n, "This man surely will be emperor, he
is so early."--_Caussin._

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.--_Wellington._

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning,
for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same
hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a
man's life.--_Doddridge._

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most
invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in
bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy
and profit by them.--_Southey._

~Economy.~--Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn
money as to spend it well.--_Spurgeon._

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.--_Franklin._

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing
only lingers and lingers it out; but the disease is
incurable.--_Shakespeare._

The back-door robs the house.--_George Herbert._

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance. Yet a
slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand, strength.--_Charles Buxton._

~Education.~--Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of
illustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images, and illustrations;
it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without
being undignified and absurd.--_Sydney Smith._

Still I am learning.--_Motto of Michael Angelo._

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will
efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we
work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the
just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets
something which will brighten to all eternity.--_Daniel Webster._

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the
frivolous.--_Mme. de Stael._

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
The philosopher, the saint, and the hero,--the wise, the good, and the
great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a
proper education might have disinterred and brought to
light.--_Addison._

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own
teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his
master.--_Ben Jonson._

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure
good. I would let him at first read _any_ Engl