Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.-Emerson.

Architecture is a handmaid of devotion. A beautiful church is a sermon in stone, and its spire a finger pointing to heaven.Schaff.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.— Coleridge.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, and others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.-Hawthorne.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.-Ruskin.

Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.-Bacon.

ARGUMENT.-Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.-Swift.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.-Herdert.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.-Prior.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.-Anacharsis.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.-Montaigne.

Nothing is more certain than that much of the force as well as grace of arguments, as well as of instructions, depends on their conciseness.-Pope.

When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil.-Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.-G. Macdonald.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.- Colton.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.- Tryon Edwards.

Clear statement is argument.-W. G. T. Shedd.

If I were to deliver up my whole self to the arbitrament of special pleaders, to-day I might be argued into an atheist, and tomorrow into a pickpocket.-Bulwer.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword. Whately.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.-Collon.

An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy management.-Locke.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.-Landor.

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy; calmness is a great advantage.-Herbert.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your greatcoat.-J. R. Lowell.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathises with their just feelings.-Coleridge.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.-Sherlock,

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it.-But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.--Boyle.

ARISTOCRACY.-And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.-De Foe. Some will always be above others.-Destroy the inequality to-day, and it will appear again to-morrow.-Emerson.

A social life that worships money or makes social distinction its aim, is, in spirit, an attempted aristocracy.

Among the masses, even in revolutions, aristocracy must ever exist.-Destroy it in the nobility, and it becomes centred in the rich and powerful Houses of Commons.Pull them down, and it still survives in the master and foreman of the workshop.Guizot,

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.-Richard Rumbold.

Aristocracy has three successive ages: the age of superiorities, that of privileges, and that of vanities.-Having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third.-Chateaubriand.

ARMY.-The army is a school where obedience is taught, and discipline is enforced; where bravery becomes a habit and morals too often are neglected; where chivalry is exalted, and religion undervalued; where virtue is rather understood in the classic sense of fortitude and courage, than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral excellence.-Ladd.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always its destroyers too, by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.-Chesterfield.

The army is a good book in which to study human life.-One learns there to put his hand to everything.-The most delicate and rich are forced to see poverty and live with it; to understand distress; and to know how rapid and great are the revolutions and changes of life.-De Vigny.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.-Bacon.

ARROGANCE.-When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.-Hume.

Nothing is more hateful to a poor man than the purse-proud arrogance of the rich. But let the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed.-There are strange contradictions in human character. Cumberland.

The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and swagger away his own enjoyments. To say nothing of the folly and injustice of such behavior, it is always the sign of a little and unbenevolent temper, having no more greatness in it than the swelling of the dropsy.-Collier.

ART.-True art is reverent imitation of God.-Tryon Edwards.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.-Ruskin.

The highest problem of any art is to cause

by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.-Goethe.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.—Michael Angelo.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.-Ruskin.

Art, as far as it has the ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, so that art must be, as it were, a descendant of God.-Dante.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.— Quintilian.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.Washington Allston,

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than admiration of the beautiful.-All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste, without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts, as tragedy purifies the passions.-Their accidental effects are not worth consideration; for there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy.-Schlegel.

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel stepmother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls.-Heine.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.-N. P. Willis.

The names of great painters are like passing bells.-In Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in Titian, that of Venice; in Leonardo, that of Milan; in Raphael, that of Rome.-And there is profound justice in this; for in proportion to the nobleness of power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride, or the provoking of sensuality.Ruskin.

The mission of art is to represent nature; not to imitate her.-W. M. Hunt.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.Bulwer.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.-İllusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.-Joubert.

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature-takes from nature the selections which best accord with

its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. : the mind and soul of man.-Bulwer.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.Delsarte.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.Quintilian.

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.-Goethe.

The mother of the useful art, is necessity; that of the fine arts, is luxury.-The former have intellect for their father; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.Schopenhauer.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.-Schiller.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of thought.-Mrs. Jame

son.

Very sacred is the vocation of the artist. who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.-Brown.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the shapes of grace.-Bulwer.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes!-In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!-Lessing.

The artist ought never to perpetuate a temporary expression.

In sculpture did any one ever call the Apollo a fancy piece or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different?-A masterpiece of art has, to the mind, a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.-Emerson.

