and sensible women.--ROMILLY.

WORDS.--A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
anger.--PROVERBS 15:1.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.
--SHAKESPEARE.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far
from speaking ill as from doing ill.--CICERO.

Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
--EARL OF ROSCOMMON.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2.

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not
return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.--ABDEL-KADER.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen
hunting for words.--H.W. SHAW.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to
see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a
parcel of big words without anything in them.--HAZLITT.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to
the bones.--PROVERBS 16:24.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.--H.W. SHAW.

What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken
can never be recalled.--ROSCOMMON.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk
about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do
nothing else.--CARLYLE.

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words
and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping
wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.--M.M. BREWSTER.

"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us
from the destructive power of words! There are words which can
separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting
can remain through a whole life!--MARY HOWITT.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!--PROVERBS 15:22, 23.

WORK.--Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.--MRS.
BROWNING.

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work
for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full
understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be
present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his
conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.--LEO W.
GRINDON.

Nothing is impossible to industry.--PERIANDER.

In work consists the t