R HUGO.

Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them.--BOVEE.

He'll suit his bearing to the hour,
Laugh, listen, learn, or teach.
ELIZA COOK.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he
does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more
credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by
his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.--COLTON.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often
acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.--ROCHEFOUCAULD.

"Tact clinches the bargain,
Sails out of the bay,
Gets the vote in the Senate,
Spite of Webster or Clay."

"I never will surrender to a nigger," said a Confederate officer, when
a colored soldier chased and caught him. "Berry sorry, massa," said
the negro, leveling his rifle; "must kill you den; hain't time to go
back and git a white man." The officer surrendered.

"When God endowed human beings with brains," says Montesquieu, "he did
not intend to guarantee them."

When Abraham Lincoln was running for the legislature the first time, on
the platform of the improvement of the Sangamon River, he went to
secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheatfield. They
asked no questions about internal improvements, but only seemed curious
to know whether he had muscle enough to represent them in the
legislature. Lincoln took up a cradle and led the gang around the
field. The whole thirty voted for him.

"I do not know how it is," said Napoleon in surprise to his cook, "but
at whatever hour I call for my breakfast my chicken is always ready and
always in good condition." This seemed to him the more strange because
sometimes he would breakfast at eight and at other times as late as
eleven. "Sire," said the cook, "the reason is, that every quarter of
an hour I put a fresh chicken down to roast, so that your Majesty is
sure always to have it at perfection."

Talent in this age is no match for tact. We see its failure
everywhere. Tact will manipulate one talent so as to get more out of
it in a lifetime than ten talents will accomplish without it. "Talent
lies abed till noon; tact is up at six." Talent is power, tact is
skill. Talent knows what to do, tact knows how to do it.

"Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a sixth sense,
but it is like the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick
ear, the jud