re agreeable, which are injurious to others.--FROM
THE LATIN.

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by
tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and
laughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to
"charm his pained steps over the burning marle."--SYDNEY SMITH.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a
comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.--BISHOP HORNE.

Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas
in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up
pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.--LOCKE.

There is many a man hath more hair than wit.--SHAKESPEARE.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
--POPE.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.--VAUVENARGUES.

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the
necessary.--M. DE MONTLOSIER.

WOMAN.--Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven into
the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of
love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish
carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands.
--SCHILLER.

The world was sad!--the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sigh'd--till woman smiled.
--CAMPBELL.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is
reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
--J.G. HOLLAND.

O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a
man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and
dumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?--RICHTER.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat;
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight;
Domestic worth,--that shuns too strong a light.
--LORD LYTTLETON.

Nature sent women into the world with this bridal dower of love, for
this reason, that they might be, what their destination is, mothers,
and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered and from
whom none are to be obtained.--RICHTER.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her
world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her
avarice seeks for hidden treasures. S