of things it will explain; and
there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a
cure.--_Emerson._

What is the essence and the life of character? Principle, integrity,
independence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "that inbred
loyalty unto virtue which can serve her without a
livery."--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The change we personally experience from time to time we obstinately
deny to our principles.--_Zimmerman._

~Printing.~--Things printed can never be stopped; they are like babies
baptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever.--_George
Meredith._

~Prison.~--Young Crime's finishing school.--_Mrs. Balfour._

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged
by an infamous life.--_Beecher._

~Procrastination.~--Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come
to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do
it.--_Charles Buxton._

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.--_Hesiod._

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too
late.--_Madame Swetchine._

~Prodigality.~--This is a vice too brave and costly to be kept and
maintained at any easy rate; it must have large pensions, and be fed
with both hands, though the man who feeds it starve for his pains.--_Dr.
South._

When I see a young profligate squandering his fortune in bagnios, or at
the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own
death, and in a manner digging his own grave.--_Goldsmith._

The gains of prodigals are like fig-trees growing on a precipice: for
these, none are better but kites and crows; for those, only harlots and
flatterers.--_Socrates._

~Progress.~--All that is human must retrograde if it do not
advance.--_Gibbon._

What matters it? say some, a little more knowledge for man, a little
more liberty, a little more general development. Life is so short! He is
a being so limited! But it is precisely because his days are few, and he
cannot attain to all, that a little more culture is of importance to
him. The ignorance in which God leaves man is divine; the ignorance in
which man leaves himself is a crime and a shame.--_X. Doudan._

Revolutions never go backwards.--_Emerson._

What pains and tears the slightest steps of man's progress have cost!
Every hair-breadth forward has been in the agony of some soul, and
humanity has reached blessing after blessing of all its vast achievement
of g