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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Many Thoughts of Many Minds + A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age + +Author: Various + +Editor: Louis Klopsch + +Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17112] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANY THOUGHTS OF MANY MINDS *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Diane Monico, and +the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<h1>MANY THOUGHTS OF<br /> +MANY MINDS</h1> + +<hr style="width: 20%;" /> + +<h2>A Treasury of Quotations from the<br /> +Literature of Every Land<br /> +and Every Age.<br /><br /></h2> + +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 479px;"> +<img src="images/image001.jpg" width="479" height="300" alt="" title="" /> +<br /></p> + +<h4>COMPILED BY</h4> +<h3>LOUIS KLOPSCH<br /><br /></h3> + +<hr style="width: 20%;" /> + +<p class="center">PUBLISHED BY<br /> +<big>THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,</big><br /> +<span class="smcap">Louis Klopsch</span>, Proprietor,<br /> +BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 33%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<p class="center">Copyright, 1896,<br /> +By <span class="smcap">Louis Klopsch</span>. +</p> + +<hr style="width: 33%;" /> + + +<h2><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>In the limited compass of this small volume, the compiler has +endeavored to employ only such material as is likely to prove of +service to the largest circle of readers. Nearly four hundred subjects +have received consideration at his hands, and the quotations given are +from standard authors of recognized ability. Upwards of twenty-five +hundred extracts from the choicest literature of all ages and tongues, +topically arranged, and in scope so wide as to touch on nearly every +subject that engages the human mind, constitute a treasury of thought +which, it is hoped, will be acceptable and helpful to all into whose +hands this volume may chance to fall.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Topics" id="Topics"></a>Topics Grouped by Alphabet</h2> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" summary="Topics"> +<tr> +<td><big><a href="#Ability">A</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Bashfulness">B</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Care">C</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Death">D</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Early_Rising">E</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Faith">F</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Gambling">G</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Habit">H</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Idleness">I</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Jealousy">J</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Kindness">K</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Labor">L</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Man">M</a></big></td></tr> +<tr> +<td><big><a href="#Nature">N</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Obedience">O</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Paradise">P</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Quarrels">Q</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Reading">R</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Sabbath">S</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Tact">T</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Unhappiness">U</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Vanity">V</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Want">W</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Youth">Y</a></big></td> +<td><big><a href="#Zeal">Z</a></big></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> +<h1><a name="Many_Thoughts_of_Many_Minds" id="Many_Thoughts_of_Many_Minds"></a>Many Thoughts of Many Minds.<br /></h1> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Ability" id="Ability"></a>Ability.</big></b>—No man is without some quality, by the due application of +which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has +but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he +be confounded with him that can do nothing.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others +judge us by what we have already done.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his +abilities, and for no more.—<span class="smcap">Gail Hamilton</span>.</p> + +<p>The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for +mere external show.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and +often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Ability is a poor man's wealth.—<span class="smcap">Matthew Wren</span>.</p> + +<p>The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or +woman.—<span class="smcap">Elizabeth Oakes Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Natural ability can almost compensate for the want of every kind of +cultivation; but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want +of natural ability.—<span class="smcap">Schopenhauer</span>.</p> + +<p>An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute +actions.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Absolution.</big></b>—No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, +just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no +sin.—<span class="smcap">Bede</span>.</p> + +<p>He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of +all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.—<span class="smcap">St. +Clement of Alexandria</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord +Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man +can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely +to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.—<span class="smcap">St. +Ambrose</span>.</p> + +<p>It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from +their sins.—<span class="smcap">St. Cyril</span>.</p> + +<p>Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone +can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless +we bring repentance with us.—<span class="smcap">St. Ambrose</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Action.</big></b>—The thing done avails, and not what is said about +it.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness +without action.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + +<p>There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are +bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of +those that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtful +actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to +greater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually +reconcile us to darkness.—<span class="smcap">A. Reed</span>.</p> + +<p>To the valiant actions speak alone.—<span class="smcap">Smollett</span>.</p> + +<p>It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.—<span class="smcap">Horace +Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are +incompatible.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Is our destined end or way;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But to act, that each to-morrow<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Finds us farther than to-day.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i6"> * * * *</span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let the dead Past bury its dead!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Act, act, in the living Present!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Heart within, and God o'erhead!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<p>Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the +world weigh less than a single lovely action.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Prodigious actions may as well be done<br /></span> +<span class="i1">By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and +vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the +poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the +dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with +graciousness, or oppose with firmness.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and +virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken +banners over us.—<span class="smcap">J. Shirley</span>.</p> + +<p>Our acts make or mar us,—we are the children of our own +deeds.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well +as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, +is its own reward.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Adversity.</big></b>—Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been +productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the +hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the +darkest storm.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day +of adversity only one.—<span class="smcap">Horatius Bonar</span>.</p> + +<p>Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds +rise above them.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But were we burden'd with like weight of pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But most chastises those whom most he likes.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pomfret.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my +acquaintance.—<span class="smcap">Bolingbroke</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">On every thorn delightful wisdom grows;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In every rill a sweet instruction flows.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i6">When Providence, for secret ends,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We must conclude it best it should be so,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And not desponding or impatient grow.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pomfret.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is +small.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 24:10</span>.</p> + +<p>Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous +circumstances, would have lain dormant.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In this wild world the fondest and the best<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Crabbe.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem +the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the +feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises +above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by +affliction.—<span class="smcap">Chenevix</span>.</p> + +<p>There is healing in the bitter cup.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the +blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the +clearer revelation of God's favor.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's +disappointment draws out the pain and allays the +irritation.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.—<span class="smcap">Hebrews 12:6</span>.</p> + +<p>The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and +smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of +tribulation.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a +state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Affectation.</big></b>—Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of +many a comparatively wise man.</p> + +<p>We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as +by those which we aim at, or affect to have.—<span class="smcap">From the +French</span>.</p> + +<p>Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the +small-pox.—<span class="smcap">St. Evremond</span>.</p> + +<p>All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to +appear rich.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does +sins.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Affection.</big></b>—A loving heart is the truest wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Dickens</span>.</p> + +<p>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the +earth.—<span class="smcap">Colossians 3:2</span>.</p> + +<p>Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the +life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they +are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.—<span class="smcap">Hawthorne</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A solitary blessing few can find,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our joys with those we love are intertwined,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And he whose wakeful tenderness removes<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Smooths not another's rugged path alone,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But scatters roses to adorn his own.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant +spot on the surface of the globe.</p> + +<p>Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is +the beating of a loving heart.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and +repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—<span class="smcap">Willis</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Affliction.</big></b>—God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with +tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His +commandments.—<span class="smcap">T.L. Cuyler</span>.</p> + +<p>The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his +burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able +to bear the burden.—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + +<p>Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which +are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they +are the very ones he needs.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.—<span class="smcap">George +Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Aromatic plants bestow<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No spicy fragrance where they grow;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But crushed and trodden to the ground,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Diffuse their balmy sweets around.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of +humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the +strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.</p> + +<p>Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of +extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary +graces.—<span class="smcap">Matthew Henry</span>.</p> + +<p>If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to +what it teaches.—<span class="smcap">Burgh</span>.</p> + +<p>Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.—<span class="smcap">Job 5:7</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where patience, honor, sweet humanity,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Mallet and Thomson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Burns.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, +the chaff from the corn.—<span class="smcap">Molinos</span>.</p> + +<p>No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: +nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of +righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.—<span class="smcap">Hebrews +12:11</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Age.</big></b>—No wise man ever wished to be younger.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without +emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to +gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader +and deeper upon the understanding.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no +fault committed that I have not committed myself.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old +men, but only of such as are distinguished by their +levity.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age +brings with it its own defects.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written +upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.—<span class="smcap">James A. +Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old +age.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may +still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind +Providence 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 very +bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.—<span class="smcap">W.A. Newman</span>.</p> + +<p>Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Few people know how to be old.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a +sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with +age.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and +comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old, +and remember, when he is old, that he has once been +young.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the +distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our +enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before +us.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest +thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing +old.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Ambition.</big></b>—Most people would succeed in small things if they were +not troubled with great ambitions.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He who surpasses or subdues mankind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Must look down on the hate of those below.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Southey.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The path of glory leads but to the grave.—<span class="smcap">Gray</span>.</p> + +<p>We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well; and +when that care is once taken, not to be over anxious about the +success.—<span class="smcap">Rochester</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear +and tear of heart are never recompensed,—it steals away the freshness +of life,—it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments,—it shuts our +souls to our own youth,—and we are old ere we remember that we have +made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I charge thee, fling away ambition:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">By that sin fell the angels.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher +than himself, and a mean man by one which is lower than himself. The +one produces aspiration; the other, ambition. Ambition is the way in +which a vulgar man aspires.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes +and aspirations, as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his +nature, and quenched the spirit of immortality, which is his +portion.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Ambition has but one reward for all:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A little power, a little transient fame,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A grave to rest in, and a fading name!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—William Winter.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">All my ambition is, I own,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To profit and to please unknown;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like streams supplied from springs below,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which scatter blessings as they go.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Cotton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Angels.</big></b>—If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, +they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.—<span class="smcap">G.D. +Prentice</span>.</p> + +<p>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 it +down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out +forever.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +<span class="i1">There are two angels that attend unseen<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each one of us, and in great books record<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The good ones, after every action closes<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His volume, and ascends with it to God.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The other keeps his dreadful day-book open<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The record of the action fades away,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And leaves a line of white across the page.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Now if my act be good, as I believe it,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It cannot be recalled. It is already<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The rest is yours.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><b><big>Anger.</big></b>—And to be wroth with one we love<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Doth work like madness in the brain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Coleridge.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Anger is implanted in us as a sort of sting, to make us gnash with our +teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set +us in array against each other.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Savage.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, +alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will +not.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Men in rage strike those that wish them best.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.—<span class="smcap">W.R. +Alger</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; +it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed +by it more than any other against whom it is +directed.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + +<p>When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a +hundred.—<span class="smcap">Jefferson</span>.</p> + +<p>An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.—<span class="smcap">Cato</span>.</p> + +<p>When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets +angry.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.—<span class="smcap">Ephesians 4:26</span>.</p> + +<p>Anger begins with folly and ends with +repentance.—<span class="smcap">Pythagoras</span>.</p> + +<p>Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve of in +another.—<span class="smcap">Pasquier Quesnel</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Anxiety.</big></b>—Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than +ruined by too confident a security.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human +events?—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world +than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so +remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what +progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they +go 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 their +childhood.—<span class="smcap">Rogers</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which +we endure and generally occasion ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Art.</big></b>—The perfection of art is to conceal art.—<span class="smcap">Quintilian</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of +folly.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of +art.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Art does not imitate, but interpret.—<span class="smcap">Mazzini</span>.</p> + +<p>Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his +glory.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Associates.</big></b>—Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good +manners.—<span class="smcap">1 Corinthians 15:20</span>.</p> + +<p>He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; he who adheres to a +sect has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student, +and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary +pedants.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.—<span class="smcap">Solomon</span>.</p> + +<p>If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to +limp.—<span class="smcap">From the Latin</span>.</p> + +<p>If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only +who are estimable.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of +thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy +superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company +is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the +worst there.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>A companion of fools shall be destroyed.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 13:20</span>.</p> + +<p>Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have +it.—<span class="smcap">Lord Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he +can meet his betters, intellectual and social.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.—<span class="smcap">George +Herbert</span>.</p> + +<p>It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in +eternity.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Astronomy.</big></b>—The contemplation of celestial things will make a man +both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends +to human affairs.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Daily the wisdom, power and love of God.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The moon awoke, and from her maiden face,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens,—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of purity, and holiness, and God.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Robert Pollok.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I love to rove amidst the starry height,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To leave the little scenes of Earth behind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And let Imagination wing her flight<br /></span> +<span class="i2">On eagle pinions swifter than the wind.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I love the planets in their course to trace;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To mark the comets speeding to the sun,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Then launch into immeasurable space,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Where, lost to human sight, remote they run.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I love to view the moon, when high she rides<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Amidst the heav'ns, in borrowed lustre bright;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To fathom how she rules the subject tides,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And how she borrows from the sun her light.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">O! these are wonders of th' Almighty hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Whose wisdom first the circling orbits planned.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—T. Rodd.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Atheism.</big></b>—I should like to see a man sober in his habits, moderate, +chaste, just in his dealings, assert that there is no God; he would +speak at least without interested motives; but such a man is not to be +found.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +<span class="i1">An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For Deity offended!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Burns.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 14:1</span>.</p> + +<p>Kircher, the astronomer, having an acquaintance who denied the +existence of a Supreme Being, took the following method to convince +him of his error. Expecting him on a visit, he placed a handsome +celestial globe in a part of the room where it could not escape the +notice of his friend, who, on observing it, inquired whence it came, +and who was the maker.</p> + +<p>"It was not made by any person," said the astronomer.</p> + +<p>"That is impossible," replied the sceptic; "you surely jest."</p> + +<p>Kircher then took occasion to reason with his friend upon his own +atheistical principles, explaining to him that he had adopted this +plan with a design to show him the fallacy of his scepticism.</p> + +<p>"You will not," said he, "admit that this small body originated in +mere chance, and yet you contend that those heavenly bodies, to which +it bears only a faint and diminutive resemblance, came into existence +without author or design."</p> + +<p>He pursued this chain of reasoning till his friend was totally +confounded, and cordially acknowledged the absurdity of his notions.</p> + +<p>By night an atheist half believes a God.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>No one is so much alone in the world as a denier of +God.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them +that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade +themselves so.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and +feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy +Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>Atheism can benefit no class of people,—neither the unfortunate, whom +it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders +insipid.—<span class="smcap">Chateaubriand</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Authority.</big></b>—Self-possession is the backbone of +authority.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i8">Man, proud man!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Dressed in a little brief authority:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His glassy essence—like an angry ape<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As make the angels weep.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose +with gold.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Authors.</big></b>—Choose an author as you choose a friend.—<span class="smcap">Earl of +Roscommon</span>.</p> + +<p>The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, +as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the +trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like +laborers from the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves +lucky to get the dinner.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a doubt whether mankind are most indebted to those who, like +Bacon and Butler, dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to +those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and +give it currency and utility.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too +little.—<span class="smcap">Roger Ascham</span>.</p> + +<p>He who proposes to be an author should first be a +student.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man +whose judgment stands constitutionally at the +freezing-point.—<span class="smcap">Douglas Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this +self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the +mind.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.</p> + +<p>There are three difficulties in authorship—to write anything worth +the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible +men to read it.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">An author! 'Tis a venerable name!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How few deserve it, and what numbers claim!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That sole proprietor of just applause.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on +it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry +on it.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">How many great ones may remember'd be,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which in their days most famously did flourish,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Because the living cared not to cherish<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which might their names for ever memorize!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Spenser.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things +familiar, and familiar things new.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it +is to possess at once intellect, soul and taste.—<span class="smcap">Buffon</span>.</p> + +<p>Young authors give their brains much exercise and little +food.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Avarice.</big></b>—It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be +the chief good.—<span class="smcap">Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.—<span class="smcap">Publius +Syrus</span>.</p> + +<p>There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an +avaricious man—the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the +other the prospect of leaving what he has already +acquired.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sake<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The fool throws up his interest in both worlds,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Blair.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the +want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the +little great.—<span class="smcap">Zimmermann</span>.</p> + +<p>Avarice is the vice of declining years.—<span class="smcap">George Bancroft</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sees but a backward steward for the poor;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">This year a reservoir, to keep and spare;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The love of money is the root of all evil.—<span class="smcap">1 Timothy 6:10</span>.</p> + +<p>The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, +which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no +fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.—<span class="smcap">Zeno</span>.</p> + +<p>Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to +increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our +journey's end?—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all +things.—<span class="smcap">Cowley</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Bashfulness" id="Bashfulness"></a>Bashfulness.</big></b>—Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; +bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.—<span class="smcap">Mary +Wollstonecraft</span>.</p> + +<p>As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the +gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining +bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature +and humanity.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old +age.—<span class="smcap">Aristotle</span>.</p> + +<p>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 of +principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a +total ignorance of vice.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Beauty.</big></b>—It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that +completes the charm.—<span class="smcap">Fontenelle</span>.</p> + +<p>Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy +forever."—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to +whom it has been refused.—<span class="smcap">Gibbon</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What is beauty? Not the show<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of shapely limbs and features. No.<br /></span> +<span class="i3">These are but flowers<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That have their dated hours<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To breathe their momentary sweets, then go.<br /></span> +<span class="i3">'Tis the stainless soul within<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That outshines the fairest skin.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Sir A. Hunt.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful +within.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the +beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, +believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.—<span class="smcap">G.A. +Sala</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of +woman.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half +married.—<span class="smcap">Ouida</span>.</p> + +<p>Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed +with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold +power.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that +which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one +year.—<span class="smcap">Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral +truth.—<span class="smcap">Shaftesbury</span>.</p> + +<p>Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best +to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as +possible on the dark and the base.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower +without fragrance, a tree without fruit.—<span class="smcap">Regnier</span>.</p> + +<p>All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes +beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the +quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion +that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will +be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being +amiable and beloved in the highest degree.—<span class="smcap">Frederika Bremer</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty +cannot supply the absence of good nature.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her +beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally +subject to change.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of +nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful +prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing +was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all +the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas a +glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor +bestowed by the gods.—<span class="smcap">From the Italian</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A shining <a name="gloss" id="gloss"></a>gloss, that fadeth suddenly;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A brittle glass, that's broken presently;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And as good lost is seld or never found,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As broken glass no cement can redress,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Give me a look, give me a face,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That makes simplicity a grace;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Robes loosely flowing, hair as free!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Such sweet neglect more taketh me,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than all the adulteries of art;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That strike mine eyes, but not my heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Ben Jonson.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Benevolence.</big></b>—Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far +nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect +but not the image of God.—<span class="smcap">Howells</span>.</p> + +<p>Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall +in no wise go unrewarded; here, by the testimony of an approving +conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and +a brighter inheritance in His Father's house.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Mant</span>.</p> + +<p>God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented +from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the +prayers of others.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his +life.—<span class="smcap">W.R. Alger</span>.</p> + +<p>There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as our +benevolence. We should husband our means as the agriculturalist his +fertilizer, which if he spread over too large a superficies produces +no crop, if over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in +weeds.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem; +but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections.—<span class="smcap">From the +French</span>.</p> + +<p>Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a +vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and +popped it in, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn +costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of +timber.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil +and twopence.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It <i>goeth</i> +about doing good.—<span class="smcap">Nevins</span>.</p> + +<p>Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It +is a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn by +the rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform at +the call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to give +splendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead your +willing footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not the +impulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. +You must go to the poor man's cottage, though no verdure flourish +around it, and no rivulet be nigh to delight you by the gentleness of +its murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction you +will be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere, in spite of +every discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but a +principle; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a +business for the hand to execute.—<span class="smcap">Chalmers</span>.</p> + +<p>The only way to be loved, is to be and to appear lovely; to possess +and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from +selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others.—<span class="smcap">Jay</span>.</p> + +<p>Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his +benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to +whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love +thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first +and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good +to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that +love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the +inclination to do good.—<span class="smcap">Kant</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +<span class="i1">The lessons of prudence have charms,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And slighted, may lead to distress;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But the man whom benevolence warms<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is an angel who lives but to bless.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bloomfield.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so +distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Bible.</big></b>—The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of +youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The +history of every man should be a Bible.—<span class="smcap">Novalis</span>.</p> + +<p>The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of +suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.—<span class="smcap">Flavel</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Within that awful volume lies<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The mystery of mysteries!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Happiest they of human race,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To whom God has granted grace<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To lift the latch and force the way;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And better had they ne'er been born,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Like the needle to the North Pole, the Bible points to +heaven.—<span class="smcap">R.B. Nichol</span>.</p> + +<p>There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling +into error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will +of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His +power.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. It ought, therefore, to +hold the chief place in every situation of learning throughout +Christendom; and I do not know of a higher service that could be +rendered to this republic than the bringing about this desirable +result.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Nutt</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is +not the New Testament, it is not the gospel according to Matthew, or +Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William, it is +the Gospel according to Mary, it is the Gospel according to Henry and +James, it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own +Bible.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>A single book has saved me; but that book is not of human origin. Long +had I despised it; long had I deemed it a class-book for the credulous +and ignorant; until, having investigated the Gospel of Christ, with an +ardent desire to ascertain its truth or falsity, its pages proffered +to my inquiries the simplest knowledge of man and nature, and the +simplest, and at the same time the most exalted system of moral +ethics. Faith, hope and charity were enkindled in my bosom; and every +advancing step strengthened me in the conviction that the morals of +this book are as infinitely superior to human morals as its oracles +are superior to human opinions.—<span class="smcap">M.L. Bautin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Whence but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In several ages born, in several parts,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<p>I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will +like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into +the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of +Christ.—<span class="smcap">Romaine</span>.</p> + +<p>It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without +any mixture of error, for its matter: it is all pure, all sincere, +nothing too much, nothing wanting.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every +district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal +support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Here there is milk for babes, whilst there is manna for angels; truth +level with the mind of a peasant; truth soaring beyond the reach of a +seraph.—<span class="smcap">Rev. Hugh Stowell</span>.</p> + +<p>It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has +served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found +capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I +have sometimes made but a bad use of it.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Bigotry.</big></b>—All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who +believes there is no virtue but on his own side.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that +man I will show you one who will never be admitted into +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Biography.</big></b>—The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be +and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an +inspiration to others.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have +risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence +and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct +tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.—<span class="smcap">Horace +Mann</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity +is to continue in a state of childhood all our +days.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Boasting.</big></b>—Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; +nature never pretends.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a +minute than he will stand to in a month.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to +acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own +actions.—<span class="smcap">Æschines</span>.</p> + +<p>The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of +it.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Brags of his substance, not of ornament:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">They are but beggars that can count their worth.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Books.</big></b>—When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates +languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue +the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true +friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted +sorrow.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently +read.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will +hardly love them enough afterward to understand +them.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + +<p>I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy +feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among +horses.—<span class="smcap">O.W. Holmes</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their +feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by +their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the +purchaser.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing +companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both +continents would not compensate for the good they +impart.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put <i>fire</i> +into their works would only consent to put their works into the +<i>fire</i>.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i12">Books, dear books,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Adversity, prosperity, at home,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Abroad, health, sickness—good or ill report,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And source of consolation.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Dodd.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and +courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it +is good, and made by a good workman.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support +us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. +They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our +cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we +are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing +of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy +Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he +that studies men will know how things are.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; +the rest are confounded with the multitude.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the +refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in +the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which +is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than +life.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>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 that +comes from a great thinker—it is a ship of thought, deep freighted +with truth and with beauty.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.</p> + +<p>Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser +by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into +disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books +serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Brevity.</big></b>—Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and +outward flourishes.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other +virtues—righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship +without the other.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with +sunbeams—the more they are condensed the deeper they +burn.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression; +the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.—<span class="smcap">Alfred +Bougeant</span>.</p> + +<p>The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the +greater the profit.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +<span class="i1">With vivid words your just conceptions grace,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Much truth compressing in a narrow space;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Then many shall peruse, but few complain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pindar.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its +parentage.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>A verse may find him whom a sermon flies.—<span class="smcap">George Herbert</span>.</p> + +<p>When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great +deal in a very narrow compass.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Business.</big></b>—That which is everybody's business is nobody's +business.—<span class="smcap">Izaak Walton</span>.</p> + +<p>Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a +business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, +business is war.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, +transact your business and go about your business, in order to give +him time to finish his business.—<span class="smcap">Duke of Wellington</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public +business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the +quickness of their imagination.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and +martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in +this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite +tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet +rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He +must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an +enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his +manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive +business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great +lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also +something of a man.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because +he had a capacity on a level for business and not above +it.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>The great secret both of health and successful industry is the +absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and +diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to infringe in the +least degree upon the other.—<span class="smcap">Sismondi</span>.</p> + +<p>Few people do business well who do nothing else.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as +are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason +it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "No +thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to +do."—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Care" id="Care"></a>Care.</big></b>—To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your +back.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>Cast all your care on God: that anchor holds.—<span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And every grin, so merry, draws one out.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Wolcot.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his +God, has found the sunny side of life.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Caution.</big></b>—It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of +others.—<span class="smcap"><a name="Publius_Syrus" id="Publius_Syrus"></a>Publius Syrus</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Vessels large may venture more,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But little boats should keep near shore.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Benjamin Franklin.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>All is to be feared where all is to be lost.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Censure.</big></b>—Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which +is useful to them to praise which deceives them.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or +inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or +ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of +the others.—<span class="smcap">Diogenes</span>.</p> + +<p>Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being +eminent.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>The villain's censure is extorted praise.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Character.</big></b>—How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the +characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man +could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend +of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and +Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because +of his conscious relation to God.—<span class="smcap">S.T. Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>The great hope of society is individual character.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to +his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how +much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly +and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to +God.—<span class="smcap">Ruskin</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his +manner of portraying another.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, +are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and +bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet +stars.—<span class="smcap">Tuckerman</span>.</p> + +<p>There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other +possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as +firmly upon it as any crowned king.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>The man that makes a character makes foes.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The worst that man can breathe;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And make his wrongs his outsides,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To wear them like his raiment, carelessly;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To bring it into danger.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he +has, and that which he thinks he has.—<span class="smcap">Alphonse Karr</span>.</p> + +<p>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's +own opinions, and value others that deserve it.—<span class="smcap">Sir William +Temple</span>.</p> + +<p>Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman +of the last century said, "Men succeed less by their talents than +their character." There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had +more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by +the influence of his character.—<span class="smcap">Wendell Phillips</span>.</p> + +<p>All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher +characters that they differ.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends +are all good.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has +in substance been said, is "victory organized."—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is +not 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.—<span class="smcap">Hawes</span>.</p> + +<p>Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell +characters.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Charity.</big></b>—I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in +the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide +philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge +into egotism.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Jameson</span>.</p> + +<p>To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature +whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven +by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and +is just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in our +hands.—<span class="smcap">Fitzosborne</span>.</p> + +<p>But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right +hand doeth.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 6:3</span>.</p> + +<p>The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically +opposed to charity—the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, +spirit of jealousy, and the spirit of indifference.—<span class="smcap">Bossuet</span>.</p> + +<p>Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when +bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with +nothing.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The drying up a single tear has more<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Almost all the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue of +charity and love:—for "it suffereth long," and so it is longanimity; +it "is kind," and so it is courtesy; it "vaunteth not itself," and so +it is modesty; it "is not puffed up," and so it is humility; it "is +not easily provoked," and so it is lenity; it "thinketh no evil," and +so it is simplicity; it "rejoiceth in the truth," and so it is verity; +it "beareth all things," and so it is fortitude; it "believeth all +things," and so it is faith; it "hopeth all things," and so it is +confidence; it "endureth all things," and so it is patience; it "never +faileth," and so it is perseverance.—<span class="smcap">Chillingworth</span>.</p> + +<p>As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the +very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords, +would have his servants known by their badge, which is +love.—<span class="smcap">Latimer</span>.</p> + +<p>You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything +else.—<span class="smcap">Thoreau</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of +his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.—<span class="smcap">Koran</span>.</p> + +<p>Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity +shall cover the multitude of sins.—<span class="smcap">1 Peter 4:8</span>.</p> + +<p>It is an old saying, that charity begins at home; but this is no +reason it should not go abroad. A man should live with the world as a +citizen of the world; he may have a preference for the particular +quarter or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he should +have a generous feeling for the welfare of the +whole.—<span class="smcap">Cumberland</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the +sun!—<span class="smcap">Hood</span>.</p> + +<p>You cannot separate charity and religion.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be +not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your +superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might +even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly +destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends +guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the +Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.—<span class="smcap">Haweis</span>.</p> + +<p>Whoever would entitle himself after death, through the merits of his +Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life +in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. +Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially +of evidencing his repentance.—<span class="smcap">Archbishop Secker</span>.</p> + +<p>I have learned from Jesus Christ himself what charity is, and how we +ought to practise it; for He says, "By this shall all men know that ye +are 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 of +Christ, if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within +me.—<span class="smcap">St. Basil</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a debt of mercy and pity, of charity and compassion, of +relief and succor due to human nature, and payable from one man to +another; and such as deny to pay it the distressed in the time of +their abundance may justly expect it will be denied themselves in a +time of want. "With what measure you mete it shall be measured to you +again."—<span class="smcap">Burkitt</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without +hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the +fingers.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Then gently scan your brother man,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Still gentler, sister woman;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To step aside is human.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Burns.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Cheerfulness.</big></b>—Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests +good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human +nature.—<span class="smcap">Charles Kingsley</span>.</p> + +<p>As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most +wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not +imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into +licentiousness.—<span class="smcap">Pliny</span>.</p> + +<p>A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth +the bones.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 17:22</span>.</p> + +<p>Be of good cheer.—<span class="smcap">John 16:33</span>.</p> + +<p>The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all +solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of +life with a placid smile.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<p>An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God +with.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smile +instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the +good cause!—<span class="smcap">Archbishop Usher</span>.</p> + +<p>Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the +mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to +cheerfulness.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why +not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will +find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say +anything gloomy.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. L.M. Child</span>.</p> + +<p>Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come +in contact with it.—<span class="smcap">J.T. Fields</span>.</p> + +<p>The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our +minds at ease.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to +bear are those which never happen.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Children.</big></b>—If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that +which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love +of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude +to one who has this possession.—<span class="smcap">T.W. Higginson</span>.</p> + +<p>I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, +who are so fresh from God, love us.—<span class="smcap">Dickens</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">They are idols of hearts and of households;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">They are angels of God in disguise;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">His glory still gleams in their eyes.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Oh those truants from home and from heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">They have made me more manly and mild,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And I know now how Jesus could liken<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The kingdom of God to a child.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dickens.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The child is father of the man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wordsworth.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are +nearest the sun.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are +treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but +simply a three-mile heat.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i6">Childhood shows the man<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As morning shows the day.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 thou +makest him, such commonly shalt thou find him. Let his first lesson be +obedience, and his second shall be what thou wilt.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>A child is an angel dependent on man.—<span class="smcap">Count de Maistre</span>.</p> + +<p>A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth +can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet +your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, +how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little +child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as +one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its +value.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Norton</span>.</p> + +<p>If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up +a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any +of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest +work; a woman made out of a man is his meanest.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Children are the keys of Paradise.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">* * * They alone are good and wise,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Stoddard.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there +is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.—<span class="smcap">Douglas +Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">If there is anything that will endure<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The eye of God because it still is pure,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It is the spirit of a little child,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Fresh from His hand, and therefore undefiled.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nearer the gate of Paradise than we,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our children breathe its airs, its angels see;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And when they pray, God hears their simple prayer,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yea, even sheathes His sword, in judgment bare.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Stoddard.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of +love.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Of all sights which can soften and humanize the heart of man, there is +none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children +enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural +portion.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Ah! what would the world be to us,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">If the children were no more?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We should dread the desert behind us<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Worse than the dark before.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy +for childhood. When He said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it +was a revelation.—<span class="smcap">Edward Eggleston</span>.</p> + +<p>Where children are there is the golden age.—<span class="smcap">Novalis</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Christ.</big></b>—The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a +sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first +true gentleman that ever breathed.—<span class="smcap">Decker</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there +He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension +amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the +peace that He brings passeth all understanding.—<span class="smcap">Thomas à +Kempis</span>.</p> + +<p>From first to last Jesus is the same; always the same, majestic and +simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.—<span class="smcap">Napoleon I</span>.</p> + +<p>He, the Holiest among the mighty, and the Mightiest among the holy, +has lifted with His pierced hands empires off their hinges, has turned +the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the +ages.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>In His death He is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in the +resurrection, a conqueror; in the ascension, a king; in the +intercession, a high priest.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>Jesus Christ was more than man.—<span class="smcap">Napoleon I</span>.</p> + +<p>The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history +contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. +But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus +Christ.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Alexander, Cæsar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but +upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus +alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions +would die for Him.—<span class="smcap">Napoleon I</span>.</p> + +<p>If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and +death of Jesus were those of a God.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who have minutely studied the character of the Saviour will find +it difficult to determine whether there is most to admire or to +imitate in it—there is so much of both.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Christianity.</big></b>—A Christian is God Almighty's +gentleman.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent +morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the +facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of +every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to every +house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great +mystery of the grave.—<span class="smcap">Macaulay</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the truth divine, speaking to our whole being: occupying, +calling into action, and satisfying man's every faculty, supplying the +minutest wants of his being, and speaking in one and the same moment +to his reason, his conscience and his heart. It is the light of +reason, the life of the heart, and the strength of the +will.—<span class="smcap">Pierre</span>.</p> + +<p>Since its introduction, human nature has made great progress, and +society experienced great changes; and in this advanced condition of +the world, Christianity, instead of losing its application and +importance, is found to be more and more congenial and adapted to +man's nature and wants. Men have outgrown the other institutions of +that period when Christianity appeared, its philosophy, its modes of +warfare, its policy, its public and private economy; but Christianity +has never shrunk as intellect has opened, but has always kept in +advance of men's faculties, and unfolded nobler views in proportion as +they have ascended. The highest powers and affections which our nature +has developed, find more than adequate objects in this religion. +Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more improved stages +of society, to the more delicate sensibilities of refined minds, and +especially to that dissatisfaction with the present state, which +always grows with the growth of our moral powers and +affections.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>It is a refiner as well as a purifier of the heart; it imparts +correctness of perception, delicacy of sentiment, and all those nicer +shades of thought and feeling which constitute elegance of +mind.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. John Sanford</span>.</p> + +<p>I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the +Lord's Prayer.—<span class="smcap">Madame de Stael</span>.</p> + +<p>Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, +taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should +conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion +against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and +accomplished by them.—<span class="smcap">Stephen Charnock</span>.</p> + +<p>A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled +the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials +from the divine person who sent them on such a +message.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Company.</big></b>—Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, +though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men +sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they +might correct in half an hour, are not so much as +tolerable.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught +as men take diseases one of another; therefore, let men take heed of +their company.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without +any 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 we +gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the +profoundest thinker.—<span class="smcap">Lessing</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not +respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a +man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.—<span class="smcap">St. +Clement</span>.</p> + +<p>Let them have ever so learned lectures of breeding, that which will +most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, +and the fashion of those about them.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Conceit.</big></b>—Be not wise in your own conceits.—<span class="smcap">Romans 12:16</span>.</p> + +<p>Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities +in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to +appeal to itself for admiration.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than +others.—<span class="smcap">Charron</span>.</p> + +<p>Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, +but impairs what it would improve.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a +fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation +of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false +appreciation of their own strength.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is +like us—he is thinking of himself.—<span class="smcap">Charles Reade</span>.</p> + +<p>Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool +than of him.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 26:12</span>.</p> + +<p>A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great +to him.—<span class="smcap">Madame de Girardin</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the +job.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's +own making.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of +impotence.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another +talked of.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Conduct.</big></b>—I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the whole +world were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does it +signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is +the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are +open?—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their +professions.—<span class="smcap">Junius</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Have more than thou showest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Speak less than thou knowest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lend less than thou owest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Learn more than thou trowest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Set less than thou throwest.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of +going.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I would, God knows, in a poor woodman's hut<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Have spent my peaceful days, and shared my crust<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With her who would have cheer'd me, rather far<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than on this throne; but being what I am,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I'll be it nobly.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joanna Baillie.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i14">Only add<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">By name to come call'd charity, the soul<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A Paradise within thee, happier far.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Take heed lest passion sway<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thy judgment to do aught which else free-will<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Would not admit.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Confidence.</big></b>—Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those +who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth +than they do to others.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in +others.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too +little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. +Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile +season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, +united with the hand to execute.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be +trusted.—<span class="smcap">Auerbach</span>.</p> + +<p>Trust not him that hath once broken faith.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In the +first they believe him to be everything that is good, and they are +lavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they have +had experience, which has smitten down their confidence, and they then +have to be careful not to mistrust every one, and to put the worst +construction upon everything. Later in life, they learn that the +greater number of men have much more good in them than bad, and that +even when there is cause to blame, there is more reason to pity than +condemn; and then a spirit of confidence again awakens within +them.—<span class="smcap">Fredrika Bremer</span>.</p> + +<p>Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him +least who is indifferent about all.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Conscience.</big></b>—Conscience is a clock which, in one man, strikes aloud +and gives warning; in another, the hand points silently to the figure, +but strikes not. Meantime, hours pass away, and death hastens, and +after death comes judgment.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Oh! Conscience! Conscience! Man's most faithful friend,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But if he will thy friendly checks forego,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thou art, oh! wo for me, his deadliest foe!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Crabbe.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is +but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest +avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own +punishment.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>A good conscience is a continual Christmas.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Be mine that silent calm repast,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A conscience cheerful to the last:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That tree which bears immortal fruit,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Without a canker at the root;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That friend which never fails the just,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When other friends desert their trust.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Cotton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>No man ever offended his own conscience, but first or last it was +revenged upon him for it.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>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 your +health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good +conscience.—<span class="smcap">Izaak Walton</span>.</p> + +<p>Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows +what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him +concerning it.—<span class="smcap">Joseph Cook</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, +he cannot outlive himself.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Rules of society are nothing, one's conscience is the +umpire.—<span class="smcap">Madame Dudevant</span>.</p> + +<p>A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every +morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at +any other time of the day.—<span class="smcap">Douglas Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of +prudence last thoughts are best—<span class="smcap">Rev. Robert Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>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 interferes +with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise +there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see +those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of +the public.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness for +his Creator.</p> + +<p>We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of +God; and with God, as in the presence of men.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his +cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the +background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this +time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may +be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long +as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future +time to alter our course of action.—<span class="smcap">Fichte</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose +sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.—<span class="smcap">Hosea +Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in +everything.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience +which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in +as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of +hell.—<span class="smcap">Patrick Henry</span>.</p> + +<p>Conscience is its own readiest accuser.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou wouldst be informed what God has written concerning thee in +Heaven look into thine own bosom, and see what graces He hath there +wrought in thee.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Yet still there whispers the small voice within,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Heard thro' gain's silence, and o'er glory's din;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Man's conscience is the oracle of God!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity until +men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in +one interest; and that without the concurrence of the former the +latter are but impositions upon ourselves and others.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Contentment.</big></b>—To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by +your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy +Taylor</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I press to bear no haughty sway;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">I wish no more than may suffice:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I do no more than well I may,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Look what I lack, my mind supplies;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lo, thus I triumph like a king,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">My mind's content with anything.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byrd.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of +another.—<span class="smcap">Condorcet</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, +impossible.—<span class="smcap">Marie Ebner-Eschenbach</span>.</p> + +<p>My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be +Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to +acquiesce in what is Thy will.—<span class="smcap">Gotthold</span>.</p> + +<p>One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous +for what he will do. He has lain down to die. The grass is already +growing over him.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the +expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy +purchase.—<span class="smcap">Balguy</span>.</p> + +<p>If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a godly man, how +sound he sleeps, how quiet his rest, how composed his mind, how free +from care, how easy his position, how moist his mouth, how joyful his +heart, they would never admire the noises, the diseases, the throngs +of passions, and the violence of unnatural appetites that fill the +house of the luxurious and the heart of the ambitious.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy +Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth +of nature.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Poor and content, is rich and rich enough;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To him that ever fears he shall be poor.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us +beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; +and with obscurity, for being unenvied.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we +are.—<span class="smcap">Sir James Mackintosh</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please +others as ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + +<p>True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough +for Diogenes, but a world was too little for +Alexander.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Content with poverty my soul I arm;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it +elsewhere.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>The noblest mind the best contentment has.—<span class="smcap">Spenser</span>.</p> + +<p>I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be +content.—<span class="smcap">Philippians 4:11</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Conversation.</big></b>—The pith of conversation does not consist in +exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small +consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the +information you possess by the authority of others.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter +Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before +some things are spoken—the manner, the place and the +time.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the +subject.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<p>Speak little and well if you wish to be considered as possessing +merit.—<span class="smcap">From the French</span>.</p> + +<p>The less men think, the more they talk.—<span class="smcap">Montesquieu</span>.</p> + +<p>He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly +answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of +some of the best requisites of man.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to +talk less; or if you must talk, say little.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more +difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting +moment.—<span class="smcap">G.A. Sala</span>.</p> + +<p>When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly +cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good +opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but +what they have to say we know not.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>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 your +tongue than them.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking +seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of +entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before +the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a +dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; +this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises +in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.—<span class="smcap">La +Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.—<span class="smcap">A. +Bronson Alcott</span>.</p> + +<p>The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us +fear that we give very little to those who listen to us.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Many can argue, not many converse.—<span class="smcap">A. Bronson Alcott</span>.</p> + +<p>One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and +agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does +not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely +what is said to him.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, +the third good humor, and the fourth wit.</p> + +<p>It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of +life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing +you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear +you, or that you should hear him.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it +was pleasant to speak—<i>i.e.</i>, who keep to the subject, do not repeat +themselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who do not listen to +their own voice, who are cultivated enough not to lose themselves in +commonplaces, and, lastly, who possess tact and good taste enough not +to elevate their own persons above their subjects.—<span class="smcap">Metternich</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Counsel.</big></b>—I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than +be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>The best receipt—best to work and best to take—is the admonition of +a friend.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect +yourself. His counsel may then be useful, where your own self-love +might impair your judgment.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's +counsel.—<span class="smcap">George Chapman</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Courage.</big></b>—The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the +foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human +character.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Hughes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To struggle when hope is banished!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To live when life's salt is gone!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To dwell in a dream that's vanished!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To endure, and go calmly on!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +<span class="i1">The brave man is not he who feels no fear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For that were stupid and irrational;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joanna Baillie.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">A valiant man<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Ought not to undergo or tempt a danger,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But worthily, and by selected ways;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He undertakes by reason, not by chance.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Ben Jonson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a +brutal bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found +the most serene and free. Rage, we know, can make a coward forget +himself and fight. But what is done in fury or anger can never be +placed to the account of courage.—<span class="smcap">Shaftesbury</span>.</p> + +<p>Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.—<span class="smcap">Marston</span>.</p> + +<p>Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it +and conquering it.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>The truest courage is always mixed with circumspection; this being the +quality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardiness +of the rash and foolish.—<span class="smcap">Jones of Nayland</span>.</p> + +<p>Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in +one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a +man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the +camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are +necessary.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but +he that loses his courage loses all.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span><b><big>Courtship.</big></b>—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 it +is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly +heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife +into the bargain!—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake!—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">With women worth the being won,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The softest lover ever best succeeds.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hill.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in +courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind +with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the +soul, rise in the pursuit.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world +with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments +of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during +the sequel of marriage!—<span class="smcap">Frederic Saunders</span>.</p> + +<p>Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours in +a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not +change her mind.—<span class="smcap">De Finod</span>.</p> + +<p>Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as +to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Covetousness.</big></b>—Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the +splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.—<span class="smcap">F. Osborn</span>.</p> + +<p>The only instance of a despairing sinner left upon record in the New +Testament is that of a treacherous and greedy Judas.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>He deservedly loses his own property who covets that of +another.—<span class="smcap">Phaedrus</span>.</p> + +<p>Covetousness, which is idolatry.—<span class="smcap">Colossians 3:5</span>.</p> + +<p>There is not a vice which more effectually contracts and deadens the +feelings, which more completely makes a man's affections centre in +himself, and excludes all others from partaking in them, than the +desire of accumulating possessions. When the desire has once gotten +hold on the heart, it shuts out all other considerations, but such as +may promote its views. In its zeal for the attainment of its end, it +is not delicate in the choice of means. As it closes the heart, so +also it clouds the understanding. It cannot discern between right and +wrong; it takes evil for good, and good for evil; it calls darkness +light, and light darkness. Beware, then, of the beginning of +covetousness, for you know not where it will end.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Mant</span>.</p> + +<p>The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for +him, and not he for the world; to take in everything, and part with +nothing.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Covetous men are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live +by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, +discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are +rather possessed by their money than possessors of +it.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + +<p>Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which we +hoard is not for ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Madame Deluzy</span>.</p> + +<p>If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man +cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said +to possess him.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span>Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if +they could keep it any longer.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Criticism.</big></b>—He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent +production, is to undervalue it, will never have one of his own to +show.—<span class="smcap">Aiken</span>.</p> + +<p>Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to +discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to +award—these are the true aims and duties of criticism.—<span class="smcap">Simms</span>.</p> + +<p>Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt +you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show +a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and +trouble.—<span class="smcap">Gladstone</span>.</p> + +<p>It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate +him.—<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>.</p> + +<p>It is much easier to be critical than to be +correct.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learned +research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its +monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care +should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious +erudition.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own +mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest +writing is illegible.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Save censure; critics all are ready-made.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Cunning.</big></b>—In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunning +management.—<span class="smcap">Junius</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, and +that very slippery; lying only makes the difference; add that to +cunning, and it is knavery.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering +other people's weaknesses.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as +himself.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know +always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to +cunning, he blunders and betrays.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Paine</span>.</p> + +<p>The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived, is to +consider yourself more cunning than others.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Death" id="Death"></a>Death.</big></b>—God's finger touch'd him, and he slept.—<span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But no! that look is not the last;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We yet may meet where seraphs dwell,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where love no more deplores the past,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Nor breathes that withering word—Farewell!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Peabody.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be +called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and +rest in heaven.—<span class="smcap">N.P. Willis</span>.</p> + +<p>I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was +Death.—<span class="smcap">Revelation 6:8</span>.</p> + +<p>When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not +forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall +soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span>I have seen those who have arrived at a fearless contemplation of the +future, from faith in the doctrine which our religion teaches. Such +men were not only calm and supported, but cheerful in the hour of +death; and I never quitted such a sick chamber without a hope that my +last end might be like theirs.—<span class="smcap">Sir Henry Halford</span>.</p> + +<p>One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die +as a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure +individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most +solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his +Creator. Here it is that fame and renown cannot assist us; that all +external things must fail to aid us; that even friends, affection and +human love and devotedness cannot succor us.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There is no death. The thing that we call death<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is but another, sadder name for life.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Stoddard.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i11">To die,—to sleep,—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No more;—and by a sleep to say we end<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That flesh is heir to.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>All that nature has prescribed must be good; and as death is natural +to us, it is absurdity to fear it. Fear loses its purpose when we are +sure it cannot preserve us, and we should draw resolution to meet it, +from the impossibility to escape it.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose +it.—<span class="smcap">Owen Meredith</span>.</p> + +<p>Death robs the rich and relieves the poor.—<span class="smcap">J.L. Basford</span>.</p> + +<p>Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the +physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him +whom time cannot console.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The finest day of life is that on which one quits it.—<span class="smcap">Frederick +the Great</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Death is delightful. Death is dawn—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The waking from a weary night<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of fevers unto truth and light.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joaquin Miller.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i8">All that lives must die,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Passing through nature to eternity.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and +immortality.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last +day.—<span class="smcap">Martial</span>.</p> + +<p>No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarter +of the world he abides—whatever be his circumstances—however strong +his present hold of life—however unlike the prey of death he +looks—that it is his doom beyond reverse to die.—<span class="smcap">Stebbing</span>.</p> + +<p>It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it +comes, it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with +sufferings.—<span class="smcap">Metastasio</span>.</p> + +<p>God giveth quietness at last.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Death hath ten thousand several doors<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For men to take their exits.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—John Webster.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Death will have his day.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Death comes but once.—<span class="smcap">Beaumont and Fletcher</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and +misery.—<span class="smcap">Gotthold</span>.</p> + +<p>Death is the crown of life.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">So live, that, when thy summons comes to join<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The innumerable caravan, that moves<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To that mysterious realm, where each shall take<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His chamber in the silent halls of death,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd<br /></span> +<span class="i1">By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like one that draws the drapery of his couch<br /></span> +<span class="i1">About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bryant.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Debt.</big></b>—Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.—<span class="smcap">Tusser</span>.</p> + +<p>Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a +superstitious sect, great observers of set days and +times.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, in +proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or +shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the +world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and +vanity.—<span class="smcap">Delany</span>.</p> + +<p>Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be +content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than +to run up the score.—<span class="smcap">Sir M. Hale</span>.</p> + +<p>Debt is the worst poverty.—<span class="smcap">M.G. Lichtwer</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Delicacy.</big></b>—Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.—<span class="smcap">Marguerite +de Valois</span>.</p> + +<p>Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be +spoken.—<span class="smcap">Novalis</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and +gentleness of character.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Sigourney</span>.</p> + +<p>True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits +itself most significantly in little things.—<span class="smcap">Mary Howitt</span>.</p> + +<p>Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the +beauty.—<span class="smcap">Degerando</span>.</p> + +<p>Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a +certain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in those +particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent +minds, who laugh at them.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + +<p>Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.—<span class="smcap">Achilles +Poincelot</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Delusion.</big></b>—Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to +the stern realities of life.—<span class="smcap">A.R.C. Dallas</span>.</p> + +<p>No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as +necessary to our happiness as realities.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things +as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, +and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain.—<span class="smcap">James +Ellis</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Despair.</big></b>—It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers +that his Helper is omnipotent.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Despair is the conclusion of fools.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + +<p>He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted +model.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Despair is infidelity and death.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. +'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a +defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. I +would not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of +fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.—<span class="smcap">Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He +is, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. +Browning</span>.</p> + +<p>He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which +submits.—<span class="smcap">Lady Blessington</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To censure fate, and pious hope forego.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Beattie.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Diet.</big></b>—Simple diet is best.—<span class="smcap">Pliny</span>.</p> + +<p>Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice +as much as nature requires.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Difficulties.</big></b>—Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor +does the body.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps +the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for +falsehood.—<span class="smcap">Aaron Hill</span>.</p> + +<p>Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we +should esteem it a proof of God's confidence—as a compliment from +God.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>It is difficulties which give birth to miracles.—<span class="smcap">Rev. Dr. +Sharpe</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength +requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the +necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere +stimulus to men.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Warren</span>.</p> + +<p>Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme +ordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, who knows us better +than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles +with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist +is our helper.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they +fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Discipline.</big></b>—No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no +glory; no cross, no crown.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not +be subdued by discipline.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Discord.</big></b>—Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtue +this same discord can be turned to harmony.—<span class="smcap">James Ellis</span>.</p> + +<p>The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make +peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be +called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but +their father's portion?—<span class="smcap">St. Bernard</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Discretion.</big></b>—Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, +keepeth his life.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is +none so useful as discretion.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor.—<span class="smcap">Beaumont and +Fletcher</span>.</p> + +<p>The better part of valor is discretion.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they +have less trouble to speak well than to speak little.—<span class="smcap">Father du +Bosc</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Not to outsport discretion.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the +duties of life.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic +end.—<span class="smcap">Gambetta</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Dissimulation.</big></b>—Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, +is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or +not, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably +disgraceful.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Dress.</big></b>—In the matter of dress people should always keep below their +ability.—<span class="smcap">Montesquieu</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who are incapable of shining but by dress would do well to +consider, that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out +much to their disadvantage.—<span class="smcap">Shenstone</span>.</p> + +<p>And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, +how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 6:28</span>.</p> + +<p>A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world +for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods; and it is only when +acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they +are performing their appropriate mission.—<span class="smcap">Abba Goold Woolson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.—<span class="smcap">Sir +Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress +extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes +true feminine beauty as simplicity.—<span class="smcap">George D. Prentice</span>.</p> + +<p>Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; +rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the +man.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">No real happiness is found<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In trailing purple o'er the ground.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Parnell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a +little time to perfect her toilet.—<span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is +plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best +invidious; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by +their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit +more easy.—<span class="smcap">Shenstone</span>.</p> + +<p>It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give +to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in +the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present +artists.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and +conversation partake of the same element.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>Dress has a moral effect on the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman +find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a +general negligence of dress, he will in all probability find a +corresponding disposition by negligence of <i>address</i>.—<span class="smcap">Sir Jonah +Barrington</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> +<span class="i1">We sacrifice to dress, till household joys<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And introduces hunger, frost and woe,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where peace and hospitality might reign.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Dress changes the manners.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Drink.</big></b>—Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they +may follow strong drink.—<span class="smcap">Isaiah 5:11</span>.</p> + +<p>All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils +health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is +quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk +is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that +distinguishes a man from a beast.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of +a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it +breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting +intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.—<span class="smcap">Douglas +Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>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 to +their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, +revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into +beasts!—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a +devil.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span>It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to +drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a +drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.—<span class="smcap">Sir +Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself. +Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason +elevates him above them.—<span class="smcap">Sir G. Sinclair</span>.</p> + +<p>Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of +disordered affections—this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other +vices but impair the soul—this demolishes her two chief faculties, +the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way—this +makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all +vice.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly +caused by strong drink.—<span class="smcap">Judge Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee; where +drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, God +an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are +proclamations.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Duty.</big></b>—Duty grows everywhere, like children, like +grass.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.—<span class="smcap">Hannah More</span>.</p> + +<p>The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs human +nature can give, that wherever the path of duty and honor may lead, +however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk in +it.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in +it our pleasure.—<span class="smcap">Mme. de Motteville</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and +prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept +well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou +knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become +clearer.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of +man.—<span class="smcap">Ecclesiastes 12:13</span>.</p> + +<p>Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies +the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic +about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.—<span class="smcap">Samuel +Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>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 in +the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for +mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do +that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which +achieves the welfare of the world.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful.</p> + +<p>Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You +have time and eternity to rejoice in.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world +may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and +consequently should not be any part of your +concern.—<span class="smcap">Epictetus</span>.</p> + +<p>It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, +to leave undone that thou wouldst do.—<span class="smcap">Thomas à Kempis</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the +consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It +is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of +the morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the seas, duty +performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or +our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as +in the light our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape their +power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, +will be with us at its close, and in that scene of inconceivable +solemnity which lies yet further onward we shall still find ourselves +surrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it has +been violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us grace +to perform it.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Early_Rising" id="Early_Rising"></a>Early Rising.</big></b>—Whoever has tasted the breath of morning, knows that +the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are +commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of Nature +that we should enjoy and profit by them.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who would in such a gloomy state remain<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And every blooming pleasure wait without,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To bless the wildly devious morning walk?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Thomson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the +morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at +the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years +to a man's life.—<span class="smcap">Doddridge</span>.</p> + +<p>I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of +your chamber: "If you do not rise early, you can make progress in +nothing."—<span class="smcap">Chatham</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span>When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get +up.—<span class="smcap">Wellington</span>.</p> + +<p>Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became +distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +John Todd</span>.</p> + +<p>Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active +habits, I place early rising as a means of health and +happiness.—<span class="smcap">Flint</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Thus we improve the pleasures of the day,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">While tasteless mortals sleep their time away.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Mrs. Centlivre.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 him +rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the +most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of +acquaintance only,—those by whom something may be got, and those from +whom something may be learnt.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and +finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to +govern an empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will be +emperor, he is so early."—<span class="smcap">Caussin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Earnestness.</big></b>—Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does +really great things. He may be the cleverest of men, he may be +brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No +soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it the depth of +shadow.—<span class="smcap">Peter Bayne</span>.</p> + +<p>A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and +done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no +peace.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the +faculties. 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 in +overcoming them.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere +earnestness.—<span class="smcap">Dickens</span>.</p> + +<p>He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply +himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the +idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like +insanity.—<span class="smcap">John Foster</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Economy.</big></b>—Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, +and get dollars in return.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as +to spend it well.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions and spend one +penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy hide-bound pocket soon +begin 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.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would +not, have too little to spend.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and the +beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great +ship.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's +stone.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span>Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a +king and the hand of a wise economist.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A penny saved is two pence clear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A pin a day's a groat a year.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Franklin.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do not +the work better, they behave better and are more respectable; and I +would sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money than two +hundred who would spend every shilling they get. In proportion as +individuals save a little money their morals are much better; they +husband that little, and there is a superior tone given to their +morals, and they behave better for knowing that they have a little +stake in society.</p> + +<p>No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor +whose incomings exceed his outgoings.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Education.</big></b>—The true order of learning should be first, what is +necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To +reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the +edifice.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Sigourney</span>.</p> + +<p>A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he +understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, +or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,—whether he +is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and +benevolent.—<span class="smcap">Lady Hervey</span>.</p> + +<p>The world is only saved by the breath of the school children.—<span class="smcap">The +Talmud</span>.</p> + +<p>It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, +since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but +she is also building schoolhouses.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, +skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and +war.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<p>Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term +of education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to +be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound +religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated +under all circumstances. All this is comprised in +education.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with +religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in +the efficacy of mechanics' institutes, or even of primary and +elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned +peasantry so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of +Christian piety.</p> + +<p>Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns +sour.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<p>Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the +alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.—<span class="smcap">G.W. Curtis</span>.</p> + +<p>Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, +without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently +maintained.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>A boy is better unborn than untaught.—<span class="smcap">Gascoigne</span>.</p> + +<p>On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation +and perpetuation of our free institutions.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within +the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of +character. Let parents bear this ever in mind.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has +been through him; if he is a walking university.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than +what to think,—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to +think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of +other men.—<span class="smcap">Beattie</span>.</p> + +<p>Into what boundless life does education admit us. Every truth gained +through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being—positively +enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot +weaken or destroy.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>All that a university or final highest school can do for us is still +but what the first school began doing—teach us to read. We learn to +read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet +and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get +knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It +depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done +their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection +of books.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be +corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to +which their first education disposed them—you first make thieves and +then punish them.—<span class="smcap">Sir Thomas More</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis education forms the common mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Egotism.</big></b>—When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself +without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his +praises never.—<span class="smcap">Montaigne</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will +take it upon your word.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves +at all.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>It is never permissible to say, I say.—<span class="smcap">Madame Necker</span>.</p> + +<p>The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to +lie.—<span class="smcap">Zimmermann</span>.</p> + +<p>What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words +sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another +talked of.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of +yourself.—<span class="smcap">Pascal</span>.</p> + +<p>He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others +is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him +is still more mistaken.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Eloquence.</big></b>—Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this +advantage over those that are read from a manuscript; every burst of +eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they +may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect +of the sudden inspiration of talent.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing +but what is necessary.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be +brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will +toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but +they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and +in the occasion.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in +the air of a speaker, as in his choice of words.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Employment.</big></b>—Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the +busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms +their main pursuit.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>The rust rots the steel which use preserves.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably +employed.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to +human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of +misery.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Enthusiasm.</big></b>—Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from +the human to the divine.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Every production of genius must be the production of +enthusiasm.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever +we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or +chilling a single earnest sentiment.—<span class="smcap">Tuckerman</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms +brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes +no victories without it.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the +triumph of enthusiasm.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a +leader.—<span class="smcap">Arthur Helps</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in +something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would +ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our +life.—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Envy.</big></b>—There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart +as envy.—<span class="smcap">Sheridan</span>.</p> + +<p>An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is +the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner +of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the +filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which +consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the +bones.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.—<span class="smcap">St. +Chrysostom</span>.</p> + +<p>We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion +that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.—<span class="smcap">Pliny</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Base envy withers at another's joy,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And hates that excellence it cannot reach.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Thomson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him +pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which +administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this +passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All +the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, +valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a +wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, +and to hate a man because we approve him!—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born +without envy.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; +they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses +them they censure.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Envy—the rottenness of the bones.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 14:30</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows where +it dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous and +suspicious till they feel the wound.</p> + +<p>Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing +trees.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p>Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a +victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a +defeat.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had +the confidence to own it.—<span class="smcap">Rochester</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Eternity.</big></b>—He that will often put eternity and the world before him, +and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that +the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and +the latter less.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and +noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our +passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the +rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations, we +are eternally happy.—<span class="smcap">Burnet</span>.</p> + +<p>Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man +grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but +time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Heber</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +<span class="i1">The vaulted void of purple sky<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That everywhere extends,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That stretches from the dazzled eye,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">In space that never ends;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A morning whose uprisen sun<br /></span> +<span class="i2">No setting e'er shall see;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A day that comes without a noon,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Such is eternity.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Clare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb +Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given +by one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty."—<span class="smcap">John +Bate</span>.</p> + +<p>If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and +real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Evil.</big></b>—The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be +good.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The evil that men do lives after them;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The good is oft interred with their bones.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Evil is wrought by want of thought,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As well as want of heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hood.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is +evil.—<span class="smcap">Mohammed</span>.</p> + +<p>We cannot do evil to others without doing it to +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Desmahis</span>.</p> + +<p>Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich +Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills +passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we +resist.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would +not.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary +evil.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when +evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of +cure.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we +discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering +and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of +wisdom and love.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Example.</big></b>—Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my +six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.—<span class="smcap">Rev. R. +Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to +copy after.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<p>A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own +advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or +excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.—<span class="smcap">Thomas à +Kempis</span>.</p> + +<p>None preaches better than the ant, and she says +nothing.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a +good example.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what +we see.—<span class="smcap">Herodotus</span>.</p> + +<p>Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's +vices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold +practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than +precepts; such as thy behavior is before thy children's faces, such +commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>Example is contagious behavior.—<span class="smcap">Charles Reade</span>.</p> + +<p>The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to +overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency +of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but he went about doing +good.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Excess.</big></b>—Excess always carries its own retribution.—<span class="smcap">Ouida</span>.</p> + +<p>The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon the +feast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his own +delight by excess and satiety.—<span class="smcap">Knox</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To throw a perfume on the violet,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To smooth the ice, or add another hue<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with +interest, about thirty years after date.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to +the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed +with.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<p>Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired +digestion.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always +criminal.—<span class="smcap">St. Evremond</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Exercise.</big></b>—A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be +sick.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. Temple</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in +vigor.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the +hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath +of fresh air.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our +faculties.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with +exercise.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. Sidney</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Experience.</big></b>—To Truth's house there is a single door, which is +experience.—<span class="smcap">Bayard Taylor</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Experience join'd with common sense,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To mortals is a providence.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Green.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like +no other.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in +regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience, +would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things +with 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.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.</p> + +<p>Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get +brightened by it, and not ground.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions +that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the +loss.—<span class="smcap">L'Estrange</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i11">To wilful men,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The injuries that they themselves procure,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Must be their schoolmasters.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and +scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give +conduct.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. Sidney</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Extravagance.</big></b>—He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and +poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Provides a home from which to run away.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Faith" id="Faith"></a>Faith.</big></b>—What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve; +wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is God. A +faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no +more, that will trust thus far and no farther, is none.</p> + +<p>Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God's treasures; the +king's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplies +we need out of the fullness that there is in Christ.—<span class="smcap">J. +Stephens</span>.</p> + +<p>Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero +in faith.—<span class="smcap">Jacobi</span>.</p> + +<p>Faith is not the lazy notion that a man may with careless confidence +throw his burden upon the Saviour and trouble himself no further, a +pillow upon which he lulls his conscience to sleep, till he drops into +perdition; but a living and vigorous principle, working by love, and +inseparably connected with true repentance as its motive and with holy +obedience as its fruits.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is +dead.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Wilson</span>.</p> + +<p>The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in +his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the +proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and +with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole +spiritual system of the moral world.—<span class="smcap">Edward Everett</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He had great faith in loaves of bread<br /></span> +<span class="i2">For hungry people, young and old,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And hope inspired; kind words he said<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To those he sheltered from the cold.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In words he did not put his trust;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">His faith in words he never writ;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He loved to share his cup and crust<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With all mankind who needed it.