Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject, to solve your doubts ; for if yon let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance .—W. Wirt.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge, uno great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trine away their time insipidly is, because they lind their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.—Locke.

Men are more inclined to aek curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction —Quesnel.

The over curious are not over wise.— Massinger.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.— WhaJxly.

No heart is empty of the humor of curiosity, the beggar being as attentive, iu his station, to an increase of knowledge, as the prince.—Osborrt.

How many a noble art, now widely known, owes its young impulse to this power alón«. —Sprague.

Eve, with all the fruits of Eden blest, save only one, rather than leave that one unknown, lost all the rest.—Moore.

Avoid him ллЬо. for mere curiosity, aske three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him.—Lavater.

Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit which still sticlieth in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking.—Fuller.

There are different kinds of curiosity ; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would l>e useful to us ; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant.— Rochefoucauld.

Curiosity is one of the permanent, and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.—Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects and produces new incitements U» further progress.—Johnson.

The curiosity of nn honorable mind willingly rests where the love of truth does not urge it further onward and the love of its neighbor bids it stop.—In other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries " Halt."—Coleridge.

Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation ; they do not take anything for their own use, but merely to pass it on to others.—Slfele.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness, than confers pleasure.—We are more pained by ignorance, than delighted by instruction.—Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.—Tohnson.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious iu observing the labor of bees, wUlofteu be utimg for his curiosity.—Pope.