duty of securing the rights of nations by peace, and added, "But, while we endeavor to maintain peace, I certainly should be the last to forget, that, if peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace."

A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" calls attention to a singular similarity of expression in Fletcher's "Queen of Corinth," I. 1:

Sosicles.
Neanthes.

And peace concluded with the place of Argos?
-To the queen's wishes.

Of the results of the Berlin Congress as applied to Greece, Lord Beaconsfield said in the House of Peers, July 18, 1878, "Greece has a future; and I would say, if I might be permitted, to Greece, what I would say to an individual who has a future, — 'Learn to be patient.""

Imperium et libertas.

In a speech at Guildhall, Nov. 9, 1879, Lord Beaconsfield said, “One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what was his politics, replied, 'Imperium et libertas.' That would not make a bad programme for a British ministry." Tacitus said of Nerva, "He joined two things hitherto incompatible, imperium et libertatem."

He accused a former secretary of foreign affairs, the fifteenth Earl of Derby, in the House of Lords, March 5, 1881, of an opposite principle: "I do not know that there is any thing that excites enthusiasm in him except when he contemplates the surrender of some national policy."

The key of India is not at Candahar: the key of India is in London.

In the House of Lords, 1881, on the abandonment of the policy of the previous (conservative) administration in Afghanis

tan.

You see I never contradict, and I sometimes forget. When asked why he was a favorite of the Queen.

THOMAS à BECKET.

[An English ecclesiastic, born 1117; Lord Chancellor, 1158; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162. Having resisted the attempt of Henry II. to limit ecclesiastical authority, he fled to France, but was permitted to return, and continued to defy the king's authority, until assassinated, Dec. 29, 1170.]

Sit I at the helm, and would you have me sleep? (Clarum teneo, et ad somnum me vocas?)

Being advised to show greater moderation in his controversy with Henry II. When, finally, the king exclaimed, "Of all the cowards who eat my bread, is there not one who will free me from this turbulent priest?" four knights left his table, crossed the channel, and attacked the archbishop at the foot of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. He met them with undismayed front: "In vain you menace me. If all the swords in England were brandishing over my head, your terrors could not move me.”

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

[An American pulpit-orator, born in Litchfield, Conn., 1813; pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, from 1847.]

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

From sermons and addresses collected in "Life Thoughts: "⚫ Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Mozart and Raphael! as long as the winds make the air give sounds, and the sun paints the earth with colors, so long shall the world not let these names die.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive."

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

What we call wisdom is the result, not the residuum, of all the wisdom of past ages.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes when another feeling will not.

Reason can tell us how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Refinement which carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

There is somebody to believe in anybody who is uppermost.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

The elect are those who will, and the non-elect those who won't. Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a lastyear's nest, from which the birds have flown.

In the morning we carry the world like Atlas; at noon we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night it crushes us flat to the ground.

A cunning man overreaches no one half so much as himself. The philosophy of one century is the common-sense of the next.

Men are called fools in one age for not knowing what they were called fools for averring in the age before.

Not that which men do worthily, but that they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN.

[The celebrated composer, born at Bonn, of Dutch extraction, Dec. 17, 1770; settled in Vienna, where from 1802 to his death, in March, 1827, he produced the works which attest the sublimity of his genius.]

I close my eyes with the blessed consciousness that I have left one shining track upon the earth.

His last words. He asked, during his last illness, his friend and pupil, Hummel, "Is it not true that I have some talent, after all?"

RICHARD BENTLEY.

[An able critic and scholar; born in Yorkshire, England, Jan. 27, 1662; educated at Cambridge; keeper of the royal library, 1693; master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1700; degraded for extortionate charges for degrees, but restored by the King's Bench; died, July, 1742.] No man was ever written down except by himself.

Of the literary conflicts in which he was engaged with Boyle, Atterbury, Pope, and Swift, caused by the publication of his "Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris." Napoleon said at St. Helena, April 6, 1817: "None but myself ever did me any harm."-O'MEARA: Napoleon in Exile. "Nothing can work me damage," remarks St. Bernard, "except myself: the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault."

ST. BERNARD.

[An eminent ecclesiastic; born near Dijon, 1091; became abbot of Clairvaux, near Langres, 1115; promoted the crusade of 1146; died 1153.]

Sermons in stones.

St. Bernard said in a letter: "Trust to one who has had experience. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters. Think you not you can suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock? Do not the mountains run sweetness, the hills run with milk and honey, and the valleys stand thick with corn?" Had Shakespeare read St. Bernard when he wrote,

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing"?

Or Wordsworth, —

As You Like It, II. 1.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil, and of good,
Than all the sages can"?

But Socrates said, "Knowledge is what I love; and the men who dwell in towns are my teachers, not trees and landscape.”

FRANÇOIS DE BERNIS.

[A French statesman and ecclesiastic; born 1715; ambassador to Venice, and minister of foreign affairs under Louis XV.; cardinal, archbishop, and ambassador to Rome, where he died, 1794.]

I will wait (J'attendrai).

His reply to Cardinal Fleury, who had witnessed the irregularity of his early life, and frankly told him at the outset of his career, "You have nothing to expect during my life." The favor of Madame de Pompadour raised the abbé to the cardinalate after he had "waited" for Fleury's death.

When Cæsar proposed to distribute lands in Campania among the soldiers, Lucius Gellius said it should never be done in his time. "Let us wait a while," remarked Cicero, "for Gellius requires no very long credit."

ANTOINE BERRYER.

[A French advocate and orator, of whose first appearance RoyerCollard said, "This is not merely a talent, it is a power; born 1790; deputy, 1830; member of the Academy, 1852; opposed the coup d'état, and retired from public life; died 1868.]

I have consecrated my life to the defence of the old alliance of royalty and liberty.

The political profession of faith of the noted advocate, who was strongly attached to the Legitimist party. At another time he said, "I am a royalist, because I am a patriot."

A man has always the voice of his mind. A mind clear, distinct, firm, generous, a little disdainful, displays all these characteristics in its voice.

There are no ugly women: there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.

Nothing was more characteristic of Berryer than gallantry. Bankruptcy or death.

When the Austrian Archduke Maximilian was induced to lend himself to the Emperor Napoleon's scheme of an empire