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He put his trust in Heaven and he<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Worked well with hand and head;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And what he gave in charity<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Sweetened his sleep and daily bread.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a +rainbow in it.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula +in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New +England,—a creed ample enough for this life and the +next.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fame.</big></b>—None despise fame more heartily than those who have no +possible claim to it.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The +dread of censure is the death of genius.—<span class="smcap">Simms</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human +thoughts.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<p>He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of +public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that +no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which +promote the happiness of mankind.—<span class="smcap">Charles Sumner</span>.</p> + +<p>Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something +else,—very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now let us +be a celebrated individual!"—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much +about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in +the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the +effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoes +of our own voices.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>The way to fame is like the way to heaven—through much +tribulation.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the +thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be +forgotten.—<span class="smcap">Chalmers</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The drying up a single tear has more<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fashion.</big></b>—Fashion's smile has given wit to dullness and grace to +deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, except +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes +her appear.—<span class="smcap">Mlle. De l'Espinasse</span>.</p> + +<p>Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public +opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a +bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of +being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head +of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, +she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.—<span class="smcap">J.G. +Holland</span>.</p> + +<p>Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who +respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would +desire to be placed.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>The Empress of France had but to change the position of a ribbon to +set all the ribbons in Christendom to rustling. A single word from her +convulsed the whalebone market of the world.—<span class="smcap">J.G. Holland</span>.</p> + +<p>A fashionable woman is always in love—with herself.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of +the rich.—<span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Their knavery and folly to excuse.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Churchill.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fear.</big></b>—The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Psalm +111:10</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O, fear not in a world like this,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And thou shalt know ere long,—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Know how sublime a thing it is<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To suffer and be strong.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears +God.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is +virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he +lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good +only from their apprehension of punishment.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Waller.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?—<span class="smcap">Psalm +27:1</span>.</p> + +<p>Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>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 life +and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for +rallying.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because +fear hath torment.—<span class="smcap">1 John 4:18</span>.</p> + +<p>Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.—<span class="smcap">George Sewell</span>.</p> + +<p>Fear not; for I am with thee.—<span class="smcap">Isaiah 43:5</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fidelity.</big></b>—To God, thy country, and thy friend be +true.—<span class="smcap">Vaughan</span>.</p> + +<p>He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not +matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged +class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.—<span class="smcap">George +Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. +Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments +of the human mind.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can +thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend +faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just +and chivalrous,—in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of +Ages.—<span class="smcap">Dean Stanley</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Flattery.</big></b>—Those are generally good at flattering who are good for +nothing else.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best +friend.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It is a little sneaking art, which knaves<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Use to cajole and soften fools withal.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Otway.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make +her one.—<span class="smcap">Richardson</span>.</p> + +<p>Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the +dead only, these the living.—<span class="smcap">Antisthenes</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as +flattery.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.—<span class="smcap">Jean Paul</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis an old maxim in the schools,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That flattery's the food of fools;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet now and then your men of wit<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will condescend to take a bit.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Swift.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for +our vanity.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Save he who courts the flattery.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hannah More.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 20:19</span>.</p> + +<p>Men are like stone jugs,—you may lug them where you like by the +ears.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will +receive you into their bosoms.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Flowers.</big></b>—Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and +forgot to put a soul into.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And they tell in a garland their loves and cares:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers<br /></span> +<span class="i2">On its leaves a mystic language bears.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Percival.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed +round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. L.M. +Child</span>.</p> + +<p>There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to +look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly +Maker.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and +botanize them.—<span class="smcap">H.N. Hudson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> +<span class="i1">And with childlike credulous affection<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We behold their tender buds expand;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Emblems of our own great resurrection,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Emblems of the bright and better land.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fools.</big></b>—He who provides for this life, but takes no care for +eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool +forever.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has been +said that herein lies the difference,—the follies of the fool are +known to the world, but are hidden from himself; the follies of the +wise are known to himself, but hidden from the +world.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>People are never so near playing the fool as when they think +themselves wise.—<span class="smcap">Lady Montagu</span>.</p> + +<p>To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in +others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools +ourselves than to have others so.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters +them.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him +that he had none.—<span class="smcap">Babinet</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">At thirty man suspects himself a fool;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">At fifty, chides his infamous delay,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Resolves—and re-resolves; then dies the same.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, +and to forget his own.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span>A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more +incorrigible.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once +uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the +last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely +change his opinion.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p>Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are +fools.—<span class="smcap">Chapman</span>.</p> + +<p>None but a fool is always right.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no +relations to blush for them.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Forbearance.</big></b>—Learn from Jesus to love and to forgive. Let the blood +of Jesus, which implores pardon for you in heaven, obtain it from you +for your brethren here upon earth.—<span class="smcap">Valpy</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The kindest and the happiest pair<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will find occasion to forbear;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And something every day they live<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To pity, and perhaps forgive.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse +the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to +display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to +proclaim his virtues upon the house-top.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Forgiveness.</big></b>—If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly +Father will also forgive you.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 6:14</span>.</p> + +<p>He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must +pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.—<span class="smcap">Lord +Herbert</span>.</p> + +<p>They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.—<span class="smcap">Bailey</span>.</p> + +<p>The brave only know how to forgive.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span>The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete +forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It +does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It +says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no +more."—<span class="smcap">Horatius Bonar</span>.</p> + +<p>Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to +forgive.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to +remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead +them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the +day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my +friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though +they continue such.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against +us.—<span class="smcap">The Lord's Prayer</span>.</p> + +<p>God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty,—both to forgive and to +forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of +His.—<span class="smcap">Leighton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Fortitude.</big></b>—The greatest man is he who chooses the right with +invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within +and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is the +calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is +the most unfaltering.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to +do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a +river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy +Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and +an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in +his way.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span><b><big>Fortune.</big></b>—It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, +because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by +prudence.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p>The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for +himself.—<span class="smcap">Plautus</span>.</p> + +<p>Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she +never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness +thrust upon them.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Every man is the architect of his own fortune.—<span class="smcap">Sallust</span>.</p> + +<p>The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the +good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the +earth.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p>Fortune favors the bold.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for +it.—<span class="smcap">Molière</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Freedom.</big></b>—I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave +among freemen.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>There are two freedoms,—the false, where a man is free to do what he +likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.—<span class="smcap">Charles +Kingsley</span>.</p> + +<p>The cause of freedom is the cause of God.—<span class="smcap">Bowles</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Stone walls do not a prison make,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Nor iron bars a cage;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Minds innocent and quiet take<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That for an hermitage;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">If I have freedom in my love,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And in my soul am free,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Angels alone that soar above,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Enjoy such liberty.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Richard Lovelace.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> +<span class="i1">And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Robert Treat Paine.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident +proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use +their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who +resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to +swim.—<span class="smcap">Macaulay</span>.</p> + +<p>To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to +enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to +possess.—<span class="smcap">Rahel</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">When Freedom from her mountain height<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Unfurled her standard to the air,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She tore the azure robe of night,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And set the stars of glory there.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She mingled with its gorgeous dyes<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The milky baldric of the skies,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And striped its pure, celestial white<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With streakings of the morning light.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joseph Rodman Drake.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.—<span class="smcap">C.A. Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>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 will +die freemen.—<span class="smcap">Josiah Quincy</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who then is free?—the wise, who well maintains<br /></span> +<span class="i1">An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who boldly answers to his warm desire;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Firm in himself, who on himself relies;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And breaks misfortune with superior force.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Horace.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span>The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to +a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He was the freeman whom the truth made free;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In spite of fools consulted seriously.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pollock.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Friendship.</big></b>—Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning +the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The man that hails you Tom or Jack,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And proves by thumping on your back<br /></span> +<span class="i2">His sense of your great merit,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is such a friend, that one had need<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Be very much his friend indeed<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To pardon or to bear it.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in +need.—<span class="smcap">Plautus</span>.</p> + +<p>Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs +27:10</span>.</p> + +<p>To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.—<span class="smcap">Vaughan</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere +enough to tell him disagreeable truths.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that +actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of +friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very +far from being the surest marks of it.—<span class="smcap">George Washington</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span>No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.—<span class="smcap">Beaumont and +Fletcher</span>.</p> + +<p>The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,—cold +friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, +warm friends.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will +cease to love.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend +worth dying for.—<span class="smcap">Henry Home</span>.</p> + +<p>Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted +upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of +friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them +therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for +gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy +inferiors.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis thus that on the choice of friends<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our good or evil name depends.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gay.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this +made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game; +because revenge is a much stronger principle than +gratitude.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an +end.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm +and constant.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay +the price, a self-sacrificing love.—<span class="smcap">Peloubet</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span>False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk +in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the +shade.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>The greatest medicine is a true friend.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. Temple</span>.</p> + +<p>True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in +adversity they come without invitation.—<span class="smcap">Theophrastus</span>.</p> + +<p>Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.—<span class="smcap">Mlle. de +Scudéri</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who friendship with a knave hath made,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is judg'd a partner in the trade.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gay.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy +faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard +thy hatred.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly +happy that hath no need of his friend.—<span class="smcap">Warwick</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I would not enter on my list of friends<br /></span> +<span class="i1">(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet wanting sensibility) the man<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the +worth and choice.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Frugality.</big></b>—Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches +have limits.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of +temperance, and the parent of liberty.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Futurity.</big></b>—It is vain to be always looking toward the future and +never acting toward it.—<span class="smcap">J.F. Boyes</span>.</p> + +<p>The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the +last duty done.—<span class="smcap">George Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Trust no future howe'er pleasant;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let the dead past bury its dead;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Act,—act in the living present,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Heart within and God o'erhead!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to +future events, must be most deplorable.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for +if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, +understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless.—<span class="smcap">St. +Augustine</span>.</p> + +<p>Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may +bring forth.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 27:1</span>.</p> + +<p>The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the +origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening +in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all +prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any +merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me +enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better +man.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span>If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for +it.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Gambling" id="Gambling"></a>Gambling.</big></b>—There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the +vigils of the card-table, and those cutting passions which naturally +attend them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks and pale complexions are the +natural indications.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping +country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a +mortgage.—<span class="smcap">Cumberland</span>.</p> + +<p>All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of +another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.—<span class="smcap">Whately</span>.</p> + +<p>There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them +away.—<span class="smcap">Chatfield</span>.</p> + +<p>I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes the +dice-box desperately in his hand; and all that follows in his fatal +career from that time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes +it to his heart.—<span class="smcap">Cumberland</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of +mischief.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Generosity.</big></b>—All my experience of the world teaches me that in +ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of +a question is the generous side and the merciful side.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. +Jameson</span>.</p> + +<p>He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without +generosity; for the essence of generosity is in +self-sacrifice.—<span class="smcap">Henry Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Generosity is only benevolence in practice.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Ken</span>.</p> + +<p>The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great +bribe.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must +be by what he gives.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to +pay debts.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. Sidney</span>.</p> + +<p>When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you +deny yourself something in order that you may give.—<span class="smcap">Henry +Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, +may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others +share their happiness with them.—<span class="smcap">Duncan</span>.</p> + +<p>In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in +proportion to the worth of the thing given.—<span class="smcap">George +Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to +proportion His blessings to our alms.—<span class="smcap">Beveridge</span>.</p> + +<p>A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his +simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother +to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything +else.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Genius.</big></b>—Genius is an immense capacity for taking +trouble.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at +last.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who +has but one talent for a genius.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p>Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham +in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.—<span class="smcap">Ouida</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a +forest of oaks.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of +truth.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius can never despise labor.—<span class="smcap">Abel Stevens</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">And genius hath electric power,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Which earth can never tame;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower—<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Its flash is still the same.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lydia M. Child.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Genius must be born, and never can be taught.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and +brings it out.—<span class="smcap">Lady Blessington</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">One science only will one genius fit;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So vast is art, so narrow human wit.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I know no such thing as genius,—genius is nothing but labor and +diligence.—<span class="smcap">Hogarth</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing +meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a +stone.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius, without religion, is only a lamp on the outer gate of a +palace. It may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are +without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.—<span class="smcap">Hannah More</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are +out of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can +teach, and which no industry can acquire.—<span class="smcap">Sir J. Reynolds</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gentleman.</big></b>—Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are +the two main characteristics of a gentleman.—<span class="smcap">Beaconsfield</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span>To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good +clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man,—no +more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the +rough.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Doane</span>.</p> + +<p>What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be +generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these +qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought +a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought +his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and +elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just and +amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. +And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever +the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise +and good, as agreeable and polite.—<span class="smcap">Shaftesbury</span>.</p> + +<p>Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and +reflection must finish him.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<p>You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most +gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed +with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the +army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of +manners.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not +the degenerated heir of another's virtue.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of +the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is +proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span>He is gentle that doth gentle deeds.</p> + +<p>Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the +mind and the feelings in every station.—<span class="smcap">Talfourd</span>.</p> + +<p>Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron +and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of +whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.—<span class="smcap">Juliana Berners</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gentleness.</big></b>—True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to +Him who made us, and to the common nature which we all share. It +arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just +views of the condition and the duty of man. It is native feeling +heightened and improved by principle.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>We do not believe, or we forget, that "the Holy Ghost came down, not +in shape of a vulture, but in the form of a dove."—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent +gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary +disrespect.—<span class="smcap">Balzac</span>.</p> + +<p>The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and +sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This +preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and +agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes +them ugly, it would prove the best means of +conversion.—<span class="smcap">Auerbach</span>.</p> + +<p>Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished +from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of +sycophants.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gifts.</big></b>—Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, +when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with +nothing.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span>Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that +is a way of giving to thyself.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, +correspondent to my flowing unto him.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>The only gift is a portion of thyself. * * * Therefore the poet brings +his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; +the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a +handkerchief of her own sewing.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>A gift—its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp +that attends it; the style in which it reaches you—may decide the +dignity or vulgarity of the giver.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>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 gift +dear 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 at +the heart.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the +fingers.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Glory.</big></b>—Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and +without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave.—<span class="smcap">Thomson</span>.</p> + +<p>Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and +a 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 person +may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a +sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is +vanity, and will not last a day.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span>The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and +trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities +but to make them.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing +what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world +happier and better for our living in it.—<span class="smcap">Pliny</span>.</p> + +<p>Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and +contracts,—both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper +medium.—<span class="smcap">Shenstone</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gluttony.</big></b>—Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the +fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance +of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural +health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + +<p>I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much +food.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who +strangle those whom they embrace.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I +fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other +innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature +delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps +to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and +flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not +the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a +mushroom can escape him.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span><b><big>God.</big></b>—In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His +actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move +thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and +the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our +actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power +of our whole souls.—<span class="smcap">Massillon</span>.</p> + +<p>God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and +leave the issue to Him.—<span class="smcap">John Jay</span>.</p> + +<p>They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is like +the beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he is +an ignoble creature.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything +that He has made.—<span class="smcap">Henry Brooke</span>.</p> + +<p>How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up +the world,—of Him who has created, and who provides for the joys even +of insects, as carefully as if He were their father.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him +not.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p>A foe to God was never true friend to man.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">God moves in a mysterious way<br /></span> +<span class="i2">His wonders to perform;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He plants His footsteps in the sea,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And rides upon the storm.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are +sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by +an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.—<span class="smcap">Sir +Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Who guides below, and rules above,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The great disposer, and the mighty king;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than He none greater, next Him none,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That can be, is, or was.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Horace.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Thou art, O God, the life and light<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Of all this wondrous world we see;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Its glow by day, its smile by night,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Are but reflections caught from Thee!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where'er we turn thy glories shine,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And all things fair and bright are thine!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Moore.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">From God derived, to God by nature join'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We act the dictates of His mighty mind:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And though the priests are mute and temples still,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">God never wants a voice to speak His will.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Rowe.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is +not, discovers to me His existence.—<span class="smcap">Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>We find in God all the excellences of light, truth, wisdom, greatness, +goodness and life. Light gives joy and gladness; truth gives +satisfaction; wisdom gives learning and instruction; greatness excites +admiration; goodness produces love and gratitude; life gives +immortality and insures enjoyment.—<span class="smcap">Jones of Nayland</span>.</p> + +<p>We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves +depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength +let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and +dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the +mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have +one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in +peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who +liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of +hell and of death.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Heber</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span>It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no +greater infelicity than to be left to himself.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>The man who forgets the wonders and mercies of the Lord is without any +excuse; for we are continually surrounded with objects which may serve +to bring the power and goodness of God strikingly to +mind.—<span class="smcap">Slade</span>.</p> + +<p>God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, +and clothes itself in colors. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine +heart feels its warmth.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>A secret sense of God's goodness is by no means enough. Men should +make solemn and outward expressions of it, when they receive His +creatures for their support; a service and homage not only due to Him, +but profitable to themselves.—<span class="smcap">Dean Stanhope</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">All is of God. If He but wave His hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Angels of life and death alike are His;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Against His messengers to shut the door?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"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 His +free and unrequited mercy: what it presents of real evil arises from +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Blomfield</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gold.</big></b>—Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands +great souls and contracts bad hearts.—<span class="smcap">Rivarol</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span>There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and +the other in the camp,—gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them +both may indeed attain the highest station.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>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 which +are Cæsar's, and unto God which are God's.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But gold, that's put to use, more gold begets.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the +world.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The fool throws up his interest in both worlds.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Blair.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!—<span class="smcap">George +Villiers</span>.</p> + +<p>Gold adulterates one thing only,—the human heart.—<span class="smcap">Marguerite de +Valois</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Goodness.</big></b>—A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps +friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.—<span class="smcap">Basil</span>.</p> + +<p>It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being +good.—<span class="smcap">Sophocles</span>.</p> + +<p>Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of +love.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>He that is a good man is three-quarters of his way towards the being a +good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is +called.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their +friends.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span>Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of +virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in +kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in +contact 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 the +stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Chalmers</span>.</p> + +<p>He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, +though sure of both at last.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>What is good-looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be +good, be womanly, be gentle, generous in your sympathies, heedful of +the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not +lack kind words of admiration.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<p>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 may +be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, +and whose good actions are felt and applauded by +thousands.—<span class="smcap">Bowdler</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Government.</big></b>—The administration of government, like a guardianship, +ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of those +who receive the trust.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but +temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all +things.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected +without being truly respectable.—<span class="smcap">Madison</span>.</p> + +<p>The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but +that which renders the greatest number happy.—<span class="smcap">Duclos</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet +every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all +trades,—that of government.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and +so 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.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to +do good, and difficult for them to do evil.—<span class="smcap">Gladstone</span>.</p> + +<p>All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of +the people.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who think must govern those who toil.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Grace.</big></b>—Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy +affections.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p>The mother grace of all the graces is Christian +good-will.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are +the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment,—divested of +affectation and free from all pretence.—<span class="smcap">Fuseli</span>.</p> + +<p>Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony +of the soul.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Gratitude.</big></b>—Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward +sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together +with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the +doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to.</p> + +<p>He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, +should never remember it.—<span class="smcap">Charron</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span>O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with +thankfulness.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men +expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver +and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the +benefit.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much +more is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father in +heaven!—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Grave.</big></b>—There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary +be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice +of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is +free from his master.—<span class="smcap">Job 3:17, 18, 19</span>.</p> + +<p>We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead;" but angels +throng about him, saying, "A man is born."—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a +port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been +tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child +nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the +workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is +pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is +steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping +of a charity that covers all blame.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a +remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the +living. Oh, the grave!—the grave! It buries every error, covers every +defect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring +none but fond regrets and tender recollections.—<span class="smcap">Washington +Irving</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> +<span class="i11">What is the grave?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis a cool, shady harbor, where the Christian<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Wayworn and weary with life's rugged road,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Forgetting all life's sorrows, joys, and pains,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lays his poor body down to rest—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sleeps on—and wakes in heaven.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Greatness.