ters of the pen.--_Hood._

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living:
they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor
intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them
down.--_Colton._

Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are,
the turbid looks most profound.--_Landor._

When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writers
as the main landmarks of the past.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Autumn.~--Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.--_Keats._

The Sabbath of the year.--_Logan._

~Avarice.~--Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously
poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.--_Thomas
Paine._

Avarice is more unlovely than mischievous.--_Landor._

The German poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine
symbol of knowledge, to others but the milch cow, only regarded for the
pounds of butter she will yield. O tendency of our age, to look on Isis
as the milch cow!--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world
than any mortal drug.--_Shakespeare._

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first
part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to
ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his
age with the milder business of saving it.--_Johnson._

B.

~Babblers.~--Who think too little, and who talk too much.--_Dryden._

They always talk who never think.--_Prior._

Talkers are no good doers.--_Shakespeare._

~Babe.~--It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets
her father and mother and all at defiance, and can't be managed by
anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child will
strike the rock and set all her affections flowing.--_Charles Buxton._

~Bargain.~--What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good
bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering
over the morals of shopping.--_Beecher._

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a
reflection upon the buyer's judgment.--_Pliny._

~Bashfulness.~--Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom
opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.--_Johnson._

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his
sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 'tis therefore
good to press forward w