greater the profit.--FÉNELON.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.
--PINDAR.

Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage.
--H.W. SHAW.

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies.--GEORGE HERBERT.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great
deal in a very narrow compass.--STEELE.


BUSINESS.--That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
--IZAAK WALTON.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a
business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business,
business is war.--BOVEE.

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business,
transact your business and go about your business, in order to give
him time to finish his business.--DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public
business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the