hat lure us to ill.
--FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him.
--LOWELL.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
--FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

LANGUAGE.--In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver.
--JOUBERT.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its
expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.--BOVEE.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.--MARK HOPKINS.

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.--WHIPPLE.

LAUGHTER.--Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the
greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.--DR. HUFELAND.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.--GOETHE.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.--LAMB.

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without
kindness there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place,
while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who
shoots it off.--TALMAGE.

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and
self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian.
--THACKERAY.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of
laughter.--GREVILLE.

LEARNING.--Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket;
and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have
one.--CHESTERFIELD.

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden,
with a load of books.--SAADI.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
--POPE.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and
studying much.--CATHERALL.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love
Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.--MILTON.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--YOUNG.

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think
that he knows enough.--POWELL.

It is without all controversy that learning doth m