It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get rid of the style of handwriting peculiar to his country. If he be English, he always writes in English style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, or Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Professor B---- states:--"I am acquainted with a Frenchman, who has passed all his life in England, who speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety-nine in a hundred of us; but yet who cannot, for the life of him, imitate our mode of writing. I knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely in France, and resided eighteen years in that country, mixing exclusively with French people, but who, although he had a French writing-master, and, perhaps, never saw anything but French writing in his life, or rarely, yet wrote exactly in the Scotch style." --_D'Israeli._ 2116 The word that is heard, passes away; the letter that is written,--remains. 2117 Every time you avoid doing wrong, You increase your inclination to do right. 2118 The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. 2119 My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. --_Cowper._ Y 2120 _Yankee._--The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the manner in which the Indians endeavored to pronounce the word English, which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee. --_From "Milledulcia."_ 2121 Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? --_Burton._ 2122 How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead! 2123 Thy yesterday is past, Thy to-day, thy future, Thy to-morrow, is a secret. --_From The Talmud._ 2124 Speak gently to the young, for they Will have enough to bear-- Pass through this life as best they may, 'Tis full of anxious care. --_Geo. W. Hangford._ 2125 YOUTH. How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! All possibilities are in its hands: No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands: In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!" it, to the mountain, saith. 2126 An easy youth, generally means a hard old age. 2127 YOUTH AND AGE. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. --_Cicero._ 2128