careless livery that it wears, than settled age his sables and his weeds, importing health and graveness. --Shakespeare. In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.Goethe. Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.-Hare. The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.-Sir W. Temple. The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. Bretonne. It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn.-Steele. The golden age never leaves the world; it exists still, and shall exist, till love, health, and poetry, are no more but only for the young-Bulwer. I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. Johnson. Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, oh, my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. Ruckert. My salad days, when I was green in judgment. Shakespeare. At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.-Hawthorne. It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. Cicero. In the species with which we are best acquainted, namely, our own, I am far, even as an observer of human life, from thinking that youth is its happiest season, much less the only happy one.Paley. Youth, when thought is speech and speech is truth.-Walter Scott. Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves. -Lord Liverpool. Like virgin parchment, capable of any inscription. Massinger. Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!Hannah More. The fairest flower in the garden of creation is a young mind, offering and unfolding itself to the influence of divine wisdom, as the heliotrope turns its sweet blossoms to the sun. J. Е. Smith. The self-conceit of the young is the great source of those dangers to which they are exposed.-Blair. The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth-Richter. The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony. Chateaubriand. Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth-the careless sport, the pleasure and passion, the darling joy.-Thackeray. Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold and despair.-L. E. Landon. Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe. It is with youth as with plants, from the first fruits they bear we learn what Death is dreadful, but in the first springtide of youth to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling.-Walter Scott. may be expected in future.-Dem- in summer there will be no beauty, and ophilus. Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness or evil he sees not.-Sir P. Sidney. There are no more pitiable objects in the world and we see them too often in our large cities than youths who are men only in the follies and vices of manhood. They know everything that is not worth knowing, but of learning, culture, true art, and pure religion they know nothing.-C. A. Stoddard. I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Coleridge. Youth is not like a new garment, which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away.-J. Foster. we Youths will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath by exercise, and in heart by joyfulness. Too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out, that while one thinks too much of doing, he fails to do the effect of his thinking. Sir P. Sidney. Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free. Carlyle. Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; part with it, as with money, sparingly; pay no moment of it but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth ask deathbeds they can tell.-Young. The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.Goethe. There is no funeral so sad to follow as the funeral of our own youth, which we have been pampering with fond desires, ambitious hopes, and all the bright berries that hang in poisonous clusters over the path of life.—Landor. If the spring puts forth no blossoms, in autumn no fruit. So if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will be contemptible, and old age miserable. Blair. The remembrance of youth is but a sigh.-Arabian Proverb. While young, hoard up a great stock of knowledge; though in that season of dissipation you may not have occasion to spend much of it, yet a time will come when you will need it to maintain you. Chesterfield. When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.-G. Macdonald. When will young and inexperienced men learn caution and distrust of themselves.-Burke. It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; he that fools away the one, must either beg or starve in the other. Estrange. Youth is to all the glad season of life, but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains or escapes.-Carlyle. I would not waste my spring of youth in idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds, to blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit when I am old. -Hillhouse. Z ZEAL.-Nothing can be fairer or more noble than the holy fervor of true zeal. -Molière. Zeal is the fire of love, active for duty-burning as it flies.—Williams. Zeal and duty are not slow; but on occasion's firelock watchful wait. -Milton. If our zeal were true and genuine, we should be more angry with a sinner than with a heretic. -Addison. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton. People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest that inflames them. Montaigne. The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. Bulwer. I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I should call it. -Montaigne. Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. Quesnel. All true zeal for God is a zeal also for love, mercy, and goodness.-R. E. Thompson. A zealous soul without meekness, is like a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.-J. M. Mason. Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. -John Newton. Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications. Whoever wants this motive, is an open enemy, or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied advantages with which nature and fortune have blessed him.Steele. Zeal without knowledge is like fire without a grate to contain it; like a sword without a hilt to wield it by; like a high-bred horse without a bridle to guide him. It speaks without thinking, acts without planning, seeks to accomplish a good end without the adoption of becoming means. Bate. True zeal is a strong, steady, uniform, benevolent affection; but false zeal is a strong, desultory, boisterous, selfish passion. Emmons. Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.-Addison. Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. Shenstone. It is the living, present apprehension of God that makes the Christian zealot, as it made the Jewish. - It is the admixture of ignoble, selfish, narrow or confused notions with that apprehension, which degrades and debases that zeal, and in the end destroys it.-R. E. Thompson. When we see an eager assailant of wrongs, a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? -Emerson. I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart; somewhere or other. Coleridge. 'Tis a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. Sydney Dobell. Zealots have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most precious.-Hawthorne. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madness is a saint run mad.-Pope. Violent zeal even for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride. Swift. False zeal may rise as high as true, and indeed much higher; because it is extremely apt to estimate its object above its intrinsic and comparative importance. Besides, when a totally selfish heart is awakened into zeal, there is nothing in it to stem the tide of affections, which all unite and harmonize in To be furious in religion is to be irrethe ardent pursuit of a selfish end. | ligiously religious.-Penn. Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. -Barrow. |