advice to a fool, beats the air with a stick.

605

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

606

_Infallible Test._--A theological student, supposed to be deficient in
judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of a class
examination, "Pray, how would you discover a fool?" "By the questions he
would ask," was the rather stunning reply.

607

One never needs one's wits so much as when one has to do with a fool.

608

Nothing is so silly as to insist on being the only person who is right.

609

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.

610

If all fools wore white caps, the majority of us would look like a flock
of geese.

611

Young folks tell what they do, old ones what they have done, and the
others (fools) what they intend to do.

612

Where force prevails, right perishes.

--_Spanish._

613

If there is a harvest ahead, even a distant one, it is poor thrift to be
stingy of your seed-corn!

--_Carlyle._

614

A FOREST IDYL.

Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
No school of long experience, that the world
Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen
Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares
To tire thee of it, enter this wild wo