ly, yet wrote
exactly in the Scotch style."

--_D'Israeli._

2116

The word that is heard, passes away; the letter that is
written,--remains.

2117

Every time you avoid doing wrong,
You increase your inclination to do right.

2118

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

2119

My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and
outrage with which earth is filled.

--_Cowper._

Y

2120

_Yankee._--The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the
manner in which the Indians endeavored to pronounce the word English,
which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee.

--_From "Milledulcia."_

2121

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

--_Burton._

2122

How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that
yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead!

2123

Thy yesterday is past,
Thy to-day, thy future,
Thy to-morrow, is a secret.

--_From The Talmud._

2124

Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear--
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care.

--_Geo. W. Hangford._

2125

YOUTH.

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
All possibilities are in its hands:
No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands:
In its sublime audacity of faith,
"Be thou removed!" it, to the mountain, saith.

2126

An easy youth, generally means a hard old age.

2127

YOUTH AND AGE.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I
am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.

--_Cicero._

2128

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme.

--_Aaron Hill._

2129

YOUTH.

Happy the youth that finds the bride
Whose birth is to his own allied,
The sweetest joy of life: