MANY THOUGHTS OFMANY MINDS

A Treasury of Quotations from theLiterature of Every Landand Every Age. 

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COMPILED BYLOUIS KLOPSCH

PUBLISHED BYTHE CHRISTIAN HERALD, LOUIS KLOPSCH, Proprietor, BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK. 

Copyright, 1896, By LOUIS KLOPSCH. 

PREFACE. 

In the limited compass of this small volume, the compiler hasendeavored to employ only such material as is likely to prove ofservice to the largest circle of readers. Nearly four hundred subjectshave received consideration at his hands, and the quotations given arefrom standard authors of recognized ability. Upwards of twenty-fivehundred extracts from the choicest literature of all ages and tongues, topically arranged, and in scope so wide as to touch on nearly everysubject that engages the human mind, constitute a treasury of thoughtwhich, it is hoped, will be acceptable and helpful to all into whosehands this volume may chance to fall. 

Many Thoughts of Many Minds. 

ABILITY. --No man is without some quality, by the due application ofwhich he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that hasbut little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest hebe confounded with him that can do nothing. --DR. JOHNSON. 

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while othersjudge us by what we have already done. --LONGFELLOW. 

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of hisabilities, and for no more. --GAIL HAMILTON. 

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt formere external show. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and oftenacquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Ability is a poor man's wealth. --MATTHEW WREN. 

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man orwoman. --ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. 

Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind ofcultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the wantof natural ability. --SCHOPENHAUER. 

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. --CHESTERFIELD. 

ABSOLUTION. --No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, justand good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin. --BEDE. 

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father ofall; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience. --ST. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. 

It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the LordHimself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no mancan be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solelyto Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world. --ST. AMBROSE. 

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men fromtheir sins. --ST. CYRIL. 

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alonecan say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unlesswe bring repentance with us. --ST. AMBROSE. 

ACTION. --The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. --EMERSON. 

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happinesswithout action. --BEACONSFIELD. 

There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that arebad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious ofthose that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtfulactions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead togreater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight graduallyreconcile us to darkness. --A. REED. 

To the valiant actions speak alone. --SMOLLETT. 

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. --HORACE MANN. 

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy areincompatible. --BOVEE. 

 Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. 

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 Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act, in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! --LONGFELLOW. 

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in theworld weigh less than a single lovely action. --LOWELL. 

 Prodigious actions may as well be done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. --DRYDEN. 

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, andvindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that thepoorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, thedullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. --CARLYLE. 

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield withgraciousness, or oppose with firmness. --COLTON. 

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair andvirtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silkenbanners over us. --J. SHIRLEY. 

Our acts make or mar us, --we are the children of our own deeds. --VICTOR HUGO. 

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as wellas his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. --WHIPPLE. 

ADVERSITY. --Times of great calamity and confusion have ever beenproductive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from thehottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from thedarkest storm. --COLTON. 

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the dayof adversity only one. --HORATIUS BONAR. 

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great mindsrise above them. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

 A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. --POMFRET. 

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. --BOLINGBROKE. 

 On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. --DR. YOUNG. 

 When Providence, for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not desponding or impatient grow. --POMFRET. 

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. --PROVERBS 24:10. 

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperouscircumstances, would have lain dormant. --HORACE. 

 In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. --CRABBE. 

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seemthe most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles thefeeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune risesabove it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. --CHENEVIX. 

There is healing in the bitter cup. --SOUTHEY. 

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is theblessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and theclearer revelation of God's favor. --BACON. 

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man'sdisappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. --LYTTON. 

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. --HEBREWS 12:6. 

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried andsmelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. --CHAPIN. 

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and astate of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand tovirtue. --SCHILLER. 

AFFECTATION. --Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly ofmany a comparatively wise man. 

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, asby those which we aim at, or affect to have. --FROM THE FRENCH. 

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. --ST. EVREMOND. 

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty toappear rich. --LAVATER. 

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. --HORACE MANN. 

AFFECTION. --A loving heart is the truest wisdom. --DICKENS. 

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. --COLOSSIANS 3:2. 

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to thelife of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If theyare wholly restrained love will die at the roots. --HAWTHORNE. 

 A solitary blessing few can find, Our joys with those we love are intertwined, And he whose wakeful tenderness removes The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves, Smooths not another's rugged path alone, But scatters roses to adorn his own. 

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdantspot on the surface of the globe. 

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven isthe beating of a loving heart. --BEECHER. 

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, andrepels the ministry of ill, it is human love. --WILLIS. 

AFFLICTION. --God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tearsin order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. --T. L. CUYLER. 

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take hisburden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be ableto bear the burden. --PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations whichare the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because theyare the very ones he needs. --RICHTER. 

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

 Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance where they grow; But crushed and trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. --GOLDSMITH. 

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher ofhumility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; thestrengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity. 

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment ofextraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinarygraces. --MATTHEW HENRY. 

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once towhat it teaches. --BURGH. 

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --JOB 5:7. 

 Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. --MALLET AND THOMSON. 

 Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! --BURNS. 

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. --MOLINOS. 

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit ofrighteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. --HEBREWS 12:11. 

AGE. --No wise man ever wished to be younger. --SWIFT. 

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look withoutemotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins togather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broaderand deeper upon the understanding. --LONGFELLOW. 

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see nofault committed that I have not committed myself. --GOETHE. 

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all oldmen, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. --CICERO. 

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old agebrings with it its own defects. --GOETHE. 

 Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill; Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. --POPE. 

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be writtenupon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. --VICTORHUGO. 

Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life maystill remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kindProvidence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the verybottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls. --W. A. NEWMAN. 

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Few people know how to be old. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making asacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. --SWIFT. 

The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase withage. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor andcomfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. --ADDISON. 

Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see thedistant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of ourenjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us. --RICHTER. 

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardestthing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. --H. W. SHAW. 

AMBITION. --Most people would succeed in small things if they were nottroubled with great ambitions. --LONGFELLOW. 

 He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. --SOUTHEY. 

 They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The path of glory leads but to the grave. --GRAY. 

We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well; andwhen that care is once taken, not to be over anxious about thesuccess. --ROCHESTER. 

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wearand tear of heart are never recompensed, --it steals away the freshnessof life, --it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, --it shuts oursouls to our own youth, --and we are old ere we remember that we havemade a fever and a labor of our raciest years. --LYTTON. 

 I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. --SHAKESPEARE. 

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higherthan himself, and a mean man by one which is lower than himself. Theone produces aspiration; the other, ambition. Ambition is the way inwhich a vulgar man aspires. --BEECHER. 

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopesand aspirations, as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified hisnature, and quenched the spirit of immortality, which is his portion. --SOUTHEY. 

 Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name! --WILLIAM WINTER. 

 All my ambition is, I own, To profit and to please unknown; Like streams supplied from springs below, Which scatter blessings as they go. --DR. COTTON. 

ANGELS. --If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. --G. D. PRENTICE. 

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote itdown, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --STERNE. 

 There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe it, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours. --LONGFELLOW. 

 Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. --MILTON. 

 ANGER. --And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. --COLERIDGE. 

Anger is implanted in us as a sort of sting, to make us gnash with ourteeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to setus in array against each other. 

 When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action, Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. --SAVAGE. 

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man. --PLUTARCH. 

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who willnot. --SENECA. 

Men in rage strike those that wish them best. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. --W. R. ALGER. 

Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man;it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessedby it more than any other against whom it is directed. --CLARENDON. 

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. --JEFFERSON. 

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. --CATO. 

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. --HALIBURTON. 

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. --EPHESIANS 4:26. 

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance. --PYTHAGORAS. 

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve of inanother. --PASQUIER QUESNEL. 

ANXIETY. --Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions thanruined by too confident a security. --BURKE. 

Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of humanevents?--BLAIR. 

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the worldthan they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures soremarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves whatprogress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on theygo as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of theirchildhood. --ROGERS. 

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety whichwe endure and generally occasion ourselves. --BEACONSFIELD. 

ART. --The perfection of art is to conceal art. --QUINTILIAN. 

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath offolly. --HAZLITT. 

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim ofart. --GOETHE. 

Art does not imitate, but interpret. --MAZZINI. 

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his glory. --LONGFELLOW. 

ASSOCIATES. --Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt goodmanners. --1 CORINTHIANS 15:20. 

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; he who adheres to asect has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student, and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. --LAVATER. 

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. --SOLOMON. 

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn tolimp. --FROM THE LATIN. 

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those onlywho are estimable. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society ofthine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thysuperiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the companyis the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be theworst there. --QUARLES. 

A companion of fools shall be destroyed. --PROVERBS 13:20. 

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. --LORDCHESTERFIELD. 

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where hecan meet his betters, intellectual and social. --THACKERAY. 

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. --GEORGE HERBERT. 

It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with ineternity. --FULLER. 

ASTRONOMY. --The contemplation of celestial things will make a man bothspeak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends tohuman affairs. --CICERO. 

 The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced Daily the wisdom, power and love of God. The moon awoke, and from her maiden face, Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth, And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens, -- Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked, Of purity, and holiness, and God. --ROBERT POLLOK. 

 I love to rove amidst the starry height, To leave the little scenes of Earth behind, And let Imagination wing her flight On eagle pinions swifter than the wind. I love the planets in their course to trace; To mark the comets speeding to the sun, Then launch into immeasurable space, Where, lost to human sight, remote they run. I love to view the moon, when high she rides Amidst the heav'ns, in borrowed lustre bright; To fathom how she rules the subject tides, And how she borrows from the sun her light. O! these are wonders of th' Almighty hand, Whose wisdom first the circling orbits planned. --T. RODD. 

ATHEISM. --I should like to see a man sober in his habits, moderate, chaste, just in his dealings, assert that there is no God; he wouldspeak at least without interested motives; but such a man is not to befound. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

 An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! --BURNS. 

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. --PSALM 14:1. 

Kircher, the astronomer, having an acquaintance who denied theexistence of a Supreme Being, took the following method to convincehim of his error. Expecting him on a visit, he placed a handsomecelestial globe in a part of the room where it could not escape thenotice of his friend, who, on observing it, inquired whence it came, and who was the maker. 

"It was not made by any person, " said the astronomer. 

"That is impossible, " replied the sceptic; "you surely jest. "

Kircher then took occasion to reason with his friend upon his ownatheistical principles, explaining to him that he had adopted thisplan with a design to show him the fallacy of his scepticism. 

"You will not, " said he, "admit that this small body originated inmere chance, and yet you contend that those heavenly bodies, to whichit bears only a faint and diminutive resemblance, came into existencewithout author or design. "

He pursued this chain of reasoning till his friend was totallyconfounded, and cordially acknowledged the absurdity of his notions. 

By night an atheist half believes a God. --YOUNG. 

No one is so much alone in the world as a denier of God. --RICHTER. 

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for themthat there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuadethemselves so. --TILLOTSON. 

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense andfeeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

Atheism can benefit no class of people, --neither the unfortunate, whomit bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it rendersinsipid. --CHATEAUBRIAND. 

AUTHORITY. --Self-possession is the backbone of authority. --HALIBURTON. 

 Man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority: Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd. His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nosewith gold. --SHAKESPEARE. 

AUTHORS. --Choose an author as you choose a friend. --EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 

The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many thetrumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, likelaborers from the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselveslucky to get the dinner. --LONGFELLOW. 

It is a doubt whether mankind are most indebted to those who, likeBacon and Butler, dig the gold from the mine of literature, or tothose who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, andgive it currency and utility. --COLTON. 

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. --ROGERASCHAM. 

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. --DRYDEN. 

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a manwhose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. --DOUGLASJERROLD. 

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and thisself-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of themind. --CERVANTES. 

There are three difficulties in authorship--to write anything worththe publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensiblemen to read it. --COLTON. 

 An author! 'Tis a venerable name! How few deserve it, and what numbers claim! Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd, Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind? Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause? That sole proprietor of just applause. --YOUNG. 

Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full onit; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungryon it. --RICHTER. 

 How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names for ever memorize! --SPENSER. 

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new thingsfamiliar, and familiar things new. --THACKERAY. 

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; itis to possess at once intellect, soul and taste. --BUFFON. 

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. --JOUBERT. 

AVARICE. --It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to bethe chief good. --JOHNSON. 

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. 

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of anavaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, theother the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. --FIELDING. 

 O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. --BLAIR. 

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by thewant of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and thelittle great. --ZIMMERMANN. 

Avarice is the vice of declining years. --GEORGE BANCROFT. 

 Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare; The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. --POPE. 

The love of money is the root of all evil. --1 TIMOTHY 6:10. 

The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields nofruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. --ZENO. 

Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than toincrease our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to ourjourney's end?--CICERO. 

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. --COWLEY. 

BASHFULNESS. --Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity;bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. --MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. 

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of thegods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in underminingbashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-natureand humanity. --PLUTARCH. 

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. --ARISTOTLE. 

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest;and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity ofprinciple from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from atotal ignorance of vice. --COLTON. 

BEAUTY. --It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness thatcompletes the charm. --FONTENELLE. 

Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joyforever. "--THACKERAY. 

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those towhom it has been refused. --GIBBON. 

 What is beauty? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features. No. These are but flowers That have their dated hours To breathe their momentary sweets, then go. 'Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. --SIR A. HUNT. 

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. --SOCRATES. 

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is thebeauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age. --G. A. SALA. 

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness ofwoman. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is halfmarried. --OUIDA. 

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointedwith gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power. --RICHTER. 

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for thatwhich, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. --RALEIGH. 

It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue. --BACON. 

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. --SHAFTESBURY. 

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and bestto fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little aspossible on the dark and the base. --CECIL. 

A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flowerwithout fragrance, a tree without fruit. --REGNIER. 

All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomesbeautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to thequality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinionthat the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or willbe regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from beingamiable and beloved in the highest degree. --FREDERIKA BREMER. 

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beautycannot supply the absence of good nature. --ADDISON. 

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for herbeauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equallysubject to change. --POPE. 

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege ofnature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightfulprejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothingwas more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than allthe letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas aglorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favorbestowed by the gods. --FROM THE ITALIAN. 

 Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly; A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass, that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. And as good lost is seld or never found, As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh, As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress, So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. --BEN JONSON. 

BENEVOLENCE. --Every charitable act is a stepping stone towardheaven. --BEECHER. 

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a farnobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellectbut not the image of God. --HOWELLS. 

Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shallin no wise go unrewarded; here, by the testimony of an approvingconscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, anda brighter inheritance in His Father's house. --BISHOP MANT. 

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are preventedfrom them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to theprayers of others. --COLTON. 

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. --W. R. ALGER. 

There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as ourbenevolence. We should husband our means as the agriculturalist hisfertilizer, which if he spread over too large a superficies producesno crop, if over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and inweeds. --COLTON. 

The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem;but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections. --FROM THE FRENCH. 

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw avacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket andpopped it in, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorncosts nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber. --THACKERAY. 

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oiland twopence. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It _goeth_about doing good. --NEVINS. 

Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. Itis a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn bythe rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform atthe call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to givesplendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead yourwilling footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not theimpulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. You must go to the poor man's cottage, though no verdure flourisharound it, and no rivulet be nigh to delight you by the gentleness ofits murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction youwill be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere, in spite ofevery discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but aprinciple; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but abusiness for the hand to execute. --CHALMERS. 

The only way to be loved, is to be and to appear lovely; to possessand display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free fromselfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others. --JAY. 

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees hisbenevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him towhom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt lovethy neighbor as thyself, " it is not meant, thou shalt love him firstand do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do goodto thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee thatlove to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of theinclination to do good. --KANT. 

 The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless. --BLOOMFIELD. 

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in sodistinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence. 

BIBLE. --The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol ofyouth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. Thehistory of every man should be a Bible. --NOVALIS. 

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way ofsuffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. --FLAVEL. 

 Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. --SCOTT. 

Like the needle to the North Pole, the Bible points to heaven. --R. B. NICHOL. 

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our fallinginto error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the willof God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power. --BACON. 

Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. It ought, therefore, tohold the chief place in every situation of learning throughoutChristendom; and I do not know of a higher service that could berendered to this republic than the bringing about this desirableresult. --DR. NUTT. 

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it isnot the New Testament, it is not the gospel according to Matthew, orMark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William, it isthe Gospel according to Mary, it is the Gospel according to Henry andJames, it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your ownBible. --BEECHER. 

A single book has saved me; but that book is not of human origin. Longhad I despised it; long had I deemed it a class-book for the credulousand ignorant; until, having investigated the Gospel of Christ, with anardent desire to ascertain its truth or falsity, its pages profferedto my inquiries the simplest knowledge of man and nature, and thesimplest, and at the same time the most exalted system of moralethics. Faith, hope and charity were enkindled in my bosom; and everyadvancing step strengthened me in the conviction that the morals ofthis book are as infinitely superior to human morals as its oraclesare superior to human opinions. --M. L. BAUTIN. 

 Whence but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? --DRYDEN. 

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. --MILTON. 

I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you willlike it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get intothe spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ. --ROMAINE. 

It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, withoutany mixture of error, for its matter: it is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting. --LOCKE. 

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in everydistrict--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principalsupport of virtue, morality and civil liberty. --FRANKLIN. 

Here there is milk for babes, whilst there is manna for angels; truthlevel with the mind of a peasant; truth soaring beyond the reach of aseraph. --REV. HUGH STOWELL. 

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which hasserved me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have foundcapital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although Ihave sometimes made but a bad use of it. --GOETHE. 

BIGOTRY. --All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. --POPE. 

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. --CHAPIN. 

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, whobelieves there is no virtue but on his own side. --ADDISON. 

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in thatman I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven. --FELTHAM. 

BIOGRAPHY. --The great lesson of biography is to show what man can beand do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like aninspiration to others. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who haverisen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminenceand usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its directtendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. --HORACE MANN. 

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquityis to continue in a state of childhood all our days. --PLUTARCH. 

BOASTING. --Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed;nature never pretends. --LAVATER. 

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. --YOUNG. 

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in aminute than he will stand to in a month. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready toacknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their ownactions. --ÆSCHINES. 

The less people speak of their greatness the more we think ofit. --BACON. 

 Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth. --SHAKESPEARE. 

BOOKS. --When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimateslanguishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continuethe unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that truefriendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow. --WASHINGTONIRVING. 

No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read. --SENECA. 

He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, willhardly love them enough afterward to understand them. --CLARENDON. 

I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easyfeeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has amonghorses. --O. W. HOLMES. 

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives theirfeelings--as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets bytheir recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates thepurchaser. --LONGFELLOW. 

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothingcompanions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of bothcontinents would not compensate for the good they impart. --CHANNING. 

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put _fire_into their works would only consent to put their works into the_fire_. --COLTON. 

 Books, dear books, Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night, Adversity, prosperity, at home, Abroad, health, sickness--good or ill report, The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich, And source of consolation. --DR. DODD. 

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble andcourageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; itis good, and made by a good workman. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They supportus under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose ourcares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When weare weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothingof peevishness, pride or design in their conversation. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and hethat studies men will know how things are. --COLTON. 

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part;the rest are confounded with the multitude. --VOLTAIRE. 

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and therefreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant inthe frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that whichis worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better thanlife. --HORACE MANN. 

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book thatcomes from a great thinker--it is a ship of thought, deep freightedwith truth and with beauty. --THEODORE PARKER. 

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen. 

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiserby always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more intodisease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes booksserviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind. --FULLER. 

BREVITY. --Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs andoutward flourishes. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all othervirtues--righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorshipwithout the other. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as withsunbeams--the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. --SOUTHEY. 

The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression;the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. --ALFRED BOUGEANT. 

The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, thegreater the profit. --FÉNELON. 

 With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. --PINDAR. 

Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage. --H. W. SHAW. 

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. --GEORGE HERBERT. 

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a greatdeal in a very narrow compass. --STEELE. 

BUSINESS. --That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. --IZAAK WALTON. 

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was abusiness; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. --BOVEE. 

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to givehim time to finish his business. --DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of publicbusiness, because they are apt to go out of the common road by thequickness of their imagination. --SWIFT. 

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints andmartyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent inthis way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisitetact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreetrapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. Hemust be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be anenthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. --HELPS. 

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, hismanhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessivebusiness. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a greatlawyer, a great minister, a great politician--I should like to be alsosomething of a man. --THEODORE PARKER. 

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but becausehe had a capacity on a level for business and not above it. --TACITUS. 

The great secret both of health and successful industry is theabsolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business anddiversion of the hour--never permitting the one to infringe in theleast degree upon the other. --SISMONDI. 

Few people do business well who do nothing else. --CHESTERFIELD. 

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such asare cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reasonit was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "Nothanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing todo. "--STEELE. 

CARE. --To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. --HALIBURTON. 

Cast all your care on God: that anchor holds. --TENNYSON. 

 Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin, so merry, draws one out. --DR. WOLCOT. 

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to hisGod, has found the sunny side of life. --SPURGEON. 

CAUTION. --It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes ofothers. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. 

 Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. --VICTOR HUGO. 

All is to be feared where all is to be lost. --BYRON. 

CENSURE. --Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure whichis useful to them to praise which deceives them. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, orinveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good orill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions ofthe others. --DIOGENES. 

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. --SWIFT. 

The villain's censure is extorted praise. --POPE. 

CHARACTER. --How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of thecharacters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever mancould, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friendof God, " Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech andEphron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, becauseof his conscious relation to God. --S. T. COLERIDGE. 

The great hope of society is individual character. --CHANNING. 

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, tohis friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or howmuch depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is trulyand indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. --RUSKIN. 

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in hismanner of portraying another. --RICHTER. 

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, andbloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quietstars. --TUCKERMAN. 

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no otherpossession in the world but their character, and yet they stand asfirmly upon it as any crowned king. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

The man that makes a character makes foes. --YOUNG. 

 He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe; And make his wrongs his outsides, To wear them like his raiment, carelessly; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which hehas, and that which he thinks he has. --ALPHONSE KARR. 

The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one'sown opinions, and value others that deserve it. --SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. 

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchmanof the last century said, "Men succeed less by their talents thantheir character. " There were scores of men a hundred years ago who hadmore intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all bythe influence of his character. --WENDELL PHILLIPS. 

All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their highercharacters that they differ. --BOVEE. 

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friendsare all good. --LAVATER. 

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it hasin substance been said, is "victory organized. "--BOVEE. 

A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It isnot inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station;but it is the result of one's own endeavors. --HAWES. 

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spellcharacters. --LAVATER. 

CHARITY. --I have much more confidence in the charity which begins inthe home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-widephilanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to convergeinto egotism. --MRS. JAMESON. 

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creaturewhom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enlivenby our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, andis just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in ourhands. --FITZOSBORNE. 

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy righthand doeth. --MATTHEW 6:3. 

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametricallyopposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy, and the spirit of indifference. --BOSSUET. 

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, whenbequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. --COLTON. 

 The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. --BYRON. 

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself. --JOUBERT. 

Almost all the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue ofcharity and love:--for "it suffereth long, " and so it is longanimity;it "is kind, " and so it is courtesy; it "vaunteth not itself, " and soit is modesty; it "is not puffed up, " and so it is humility; it "isnot easily provoked, " and so it is lenity; it "thinketh no evil, " andso it is simplicity; it "rejoiceth in the truth, " and so it is verity;it "beareth all things, " and so it is fortitude; it "believeth allthings, " and so it is faith; it "hopeth all things, " and so it isconfidence; it "endureth all things, " and so it is patience; it "neverfaileth, " and so it is perseverance. --CHILLINGWORTH. 

As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is thevery livery of Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords, would have his servants known by their badge, which is love. --LATIMER. 

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. --THOREAU. 

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door ofhis palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. --KORAN. 

Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charityshall cover the multitude of sins. --1 PETER 4:8. 

It is an old saying, that charity begins at home; but this is noreason it should not go abroad. A man should live with the world as acitizen of the world; he may have a preference for the particularquarter or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he shouldhave a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole. --CUMBERLAND. 

Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!--HOOD. 

You cannot separate charity and religion. --COLTON. 

Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren benot purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give yoursuperfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you mighteven "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterlydestitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-endsguide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by theHoly Ghost shed abroad in your heart. --HAWEIS. 

Whoever would entitle himself after death, through the merits of hisRedeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout lifein this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especiallyof evidencing his repentance. --ARCHBISHOP SECKER. 

I have learned from Jesus Christ himself what charity is, and how weought to practise it; for He says, "By this shall all men know that yeare my disciples, if ye love one another. " Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant ofChrist, if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me. --ST. BASIL. 

There is a debt of mercy and pity, of charity and compassion, ofrelief and succor due to human nature, and payable from one man toanother; and such as deny to pay it the distressed in the time oftheir abundance may justly expect it will be denied themselves in atime of want. "With what measure you mete it shall be measured to youagain. "--BURKITT. 

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and withouthesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to thefingers. --SENECA. 

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. --VICTOR HUGO. 

 Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. --BURNS. 

CHEERFULNESS. --Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests goodhealth, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all humannature. --CHARLES KINGSLEY. 

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and mostwise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may notimbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate intolicentiousness. --PLINY. 

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieththe bones. --PROVERBS 17:22. 

Be of good cheer. --JOHN 16:33. 

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to allsolicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences oflife with a placid smile. --HORACE. 

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve Godwith. --FULLER. 

If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smileinstead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to thegood cause!--ARCHBISHOP USHER. 

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and themind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger tocheerfulness. --BLAIR. 

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Whynot make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You willfind half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to sayanything gloomy. --MRS. L. M. CHILD. 

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who comein contact with it. --J. T. FIELDS. 

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and ourminds at ease. --STEELE. 

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest tobear are those which never happen. --LOWELL. 

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. --ADDISON. 

CHILDREN. --If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities thatwhich, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the loveof children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitudeto one who has this possession. --T. W. HIGGINSON. 

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. --DICKENS. 

 They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses; His glory still gleams in their eyes. Oh those truants from home and from heaven, They have made me more manly and mild, And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child. --DICKENS. 

 The child is father of the man. --WORDSWORTH. 

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets arenearest the sun. --RICHTER. 

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they aretreated not as though the race they were to run was for life, butsimply a three-mile heat. --HORACE MANN. 

 Childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. --MILTON. 

Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thoumakest him, such commonly shalt thou find him. Let his first lesson beobedience, and his second shall be what thou wilt. --QUARLES. 

A child is an angel dependent on man. --COUNT DE MAISTRE. 

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought--what on earthcan be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meetyour own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a littlechild has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, asone passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing itsvalue. --MRS. NORTON. 

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow upa girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without anyof her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblestwork; a woman made out of a man is his meanest. --BEECHER. 

 Children are the keys of Paradise. * * * They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. --STODDARD. 

Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for thereis no saying when and where it may bloom forth. --DOUGLAS JERROLD. 

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. --BOVEE. 

 If there is anything that will endure The eye of God because it still is pure, It is the spirit of a little child, Fresh from His hand, and therefore undefiled. Nearer the gate of Paradise than we, Our children breathe its airs, its angels see; And when they pray, God hears their simple prayer, Yea, even sheathes His sword, in judgment bare. --STODDARD. 

Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love. --BEECHER. 

Of all sights which can soften and humanize the heart of man, there isnone that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent childrenenjoying the happiness which is their proper and naturalportion. --SOUTHEY. 

 Ah! what would the world be to us, If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. --LONGFELLOW. 

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathyfor childhood. When He said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven, " itwas a revelation. --EDWARD EGGLESTON. 

Where children are there is the golden age. --NOVALIS. 

CHRIST. --The best of men that ever wore earth about him was asufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the firsttrue gentleman that ever breathed. --DECKER. 

All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and thereHe delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescensionamazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and thepeace that He brings passeth all understanding. --THOMAS À KEMPIS. 

From first to last Jesus is the same; always the same, majestic andsimple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle. --NAPOLEON I. 

He, the Holiest among the mighty, and the Mightiest among the holy, has lifted with His pierced hands empires off their hinges, has turnedthe stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs theages. --RICHTER. 

In His death He is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in theresurrection, a conqueror; in the ascension, a king; in theintercession, a high priest. --LUTHER. 

Jesus Christ was more than man. --NAPOLEON I. 

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and historycontracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of JesusChrist. --CHANNING. 

Alexander, Cæsar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; butupon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesusalone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millionswould die for Him. --NAPOLEON I. 

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life anddeath of Jesus were those of a God. --ROUSSEAU. 

Those who have minutely studied the character of the Saviour will findit difficult to determine whether there is most to admire or toimitate in it--there is so much of both. 

CHRISTIANITY. --A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. --HARE. 

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolentmorality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in thefacility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity ofevery human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to everyhouse of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the greatmystery of the grave. --MACAULAY. 

It is the truth divine, speaking to our whole being: occupying, calling into action, and satisfying man's every faculty, supplying theminutest wants of his being, and speaking in one and the same momentto his reason, his conscience and his heart. It is the light ofreason, the life of the heart, and the strength of the will. --PIERRE. 

Since its introduction, human nature has made great progress, andsociety experienced great changes; and in this advanced condition ofthe world, Christianity, instead of losing its application andimportance, is found to be more and more congenial and adapted toman's nature and wants. Men have outgrown the other institutions ofthat period when Christianity appeared, its philosophy, its modes ofwarfare, its policy, its public and private economy; but Christianityhas never shrunk as intellect has opened, but has always kept inadvance of men's faculties, and unfolded nobler views in proportion asthey have ascended. The highest powers and affections which our naturehas developed, find more than adequate objects in this religion. Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more improved stagesof society, to the more delicate sensibilities of refined minds, andespecially to that dissatisfaction with the present state, whichalways grows with the growth of our moral powers and affections. --CHANNING. 

It is a refiner as well as a purifier of the heart; it impartscorrectness of perception, delicacy of sentiment, and all those nicershades of thought and feeling which constitute elegance of mind. --MRS. JOHN SANFORD. 

I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than theLord's Prayer. --MADAME DE STAEL. 

Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, shouldconquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusionagainst all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken andaccomplished by them. --STEPHEN CHARNOCK. 

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filledthe world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentialsfrom the divine person who sent them on such a message. --ADDISON. 

COMPANY. --Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred mensufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that theymight correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable. --SWIFT. 

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caughtas men take diseases one of another; therefore, let men take heed oftheir company. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, withoutany high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one wegladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, theprofoundest thinker. --LESSING. 

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has notrespect enough to be under some degree of restraint. --CHESTERFIELD. 

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that aman is wicked if he keep company with the wicked. --ST. CLEMENT. 

Let them have ever so learned lectures of breeding, that which willmost influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about them. --LOCKE. 

CONCEIT. --Be not wise in your own conceits. --ROMANS 12:16. 

Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualitiesin the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced toappeal to itself for admiration. --HAZLITT. 

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning thanothers. --CHARRON. 

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. --POPE. 

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is afatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimationof another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a falseappreciation of their own strength. --COLTON. 

We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he islike us--he is thinking of himself. --CHARLES READE. 

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a foolthan of him. --PROVERBS 26:12. 

A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are greatto him. --MADAME DE GIRARDIN. 

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of thejob. --H. W. SHAW. 

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man'sown making. --ADDISON. 

He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials ofimpotence. --LAVATER. 

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear anothertalked of. --LAVATER. 

CONDUCT. --I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the wholeworld were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does itsignify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who isthe searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?--SENECA. 

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by theirprofessions. --JUNIUS. 

 Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest. --SHAKESPEARE. 

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going. --WILLIAMPENN. 

 I would, God knows, in a poor woodman's hut Have spent my peaceful days, and shared my crust With her who would have cheer'd me, rather far Than on this throne; but being what I am, I'll be it nobly. --JOANNA BAILLIE. 

 Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. --MILTON. 

 Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free-will Would not admit. --MILTON. 

CONFIDENCE. --Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of thosewho converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truththan they do to others. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. --HARE. 

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others toolittle when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertileseason of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute. --COLTON. 

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. --AUERBACH. 

Trust not him that hath once broken faith. --SHAKESPEARE. 

People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In thefirst they believe him to be everything that is good, and they arelavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they havehad experience, which has smitten down their confidence, and they thenhave to be careful not to mistrust every one, and to put the worstconstruction upon everything. Later in life, they learn that thegreater number of men have much more good in them than bad, and thateven when there is cause to blame, there is more reason to pity thancondemn; and then a spirit of confidence again awakens within them. --FREDRIKA BREMER. 

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and himleast who is indifferent about all. --LAVATER. 

CONSCIENCE. --Conscience is a clock which, in one man, strikes aloudand gives warning; in another, the hand points silently to the figure, but strikes not. Meantime, hours pass away, and death hastens, andafter death comes judgment. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

 Oh! Conscience! Conscience! Man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend: But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! wo for me, his deadliest foe! --CRABBE. 

In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another isbut one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayestavoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment. --QUARLES. 

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. --FRANKLIN. 

 Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust. --DR. COTTON. 

No man ever offended his own conscience, but first or last it wasrevenged upon him for it. --SOUTH. 

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to yourhealth; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a goodconscience. --IZAAK WALTON. 

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knowswhat conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach himconcerning it. --JOSEPH COOK. 

A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive himself. --SOUTH. 

Rules of society are nothing, one's conscience is the umpire. --MADAMEDUDEVANT. 

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience everymorning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world atany other time of the day. --DOUGLAS JERROLD. 

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters ofprudence last thoughts are best--REV. ROBERT HALL. 

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart;his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfereswith the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwisethere cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to seethose approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause ofthe public. --ADDISON. 

Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness forhis Creator. 

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence ofGod; and with God, as in the presence of men. --COLTON. 

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all hiscardinals. I have within me the great pope, self. --LUTHER. 

The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in thebackground the consolation that he will go on in this course only thistime, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We maybe assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so longas we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some futuretime to alter our course of action. --FICHTE. 

There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whosesessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. --STERNE. 

He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead consciencewhich feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is inas miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell. --PATRICK HENRY. 

Conscience is its own readiest accuser. --CHAPIN. 

If thou wouldst be informed what God has written concerning thee inHeaven look into thine own bosom, and see what graces He hath therewrought in thee. --FULLER. 

 Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard thro' gain's silence, and o'er glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God! --BYRON. 

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity untilmen are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all inone interest; and that without the concurrence of the former thelatter are but impositions upon ourselves and others. --STEELE. 

CONTENTMENT. --To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires byyour fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

 I press to bear no haughty sway; I wish no more than may suffice: I do no more than well I may, Look what I lack, my mind supplies; Lo, thus I triumph like a king, My mind's content with anything. --BYRD. 

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that ofanother. --CONDORCET. 

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible. --MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. 

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may beThy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly toacquiesce in what is Thy will. --GOTTHOLD. 

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famousfor what he will do. He has lain down to die. The grass is alreadygrowing over him. --BOVEE. 

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at theexpense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happypurchase. --BALGUY. 

If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a godly man, howsound he sleeps, how quiet his rest, how composed his mind, how freefrom care, how easy his position, how moist his mouth, how joyful hisheart, they would never admire the noises, the diseases, the throngsof passions, and the violence of unnatural appetites that fill thehouse of the luxurious and the heart of the ambitious. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealthof nature. --SOCRATES. 

 Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes usbeneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for;and with obscurity, for being unenvied. --PLUTARCH. 

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what weare. --SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. 

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to pleaseothers as ourselves. --GREVILLE. 

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enoughfor Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. --COLTON. 

 Content with poverty my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. --DRYDEN. 

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek itelsewhere. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

The noblest mind the best contentment has. --SPENSER. 

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. --PHILIPPIANS 4:11. 

CONVERSATION. --The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibitingyour own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but inenlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by theauthority of others. --SIR WALTER SCOTT. 

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered beforesome things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time. --SOUTHEY. 

The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on thesubject. --VOLTAIRE. 

Speak little and well if you wish to be considered as possessingmerit. --FROM THE FRENCH. 

The less men think, the more they talk. --MONTESQUIEU. 

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coollyanswers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession ofsome of the best requisites of man. --LAVATER. 

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure totalk less; or if you must talk, say little. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far moredifficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the temptingmoment. --G. A. SALA. 

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doublycautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their goodopinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, butwhat they have to say we know not. --COLTON. 

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out;for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold yourtongue than them. --CHESTERFIELD. 

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speakingseasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak ofentertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health beforethe infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as adwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable;this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arisesin them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. --A. BRONSONALCOTT. 

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should makeus fear that we give very little to those who listen to us. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Many can argue, not many converse. --A. BRONSON ALCOTT. 

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable andagreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who doesnot think more of what he is about to say than of answering preciselywhat is said to him. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. 

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct oflife, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thingyou should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hearyou, or that you should hear him. --STEELE. 

In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom itwas pleasant to speak--_i. E. _, who keep to the subject, do not repeatthemselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who do not listen totheir own voice, who are cultivated enough not to lose themselves incommonplaces, and, lastly, who possess tact and good taste enough notto elevate their own persons above their subjects. --METTERNICH. 

COUNSEL. --I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than beone of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The best receipt--best to work and best to take--is the admonition ofa friend. --BACON. 

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respectyourself. His counsel may then be useful, where your own self-lovemight impair your judgment. --SENECA. 

Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's counsel. --GEORGECHAPMAN. 

COURAGE. --The conscience of every man recognizes courage as thefoundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of humancharacter. --THOMAS HUGHES. 

 To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on!

 The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. --JOANNA BAILLIE. 

 A valiant man Ought not to undergo or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways; He undertakes by reason, not by chance. --BEN JONSON. 

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of abrutal bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are foundthe most serene and free. Rage, we know, can make a coward forgethimself and fight. But what is done in fury or anger can never beplaced to the account of courage. --SHAFTESBURY. 

Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. --MARSTON. 

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing itand conquering it. --RICHTER. 

The truest courage is always mixed with circumspection; this being thequality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardinessof the rash and foolish. --JONES OF NAYLAND. 

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave inone way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make aman brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for thecamp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both arenecessary. --COLTON. 

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; buthe that loses his courage loses all. --CERVANTES. 

COURTSHIP. --Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when itis over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manlyheart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wifeinto the bargain!--THACKERAY. 

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake!--POPE. 

 With women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds. --HILL. 

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes incourtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kindwith discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of thesoul, rise in the pursuit. --ADDISON. 

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the worldwith its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentimentsof courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness duringthe sequel of marriage!--FREDERIC SAUNDERS. 

Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours ina day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may notchange her mind. --DE FINOD. 

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed asto alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. --STERNE. 

COVETOUSNESS. --Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers thesplendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. --F. OSBORN. 

The only instance of a despairing sinner left upon record in the NewTestament is that of a treacherous and greedy Judas. 

He deservedly loses his own property who covets that of another. --PHAEDRUS. 

Covetousness, which is idolatry. --COLOSSIANS 3:5. 

There is not a vice which more effectually contracts and deadens thefeelings, which more completely makes a man's affections centre inhimself, and excludes all others from partaking in them, than thedesire of accumulating possessions. When the desire has once gottenhold on the heart, it shuts out all other considerations, but such asmay promote its views. In its zeal for the attainment of its end, itis not delicate in the choice of means. As it closes the heart, soalso it clouds the understanding. It cannot discern between right andwrong; it takes evil for good, and good for evil; it calls darknesslight, and light darkness. Beware, then, of the beginning ofcovetousness, for you know not where it will end. --BISHOP MANT. 

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether forhim, and not he for the world; to take in everything, and part withnothing. --SOUTH. 

Covetous men are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen, who liveby themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who arerather possessed by their money than possessors of it. --BURTON. 

Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which wehoard is not for ourselves. --MADAME DELUZY. 

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous mancannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be saidto possess him. --BACON. 

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then ifthey could keep it any longer. --BISHOP HALL. 

CRITICISM. --He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellentproduction, is to undervalue it, will never have one of his own toshow. --AIKEN. 

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly todiscriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly toaward--these are the true aims and duties of criticism. --SIMMS. 

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurtyou unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they showa man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure andtrouble. --GLADSTONE. 

It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciatehim. --VAUVENARGUES. 

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. --BEACONSFIELD. 

There is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learnedresearch, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down itsmonuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Careshould be taken to vindicate great names from such perniciouserudition. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his ownmind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainestwriting is illegible. --GOETHE. 

 A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade, Save censure; critics all are ready-made. 

CUNNING. --In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunningmanagement. --JUNIUS. 

Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, andthat very slippery; lying only makes the difference; add that tocunning, and it is knavery. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discoveringother people's weaknesses. --HAZLITT. 

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. --BEECHER. 

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning knowalways when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends tocunning, he blunders and betrays. --THOMAS PAINE. 

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived, is toconsider yourself more cunning than others. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

DEATH. --God's finger touch'd him, and he slept. --TENNYSON. 

 But no! that look is not the last; We yet may meet where seraphs dwell, Where love no more deplores the past, Nor breathes that withering word--Farewell! --PEABODY. 

How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to becalled like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, andrest in heaven. --N. P. WILLIS. 

I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him wasDeath. --REVELATION 6:8. 

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us notforget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shallsoon be where our doom will be fixed forever. --DR. JOHNSON. 

I have seen those who have arrived at a fearless contemplation of thefuture, from faith in the doctrine which our religion teaches. Suchmen were not only calm and supported, but cheerful in the hour ofdeath; and I never quitted such a sick chamber without a hope that mylast end might be like theirs. --SIR HENRY HALFORD. 

One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must dieas a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pureindividuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and mostsolemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and hisCreator. Here it is that fame and renown cannot assist us; that allexternal things must fail to aid us; that even friends, affection andhuman love and devotedness cannot succor us. --WEBSTER. 

 There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life. --STODDARD. 

 To die, --to sleep, -- No more;--and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. --SHAKESPEARE. 

All that nature has prescribed must be good; and as death is naturalto us, it is absurdity to fear it. Fear loses its purpose when we aresure it cannot preserve us, and we should draw resolution to meet it, from the impossibility to escape it. --STEELE. 

There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must loseit. --OWEN MEREDITH. 

Death robs the rich and relieves the poor. --J. L. BASFORD. 

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, thephysician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of himwhom time cannot console. --COLTON. 

 Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. --BYRON. 

The finest day of life is that on which one quits it. --FREDERICK THEGREAT. 

 Death is delightful. Death is dawn-- The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. --JOAQUIN MILLER. 

 The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. --POPE. 

 All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. --RICHTER. 

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. --MARTIAL. 

No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarterof the world he abides--whatever be his circumstances--however stronghis present hold of life--however unlike the prey of death helooks--that it is his doom beyond reverse to die. --STEBBING. 

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when itcomes, it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out withsufferings. --METASTASIO. 

God giveth quietness at last. --WHITTIER. 

 Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits. --JOHN WEBSTER. 

Death will have his day. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Death comes but once. --BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery. --GOTTHOLD. 

Death is the crown of life. --YOUNG. 

 So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. --BRYANT. 

DEBT. --Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. --TUSSER. 

Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are asuperstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. --FRANKLIN. 

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, inproportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish orshame his lapse into the bondage of debtor. --LYTTON. 

Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in theworld to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity. --DELANY. 

Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; becontent to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather thanto run up the score. --SIR M. HALE. 

Debt is the worst poverty. --M. G. LICHTWER. 

DELICACY. --Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. --MARGUERITE DEVALOIS. 

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. --NOVALIS. 

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentlenessof character. --MRS. SIGOURNEY. 

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibitsitself most significantly in little things. --MARY HOWITT. 

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. --DEGERANDO. 

Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive acertain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in thoseparticulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistentminds, who laugh at them. --GREVILLE. 

Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit. --ACHILLESPOINCELOT. 

DELUSION. --Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to thestern realities of life. --A. R. C. DALLAS. 

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are asnecessary to our happiness as realities. --BOVEE. 

We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking thingsas they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain. --JAMES ELLIS. 

DESPAIR. --It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers thathis Helper is omnipotent. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

Despair is the conclusion of fools. --BEACONSFIELD. 

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contractedmodel. --SOUTH. 

Despair is infidelity and death. --WHITTIER. 

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues adefect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. Iwould not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book offate, and signed and sealed by necessity. --COLLIER. 

Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where Heis, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair. --MRS. BROWNING. 

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. --CONFUCIUS. 

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, whichsubmits. --LADY BLESSINGTON. 

 Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven To censure fate, and pious hope forego. --BEATTIE. 

DIET. --Simple diet is best. --PLINY. 

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. --SHAKESPEARE. 

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twiceas much as nature requires. --FRANKLIN. 

DIFFICULTIES. --Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor doesthe body. --SENECA. 

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stampsthe mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith forfalsehood. --AARON HILL. 

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them weshould esteem it a proof of God's confidence--as a compliment fromGod. --BEECHER. 

It is difficulties which give birth to miracles. --REV. DR. SHARPE. 

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strengthrequisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of thenecessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a merestimulus to men. --SAMUEL WARREN. 

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supremeordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, who knows us betterthan we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestleswith us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonistis our helper. --BURKE. 

There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; theyfly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance. 

DISCIPLINE. --No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, noglory; no cross, no crown. --WILLIAM PENN. 

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may notbe subdued by discipline. --SENECA. 

DISCORD. --Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtuethis same discord can be turned to harmony. --JAMES ELLIS. 

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to makepeace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord becalled, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for buttheir father's portion?--ST. BERNARD. 

DISCRETION. --Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there isnone so useful as discretion. --ADDISON. 

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. --BACON. 

Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor. --BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 

The better part of valor is discretion. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because theyhave less trouble to speak well than to speak little. --FATHER DU BOSC. 

 Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop Not to outsport discretion. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all theduties of life. --ADDISON. 

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragicend. --GAMBETTA. 

DISSIMULATION. --Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil ornot, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

DRESS. --In the matter of dress people should always keep below theirability. --MONTESQUIEU. 

Those who are incapable of shining but by dress would do well toconsider, that the contrast between them and their clothes turns outmuch to their disadvantage. --SHENSTONE. 

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin. --MATTHEW 6:28. 

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the worldfor the sole purpose of displaying dry goods; and it is only whenacting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel theyare performing their appropriate mission. --ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON. 

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. --SIRWALTER RALEIGH. 

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dressextravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomestrue feminine beauty as simplicity. --GEORGE D. PRENTICE. 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy;rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 No real happiness is found In trailing purple o'er the ground. --PARNELL. 

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand alittle time to perfect her toilet. --CHAMFORT. 

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress isplain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at bestinvidious; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, bytheir disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sitmore easy. --SHENSTONE. 

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to giveto both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable inthe Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our presentartists. --ROUSSEAU. 

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud, " her manners andconversation partake of the same element. --HALIBURTON. 

Dress has a moral effect on the conduct of mankind. Let any gentlemanfind himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and ageneral negligence of dress, he will in all probability find acorresponding disposition by negligence of _address_. --SIR JONAHBARRINGTON. 

 We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires, And introduces hunger, frost and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign. 

Dress changes the manners. --VOLTAIRE. 

DRINK. --Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they mayfollow strong drink. --ISAIAH 5:11. 

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoilshealth, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, isquarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunkis not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason thatdistinguishes a man from a beast. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners. --FRANKLIN. 

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory--ofa constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till itbreaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of gettingintoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. --COLTON. 

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. --DOUGLAS JERROLD. 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee--devil! * * * O, that men should put an enemy totheir mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!--SHAKESPEARE. 

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. --SHAKESPEARE. 

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than todrunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but adrunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness. --SIR WALTERRALEIGH. 

Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself. Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reasonelevates him above them. --SIR G. SINCLAIR. 

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits ofdisordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; othervices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--thismakes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for allvice. --QUARLES. 

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectlycaused by strong drink. --JUDGE COLERIDGE. 

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee; wheredrunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, Godan enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets areproclamations. --QUARLES. 

DUTY. --Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass. --EMERSON. 

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. --HANNAH MORE. 

The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs humannature can give, that wherever the path of duty and honor may lead, however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk init. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find init our pleasure. --MME. DE MOTTEVILLE. 

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, andprays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this preceptwell to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee, " which thouknowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have becomeclearer. --CARLYLE. 

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty ofman. --ECCLESIASTES 12:13. 

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodiesthe highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroicabout it; but the common lot of men is not heroic. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

Who escapes a duty avoids a gain. --THEODORE PARKER. 

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood inthe front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory formankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we dothat the humblest of us will be serving in that great army whichachieves the welfare of the world. --THEODORE PARKER. 

In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful. 

Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. Youhave time and eternity to rejoice in. --THEODORE PARKER. 

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly worldmay make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, andconsequently should not be any part of your concern. --EPICTETUS. 

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. --THOMAS À KEMPIS. 

There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but theconsciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. Itis omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings ofthe morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the seas, dutyperformed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness orour misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness asin the light our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape theirpower, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at its close, and in that scene of inconceivablesolemnity which lies yet further onward we shall still find ourselvessurrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it hasbeen violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us graceto perform it. --WEBSTER. 

EARLY RISING. --Whoever has tasted the breath of morning, knows thatthe most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day arecommonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of Naturethat we should enjoy and profit by them. --SOUTHEY. 

 Who would in such a gloomy state remain Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse And every blooming pleasure wait without, To bless the wildly devious morning walk? --THOMSON. 

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in themorning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed atthe same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional yearsto a man's life. --DODDRIDGE. 

I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls ofyour chamber: "If you do not rise early, you can make progress innothing. "--CHATHAM. 

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. --WELLINGTON. 

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever becamedistinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. --DR. JOHN TODD. 

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and activehabits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness. --FLINT. 

 Thus we improve the pleasures of the day, While tasteless mortals sleep their time away. --MRS. CENTLIVRE. 

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty;--let himrise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make themost of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts ofacquaintance only, --those by whom something may be got, and those fromwhom something may be learnt. --COLTON. 

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, andfinding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy togovern an empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will beemperor, he is so early. "--CAUSSIN. 

EARNESTNESS. --Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does reallygreat things. He may be the cleverest of men, he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picturewas ever painted that had not in it the depth of shadow. --PETER BAYNE. 

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work anddone his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give nopeace. --EMERSON. 

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all thefaculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness inovercoming them. --BOVEE. 

There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincereearnestness. --DICKENS. 

He who would do some great thing in this short life, must applyhimself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to theidle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks likeinsanity. --JOHN FOSTER. 

ECONOMY. --Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, andget dollars in return. --H. W. SHAW. 

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money asto spend it well. --SPURGEON. 

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions and spend onepenny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy hide-bound pocket soonbegin to thrive and will never again cry with the empty belly-ache;neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee. --FRANKLIN. 

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he wouldnot, have too little to spend. --FELTHAM. 

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, andthe beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. --FRANKLIN. 

If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher'sstone. --FRANKLIN. 

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of aking and the hand of a wise economist. --JOUBERT. 

 A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. --FRANKLIN. 

Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do notthe work better, they behave better and are more respectable; and Iwould sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money than twohundred who would spend every shilling they get. In proportion asindividuals save a little money their morals are much better; theyhusband that little, and there is a superior tone given to theirmorals, and they behave better for knowing that they have a littlestake in society. 

No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poorwhose incomings exceed his outgoings. --HALIBURTON. 

EDUCATION. --The true order of learning should be first, what isnecessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. Toreverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of theedifice. --MRS. SIGOURNEY. 

A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if heunderstands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions, --whether heis grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent. --LADY HERVEY. 

The world is only saved by the breath of the school children. --THETALMUD. 

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, butshe is also building schoolhouses. --BEECHER. 

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. --MILTON. 

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large termof education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are tobe restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profoundreligious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcatedunder all circumstances. All this is comprised in education. --WEBSTER. 

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in theefficacy of mechanics' institutes, or even of primary and elementaryschools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry solong as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety. 

Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turnssour. --HORACE. 

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know thealphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world. --G. W. CURTIS. 

Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanentlymaintained. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

A boy is better unborn than untaught. --GASCOIGNE. 

On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservationand perpetuation of our free institutions. --WEBSTER. 

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken withinthe hearing of little children tends toward the formation ofcharacter. Let parents bear this ever in mind. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college hasbeen through him; if he is a walking university. --CHAPIN. 

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think thanwhat to think, --rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us tothink for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts ofother men. --BEATTIE. 

Into what boundless life does education admit us. Every truth gainedthrough it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positivelyenlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannotweaken or destroy. --CHAPIN. 

All that a university or final highest school can do for us is stillbut what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn toread in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabetand letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to getknowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. Itdepends on what we read, after all manner of professors have donetheir best for us. The true university of these days is a collectionof books. --CARLYLE. 

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to becorrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes towhich their first education disposed them--you first make thieves andthen punish them. --SIR THOMAS MORE. 

 'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. --POPE. 

EGOTISM. --When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself withoutloss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praisesnever. --MONTAIGNE. 

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody willtake it upon your word. --CHESTERFIELD. 

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselvesat all. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

It is never permissible to say, I say. --MADAME NECKER. 

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. --ZIMMERMANN. 

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our wordssound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. --HARE. 

The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear anothertalked of. --LAVATER. 

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well ofyourself. --PASCAL. 

He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without othersis much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without himis still more mistaken. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

ELOQUENCE. --Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have thisadvantage over those that are read from a manuscript; every burst ofeloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied theymay have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effectof the sudden inspiration of talent. --COLTON. 

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothingbut what is necessary. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot bebrought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they willtoil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, butthey cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, andin the occasion. --WEBSTER. 

There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and inthe air of a speaker, as in his choice of words. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

EMPLOYMENT. --Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of thebusy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which formstheir main pursuit. --BLAIR. 

The rust rots the steel which use preserves. --LYTTON. 

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life. --SENECA. 

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician, " is so essential tohuman happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother ofmisery. --BURTON. 

ENTHUSIASM. --Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing fromthe human to the divine. --EMERSON. 

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. --BEACONSFIELD. 

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whateverwe may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking orchilling a single earnest sentiment. --TUCKERMAN. 

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charmsbrutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishesno victories without it. --LYTTON. 

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is thetriumph of enthusiasm. --EMERSON. 

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. --ARTHUR HELPS. 

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory insomething, and strive to retain our admiration for all that wouldennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify ourlife. --PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

ENVY. --There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart asenvy. --SHERIDAN. 

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy isthe daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginnerof secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is thefilthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver whichconsumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones. --SOCRATES. 

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. --ST. CHRYSOSTOM. 

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passionthat always implies inferiority wherever it resides. --PLINY. 

 Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. --THOMSON. 

The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give himpleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects whichadminister the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from thispassion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. Allthe perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What awretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him!--STEELE. 

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being bornwithout envy. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure;they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpassesthem they censure. --COLTON. 

Envy--the rottenness of the bones. --PROVERBS 14:30. 

There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows whereit dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous andsuspicious till they feel the wound. 

Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees. --SAADI. 

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by avictory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by adefeat. --COLTON. 

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever hadthe confidence to own it. --ROCHESTER. 

ETERNITY. --He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find thatthe more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, andthe latter less. --COLTON. 

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair andnoble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or ourpassions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than therest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations, weare eternally happy. --BURNET. 

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, mangrows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, buttime writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. --BISHOP HEBER. 

 The vaulted void of purple sky That everywhere extends, That stretches from the dazzled eye, In space that never ends; A morning whose uprisen sun No setting e'er shall see; A day that comes without a noon, Such is eternity. --CLARE. 

"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and DumbInstitution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was givenby one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty. "--JOHN BATE. 

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude andreal care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven. --TILLOTSON. 

EVIL. --The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. --COLERIDGE. 

 The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart. --HOOD. 

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil isevil. --MOHAMMED. 

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. --DESMAHIS. 

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the SandwichIslander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he killspasses into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation weresist. --EMERSON. 

If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. --FRANKLIN. 

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessaryevil. --SOUTHEY. 

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that whenevils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. --CHAPIN. 

Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, wediscern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in sufferingand temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes ofwisdom and love. --CHANNING. 

EXAMPLE. --Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my sixdays in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. --REV. R. CECIL. 

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves tocopy after. --GOLDSMITH. 

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his ownadvantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal orexcel them. The bad he will by all means avoid. --THOMAS À KEMPIS. 

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. --FRANKLIN. 

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of agood example. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by whatwe see. --HERODOTUS. 

Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. --H. W. SHAW. 

If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father'svices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they beholdpractised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more thanprecepts; such as thy behavior is before thy children's faces, suchcommonly is theirs behind their parents' backs. --QUARLES. 

Example is contagious behavior. --CHARLES READE. 

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" tooverreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiencyof training. Christ never wrote a tract, but he went about doing good. --HORACE MANN. 

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. --DR. JOHNSON. 

EXCESS. --Excess always carries its own retribution. --OUIDA. 

The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon thefeast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his owndelight by excess and satiety. --KNOX. 

 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable withinterest, about thirty years after date. --COLTON. 

The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses tothe earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with. --HORACE. 

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tireddigestion. --SOUTH. 

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. --ST. EVREMOND. 

EXERCISE. --A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or besick. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind invigor. --CICERO. 

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and thehymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breathof fresh air. --BEECHER. 

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. --BLAIR. 

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath withexercise. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

EXPERIENCE. --To Truth's house there is a single door, which isexperience. --BAYARD TAYLOR. 

 Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. --GREEN. 

Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches likeno other. --CARLYLE. 

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, inregulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience, would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those thingswith which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing;and that those ideas, which in theory appeared the most advantageous, were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. --TERENCE. 

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can getbrightened by it, and not ground. --H. W. SHAW. 

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictionsthat he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by theloss. --L'ESTRANGE. 

 To wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, andscarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot giveconduct. --FRANKLIN. 

All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

EXTRAVAGANCE. --He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; andpoverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. --YOUNG. 

FAITH. --What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve;wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is God. Afaith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and nomore, that will trust thus far and no farther, is none. 

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God's treasures; theking's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplieswe need out of the fullness that there is in Christ. --J. STEPHENS. 

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. --YOUNG. 

It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a heroin faith. --JACOBI. 

Faith is not the lazy notion that a man may with careless confidencethrow his burden upon the Saviour and trouble himself no further, apillow upon which he lulls his conscience to sleep, till he drops intoperdition; but a living and vigorous principle, working by love, andinseparably connected with true repentance as its motive and with holyobedience as its fruits. 

Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing isdead. --BISHOP WILSON. 

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful inhis power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. --ADDISON. 

The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of theproposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, andwith it all its influences, we should destroy with it the wholespiritual system of the moral world. --EDWARD EVERETT. 

 He had great faith in loaves of bread For hungry people, young and old, And hope inspired; kind words he said To those he sheltered from the cold. In words he did not put his trust; His faith in words he never writ; He loved to share his cup and crust With all mankind who needed it. He put his trust in Heaven and he Worked well with hand and head; And what he gave in charity Sweetened his sleep and daily bread. 

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern arainbow in it. --BISHOP HORNE. 

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formulain which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of NewEngland, --a creed ample enough for this life and the next. --LOWELL. 

FAME. --None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possibleclaim to it. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. Thedread of censure is the death of genius. --SIMMS. 

Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts. --BYRON. 

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions ofpublic opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, thatno true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors whichpromote the happiness of mankind. --CHARLES SUMNER. 

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about somethingelse, --very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now let usbe a celebrated individual!"--HOLMES. 

It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so muchabout fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking inthe faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about theeffect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoesof our own voices. --LONGFELLOW. 

The way to fame is like the way to heaven--through much tribulation. --STERNE. 

 Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call: She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. --POPE. 

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of thethousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never beforgotten. --CHALMERS. 

 The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. --BYRON. 

FASHION. --Fashion's smile has given wit to dullness and grace todeformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, exceptvirtue. --COLTON. 

A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makesher appear. --MLLE. DE L'ESPINASSE. 

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of publicopinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of abonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty ofbeing right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the headof every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition. --J. G. HOLLAND. 

Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being whorespects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, woulddesire to be placed. --CHANNING. 

The Empress of France had but to change the position of a ribbon toset all the ribbons in Christendom to rustling. A single word from herconvulsed the whalebone market of the world. --J. G. HOLLAND. 

A fashionable woman is always in love--with herself. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity ofthe rich. --CHAMFORT. 

 Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excuse. --CHURCHILL. 

FEAR. --The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. --PSALM 111:10. 

 O, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, -- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. --LONGFELLOW. 

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. --SAADI. 

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who isvirtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks helies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are goodonly from their apprehension of punishment. --GOLDSMITH. 

 The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. --WALLER. 

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?--PSALM 27:1. 

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil. --DR. JOHNSON. 

God planted fear in the soul as truly as He planted hope or courage. Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick lifeand avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal forrallying. --BEECHER. 

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: becausefear hath torment. --1 JOHN 4:18. 

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. --GEORGE SEWELL. 

Fear not; for I am with thee. --ISAIAH 43:5. 

FIDELITY. --To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. --VAUGHAN. 

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does notmatter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a raggedclass, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

 His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowmentsof the human mind. --CICERO. 

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we canthoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friendfaithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary justand chivalrous, --in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock ofAges. --DEAN STANLEY. 

FLATTERY. --Those are generally good at flattering who are good fornothing else. --SOUTH. 

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my bestfriend. --FRANKLIN. 

 No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't; It is a little sneaking art, which knaves Use to cajole and soften fools withal. If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't; Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive. --OTWAY. 

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to makeher one. --RICHARDSON. 

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. --TACITUS. 

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour thedead only, these the living. --ANTISTHENES. 

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. --SWIFT. 

Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise. --JEAN PAUL. 

 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. --SWIFT. 

 Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not forour vanity. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

 Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts the flattery. --HANNAH MORE. 

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. --PROVERBS 20:19. 

Men are like stone jugs, --you may lug them where you like by the ears. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they willreceive you into their bosoms. --FIELDING. 

FLOWERS. --Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made andforgot to put a soul into. --BEECHER. 

 In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares: Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers On its leaves a mystic language bears. --PERCIVAL. 

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathedround the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. --MRS. L. M. CHILD. 

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and tolook pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its HeavenlyMaker. --SOUTH. 

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect andbotanize them. --H. N. HUDSON. 

 And with childlike credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. --LONGFELLOW. 

FOOLS. --He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. --TILLOTSON. 

The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has beensaid that herein lies the difference, --the follies of the fool areknown to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of thewise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. --COLTON. 

People are never so near playing the fool as when they thinkthemselves wise. --LADY MONTAGU. 

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer inothers is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be foolsourselves than to have others so. --POPE. 

Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that uttersthem. --BISHOP HALL. 

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade himthat he had none. --BABINET. 

 At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, Resolves--and re-resolves; then dies the same. --YOUNG. 

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. --CICERO. 

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --POPE. 

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always moreincorrigible. --COLTON. 

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have onceuttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to thelast moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirelychange his opinion. --HELPS. 

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men arefools. --CHAPMAN. 

None but a fool is always right. --HARE. 

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have norelations to blush for them. --HALIBURTON. 

FORBEARANCE. --Learn from Jesus to love and to forgive. Let the bloodof Jesus, which implores pardon for you in heaven, obtain it from youfor your brethren here upon earth. --VALPY. 

 The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something every day they live To pity, and perhaps forgive. --COWPER. 

It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and to excusethe failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and todisplay his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but toproclaim his virtues upon the house-top. --SOUTH. 

FORGIVENESS. --If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Fatherwill also forgive you. --MATTHEW 6:14. 

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he mustpass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. --LORD HERBERT. 

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. --BAILEY. 

The brave only know how to forgive. --STERNE. 

The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of completeforgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. Itdoes not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee. " Itsays at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin nomore. "--HORATIUS BONAR. 

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, toforgive. --LYTTON. 

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were toremember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to pleadthem against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in theday of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on myfriends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, thoughthey continue such. --COWPER. 

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass againstus. --THE LORD'S PRAYER. 

God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty, --both to forgive and toforget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His. --LEIGHTON. 

FORTITUDE. --The greatest man is he who chooses the right withinvincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from withinand without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is thecalmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, isthe most unfaltering. --CHANNING. 

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us todo and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like ariver, swells the higher for having its course stopped. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, andan undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies inhis way. --LOCKE. 

FORTUNE. --It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. --DRYDEN. 

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. --PLAUTUS. 

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as shenever makes us lose our honesty and our independence. --POPE. 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatnessthrust upon them. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. --SALLUST. 

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and thegood fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. --SAADI. 

Fortune favors the bold. --CICERO. 

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. --MOLIÈRE. 

FREEDOM. --I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave amongfreemen. --SWIFT. 

There are two freedoms, --the false, where a man is free to do what helikes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. --CHARLESKINGSLEY. 

The cause of freedom is the cause of God. --BOWLES. 

 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. --RICHARD LOVELACE. 

 And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. --ROBERT TREAT PAINE. 

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evidentproposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to usetheir freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, whoresolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. --MACAULAY. 

To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary toenable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought topossess. --RAHEL. 

 When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. --JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge. --C. A. BARTOL. 

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter"intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we willdie freemen. --JOSIAH QUINCY. 

 Who then is free?--the wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself, who on himself relies; Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force. --HORACE. 

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement toa people's energy, intellect, and virtues. --CHANNING. 

 He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously. --POLLOCK. 

FRIENDSHIP. --Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning theusefulness of which all mankind are agreed. --CICERO. 

 The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. --COWPER. 

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need. --PLAUTUS. 

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not. --PROVERBS 27:10. 

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. --VAUGHAN. 

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincereenough to tell him disagreeable truths. --LYTTON. 

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful;for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. --ADDISON. 

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man thatactions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment offriends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are veryfar from being the surest marks of it. --GEORGE WASHINGTON. 

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend. --BEAUMONT ANDFLETCHER. 

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, --coldfriends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. --LAVATER. 

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such willcease to love. --FULLER. 

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friendworth dying for. --HENRY HOME. 

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engraftedupon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. --CHESTERFIELD. 

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice offriends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let themtherefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee forgain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thyinferiors. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

 'Tis thus that on the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends. --GAY. 

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends;this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. --DR. JOHNSON. 

An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game;because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. --COLTON. 

That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end. --QUARLES. 

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firmand constant. --SOCRATES. 

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to paythe price, a self-sacrificing love. --PELOUBET. 

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walkin the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. --BOVEE. 

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. --FRANKLIN. 

The greatest medicine is a true friend. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but inadversity they come without invitation. --THEOPHRASTUS. 

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. --MLLE. DE SCUDÉRI. 

 Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. --GAY. 

Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thyfaults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazardthy hatred. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more trulyhappy that hath no need of his friend. --WARWICK. 

 I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. --COWPER. 

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in theworth and choice. --DR. JOHNSON. 

FRUGALITY. --Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches havelimits. --BURKE. 

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister oftemperance, and the parent of liberty. --DR. JOHNSON. 

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality. --CICERO. 

FUTURITY. --It is vain to be always looking toward the future and neveracting toward it. --J. F. BOYES. 

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, thelast duty done. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

 Trust no future howe'er pleasant; Let the dead past bury its dead; Act, --act in the living present, Heart within and God o'erhead! --LONGFELLOW. 

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as tofuture events, must be most deplorable. --SENECA. 

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; forif he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless. --ST. AUGUSTINE. 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day maybring forth. --PROVERBS 27:1. 

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in theorigin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not openingin Eden, but out from Gethsemane. --CHAPIN. 

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me allprospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there anymerit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let meenjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man. --ADDISON. 

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill!it is only the thought of the future that makes them great. --RICHTER. 

If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it. --RICHTER. 

GAMBLING. --There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigilsof the card-table, and those cutting passions which naturally attendthem. Hollow eyes, haggard looks and pale complexions are the naturalindications. --STEELE. 

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gapingcountry squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. --CUMBERLAND. 

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense ofanother, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. --WHATELY. 

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw themaway. --CHATFIELD. 

I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes thedice-box desperately in his hand; and all that follows in his fatalcareer from that time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikesit to his heart. --CUMBERLAND. 

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father ofmischief. --WASHINGTON. 

GENEROSITY. --All my experience of the world teaches me that inninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side ofa question is the generous side and the merciful side. --MRS. JAMESON. 

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives withoutgenerosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. --HENRYTAYLOR. 

Generosity is only benevolence in practice. --BISHOP KEN. 

The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe. --DRYDEN. 

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it mustbe by what he gives. --SOUTH. 

Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than topay debts. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless youdeny yourself something in order that you may give. --HENRY TAYLOR. 

The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. --LAVATER. 

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when othersshare their happiness with them. --DUNCAN. 

In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is inproportion to the worth of the thing given. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God toproportion His blessings to our alms. --BEVERIDGE. 

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in hissimplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brotherto a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. --SPURGEON. 

GENIUS. --Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble. --CARLYLE. 

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. --LAVATER. 

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man whohas but one talent for a genius. --HELPS. 

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a broughamin fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. --OUIDA. 

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is aforest of oaks. --BEECHER. 

The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love oftruth. --GOETHE. 

Genius can never despise labor. --ABEL STEVENS. 

 And genius hath electric power, Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower-- Its flash is still the same. --LYDIA M. CHILD. 

Genius must be born, and never can be taught. --DRYDEN. 

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works andbrings it out. --LADY BLESSINGTON. 

 One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. --POPE. 

I know no such thing as genius, --genius is nothing but labor anddiligence. --HOGARTH. 

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazingmeteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. --LONGFELLOW. 

Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of apalace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that arewithout while the inhabitant sits in darkness. --HANNAH MORE. 

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which areout of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts canteach, and which no industry can acquire. --SIR J. REYNOLDS. 

GENTLEMAN. --Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, arethe two main characteristics of a gentleman. --BEACONSFIELD. 

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Goodclothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, --nomore, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in therough. --BISHOP DOANE. 

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to begenerous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all thesequalities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Oughta gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Oughthis life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high andelegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?--THACKERAY. 

The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just andamiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be everthe great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wiseand good, as agreeable and polite. --SHAFTESBURY. 

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, andreflection must finish him. --LOCKE. 

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the mostgentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixedwith cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not thearmy, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners. --COLERIDGE. 

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and notthe degenerated heir of another's virtue. --VICTOR HUGO. 

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners ofthe gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity isproper to noblemen; and majesty to kings. --HAZLITT. 

He is gentle that doth gentle deeds. 

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to themind and the feelings in every station. --TALFOURD. 

Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aronand the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, ofwhom that gentilman Jhesus was borne. --JULIANA BERNERS. 

GENTLENESS. --True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe toHim who made us, and to the common nature which we all share. Itarises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from justviews of the condition and the duty of man. It is native feelingheightened and improved by principle. --BLAIR. 

We do not believe, or we forget, that "the Holy Ghost came down, notin shape of a vulture, but in the form of a dove. "--EMERSON. 

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violentgestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. --BALZAC. 

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness andsympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. Thispreserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, andagreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makesthem ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion. --AUERBACH. 

Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguishedfrom the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. --BLAIR. 

GIFTS. --Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, whenbequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. --COLTON. 

Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and thatis a way of giving to thyself. --FULLER. 

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. --EMERSON. 

The only gift is a portion of thyself. * * * Therefore the poet bringshis poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem;the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, ahandkerchief of her own sewing. --EMERSON. 

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pompthat attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide thedignity or vulgarity of the giver. --LAVATER. 

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the giftdear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love, " and look not so much at the gift as atthe heart. --LUTHER. 

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. --SENECA. 

GLORY. --Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; andwithout that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. --THOMSON. 

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; anda man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A personmay, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make asort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all isvanity, and will not last a day. --GOETHE. 

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite andtrodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunitiesbut to make them. --COLTON. 

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writingwhat deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the worldhappier and better for our living in it. --PLINY. 

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates andcontracts, --both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the propermedium. --SHENSTONE. 

GLUTTONY. --Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and thefountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundanceof oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the naturalhealth of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. --BURTON. 

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too muchfood. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

 Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves whostrangle those whom they embrace. --SENECA. 

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, Ifancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with otherinnumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Naturedelights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keepsto one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, andflesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; notthe smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or amushroom can escape him. --ADDISON. 

GOD. --In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actionslabor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee tolove Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and theknowledge of God is the perfection of love. --QUARLES. 

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all ouractions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing powerof our whole souls. --MASSILLON. 

God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, andleave the issue to Him. --JOHN JAY. 

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is likethe beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he isan ignoble creature. --BACON. 

God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everythingthat He has made. --HENRY BROOKE. 

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears upthe world, --of Him who has created, and who provides for the joys evenof insects, as carefully as if He were their father. --RICHTER. 

I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. --SAADI. 

A foe to God was never true friend to man. --YOUNG. 

 God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. --COWPER. 

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions aresober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found byan irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being. --SIRWALTER RALEIGH. 

 Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was. --HORACE. 

 Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee! Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine! --MOORE. 

 From God derived, to God by nature join'd. We act the dictates of His mighty mind: And though the priests are mute and temples still, God never wants a voice to speak His will. --ROWE. 

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God isnot, discovers to me His existence. --BRUYÈRE. 

We find in God all the excellences of light, truth, wisdom, greatness, goodness and life. Light gives joy and gladness; truth givessatisfaction; wisdom gives learning and instruction; greatness excitesadmiration; goodness produces love and gratitude; life givesimmortality and insures enjoyment. --JONES OF NAYLAND. 

We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselvesdepart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strengthlet us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, anddangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though themountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we haveone friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest inpeace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He wholiveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys ofhell and of death. --BISHOP HEBER. 

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs nogreater infelicity than to be left to himself. --FELTHAM. 

The man who forgets the wonders and mercies of the Lord is without anyexcuse; for we are continually surrounded with objects which may serveto bring the power and goodness of God strikingly to mind. --SLADE. 

God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colors. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thineheart feels its warmth. --RICHTER. 

A secret sense of God's goodness is by no means enough. Men shouldmake solemn and outward expressions of it, when they receive Hiscreatures for their support; a service and homage not only due to Him, but profitable to themselves. --DEAN STANHOPE. 

 All is of God. If He but wave His hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud; Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud. 

 Angels of life and death alike are His; Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er; Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, Against His messengers to shut the door? --LONGFELLOW. 

"God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. "* * * Wheresoever I turn my eyes, behold the memorials of His greatness!of His goodness! * * * What the world contains of good is from Hisfree and unrequited mercy: what it presents of real evil arises fromourselves. --BISHOP BLOMFIELD. 

GOLD. --Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expandsgreat souls and contracts bad hearts. --RIVAROL. 

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, andthe other in the camp, --gold and iron. He that knows how to apply themboth may indeed attain the highest station. --COLTON. 

Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Cæsar whichare Cæsar's, and unto God which are God's. --QUARLES. 

 Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; But gold, that's put to use, more gold begets. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from theworld. --FELTHAM. 

 O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. --BLAIR. 

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!--GEORGE VILLIERS. 

Gold adulterates one thing only, --the human heart. --MARGUERITE DEVALOIS. 

GOODNESS. --A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reapsfriendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. --BASIL. 

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in beinggood. --SOPHOCLES. 

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. --POPE. 

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act oflove. --LAVATER. 

He that is a good man is three-quarters of his way towards the being agood Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he iscalled. --SOUTH. 

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. --BISHOP HALL. 

Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument ofvirtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name inkindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come incontact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as thestars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars ofheaven. --CHALMERS. 

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. --WILLIAM PENN. 

What is good-looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Begood, be womanly, be gentle, generous in your sympathies, heedful ofthe well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will notlack kind words of admiration. --WHITTIER. 

Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power, however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and maybe as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands. --BOWDLER. 

GOVERNMENT. --The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of thosewho receive the trust. --CICERO. 

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, buttemper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. --SENECA. 

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respectedwithout being truly respectable. --MADISON. 

The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, butthat which renders the greatest number happy. --DUCLOS. 

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yetevery one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of alltrades, --that of government. --SOCRATES. 

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, andso long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot. --BEECHER. 

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people todo good, and difficult for them to do evil. --GLADSTONE. 

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly ofthe people. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

Those who think must govern those who toil. --GOLDSMITH. 

GRACE. --Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thyaffections. --DRYDEN. 

The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. --BEECHER. 

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they arethe luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment, --divested ofaffectation and free from all pretence. --FUSELI. 

Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmonyof the soul. --HAZLITT. 

GRATITUDE. --Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inwardsense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, togetherwith a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of thedoer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. 

He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it. --CHARRON. 

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete withthankfulness. --SHAKESPEARE. 

What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which menexpect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giverand that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of thebenefit. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how muchmore is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father inheaven!--HOSEA BALLOU. 

GRAVE. --There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary beat rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice ofthe oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is freefrom his master. --JOB 3:17, 18, 19. 

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead;" but angelsthrong about him, saying, "A man is born. "--BEECHER. 

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is aport where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have beentossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the childnestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and theworkman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain ispillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart issteeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keepingof a charity that covers all blame. --CHAPIN. 

There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is aremembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of theliving. Oh, the grave!--the grave! It buries every error, covers everydefect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom springnone but fond regrets and tender recollections. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

 What is the grave? 'Tis a cool, shady harbor, where the Christian Wayworn and weary with life's rugged road, Forgetting all life's sorrows, joys, and pains, Lays his poor body down to rest-- Sleeps on--and wakes in heaven. 

GREATNESS. --He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, setshimself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the endwith truer mirth than ever he was laughed at. --LAVATER. 

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincibleresolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within andwithout, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest instorms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance ontruth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe thisgreatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are neverheard. --CHANNING. 

 Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors Are barren in return. --ROWE. 

 Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are the portions of eternity. --LOWELL. 

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness thandisbelief in great men. --CARLYLE. 

If the title of great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot becharged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life inestablishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of hiscountry; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successeswere never won at the expense of honor, justice, integrity, or by thesacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied toWashington. --SPARKS. 

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, afterperforming what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on likeSamson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it. "--LAVATER. 

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had avery low standard of it in his mind. --HAZLITT. 

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that aregood, but very few men that are both great and good. --COLTON. 

A really great man is known by three signs, --generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. --BISMARCK. 

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partakingof God's holiness. --MATTHEW HENRY. 

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men. 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatnessthrust upon them. --SHAKESPEARE. 

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree thathis life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He giveshim for mankind. --PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to begreat. --EMERSON. 

GRIEF. --Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. --MADAME DE GIRARDIN. 

Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb. --SENECA. 

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on hisforehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objectsof pity?--METASTASIO. 

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury tothe living, and the dead know it not. --XENOPHON. 

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; whilea single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite itwith nothingness at all points. --MADAME SWETCHINE. 

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observationthat by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating ourpleasure we have more. --GREVILLE. 

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness. --BYRON. 

 Alas! I have not words to tell my grief; To vent my sorrow would be some relief; Light sufferings give us leisure to complain; We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. --DRYDEN. 

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could beassuaged by baldness. --CICERO. 

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows areeasiest consoled. --H. W. SHAW. 

 Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls, Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. --YOUNG. 

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy mayelevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. --HORACEGREELEY. 

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. --SHAKESPEARE. 

GRUMBLING. --When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he is the very lastman to be complaining of other people. --D. L. MOODY. 

Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a merehabit of complaining. --GRAVES. 

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more tothe faults of his companions which offend him, than to theirperfections which please him. --GREVILLE. 

No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to setup in the grumbling business; but those who are moved by a genuinedesire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint. --ROBERTWEST. 

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "It isall barren. "--STERNE. 

GUILT. --Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of theFuries to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future, --theseare the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of theimpious. --ROBERT HALL. 

Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills thelight air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear. --JUNIUS. 

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer realhappiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive theircommission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt thesteps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldomthose of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness andpeace. --SIR WALTER SCOTT. 

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, wouldblast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all above him. --WIRT. 

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholdstheir blame. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief isguilt. --SCHILLER. 

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceivethemselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; andthus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died ratherthan have incurred. --SOUTHEY. 

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doingjustice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. --SENECA. 

HABIT. --Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. --COWPER. 

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, andyou reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow acharacter, and you reap a destiny. --G. D. BOARDMAN. 

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as anink drop soileth the pure white page. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth outthe one, I will smooth out the other. --H. W. SHAW. 

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. --PALEY. 

Habit is ten times nature. --WELLINGTON. 

Habit is the most imperious of all masters. --GOETHE. 

I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were tosee the one and to read the other; for what does it signify to makeanything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher ofour hearts) all our privacies are open?--SENECA. 

The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so thesecond time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted. --HENRY GILES. 

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as hisknowledge. --COLTON. 

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of thespider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links oftempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity orwoe. --MRS. SIGOURNEY. 

I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco. --HOSEABALLOU. 

HAPPINESS. --He who is good is happy. --HABBINGTON. 

 If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam: The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home. --COTTON. 

The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is therule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attentionwould be called to examples of health and competency, instead ofdisease and want. --PALEY. 

Happiness and virtue react upon each other, --the best are not only thehappiest, but the happiest are usually the best. --LYTTON. 

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; theyknow not God that think to please Him with making themselvesmiserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut andlance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the trueGod by wronging himself. --BISHOP HALL. 

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for itscounterfeit!--HOSEA BALLOU. 

Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, andconsequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy. --NORRIS. 

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to thatBeing whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence toall things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained. --DICKENS. 

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim atanything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief anddisappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors atmaking himself easy now and happy hereafter. --ADDISON. 

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of thebody, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy thepleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind. --TILLOTSON. 

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make itthe object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and isnever attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we mayfind that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. --HAWTHORNE. 

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can takeaway from the wretchedness of others. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

There is no man but may make his paradise. --BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, --the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfeltcompliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countlessother infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling. --COLERIDGE. 

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. --FROUDE. 

The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in ourbeing devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. --FROMTHE FRENCH. 

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabledto inspire. --DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN. 

HATRED. --The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate thatthe surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish forreconciliation. --BRUYÈRE. 

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not knowthem because we hate them. --COLTON. 

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit ofmind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, orthose who are indifferent to you. --PLUTARCH. 

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all theirlittlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. --BALZAC. 

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you haveinjured. --TACITUS. 

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of thisevil passion. --LAMARTINE. 

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than ourown. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent. --TACITUS. 

When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

HEALTH. --The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise andabstinence, to live as if he was poor. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, healthand money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health isthe most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of thelatter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest manwould not part with health for money, but that the richest wouldgladly part with all their money for health. --COLTON. 

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it toyourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist onprinciple at the onset. --LYTTON. 

 Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace and competence: But health consists with temperance alone; And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own. --POPE. 

O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou whoenlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything withthee. --STERNE. 

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, whoare hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough toenjoy. --STERNE. 

Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine tovegetation. --MASSILLON. 

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet andcheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted withimmoderate cares. --JOHN RAY. 

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire whichcustom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. --ABBA GOOLDWOOLSON. 

For life is not to live, but to be well. --MARTIAL. 

From labor health, from health contentment springs. --BEATTIE. 

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body inoverwork of the brain--LYTTON. 

The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will behealthy. --FRANKLIN. 

HEART. --Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are theissues of life. --PROVERBS 4:23. 

 The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. --LONGFELLOW. 

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow. --BAILEY. 

All offences come from the heart. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. --RICHTER. 

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. --MATTHEW 12:34. 

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?--JOHN LYLY. 

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it ispretty certain that she has his. --G. D. PRENTICE. 

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; alwaysharder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will onlybe a greater knave as he grows older. --CHESTERFIELD. 

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. --GIBBON. 

The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retainsthe pulse of youth forever. --LANDOR. 

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, thewarmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wildernessand solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rockand mosses. --WHITTIER. 

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as theheart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. --TRENCH. 

There are treasures laid up in the heart, --treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with himbeyond death, when he leaves this world. --BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES. 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; whocan know it?--JEREMIAH 17:9. 

HEAVEN. --The generous who is always just, and the just who is alwaysgenerous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. --LAVATER. 

The redeemed shall walk there. --ISAIAH 35:9. 

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon beforgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in theeverlasting world!--HOSEA BALLOU. 

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven. --PHILLIPSBROOKS. 

I cannot be content with less than heaven. --BAILEY. 

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they thatenter there must go upon their knees. --DANIEL WEBSTER. 

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as theonly way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. --BISHOPHORNE. 

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternalgood. --HANNAH MORE. 

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit ofwhich grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that mostglorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outercourt. --REV. DR. GUTHRIE. 

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer thanheaven to earth. --HARE. 

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "Thekingdom of God is within you. "--BEECHER. 

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of thishis banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is thepilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world;but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven. --THOS. ÀKEMPIS. 

HEROES. --Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the wholeworld, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their greatdeeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round aboutthem. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world. --HAWTHORNE. 

Troops of heroes undistinguished die. --ADDISON. 

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must bea hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respectfor some person of his own stamp. --GOETHE. 

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. --SENECA. 

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in ourlives. --JAMES ELLIS. 

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that personwhatever he says has an enhanced value. --EMERSON. 

HISTORY. --History maketh a young man to be old, without eitherwrinkles or gray hairs, --privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. --THOMASFULLER. 

History teaches everything, even the future. --LAMARTINE. 

It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to aright understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, Godis here, and we knew him not!"--BANCROFT. 

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuousactions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consignthem, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous inthe opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and baseactions. --TACITUS. 

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continuealways a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, theworld must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. --CICERO. 

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what ispast, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to thefuture. --CERVANTES. 

There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; thehistory of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection ofanecdotes. --CHAMFORT. 

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of everynation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealingalong down the centuries, and though there have been mingled thediscords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christianphilosopher and historian--the humble listener--there has been adivine melody running through the song which speaks of hope andhalcyon days to come. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

HOME. --There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like thatgrowing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate ahome. --CHAPIN. 

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feelthat home was the happiest place in the world; and I value thisdelicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent canbestow. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in hishome. --GOETHE. 

 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. --BYRON. 

 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. --JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. 

 There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. --CHURCHILL. 

The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, andpleasure felt at home. --YOUNG. 

Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace ofconscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblesthome?--JAMES HAMILTON. 

 Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! --SCOTT. 

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked tostay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of theirelement. --SPURGEON. 

Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruplefreedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden area sight day by day, and make life blither. --CHARLES BUXTON. 

 In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs--and God has given my share-- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return--and die at home at last. --GOLDSMITH. 

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. --CHAPIN. 

HONESTY. --To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked outof ten thousand. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. --H. MARTYN. 

The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as tobe willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world is inpossession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. Thecourse of such a man will be firm and steady, because he has nothingto fear from the world, and is sure of the approbation and support ofheaven. --WIRT. 

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. --OTWAY. 

"Honesty is the best policy;" but he who acts on that principle is notan honest man. --WHATELY. 

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; butthe proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only"the first step toward greatness, "--it is greatness itself. --BOVEE. 

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have apenny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thoureach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield andbuckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright norstoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abusebecause the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. --FRANKLIN. 

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in alarge sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as inthe more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing andpower is everything. --WHIPPLE. 

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. --LAVATER. 

No man is bound to be rich or great, --no, nor to be wise; but everyman is bound to be honest. --SIR BENJAMIN RUDYARD. 

An honest man's the noblest work of God. --POPE. 

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to findthem so to each other will be much disappointed. --BISHOP HORNE. 

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtueand vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. --DR. JOHNSON. 

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty andgood-nature. --MONTAIGNE. 

No legacy is so rich as honesty. --SHAKESPEARE. 

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always bebecoming. --CICERO. 

HOPE. --All which happens in the whole world happens through hope. Nohusbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it wouldspring up and bring forth the ear. How much more are we helped on byhope in the way to eternal life!--LUTHER. 

"Hast thou hope?" they asked of John Knox, when he lay a-dying. Hespoke nothing, but raised his finger and pointed upward, and sodied. --CARLYLE. 

The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and thepleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence andenjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never moreto be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which formthe contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes. --BISHOP HORNE. 

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferingsbut makes her rejoice in them. --ADDISON. 

Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearingour prayers to the throne of God. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

 Hope is our life when first our life grows clear, Hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear: Yet the day comes when fain we would not hope-- But forasmuch as we with life must cope, Struggling with this and that--and who knows why? Hope will not give us up to certainty, But still must bide with us. --WM. MORRIS. 

 Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. --POPE. 

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. --HUME. 

True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind alwayshopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutabilityof human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the wholecourse of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is notconfined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at lastall should be lost, it has saved itself. --VON KNEBEL. 

 Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. --GOLDSMITH. 

HOSPITALITY. --Like many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in itsperfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would thewoes of this world be lightened!--MRS. KIRKLAND. 

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of theguests, which makes the feast. --CLARENDON. 

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality whichcannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger atonce at his ease. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some haveentertained angels unawares. --HEBREWS 13:2. 

 Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair: Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. --GOLDSMITH. 

HUMILITY. --The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is notsufficient. --ST. AUGUSTINE. 

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered overwith corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowlyhearts and humble souls. --WORTHINGTON. 

He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a wholeoffering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of aburnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall berewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in theworld. --THE TALMUD. 

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deepand firm foundation of all virtues. --BURKE. 

By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life. --PROVERBS 22:4. 

"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answerhumility, " saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I sayhumility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same--humility. "Is it not as the steps of degree in the Temple, whereby we descend tothe knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God? Wouldwe attain mercy? humility will help us. --C. SUTTON. 

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. --MATTHEW 5:5. 

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. --BEECHER. 

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind, " and heretorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if Iwere. "--BOVEE. 

Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven. --BURDER. 

The grace which makes every other grace amiable. --ALFRED MERCIER. 

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proudheart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but byitself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence ofhumility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue norstrength can prevail nor reason. --QUARLES. 

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. --BISHOP REYNOLDS. 

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be verylow in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. --LEIGHTON. 

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. --FRANKLIN. 

HURRY. --No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry isthe mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one. A weak man inoffice, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to nopurpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like aturnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks agreat deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees intonothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them arehot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers. --COLTON. 

HYPOCRISY. --If the world despises hypocrites, what must be theestimate of them in heaven?--MADAME ROLAND. 

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, andtacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. Thehypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance ofvirtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual meansto gain the love and esteem of mankind. --ADDISON. 

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in hisheart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. --PSALM 55:21. 

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be thething which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance ofbeing what he is not. --CECIL. 

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. --MATTHEW HENRY. 

 To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. --PETER PINDAR. 

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at hisneighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the weekwithout a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters themilk for his customers. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatestdupes he has. --COLTON. 

IDLENESS. --I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide. --CHESTERFIELD. 

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing itassiduously. --HALIBURTON. 

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in ironchains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able toaccomplish; for he learns to economize his time. --JUDGE HALE. 

If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do youimagine I shall answer pride or luxury or ambition or egotism? No; Ishall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity. --ZIMMERMANN. 

A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. --ACHILLES POINCELOT. 

 Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. --COWPER. 

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he thatriseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his businessat night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakeshim. --FRANKLIN. 

Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms aregenerated in a stagnant pool. --FROM THE LATIN. 

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. --BUNYAN. 

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are fewstopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road. --BEECHER. 

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. --HILLARD. 

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose wholeemployment is to watch its flight. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. --COWPER. 

IMMIGRATION. --If you should turn back from this land to Europe theforeign ministers of the Gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and theforeign merchants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery ofour pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses, and our beneficentinstitutions, and what a putting back of every monetary, merciful, moral, and religious interest of the land! This commingling here ofall nationalities under the blessing of God will produce inseventy-five or one hundred years the most magnificent style of manand woman the world ever saw. They will have the wit of one race, theeloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity ofanother, the æsthetic taste of another, the high moral character ofanother, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerveand muscle an intertwining of the fibres of all nationalities, nothingbut the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clearthrough body and mind and soul, can take of them an adequate picture. --T. DEWITT TALMAGE. 

IMMORTALITY. --Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. --CHANNING. 

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realmwhere the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread beforeus like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings thatpass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. --LYTTON. 

 It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. --ADDISON. 

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as themoral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to theChristian, the present forms but the slightest portion of hisexistence. --SOUTHEY. 

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me theimmortal symphonies which invite me. --VICTOR HUGO. 

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous areimmortal and divine. --SOCRATES. 

Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, andpeals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth:Thou livest forever!--BYRON. 

INDEPENDENCE. --It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes himindependent, so much as the smallness of his wants. --COBBETT. 

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must gotogether, --manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance andmanly self-reliance. --WORDSWORTH. 

 Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill; We may be independent if we will. --CHURCHILL. 

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as shenever makes us lose our honesty and our independence. --POPE. 

INDUSTRY. --Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our raceto develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward. --E. L. MAGOON. 

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand beforekings. --PROVERBS 22:29. 

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderateabilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is deniedto well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it. --SIR J. REYNOLDS. 

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman'shouse hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff orthe constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseththem. --FRANKLIN. 

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry toattain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood andvalued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher'sstone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffersnot want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, thatbrings the merchant's ship as soon to him as he can desire. In a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution. --CLARENDON. 

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It dependschiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neithertime nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry andfrugality nothing will do, and with them everything. --FRANKLIN. 

The celebrated Galen said employment was nature's physician. It isindeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly consideredthe parent of misery. --COLTON. 

 In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. --GAY. 

INFIDELITY. --There is but one thing without honor, smitten witheternal barrenness, inability to do or to be, --insincerity, unbelief. --CARLYLE. 

Infidelity is one of those coinages, --a mass of base money that won'tpass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinkscorrectly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about thema load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it isinvisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. --CHALMERS. 

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's Iknow. "--HELPS. 

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but atcontrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass;and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makesgreat things little, --diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the rightend, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to oureye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost theirgreatness. --BISHOP HALL. 

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. --RICHTER. 

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justlyobserves, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes nomotive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs. --MACAULAY. 

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. --SOUTH. 

INGRATITUDE. --If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guiltytrain of human vices, it is ingratitude. --H. BROOKE. 

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. --DE BOUFFLERS. 

 Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. --SHAKESPEARE. 

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgetshis Saviour is unmerciful to himself. --BUNYAN. 

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not alsoinsufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return akindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody;they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon allthe world. --SOUTH. 

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen thatclever men have been ungrateful. --GOETHE. 

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. --PLAUTUS. 

And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungratefulhas no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. --YOUNG. 

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. --AUSONIUS. 

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? Itis the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. --NAPOLEON. 

 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. --SHAKESPEARE. 

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. 

INNOCENCE. --We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help andChrist's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. --CHAPIN. 

 True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within. --HORACE. 

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms notagain, though watered with tears. --HOOPER. 

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcomeour evil inclinations. --WILLIAM PENN. 

How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid! Serenity andcheerfulness are his portion. Hope is continually pouring its balminto his soul. His heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded andtortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances andrisings up of principles which they cannot forget; perpetually teasedby returning temptations, perpetually lamenting defeated resolutions. --PALEY. 

Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!--CAROLINE OF DENMARK. 

There are some reasoners who frequently confound innocence with themere incapacity of guilt; but he that never saw, or heard, or thoughtof strong liquors, cannot be proposed as a pattern of sobriety. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave amark, but not a stain. --MADAME SWETCHINE. 

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honestcause. --SOUTHERN. 

INSPIRATION. --Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and nobleimpulse by the name of inspiration?--GEORGE ELIOT. 

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from theseeds of the Divine mind sown in man. --OVID. 

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. --CICERO. 

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness andagreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. --GREVILLE. 

INTELLECT. --If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can takeit from him. --FRANKLIN. 

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say hewas more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to hisfather Philip for life. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educatedfamily. --REV. THOMAS SCOTT. 

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive ofthe greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottestfurnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkeststorm. --COLTON. 

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong tolive, as well as strong to think. --EMERSON. 

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has givenus, on this side of the grave. --BACON. 

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature issinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. --CHANNING. 

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what isfalse is false, --this is the mark and character of intelligence. --EMERSON. 

INTEMPERANCE. --A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousnessand knowledge, or claret and ignorance. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls. --JOHN B. GOUGH. 

Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all theevils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and adissolute spirit, we put upon its account. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance tobe transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generousentertainer. --ATTERBURY. 

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hathbabbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colorin the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like aserpent, and stingeth like an adder. --PROVERBS 23:29-32. 

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away theirbrains!--SHAKESPEARE. 

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It coststhem only one day; but me three, --the first in sinning, the second insuffering, and the third in repenting. --STERNE. 

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget orovercome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one'smind is to cure melancholy by madness. --CHARRON. 

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. --WALTER SCOTT. 

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty. --JUNIUS. 

Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls tobestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. --BAXTER. 

The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasionedmore injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all othercauses. And were I to commence my administration again, the firstquestion I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"--JEFFERSON. 

JEALOUSY. --People who are jealous, or particularly careful of theirown rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not carefor either to keep them continually uncomfortable. --BARNES. 

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in theblood, there is never any security against their breaking out, andthat often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. --FIELDING. 

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorablelogic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignoresthem utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than theycan tell her. --HELPS. 

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that itconverts all it takes into its own nourishment. --ADDISON. 

 Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. --SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6. 

 Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity. --SPENSER. 

JOY. --The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lightsupon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candleburns the more easily will it light mine. --SOUTH. 

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us isthe purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and canbe conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to theconsolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to themiseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him whoexercises it. --BISHOP PORTEUS. 

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he whopartakes in his griefs. --LAVATER. 

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow ismedicine. --BEECHER. 

Without kindness, there can be no true joy. --CARLYLE. 

 Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one. --YOUNG. 

JUDGMENT. --How are we justly to determine in a world where there areno innocent ones to judge the guilty?--MADAME DE GENLIS. 

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?--BYRON. 

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. --GOETHE. 

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; butby the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. --L'ESTRANGE. 

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyonemay receive the things done in his body, according to that he hathdone, whether it be good or bad. --2 COR. 5:10. 

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right tojudge one of another, since there is born within every man the germsof both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other iscontingent upon circumstances. --BALLOU. 

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have gotthe least of; and that is judgment. --H. W. SHAW. 

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, theinexperienced, and the young. --MISS MULOCK. 

The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. --KOSSUTH. 

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge otherswith a judgment of charity. --MASON. 

 'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. --POPE. 

JUSTICE. --Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with honor;and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even to wishto withhold. --WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND DUTIES. 

 Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 And heaven that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind. --POPE. 

He who is only just is cruel. --BYRON. 

 The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. --PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 112:6. 

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, andobedience is the premium which we pay for it. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. --ADDISON. 

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we knowof justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer andnobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speakfrom the volume that is laid open before us. --POPE. 

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us toput my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of myneighbor. --DR. WATTS. 

The books are balanced in heaven, not here. --H. W. SHAW. 

 Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind. --DENHAM. 

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. --ARISTOTLE. 

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligamentwhich holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. --WEBSTER. 

KINDNESS. --A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another manthan this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness shouldbegin on ours. --TILLOTSON. 

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of littlethings, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, givenhabitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. --SIR H. DAVY. 

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, orlearning. --F. W. FABER. 

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure aroundhim; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, makingeverything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!--WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man'sdarkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutionshe cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. --HELPS. 

 One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn Long as its currents roll. --HOLMES. 

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at solittle expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, andgrow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them willbear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. --BENTHAM. 

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like thewish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. --EMERSON. 

KISSES. --A kiss from my mother made me a painter. --BENJAMIN WEST. 

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; itis the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. --BOVEE. 

It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. Itpre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Evelearned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, andvarieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. --HALIBURTON. 

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, --these arelove's pretty ingredients for a kiss. --BOVEE. 

You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot ortwo from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. Nocreatures kiss each other so much as the birds. --CHARLES BUXTON. 

KNOWLEDGE. --Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, orwe know where we can find information upon it. --BOSWELL. 

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade whenwe are old. --CHESTERFIELD. 

 In reading authors, when you find Bright passages, that strike your mind, And which, perhaps, you may have reason To think on, at another season, Be not contented with the sight, But take them down in black and white; Such a respect is wisely shown, As makes another's sense one's own. --BYRON. 

Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth inlife. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession ofknowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value attwenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the mostimportant years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred percent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Itsprice is above rubies. --WINSLOW. 

 Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. --JOAQUIN MILLER. 

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a greatshop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what wepossess, and be able to make it serve us in need. --LEIBNITZ. 

Knowledge is power as well as fame. --RUFUS CHOATE. 

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in allthings; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at easeand out of place. --TUPPER. 

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired somuch knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from askingquestions where I was ignorant. "

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to giveall that he has to get knowledge. --DR. JOHNSON. 

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation andexperience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as theknowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading. --THOMASÀ KEMPIS. 

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. --FULLER. 

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It istroublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you cometo the spring, they rise up and meet you. --FELTON. 

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble thathe knows no more. --COWPER. 

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, arewilling to pay the price. --JUVENAL. 

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the graceof this rich jewel is lost in concealment. --BISHOP HALL. 

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as aknowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it exceptat the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart. --LADY BLESSINGTON. 

The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not inignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is thedemagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracyand ruin. --G. W. CURTIS. 

LABOR. --Labor is one of the great elements of society, --the greatsubstantial interest on which we all stand. --DANIEL WEBSTER. 

Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation. --BOVEE. 

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises thehappiness of the poor. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men whodisgrace labor. --U. S. GRANT. 

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possiblesubstitute for it. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you canhardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon theblade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but thefriction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices. --BEECHER. 

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate. --HORACE MANN. 

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts itin our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. --J. G. HOLLAND. 

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. --CARLYLE. 

Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest forphysic. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor. --BOVEE. 

 Labor is rest--from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. --FRANCES S. OSGOOD. 

 No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him. --LOWELL. 

 Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. --FRANCES S. OSGOOD. 

LANGUAGE. --In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver. --JOUBERT. 

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds itsexpression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. --BOVEE. 

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. --MARK HOPKINS. 

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit. --WHIPPLE. 

LAUGHTER. --Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of thegreatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted. --DR. HUFELAND. 

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what theythink laughable. --GOETHE. 

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. --LAMB. 

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for withoutkindness there can be no true joy. --CARLYLE. 

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man whoshoots it off. --TALMAGE. 

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous andself-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. --THACKERAY. 

Man is the only creature endowed with the power oflaughter. --GREVILLE. 

LEARNING. --Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket;and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you haveone. --CHESTERFIELD. 

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. --SAADI. 

 A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. --POPE. 

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, andstudying much. --CATHERALL. 

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to loveHim, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue. --MILTON. 

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. --YOUNG. 

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to thinkthat he knows enough. --POWELL. 

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of mengentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makesthem churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time dothclear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, andunlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, andchanges. --LORD BACON. 

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he hasthereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of usingit. --STEELE. 

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. --BISHOP TAYLOR. 

Learning is better worth than house or land. --CRABBE. 

LIBERALITY. --If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; ifrich, by your good deeds. --JOUBERT. 

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs itrightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. --BACON. 

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is thatwithholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. --PROVERBS 11:24. 

Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in givingjudiciously. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall bewatered also himself. --PROVERBS 11:25. 

LIBERTY. --The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. --THOMAS JEFFERSON. 

 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. --COWPER. 

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behaviorto authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productiveof a good life. --BISHOP BUTLER. 

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed. --BURKE. 

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. --AUERBACH. 

 A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. --ADDISON. 

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fireon the floor. --HILLARD. 

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. --ALFRED DE MUSSET. 

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which theyhave made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; theliberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. --COWLEY. 

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, ajealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights ofothers, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, shouldbe wronged and trampled under foot. --CHANNING. 

Liberty, without wisdom, is license. --BURKE. 

LIFE. --Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but oflittle things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligationsgiven habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and securecomfort. --SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. 

 Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer--man a flower-- He dies--alas! how soon he dies! --DR. JOHNSON. 

 Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. --BAILEY. 

In the midst of life we are in death. --CHURCH BURIAL SERVICE. 

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good orevil, as you make it. --MONTAIGNE. 

 Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. --DRYDEN. 

 Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. --MILTON. 

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reasonof strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor andsorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. --PSALM 90:10. 

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning. --GEORGE HERBERT. 

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity orregistering wrongs. --CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 

That man lives twice that lives the first life well. --HERRICK. 

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; andhe whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. --JAMES MARTINEAU. 

 Life is probation: mortal man was made To solve the solemn problem--right or wrong. --JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live toolong. --LADY RACHEL RUSSELL. 

 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. --DR. WATTS. 

And he that lives to live forever never fears dying. --WILLIAM PENN. 

 We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. --BAILEY. 

 This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, --when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, --nips his root, And then he falls. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of allthings. --SOCRATES. 

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days uponearth are a shadow. --JOB 8:9. 

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become souredand shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to bedelivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. --ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER. 

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. --WILLIAMPENN. 

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember thelength of eternity. --BISHOP KEN. 

LIGHT. --We should render thanks to God for having produced thistemporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works. --CAUSSIN. 

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born. --MILTON. 

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses thatare grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the lightof day. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

I am the light of the world. --JOHN 9:5. 

No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles asthe symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostlesays, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. " Another, underthe impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the languageof ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a greatlight; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death lightis 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 strengthensand ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim toevery action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, andcourageous. --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 lessdifficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to thelistening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electrictelegraph of touch, --all these betray the yielding citadel before theword itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens everyavenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible. --LONGFELLOW. 

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as muchas the two sides of an algebraic equation. --EMERSON. 

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, andrepels 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 girlit is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and eachassumes the qualities of the other. --VICTOR HUGO. 

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, andthe 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 likedanger, 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 professestthy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor isbegotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God isnourished. --QUARLES. 

Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life. --JERROLD. 

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither canthe floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of hishouse for love, it would utterly be contemned. --SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7. 

Love is the fulfilling of the law. --ROMANS 13:10. 

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoricof words. --BOVEE. 

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; becauselove is more the study and business of her life. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for theirchildren has always been far more powerful than that of children fortheir parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with athousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?--HARE. 

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. --HAZLITT. 

 Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing, Who nothing feels but for himself alone. --YOUNG. 

 Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. --SWIFT. 

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuouslove. --HENRY HOME. 

 Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. --POPE. 

 But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. --MOORE. 

 They do not love, that do not show their love. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food andraiment. --LONGFELLOW. 

That you may be beloved, be amiable. --OVID. 

All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace. --TERENCE. 

Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and ourdisposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glancefrom the fair, fixes and determines us. Friendship, on the contrary, is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials andmonths of familiarity. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

 Love is a child that talks in broken language, Yet then he speaks most plain. --DRYDEN. 

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, isshort-lived. --ERASMUS. 

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can dowith only a single thread. --BURTON. 

It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one couldnot recognize him to be the same person. --TERENCE. 

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. --ABEL STEVENS. 

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for theworld, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she couldby any possibility marry. --HOLMES. 

 True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. --ABRAHAM COLES. 

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love. --BEECHER. 

MAN. --Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory ofthe man. --1 COR. 11:7. 

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?--SHAKESPEARE. 

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but heinevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destinedhim. --GOETHE. 

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. --TENNYSON. 

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to hiscreditors, or to society in some form or other. --G. A. SALA. 

The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood, --bounds intoyouth, --sobers into manhood, --softens into age, --totters into secondchildhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him, --thence tobe watched and cared for. --HENRY GILES. 

 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! --YOUNG. 

He is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creation of a thousandforests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. --EMERSON. 

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. --BURKE. 

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, --onedog does not change a bone with another. --ADAM SMITH. 

 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. --POPE. 

 His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" --SHAKESPEARE. 

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble. --JOB 14:1. 

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there isone rascal less in the world. --CARLYLE. 

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages toform and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact. --EMERSON. 

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite infaculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!--SHAKESPEARE. 

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive. --LAVATER. 

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men. --LOWELL. 

MANNERS. --Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1 COR. 15:33. 

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converseswith heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. --EMERSON. 

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom weconverse. --SWIFT. 

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, thatof doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which Ishould covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that ofwell-bred. --CHESTERFIELD. 

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtfulbenevolence in that rarest of gifts, --fine breeding. --LYTTON. 

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable aswant of manners. --LAVATER. 

Good manners are a part of good morals. --WHATLEY. 

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to thethree several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and thosebelow us. --SWIFT. 

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothingdo we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting andsalutation. --LAVATER. 

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke ofgenius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form atlast a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and itsdetails adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops whichgive such a depth to the morning meadows. --EMERSON. 

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensibleoperation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their wholeform and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aidmorals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. --BURKE. 

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, anda little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtainthe same indulgence from them. --CHESTERFIELD. 

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty ofvirtue. --HANNAH MORE. 

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people'sill manners. --CHESTERFIELD. 

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is acalm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, livein quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; whilelow persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without makingsuch an amazing noise about it. --LYTTON. 

MARRIAGE. --Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleavethrough life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of herchoice, never!--SHERIDAN KNOWLES. 

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that wouldwear well. --GOLDSMITH. 

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve hissituation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spiritsare soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and hisself-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad bedarkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at homeover which he is a monarch. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think hecan ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings ofhis nature are never called into action. --SOUTHEY. 

It is not good that the man should be alone. --GENESIS 2:18. 

The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is alwayslaying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine ofprovocations to exasperate each other with when they are out ofhumor. --STEELE. 

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of thoseGod may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being. --TUPPER. 

An obedient wife commands her husband. --TENNYSON. 

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. --RICHTER. 

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with adesign to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, inthat action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailtiesand perfections, to the end of their lives. --ADDISON. 

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. --AARON HILL. 

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in awife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be suchas whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably adispute about that. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosesta friend. --RABBI BEN AZAI. 

Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that hisfirst wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking asecond wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showingthat she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so asecond time. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, We who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below. --COTTON. 

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the foreheadof a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. --SHAKESPEARE. 

God the best maker of all marriages. --SHAKESPEARE. 

A light wife doth make a heavy husband. 

The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hastyreading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed forwives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed tohusbands:--

1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in thecultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness. 

2. Never both be angry at once. 

3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company. 

4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire. 

5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. 

6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. 

7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault hasbeen committed, and always speak lovingly. 

8. Never taunt with a past mistake. 

9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another. 

10. Never allow a request to be repeated. 

11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other, --it is ameanness. 

12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of duringabsence. 

13. Never meet without a loving welcome. 

14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. 

15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you havefrankly confessed it and asked forgiveness. 

16. Never forget the happy hours of early love. 

17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of whatis. 

18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that Hisblessing alone can make it what it should ever be. 

19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in thenarrow way. 

20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home. --COTTAGER AND ARTISAN. 

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worsethan the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latterundergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, buttoo frequently leading to the same result. --LORD ROCHESTER. 

 Let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe. --MILTON. 

 The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. --WILLIS. 

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss ofparadise. --GOETHE. 

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. --ANDREWJACKSON. 

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. --MICHELET. 

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there canbe no friendship without confidence, and no confidence withoutintegrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety canclaim. --DR. JOHNSON. 

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should livetill I were married. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in avariety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem inwar, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sailaccording to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of highparentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that sheforgets what she is by match. --FULLER. 

Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife. --SIMONIDES. 

Take the daughter of a good mother. --FULLER. 

Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop thebreach at home and men's mouths abroad. To this end, a good husbandnever publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to dopenance before all that are present; after which, many study ratherrevenge than reformation. --FULLER. 

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcilematters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congenialityof dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts. --MASSILLON. 

A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and ministerof graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels;her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss theguardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm ofhis health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth;her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; herbosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablestadvocates of heaven's blessings on his head. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures. --DR. JOHNSON. 

MEDITATION. --Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, inher long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. --FELTHAM. 

Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation;honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. --QUARLES. 

MELANCHOLY. --I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts againstmelancholy: one was a bright fire; another, to remember all thepleasant things said to her; another, to keep a box of sugar-plums onthe chimney-piece and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought thismere trifling at the moment, but have in after life discovered howtrue it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy betterthan higher and more exalted objects; and that no means ought to bethought too trifling which can oppose it either in ourselves or inothers. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

Melancholy sees the worst of things, --things as they may be, and notas they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinningskull. --BOVEE. 

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feela disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself tothese rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I alsothink would be more pleasing to God. --FÉNELON. 

MERCY. --Let us be merciful as well as just. --LONGFELLOW. 

 Consider this, -- That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shineswith even more brilliancy than justice. --CERVANTES. 

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not toprotect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for thepresumptuous. --BISHOP REYNOLDS. 

 It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. --SHAKESPEARE. 

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is itmerciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, ithas the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

 The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguishedby it. --WASHINGTON. 

 Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. --POPE. 

Underneath the wings of the seraphim are stretched the arms of thedivine mercy, ever ready to receive sinners. --THE TALMUD. 

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. --SHAKESPEARE. 

MERIT. --There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevationwithout some merit. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Distinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustrefrom reproach. The vapors which gather round the rising sun, andfollow him in his course, seldom fail at the close of it to form amagnificent theatre for his reception, and to invest with variegatedtints and with a softened effulgence the luminary which they cannothide. --ROBERT HALL. 

On their own merits modest men are dumb. --GEORGE COLMAN. 

The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities winsesteem and often confers more reputation than real merit. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of itconstrained to praise. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

METHOD. --Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work tobe got through with satisfaction. "Method, " said Cecil (afterward LordBurleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get inhalf as much again as a bad one. " Cecil's despatch of business wasextraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things isto do only one thing at once. "--SAMUEL SMILES. 

MIND. --Our minds are like certain vehicles, --when they have little tocarry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they runquietly. --ELIHU BURRITT. 

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunesof the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as hecannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laughat a man for having his brains cracked than for having his headbroke. --POPE. 

It is the mind that makes the body rich. --SHAKESPEARE. 

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, butcannot receive great ones. --CHESTERFIELD. 

 Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. --DR. WATTS. 

 The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. --MILTON. 

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means ofgiving wholesome employment to others. 

 He that has treasures of his own May leave the cottage or the throne, May quit the globe, and dwell alone Within his spacious mind. --DR. WATTS. 

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul growscorrupt. --ROUSSEAU. 

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivatedby immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospectof distant good. --SCHILLER. 

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. --BOVEE. 

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man ofintelligence must direct the man of labor. --DR. JOHNSON. 

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive withoutculture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce goodfruit. --SENECA. 

Few minds wear out; more rust out. --BOVEE. 

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. Themore we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. --T. EDWARDS. 

Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which isbeyond their range. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven. --YOUNG. 

 It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. --SPENSER. 

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who isin want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg ourdaily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty thanthat of him who begs his daily bread. --COLTON. 

A good mind possesses a kingdom. 

MIRTH. --Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption ofthe spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth notin quantity, quality, or season. --FULLER. 

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is theblessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven itsdark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at theback door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience orveneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling thansmiling can for praying. --BEECHER. 

 Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out. --PETER PINDAR. 

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I dolike it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights wecan muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made manysunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light fromthem?--HALIBURTON. 

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon oneanother next morning. --IZAAK WALTON. 

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, --all this rust of life, ought to be scoured offby the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rubhimself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over whichit runs. --BEECHER. 

MISFORTUNE. --The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion ofmisfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine isdeveloped by the blows of the lapidary. --F. A. DURIVAGE. 

 A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --ADDISON. 

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes ofothers. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never hisinborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes allthe more fragrant. --SATAKA. 

 Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. --MALLET. 

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great mindsrise above it. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is atfirst disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to thestomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. --FROMTHE FRENCH. 

 When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. --HERRICK. 

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. --BIAS. 

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer greatmisfortunes than to do great things. --STANISLAUS. 

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure. --ALCOTT. 

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. --ORVILLE DEWEY. 

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes ofmankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equallydistributed among the whole species, those who now think themselvesthe most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. --ADDISON. 

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attendedothers, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. --MELMOTH. 

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of ourfriends upon them. --COLTON. 

MOB. --The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. --GOETHE. 

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, --ready to bawl at nightfor the reverse of what they desired in the morning. --TACITUS. 

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. --DRYDEN. 

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, itwill even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and youlose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. --JANE PORTER. 

 Inconstant, blind, Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand. --THOMSON. 

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughoutthis country during the period of a single generation, and a mob wouldbe as impossible as combustion without oxygen. --HORACE MANN. 

MODERATION. --Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end inbankruptcy. --GOETHE. 

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderationin temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always avice. --THOMAS PAINE. 

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale ourguardian angel quits his charge of us. --FELTHAM. 

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of allvirtues. --BISHOP HALL. 

The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in hisconduct. --CONFUCIUS. 

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not unwilling to eat more, butare afraid of doing ourselves harm. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. Thegreatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep withinproper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond itslimits, it really consists in keeping within it. --PASCAL. 

MODESTY. --A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of thosehe converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear tobe pleased with himself. --STEELE. 

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with noblervirtues. --GOLDSMITH. 

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modestyeverything that is unfashionable. --ADDISON. 

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke thebounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to thedevil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, representthe same sinful pleasure to you anew. --BAXTER. 

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. --SENECA. 

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated. --STEELE. 

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, butsets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; itheightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades inpaintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colorsmore beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without. --ADDISON. 

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If webanish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half thevirtue that is in it. --ADDISON. 

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He doesnot make a speech; he takes a low business tone, avoids all brag, isnobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks inmonosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowestname, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. --EMERSON. 

God intended for women two preventatives against sin, modesty andremorse; in confession to a mortal priest the former is removed by hisabsolution, the latter is taken away. --MIRANDA OF PIEDMONT. 

MONEY. --The love of money is the root of all evil. --1 TIMOTHY 6:10. 

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half thefriendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. --WESLEY. 

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! Howtenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!--THACKERAY. 

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in itsnature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies onewant, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a trueproverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fearof the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. "--FRANKLIN. 

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. --SWIFT. 

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worthis better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has nomore brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. Sobeware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of themind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition. --BARTOL. 

Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master. --BOUHOURS. 

By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of Godupon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. --RUTLEDGE. 

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriouslyconsider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, andthese the best; and how many evils there are that money will notremedy, and these the worst. --COLTON. 

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the arkof the covenant. --CARLYLE. 

MORALITY. --In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, Is thereany harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answeredby asking ourselves another: Is there any harm in letting it alone?--COLTON. 

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him tono other book than the New Testament. --LOCKE. 

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can bemaintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us toexpect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religiousprinciple. --WASHINGTON. 

Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed fromdefect in intellect. --HORACE MANN. 

Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from externalpossessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge andpractice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners isnecessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honestman alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separatethings which are in nature so closely united as virtue and interest. --ENFIELD. 

The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every falseword or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust orvanity, the price has to be paid at last. --FROUDE. 

Morality without religion, is only a kind of dead reckoning, --anendeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distancewe have to run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. --LONGFELLOW. 

The system of morality which Socrates made it the business of his lifeto teach was raised upon the firm basis of religion. The firstprinciples of virtuous conduct which are common to all mankind are, according to this excellent moralist, laws of God; and the conclusiveargument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departsfrom these principles with impunity. --ENFIELD. 

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality iseverywhere the same, because it comes from God. --VOLTAIRE. 

MOTHER. --The mother in her office holds the key of the soul. --OLD PLAY. 

 There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. --BAILLIE. 

"What is wanting, " said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in orderthat the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers, " was thereply. The emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here, "said he, "is a system in one word. "--ABBOTT. 

 A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. --COLERIDGE. 

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters maybecome inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wivestheir husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in goodrepute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, amother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn fromhis evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles thatonce filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shoutof his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can neverbe brought to think him all unworthy. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is amother's love!--MARCHIONESS DE SPADARA. 

I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothersshall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sinsof fathers. --DICKENS. 

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all othermothers venerable. --RICHTER. 

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternallessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul. --LAMENNAIS. 

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. --GEORGE HERBERT. 

"An ounce of mother, " says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound ofclergy. "--T. W. HIGGINSON. 

 Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. --HOLMES. 

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; andhe is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, orsilvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fonddevotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever givesus. --BOVEE. 

All that I am, my mother made me. --J. Q. ADAMS. 

MOURNING. --He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. --YOUNG. 

Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sunwill shine to-morrow. --RICHTER. 

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury tothe living, and the dead know it not. --XENOPHON. 

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living whobelong to them. --BURKE. 

 No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. --SHAKESPEARE. 

MUSIC. --Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sadmeasure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened byexultant strains. --HENRY GILES. 

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God. --CHARLES G. LELAND. 

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, --first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. --BOVEE. 

 When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music, with her silver sound, With speedy help doth lend redress. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a signof predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicitiesof heaven itself. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms; could Ilive in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished theablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and amedicine. --EMERSON. 

 Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. --CONGREVE. 

 There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears. --BYRON. 

 The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door. --J. R. DRAKE. 

 Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words. --BARRY CORNWALL. 

 Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. --BEATTIE. 

Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into arealm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. --HENRY WARDBEECHER. 

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; shemakes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. --LUTHER. 

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can beno sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. --ELIHU BURRITT. 

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the frontrank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite hisdevotion more certainly than a logical discourse. --TUCKERMAN. 

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears fromthe eyes of woman. --BEETHOVEN. 

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. --CHATEAUBRIAND. 

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. --HORACE WALPOLE. 

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And wesee how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughtsinto verse, rhyme, and song. --LUTHER. 

NATURE. --Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as goldengifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when shepresents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. Theapple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation tofollow her to the stars. --WHIPPLE. 

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are noineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and naturemakes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. --ROUSSEAU. 

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and actedaccording to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where sheends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. --WILLIAM PENN. 

O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all:the earth is full of Thy riches. --PSALM 104:24. 

The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy inthem. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. Theelements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, theair consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for ourrace if the punishment of crimes against the laws of man were asinevitable as the punishment of crimes against the laws ofnature, --were man as unerring in his judgments as nature. --LONGFELLOW. 

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature thatoverawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-bluesky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to themind. --T. EDWARDS. 

 Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. --WORDSWORTH. 

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion tomankind in characters so large and visible, that those who are notquite blind may in them see and read the first principles and mostnecessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinitedepths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. --LOCKE. 

 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul. --POPE. 

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost artand industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. --HUME. 

 Read nature; nature is a friend to truth; Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind; And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. --YOUNG. 

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all thechild is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becomingnakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the pooresthome. --T. W. HIGGINSON. 

Our old mother nature has pleasant and cheery tones enough for us whenshe comes in her dress of blue and gold over the eastern hill-tops;but when she follows us upstairs to our beds in her suit of blackvelvet and diamonds, every creak of her sandals and every whisper ofher lips is full of mystery and fear. --HOLMES. 

 Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness. --EMERSON. 

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not asingle breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves theyhave so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds allsummer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forestshades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermoreby tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem tohave flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!--BEECHER. 

Nature is God's Old Testament. --THEODORE PARKER. 

 To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. --BRYANT. 

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. --JUVENAL. 

Those who devote themselves to the peaceful study of nature have butlittle temptation to launch out upon the tempestuous sea of ambition;they will scarcely be hurried away by the more violent or cruelpassions, the ordinary failings of those ardent persons who do notcontrol their conduct; but, pure as the objects of their researches, they will feel for everything about them the same benevolence whichthey see nature display toward all her productions. --CUVIER. 

"Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them. " He expatiates on a singleflower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence inGod. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, andthat the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious in thecontemplations of religion, and be at the same time alive to thecharms and the loveliness of nature. --DR. CHALMERS. 

 Who loves not the shady trees, The smell of flowers, the sound of brooks, The song of birds, and the hum of bees, Murmuring in green and fragrant nooks, The voice of children in the spring, Along the field-paths wandering? --T. MILLAR. 

You will find something far greater in the woods than you will findin books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will neverlearn from masters. --ST. BERNARD. 

NOBILITY. --He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his ownresources, is a noble but a rare being. --SIR E. BRYDGES. 

If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind ofnobility. --PLATO. 

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives thepride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. --JAMESA. GARFIELD. 

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree nevermade one yet. --H. W. SHAW. 

 Be noble! and the nobleness that lives In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. --LOWELL. 

 Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. --TENNYSON. 

OBEDIENCE. --The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue ofChristianity is obedience. --HARE. 

To obey is better than sacrifice. --1 SAMUEL 15:22. 

Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be theprinciple and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the gloryof God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thyactions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in everyenterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace beunto them, and mercy. "--BURKITT. 

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart isdissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. --SAADI. 

He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life ofthankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life. --BURKITT. 

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of atrue obedience. --HENRY GILES. 

 "His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; His service freedom, and His judgments right. --WALLER. 

Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore anelement of peace; but love which includes obedience is thewhole. --GEORGE SEWELL. 

The virtue of Christianity is obedience. --J. C. HARE. 

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptableto God than every other sacrifice. --METASTASIO. 

OBSTINACY. --Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in thewrong. --MADAME NECKER. 

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeperthey are in error the more angry they are. --BLAIR. 

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. --POPE. 

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, theirsuffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the firstwound is mortal. --THOMAS PAINE. 

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easilybelieve beyond what we see. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs ofstupidity. --BARTON. 

OCCUPATION. --Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I haveknown a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely becausehe has had the management of it. --DR. HORNE. 

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician, " is so essential tohuman happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother ofmisery. --BURTON. 

Occupation alone is happiness. --DR. JOHNSON. 

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumbleand mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when therewas nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor. "--SAMUEL SMILES. 

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in theregular discharge of some mechanical duty. --SCHILLER. 

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit whichfinds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, orbroadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. --EMERSON. 

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no otherblessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life. --CARLYLE. 

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that isas much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something todo. --MISS MULOCK. 

OPINION. --Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changedwith greater. --H. W. SHAW. 

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because hediffers in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourselfon the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. --HORACEMANN. 

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion andtaste of others, is a slave. --KLOPSTOCK. 

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it istrue, is to prefer thyself above the truth. --VENNING. 

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we maymake room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and headhospitality. --JOUBERT. 

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another forhaving changed his opinion. --CICERO. 

Who observes not that the voice of the people, yea of that people thatvoiced themselves the people of God, did prosecute the God of allpeople, with one common voice, "He is worthy to die. " I will not, therefore, ambitiously beg their voices for my preferment; nor weighmy worth in that uneven balance, in which a feather of opinion shallbe moment enough to turn the scales and make a light piece go current, and a current piece seem light. --ARTHUR WARWICK. 

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregardthe world's opinion of himself. --CICERO. 

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into threeterritories, --the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. --LOWELL. 

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generallyhas a strong underlying sense of justice. --ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

OPPORTUNITY. --Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it goby him. --BAYARD TAYLOR. 

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they filltheir little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. --REV. T. JONES. 

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try touse ordinary situations. --RICHTER. 

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who havetaken them, --besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made thechance their servitor. --CHAPIN. 

 There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries: And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. --SHAKESPEARE. 

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, andthat of doing good once a year. --VOLTAIRE. 

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it. --BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 

There is no man whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but whenshe does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the doorand flies out at the window. --CARDINAL IMPERIALI. 

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of dailyoccurrence. --MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. 

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he hashad his chance already, and neglected it. --HALIBURTON. 

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will beovercome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make theiron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yieldto him who can both raise and rule it. --COLTON. 

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her bythe forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiterhimself can catch her again. --SENECA. 

OPPOSITION. --The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are menwho rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis whichintimidates and paralyzes the majority--demanding, not the facultiesof prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, thereadiness of sacrifice, --comes graceful and beloved as a bride. --EMERSON. 

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens ourskill. Our antagonist is our helper. --BURKE. 

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites riseagainst and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man waxpale, therefore, because of opposition. --JOHN NEAL. 

It is not ease, but effort, --not facility, but difficulty, that makesmen. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties havenot to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure ofsuccess can be achieved. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary tooppose and separate them. --GOETHE. 

ORDER. --Order is heaven's first law. --POPE. 

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind isto matter. --JOUBERT. 

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace ofthe city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as thebones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. --SOUTHEY. 

 The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who arenegligent of order. --BLAIR. 

Let all things be done decently and in order. --1 CORINTHIANS 14:40. 

PARADISE. --Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and theangel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. --LONGFELLOW. 

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. --BARTOL. 

PARENTS. --The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: "If you wouldbe holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they performwill be imputed to you. "--MONTESQUIEU. 

Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that ofparents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgivingtemper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural. --ADDISON. 

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only aweand respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear todo anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as theinstruments under God of your being: for "Ye shall fear every man hismother and his father. "--JEREMY TAYLOR. 

Next to God, thy parents. --WILLIAM PENN. 

 Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed, Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. --RANDOLPH. 

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It islike the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he hasplanted. --SCOT'S MAGAZINE. 

 With joy the parent loves to trace Resemblance in his children's face: And, as he forms their docile youth To walk the steady paths of truth, Observes them shooting into men, And lives in them life o'er again. --LLOYD. 

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon theland which the Lord thy God giveth thee. --EXODUS 20:12. 

PASSION. --The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion onlythat can prevent them from rising into a tempest. --DR. WATTS. 

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, andconquered without being killed. --COLTON. 

 The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. --POPE. 

Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead ofemploying their passions in the service of their lives. --STEELE. 

The art of governing the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, willgive us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can beneither happy, nor wise, nor good. --JORTIN. 

Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but apreparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very firstflatly to deny it. --FULLER. 

In the human breast two master-passions cannot coexist. --CAMPBELL. 

The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is thepilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move, withoutthe pilot she would be lost. --FROM THE FRENCH. 

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited bypassion; for duties are but coldly performed which are butphilosophically fulfilled. --MRS. JAMESON. 

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. --CONFUCIUS. 

Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the bestgovernment is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys themeaner. --JACOBI. 

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they arewell directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feelingwhen it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes thepassions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable. --JOUBERT. 

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they arein a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass beforetheir minds, --efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not afact to go upon. --HELPS. 

As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin thosehusbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, theyfertilized and enriched; so our passions, when they grow exorbitantand unruly, destroy those virtues, to which they may be veryserviceable whilst they keep within their bounds. --BOYLE. 

Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. --REV. THOMAS ADAM. 

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from thetongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and alwaysspeaks the heart. --SOUTHERN. 

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of noimpediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. --BOVEE. 

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. --SOUTH. 

 Exalted souls Have passions in proportion violent, Resistless, and tormenting; they're a tax Imposed by nature on pre-eminence, And fortitude and wisdom must support them. --LILLO. 

 One master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. --POPE. 

 Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey! --CRABBE. 

A great passion has no partner. --LAVATER. 

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it isthe man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. --THOMAS PAINE. 

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. --LAVATER. 

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerousonly in one, through their excess. --BOVEE. 

It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affordshappiness. --MME. DE MAINTENON. 

PAST. --The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers. --WILLIAMWINTER. 

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain achild; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicitrule of life, is never to be a man. --CHATFIELD. 

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. --BYRON. 

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. --TRENCH. 

Study the past if you would divine the future. --CONFUCIUS. 

The best of prophets of the future is the past. --BYRON. 

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is naturalthat the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the areaof their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and thedisappointed, the springtide of their hopes!--C. BINGHAM. 

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancientsthat they know not how to live with the moderns. --WILLIAM PENN. 

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil;the future, the virgin's. --RICHTER. 

PATIENCE. --He that can have patience can have what he will. --FRANKLIN. 

Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it isnearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of menthat ever wore earth about him was a sufferer, --a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. --DECKER. 

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, lossesand disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall seethem in their proper figures. --ADDISON. 

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification;time takes away as much as it gives. --MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ. 

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast;hold out. Patience is genius. --BUFFON. 

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be avirtue. --BURKE. 

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to waitfor. --MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. 

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because eitherthe will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. --RICHTER. 

We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according toour present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as undersunshine; so does the heavenly principle within. --CHANNING. 

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Patience is a nobler motion than any deed. --C. A. BARTOL. 

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, thecherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs theflesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains thehand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummatesmartyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in theState, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor andmoderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful inadversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgivethose who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgivenessof those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invitesthe unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is lovedin a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she isbeautiful in either sex and every age. --BISHOP HORNE. 

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rollingand tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture outwithout this to make him sail even and steady will certainly makeshipwreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of thisworld, and then in perdition. --BISHOP HOPKINS. 

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately andwithout undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man whoprepares himself for them with patience. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin ofstrength. --COLTON. 

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They arefatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health. --FULLER. 

Patience is sorrow's salve. --CHURCHILL. 

PATRIOTISM. --He serves his party best, who serves the country best. --RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 

This is a maxim which I have received by hereditary tradition, notonly from my father, but also from my grandfather and his ancestors, that after what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or moresacred than the love and respect I owe to my country. --DE THOU. 

 Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and Truth's. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home. --GOLDSMITH. 

I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy andprofound, than my own life. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band! Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies! --JOSEPH HOPKINSON. 

 Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! --FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 

 One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation evermore! --HOLMES. 

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on thespot. --JOHN A. DIX. 

The noblest motive is the public good. --VIRGIL. 

 The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever, The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever! --GEORGE P. MORRIS. 

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. --DANIEL WEBSTER. 

Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, orhowever otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurement more orless--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to bedefended by all our hands. --ROBERT C. WINTHROP. 

 Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, --are all with thee! --LONGFELLOW. 

I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studiedthe art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if allthat has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of theworld, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, itwould not do them justice for their conduct during this war. --ABRAHAMLINCOLN. 

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!--VOLTAIRE. 

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but ourcountry. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become avast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but ofwisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze withadmiration forever. --DANIEL WEBSTER. 

PEACE. --Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called thechildren of God. --MATTHEW 5:9. 

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin betweenmyself and God. --GEORGE ELIOT. 

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infalliblyenjoy perpetual peace. --PETRARCH. 

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared tomeet the enemy. --WASHINGTON. 

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears intopruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neithershall they learn war any more. --ISAIAH 2:4. 

I never advocated war except as a means of peace. --U. S. GRANT. 

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearlypurchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his ownsoul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance toGod. --CHAPIN. 

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes bespilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. --ANDREW JACKSON. 

PERSEVERANCE. --The block of granite, which was an obstacle in thepathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of thestrong. --CARLYLE. 

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguishedhimself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may besatisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has notsucceeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back thatyoung man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at thefirst trial. --CHARLES JAMES FOX. 

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all thelittle I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinaryperseverance, all things are attainable. --SIR T. F. BUXTON. 

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosenpursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. --BAYARDTAYLOR. 

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise orwonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it isby this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countriesare united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a singlestroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with thegeneral design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the senseof their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantlycontinued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountainsare levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of humanbeings. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, morethan talents and accomplishments. --WHIPPLE. 

A falling drop at last will carve a stone. --LUCRETIUS. 

 Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing so hard but search will find it out. --LOVELACE. 

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to createthemselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working theirsolitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Press on! a better fate awaits thee. --VICTOR HUGO. 

PHILOSOPHY. --True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time morecontent, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent andpure enjoyment. --LAVATER. 

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more thanlearned men. --W. B. CLULOW. 

The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that whichleads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless wewould enter in as little children, we must expect to be totallyexcluded. --BACON. 

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do inall cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. --SENECA. 

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth inphilosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. --BACON. 

Whence? whither? why? how?--these questions cover all philosophy. --JOUBERT. 

PHYSIOGNOMY. --Children are marvelously and intuitively correctphysiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. --BARTOL. 

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive;no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowdsa great deal in a little room. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

Spite of Lavater, faces are oftentimes great lies. They are the papermoney of society, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to beno gold in the human coffer. --F. G. TRAFFORD. 

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, ora character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose. --BOVEE. 

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

PIETY. --True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothingconstrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. --FÉNELON. 

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use tous in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place. --CHAPIN. 

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given. --CARLYLE. 

Piety raises and fortifies the mind for trying occasions and painfulevents. When our country is threatened by dangers and pressed bydifficulties who are the best bulwarks of its defence? Not the sons ofdissipation and folly, not the smooth-tongued sycophants of a court, nor sceptics and blasphemers, from the school of infidelity; but theman whose moral conduct is animated and sustained by the doctrines andconsolations of religion. Happy is that country where patriotism issustained and sanctified by piety; where authority respects and guardsfreedom, and freedom reveres and loves legitimate authority; wheretruth and mercy meet together, righteousness and peace embrace eachother. --TON. 

It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation andprovidence; the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, theocean, the storm, the earthquake, and the volcano; the circuit of theseasons and the revolutions of empires; without marking in them allthe mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverencetoward the Author of these stupendous works. --DWIGHT. 

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrowpath, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and togo to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man. --BEECHER. 

We are surrounded by motives to piety and devotion, if we would butmind them. The poor are designed to excite our liberality; themiserable, our pity; the sick, our assistance; the ignorant, ourinstruction; those that are fallen, our helping hand. In those who arevain, we see the vanity of the world; in those who are wicked, our ownfrailty. When we see good men rewarded, it confirms our hope; and whenevil men are punished, it excites our fear. --BISHOP WILSON. 

PITY. --Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, ashort-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitoryassistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till thehand can be put into the pocket. --GOLDSMITH. 

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. --ROUSSEAU. 

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, andexcusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing thegentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to everyperson that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can beowing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so isan unjust person. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, thepeace of God is there. --WHITTIER. 

The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. --THACKERAY. 

Pity melts the mind to love. --DRYDEN. 

PLEASURE. --Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness ofpleasures, take this rule:--Whatever weakens your reason, impairs thetenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takesoff the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases thestrength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sinto you, however innocent it may be in itself. --SOUTHEY. 

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried tosuch excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. --SENECA. 

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest ofall. --HAWTHORNE. 

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approachessublimity. --LAVATER. 

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve thefatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage thecontinuance. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. --FULLER. 

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than theygive. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us whenpossessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. --MADAME DELAMBERT. 

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a justcomputation between the duration of the pleasure and that of therepentance that is likely to follow it. --EPICTETUS. 

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but theharvest is reaped in age by pain. --COLTON. 

 Pleasure's the only noble end To which all human powers should tend; And virtue gives her heavenly lore, But to make pleasure please us more! Wisdom and she were both design'd To make the senses more refined, That man might revel free from cloying, Then most a sage, when most enjoying! --MOORE. 

 Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. --POPE. 

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures byfurnishing them the means of innocent ones. In every community theremust be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; andif innocent are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man wasmade to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should beadapted to this principle of human nature. --CHANNING. 

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they areincreased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthenedby enjoyment. --COLTON. 

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they areto myself. --MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. 

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quietand tranquillity of thy life. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

POETRY. --True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springsfrom the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever inharmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations. --EPES SARGENT. 

 Then, rising with aurora's light, The muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head and bite your nails. --SWIFT. 

It is uninspired inspiration. --HENRY REED. 

Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, humanthoughts, human passions, emotions, language. --COLERIDGE. 

 Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays! --WORDSWORTH. 

Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language. --CHATFIELD. 

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry isa true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in hisentire lifetime. --MADAME DUDEVANT. 

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of highthoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. --MAZZINI. 

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiestand best minds. --SHELLEY. 

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other wouldsuffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. --ABRAHAM COLES. 

Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of onelanguage into another it will evaporate. --DENHAM. 

Poetry is the child of enthusiasm. --SIGMA. 

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead themon the side of virtue. --COWPER. 

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given methe habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all thatmeets and surrounds me. --S. T. COLERIDGE. 

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it ina human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as fromthe rose-tree the rose. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a greatpoet, must first become a little child. --MACAULAY. 

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feelingsouls. --VOLTAIRE. 

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, asbetween the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. --HARE. 

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; andthe waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in itsbrightness. --PERCIVAL. 

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. --JOUBERT. 

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts itsdivine origin. --BEECHER. 

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought tohave been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to havebeen, but as they really were. --CERVANTES. 

POLITENESS. --True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simplyconsists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. --CHESTERFIELD. 

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we mayaffirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is naturalpoliteness. --STANISLAUS. 

Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away theheart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off therudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make usblameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke. --JAY. 

Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts. --JOUBERT. 

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. --ALPHONSE KARR. 

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the bestthing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply thewant of it. --LYTTON. 

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and nonemore profitable. --H. W. SHAW. 

Fine manners are like personal beauty, --a letter of credit everywhere. --BARTOL. 

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in arefined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. Itpromotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness inthose who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a partof religious training. --BEECHER. 

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity ofmind. --JULIA WARD HOWE. 

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of theenlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but considerevery book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and ofcourse better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system ofpoliteness. --MONRO. 

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will neverbe politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what willgive this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiabledisposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?--CHATHAM. 

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politenessbefore men. --GREVILLE. 

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. Agentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one ofany other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find thosedistinctions which characterize a people. --GOLDSMITH. 

When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either topass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk overit was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield. --CECIL. 

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to anyparticular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of thosewith whom you converse. --FIELDING. 

POPULARITY. --Avoid popularity, if you would have peace. --ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!--LUKE 6:26. 

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest andlawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. --KANT. 

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinarymen; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. --LORDGREVILLE. 

POVERTY. --Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very fewwould be poor. --DR. JOHNSON. 

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. Hisresponsibility to God is so much the less. --BOVEE. 

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters forthe means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in thestreet for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night. --HORACEGREELEY. 

Poverty is the only burden which is not lightened by being shared withothers. --RICHTER. 

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it notthat the world treats it so much as a crime. --BOVEE. 

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. --HAZLITT. 

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between thepoor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life: they enjoythe same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poorman's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varietieswhich cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is morehealthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease andsoftness of the rich. --SHERLOCK. 

 Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. --DRYDEN. 

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fearof poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all otherills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is acertain cure. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffersthe pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no manis, properly speaking, poor, but he. --PALEY. 

That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedlytrue; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much thanfrom eating too little. --CHANNING. 

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved onesthere are to assist in supporting it. --RICHTER. 

POWER. --Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongestheads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power. --COLTON. 

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. --BACON. 

Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. --NAPOLEON. 

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excelthem in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than thegoverned. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. 

It is an observation no less just than common, that there is nostronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latentvice. --PLUTARCH. 

PRAISE. --Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm achild into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judiciouspraise is to children what the sun is to flowers. --BOVEE. 

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, andnot thine own lips. --PROVERBS 27:2. 

 For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. --SPENSER. 

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; itmakes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weakbrain giddy. --FELTHAM. 

Solid pudding against empty praise. --POPE. 

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whomhe loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue andimpertinent commendations. --SPRAT. 

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure anyman behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell itunto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently tohimself. --BURKITT. 

As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how topraise. "--WENDELL PHILLIPS. 

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, howpatient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them noinjury, while the other may be their ruin. --LOWELL. 

Good things should be praised. --SHAKESPEARE. 

He hurts me most who lavishly commends. --CHURCHILL. 

 The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. --YOUNG. 

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raiseexpectation or animate enterprise. --DR. JOHNSON. 

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who ishimself deserving of praise. --FROM THE LATIN. 

He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you whatyou have. --MANUEL. 

Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter thanwhen thou speakest in presence. --FULLER. 

Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. --PLUTARCH. 

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what hecondemns, of his own character, information and abilities. --HARE. 

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. --STEELE. 

Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. --PSALM 150:6. 

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this whichdistinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery ofsycophants and admiration of fools. --STEELE. 

PRAYER. --The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is fora good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. --SENECA. 

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. --SPURGEON. 

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well aspray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life;every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, uponyour prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as aperpetual monition of duty; by what we require of God we see what Herequires of us. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that ourpetitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightfulto meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant ofthem. --COWPER. 

We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because wepray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all thatcome unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or inthe same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure toreceive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue tosue unto Him according to His will. --ARCHBISHOP USHER. 

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the factthat man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is sospontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objectsand methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence. --CHAPIN. 

So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in theexercise of prayer. --HOOKER. 

Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leaveoff sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying. --FULLER. 

Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning andevening; let our days begin and end with God. --CHANNING. 

 Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. --MONTGOMERY. 

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinnerto pray!--ST. CYPRIAN. 

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. --EMERSON. 

 He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. --COLERIDGE. 

 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. --TENNYSON. 

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply toits Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aidof a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability tobestow what it needs. --ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER. 

Prayer is the first breath of Divine life; it is the pulse of thebelieving soul;--by prayer "we draw water with joy from the wells ofsalvation;" by prayer faith puts forth its energy, in apprehending thepromised blessings, and receiving from the Redeemer's fullness; inleaning on His almighty arm, and making His name our strong tower; andin overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil. --T. SCOTT. 

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build achapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, andthe earth he treads on the altar. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thydoor, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, whichseeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. --MATTHEW 6:6. 

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe. 

 Holy beginning of a holy cause, When heroes, girt for freedom's combat, pause Before high Heaven, and, humble in their might, Call down its blessing on that coming fight. --MOORE. 

It is so natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him fromdoing it. --JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. 

The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. --WELLINGTON. 

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than theLord's Prayer. --MADAME DE STAEL. 

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than wordswithout a heart. --BUNYAN. 

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven thereare no barriers. The only password is prayer. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, theevenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of ourcares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quietmind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and thesister of meekness. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while theone ascends, the other descends. --BISHOP HOPKINS. 

Prayer is the voice of faith. --HORNE. 

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everythingfrom God; we should act with as much energy as those who expecteverything from themselves. --COLTON. 

PREACHING. --That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers goaway talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makesthem go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. --BURNET. 

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longingthan loathing. --NATHANIEL EMMONS. 

A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing withouttaking the life. --FÉNELON. 

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, butby the men they make. --JOSEPH COOK. 

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they meanwhen in it. --CECIL. 

 I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. --BAXTER. 

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; looknot to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner tothe unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek andLatin I spare until we learned ones come together. --LUTHER. 

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to beput into a sermon as what is. --CECIL. 

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with thesame key. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and madetheir commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonesthearer. --EMERSON. 

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them withlong and tedious preaching. --LUTHER. 

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own;who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves tobe heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughtsonly to promote truth and virtue. --MASSILLON. 

PRECEPT. --Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square ourlives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike theaffections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. --SENECA. 

He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives andmoderating our passions obliges human nature, not only in the present, but in all succeeding generations. --SENECA. 

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at handdo more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not whereto find. --SENECA. 

Precept must be upon precept. --ISAIAH 28:10. 

PREJUDICE. --Prejudice is the child of ignorance. --HAZLITT. 

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despiseand hate. --FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. --DUCHESSD'ABRANTES. 

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in theaffairs of other men than in their own. --TERENCE. 

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for thepresent, as blind as he who cannot. --SOUTH. 

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than theprejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the secondwillfully preferred. --BANCROFT. 

Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewingthings, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but alsonever think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole characterand conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing whichoffends them. --BUTLER. 

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. --G. D. PRENTICE. 

Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong. --KANEO'HARA. 

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience ofthe world and ignorance of mankind. --ADDISON. 

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed. --MADAME NECKER. 

PRESENT. --Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events ofto-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yetassign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. --HORACE. 

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot berecalled, to-morrow cannot be assured: to-day is only thine; which ifthou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever: oneto-day is worth two to-morrows. --QUARLES. 

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has. --SCHILLER. 

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of humanlife; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too muchto what to-morrow may produce. --HORACE. 

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the lengthand breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready tocommunicate. --T. C. UPHAM. 

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastlyhappy at some period or other, when they have time. But the presenttime has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Pastopportunities are gone, future are not come. --COLTON. 

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to atime to come, --as though that time should be of another make fromthis, which has already come and is ours. --FULLER. 

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know howto manage when the occasion arrives. --CORNEILLE. 

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is nomoment like the present. --MISS EDGEWORTH. 

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, andto-morrow we may never see. --VICTOR HUGO. 

Every day is a gift I receive from Heaven; let us enjoy to-day thatwhich it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and to-morrow belongs to no one. --MANCROIX. 

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best dayin the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows thatevery day is Doomsday. --EMERSON. 

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, bywhich the future is shaped and colored. --WHITTIER. 

PRESS. --In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent asthunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which aman speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, tomillions in a day. --CHAPIN. 

Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into yourchildren, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all thecivil, political, and religious rights. --JUNIUS. 

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; forall freedom without this must be merely nominal. --CHATFIELD. 

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule theworld; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter thanthe sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. --WHIPPLE. 

PRETENSION. --It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposingdemeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond whatthey are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overratedby others. --WHATELY. 

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature neverpretends. --LAVATER. 

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shopwindow, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of itwithin. --SPURGEON. 

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensionsfall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. --CICERO. 

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, butextremely troublesome and vexatious. --PLUTARCH. 

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials ofimpotence. --LAVATER. 

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. --LAVATER. 

PRIDE. --Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary andimmediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of theirpride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. --CLARENDON. 

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. --LOWELL. 

 Of all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. --POPE. 

It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing ourneighbors. --CLARENDON. 

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins areincluded, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. --ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. 

Some people are proud of their humility. --BEECHER. 

Pride requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness. --COLTON. 

 Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. --ROSCOMMON. 

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good actiondone as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at thebottom of it. --STERNE. 

There is this paradox in pride, --it makes some men ridiculous, butprevents others from becoming so. --COLTON. 

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard tosubdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify itas much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and thenpeep out and show itself. --FRANKLIN. 

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven. " By pride they reacheda place from which they fell!--JOAQUIN MILLER. 

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped withinfamy. --FRANKLIN. 

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. --PROVERBS 16:18. 

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, theproud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. --LEGOUVÉ. 

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to Godare caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but amorbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings getmouldy, and then call them curses. --BEECHER. 

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow veryclosely. --LOUIS XI. 

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliestfruit of religion. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only letit out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiffbrocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. --LYTTON. 

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find inothers, and to overlook in himself. --DR. JOHNSON. 

An avenging God closely follows the haughty. --SENECA. 

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, sodoes pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pridetakes her glory from man. --QUARLES. 

The proud man is forsaken of God. --PLATO. 

PROCRASTINATION. --Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan'snurse for man's perdition. --REV. DR. CHEEVER. 

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time toset about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinkingand sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved anddestroyed. --TILLOTSON. 

By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never. "--CERVANTES. 

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, tillthere's no more future left for them. --L'ESTRANGE. 

Procrastination is the thief of time. --YOUNG. 

For Yesterday was once To-morrow. --PERSIUS. 

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. --FRANKLIN. 

Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, thatbecause a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. --CHARLESBUXTON. 

PROGRESS. --He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering intoliving peace. --RUSKIN. 

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question ofthe wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes fromexactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is alwayssomething different from what is expected. Everything new is receivedwith contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a powerunobserved. --FEUERBACH. 

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in;and lend a hand. --E. E. HALE. 

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dreadnothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming afossil. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looksforward hopefully. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Human improvement is from within outwards. --FROUDE. 

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all thecenturies. --EMERSON. 

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, thatmore and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make thehistory of mankind a series of ascending developments. --HORACE MANN. 

We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former timepresents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires andour hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp atimmensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressivenessof our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which westart toward a perfection of being. --SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. 

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the greatmysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, isnever old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition ofunchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetualdecay, fall, renovation, and progression. --BURKE. 

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is nosuch thing as remaining stationary in this life. --JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. 

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes aLatin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn onSunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is onewho, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's ironconstitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands. --EMERSON. 

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drainoff those of yesterday. --LYTTON. 

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, andto-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would implytotal freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omnisciencealone. --COLTON. 

PROSPERITY. --Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. --BEECHER. 

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a littleadversity. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is anecessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of acivilized people. --BURET. 

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult tobear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. --TACITUS. 

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. --CICERO. 

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperityleads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. --LANDOR. 

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. --COLTON. 

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods withwhich it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs toodear. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse theblessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul ofman. --HOOKER. 

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learnsonly to draw in. --BEECHER. 

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. --VAUVENARGUES. 

They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heatthemselves at the altar. --SOUTH. 

Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of yourbeing one in adversity. --ZIMMERMAN. 

PROVIDENCE. --The Providence of God is the great protector of our lifeand usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe fromdanger. --SPURGEON. 

 I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. --WHITTIER. 

The decrees of Providence are inscrutable. In spite of man'sshort-sighted endeavors to dispose of events according to his ownwishes and his own purposes, there is an Intelligence beyond hisreason, which holds the scales of justice, and promotes hiswell-being, in spite of his puny efforts. --MORIER. 

Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect. He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we mayneither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased tomake both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesomeand safe. --W. WOGAN. 

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check thedesigns of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His HolyWill. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him. --RACINE. 

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burdenfrom the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On thisconsideration only can he securely lay down his head and close hiseyes. --CECIL. 

 Yes, thou art ever present, power supreme! Not circumscribed by time, nor fixt to space, Confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom or in chains, In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee! --HANNAH MORE. 

We must follow, not force Providence. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. --COWPER. 

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. --PROVERBS 16:9. 

PRUDENCE. --Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in orderthat they should see twice as much as they say. --COLTON. 

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be doneunder the various circumstances of time and place. --MILTON. 

 When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. --SIR J. DENHAM. 

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness ofthe best of hearts. --FIELDING. 

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without whichthey degenerate into folly and excess. --JEREMY COLLIER. 

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance ofprudence. --JUVENAL. 

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political andmoral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of themall. --BURKE. 

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for themost part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristicformula. --COLERIDGE. 

PUNCTUALITY. --I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction thatthe individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, willnever be respected or successful in life. --REV. W. FISK. 

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it hasmade a man of me. --LORD NELSON. 

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of cleardishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. --HORACE MANN. 

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point. --LA FONTAINE. 

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character ifhe was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. --EMMONS. 

PURITY. --Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. --MATTHEW 5:8. 

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts thebarnacles will not cling. --J. G. HOLLAND. 

 While our hearts are pure, Our lives are happy and our peace is sure. --WILLIAM WINTER. 

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. --COLTON. 

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. --SOCRATES. 

QUARRELS. --Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on oneside. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is morebeautiful when they have passed. --MADAME NECKER. 

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have alwaysfound that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full ofunquietness. --BISHOP HALL. 

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has noright to complain if the sparks fly in his face. --FRANKLIN. 

 Those who in quarrel interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. --GAY. 

 Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. --SHAKESPEARE. 

READING. --Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is buta single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will makeitself felt at the end of the year. --HORACE MANN. 

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand wemark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those wealready possess. --ZIMMERMANN. 

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with nobleaspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it isgood, and is the work of a master-hand. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we shouldtake it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as wewould of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. --COLTON. 

We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing itonly to the best books. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead underevery variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness andcheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it wouldbe a taste for reading. --SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. 

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing anexact man. .. . Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. --BACON. 

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powersof invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit ofextensive and various reading without reflection. --DUGALD STEWART. 

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, andused to advise young people never to be without a book in theirpocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "Ithas been by that means, " said he to a boy at our house one day, "thatall my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up byrunning about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongueready to talk. "--MRS. PIOZZI. 

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got fromone book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flowergives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. --LYTTON. 

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. --COLLECT. 

Much reading is like much eating, --wholly useless without digestion. --SOUTH. 

REASON. --Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chiefeminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lowerworld. --DR. WATTS. 

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; forreason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and tobehave worthily. --CONFUCIUS. 

Though reason is not to be relied upon as universally sufficient todirect us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyedwhere it tells us what we are not to do. --SOUTH. 

He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, and he that dares not reason is a slave. --SIR W. DRUMMOND. 

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, byexperience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, bynature. --CICERO. 

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one goodreason for letting it alone. --WALTER SCOTT. 

One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, isonly our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needslight, --to see clearly and far, it needs the light of Heaven. 

The language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness, will often fail ofmaking an impression; it has no effect on the understanding, becauseit touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unassociated withreason, will frequently be unable to persuade; because, though it maygain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to convincethe judgment. But let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to resist. --GISBORNE. 

Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. --SHAKESPEARE. 

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everythingsubverts reason. --EPES SARGENT. 

REBUKE. --In all reprehensions, observe to express rather thy love thanthy anger; and strive rather to convince than exasperate: but if thematter do require any special indignation, let it appear to be thezeal of a displeased friend, rather than the passion of a provokedenemy. --FULLER. 

RECONCILIATION. --Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impiouscreatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweetreconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! thatthe wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteousman, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners!--JUSTINMARTYR. 

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlastingforgetfulness. --BEECHER. 

 As thro' the land at eve we went, And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, We fell out, my wife and I, We fell out I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears. 

 And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

 For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, Oh, there above the little grave, We kiss'd again with tears. --TENNYSON. 

Oh, my dear friends, --you who are letting miserable misunderstandingsrun on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day, --if youonly could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it wouldbreak the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which youmight never have another chance to do!--PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

REFINEMENT. --Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. --CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul ofman, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God'srefinement. --BEECHER. 

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, makesome compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. --HUME. 

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part ofthe downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances ofelegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. --DE QUINCEY. 

REFORM. --He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming thepublic, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots. --LAVATER. 

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a viceshould go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place;otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that hasproduced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficultythan it would cost to make it produce nothing. --COLTON. 

Time yet serves, wherein you may redeem your tarnished honors, andrestore yourselves into the good thoughts of the world again. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worstman good. --FRANKLIN. 

Reform, like charity, must begin at home. --CARLYLE. 

Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct inyourself. --SPRAT. 

He who reforms, God assists. --CERVANTES. 

REGENERATION. --Content not thyself with a bare forbearance of sin, solong as thy heart is not changed, nor thy will changed, nor thyaffections changed; but strive to become a new man, to be transformedby the renewing of thy mind, to hate sin, to love God, to wrestleagainst thy secret corruptions, to take delight in holy duties, tosubdue thine understanding, and will, and affections, to the obedienceof faith and godliness. --BP. SANDERSON. 

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world, " and the princeof this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is nosolitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greateralliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and theuniverse; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of Godin it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphantthing. --CUDWORTH. 

Regeneration is the ransacking of the soul, the turning of a man outof himself, the crumbling to pieces of the old man, and the newmoulding of it into another shape; it is the turning of stones intochildren, and a drawing of the lively portraiture of Jesus Christ uponthat very table that before represented only the very image of thedevil. .. . Art thou thus changed? Are all old things done away, and allthings in thee become new? Hast thou a new heart and renewedaffections? And dost thou serve God in newness of life andconversation? If not, --what hast thou to do with hopes of heaven? Thouart yet without Christ, and so consequently without hope. --BISHOPHOPKINS. 

REGRET. --A wrong act followed by just regret and thoughtful caution toavoid like errors, makes a man better than he would have been if hehad never fallen. --HORATIO SEYMOUR. 

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospectmeets it in his way, but he who catches it by retrospection turns backto find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but thatwhich is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. --LONGFELLOW. 

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of hishand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it, --indegree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness. --MISS MULOCK. 

 Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" --WHITTIER. 

RELIGION. --A religion that never suffices to govern a man will neversuffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish onefrom a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishingworld. --HOWE. 

 Religion crowns the statesman and the man, Sole source of public and of private peace. --YOUNG. 

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy;mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectationsof the weak-minded. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

The source of all good and of all comfort. --BURKE. 

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the mostgentlemanly thing in the world. It will _alone_ gentilize, if unmixedwith cant; and I know nothing else that will _alone_. --S. T. COLERIDGE. 

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, withoutschools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practisethnot worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw. --PLUTARCH. 

 Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. --COWPER. 

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were reallymade the principle of it instead of faith. --SHELLEY. 

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and theprivate school, supported entirely by private contributions; keep theChurch and the State forever apart. --U. S. GRANT. 

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granitepedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. --GUTHRIE. 

All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitiousbelief. --LAVATER. 

Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to Godcan never be true to man. --LORD BURLEIGH. 

A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle. --FROM THELATIN. 

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy tomirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks andsolemn faces. --WALTER SCOTT. 

Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were not. --JACOBI. 

A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scripturesdescribe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without Godin the world. " Such a man is out of his proper being, out of thecircle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, andaway, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation. --WEBSTER. 

All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have beenmuch greater and better with it. --COLTON. 

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of theirreligion as of their best service of china, only using it on holyoccasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-daywear. --DOUGLAS JERROLD. 

Wonderful! that the Christian religion, which seems to have no otherobject than the felicity of another life, should also constitute thehappiness of this. --MONTESQUIEU. 

Pour the balm of the Gospel into the wounds of bleeding nations. Plantthe tree of life in every soil, that suffering kingdoms may reposebeneath its shade and feel the virtue of its healing leaves, till allthe kindred of the human family shall be bound together in one commonbond of amity and love, and the warrior shall be a character unknownbut in the page of history. --THOMAS RAFFLES. 

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the mostostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual. --COLTON. 

A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering. --MASON. 

Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. --BUNYAN. 

A good name is better than precious ointment. --ECCLESIASTES 7:1. 

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one timebelieve--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor withoutthe sentiment of religion. --LA PLACE. 

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would thatman claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert thesegreat pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties ofmen and citizens. And let us with caution indulge the supposition thatmorality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be concededto the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national moralitycan prevail in exclusion of religious principle. --WASHINGTON. 

"When I was young, I was sure of many things; there are only twothings of which I am sure now; one is, that I am a miserable sinner;and the other, that Jesus Christ is an all sufficient Saviour. " He iswell taught who gets these two lessons. --JOHN NEWTON. 

If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. --H. G. J. ADAM. 

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, butto be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. --BEECHER. 

REMEMBRANCE. --Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannotbe driven away. --RICHTER. 

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was awrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow. --THACKERAY. 

 I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. --SHAKESPEARE. 

REMORSE. --Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, itsexpiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latterto a soul changed for the better. --JOUBERT. 

 Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. --COWPER. 

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. --CHATEAUBRIAND. 

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; andthere is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a stingin his soul. --TILLOTSON. 

REPENTANCE. --Repentance, without amendment, is like continuallypumping without mending the leak. --DILWYN. 

Repentance is but another name for aspiration. --BEECHER. 

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. --EPICTETUS. 

Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. --JULIAN. 

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because theyhave never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which theyhave been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed throughbefore they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it maybe observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if itproduce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it donot. --COLTON. 

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be abarren anguish. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken fromsin, to constitute repentance. --DEWEY. 

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall. --GOLDSMITH. 

 I will to-morrow, that I will, I will be sure to do it; To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, And still thou art to do it. Thus still repentance is deferred. From one day to another: Until the day of death is come, And judgment is the other. --DREXELIUS. 

As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend:I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair ofthe time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have beenbetter; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse. --ARTHURWARWICK. 

Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing. --SHAKESPEARE. 

REPOSE. --Power rests in tranquillity. --CECIL. 

Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great dealmore than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose?You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. --MONTAIGNE. 

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life, " says Seneca, "is to be withoutperturbations. "--BOVEE. 

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is therepose of minds. --LAVATER. 

REPROOF. --If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do itgracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproachthat is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling. --HALIBURTON. 

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injuryinflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it. --HOSEABALLOU. 

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with abow. --LYTTON. 

Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperlyadministered, it will do harm instead of good. --HORACE MANN. 

He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they werenot so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them. --ATTERBURY. 

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. --SOLON. 

REPUTATION. --The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to bewhat you desire to appear. --SOCRATES. 

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they mighthave made!--HOLMES. 

 O, reputation! dearer far than life, Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil Of the rude spiller, ever can collect To its first purity and native sweetness. --SEWELL. 

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never betterthan his principles. --LATÉNA. 

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what Godand angels know of us. --THOMAS PAINE. 

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should neverhave occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need theirgood opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking asto the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation allat once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in theworld, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions;for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. --TILLOTSON. 

RESIGNATION. --Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. --PROFESSOR VINET. 

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use itwisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it beintolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmurnot. After the cross is the crown. --QUARLES. 

"My will, not thine, be done, " turned Paradise into a desert. "Thywill, not mine, be done, " turned the desert into a paradise, and madeGethsemane the gate of heaven. --PRESSENSÉ. 

With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what wehave, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of thehuman soul and of its discipline. --GLADSTONE. 

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name ofthe Lord. --JOB 1:21. 

Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thouwilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothingthat pleases Thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thouchoosest. "--EPICTETUS. 

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern arainbow in it. --BISHOP HORNE. 

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever itbe, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it. --MOUNTFORD. 

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that whichis their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God havehis own when he calls for it?--WILLIAM PENN. 

RESOLUTION. --He only is a well-made man who has a good termination. --EMERSON. 

 Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect. --SHAKESPEARE. 

REST. --Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics;let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let yourlimbs rest, ye children of toil!--CARLYLE. 

 Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. --COWPER. 

God giveth quietness at last. --WHITTIER. 

 Of all our loving Father's gifts I often wonder which is best, And cry: Dear God, the one that lifts Our soul from weariness to rest, The rest of silence--that is best. --MARY CLEMMER. 

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. --HORACE GREELEY. 

RETIREMENT. --How much they err who, to their interest blind, slightthe calm peace which from retirement flows!--MRS. TIGHE. 

 Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell; Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. --SMOLLETT. 

 O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline-- How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease! --GOLDSMITH. 

 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --GRAY. 

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosedground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keepher fruit till it be ripe. --ST. CHRYSOSTOM. 

Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think ofretiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into acorner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Lethim come out as I do, and bark. --DR. JOHNSON. 

 The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, Or recollected only to gild o'er And add a smile to what was sweet before, He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, Improve the remnant of his wasted span. And having lived a trifler, die a man. --COWPER. 

But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life ofretirement? A man may be weary of the toils and torments of business, and yet quite unfit for the tranquil retreat. Without literature, friendship, and religion, retirement is in most cases found to be adead, flat level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body northe soul can enjoy health and life in a vacuum. --RUSTICUS. 

RICHES. --Riches exclude only one inconvenience, --that is, poverty. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and keptwithout sin. --ERASMUS. 

Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind'sappetite for its heavenly food; poverty, disgrace, and pain are thebitters which restore it. --BISHOP HORNE. 

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. --MOHAMMED. 

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. --SHAKESPEARE. 

He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poorwhose expenses exceed his income. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according towhat he is, not according to what he has. --BEECHER. 

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. --FRANKLIN. 

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. --PROVERBS 28:20. 

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only tohim who makes them a blessing to others. --FIELDING. 

SABBATH. --The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated tothought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to thenoblest society. --EMERSON. 

Students of every age and kind, beware of secular study on the Lord'sday. --PROFESSOR MILLER. 

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like asummer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It isthe joyous day of the whole week. --BEECHER. 

He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor. --O. W. HOLMES. 

SCANDAL. --If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is theperson of whom you ought never to speak. --CECIL. 

 There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame;-- On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. --ELLA LOUISA HERVEY. 

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing thatyou do not listen to it with pleasure. --ST. JEROME. 

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice. --EPHESIANS 4:31. 

SCEPTICISM. --Scepticism has never founded empires, establishedprinciples, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in historyhave always been men of faith. --CHAPIN. 

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. --BEECHER. 

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. --STERNE. 

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit aspoisoning the sources of eternal truth. --DR. JOHNSON. 

SECRECY. --The secret known to two is no longer a secret. --NINON DELENCLOS. 

Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhapsmore has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than bydiscovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both. 

A woman can keep one secret, --the secret of her age. --VOLTAIRE. 

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is withoutguilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is alwaystreachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. --DR. JOHNSON. 

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it isfolly. --HOLMES. 

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. --FRANKLIN. 

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. --DRYDEN. 

SELF-CONTROL. --He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketha city. --PROVERBS 16:32. 

What is the best government? That which teaches us to governourselves. --GOETHE. 

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. --MILTON. 

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. --THOMSON. 

He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who willnot. --ENGLISH PROVERB. 

SELF-DENIAL. --Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set usthe example. --ARY SCHEFFER. 

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trustgives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delightand peace which such complete self-surrender has to give. --PHILLIPSBROOKS. 

Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not, and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything. --CONYBEARE. 

The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God. --HORACE. 

The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the bestwhich teaches everything else, and not that. --JOHN STERLING. 

SELFISHNESS. --Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one willforgive in others, and no one is without in himself. --BEECHER. 

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven whodesires to go thither alone. --FELTHAM. 

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be morehappiness than we should know what to do with. --H. W. SHAW. 

We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, butworship ourselves. --CECIL. 

SILENCE. --Be silent, or say something better than silence. --PYTHAGORAS. 

 God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. --JOAQUIN MILLER. 

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrustshimself. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. --QUARLES. 

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idlesilence. --FRANKLIN. 

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks'silence. --FULLER. 

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. --BOUHOURS. 

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. --BOVEE. 

Silence does not always mark wisdom. --S. T. COLERIDGE. 

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. --PROVERBS 17:28. 

SIN. --Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God. --SIRHENRY VANE. 

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyousharvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its ownavenging angel, --dark misgivings at the inmost heart. --SCHILLER. 

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin betweenmyself and God. --GEORGE ELIOT. 

Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; theevil effect on himself is certain. --SOUTHEY. 

Many afflictions will not cloud and obstruct peace of mind so much asone sin: therefore, if you would walk cheerfully, be most careful towalk holily. All the winds about the earth make not an earthquake, butonly that within. --ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. 

 Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live; Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive; But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day, Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay. --CHURCHILL. 

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advancein it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back. --BARROW. 

Other men's sins are before our eyes, our own are behind our back. --SENECA. 

Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, toroot it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin orsinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thouleave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch. --E. B. PUSEY. 

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings atempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit. --REYNOLDS. 

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you;it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you;and though it brings you to the grave, as it did your head, it shallnot be able to keep you there. You love not death; love not the causeof death. --BAXTER. 

SINCERITY. --I think you will find that people who honestly mean to betrue really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who tryto be "consistent. "--HOLMES. 

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity isbetter; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he isnot, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as hepretends to?--TILLOTSON. 

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he giveshimself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, arecomparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of hisdaily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it maybe, has taken possession of him. --LOWELL. 

Private sincerity is a public welfare. --BARTOL. 

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an"honest man. "--WASHINGTON. 

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, toperform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we wouldseem and appear to be. --TILLOTSON. 

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all thingskeep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions offriendship. --LONGFELLOW. 

SLANDER. --When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listenersrefrain from evil-hearing. --HARE. 

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirtyhands. --JOSEPH PARKER. 

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who iswithout sin that may cast the first stone. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

 Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down; Or, by the tossing of the fan, describe the lady and the man. --SWIFT. 

Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all behanged, if so it could be at my decision--the carriers by theirtongues, the listeners by their ears. --PLAUTUS. 

 Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. --WALTER SCOTT. 

SLEEP. --One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. --FIELDING. 

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. --SAADI. 

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thylabor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest. --QUARLES. 

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which wasweaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. --BEECHER. 

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. --ALCOTT. 

There are many ways of inducing sleep, --the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet spongefixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer muchbetter than any of these succedaneums. --STERNE. 

Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. --ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA. 

 O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. --COLERIDGE. 

SOCIETY. --Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarelyforgives failure. --MME. ROLAND. 

Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take thebest places. --EMERSON. 

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, everybramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smilingverdure of a velvet surface. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

 Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie. To these we owe true friendship, love sincere, Each home-felt joy that life inherits here. --POPE. 

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners hebrings into society for the reception he meets with in it. --HAZLITT. 

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit heshows. --BERANGER. 

 Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use. --COWPER. 

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel whereanother is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society. --ADDISON. 

Society is composed of two great classes, --those who have more dinnersthan appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. --CHAMFORT. 

SUCCESS. --Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is thatnecessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success. --MIRABEAU. 

Nothing succeeds so well as success. --TALLEYRAND. 

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. --DE MAISTRE. 

The path of success in business is invariably the path ofcommon-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits, "the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comesby accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hopingfor is that which we are capable of making for ourselves. --SAMUELSMILES. 

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it comesat all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is soughtafter. --LONGFELLOW. 

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. --SHERIDAN. 

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway ofsteadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and workin the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; successtreads on the heels of every right effort. --SAMUEL SMILES. 

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, whichis frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merititself, and with several advantages that merit alone can nevercommand. --W. B. CLULOW. 

 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. --ADDISON. 

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; ifshe wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success. --JOUBERT. 

Successful minds work like a gimlet, --to a single point. --BOVEE. 

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hopeyour guardian genius. --ADDISON. 

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never makingthe same one the second time. --H. W. SHAW. 

SUICIDE. --Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world. --YOUNG. 

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, withouttreason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they aredemanded. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything thatis disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. --ARISTOTLE. 

 Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not: this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. Like sentries that must keep their destined stand, And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved, Those only are the brave who keep their ground, And keep it to the last. --BLAIR. 

Suicide is not a remedy. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

 Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. --COWPER. 

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on. --DR. GEORGE SEWELL. 

SUPERSTITION. --I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuinereligion, which is the support of it. --ROUSSEAU. 

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and thatis belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever beenthe most credulous. --GEORGE MACDONALD. 

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunningthe light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleepingdraughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but thestars are there and will reappear. --CARLYLE. 

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. --SENECA. 

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. --JOUBERT. 

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind;the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. --LAVATER. 

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or anyday of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness ofhis understanding. --DR. WATTS. 

Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worshipof God. --CICERO. 

Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad. --FIELDING. 

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, anddetesting superstition. --VOLTAIRE. 

SYMPATHY. --Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions arebut excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxuriousquiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has nopersonal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. --TALFOURD. 

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is externalto a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his ownsoul. --MOUNTFORD. 

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroadtrack, --but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. --BEECHER. 

The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are thepleasures of consciousness and sympathy. --PARKE GODWIN. 

 What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once--bright--pure--from pity's mine, Already polish'd by the Hand Divine. --BYRON. 

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. --SPURGEON. 

TACT. --Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliatethose you cannot conquer. --COLTON. 

A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast forcemight vainly strive to overcome. 

TALENT. --Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated tocommand admiration, may exist apart from wisdom. --ROBERT HALL. 

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own lineof talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; beanything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

Talent without tact is only half talent. --HORACE GREELEY. 

TALKING. --Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but onetongue. Draw your own moral. --ALPHONSE KARR. 

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. --OUIDA. 

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like abur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freelywith him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business. --PLUTARCH. 

 What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoken can never be recalled. --ROSCOMMON. 

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and suchwill thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy deeds. --SOCRATES. 

 But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. --DRYDEN. 

He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return whichhe will not like. --TERENCE. 

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatestevil that is done in the world. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strikedumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. --LAVATER. 

A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflectson what he has uttered. --FROM THE FRENCH. 

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The lessmen think, the more they talk. --MONTESQUIEU. 

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, isa niggard in deed. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

TEARS. --Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness ismirrored. --RICHTER. 

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, butof power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. Theyare the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and ofunspeakable love. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

 The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. --WALTER SCOTT. 

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption ofanother's sorrow. --AARON HILL. 

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. --THOMAS PAINE. 

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowingvirtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heartby. --AARON HILL. 

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet. --H. W. SHAW. 

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. --PSALM 126:5. 

Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem. --MARC ANDRÉ. 

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. --PSALM 30:5. 

TEMPER. --The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper thanfortune. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

 In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. --SPENSER. 

With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and"good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete. --FROM THE GERMAN. 

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to theinjury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence ofan ill temper. --BLAIR. 

Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to theinfluence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not?If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, ormorose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from orto?--JOHN ANGELL JAMES. 

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by allhonest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may beuseful, and every man's hatred is dangerous. --ISAAC BARROW. 

A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. --GUTHRIE. 

TEMPERANCE. --Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in thebody. --FRANKLIN. 

 Fools! not to know how far an humble lot Exceeds abundance by injustice got; How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, While luxury destroys her pamper'd train. --HESIOD. 

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all menwherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use hergifts. --CLAUDIAN. 

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the personit is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all otherparticular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeedso general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of themind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; itis the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the bestpreparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaidto devotion. --DEAN SOUTH. 

It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and ciderand fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?--SYDNEY SMITH. 

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like agod than a man. --BURTON. 

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. --SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife awidow. --JOHN NEAL. 

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of allvirtues. --FULLER. 

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain fromall fermented liquors. --SYDNEY SMITH. 

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I neverdid apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. --SHAKESPEARE. 

TEMPTATION. --'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. --SHAKESPEARE. 

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attackthe idle. --SPURGEON. 

If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good;but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat. --RICHTER. 

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. --DRYDEN. 

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. --J. Q. ADAMS. 

When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold outlong. --BISHOP WILSON. 

We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, ordraw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, butrashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but anoverdaring presumption. --KING. 

 But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. --POPE. 

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in manyformal prayers. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. --MATTHEW 26:41. 

THOUGHT. --Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one ofhis first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. --ABBÉ RAYNAL. 

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, haveusually been those who began by daring to think with themselves. --COLTON. 

Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them uponce for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the handsof the Angel of the Resurrection. --HOLMES. 

 Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. --WORDSWORTH. 

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters ofprudence last thoughts are best. --ROBERT HALL. 

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do notthink. --BUFFON. 

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makesheroes. --DISRAELI. 

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read andlearn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except thatwhich he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made theproperty of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man bythinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?--PESTALOZZI. 

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. --MARIEEBNER-ESCHENBACH. 

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. --HARE. 

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write downthe thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonlythe most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldomreturn. --BACON. 

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God. --C. A. BARTOL. 

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. --RIVAROL. 

Learning without thought is labor lost. --CONFUCIUS. 

The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and novelty. --CATHERALL. 

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. --PROVERBS 23:7. 

TIME. --Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, thefurther we make it go. --H. W. SHAW. 

 Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth; And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. --YOUNG. 

 Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last. --KEN. 

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the sterncorrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringingall they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other. --COLTON. 

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the samegradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personalappearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselvesanother and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less ofthe light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as ofaction. --WALTER SCOTT. 

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last. --SENECA. 

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. --LAVATER. 

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two goldenhours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, forthey are gone forever!--HORACE MANN. 

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. --MASON. 

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, whonever loses any. --THOMAS JEFFERSON. 

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot berecalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, ifthou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever. --JEREMYTAYLOR. 

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory andhis own salvation. --THOMAS FULLER. 

Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doingnothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. Weare always complaining that our days are few, and acting as thoughthere would be no end to them. --SENECA. 

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity willnot be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspentit. --FÉNELON. 

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. --HAWTHORNE. 

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stufflife is made of. --FRANKLIN. 

TOLERATION. --Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, andforgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. --THACKERAY. 

There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate theirvirtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, andtheir injuries with forgiveness. --DEWEY. 

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. --ARTHUR HELPS. 

It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love ourcousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feelthe heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira. --ELIZABETH CHARLES. 

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canstthou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?--THOMAS ÀKEMPIS. 

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die forit. --BEECHER. 

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall becomeindulgent toward those of others. --FÉNELON. 

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant toothers. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

TRAVEL. --A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. --SAADI. 

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. --CARLO GOLDONI. 

Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent toa place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. --RUSKIN. 

To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth abanishment become. --DONNE. 

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and insteadof thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. --DR. JOHNSON. 

He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest. --CORTES. 

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young travelerjust returned from abroad. --SWIFT. 

TRUST. --I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. --THOREAU. 

Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear noevil, for be assured that even "if the enemy comes in like a flood"the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. While atthat dread hour, when the world cannot help you, when all the powersof nature are in vain, yea, when your heart and your flesh shall failyou, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon Him who hassaid "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for ever. "--H. BLUNT. 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. --GEORGEMACDONALD. 

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. --PROVERBS 16:20. 

TRUTH. --There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless webelieve it because it is true. --WHATELY. 

 Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers. --BRYANT. 

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. --AMMIAN. 

And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mightyabove all things. --ESDRAS. 

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem tohave been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and divertingmyself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shellthan ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscoveredbefore me. --NEWTON. 

 For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. --DRYDEN. 

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can beno other virtue. --WALTER SCOTT. 

Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged bysilence. --AMMIAN. 

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help itout. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is readyto drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, andsets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great manymore to make it good. --TILLOTSON. 

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right toknow it; but let all you tell be truth. --HORACE MANN. 

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground oftruth. --BACON. 

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. --CHARLES SUMNER. 

The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice;and her constant companion is humility. --COLTON. 

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that couldbe trusted in matters of importance. --PALEY. 

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth. --HORACEMANN. 

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty. --MME. DE STAEL. 

 Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity. --WHITTIER. 

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thitherin a straight line. --TILLOTSON. 

The expression of truth is simplicity. --SENECA. 

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth andjustice. --DEMOSTHENES. 

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspirationof manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, whichis the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is thepresence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. --WHITTIER. 

The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; thereal with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but wherethey speak and think and do what they must, because they are so andnot otherwise. --EMERSON. 

UNHAPPINESS. --The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himselfto be so. --HENRY HOME. 

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevailrender any state of life whatsoever unhappy. --CICERO. 

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not somuch unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable. --GOETHE. 

VANITY. --All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love withhimself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything whichto others is indifferent. --AUERBACH. 

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheelthinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. --H. W. SHAW. 

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. --POPE. 

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes himto the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruinsthe character he is so industrious to advance by it. --ADDISON. 

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or incensure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of hisconversation. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptiblevices--the vices of affectation and common lying. --ADAM SMITH. 

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favorwith all others. --SHAKESPEARE. 

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with alittle vanity. --WASHINGTON. 

Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible. --STEELE. 

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable tous. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will bragof its vices. --H. W. SHAW. 

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. --MRS. JAMESON. 

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass. --LAVATER. 

Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. --PSALM 39:5. 

VICE. --Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens thatmen suffer more to be lost than to be saved. --COLTON. 

The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. --DIOGENES. 

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. --PLUTARCH. 

Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even inour pains. --COLTON. 

One sin another doth provoke. --SHAKESPEARE. 

What maintains one vice would bring up two children. --FRANKLIN. 

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men inthis world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God andthe other world. --DR. WATTS. 

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a viceshould go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew. --COLTON. 

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. 

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. --CHAPIN. 

 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. --POPE. 

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, butforbidden because they are hurtful. --FRANKLIN. 

VIRTUE. --Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. --HELVETIUS. 

 Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. --EMERSON. 

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinaryexertions, but by his every-day conduct. --PASCAL. 

Virtue consisteth of three parts, --temperance, fortitude, andjustice. --EPICURUS. 

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, inthe heavens immortal. --CHILD. 

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well aspray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of yourlife. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of ournatures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, whileeverything else is of men. --VOLTAIRE. 

 O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. --POPE. 

 Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell. --COLLINS. 

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is nobulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, orundermine and destroy. --SIR P. SIDNEY. 

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, orabstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doinggood. --BISHOP BUTLER. 

 What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. --POPE. 

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live toolong. --LADY RACHEL RUSSELL. 

If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue. --BURKE. 

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, notgold. --BEETHOVEN. 

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; asI would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. --SHAFTESBURY. 

 Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. --POPE. 

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with theintention of pleasing God alone. --BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame, --all thesebelong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to yourlove. --COWPER. 

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. --J. PETIT-SENN. 

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made amillion spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringedand carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough oflittle virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn becauseyou are neither a hero nor a saint. --BEECHER. 

WANT. --How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!--LAVATER. 

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do;therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be realwants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what hedoes not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. --COLTON. 

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we suppliedwith everything that nature can command, than we sit down to contriveartificial appetites. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first knownwaste. --SPURGEON. 

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more. --THOMAS ÀKEMPIS. 

Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and countsnot what he has, but wishes only what he has not. --MANILIUS. 

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answerthat it was in some place where there was no other just man. --ST. CLEMENT. 

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wantsare chiefly derived. --FIELDING. 

WAR. --War will never yield but to the principles of universal justiceand love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of JesusChrist. --CHANNING. 

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood. --BEECHER. 

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and thecost of the conflict must be paid. --JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nationsgenerally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them. --COLTON. 

War is a crime which involves all other crimes. --BROUGHAM. 

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means ofpreserving peace. --WASHINGTON. 

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet isthe smell of powder. --LONGFELLOW. 

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness forwar, and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace. --U. S. GRANT. 

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war. --C. J. FOX. 

Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you wouldpray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again. --WELLINGTON. 

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations ofcourtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clearnecessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it. --SOUTHEY. 

WASTE. --Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible howdestructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain incomeis made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by whichon the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. Itis a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner thananother, we cannot tell how. --DR. JOHNSON. 

WEALTH. --Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that haslittle, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wantsmore. --COLTON. 

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. Thecares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences ofan honest poverty. --L'ESTRANGE. 

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, usesoberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. --BACON. 

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. --MASSINGER. 

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while heis living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead;and by an egotism that is suicidal, and has a double edge, cutshimself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happinesshereafter. --COLTON. 

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expendit like a gentleman. --COLTON. 

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirstfor wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, andleave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle atall hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization shouldbe undone. --EMERSON. 

Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunatespeculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice ofindustry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means willrarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other willgenerally become bankrupt. --WAYLAND. 

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losingthem, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerningthem. --MATTHEW HENRY. 

What does competency in the long run mean? It means, to all reasonablebeings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss ofgiving. --WHIPPLE. 

The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It dependschiefly on two words, --industry and frugality. --FRANKLIN. 

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper objectof pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too higha price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, butthe love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relationbetween wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor whichis the essential thing. --HILLARD. 

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden wouldbe too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear forthem, that the bargain is a loss. --LA BRUYÈRE. 

It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotenceof wealth. --COLTON. 

 To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. --DR. JOHNSON. 

WIFE. --The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appearin a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like astratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets upa sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of highparentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that sheforgets what she is by match. --FULLER. 

 All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. --POPE. 

A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, --his gem of manyvirtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smileshis brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her armsthe pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economyhis safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom thesoftest pillow of his care. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happinessof one. --BURKE. 

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivialroughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly risingin mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband undermisfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blastof adversity. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Thy wife is a constellation of virtues, she's the moon, and thou artthe man in the moon. --CONGREVE. 

 For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. --MILTON. 

 What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife; When friendship, love and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine? --COWPER. 

O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house willreturn, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let himat such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded withdiscouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the footwhich should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that thesoft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at thedoor of other houses. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

WISDOM. --It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, both may seek us; butwisdom must be sought. --YOUNG. 

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what isbest worth doing. --HUMPHREYS. 

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding: for the merchandise of it is better than themerchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She ismore precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire arenot to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; andin her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that layhold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her. --PROV. 3:13-18. 

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys thatof which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. --SIMMS. 

 Where the eye of pity weep, And the sway of passion sleeps, Where the lamp of faith is burning, And the ray of hope returning, Where the "still small voice" within Whispers not of wrath or sin, Resting with the righteous dead-- Beaming o'er the drooping head-- Comforting the lowly mind, Wisdom dwelleth--seek and find. 

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; thesecond, to know that which is true. --LACTANTIUS. 

Seek wisdom where it may be found. Seek it in the knowledge of God, the holy, the just and the merciful God, as revealed to us in thegospel; of Him who is just, and yet the justifier of them that believein Jesus. --ARCHDEACON RAIKES. 

 Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. --WORDSWORTH. 

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in hislife, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. --SAADI. 

Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle withoutexhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the greatBook without impoverishing it. --RABBI BEN-AZAI. 

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of thepassions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear theinjuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all theways which lead to tranquillity and peace. --CICERO. 

Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but indiscerning those things which may come to pass. --TERENCE. 

That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knowsnot that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; andthat Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for thepromotion of evangelical truth. --BISHOP MANT. 

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts untowisdom. --PSALM 90:12. 

WIT. --I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. --MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ. 

Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others. --FROMTHE LATIN. 

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life bytasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness andlaughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to"charm his pained steps over the burning marle. "--SYDNEY SMITH. 

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but acomfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. --BISHOP HORNE. 

Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideasin which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make uppleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. --LOCKE. 

There is many a man hath more hair than wit. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. --POPE. 

Wit does not take the place of knowledge. --VAUVENARGUES. 

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before thenecessary. --M. DE MONTLOSIER. 

WOMAN. --Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven intothe life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds oflove; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherishcarefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. --SCHILLER. 

 The world was sad!--the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh'd--till woman smiled. --CAMPBELL. 

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which isreflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them. --J. G. HOLLAND. 

O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before aman, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices anddumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?--RICHTER. 

 Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight; Domestic worth, --that shuns too strong a light. --LORD LYTTLETON. 

Nature sent women into the world with this bridal dower of love, forthis reason, that they might be, what their destination is, mothers, and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered and fromwhom none are to be obtained. --RICHTER. 

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is herworld; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there heravarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies onadventure, she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy ofthe heart. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

 A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. --SHAKESPEARE. 

 What's a table richly spread, Without a woman at its head? --T. WHARTON. 

 O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! --WALTER SCOTT. 

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are muchmore serviceable in life, than petticoated philosophers, blusteringheroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her childrenhappy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other tovirtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from theirquiver or their eyes. --GOLDSMITH. 

 If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. --GAY. 

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. --BEECHER. 

 Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. --E. S. BARRETT. 

 O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. --ABRAHAM COLES. 

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant isrifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered byProvidence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of manin his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten withsudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of hisnature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up thebroken heart. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

Women in health are the hope of the nation. Men who exercise acontrolling influence--the master spirits--with a few exceptions, havehad country-born mothers. They transmit to their sons those traits ofcharacter--moral, intellectual, and physical--which give stability toinstitutions, and promote order, security, and justice. --DR. J. V. C. SMITH. 

Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and musclehave won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. Nomonarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not beenglad to lay his best at the feet of a woman. --GAIL HAMILTON. 

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits(besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these aretheir ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress. --ABBA GOOLDWOOLSON. 

 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. 

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which womensustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasterswhich break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dustseem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give suchintrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times itapproaches to sublimity. --WASHINGTON IRVING. 

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself will always be the textof the life of women. --BALZAC. 

All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties ofa daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. --STEELE. 

I have always said it--nature meant to make woman its master-piece. --LESSING. 

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in theorder of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to manas a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. Toreligion alone do European women owe their liberty. --ST. PIERRE. 

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, whichdistinguish them, and often raise them above human nature, --compassionand enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasmthey exalt themselves. --LAMARTINE. 

The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white rosesplease less than red. --HOLMES. 

There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than bythe just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentleencouragement of amiable and sensible women. --ROMILLY. 

WORDS. --A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir upanger. --PROVERBS 15:1. 

 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. --SHAKESPEARE. 

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as farfrom speaking ill as from doing ill. --CICERO. 

 Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. --EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2. 

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does notreturn to the bow; nor a word to the lips. --ABDEL-KADER. 

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seenhunting for words. --H. W. SHAW. 

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate tosee a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see aparcel of big words without anything in them. --HAZLITT. 

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health tothe bones. --PROVERBS 16:24. 

Men who have much to say use the fewest words. --H. W. SHAW. 

What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spokencan never be recalled. --ROSCOMMON. 

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talkabout it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to donothing else. --CARLYLE. 

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our wordsand actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stoppingwheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity. --M. M. BREWSTER. 

"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve usfrom the destructive power of words! There are words which canseparate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose stingcan remain through a whole life!--MARY HOWITT. 

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!--PROVERBS 15:22, 23. 

WORK. --Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get. --MRS. BROWNING. 

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular workfor the world which falls to his share. Even though the fullunderstanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not bepresent with him; if he but love it--always assuming that hisconscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction. --LEO W. GRINDON. 

Nothing is impossible to industry. --PERIANDER. 

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in activeemployment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates intoindifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a wearinessonly to the idle, or where the soul is empty. --LEO W. GRINDON. 

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should heeat. --II THESS. 3:10. 

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you doyou must do more than pray for it, you must work for it. --RUSKIN. 

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. Thereis always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; andblessed are the horny hands of toil. --LOWELL. 

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurtanybody. --LORD STANLEY. 

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employmentsoccupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing ofthe heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands thegreater part. --SCHLEIERMACHER. 

 On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. --EMERSON. 

We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing isour best enjoyment. --JACOBI. 

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatestornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. --CARLYLE. 

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man aseating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible mancan be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. Theworld possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes. --WILHELMVON HUMBOLDT. 

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you couldhardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon theblade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but thefriction. --BEECHER. 

WORLD. --The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew bydescription; one must travel through it one's self to be acquaintedwith it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes ofthe world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, whojudiciously endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it. --CHESTERFIELD. 

 To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little long. --YOUNG. 

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed mycourse in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reasonto believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, Ishall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For natureappears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place ofsojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement orpermanent habitation. --CICERO. 

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship. --GEORGEMACDONALD. 

The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry mustpay his soul. --HAFIZ. 

 O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? --QUARLES. 

This world is God's world, after all. --CHARLES KINGSLEY. 

There is another and a better world. --KOTZEBUE. 

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it andpronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast theireyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, amiserable production, a poor concern. --BOVEE. 

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. --LOCKE. 

Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, andthe honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. Andextricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible. --FULLER. 

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as aknowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it exceptat the expense of a hardened or wounded heart. --LADY BLESSINGTON. 

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, attimes grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented withthe world who did his duty in it. --SOUTHEY. 

Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is. Thouwilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canstnot bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of lifewhich thou hast formed in thy own mind. --FULLER. 

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but onlyto discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that Godappoints. --JEAN INGELOW. 

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more thanourselves. --H. W. SHAW. 

 O what a glory doth this world put on, For him who with a fervent heart goes forth, Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed and days well spent. --LONGFELLOW. 

Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. --ST. AUGUSTINE. 

WORSHIP. --The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege ofman, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. --HOSEABALLOU. 

It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers arerequired; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man maybe made better, --that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of hisdependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions inwhich his highest improvement consists. --BLAIR. 

 Lord, let us to thy gates repair To hear the gladdening sound, That we may find salvation there, While yet it may be found. 

 There let us joy and comfort reap; There teach us how to pray, For grace to choose, and strength to keep The strait, the narrow way. 

 And so increase our love for Thee, That all our future days May one continued Sabbath be Of gratitude and praise. --OKE. 

Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of theworshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him withour whole heart whom we pretend to worship. --BISHOP HENSHAWE. 

The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of thetimes and improving the condition of mankind. --ABULFAZZI. 

YOUTH. --The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed asin practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a graceand a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest. --BISHOPMANT. 

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard inmanhood, and a wretched miser in old age. --J. HAWES. 

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look forfruit on it in autumn. --HARE. 

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try toenjoy them. --RÜCKERT. 

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. Butyouth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season ofdisposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than anyother, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, andthe young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity. --J. HAWES. 

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one'sown opinions, and value others' that deserve it. --SIR W. TEMPLE. 

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. --ECCLESIASTES 12:1. 

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle alwaysproduces the thistle. --J. T. FIELDS. 

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, youngacquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, youngmen have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentimentsin every respect. --DR. JOHNSON. 

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise tobe. --GOETHE. 

Reckless youth makes rueful age. --FRANKLIN. 

 Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. --HANNAH MORE. 

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. --LYTTON. 

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always beginanew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. --GOETHE. 

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to beso. --DR. METCALF. 

As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, soI am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of theyouth. --CICERO. 

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have dueconsideration. --RIVAROL. 

ZEAL. --Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead ofexciting, stun and stupefy the mind. --COLERIDGE. 

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought moredisparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. --BARROW. 

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge islost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus placehimself that knowledge may grow. --BUDDHA. 

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. --SHENSTONE. 

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the goldenthread that ties their hearts together. --JEREMY TAYLOR. 

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, thelatter is divine. --HOSEA BALLOU. 

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. --WILLIAM PENN. 

Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, ofgentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lordprescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on anattachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departurefrom the religion of Him, "the Son of Man, " who "came not to destroymen's lives, but to save them. "--BISHOP MANT. 

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be eitherpetulancy, ambition, or pride. --SWIFT. 

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. --NEWTON. 

Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busilyto please God, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices whichplease Him not. --HOOKER. 

We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid to answer. --SCOTT. 

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Transcriber's Notes: The following have been changed from theoriginal book:

Publius Syrius (twice) changed to: Publius Syrus (for consistency). A shining glass, that fadeth suddenly; changed to A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly; (typo). Proverbs 11:24 changed to Proverbs 11:25 (correct verse).