"Since as you know, you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I your glass Will modestly discover to yourself That of yourself which you yet know not of." SHAKSPERE. FOR LADIES' BOUDOIRS. "_Birth_, _beauty_, _wealth_, are nothing worth alone. All these I would for good additions take: Tis the mind's beauty keeps the _others_ sweet." SIR THOMAS OVERBURY, _The Wife_. "'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; 'Tis modesty that makes them seem divine." SHAKSPERE. FOR A DRESSING-ROOM. "The apparel oft proclaims the man." FOR SCHOOLROOMS. "Extend generosity, it is profuseness; Confine economy, it is avarice; Unbridle courage, it is rashness; Indulge sensibility, it is weakness." "Catch Time by the forelock; he's bald behind." "Nothing is truly good that may be excell'd." _Motto of King Arthur's Table._ "He may do what he will that will but do what he may." ARTHUR WARWICK. "God dwelleth near about us, Ever within, Working the goodness, Consuming the sin." FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE, born 1554. FOR LIBRARIES, STUDIES, AND BOOK-ROOMS. "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge: it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections: unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength or nourishment."--LOCKE. "Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them."--BACON. "Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."--_Idem._ "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."--_Idem._ "In reading, we hold converse with the wise; in the business of life, generally with the foolish."--BACON. "That place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers." J. FLETCHER. "Bookes are a part of man's prerogative, In formal inke they thoughts and voyces hold, That we to them our solitude may give, And make time present travel that of old. Our life fame peceth longer at the end, And bookes it farther backward doe extend." SIR THOMAS OVERBURY, _The Wife_. "Books should for one of these four ends conduce,-- For wisdom, piety, delight, or use." SIR JOHN DENHAM.