My favourite motto came last Sunday, 'The Lord hath need;' if He has need of my mother's permission to her child He will enable her to give it.

" Kit said nothing; for the other, by using a favorite motto, had banished his companions' dislike of novelties.

A narrow road, straight as a line in Euclid, and bordered by a row of trees each the counterpart of all the others, mounted toward the horizon, leading, principally, to a low, yellow house about a mile away, displaying above its door the appropriate motto, "Lust en Rust."

Certain it is that a better motto or guide to that famous attitude can nowhere be found.

A handsome Motto has the same Effect.

The "singular motto" which occasions "P.H.F.'s" wonder (No. 14.

The neighborhood is one long since given up to fifth-rate shops, whose masters and mistresses display such enticing mottoes as "Au gagne petit!"

But there was no understanding in that evil motto of a disillusioned heart.

Here it is, in startling facsimilethe white covers, destined too soon to become black, the gilt device, the familiar motto.

It was clear that either all my conclusions were totally wrong, or else the motto mens sana in corpore sano contained wrapped up in itself some acroamatic meaning which I found myself unable to penetrate, and which the authors had found no Greek motto capable of conveying.

What is rather the duty of all who love what is noble and beautiful is not to carp and bicker over faulty conditions, but to realise their aims and hopes, to labour abundantly and patiently, to speak and feel sincerely, to encourage rather than to condemn, Serviendum lietandum says the brave motto.

"The Newspaper, a Poem, by the Rev. George Crabbe, Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Rutland, printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall," appeared as a quarto pamphlet (price 2s.) in 1785, with a felicitous motto from Ovid's Metamorphoses on the title-page, and a politic dedication to Lord Thurlow, evincing a gratitude for past favours, and (unexpressed) a lively sense of favours to come.

" "non hoc primum mea pectora vulnus Senserunt, graviora tuli" The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war," a fit motto for every man's private house; happy is the man that provides for a future assault.

The following motto for a tea-caddy was quoted by the celebrated J. Wilkes:

Or are you trying to be a brave little standard-bearer of Jesus Christ, carrying His flag, so that the sweet breezes of His Spirit may lift its bright folds, and show its golden motto?

There should be a wedding cake which may be only ginger-bread, and some kind of grotesque motto may be inscribed in the frosting.

" Entering Vitry-le-Francois we had a splendid example of the typical "motto" of the French trooper, "II ne faut pas s'en faire" One of the motor cars had broken down, and the officer-occupants, who were evidently not on an urgent mission, had gone to sleep on the banks by the side of the road whilst the chauffeur was making the necessary repairs.

"The more enemies, the more glory," was the inane motto so popular early in the war that it was even printed on post cards.

"Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn," would not be an inapplicable motto for this oriental romance, which unites the purest and softest tenderness with the loftiest dignity, and glows in every page with all the fervour of poetry.

From 1875 onwards I held office as one of the vice-presidents of the National Secular Societya society founded on a broad basis of liberty, with the inspiring motto, "We Search for Truth."

'I doubt' 'Perhaps you will think it over.' Bessie's first thought was, 'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, then let my right hand forget her cunning.' That had been the inward motto of her life.

A lettered motto in the midst which everyone may read, Is written in Arabian script, ah! good that all should heed!

She kept on hand a supply of the most meltingly delicious cakes and cookies, and her liberal motto, "Heah, chile, put yo' han' in the cookie-jah and draw out what you lights on!"

But it may explain what I mean, that a neat motto is child of the Title.

"Mundus decipit, Count," they told him, "is the old pious motto of Poictesme: it signifies that the affairs of this world are a vain fleeting show, and that terrestrial appearances are nowhere of any particular importance.