No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as the symbol of our best blessings.  Of the Gospel revelation one apostle says, “The night is far spent, and the day is at hand.”  Another, under the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language of ancient prophecy:  “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”—­Baseley.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—­the sun, and the student’s lamp.—­Bovee.

Love.—­Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous.—­Miss JEWSBURY.

We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.—­Rowland hill.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun.  A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye.  Tone, act, attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric telegraph of touch,—­all these betray the yielding citadel before the word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.—­Longfellow.

Love and you shall be loved.  All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.—­Emerson.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—­N.P.  Willis.

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness.  The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.—­Victor Hugo.

The lover’s pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily.  There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.—­Walter Scott.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful.  It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.—­A.B.  Edwards.

Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more. 
—­Parnell.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 

          
                          —­Scott.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.—­Quarles.