Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the
imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in
packs.--_Plutarch._

Never is the deep, strong voice of man, or the low, sweet voice of
woman, finer than in the earnest but mellow tones of familiar speech,
richer than the richest music, which are a delight while they are heard,
which linger still upon the ear in softened echoes, and which, when they
have ceased, come, long after, back to memory, like the murmurs of a
distant hymn.--_Henry Giles._

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless--nay, the speech they have resolved not
to utter.--_George Eliot._

~Sport.~--Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that
is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.--_Fuller._

~Spring.~--Stately Spring! whose robe-folds are valleys, whose
breast-bouquet is gardens, and whose blush is a vernal
evening.--_Richter._

Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace.--_Thomson._

The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, angry winter, change their
wonted liveries.--_Shakespeare._

Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, hoar Winter's blooming child,
delightful Spring.--_Mrs. Barbauld._

Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, by the winds which tell of
the violet's birth.--_Mrs. Hemans._

~Stars.~--These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their
admonishing smile.--_Emerson._

I am as constant as the northern star; of whose true, fixed, and resting
quality there is no fellow in the firmament.--_Shakespeare._

The stars are so far,--far away!--_L. E. Landon._

Day hath put on his jacket, and around his burning bosom buttoned it
with stars.--_Holmes._

The evening star, love's harbinger, appeared.--_Milton._

~Statesman.~--The great difference between the real statesman and the
pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards
only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the
other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.--_Burke._

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals
composing it.--_J. Stuart Mill._

~Storms.~--When splitting winds make flexible the knees of knotted
oaks.--_Shakespeare._

~Strength.~--Oh! it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is
tyrannous to use it like a giant.--_Shakespeare._

~Study.~--Histories make men wise; po