Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is CHARACTERISTICS OF. involuntary. Hazlitt.

FOLLY OF.

A talkative person runs himself upon INFLUENCE OF. great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or others' secrets. DIFFERENT KINDS OF.

Ray.

TEA.

Tea! thou soft, thou sober sage, and venerable liquid;-thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, winkDoes a man speak foolishly?-suffer him tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidgladly, for you are wise. Does he speak er-ity I owe the happiest moments of my life, roneously?-stop such a man's mouth with let me fall prostrate! sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?-rejoice in the truth. Oliver Cromwell.

GLORY OF.

TEACHING.

Colley Cibber.

He that governs well leads the blind; but he that teaches gives him eyes: and it is glorious to be a sub-worker to grace, in free|ing it from some of the inconveniences of original sin.

A.

TEAR.

So bright a tear in beauty's eye,
Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
POWER OF A.

South.

Byron.

Oh! too convincing-dangerously dear—
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue-at once her spear and
shield.
1bid.

OF BEAUTY.

TEARS.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Campbell.

NOT COWARDice.

Tears are no proof of cowardice. Sterne. DEFINITION OF.

On the death of two daughters. Certain drops of salt. Shakespeare.

Heaven-moving pearls.

Ibid

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoiseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-much pressure is laid on. The safety-valves of the heart, when toc Albert Smith. gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration. Carlyle. DEFINITION of.

resolves

ment is like an arrow from a cross-bow, | But sleep ourselves at the foot; our high which has equal force though shot by a child Bacon.

THANKSGIVING.

The privative blessings-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity-which we enjoy, deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. Jeremy Taylor.

THIEVING.

I'll example you with thievery;
The sun's a thief, and with his great attrac-

tion

Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,

And her pale face she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge re-
solves

The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture

stolen

Look down upon our slumbering acts.
L. E. Landon.

There's too much abstract willing, purpos-
ing,

In this poor world. We talk by aggregates,
And think by systems, and being used to
face

Our evils in statistics, are inclined
Drawn out in haste on the other side the
To cap them with unreal remedies,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

slate. MAN OF.

The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safely. Savage.

OVERFLOWING OF.

Byron.

Constant thought will overflow in words unconsciously. THE WEB OF.

From general excrement: each thing's a I scarcely understand my own intent, thief;

The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power

Have uncheck'd theft.

THINKERS.

But, silkworm like, so long within have
wrought,

That I am lost in my own web of thought.
Dryden.

Shakespeare.

BAD.

INFLUENCE OF.
Those who have finished by making all
others think with them, have usually been
those who began by daring to think with
themselves.
Colton.
ORIGINAL,

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them. Dugald Stewart.

SCARCITY OF.
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he
whose thoughts embrace all his subject,
and who pursues it uninterruptedly and
fearless of consequences, is a diamond of
enormous size.
Lavater.

AVERSION TO.

THINKING.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Johnson.

THOUGHT.

WITHOUT ACTION.

Alas! we make

A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,

THOUGHTS.

All thoughts that mould the age, begin
Deep down within the primitive soul;
And from the many, slowly upward win
To one who grasps the whole.

POWER OF.

FLIGHT OF.

Time, with its mighty strides, will soon James Russell Lowell. reach a future generation, and leave the present in death and in forgetfulness behind it.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest, and search,

And shake it; bow the tall soul as by the

wind;

THE FLOOD of.

The flood of time is setting on,
We stand upon its brink.

THE FOOT of.

Chalmers.

Shelley.

Time-that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities. AN OLD JUSTICE.

Time is the old Justice, that examines all offenders. Shakespeare. KILLING.

Who murders tine, he crushes in the birth his A power ethereal. Dr. Young.

To books, to old records, and they devour
Th' inscription. He loves ingratitude,
For he destroys the memory of man.

Sir W. Davenant.