Lucullus?" When this answer was talked of in Rome, Cicero and Pompey invited themselves to sup with him on condition that he should give them nothing but what was provided for himself. Lucullus, on his part, asked permission to tell one of his servants that he should sup that evening in the Apollo, one of his most magnificent rooms. The stated charge for an entertainment in the Apollo was fifty thousand drachmas; and the whole sum was laid out on that evening's repast, without further orders. — PLUTARCH: Life.

At another time he entertained some Greek travellers, who at length desired to be allowed to depart on account of the daily expense they brought upon their host. He smiled, and said, "It is true, my Grecian friends, some part of this provision is for you; but the greatest part is for Lucullus.” — Ibid.

A bloodless victory.

When he found that he could cut off Mithridates, who had posted himself on Mount Adrastia, Lucullus told his army, which had intrenched itself in a village near by, "In a few days I shall gain you a victory which shall not cost one drop of blood."

During the war with Tigranes, his army appeared ridiculously small to the Armenian king, who said, "If the Romans come as ambassadors, there are too many of them; if as soldiers, too few." But Lucullus, when warned not to fight on that day, which had been an inauspicious one for Rome, as the anniversary of Cæpio's defeat by the Cimbri, Oct. 6, 105 B.C., replied, "I will make this day an auspicious one for Rome." Tigranes was defeated with the loss of one hundred thousand men, whom the Romans despised as slaves: Lucullus had but one man killed, and one hundred wounded. - Ibid.

MARTIN LUTHER.

[Born at Eisleben, Saxony, Nov. 10, 1483; studied at Erfurt, where he became an Augustinian monk; professor of philosophy at Wittenberg, 1508; visited Rome, 1510; opposed the sale and doctrine of indulgences, 1517; appeared before the Diet of Worms, April 16, 1521; concealed in the Wartburg until March, 1522; translated the Bible, 1522-1534; died Feb. 18, 1546.]

Were there as many devils in Worms as tiles upon the roofs of the houses, still would I enter (Wenn so viel Teufel zu Worms wären als Ziegel auf den Dächern, so wollt' ich hinein).

To the messenger of Spalatin, the secretary and confidential adviser of the Elector Frederick, Luther's protector, exhorting the reformer on no account to enter Worms, even with the emperor's safe-conduct. Luther wrote from Eisenach in 1521: "We shall enter Worms in spite of all the councils of hell, and all the powers of the air" (Intrabimus Wormatiam invitis omnibus portis infernis et potestatibus aëris). He also wrote to the Elector Frederick after leaving the Wartburg, in 1522, that he would have entered Worms had there been as many devils as tiles on the roofs.

As Luther entered the Diet, his friend George von Freundsberg said to him, "My poor monk, thou hast a march and a struggle to go through, such as neither I nor many other captains have seen the like in our most bloody battles. But if thy cause be just, and thou art sure of it, go forward in God's name, and fear nothing."-"God will be my defence," was the monk's

answer.

When asked in the Diet if he would not retract his opinions, he replied, "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise: God help me." These words are inscribed upon the monument erected to him in Worms in 1868. His position before Charles V. was the same which he had taken in the year 1516, when he said of Tetzel's method of attracting attention to his sale of indulgences, "I will make a hole in that drum."

He bore impatiently the friendly imprisonment to which he was subjected by the Elector of Saxony, saying, "I would rather be stretched on burning coals than stagnate here half dead" (Mallem inter carbones vivos ardere, quam solus semivivus, atque utinam non mortuus, putere).

I fear two things, epicurism and enthusiasm, two schisms yet to come.

Of the re-action and excesses of reform.

He exclaimed when Pope Clement VII. summoned the Council of Augsburg, in 1526, "O Pope, if I live I shall be a pestilence

to thee, and if I die I shall be thy death!" But he could also say, "When I am dead the papists will find out how temperate an adversary I have been to them;" and the Emperor Maximilian I. wrote to the Elector of Saxony: "Take care of the monk Luther, for a time may come when we may have need of him."

To pray well is the better half of study (Fleissig gebet ist über die Hälfte studirt).

This, and the following, are from Luther's "Table Talk.”

