conquered neighbors-this is robbery, the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.-Franklin.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.-H. Brooke.

The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire him to consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession, and turned builder.-Cowley.

In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the

time to contaminate it; and holy, because it brings the Deity perpetually before his view, giving him thereby the most exalted notions of supreme power, and the most endearing view of the divine benignity.Lord John Russell.

Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.- Virgil.

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.-Swift.

The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole.-Fuller.

We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.-Cowley.

AIMS. (See "ASPIRATION.")

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.-Tryon Edwards.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.-Carlyle.

The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.-Bulwer,

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.-J. R. Lowell.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.-Chesterfield.

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.-J. Hawes.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.-Jonathan Edwards.

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.-T. T. Munger.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.-Bulwer.

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In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.-Longinus.

We want an aim that can never grow vile, and which cannot disappoint our hope. There is but one such on earth, and it is that of being like God. He who strives after union with perfect love must grow out of selfishness, and his success is secured in the omnipotent holiness of God.-S. Brooke.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties?-they are the perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.Kant.

High aims and lofty purposes are the wings of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. In God's word we have a perfect standard both of duty and character, that by the influence of both, appealing to the best principles of our nature, we may be roused to the noblest and best efforts.S. Spring.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good.-A purpose is the eternal condition of success.-T. T. Munger.

ALCHEMY.-Alchemy nay be compared to the man who told his sons of gold buried somewhere in his vineyard, where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light.-bacon.

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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.-Denham.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.-Longfellow.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. -Byron.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.-Hume.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.-Bruyere.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.-Machiavelli.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals we storm heaven itself in our folly.-Horace.

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.-Shakespeare.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.-N. P. Willis, Too often those who entertain ambition, expel remorse and nature.-Shakespeare.

Too low they build who build below the skies.-Young.

Great souls, by nature half divine, soar to the stars, and hold a near acquaintance with the gods.-Rowe.

AMERICA.-America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race.-Emerson.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.—Fisher Ames.

America is a fortunate country; she grows by the follies of our European nations.-Napoleon,

America-half-brother of the world.

Bailey.

The home of the homeless all over the earth.-Street.

If all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present a loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loophole is larger than the dungeon itself.Heine.

The home of freedom, and the hope of the down-trodden and oppressed among the nations of the earth.-Daniel Webster,

This is what I call the American idea, a

government of the people, by the people, and for the people-a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God.-Theodore Parker.

America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind-the laboring or lower class-to raise them to selfrespect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and the great duty of self-government; and she has proved that this may be done by education and the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more encouraging than ever was presented before to those nine-tenths of the human race who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank.-Daniel Webster.

AMIABILITY.-The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.-Fielding.

To be amiable is most certainly a duty, but it is not to be exercised at the expense of any virtue.-He who seeks to do the amiable always, can at times be successful only by the sacrifice of his manhood.—Simms.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.-Mad. Swetchine.

Amiable people, though often subject to imposition in their contact with the world, yet radiate so much of sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts.-Deluzy.

AMUSEMENTS.--It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.H. More.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.Phædrus.

Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character and becomes the task-master of idleness.— Willmott.

Let the world have whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion.-Burton.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us, and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave,-Pascal.

The habit of dissipating every serions thought by a succession of agreeable sensa

tions is as fatal to happiness as to virtue; for when amusement is uniformly substituted for objects of moral and mental interest, we lose all that elevates our enjoyments above the scale of childish pleasures. -Anna Maria Porter.

Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame,-gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. Thomas.

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterons mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by selfrespect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.—Channing.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.-Balzac.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves, work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.-H. More.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.-E. H. Chapin.

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Dwell not too long upon sports for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.-Fuller.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.-T. T. Munger.

Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use; and any that we cannot use without injury to ourselves or harm to others, we have no right to use, whether we are Christians or not.-W. Gladden.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice.-Johnson. Amusement to an observing mind is study.-Disraeli.

It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently; and they know very little

of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditations, without any relaxation.-Sir P. Sidney.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.-Thackeray.

Joining in the amusements of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses, and even the slenderest bond that holds society together should rather be strengthened than snapt. -Landor.

The church has been so fearful of amusements that the devil has had the charge of them; the chaplet of flowers has been snatched from the brow of Christ, and given to Mammon.-H. W. Beecher.

ANALOGY.-Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope of the mind by which it is marvelously assisted in the discovery of both physical and moral truth.-Colton.

Those who reason only by analogies, rarely reason by logic, and are generally slaves to imagination.-C. Simmons.

ANARCHY.-Anarchy is the choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable three half-pence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.Carlyle.

Burke talked of "that digest of anarchy called the Rights of Man."-Alison.

Anarchy is hatred of human authority; atheism of divine authority-two sides of the same whole.-Macpherson.

ANCESTRY.-(See "BIRTH," and "GEN

EALOGY.")

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. Whately.

I will not borrow merit from the dead, myself an undeserver.-Rowe.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.-H. F. Hedge.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good.-They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.-Ben Jonson.

Good blood-descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege.-He that lives worthily of it is deserving of the

highest esteem; he that does not, of the deeper disgrace.-Colton.

They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, produce their debt, instead of their discharge. Young.

We take rank by descent. Such of us as have the longest pedigree, and are therefore the furthest removed from the first who made the fortune and founded the family, we are the noblest.-Froude.

Breed is stronger than pasture.-George Eliot.

It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues of noble races are hereditary.—Nabb.

How poor are all hereditary honors, those poor possessions from another's deeds, unless our own just virtues form our title, and give a sanction to our fond assumption.— Shirley.

It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts, sympathies, and happiness, with what is distant in place or time; and looking before and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity. There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of an alliance with excellence which is departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those that come after it.-Daniel Webster.

A grandfather is no longer a social institution. Men do not live in the past.-They merely look back.-Forward is the universal

cry.

What can we see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?- Walter Scott.

Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic.—Burke.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.-Collon.

The origin of all mankind was the same: it is only a clear and a good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.-Seneca.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.Horace.

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good or bad qualities to remain in obscurity.-Sallust.

Consider whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors ; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to the doors out of which we had been carried to the grave, saying, “Look, this was his house, this was his chamber."Ruskin.

Mere family never made a man great.Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.-Skobeleff.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.- Bruyere.

Few people disparage a distinguished ancestry except those who have none of their own.-J. Hawes.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.-Addison.

It is a shame for a man to desire honer only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.Chrysostom.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree.— She did not receive Plato as a noble, but made him so.-Seneca.

I am no herald to inquire after men's pedigrees it sufficeth me if I know of their virtues.-Sir P. Sidney.

Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man who is nothing, to hold himself honored on account of his forefathers; and yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.-Plato.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.-Lucaǹ.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.-Zimmer. man.

The man of the true quality is not he who labels himself with genealogical tables, and lives on the reputation of his fathers, but he in whose conversation and behavior there are references and characteristics positively unaccountable except on the hypothesis that his descent is pure and illustrious.-Theodore Parker.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.-Colton.