PROVERBS.

IMPROVE Opportunities.
Ill doers are ill thinkers.
A crowd is not company.
All men can't be masters.
Fear is stronger than love.
Agree, for the law is costly.
Dying is as natural as living.
A long life hath long miseries.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Hatred is blind as well as love.
Children are poor men's riches.
Idleness always envies industry.
Heaven is worth the whole world.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Fore-cast is better than work-hard.
A good example is the best sermon.
Idle men are dead all their life long.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
A man is not so soon healed as hurt.
Do good, if you expect to receive it.
A great reputation is a great charge.
He doth much that doth a thing well.
Empty vessels give the greatest sound.
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
A quiet conscience causes a quiet sleep.
Every man living hath something to do.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldest buy,
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Affinity in hearts is the nearest kindred.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
A gossip speaks ill of all, and all of her.
Examples are the best lessons for youth.
A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
He that has no charity merits no mercy.
A light purse often makes a heavy heart.
He that has no shame has no conscience.
Good deeds remain; all things else perish.
Envy and covetousness are never satisfied.
He's a slave that cannot command himself.
In the company of strangers, silence is safe.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.
A little of everything is nothing in the main.
He benefits himself that doth good to others.
He teaches me to be good that does me good.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast.
He that falls to-day may be up again to-morrow.
As love thinks no evil, so envy speaks no good.
Honest men's words are as good as their bonds.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your

He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it.

A man may say too much even upon the best of subjects.

Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinguish them.

He that after sinning mends recommends himself to God.

Courage, conduct and perseverance conquer all before them.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

If you have no enemies, it is a sign that fortune has forgot you.

A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort, but a friend is both.

He that shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him.

Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes.

Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his place.

He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.

He that can read and meditate need not think the evenings long, or life tedious.

Happiness generally depends more on the opinselves. ion we have of things than on the things them

THOSE who desire to see full reports of the doings and exhibits at the Centennial grounds can find them in the Public Ledger, which is, without controversy, the best daily paper in the country. I say best, because it is conducted with ability, its statements are perfectly reliable, it is neither sectarian, partisan nor sectional, and its moral tone is beyond question.-Correspondent Christian Leader, Utica, New York.

GLEANINGS.

THE most laborious of all tasks is that of self. examination.-Kant.

CENSURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.-Swift.

THE place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.-Professor Vinet.

IT would be puzzling to decide what will become of any man if some woman does not take care of him.

COMMONPLACE minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.-Rochefoucauld.

AN excellent and wise mother gave the ing advice with her dying breath: My son, learn early how to say No!

THE "rough diamond" is to be preferred to the glittering paste; but a high polish adds as well to its worth as to its beauty.

To those who do good in the morning every hour of the day brings pleasure, and for them peace and joy spring from every object around.

It is an uncontrolled truth, says Dean Swift, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

GREAT men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, they feel it, and are not

less modest. The more they have, the more they

know their own deficiencies.

THE envious man is like that rich man mentioned by Quintilian who poisoned the flowers in his garden, so that his neighbor's bees should get no more honey from them.

A STATISTICIAN has calculated that it would require nearly four hundred years to read the titles of all the books contained in the various libraries of Europe, allowing one minute for each title.

THE desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angels nor man come in danger by it.-Bacon.

PROF. Henry Reed most truly observes: We marvel often at finding how, under the light of wise criticism, new powers and new beauties are made visible to our minds in books the most familiar.

COLERIDGE remarks that good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each, and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

EVERY one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining, and make their friends uneasy and strangers merry by murmuring at evils that do not exist, and repining at grievances which they do not really feel.

FRIENDSHIP, love and piety should be treated in private. We should only speak of them on rare and confidential moments, have a silent understanding regarding them. There is much in respect to them that is too tender to be thought of, still more to be talked about.-Novalis,

In his fascinating story of Monaldi, Washington Allston remarks: The gratuitous kindness of a stranger will often touch us more sensibly for the moment than the welcome even of a friend; it seems to give wider play to our good feelings-to generalize, as it were, our affections, and make us ashamed of all narrow or exclusive likings.

IF thou wishest to know what thou art, lock at the monuments of the dead as thou passest along the road; there thou wilt find the bones and light dust of kings, and tyrants, and wise men, and of those who prided themselves on their blood and riches, on their glorious deeds, and the beauty of their person; but none of these things could resist the power of time. All men have a common grave. Looking at these things, thou mayest understand what thou art.

the good and the noble. Perhaps of ourselves unable to think high thoughts, and without the bold warmth that dares generously, we catch by degrees something of the mounting spirit and of the ardor proper to the stronger souls with whom we live familiarly, and become the sharers and imitators of virtues to which we could not have given birth. The devoted courage of a leader turns his followers into heroes; the patient death of one martyr inflames in a thousand slumbering bosoms a zeal answering to his own.-Prof. Jos Wilson.

WE are made better, nobler, by the society of

IT is one of the painful consequences of extreme old age, said Chancellor Kent, that it ceases to ex. cite interest and is apt to be left solitary and neglected. The control which the law still gives to a man over the disposal of his property is one of the most efficient means which he has, in protracted life, to command the attention due his infirmities. The will of such an aged man ought to be regarded with great tenderness, when it ap pears not to have been procured by fraudulent acts, but contains those very dispositions which the circumstances of his situation and the course of natural affections dictated.

THE enlarged and improved Ledger continues to "win golden opinions from all sorts of people. The New York Times this morning has a kindly word of recognition, and this evening the Illus trated Graphic says: "The Ledger has achieved deserved reputation in about every department which makes a newspaper valuable, and has shown, among other things, that an American journal can succeed without being personal and sensational. Its enlargement in the Centennial year should encourage good New York newspapers to hope that journalistic prosperity may spread to this city as well, as it certainly will come to all that deserve it as much as the Philadelphia Ledger."-New York Corre spondent.