</big></b>—He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets +himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end +with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible +resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and +without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in +storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on +truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this +greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never +heard.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are barren in return.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Rowe.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Great truths are portions of the soul of man;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Great souls are the portions of eternity.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lowell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than +disbelief in great men.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>If the title of great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be +charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in +establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his +country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes +were never won at the expense of honor, justice, integrity, or by the +sacrifice of a single principle—this title will not be denied to +Washington.—<span class="smcap">Sparks</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span>He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after +performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like +Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a +very low standard of it in his mind.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are +good, but very few men that are both great and good.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>A really great man is known by three signs,—generosity in the design, +humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.—<span class="smcap">Bismarck</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking +of God's holiness.—<span class="smcap">Matthew Henry</span>.</p> + +<p>The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.</p> + +<p>Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness +thrust upon them.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that +his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives +him for mankind.—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be +great.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Grief.</big></b>—Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true +fertilizer.—<span class="smcap">Madame de Girardin</span>.</p> + +<p>Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his +forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects +of pity?—<span class="smcap">Metastasio</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span>Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to +the living, and the dead know it not.—<span class="smcap">Xenophon</span>.</p> + +<p>All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while +a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it +with nothingness at all points.—<span class="smcap">Madame Swetchine</span>.</p> + +<p>What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation +that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our +pleasure we have more.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + +<p>They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To vent my sorrow would be some relief;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be +assuaged by baldness.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are +easiest consoled.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may +elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can +consecrate.—<span class="smcap">Horace Greeley</span>.</p> + +<p>Every one can master a grief but he that has it.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Grumbling.</big></b>—When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he is the very +last man to be complaining of other people.—<span class="smcap">D.L. Moody</span>.</p> + +<p>Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere +habit of complaining.—<span class="smcap">Graves</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to +the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their +perfections which please him.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + +<p>No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set +up in the grumbling business; but those who are moved by a genuine +desire to do good have little time for murmuring or +complaint.—<span class="smcap">Robert West</span>.</p> + +<p>I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "It is +all barren."—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Guilt.</big></b>—Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the +Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, +their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,—these +are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the +impious.—<span class="smcap">Robert Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the +light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of +fear.—<span class="smcap">Junius</span>.</p> + +<p>Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real +happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their +commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the +steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom +those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and +peace.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would +blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public +observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all +above him.—<span class="smcap">Wirt</span>.</p> + +<p>They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds +their blame.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is +guilt.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<p>They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive +themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; +one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and +thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, +which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather +than have incurred.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing +justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own +hangman.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Habit" id="Habit"></a>Habit.</big></b>—Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them +off, 'tis being flayed alive.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and +you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a +character, and you reap a destiny.—<span class="smcap">G.D. Boardman</span>.</p> + +<p>A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an +ink drop soileth the pure white page.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out +the one, I will smooth out the other.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.—<span class="smcap">Paley</span>.</p> + +<p>Habit is ten times nature.—<span class="smcap">Wellington</span>.</p> + +<p>Habit is the most imperious of all masters.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to +see the one and to read the other; for what does it signify to make +anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher of +our hearts) all our privacies are open?—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span>The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the +second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, +until presently the habit is adopted.—<span class="smcap">Henry Giles</span>.</p> + +<p>It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his +knowledge.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the +spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of +tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or +woe.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Sigourney</span>.</p> + +<p>I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.—<span class="smcap">Hosea +Ballou</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Happiness.</big></b>—He who is good is happy.—<span class="smcap">Habbington</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">If solid happiness we prize,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Within our breast this jewel lies;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And they are fools who roam:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The world has nothing to bestow,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">From our own selves our joys must flow,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And that dear hut, our home.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cotton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the +rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention +would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of +disease and want.—<span class="smcap">Paley</span>.</p> + +<p>Happiness and virtue react upon each other,—the best are not only the +happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they +know not God that think to please Him with making themselves +miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and +lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true +God by wronging himself.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its +counterfeit!—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and +consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most +happy.—<span class="smcap">Norris</span>.</p> + +<p>Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that +Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to +all things that breathe, true happiness can never be +attained.—<span class="smcap">Dickens</span>.</p> + +<p>The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at +anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and +disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at +making himself easy now and happy hereafter.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the +body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the +pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of +mind.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it +the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is +never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may +find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of +it.—<span class="smcap">Hawthorne</span>.</p> + +<p>The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take +away from the wretchedness of others.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no man but may make his paradise.—<span class="smcap">Beaumont and +Fletcher</span>.</p> + +<p>The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, +soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt +compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless +other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this +world.—<span class="smcap">Froude</span>.</p> + +<p>The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our +being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command +them.—<span class="smcap">From the French</span>.</p> + +<p>Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled +to inspire.—<span class="smcap">Duchesse de Praslin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Hatred.</big></b>—The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that +the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for +reconciliation.—<span class="smcap">Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know +them because we hate them.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of +mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or +those who are indifferent to you.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their +littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.—<span class="smcap">Balzac</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have +injured.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this +evil passion.—<span class="smcap">Lamartine</span>.</p> + +<p>The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our +own.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>The hatred of persons related to each other is the most +violent.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we +hate.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Health.</big></b>—The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise +and abstinence, to live as if he was poor.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. Temple</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span>There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health +and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is +the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the +latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man +would not part with health for money, but that the richest would +gladly part with all their money for health.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to +yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on +principle at the onset.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lie in three words, health, peace and competence:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But health consists with temperance alone;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who +enlargest 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 with +thee.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who +are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to +enjoy.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to +vegetation.—<span class="smcap">Massillon</span>.</p> + +<p>One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and +cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with +immoderate cares.—<span class="smcap">John Ray</span>.</p> + +<p>The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which +custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.—<span class="smcap">Abba +Goold Woolson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>For life is not to live, but to be well.—<span class="smcap">Martial</span>.</p> + +<p>From labor health, from health contentment springs.—<span class="smcap">Beattie</span>.</p> + +<p>In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in +overwork of the brain—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be +healthy.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Heart.</big></b>—Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the +issues of life.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 4:23</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The poor too often turn away unheard,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">From hearts that shut against them with a sound<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That will be heard in heaven.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.—<span class="smcap">Bailey</span>.</p> + +<p>All offences come from the heart.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 12:34</span>.</p> + +<p>Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made +it?—<span class="smcap">John Lyly</span>.</p> + +<p>When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is +pretty certain that she has his.—<span class="smcap">G.D. Prentice</span>.</p> + +<p>The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always +harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only +be a greater knave as he grows older.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to +execute.—<span class="smcap">Gibbon</span>.</p> + +<p>The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains +the pulse of youth forever.—<span class="smcap">Landor</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the +warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness +and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock +and mosses.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<p>None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the +heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.—<span class="smcap">Trench</span>.</p> + +<p>There are treasures laid up in the heart,—treasures of charity, +piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him +beyond death, when he leaves this world.—<span class="smcap">Buddhist Scriptures</span>.</p> + +<p>The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who +can know it?—<span class="smcap">Jeremiah 17:9</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Heaven.</big></b>—The generous who is always just, and the just who is always +generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The redeemed shall walk there.—<span class="smcap">Isaiah 35:9</span>.</p> + +<p>If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, +which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be +forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the +everlasting world!—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + +<p>I cannot be content with less than heaven.—<span class="smcap">Bailey</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that +enter there must go upon their knees.—<span class="smcap">Daniel Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the +only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Horne</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span>Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, +health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal +good.—<span class="smcap">Hannah More</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of +which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most +glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer +court.—<span class="smcap">Rev. Dr. Guthrie</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than +heaven to earth.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The +kingdom of God is within you."—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this +his 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 the +pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; +but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.—<span class="smcap">Thos. +à Kempis</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Heroes.</big></b>—Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole +world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great +deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about +them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic +world.—<span class="smcap">Hawthorne</span>.</p> + +<p>Troops of heroes undistinguished die.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be +a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect +for some person of his own stamp.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of +arms.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span>We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our +lives.—<span class="smcap">James Ellis</span>.</p> + +<p>Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person +whatever he says has an enhanced value.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>History.</big></b>—History maketh a young man to be old, without either +wrinkles or gray hairs,—privileging him with the experience of age, +without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.—<span class="smcap">Thomas +Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>History teaches everything, even the future.—<span class="smcap">Lamartine</span>.</p> + +<p>It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a +right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God +is here, and we knew him not!"—<span class="smcap">Bancroft</span>.</p> + +<p>This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous +actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign +them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in +the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base +actions.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue +always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the +world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is +past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the +future.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the +history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of +anecdotes.—<span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>.</p> + +<p>History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span>The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every +nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing +along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the +discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian +philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a +divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and +halcyon days to come.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Home.</big></b>—There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that +growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a +home.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel +that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this +delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can +bestow.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his +home.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our coming, and look brighter when we come.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—John Howard Payne.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There's a strange something, which without a brain<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Churchill.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and +pleasure felt at home.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span>Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of +conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest +home?—<span class="smcap">James Hamilton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Breathes there a man with soul so dead,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who never to himself hath said,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">This is my own, my native land!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">From wandering on a foreign strand!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to +stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their +element.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple +freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are +a sight day by day, and make life blither.—<span class="smcap">Charles Buxton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In all my wanderings round this world of care,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In all my griefs—and God has given my share—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I still had hopes my latest hours to crown,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To husband out life's taper at the close,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Around my fire an evening group to draw,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I still had hopes, my long vexations past,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Here to return—and die at home at last.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Home is the seminary of all other institutions.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span><b><big>Honesty.</big></b>—To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked +out of ten thousand.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.—<span class="smcap">H. +Martyn</span>.</p> + +<p>The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as to +be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world is in +possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. The +course of such a man will be firm and steady, because he has nothing +to fear from the world, and is sure of the approbation and support of +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Wirt</span>.</p> + +<p>Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.—<span class="smcap">Otway</span>.</p> + +<p>"Honesty is the best policy;" but he who acts on that principle is not +an honest man.—<span class="smcap">Whately</span>.</p> + +<p>The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but +the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only +"the first step toward greatness,"—it is greatness +itself.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a +penny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thou +reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and +buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright nor +stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse +because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with +diamonds.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a +large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in +the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and +power is everything.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.</p> + +<p>The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a +saint.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span>No man is bound to be rich or great,—no, nor to be wise; but every +man is bound to be honest.—<span class="smcap">Sir Benjamin Rudyard</span>.</p> + +<p>An honest man's the noblest work of God.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find +them so to each other will be much disappointed.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue +and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our +spoons.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and +good-nature.—<span class="smcap">Montaigne</span>.</p> + +<p>No legacy is so rich as honesty.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be +becoming.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Hope.</big></b>—All which happens in the whole world happens through hope. No +husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would +spring up and bring forth the ear. How much more are we helped on by +hope in the way to eternal life!—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>"Hast thou hope?" they asked of John Knox, when he lay a-dying. He +spoke nothing, but raised his finger and pointed upward, and so +died.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the +pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and +enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more +to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, +diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form +the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Horne</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span>A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings +but makes her rejoice in them.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearing +our prayers to the throne of God.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Hope is our life when first our life grows clear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet the day comes when fain we would not hope—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But forasmuch as we with life must cope,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Struggling with this and that—and who knows why?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Hope will not give us up to certainty,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But still must bide with us.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wm. Morris.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Hope springs eternal in the human breast,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Man never is, but always to be blest.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, +real poverty.—<span class="smcap">Hume</span>.</p> + +<p>True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always +hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability +of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole +course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not +confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last +all should be lost, it has saved itself.—<span class="smcap">Von Knebel</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Hope, like the glimmering taper's light,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Adorns and cheers the way;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And still, as darker grows the night,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Emits a brighter ray.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Hospitality.</big></b>—Like many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in +its perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would the +woes of this world be lightened!—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Kirkland</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the +guests, which makes the feast.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span>There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which +cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at +once at his ease.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have +entertained angels unawares.—<span class="smcap">Hebrews 13:2</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And every stranger finds a ready chair:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where all the ruddy family around<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or press the bashful stranger to his food,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And learn the luxury of doing good.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Humility.</big></b>—The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is +not sufficient.—<span class="smcap">St. Augustine</span>.</p> + +<p>The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over +with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly +hearts and humble souls.—<span class="smcap">Worthington</span>.</p> + +<p>He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole +offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a +burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be +rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the +world.—<span class="smcap">The Talmud</span>.</p> + +<p>True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep +and firm foundation of all virtues.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and +life.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 22:4</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span>"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer +humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say +humility. 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 to +the knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God? Would +we attain mercy? humility will help us.—<span class="smcap">C. Sutton</span>.</p> + +<p>Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 5:5</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing can be further apart than true humility and +servility.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he +retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I +were."—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, +the farther they are from heaven.—<span class="smcap">Burder</span>.</p> + +<p>The grace which makes every other grace amiable.—<span class="smcap">Alfred Mercier</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud +heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by +itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of +humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor +strength can prevail nor reason.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the +ground.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Reynolds</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very +low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others +much.—<span class="smcap">Leighton</span>.</p> + +<p>After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Hurry.</big></b>—No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is +the mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one. A weak man in +office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no +purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a +turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a +great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into +nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are +hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Hypocrisy.</big></b>—If the world despises hypocrites, what must be the +estimate of them in heaven?—<span class="smcap">Madame Roland</span>.</p> + +<p>Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and +tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The +hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of +virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means +to gain the love and esteem of mankind.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his +heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn +swords.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 55:21</span>.</p> + +<p>Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the +thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of +being what he is not.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.—<span class="smcap">Matthew +Henry</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The God of goodness, was an undertaker.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Peter Pindar.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.—<span class="smcap">Hosea +Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span>Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his +neighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week +without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the +milk for his customers.—<span class="smcap">George Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest +dupes he has.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Idleness" id="Idleness"></a>Idleness.</big></b>—I look upon indolence as a sort of +suicide.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it +assiduously.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron +chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to +accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.—<span class="smcap">Judge Hale</span>.</p> + +<p>If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you +imagine I shall answer pride or luxury or ambition or egotism? No; I +shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. +Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental +activity.—<span class="smcap">Zimmermann</span>.</p> + +<p>A poor idle man cannot be an honest man.—<span class="smcap">Achilles Poincelot</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Absence of occupation is not rest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that +riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business +at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes +him.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are +generated in a stagnant pool.—<span class="smcap">From the Latin</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span>An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.—<span class="smcap">Bunyan</span>.</p> + +<p>If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few +stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a +road.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.—<span class="smcap">Hillard</span>.</p> + +<p>Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole +employment is to watch its flight.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">An idler is a watch that wants both hands,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As useless if it goes as when it stands.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Immigration.</big></b>—If you should turn back from this land to Europe the +foreign ministers of the Gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the +foreign merchants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of +our pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses, and our beneficent +institutions, and what a putting back of every monetary, merciful, +moral, and religious interest of the land! This commingling here of +all nationalities under the blessing of God will produce in +seventy-five or one hundred years the most magnificent style of man +and woman the world ever saw. They will have the wit of one race, the +eloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity of +another, the æsthetic taste of another, the high moral character of +another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve +and muscle an intertwining of the fibres of all nationalities, nothing +but the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clear +through body and mind and soul, can take of them an adequate +picture.—<span class="smcap">T. DeWitt Talmage</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Immortality.</big></b>—Immortality is the glorious discovery of +Christianity.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span>We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm +where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before +us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that +pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence +forever.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">This longing after immortality?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or whence this secret dread and inward horror<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Back on herself, and startles at destruction?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And intimates eternity to man.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The stars shall fade away, the sun himself<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unhurt amidst the war of elements,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Addison.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the +moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the +Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his +existence.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the +immortal symphonies which invite me.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are +immortal and divine.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and +peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: +Thou livest forever!—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Independence.</big></b>—It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes +him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.—<span class="smcap">Cobbett</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span>These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go +together,—manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and +manly self-reliance.—<span class="smcap">Wordsworth</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We may be independent if we will.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Churchill.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she +never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Industry.</big></b>—Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race +to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest +reward.—<span class="smcap">E.L. Magoon</span>.</p> + +<p>Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before +kings.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 22:29</span>.</p> + +<p>If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate +abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied +to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without +it.—<span class="smcap">Sir J. Reynolds</span>.</p> + +<p>If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's +house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or +the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth +them.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to +attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and +valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher's +stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers +not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that +brings 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.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span>The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends +chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither +time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and +frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>The celebrated Galen said employment was nature's physician. It is +indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered +the parent of misery.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In every rank, or great or small,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis industry supports us all.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gay.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Infidelity.</big></b>—There is but one thing without honor, smitten with +eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—insincerity, +unbelief.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Infidelity is one of those coinages,—a mass of base money that won't +pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks +correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them +a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is +invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.—<span class="smcap">Chalmers</span>.</p> + +<p>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 I +know."—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p>Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at +contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; +and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes +great things little,—diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, +and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right +end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our +eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their +greatness.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span>No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of +God.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly +observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no +motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, +no crusades, no martyrs.—<span class="smcap">Macaulay</span>.</p> + +<p>When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, +they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Ingratitude.</big></b>—If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty +train of human vices, it is ingratitude.—<span class="smcap">H. Brooke</span>.</p> + +<p>Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.—<span class="smcap">De +Boufflers</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Blow, blow, thou winter wind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thou art not so unkind<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As man's ingratitude.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets +his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.—<span class="smcap">Bunyan</span>.</p> + +<p>You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, +nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also +insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a +kindness, 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 all +the world.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that +clever men have been ungrateful.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.—<span class="smcap">Plautus</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span>And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful +has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in +him.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful +man.—<span class="smcap">Ausonius</span>.</p> + +<p>Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It +is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.—<span class="smcap">Napoleon</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To have a thankless child.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of +aid.—<span class="smcap">Publius <a name="Syrus" id="Syrus"></a>Syrus</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Innocence.</big></b>—We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and +Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He's arm'd without that's innocent within.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Horace.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not +again, though watered with tears.—<span class="smcap">Hooper</span>.</p> + +<p>To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome +our evil inclinations.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid! Serenity and +cheerfulness are his portion. Hope is continually pouring its balm +into his soul. His heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded and +tortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances and +risings up of principles which they cannot forget; perpetually teased +by returning temptations, perpetually lamenting defeated +resolutions.—<span class="smcap">Paley</span>.</p> + +<p>Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!—<span class="smcap">Caroline of Denmark</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span>There are some reasoners who frequently confound innocence with the +mere incapacity of guilt; but he that never saw, or heard, or thought +of strong liquors, cannot be proposed as a pattern of +sobriety.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a +mark, but not a stain.—<span class="smcap">Madame Swetchine</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest +cause.—<span class="smcap">Southern</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Inspiration.</big></b>—Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble +impulse by the name of inspiration?—<span class="smcap">George Eliot</span>.</p> + +<p>The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the +seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.—<span class="smcap">Ovid</span>.</p> + +<p>No man was ever great without divine inspiration.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and +agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in +others.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Intellect.</big></b>—If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can +take it from him.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he +was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his +father Philip for life.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated +family.—<span class="smcap">Rev. Thomas Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of +the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest +furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest +storm.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span>Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to +live, as well as strong to think.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given +us, on this side of the grave.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is +sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is +false is false,—this is the mark and character of +intelligence.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Intemperance.</big></b>—A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness +and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.—<span class="smcap">John B. Gough</span>.</p> + +<p>Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the +evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a +dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to +be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous +entertainer.—<span class="smcap">Atterbury</span>.</p> + +<p>Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath +babbling? 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 color +in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a +serpent, and stingeth like an adder.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 23:29-32</span>.</p> + +<p>O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their +brains!—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span>I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs +them only one day; but me three,—the first in sinning, the second in +suffering, and the third in repenting.