Art does not lie in copying nature.Nature furnishes the material by means of which to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature. The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.H James,

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always & devout man.-A scoffing Raphael, or an irreverent Michael Angelo, is not conceivable.-Blaikie.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.-J. G. Holland.

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have either received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind, and made it susceptible of new impressions from the sublime and beautiful.-Ó, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God by their being a source of pride!- Henry Martyn.

ARTIFICE.-The ordinary employment of artifice, is the mark of a petty mind; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovers himself in another.-Rochefou cauld.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.-Richelieu.

Artifice is weak; it is the work of mere man, in the imbecility and self distrust of his mimic understanding.-Hare.

ASCETICISM.-Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world.Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as supposed, of religion; seen chiefly in the middle ages.-Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome.-And monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money; seen in the present days of London and Manchester.-Ruskin.

I recommend no sour ascetic life. I believe not only in the thorns on the rosebush, but in the roses which the thorns defend. Asceticism is the child of sensuality and superstition. She is the secret mother of many a secret sin. God, when he made man's body, did not give us a fibre too much, nor a passion too many.-Theodore Parker.

ASKING. I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.-No one who is not accnstomed to give grandly can ask n bly and with boldness.-Lavater,

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Southey.

"Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!-Browning.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now.-H. W. Beecher.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.— Seume.

They build too low who build beneath the skies.-Young.

Be always displeased with what thou art if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.-Quarles.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.-George Eliot.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.-Quarles.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends.-A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to rise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bnd, and bough desire to be more.-H. W. Beecher.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.-George Eliot.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself.-Mrs. Jame

son.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.- Vinet. Aspirations after the holy-the only aspirations in which the soul can be assured it will never meet with disappointment.Maria McIntosh.

The desires and longings of man are vast

as eternity, and they point him to it.Tryon Edwards.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.-A. P. Stanley.

ASSERTIONS.-Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove.-Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.--Sir P. Sidney.

Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory. Surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, ought not to pass for truth.-Junius.

It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke, without convincing us that the fire has existed. -Junius.

Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.- Goethe.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable.-Bruyere.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.-Menander.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves: we encourage each other in mediocrity.-I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.Lamb.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.-Lavater.

When one associates with vice, it is but one step from companionship to slavery.

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.Quarles.

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.-Colton.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it; that is the right and true pride.—Chesterfield.

No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company. Jeremy Taylor.

A man should live with his superiors as

he does with his fire: not too near, lest he buru; nor too far off, lest he freeze.-Diogenes.

Company, villainous company hath been the ruin of me.-Shakespeare.

It is best to be with those in time, that we hope to be with in eternity.-Fuller.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one of another; therefore let men take heed of their company.-Shakespeare.

Frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons, make them so alike, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very faces and tones of voice contract a similarity.-Lavater.

It is no small happiness to attend those from whom we may receive precepts and exemples of virtue.-Bp. Hall.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily their victims or their disciples; on the contrary, when we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.-Agapet.

In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that they are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can always descend; but if we begin with the lowest to ascend is impossible.-Colton.

It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.-C. Hodge.

It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.-Shakespeare.

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the Spanish proverb, "Tell me with whom you live and I will tell you who you are."

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men ; those who are wiser fear the consequences.— Horace.

ASSOCIATION.-I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.-Madame Deluzy.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.-Alison.

That man is little to be envied whose

patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of Iona.Johnson.

He whose heart is not excited on the spot which a martyr has sanctified by his sufferings, or at the grave of one who has greatly benefited mankind, must be more inferior to the multitude in his moral, than he possibly can be above them in his intellectual nature.-Southey.

ASTRONOMY.-Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.-H. Mann.

No one can contemplate the great facts of astronomy without feeling his own littleness and the wonderful sweep of the power and providence of God.-Tryon Edwards. An undevout astronomer is mad.-Young.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he comes down to human affairs.-Cicero.

ATHEISM. The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.Colton.

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.-Bacon.

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.-Addison.

Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living.-It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.— Jeremy Collier.

If a man of sober habits, moderate, chaste, and just in all his dealings should assert there is no God, he would at least speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.-Bruyere.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.-Mrs. Stowe.

Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.

The footprint of the savage in the sand is sufficient to prove the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God