The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

--_O. W. Holmes._

1877

Talent is something, but tact is everything.

--_Scargill._

1878

All talk at once, to none respect is shown.

1879

_Talking._--What a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

--_Shakespeare._

1880

They always talk who never think.

--_Prior._

1881

He who talks much is sometimes right.

--_Spanish._

1882

The talker sows, the listener reaps.

--_Italian._

1883

You can doubtless name a number of people who talk too much--including yourself!

1884

A man of sense talks little, and listens much.

--_Chinese._

1885

_A Quiet Rebuke._--When Washington"s secretary excused himself for the lateness of his attendance, and laid the blame on his watch, his master quietly said--"Then you must get another watch, or I another secretary."

1886

The cost takes away the taste: I should really like the thing, but I dislike the expense.

1887

To teach is to learn twice over.

1888

Nothing dies sooner than a tear.

1889

Do not make woman weep, for G.o.d counts her tears.

--_From The Talmud._

1890

He has strangled His language in his tears.

--_Shakespeare._

1891

There are few things more beautiful than tears, whether they are shed for ourselves or others; they are the meek and silent effusions of sincere feeling.

1892

Tears sometimes have the weight of words.