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or +overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's +mind is to cure melancholy by madness.—<span class="smcap">Charron</span>.</p> + +<p>Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of +drinking.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.—<span class="smcap">Junius</span>.</p> + +<p>Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls to +bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual +misery.—<span class="smcap">Baxter</span>.</p> + +<p>The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned +more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other +causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first +question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, +"Does he use ardent spirits?"—<span class="smcap">Jefferson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Jealousy" id="Jealousy"></a>Jealousy.</big></b>—People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their +own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care +for either to keep them continually uncomfortable.—<span class="smcap">Barnes</span>.</p> + +<p>It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the +blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and +that often on the slightest occasions, and when least +suspected.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + +<p>All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable +logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores +them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they +can tell her.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span>The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it +converts all it takes into its own nourishment.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i8">Trifles light as air<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are to the jealous confirmations strong<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As proofs of holy writ.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, +which hath a most vehement flame.—<span class="smcap">Song of Solomon 8:6</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Yet is there one more cursed than they all,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Turning all love's delight to misery,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Through fear of losing his felicity.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Spenser.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Joy.</big></b>—The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it +lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his +candle burns the more easily will it light mine.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is +the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can +be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the +consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the +miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who +exercises it.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Porteus</span>.</p> + +<p>Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who +partakes in his griefs.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is +medicine.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Without kindness, there can be no true joy.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span><b><big>Judgment.</big></b>—How are we justly to determine in a world where there +are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?—<span class="smcap">Madame de Genlis</span>.</p> + +<p>Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<p>One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both +sides.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but +by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their +works.—<span class="smcap">L'Estrange</span>.</p> + +<p>We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone +may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath +done, whether it be good or bad.—<span class="smcap">2 Cor. 5:10</span>.</p> + +<p>It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to +judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs +of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is +contingent upon circumstances.—<span class="smcap">Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>The right of private judgment is absolute in every American +citizen.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got +the least of; and that is judgment.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the +inexperienced, and the young.—<span class="smcap">Miss Mulock</span>.</p> + +<p>The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest +men.—<span class="smcap">Kossuth</span>.</p> + +<p>Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others +with a judgment of charity.—<span class="smcap">Mason</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Go just alike, yet each believes his own.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Justice.</big></b>—Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with +honor; and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even +to wish to withhold.—<span class="smcap">Woman's Rights and Duties</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Be just and fear not:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thy God's, and truth's.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">And heaven that every virtue bears in mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He who is only just is cruel.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The sweet remembrance of the just<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Paraphrase of Psalm 112:6.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, and +obedience is the premium which we pay for it.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can +corrupt.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, +represented as blind.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know +of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and +nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak +from the volume that is laid open before us.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to +put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my +neighbor.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Watts</span>.</p> + +<p>The books are balanced in heaven, not here.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With those that are not, never change thy mind.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Denham.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span>The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by +wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Aristotle</span>.</p> + +<p>Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament +which holds civilized beings and civilized nations +together.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Kindness" id="Kindness"></a>Kindness.</big></b>—A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man +than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should +begin on ours.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little +things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given +habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure +comfort.—<span class="smcap">Sir H. Davy</span>.</p> + +<p>Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or +learning.—<span class="smcap">F.W. Faber</span>.</p> + +<p>How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around +him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making +everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!—<span class="smcap">Washington +Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, +perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's +darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions +he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">One kindly deed may turn<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The fountain of thy soul<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Long as its currents roll.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Holmes.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so +little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and +grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will +bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they +spring.—<span class="smcap">Bentham</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span>There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the +wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Kisses.</big></b>—A kiss from my mother made me a painter.—<span class="smcap">Benjamin +West</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it +is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It +pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve +learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and +varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in +it.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are +love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot or +two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No +creatures kiss each other so much as the birds.—<span class="smcap">Charles +Buxton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Knowledge.</big></b>—Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, +or we know where we can find information upon it.—<span class="smcap">Boswell</span>.</p> + +<p>If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when +we are old.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In reading authors, when you find<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bright passages, that strike your mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And which, perhaps, you may have reason<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To think on, at another season,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Be not contented with the sight,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But take them down in black and white;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Such a respect is wisely shown,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As makes another's sense one's own.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span>Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in +life. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession of +knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at +twenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the most +important years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred per +cent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Its +price is above rubies.—<span class="smcap">Winslow</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">Knowledge is<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bought only with a weary care,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And wisdom means a world of pain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joaquin Miller.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great +shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we +possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.—<span class="smcap">Leibnitz</span>.</p> + +<p>Knowledge is power as well as fame.—<span class="smcap">Rufus Choate</span>.</p> + +<p>Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all +things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease +and out of place.—<span class="smcap">Tupper</span>.</p> + +<p>A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so +much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking +questions where I was ignorant."</p> + +<p>Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give +all that he has to get knowledge.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and +experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the +knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by +reading.—<span class="smcap">Thomas à Kempis</span>.</p> + +<p>If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at +it.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span>Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is +troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come +to the spring, they rise up and meet you.—<span class="smcap">Felton</span>.</p> + +<p>Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that +he knows no more.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are +willing to pay the price.—<span class="smcap">Juvenal</span>.</p> + +<p>Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace +of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a +knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except +at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.—<span class="smcap">Lady +Blessington</span>.</p> + +<p>The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in +ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, +which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the +demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy +and ruin.—<span class="smcap">G.W. Curtis</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Labor" id="Labor"></a>Labor.</big></b>—Labor is one of the great elements of society,—the great +substantial interest on which we all stand.—<span class="smcap">Daniel Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above +temptation.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises the +happiness of the poor.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who +disgrace labor.—<span class="smcap">U.S. Grant</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span>If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible +substitute for it.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can +hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the +blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the +friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet +juices.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.—<span class="smcap">Horace +Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>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 it +in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.—<span class="smcap">J.G. +Holland</span>.</p> + +<p>Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for +physic.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Labor is rest—from the sorrows that greet us;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Frances S. Osgood.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">No man is born into the world, whose work<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is not born with him.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lowell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Labor! all labor is noble and holy!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Frances S. Osgood.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Language.</big></b>—In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and +silver.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its +expression naturally in a coarse or refined +phraseology.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span>Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.—<span class="smcap">Mark +Hopkins</span>.</p> + +<p>Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Laughter.</big></b>—Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the +greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Hufeland</span>.</p> + +<p>Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they +think laughable.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.—<span class="smcap">Lamb</span>.</p> + +<p>A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without +kindness there can be no true joy.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, +while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who +shoots it off.—<span class="smcap">Talmage</span>.</p> + +<p>Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and +self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, +unchristian.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>Man is the only creature endowed with the power of +laughter.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Learning.</big></b>—Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; +and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have +one.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, +with a load of books.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A little learning is a dangerous thing;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And drinking largely sobers us again.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span>The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and +studying much.—<span class="smcap">Catherall</span>.</p> + +<p>The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love +Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<p>Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. +Temple</span>.</p> + +<p>Learning makes a man fit company for himself.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think +that he knows enough.—<span class="smcap">Powell</span>.</p> + +<p>It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men +gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes +them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth +clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and +unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and +changes.—<span class="smcap">Lord Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has +thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, +knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using +it.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Learning is better worth than house or land.—<span class="smcap">Crabbe</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Liberality.</big></b>—If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; +if rich, by your good deeds.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it +rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his +own.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span>Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.—<span class="smcap">La +Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that +withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to +poverty.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 11:24</span>.</p> + +<p>Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving +judiciously.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be +watered also himself.—<span class="smcap"><a name="Proverbs_11_25" id="Proverbs_11_25"></a>Proverbs 11:25</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Liberty.</big></b>—The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same +time.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Jefferson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And we are weeds without it.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior +to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive +of a good life.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Butler</span>.</p> + +<p>Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.—<span class="smcap">Auerbach</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Addison.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire +on the floor.—<span class="smcap">Hillard</span>.</p> + +<p>Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or +habits.—<span class="smcap">Alfred de Musset</span>.</p> + +<p>The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they +have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the +liberty 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.—<span class="smcap">Cowley</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span>The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a +jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of +others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should +be wronged and trampled under foot.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Liberty, without wisdom, is license.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Life.</big></b>—Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of +little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations +given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure +comfort.—<span class="smcap">Sir Humphry Davy</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Improve each moment as it flies;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Life's a short summer—man a flower—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He dies—alas! how soon he dies!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Johnson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Life's but a means unto an end, that end,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bailey.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>In the midst of life we are in death.—<span class="smcap">Church Burial Service</span>.</p> + +<p>Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or +evil, as you make it.—<span class="smcap">Montaigne</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Since every man who lives is born to die,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And none can boast sincere felicity,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With equal mind what happens let us bear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Live well; how long or short permit to heaven.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason +of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and +sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 90:10</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span>A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.—<span class="smcap">George +Herbert</span>.</p> + +<p>Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or +registering wrongs.—<span class="smcap">Charlotte Bronte</span>.</p> + +<p>That man lives twice that lives the first life well.—<span class="smcap">Herrick</span>.</p> + +<p>He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and +he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—<span class="smcap">James +Martineau</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Life is probation: mortal man was made<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To solve the solemn problem—right or wrong.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—John Quincy Adams.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too +long.—<span class="smcap">Lady Rachel Russell</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Our life contains a thousand springs,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And dies if one be gone;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Strange that a harp of thousand strings<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Should keep in tune so long.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Watts.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.—<span class="smcap">William +Penn</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In feelings, not in figures on a dial.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bailey.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His greatness is a ripening,—nips his root,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And then he falls.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span>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 all +things.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon +earth are a shadow.—<span class="smcap">Job 8:9</span>.</p> + +<p>You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured +and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be +delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, +sweet sensations for us.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I slept and dreamed that life was beauty;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I woke and found that life was duty.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Ellen Sturgis Hooper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The truest end of life is to know the life that never +ends.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the +length of eternity.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Ken</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Light.</big></b>—We should render thanks to God for having produced this +temporal 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.—<span class="smcap">Caussin</span>.</p> + +<p>Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<p>Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that +are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light +of day.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>I am the light of the world.—<span class="smcap">John 9:5</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span>No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as +the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle +says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under +the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language +of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great +light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light +is sprung up."—<span class="smcap">Baseley</span>.</p> + +<p>The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, +and the student's lamp.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Love.</big></b>—Love is the purification of the heart from self; it +strengthens and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a +nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman +strong, noble, and courageous.—<span class="smcap">Miss Jewsbury</span>.</p> + +<p>We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.—<span class="smcap">Rowland +Hill</span>.</p> + +<p>It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less +difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the +listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, +attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric +telegraph of touch,—all these betray the yielding citadel before the +word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every +avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat +impossible.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much +as the two sides of an algebraic equation.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and +repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—<span class="smcap">N.P. Willis</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span>The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl +it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each +assumes the qualities of the other.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p> + +<p>The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and +the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, +when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; +there must be difficulty and danger.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like +danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; +it intoxicates like wine.—<span class="smcap">A.B. Edwards</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Let those love now who never loved before,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Let those that always loved now love the more.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Parnell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And men below, and saints above;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For love is heaven, and heaven is love.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest +thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is +begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is +nourished.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>Love's like the measles—all the worse when it comes late in +life.—<span class="smcap">Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can +the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his +house for love, it would utterly be contemned.—<span class="smcap">Song of Solomon +8:6 and 7</span>.</p> + +<p>Love is the fulfilling of the law.—<span class="smcap">Romans 13:10</span>.</p> + +<p>Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no +rhetoric of words.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span>A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because +love is more the study and business of her life.—<span class="smcap">Washington +Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their +children has always been far more powerful than that of children for +their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a +thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to +us?—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be +loved.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who nothing feels but for himself alone.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Love why do we one passion call,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When 'tis a compound of them all?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In all their equipages meet;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Swift.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous +love.—<span class="smcap">Henry Home</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But there's nothing half so sweet in life<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As love's young dream.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Moore.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">They do not love, that do not show their love.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and +raiment.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>That you may be beloved, be amiable.—<span class="smcap">Ovid</span>.</p> + +<p>All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, +jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then +peace.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span>Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our +disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance +from the fair, fixes and determines us. Friendship, on the contrary, +is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials and +months of familiarity.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Love is a child that talks in broken language,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet then he speaks most plain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is +short-lived.—<span class="smcap">Erasmus</span>.</p> + +<p>No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do +with only a single thread.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + +<p>It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could +not recognize him to be the same person.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.</p> + +<p>Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of +others.—<span class="smcap">Abel Stevens</span>.</p> + +<p>If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the +world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could +by any possibility marry.—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">True love is humble, thereby is it known;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Girded for service, seeking not its own;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Abraham Coles.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Man" id="Man"></a>Man.</big></b>—Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory +of the man.—<span class="smcap">1 Cor. 11:7</span>.</p> + +<p>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?—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span>A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he +inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined +him.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher +things.—<span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>.</p> + +<p>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 his +creditors, or to society in some form or other.—<span class="smcap">G.A. Sala</span>.</p> + +<p>The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood,—bounds into +youth,—sobers into manhood,—softens into age,—totters into second +childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,—thence to +be watched and cared for.—<span class="smcap">Henry Giles</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How complicate, how wonderful, is man!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creation of a thousand +forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, +America, lie folded already in the first man.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,—one +dog does not change a bone with another.—<span class="smcap">Adam Smith</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The proper study of mankind is man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">His life was gentle; and the elements<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And say to all the world, "This was a man!"<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of +trouble.—<span class="smcap">Job 14:1</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span>Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is +one rascal less in the world.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to +form 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.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in +faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, +how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a +god!—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, +and the progressive.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Before man made us citizens, great nature made us +men.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Manners.</big></b>—Evil communications corrupt good manners.—<span class="smcap">1 Cor. +15:33</span>.</p> + +<p>The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses +with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, +love measure.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we +converse.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that +of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I +should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of +well-bred.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his +conduct.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful +benevolence in that rarest of gifts,—fine breeding.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span>In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as +want of manners.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Good manners are a part of good morals.—<span class="smcap">Whatley</span>.</p> + +<p>One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the +three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those +below us.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing +do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and +salutation.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of +genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at +last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its +details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which +give such a depth to the morning meadows.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, +barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible +operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole +form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid +morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and +a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain +the same indulgence from them.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Hannah More</span>.</p> + +<p>A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's +ill manners.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span>The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a +calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, +from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live +in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while +low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making +such an amazing noise about it.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Marriage.</big></b>—Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, +holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave +through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, +children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her +choice, never!—<span class="smcap">Sheridan Knowles</span>.</p> + +<p>I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would +wear well.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<p>A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his +situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits +are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his +self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be +darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home +over which he is a monarch.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he +can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of +his nature are never called into action.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not good that the man should be alone.—<span class="smcap">Genesis 2:18</span>.</p> + +<p>The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always +laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of +provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of +humor.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span>When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those +God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their +being.—<span class="smcap">Tupper</span>.</p> + +<p>An obedient wife commands her husband.—<span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>.</p> + +<p>No man can either live piously or die righteous without a +wife.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a +design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in +that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, +forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties +and perfections, to the end of their lives.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.—<span class="smcap">Aaron Hill</span>.</p> + +<p>A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a +wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such +as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a +dispute about that.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest +a friend.—<span class="smcap">Rabbi Ben Azai</span>.</p> + +<p>Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his +first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a +second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing +that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a +second time.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We who improve his golden hours,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">By sweet experience know,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That marriage, rightly understood,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Gives to the tender and the good<br /></span> +<span class="i2">A paradise below.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cotton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span>As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead +of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a +bachelor.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>God the best maker of all marriages.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>A light wife doth make a heavy husband.</p> + +<p>The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hasty +reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for +wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to +husbands:—</p> + +<p>1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the +cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.</p> + +<p>2. Never both be angry at once.</p> + +<p>3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company.</p> + +<p>4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire.</p> + +<p>5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.</p> + +<p>6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each.</p> + +<p>7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has +been committed, and always speak lovingly.</p> + +<p>8. Never taunt with a past mistake.</p> + +<p>9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another.</p> + +<p>10. Never allow a request to be repeated.</p> + +<p>11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,—it is a +meanness.</p> + +<p>12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during +absence.</p> + +<p>13. Never meet without a loving welcome.</p> + +<p>14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span>15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have +frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness.</p> + +<p>16. Never forget the happy hours of early love.</p> + +<p>17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what +is.</p> + +<p>18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His +blessing alone can make it what it should ever be.</p> + +<p>19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the +narrow way.</p> + +<p>20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home.—<span class="smcap">Cottager +and Artisan</span>.</p> + +<p>Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse +than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch—the latter +undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but +too frequently leading to the same result.—<span class="smcap">Lord Rochester</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Let us no more contend, nor blame<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In offices of love, how we may lighten<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each other's burden, in our share of woe.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Willis.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of +paradise.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife +there.—<span class="smcap">Andrew Jackson</span>.</p> + +<p>If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.—<span class="smcap">Michelet</span>.</p> + +<p>Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can +be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without +integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, +riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can +claim.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span>When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live +till I were married.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a +variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in +war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail +according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high +parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she +forgets what she is by match.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife.—<span class="smcap">Simonides</span>.</p> + +<p>Take the daughter of a good mother.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop the +breach at home and men's mouths abroad. To this end, a good husband +never publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to do +penance before all that are present; after which, many study rather +revenge than reformation.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile +matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the +congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of +hearts.—<span class="smcap">Massillon</span>.</p> + +<p>A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister +of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; +her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the +guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm +of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest +wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful +counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her +prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his +head.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span>A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Meditation.</big></b>—Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in +her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at +hand.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Melancholy.</big></b>—I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against +melancholy: one was a bright fire; another, to remember all the +pleasant things said to her; another, to keep a box of sugar-plums on +the chimney-piece and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought this +mere trifling at the moment, but have in after life discovered how +true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better +than higher and more exalted objects; and that no means ought to be +thought too trifling which can oppose it either in ourselves or in +others.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not +as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning +skull.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, +that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel +a 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 to +these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also +think would be more pleasing to God.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mercy.</big></b>—Let us be merciful as well as just.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">Consider this,—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That, in the course of justice, none of us<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And that same prayer doth teach us all to render<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The deeds of mercy.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines +with even more brilliancy than justice.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.</p> + +<p>God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to +protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the +presumptuous.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Reynolds</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">It is enthroned in the heart of kings,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It is an attribute to God himself;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And earthly power doth then show likest God's<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When mercy seasons justice.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it +merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it +has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the +life.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The quality of mercy is not strain'd;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The throned monarch better than his crown.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. +It is therefore my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished +by it.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Teach me to feel another's woe,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To hide the fault I see;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That mercy I to others show,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That mercy show to me.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span>Underneath the wings of the seraphim are stretched the arms of the +divine mercy, ever ready to receive sinners.—<span class="smcap">The Talmud</span>.</p> + +<p>Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Merit.</big></b>—There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation +without some merit.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Distinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustre +from reproach. The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and +follow him in his course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a +magnificent theatre for his reception, and to invest with variegated +tints and with a softened effulgence the luminary which they cannot +hide.—<span class="smcap">Robert Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>On their own merits modest men are dumb.