To rise betimes, and to marry young, are what no man ever repents of doing.

It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with eating and drinking. [Thales, being asked at what time a man should marry, replied, "Young men, not yet; old men, not at all."]

God knows all trades better than the most accomplished artisan here below.

If a man be not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, learned at forty, and rich at fifty, he will never be.

God made the priest: the Devil set about an imitation; but he made the tonsure too large, and produced a monk.

That little bird has chosen his shelter, and is quietly rocking himself to sleep without a care for to-morrow's lodging, calmly holding by his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour. If you put no wheat, it still grinds on; but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.

An idle priest, instead of reciting his breviary, used to run over the alphabet, and then say, "O my God, take this alphabet, and put it together how you will."

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

HENRY LUTTRELL.

["A wit among lords and a lord among wits;" the friend of Rogers, Sydney Smith, Lord Holland, etc.; poet, wit, and author; born 1770; wrote "Memoirs of Tom Moore; " died 1851.]

I dislike monkeys: they always remind me of poor

relations.

He also said, "Mr.

-'s face always reminds me of boiled

mutton and poor relations." When asked if Mr.

was not on one occasion very disagreeable, he replied, "He was as disagreeable as the occasion would admit."

Tom Moore said of an acquaintance, that the dye of his old trade of a hatter had become ingrained in his face; "Darkness that may be felt,” remarked Luttrell.

His illustration of English climate was, "On a fine day, looking up a chimney; on a rainy day, like looking down it." One foreigner remarked of London that "it has weather, but no climate;" and another, that it had "nine months winter, and bad weather the rest of the year."

Samuel Rogers said of Luttrell and Sydney Smith, "After Luttrell, you remember the good things he said; after Smith, you merely remember how much you laughed."

Of a female aëronaut, who, when last seen, was still ascending, Luttrell suggested, "Handed out by Enoch and Elijah.”

When told that the Bishop of would be present at a certain dinner-party to which he was himself invited, he objected: "I do not mix well with the dean, but I shall positively effervesce with the bishop.”

He was told by Lady Holland to make room at table for a late comer: "Certainly," he replied, "it must be made, for it does not exist."

DUC DE LUXEMBOURG.

[François Henri de Montmorenci, a French general; born in Paris, 1628; served with his cousin Condé against France, 1653-59; pardoned by Louis XIV., he invaded Holland, 1672; marshal of France, 1675; defeated William III. at Steenkerke and Neerwinden, 1691-95; died January, 1695.]

He has never seen my back.

Luxembourg, like Prince Eugene, was not favored by nature for the great part he was to play. When he heard that his rival William III. of England, had called him a humpback, he replied,

"How can he know that, when he has never seen my back, although I have often seen his?"

LYCURGUS.

[The Spartan lawgiver; lived, according to Aristotle, more than 850 B. C.; refusing the crown he had inherited, he visited foreign countries, and returned to Sparta, making many radical changes in the social and political system; having imposed a strong aristocratic constitution, by which domestic affairs were regulated by the state, he obtained from the people an oath that they would not alter his laws during his absence; and went into exile, from which he never returned.]

Try it in your own households.

When some one recommended democracy to him, and advised him to establish it in Sparta. PLUTARCH: Life.

To those who asked whether they should enclose Sparta in walls, he said, "That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick."

The Spartans let their hair grow long, because Lycurgus said, "A large head of hair makes the handsome more graceful, and the ugly more terrible."— Ibid.

LYSANDER.

[A Spartan general; gained a naval victory over the Athenians, 407 B.C.; and at Egospotami, 405; captured Athens, and established the Thirty Tyrants, 404, killed in battle by the Thebans, 395 B.C.]

Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced out with the fox's.

When blamed for resorting to stratagem, unworthy a descendant of Hercules. - PLUTARCH: Laconic Apothegms.

Dionysius sent Lysander's daughters some rich Sicilian garments, which he refused, saying he was afraid "these fine clothes will make them look more homely;" but while on an embassy to Sicily, Dionysius offered him two vests, that he might give one to his daughter; upon which he said, "She will know better how to choose than I,” and took them both. PLUTARCH: