Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

I have inclined mine heart to perform Thy statutes alway, even unto the end.' 5.

Shakespeare speaks in _Richard the Second_ of 'the open ear of youth,' and it is a beautiful truth in a beautiful passage.

Young men, who are still young men, keep your ears open to all truth and to all duty and to all goodness, and shut your ears with an adder's determination against all that which ruined Richard--flattering sounds, reports of fashions, and lascivious metres.

'Our souls would only be gainers by the perfection of our bodies were they wisely dealt with,' says Professor Wilson in his _Five Gateways_.