ect to wealth than
to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of
power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.--_Colton._

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in
some way unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. They
fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call
them forth.--_Burke._

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and
industry, and it is a voluntary power, while genius is
involuntary.--_Hazlitt._

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being
the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.--_Coleridge._

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort
of talent,--almost like a carrier-pigeon.--_George Eliot._

~Talking.~--I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won't
give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue,
that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last
words!--_Congreve._

Talkers are no good doers.--_Shakespeare._

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at
its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality
of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in woman?--_Holmes._

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

They talk most who have the least to say.--_Prior._

~Taste.~--Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered
for the entertainment of the imagination.--_Goldsmith._

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if
they take my advice they never will; for they can no more improve their
taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by
studying a cookery-book.--_Southey._

Those internal powers, active and strong, and feelingly alive to each
fine impulse.--_Akenside._

All our tastes are but reminiscences.--_Lamartine._

~Teaching.~--Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate
faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by
their own.--_Luther._

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and
inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Tears.~--The overflow of a softened heart.--_Madame Swetchine._

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.--_Bible._

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear.--_Byro