—<span class="smcap">George Colman</span>.</p> + +<p>The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins +esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.—<span class="smcap">La +Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it +constrained to praise.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Method.</big></b>—Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to +be got through with satisfaction. "Method," said Cecil (afterward Lord +Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in +half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's despatch of business was +extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is +to do only one thing at once."—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mind.</big></b>—Our minds are like certain vehicles,—when they have little +to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they +run quietly.—<span class="smcap">Elihu Burritt</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span>We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes +of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he +cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh +at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head +broke.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the mind that makes the body rich.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but +cannot receive great ones.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Were I so tall to reach the pole,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Or grasp the ocean with my span,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I must be measur'd by my soul:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The mind's the standard of the man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Watts.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The mind is its own place, and in itself<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 of +giving wholesome employment to others.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He that has treasures of his own<br /></span> +<span class="i1">May leave the cottage or the throne,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">May quit the globe, and dwell alone<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Within his spacious mind.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Watts.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows +corrupt.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated +by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect +of distant good.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<p>Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of +intelligence must direct the man of labor.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span>As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without +culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good +fruit.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Few minds wear out; more rust out.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>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. The +more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.—<span class="smcap">T. +Edwards</span>.</p> + +<p>Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is +beyond their range.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">It is the mind that maketh good or ill,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Spenser.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is +in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our +daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than +that of him who begs his daily bread.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>A good mind possesses a kingdom.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mirth.</big></b>—Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption +of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth +not in quantity, quality, or season.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the +blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its +dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the +back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or +veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than +smiling can for praying.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Peter Pindar.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do +like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we +can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many +sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from +them?—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one +another next morning.—<span class="smcap">Izaak Walton</span>.</p> + +<p>Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, +moroseness, anxiety,—all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off +by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub +himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, +in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which +it runs.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Misfortune.</big></b>—The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion +of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is +developed by the blows of the lapidary.—<span class="smcap">F.A. Durivage</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A soul exasperated in ills, falls out<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With everything, its friend, itself.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Addison.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of +others.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his +inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all +the more fragrant.—<span class="smcap">Sataka</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Himself, or his own virtue.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Mallet.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span>Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds +rise above it.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at +first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the +stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the +disposition.—<span class="smcap">From the French</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">When one is past, another care we have;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Herrick.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear +misfortune.—<span class="smcap">Bias</span>.</p> + +<p>I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great +misfortunes than to do great things.—<span class="smcap">Stanislaus</span>.</p> + +<p>Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but +misadventure.—<span class="smcap">Alcott</span>.</p> + +<p>The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we +command.—<span class="smcap">Orville Dewey</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of +mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally +distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves +the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, +before that which would fall to them by such a +division.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended +others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Melmoth</span>.</p> + +<p>Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our +friends upon them.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mob.</big></b>—The mob has nothing to lose, everything to +gain.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span>The mob have neither judgment nor principle,—ready to bawl at night +for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p>The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it +will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you +lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.—<span class="smcap">Jane +Porter</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">Inconstant, blind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Thomson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout +this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would +be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Moderation.</big></b>—Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in +bankruptcy.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation +in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a +vice.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Paine</span>.</p> + +<p>The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our +guardian angel quits his charge of us.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all +virtues.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his +conduct.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>Moderation resembles temperance. We are not unwilling to eat more, but +are afraid of doing ourselves harm.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span>To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The +greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within +proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its +limits, it really consists in keeping within it.—<span class="smcap">Pascal</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Modesty.</big></b>—A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those +he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to +be pleased with himself.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler +virtues.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<p>True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty +everything that is unfashionable.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the +bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the +devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent +the same sinful pleasure to you anew.—<span class="smcap">Baxter</span>.</p> + +<p>Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is +ill-treated.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but +sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it +heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in +paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors +more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be +without.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we +banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the +virtue that is in it.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span>The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does +not make a speech; he takes a low business tone, avoids all brag, is +nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in +monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest +name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest +weapon.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>God intended for women two preventatives against sin, modesty and +remorse; in confession to a mortal priest the former is removed by his +absolution, the latter is taken away.—<span class="smcap">Miranda of Piedmont</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Money.</big></b>—The love of money is the root of all evil.—<span class="smcap">1 Timothy +6:10</span>.</p> + +<p>But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the +friendship 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.—<span class="smcap">George Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.—<span class="smcap">Wesley</span>.</p> + +<p>What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How +tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, +good-natured old creature we find her!—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its +nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. +Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one +want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true +proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear +of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble +therewith."—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his +heart.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span>We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth +is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no +more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So +beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the +mind. Beware of the craving for enormous +acquisition.—<span class="smcap">Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.—<span class="smcap">Bouhours</span>.</p> + +<p>By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God +upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of +heaven.—<span class="smcap">Rutledge</span>.</p> + +<p>To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously +consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and +these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not +remedy, and these the worst.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark +of the covenant.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Morality.</big></b>—In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, Is +there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best +answered by asking ourselves another: Is there any harm in letting it +alone?—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to +no other book than the New Testament.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be +maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to +expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious +principle.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from +defect in intellect.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span>Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from external +possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and +practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is +necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honest +man alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separate +things which are in nature so closely united as virtue and +interest.—<span class="smcap">Enfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false +word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or +vanity, the price has to be paid at last.—<span class="smcap">Froude</span>.</p> + +<p>Morality without religion, is only a kind of dead reckoning,—an +endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance +we have to run, but without any observation of the heavenly +bodies.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>The system of morality which Socrates made it the business of his life +to teach was raised upon the firm basis of religion. The first +principles of virtuous conduct which are common to all mankind are, +according to this excellent moralist, laws of God; and the conclusive +argument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departs +from these principles with impunity.—<span class="smcap">Enfield</span>.</p> + +<p>All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is +everywhere the same, because it comes from God.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mother.</big></b>—The mother in her office holds the key of the +soul.—<span class="smcap">Old Play</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There is a sight all hearts beguiling—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A youthful mother to her infant smiling,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who with spread arms and dancing feet,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Baillie.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span>"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order +that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the +reply. The emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," +said he, "is a system in one word."—<span class="smcap">Abbott</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A mother is a mother still,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The holiest thing alive.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Coleridge.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may +become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives +their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good +repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a +mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from +his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that +once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout +of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never +be brought to think him all unworthy.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a +mother's love!—<span class="smcap">Marchioness de Spadara</span>.</p> + +<p>I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers +shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins +of fathers.—<span class="smcap">Dickens</span>.</p> + +<p>Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other +mothers venerable.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal +lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, +are never effaced entirely from the soul.—<span class="smcap">Lamennais</span>.</p> + +<p>One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.—<span class="smcap">George +Herbert</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span>"An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of +clergy."—<span class="smcap">T.W. Higginson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A mother's secret hope outlives them all.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Holmes.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and +he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or +silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond +devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives +us.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>All that I am, my mother made me.—<span class="smcap">J.Q. Adams</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Mourning.</big></b>—He mourns the dead who lives as they +desire.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun +will shine to-morrow.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to +the living, and the dead know it not.—<span class="smcap">Xenophon</span>.</p> + +<p>The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who +belong to them.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">No longer mourn for me when I am dead,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Give warning to the world that I am fled.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Music.</big></b>—Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad +measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by +exultant strains.—<span class="smcap">Henry Giles</span>.</p> + +<p>Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.—<span class="smcap">Charles G. Leland</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span>Music is the fourth great material want of our natures,—first food, +then raiment, then shelter, then music.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">When griping grief the heart doth wound,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And doleful dumps the mind oppress,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Then music, with her silver sound,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With speedy help doth lend redress.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign +of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities +of heaven itself.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. Temple</span>.</p> + +<p>I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms; could I +live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the +ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a +medicine.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Congreve.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There's music in the sighing of a reed;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">There's music in the gushing of a rill;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">There's music in all things, if men had ears.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The man that hath no music in himself,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O, pleasant is the welcome kiss<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When day's dull round is o'er;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And sweet the music of the step<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That meets us at the door.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—J.R. Drake.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are half so sweet as tender human words.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Barry Cornwall.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Is there a heart that music cannot melt?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Beattie.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a +realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.—<span class="smcap">Henry +Ward Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she +makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more +reasonable.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be +no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, +peace-breathing music.—<span class="smcap">Elihu Burritt</span>.</p> + +<p>Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front +rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his +devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.—<span class="smcap">Tuckerman</span>.</p> + +<p>Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from +the eyes of woman.—<span class="smcap">Beethoven</span>.</p> + +<p>Music is the child of prayer, the companion of +religion.—<span class="smcap">Chateaubriand</span>.</p> + +<p>Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them +musicians.—<span class="smcap">Horace Walpole</span>.</p> + +<p>Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we +see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts +into verse, rhyme, and song.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Nature" id="Nature"></a>Nature.</big></b>—Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden +gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she +presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The +apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to +follow her to the stars.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span>Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no +ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature +makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted +according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. +Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she +ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists.—<span class="smcap">William +Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all: +the earth is full of Thy riches.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 104:24</span>.</p> + +<p>The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in +them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The +elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the +air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our +race if the punishment of crimes against the laws of man were as +inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the laws of +nature,—were man as unerring in his judgments as +nature.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that +overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue +sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the +mind.—<span class="smcap">T. Edwards</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">Nature never did betray<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The heart that loved her.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wordsworth.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to +mankind in characters so large and visible, that those who are not +quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most +necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite +depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span> +<span class="i1">All are but parts of one stupendous whole,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose body nature is, and God the soul.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art +and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, +either for beauty or value.—<span class="smcap">Hume</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And bids dead matter aid us in our creed.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the +child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming +nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest +home.—<span class="smcap">T.W. Higginson</span>.</p> + +<p>Our old mother nature has pleasant and cheery tones enough for us when +she 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 black +velvet and diamonds, every creak of her sandals and every whisper of +her lips is full of mystery and fear.—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Nature ever faithful is<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To such as trust her faithfulness.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Emerson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a +single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they +have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all +summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest +shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore +by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to +have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty +forge!—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span>Nature is God's Old Testament.—<span class="smcap">Theodore Parker</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To him who in the love of nature holds<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Communion with her visible forms, she speaks<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A various language; for his gayer hours<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She has a voice of gladness, and a smile<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And eloquence of beauty, and she glides<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Into his darker musings, with a mild<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And healing sympathy, that steals away<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Their sharpness, ere he is aware.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bryant.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Nature and wisdom never are at strife.—<span class="smcap">Juvenal</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who devote themselves to the peaceful study of nature have but +little temptation to launch out upon the tempestuous sea of ambition; +they will scarcely be hurried away by the more violent or cruel +passions, the ordinary failings of those ardent persons who do not +control their conduct; but, pure as the objects of their researches, +they will feel for everything about them the same benevolence which +they see nature display toward all her productions.—<span class="smcap">Cuvier</span>.</p> + +<p>"Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, +yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a single +flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in +God. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and +that the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious in the +contemplations of religion, and be at the same time alive to the +charms and the loveliness of nature.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Chalmers</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Who loves not the shady trees,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The smell of flowers, the sound of brooks,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The song of birds, and the hum of bees,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Murmuring in green and fragrant nooks,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The voice of children in the spring,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Along the field-paths wandering?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—T. Millar.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span>You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find +in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never +learn from masters.—<span class="smcap">St. Bernard</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Nobility.</big></b>—He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own +resources, is a noble but a rare being.—<span class="smcap">Sir E. Brydges</span>.</p> + +<p>If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of +nobility.—<span class="smcap">Plato</span>.</p> + +<p>A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the +pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the +earth.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never +made one yet.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Be noble! and the nobleness that lives<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In other men, sleeping, but never dead,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lowell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Howe'er it be, it seems to me,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis only noble to be good.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Tennyson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Obedience" id="Obedience"></a>Obedience.</big></b>—The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of +Christianity is obedience.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>To obey is better than sacrifice.—<span class="smcap">1 Samuel 15:22</span>.</p> + +<p>Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be the +principle and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the glory +of God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thy +actions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in every +enterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace be +unto them, and mercy."—<span class="smcap">Burkitt</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span>Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is +dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for +store.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p>He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of +thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the +life.—<span class="smcap">Burkitt</span>.</p> + +<p>No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a +true obedience.—<span class="smcap">Henry Giles</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">"His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unless He does in our affections reign.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How fond it were to wish for such a King,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And no obedience to his sceptre bring,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His service freedom, and His judgments right.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Waller.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an +element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the +whole.—<span class="smcap">George Sewell</span>.</p> + +<p>The virtue of Christianity is obedience.—<span class="smcap">J.C. Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable +to God than every other sacrifice.—<span class="smcap">Metastasio</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Obstinacy.</big></b>—Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the +wrong.—<span class="smcap">Madame Necker</span>.</p> + +<p>People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper +they are in error the more angry they are.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their +suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first +wound is mortal.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Paine</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span>Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily +believe beyond what we see.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of +stupidity.—<span class="smcap">Barton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Occupation.</big></b>—Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have +known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because +he has had the management of it.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to +human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of +misery.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + +<p>Occupation alone is happiness.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble +and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there +was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the +anchor."—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the +regular discharge of some mechanical duty.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<p>The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which +finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or +broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other +blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is +life.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind—and that is +as much in our hands as theirs—is the right of having something to +do.—<span class="smcap">Miss Mulock</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Opinion.</big></b>—Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed +with greater.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span>Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he +differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself +on the head because you differ from yourself ten years +ago.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and +taste of others, is a slave.—<span class="smcap">Klopstock</span>.</p> + +<p>To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is +true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.—<span class="smcap">Venning</span>.</p> + +<p>We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may +make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head +hospitality.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for +having changed his opinion.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Who observes not that the voice of the people, yea of that people that +voiced themselves the people of God, did prosecute the God of all +people, with one common voice, "He is worthy to die." I will not, +therefore, ambitiously beg their voices for my preferment; nor weigh +my worth in that uneven balance, in which a feather of opinion shall +be moment enough to turn the scales and make a light piece go current, +and a current piece seem light.—<span class="smcap">Arthur Warwick</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard +the world's opinion of himself.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three +territories,—the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, +unexplored middle ground of doubt.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span>Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally +has a strong underlying sense of justice.—<span class="smcap">Abraham Lincoln</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Opportunity.</big></b>—Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it +go by him.—<span class="smcap">Bayard Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill +their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, +one by one, till all are gone.—<span class="smcap">Rev. T. Jones</span>.</p> + +<p>Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to +use ordinary situations.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have +taken them,—besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the +chance their servitor.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There is a tide in the affairs of men,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Omitted, all the voyage of their life<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And we must take the current when it serves,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or lose our ventures.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and +that of doing good once a year.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<p>There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, +if then he seize it.—<span class="smcap">Beaumont and Fletcher</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no man whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when +she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door +and flies out at the window.—<span class="smcap">Cardinal Imperiali</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily +occurrence.—<span class="smcap">Marie Ebner-Eschenbach</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span>Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has +had his chance already, and neglected it.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be +overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the +iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield +to him who can both raise and rule it.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by +the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter +himself can catch her again.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Opposition.</big></b>—The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men +who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which +intimidates and paralyzes the majority—demanding, not the faculties +of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the +readiness of sacrifice,—comes graceful and beloved as a +bride.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our +skill. Our antagonist is our helper.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise +against 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 wax +pale, therefore, because of opposition.—<span class="smcap">John Neal</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not ease, but effort,—not facility, but difficulty, that makes +men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have +not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of +success can be achieved.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span>To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to +oppose and separate them.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Order.</big></b>—Order is heaven's first law.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is +to matter.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of +the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the +bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all +things.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Observe degree, priority, and place,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Office, and custom, in all line of order.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are +negligent of order.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>Let all things be done decently and in order.—<span class="smcap">1 Corinthians 14:40</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Paradise" id="Paradise"></a>Paradise.</big></b>—Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the +angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his +Eden.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon +earth.—<span class="smcap">Bartol</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Parents.</big></b>—The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: "If you +would be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they +perform will be imputed to you."—<span class="smcap">Montesquieu</span>.</p> + +<p>Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of +parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving +temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is +unnatural.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span>Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe +and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to +do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the +instruments under God of your being: for "Ye shall fear every man his +mother and his father."—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Next to God, thy parents.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Shall have a child that will revenge the deed.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Randolph.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is +like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has +planted.—<span class="smcap">Scot's Magazine</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">With joy the parent loves to trace<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Resemblance in his children's face:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And, as he forms their docile youth<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To walk the steady paths of truth,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Observes them shooting into men,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And lives in them life o'er again.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lloyd.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the +land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.—<span class="smcap">Exodus 20:12</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Passion.</big></b>—The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion +only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Watts</span>.</p> + +<p>Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and +conquered without being killed.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The ruling passion, be it what it will,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The ruling passion conquers reason still.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of +employing their passions in the service of their +lives.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span>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, will +give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be +neither happy, nor wise, nor good.—<span class="smcap">Jortin</span>.</p> + +<p>Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a +preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first +flatly to deny it.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>In the human breast two master-passions cannot +coexist.—<span class="smcap">Campbell</span>.</p> + +<p>The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the +pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move, without +the pilot she would be lost.—<span class="smcap">From the French</span>.</p> + +<p>Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by +passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but +philosophically fulfilled.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Jameson</span>.</p> + +<p>Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against +God.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best +government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the +meaner.—<span class="smcap">Jacobi</span>.</p> + +<p>The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are +well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling +when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the +passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more +enjoyable.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are +in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before +their minds,—efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a +fact to go upon.—<span class="smcap">Helps</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span>As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin those +husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they +fertilized and enriched; so our passions, when they grow exorbitant +and unruly, destroy those virtues, to which they may be very +serviceable whilst they keep within their bounds.—<span class="smcap">Boyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle.—<span class="smcap">Rev. +Thomas Adam</span>.</p> + +<p>Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the +tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always +speaks the heart.—<span class="smcap">Southern</span>.</p> + +<p>A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no +impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go +forward.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i11">Exalted souls<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Have passions in proportion violent,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Resistless, and tormenting; they're a tax<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Imposed by nature on pre-eminence,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And fortitude and wisdom must support them.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lillo.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">One master-passion in the breast,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Oh how the passions, insolent and strong,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bear our weak minds their rapid course along;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Make us the madness of their will obey;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Crabbe.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A great passion has no partner.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is +the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.—<span class="smcap">Thomas +Paine</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span>He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, +dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous +only in one, through their excess.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords +happiness.—<span class="smcap">Mme. de Maintenon</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Past.</big></b>—The past is utterly indifferent to its +worshipers.—<span class="smcap">William Winter</span>.</p> + +<p>Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a +child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit +rule of life, is never to be a man.—<span class="smcap">Chatfield</span>.</p> + +<p>No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are +passed.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<p>The present is only intelligible in the light of the +past.—<span class="smcap">Trench</span>.</p> + +<p>Study the past if you would divine the future.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>The best of prophets of the future is the past.—<span class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> + +<p>Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural +that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area +of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the +disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!—<span class="smcap">C. Bingham</span>.</p> + +<p>Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients +that they know not how to live with the moderns.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; +the future, the virgin's.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Patience.</big></b>—He that can have patience can have what he +will.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is +nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men +that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,—a soft, meek, patient, +humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever +breathed.—<span class="smcap">Decker</span>.</p> + +<p>Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses +and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see +them in their proper figures.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>If we could have a little patience, we should escape much +mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.—<span class="smcap">Madame de +Sévigné</span>.</p> + +<p>Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; +hold out. Patience is genius.—<span class="smcap">Buffon</span>.</p> + +<p>There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait +for.—<span class="smcap">Marie Ebner-Eschenbach</span>.