Tn love what we take has grea'er price than what is given. Little things console us beoause little things afflict us. Some inseo-s are in a state of maturity 30 minutes after birth. ,\ ~~r } Tiie cork oak'fcree is.uow beirij successfully, cultivated in California. lie who pisses or subdues mankind, must look down oq the hate of those below. —Byron. * Know thyself is good advice, ' but kuow about your neighbours ' is the general prac tice. In proportion,to its size, England has eight times as many miles of railway as the Uaited States. The desire for social supremacy is ono of the most pitiable. weaknesses of human nature. ~ -When a man has not a good reason for daing a thing, he has one good reason for 1 letting it alono. Imagination is a m-ttled horse, thit will break the rider's neck, when a donkey would have carried him to the end ofhisjiurney slow but sure.—Southey. lam ready to adopt it as an article of scien tific faith, true through all space and all time, that life proceeds from life and nothing but life.—Sir W. Thompson. Simple nature, however defective, is better than the least objectionablo affectation ; and, defects for defects, those which are natural are more bearable than affected virtues. True religion teaches us to reverence what is un ier us, to recognise humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretched ness, suffering, and death, as things divine.— • Goethe.. < ,• Praise be to that beautifulOsreature the foxhound. •- He is cavianetoche general. But to know him is to know the most charming of companions, loving, intellectual, gay, and comely.—Saturday Review. A close observer says that one reason why woman has not reached eminence in the mechanic art is because she has never been able to rise superior to the idea that the right way to drive a nail is to do it with both eyes shut. Wouldst thou rather be a peasant's son that knew, were it erer so rudely, there was a God in Heaven and in Man ; or a duke's son that only kuew there were two-and-thirty quarters on the family coach ? Thomas Carlyle. Do not look forward to what may happen to-morrow. The same everlasting father who cares for you to-day will care for you to morrow, and every day. 