Painting for Posterity.—“What a folly,” said Sir Edward Burne-Jones, on one occasion, “to talk of only painting for posterity. Posterity is only one more drop in the ocean of time. Indeed, I never pass the chalk-artist working upon the pavement, but I think, ‘Ah, brother, my pictures can last but a day longer than yours.’”

Classical Music.

“Mamma, what is classical music?”

“Oh, don’t you know? It is the kind you have to like, whether you like it or not.”

An Oriental Proverb.

“Good striving Brings thriving. Better a dog that works Than a lion that shirks.”

A Source of Weakness.—A frequent source of weakness lies in the notion that what we do at the moment does not matter much, because we shall be able to alter and mend and patch it as we like by-and-by.

Melancholy Words.

The words “no more,” it was once remarked by Madame de Staël, both in sound and sense are more expressive of melancholy meaning than any others in the English language.

If not before these, at least second in the scale may be placed the single word “alone,” and next to this “never.”

Two Halves make a Whole.

Mother: “Bobbie, how many sisters has your new schoolfellow?”

Bobbie: “He has one, mamma. He tried to make me believe he had two half-sisters, but he doesn’t know that I’m studying fractions.”