mery._

1445

Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to
read Latin.

--_Spurgeon._

1446

_Duty._--A wise man who does not assist with his counsels, a rich man
with his charity, and a poor man with his labor, are perfect nobodies in
a commonwealth.

--_Swift._

1447

IMPORTANT.

Nobody likes to be nobody;
But everybody is pleased to think himself somebody.
And everybody is somebody:
But when anybody thinks himself to be somebody,
He generally thinks everybody else to be nobody.

1448

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

--_Watts._

1449

The young are fond of novelty.

1450

So easily are we impressed by numbers, that even a dozen wheelbarrows in
succession seem quite imposing.

--_Richter._

O

1451

A CLEVER "TURN."

Lord Elibank, the Scotch peer, was told that Dr. Johnson, in his
dictionary, had defined oats to be food for horses in England, and for
men in Scotland. "Ay," said his lordship, "and where else can you find
such horses and such men?"

1452

_Deuteronomy xxi, 20._--"This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice."

"I well remember," says a writer on Christian education, "being much
impressed by a sermon about twenty years ago, in which the preacher
said, were he to select one word as the most important in education, it
should be the word, obey. My experience since has fully convinced me of
the justice of the remark. Without filial obedience everything must go
wrong. Is not a disobedient child guilty of a manifest breach of the
Fifth Commandment? And is not a parent, who suffers this disobedience to
continue, an habitual partaker in his child's offense against that
commandment?"

1453

_Obedience._--Obedience, promptly, fully given, is one of the most
beautiful things that walks the earth.

--_Dr. Raleigh._

1454

Wise, modest, constant, ever close at hand,
Not weighing, but obeying all command,
Such servant by a monarch's throne may stand.

1455

An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of
ingratitude.

--_La Rochefoucauld._

1456

Most men