nd good? It is not a thing of choice, it is a river that
flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne, and flows by the path of
obedience.--_George Eliot._

~Oblivion.~--Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.--_George
Sand._

The grave of human misery.--_Alfred de Musset._

~Observation.~--It is the close observation of little things which is the
secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit
in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by
successive generations of men,--the little bits of knowledge and
experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a
mighty pyramid.--_Samuel Smiles._

Observation made in the cloister, or in the desert, will generally be as
obscure as the one, and as barren as the other; but he that would paint
with his pencil must study originals, and not be over fearful of a
little dust.--_Colton._

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.--_Goethe._

~Occupation.~--The want of occupation is no less the plague of society
than of solitude.--_Rousseau._

The busy have no time for tears.--_Byron._

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine
woman.--_Lacretelle._

~Ocean.~--Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture.--_Milton._

It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies, or like a cradled creature
lies.--_Barry Cornwall._

The visitation of the winds, who take the ruffian billows by the top,
curling their monstrous heads.--_Shakespeare._

~Office.~--The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future
favors.--_Walpole._

~Opinion.~--The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have
only opinions.--_Heinrich Heine._

Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.--_Socrates._

Our pet opinions are usually those which place us in a minority of a
minority amongst our own party: very happily, else those poor opinions,
born with no silver spoon in their mouths, how would they get nourished
and fed?--_George Eliot._

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they
love truth.--_Joubert._

It has been shrewdly said that when men abuse us, we should suspect
ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of
virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rare
to despise praise, which we do. But that integrity that lives only on
opinion would starve without it.--_Colton._

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no mo