hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light.—Addison.

EDUCATION AN INHERITANCE.--An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate. Addison.

EDUCATION AN INVESTMENT.-If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An in. vestment in knowledge always pays the best interest.— Franklin.

EDUCATION A SAFEGUARD.-Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.-Everett.

EDUCATION, ITS AIM.- -The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.Beattie.

EDUCATION, ITS BEGINNING.-Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid, and subsequent teaching avails but little to remove or alter them.

EDUCATION, ITS OBJECT.-The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.-Sidney Smith.

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.-He that has found a way to keep a child's spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things he has a mind

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to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him—he, who knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.Locke.

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.—The education of our children is never out of my mind. Train them to virtue, habituate

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them to industry, activity, and spirit. every vice as shameful and unmanly. tion to be useful. Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge.—John Adams to his wife.

EDUCATION OF SELF.-We all have two educations, one of which we receive from others; and another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. It is this last, which fixes our grade in society, and eventually our actual condition in this life, and the color of our fate hereafter. All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good man without your own co-operation; and if such you are determined to be, the want of them will not prevail. John Randolph to his nephew.

EDUCATION OF YOUTH.-Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in, that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost-equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.— Milton.

EDUCATION, PREMATURE.-The education of children should not be forced, like the growth of plants in the hot-house. The more haste in this matter, the less speed in the end. It is from too early forcing the intellect, from premature, precocious mental growth, that we see in modern times, so many cases of wilted, and feeble, and sickly children; or of re markable, wonderful children, who grow up to be prodigies by their second or third year, and die by the next.--Edwards.

EDUCATION, PREMATURE.-Of ten infants destined for dif

ferent vocations, I should prefer that the one who is to study through life, should be the least learned at the age of twelve. Tissot.

EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS.-What is it? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts--mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because "honesty is the best policy," but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action, because so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

EDUCATION SHOULD BE RELIGIOUS. To prevent evil, we hear it said, cultivate and strengthen the higher faculties of man.- Now Christianity is the one appointed means of doing this. To attempt doing it without Christianity, is repeating the sin of Adam, who sought a knowledge of things in grounds other than the will of God; but with this aggravation, that it is done after the melancholy experience of six thousand years has shown how ruinous was its nature.

EDUCATION SHOULD BE RELIGIOUS.-Knowledge alone is not sufficient. It is, indeed, power; but if unsanctified, power for evil. Knowledge did not teach Charlemagne to sacrifice his own desires to the happiness of any living creature. It did not make Augustus respect the life of Cicero, nor the pupil of Aristotle to restrain his passions. If undirected by virtue, knowledge is but the servant of vice, and tends only to evil.

EDUCATION, THE GREAT WORK.-It requires great wisdom and industry to advance a considerable estate; much art, and contrivance, and pains, to raise a great and regular building; but the greatest and noblest work in the world, and an

effect of the greatest prudence and care, is to rear and build up a man, and to form and fashion him to piety, and justice, and temperance, and all kinds of honest and worthy actions. -Tillotson

EDUCATION, TOO EARLY.—Intellectual effort in the early years of life, is very injurious. All labor of mind required. of children before the seventh year, is in opposition to the laws of nature, and will prove injurious to the physical or ganization, and prevent its proper and mature development. -Hufeland.

EDUCATION, TOO EARLY.-Experience demonstrates that of any number of children of equal intellectual powers, those who receive no particular care in infancy, and who do not begin to study till the constitution begins to be consolidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a good physical education, very soon surpass in their studies those who com menced earlier, and who read numerous books when very young-Spurzheim.

EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION.-Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.--Duke of Wellington.

EFFEMINACY.-Supineness and effeminacy have ruined more constitutions than were ever destroyed by excessive labors. Moderate exercise and toil, so far from prejudicing, strengthens and consolidates the body.-Dr. Rush.

EGOTISM. Egotism is more like an offence than a crime; though 'tis allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.-Zimmerman.

ELOQUENCE. Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the

culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.—Sterne.

EMINENCE.--The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some strug gle.--Burke.

EMPLOYMENT.-It is employment, says Daniel Webster, that makes people happy; and says Jean Paul, I have fireproof, perennial enjoyments, called employments.

EMPLOYMENT.-Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.-Burton.

EMPLOYMENT. The safe and general antidote against sorrow, is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy, will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.--Johnson.

EMPLOYMENT.-He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. -Jewish maxim.

EMPTINESS.-Four things are grievously empty: a head without brains, a wit without judgment, a heart without hon esty, and a purse without money.-Bishop Earle,