--_From Memoir._

FOOTNOTES:

[807:A] Half-grown.

[807:B] Learning.

807a

_Dr. Guthrie to his Son_: "I saw an adage yesterday, in a medical
magazine, which is well worth your remembering and acting on, it is this
wise saying of the great Lord Bacon's:--'Who asks much learns much.' I
remember the day when I did not like by asking, to confess my ignorance.
I have long given up that, and now seize on every opportunity of adding
to my stock of knowledge."

--_From Memoir of Dr. Guthrie._

H

808

HA AND AH!

Ha, is an exclamation denoting surprise or joy; ah, an exclamation
expressive of pity or grief.

--_Fuller._

809

How use doth breed a habit in a man!--

--_Shakespeare._

810

HOW TO CORRECT A BAD HABIT.

Penn was once advising a man to leave off his habit of drinking
intoxicating liquors.

"Can you tell me how to do it?" said the slave of his appetite.

"Yes," answered Penn. "It is just as easy as to open thy hand, friend."

"Convince me of that and I will promise, upon my honor, to do as you
tell me."

"Well, my friend," said the great Quaker, "when thou findest any vessel
of intoxicating liquor in thy hand, open the hand that grasps it before
it reaches thy mouth, and thou wilt never be drunk again."

The man was so pleased with the plain advice that he followed it.

--_Monthly Magazine._

811

You need not wrestle and strive with the old habit, only just be
persistent in forming the good one, and the bad one will take care of
itself.

--_Ursula._

812

Habit is like a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we
cannot break it.

--_Horace Mann._

813

No man is free who is a slave to any kind of useless habit.

--_Seneca._

814

Habit, if not resisted soon, becomes necessity.

--_St. Augustine._

815

Habit with him was all the test of truth,
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."

--_Crabbe._

816

INNOCENCE AND GUILT.

A painter, desiring to paint a picture of Innocence, found a beautiful
boy pla