,
like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flow'rets'
eyes, like tears, that did their own disgrace bewail.--_Shakespeare._

Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of air.--_P. J. Bailey._

~Diet.~--Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own
physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature: but more
especially we should learn to suffer, grow old, and die. Some things are
salutary, and others hurtful. Eat with moderation what you know by
experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body
but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise.
What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils?
Patience.--_Voltaire._

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a
guinea.--_Washington Irving._

~Difficulties.~--The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking
for them.--_Goethe._

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Hope
is born in the long night of watching and tears. Faith visits us in
defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty and
the crumbling tombstones of mortality.--_Chapin._

How strangely easy difficult things are!--_Charles Buxton._

~Diffidence.~--Nothing sinks a young man into low company, both of women
and men, so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself. If he thinks
that he shall not, he may depend upon it he will not, please. But with
proper endeavors to please, and a degree of persuasion that he shall, it
is almost certain that he will.--_Chesterfield._

No congress, nor mob, nor guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can
avail, to cut out, burn, or destroy the offense of superiority in
persons. The superiority in him is inferiority in me.--_Emerson._

~Dignity.~--It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the
coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. Most of the men of
dignity, who awe or bore their more genial brethren, are simply men who
possess the art of passing off their insensibility for wisdom, their
dullness for depth, and of concealing imbecility of intellect under
haughtiness of manner.--_Whipple._

~Dirt.~--"Ignorance," says Ajax, "is a painless evil;" so, I should think,
is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.--_George
Eliot._

Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold.--_Lamb._

~Disappointment.~--Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the
de