</p> + +<p>No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either +the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old +age.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to +our 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 under +sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the +grinding.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.—<span class="smcap">C.A. Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span>Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the +cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the +flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, +extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the +hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates +martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the +State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and +moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in +adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive +those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness +of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites +the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved +in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is +beautiful in either sex and every age.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling +and tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture out +without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make +shipwreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of this +world, and then in perdition.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hopkins</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and +without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who +prepares himself for them with patience.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of +strength.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are +fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Patience is sorrow's salve.—<span class="smcap">Churchill</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Patriotism.</big></b>—He serves his party best, who serves the country +best.—<span class="smcap">Rutherford B. Hayes</span>.</p> + +<p>This is a maxim which I have received by hereditary tradition, not +only from my father, but also from my grandfather and his ancestors, +that after what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more +sacred than the love and respect I owe to my country.—<span class="smcap">De Thou</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i8">Be just, and fear not;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thy God's, and Truth's.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His first, best country ever is at home.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and +profound, than my own life.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Hail, Columbia! happy land!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And when the storm of war was gone,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Enjoyed the peace your valor won.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let Independence be our boast,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Ever mindful what it cost;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Ever grateful for the prize,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let its altar reach the skies!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joseph Hopkinson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Strike—for your altars and your fires;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Strike—for the green graves of your sires;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">God, and your native land!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Fitz-Greene Halleck.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i5">One nation evermore!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Holmes.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the +spot.—<span class="smcap">John A. Dix</span>.</p> + +<p>The noblest motive is the public good.—<span class="smcap">Virgil</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> +<span class="i1">The union of lakes, the union of lands,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The union of States none can sever,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The union of hearts, the union of hands,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And the flag of our Union forever!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—George P. Morris.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an +American.—<span class="smcap">Daniel Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>Our country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or +however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurement more or +less—still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be +defended by all our hands.—<span class="smcap">Robert C. Winthrop</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are all with thee,—are all with thee!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studied +the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all +that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the +world, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, it +would not do them justice for their conduct during this +war.—<span class="smcap">Abraham Lincoln</span>.</p> + +<p>How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<p>Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our +country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a +vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of +wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with +admiration forever.—<span class="smcap">Daniel Webster</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Peace.</big></b>—Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the +children of God.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 5:9</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span>I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between +myself and God.—<span class="smcap">George Eliot</span>.</p> + +<p>Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us—avarice, ambition, envy, +anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly +enjoy perpetual peace.—<span class="smcap">Petrarch</span>.</p> + +<p>There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to +meet the enemy.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into +pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither +shall they learn war any more.—<span class="smcap">Isaiah 2:4</span>.</p> + +<p>I never advocated war except as a means of peace.—<span class="smcap">U.S. Grant</span>.</p> + +<p>There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly +purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own +soul—to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to +God.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be +spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.—<span class="smcap">Andrew +Jackson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Perseverance.</big></b>—The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the +pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the +strong.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished +himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be +satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not +succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that +young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the +first trial.—<span class="smcap">Charles James Fox</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the +little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary +perseverance, all things are attainable.—<span class="smcap">Sir T.F. Buxton</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen +pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or +peasant.—<span class="smcap">Bayard Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or +wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is +by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries +are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single +stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the +general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense +of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly +continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains +are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human +beings.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more +than talents and accomplishments.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.</p> + +<p>A falling drop at last will carve a stone.—<span class="smcap">Lucretius</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nothing so hard but search will find it out.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lovelace.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create +themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their +solitary but irresistible way through a thousand +obstacles.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Press on! a better fate awaits thee.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Philosophy.</big></b>—True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, +and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more +content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and +pure enjoyment.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than +learned men.—<span class="smcap">W.B. Clulow</span>.</p> + +<p>The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which +leads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless we +would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally +excluded.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in +all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any +distance.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in +philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Whence? whither? why? how?—these questions cover all +philosophy.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Physiognomy.</big></b>—Children are marvelously and intuitively correct +physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this +trait.—<span class="smcap">Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>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 crowds +a great deal in a little room.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>Spite of Lavater, faces are oftentimes great lies. They are the paper +money of society, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be +no gold in the human coffer.—<span class="smcap">F.G. Trafford</span>.</p> + +<p>The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or +a character deciphered from the shape or length of a +nose.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span>People's opinions of themselves are legible in their +countenances.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Collier</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Piety.</big></b>—True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing +constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and +attractive.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.</p> + +<p>We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to +us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of +place.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Piety raises and fortifies the mind for trying occasions and painful +events. When our country is threatened by dangers and pressed by +difficulties who are the best bulwarks of its defence? Not the sons of +dissipation and folly, not the smooth-tongued sycophants of a court, +nor sceptics and blasphemers, from the school of infidelity; but the +man whose moral conduct is animated and sustained by the doctrines and +consolations of religion. Happy is that country where patriotism is +sustained and sanctified by piety; where authority respects and guards +freedom, and freedom reveres and loves legitimate authority; where +truth and mercy meet together, righteousness and peace embrace each +other.—<span class="smcap">Ton</span>.</p> + +<p>It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, +to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and +providence; the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the +ocean, the storm, the earthquake, and the volcano; the circuit of the +seasons and the revolutions of empires; without marking in them all +the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence +toward the Author of these stupendous works.—<span class="smcap">Dwight</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span>John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow +path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to +go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for +man.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>We are surrounded by motives to piety and devotion, if we would but +mind them. The poor are designed to excite our liberality; the +miserable, our pity; the sick, our assistance; the ignorant, our +instruction; those that are fallen, our helping hand. In those who are +vain, we see the vanity of the world; in those who are wicked, our own +frailty. When we see good men rewarded, it confirms our hope; and when +evil men are punished, it excites our fear.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Wilson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Pity.</big></b>—Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a +short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory +assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the +hand can be put into the pocket.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<p>We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves +experienced.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and +excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the +gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every +person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be +owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is +an unjust person.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the +peace of God is there.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, +there would have been less kindness.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.</p> + +<p>Pity melts the mind to love.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Pleasure.</big></b>—Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of +pleasures, take this rule:—Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the +tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes +off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the +strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin +to you, however innocent it may be in itself.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to +such excess as to incapacitate you from future +repetition.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure—that is the choicest of +all.—<span class="smcap">Hawthorne</span>.</p> + +<p>He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches +sublimity.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the +fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the +continuance.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they +give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when +possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.—<span class="smcap">Madame +de Lambert</span>.</p> + +<p>When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just +computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the +repentance that is likely to follow it.—<span class="smcap">Epictetus</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span>The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the +harvest is reaped in age by pain.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Pleasure's the only noble end<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To which all human powers should tend;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And virtue gives her heavenly lore,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But to make pleasure please us more!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Wisdom and she were both design'd<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To make the senses more refined,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That man might revel free from cloying,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Then most a sage, when most enjoying!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Moore.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by +furnishing them the means of innocent ones. In every community there +must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and +if innocent are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was +made to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should be +adapted to this principle of human nature.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are +increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened +by enjoyment.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are +to myself.—<span class="smcap">Marguerite de Valois</span>.</p> + +<p>We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we +give.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet +and tranquillity of thy life.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Poetry.</big></b>—True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs +from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in +harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.—<span class="smcap">Epes +Sargent</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Then, rising with aurora's light,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The muse invoked, sit down to write;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Blot out, correct, insert, refine,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Enlarge, diminish, interline;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Be mindful, when invention fails,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To scratch your head and bite your nails.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Swift.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is uninspired inspiration.—<span class="smcap">Henry Reed</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human +thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The poets, who on earth have made us heirs<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wordsworth.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of +language.—<span class="smcap">Chatfield</span>.</p> + +<p>He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is +a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his +entire lifetime.—<span class="smcap">Madame Dudevant</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high +thoughts, that inspires us with the power of +sacrifice.—<span class="smcap">Mazzini</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest +and best minds.—<span class="smcap">Shelley</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would +suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of +innocence.—<span class="smcap">Abraham Coles</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one +language into another it will evaporate.—<span class="smcap">Denham</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is the child of enthusiasm.—<span class="smcap">Sigma</span>.</p> + +<p>The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them +on the side of virtue.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me +the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that +meets and surrounds me.—<span class="smcap">S.T. Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in +a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from +the rose-tree the rose.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great +poet, must first become a little child.—<span class="smcap">Macaulay</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling +souls.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<p>There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as +between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's +shop.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and +the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its +brightness.—<span class="smcap">Percival</span>.</p> + +<p>You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with +you.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its +divine origin.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to +have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have +been, but as they really were.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Politeness.</big></b>—True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply +consists in treating others just as you love to be treated +yourself.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may +affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural +politeness.—<span class="smcap">Stanislaus</span>.</p> + +<p>Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the +heart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off the +rudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make us +blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without +rebuke.—<span class="smcap">Jay</span>.</p> + +<p>Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of +politeness.—<span class="smcap">Alphonse Karr</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best +thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the +want of it.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none +more profitable.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>Fine manners are like personal beauty,—a letter of credit +everywhere.—<span class="smcap">Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a +refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It +promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in +those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part +of religious training.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of +mind.—<span class="smcap">Julia Ward Howe</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span></p> + +<p>To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the +enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider +every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of +course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of +politeness.—<span class="smcap">Monro</span>.</p> + +<p>Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never +be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will +give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable +disposition in trifles to all you converse and live +with?—<span class="smcap">Chatham</span>.</p> + +<p>As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness +before men.—<span class="smcap">Greville</span>.</p> + +<p>The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A +gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of +any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those +distinctions which characterize a people.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<p>When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either to +pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over +it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any +particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, +or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those +with whom you converse.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Popularity.</big></b>—Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.—<span class="smcap">Abraham +Lincoln</span>.</p> + +<p>Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real +benefit.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!—<span class="smcap">Luke +6:26</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> + +<p>Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and +lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, +but weigh them.—<span class="smcap">Kant</span>.</p> + +<p>Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary +men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.—<span class="smcap">Lord +Greville</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Poverty.</big></b>—Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few +would be poor.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His +responsibility to God is so much the less.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for +the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the +street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter +night.—<span class="smcap">Horace Greeley</span>.</p> + +<p>Poverty is the only burden which is not lightened by being shared with +others.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not +that the world treats it so much as a crime.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of +friendship.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the +poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, +but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life: they enjoy +the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor +man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties +which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more +healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and +softness of the rich.—<span class="smcap">Sherlock</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Want is a bitter and a hateful good,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Because its virtues are not understood;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet many things, impossible to thought,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Have been by need to full perfection brought.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear +of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other +ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. +The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a +certain cure.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers +the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no man +is, properly speaking, poor, but he.—<span class="smcap">Paley</span>.</p> + +<p>That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly +true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than +from eating too little.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones +there are to assist in supporting it.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Power.</big></b>—Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest +heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with +unlimited power.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of +four.—<span class="smcap">Napoleon</span>.</p> + +<p>The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.—<span class="smcap">J. +Petit-Senn</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span></p> + +<p>The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel +them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the +governed.—<span class="smcap">Publius Syrus</span>.</p> + +<p>It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no +stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, +exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent +vice.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Praise.</big></b>—Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a +child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious +praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and +not thine own lips.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 27:2</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">For if good were not praised more than ill,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">None would chuse goodness of his own free will.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Spenser.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it +makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak +brain giddy.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>Solid pudding against empty praise.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.</p> + +<p>It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom +he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and +impertinent commendations.—<span class="smcap">Sprat</span>.</p> + +<p>Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any +man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it +unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to +himself.—<span class="smcap">Burkitt</span>.</p> + +<p>As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to +praise."—<span class="smcap">Wendell Phillips</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how +patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no +injury, while the other may be their ruin.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<p>Good things should be praised.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>He hurts me most who lavishly commends.—<span class="smcap">Churchill</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Reigns more or less and glows in every heart.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. +It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise +expectation or animate enterprise.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is +himself deserving of praise.—<span class="smcap">From the Latin</span>.</p> + +<p>He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what +you have.—<span class="smcap">Manuel</span>.</p> + +<p>Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than +when thou speakest in presence.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in +merit.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he +condemns, of his own character, information and +abilities.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your +face.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 150:6</span>.</p> + +<p>Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which +distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of +sycophants and admiration of fools.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Prayer.</big></b>—The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is +for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of +body.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. +Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still +greater.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as +pray 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, upon +your prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as a +perpetual monition of duty; by what we require of God we see what He +requires of us.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our +petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful +to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of +them.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we +pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that +come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, +therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in +the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to +receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to +sue unto Him according to His will.—<span class="smcap">Archbishop Usher</span>.</p> + +<p>The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact +that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so +spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects +and methods in the arrangements of a boundless +Providence.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the +exercise of prayer.—<span class="smcap">Hooker</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p> + +<p>Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leave +off sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from +praying.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and +evening; let our days begin and end with God.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Uttered or unexpressed,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The motion of a hidden fire<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That trembles in the breast.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Montgomery.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner +to pray!—<span class="smcap">St. Cyprian</span>.</p> + +<p>No man ever prayed heartily without learning +something.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">He prayeth best who loveth best<br /></span> +<span class="i1">All things both great and small.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Coleridge.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">More things are wrought by prayer<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than this world dreams of.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Tennyson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to +its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid +of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to +bestow what it needs.—<span class="smcap">Archibald Alexander</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayer is the first breath of Divine life; it is the pulse of the +believing soul;—by prayer "we draw water with joy from the wells of +salvation;" by prayer faith puts forth its energy, in apprehending the +promised blessings, and receiving from the Redeemer's fullness; in +leaning on His almighty arm, and making His name our strong tower; and +in overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil.—<span class="smcap">T. Scott</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p> + +<p>No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a +chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and +the earth he treads on the altar.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy +door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which +seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 6:6</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Holy beginning of a holy cause,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When heroes, girt for freedom's combat, pause<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Before high Heaven, and, humble in their might,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Call down its blessing on that coming fight.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Moore.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is so natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from +doing it.—<span class="smcap">James Freeman Clarke</span>.</p> + +<p>The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and +morals.—<span class="smcap">Wellington</span>.</p> + +<p>It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the +rod.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the +Lord's Prayer.—<span class="smcap">Madame de Stael</span>.</p> + +<p>In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words +without a heart.—<span class="smcap">Bunyan</span>.</p> + +<p>Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there +are no barriers. The only password is prayer.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the +evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our +cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet +mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the +sister of meekness.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span></p> + +<p>Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the +one ascends, the other descends.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hopkins</span>.</p> + +<p>Prayer is the voice of faith.—<span class="smcap">Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything +from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect +everything from themselves.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Preaching.</big></b>—That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go +away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes +them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be +alone.—<span class="smcap">Burnet</span>.</p> + +<p>Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing +than loathing.—<span class="smcap">Nathaniel Emmons</span>.</p> + +<p>A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without +taking the life.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.</p> + +<p>We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but +by the men they make.—<span class="smcap">Joseph Cook</span>.</p> + +<p>The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean +when in it.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I preached as never sure to preach again,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And as a dying man to dying men.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Baxter.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look +not 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 to +the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and +Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span></p> + +<p>It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be +put into a sermon as what is.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>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 the +same key.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made +their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest +hearer.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with +long and tedious preaching.—<span class="smcap">Luther</span>.</p> + +<p>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 to +be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts +only to promote truth and virtue.—<span class="smcap">Massillon</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Precept.</big></b>—Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our +lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the +affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the +coal.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives and +moderating our passions obliges human nature, not only in the present, +but in all succeeding generations.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand +do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where +to find.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Precept must be upon precept.—<span class="smcap">Isaiah 28:10</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Prejudice.</big></b>—Prejudice is the child of ignorance.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span></p> + +<p>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 despise +and hate.—<span class="smcap">Frederick Douglass</span>.</p> + +<p>Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.—<span class="smcap">Duchess +d'Abrantes</span>.</p> + +<p>Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the +affairs of other men than in their own.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.</p> + +<p>To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the +present, as blind as he who cannot.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the +prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second +willfully preferred.—<span class="smcap">Bancroft</span>.</p> + +<p>Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing +things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also +never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character +and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which +offends them.—<span class="smcap">Butler</span>.</p> + +<p>Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.—<span class="smcap">G.D. Prentice</span>.</p> + +<p>Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.—<span class="smcap">Kane +O'Hara</span>.</p> + +<p>Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of +the world and ignorance of mankind.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.—<span class="smcap">Madame +Necker</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Present.</big></b>—Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of +to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet +assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span></p> + +<p>Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be +recalled, to-morrow cannot be assured: to-day is only thine; which if +thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever: one +to-day is worth two to-morrows.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>He who neglects the present moment throws away all he +has.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<p>Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human +life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, +fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much +to what to-morrow may produce.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<p>If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length +and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, +we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to +communicate.—<span class="smcap">T.C. Upham</span>.</p> + +<p>Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly +happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present +time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past +opportunities are gone, future are not come.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a +time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from +this, which has already come and is ours.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how +to manage when the occasion arrives.—<span class="smcap">Corneille</span>.</p> + +<p>We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no +moment like the present.—<span class="smcap">Miss Edgeworth</span>.</p> + +<p>Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. +It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and +to-morrow we may never see.—<span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p> + +<p>Every day is a gift I receive from Heaven; let us enjoy to-day that +which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, +and to-morrow belongs to no one.—<span class="smcap">Mancroix</span>.</p> + +<p>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 day +in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that +every day is Doomsday.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by +which the future is shaped and colored.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Press.</big></b>—In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the +press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.—<span class="smcap">James +A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, +go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as +thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a +man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to +millions in a day.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your +children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the +civil, political, and religious rights.—<span class="smcap">Junius</span>.</p> + +<p>The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for +all freedom without this must be merely nominal.—<span class="smcap">Chatfield</span>.</p> + +<p>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 the +world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than +the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the +battle-axe.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Pretension.</big></b>—It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing +demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what +they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated +by others.—<span class="smcap">Whately</span>.</p> + +<p>Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never +pretends.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop +window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it +within.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false +pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be +lasting.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>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, but +extremely troublesome and vexatious.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<p>He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of +impotence.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a +saint.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Pride.</big></b>—Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and +immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their +pride, till they who are about them put on their +winding-sheet.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + + +<p>Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Of all the causes that conspire to blind<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">What the weak head with strongest bias rules,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our +neighbors.—<span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>.</p> + +<p>The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are +included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this +one.—<span class="smcap">Archbishop Trench</span>.</p> + +<p>Some people are proud of their humility.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Pride requires very costly food—its keeper's +happiness.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Roscommon.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action +done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the +bottom of it.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>There is this paradox in pride,—it makes some men ridiculous, but +prevents others from becoming so.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to +subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it +as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then +peep out and show itself.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached +a place from which they fell!—<span class="smcap">Joaquin Miller</span>.</p> + +<p>Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with +infamy.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a +fall.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 16:18</span>.</p> + +<p>If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the +proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his +lifetime.—<span class="smcap">Legouvé</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span></p> + +<p>I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God +are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a +morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get +mouldy, and then call them curses.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very +closely.—<span class="smcap">Louis XI</span>.</p> + +<p>How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest +fruit of religion.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>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 let +it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff +brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the +skin.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in +others, and to overlook in himself.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>An avenging God closely follows the haughty.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so +does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride +takes her glory from man.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>The proud man is forsaken of God.—<span class="smcap">Plato</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Procrastination.</big></b>—Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's +nurse for man's perdition.—<span class="smcap">Rev. Dr. Cheever</span>.</p> + +<p>To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to +set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking +and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and +destroyed.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of +"Never."—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span></p> + +<p>By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till +there's no more future left for them.—<span class="smcap">L'Estrange</span>.</p> + +<p>Procrastination is the thief of time.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>For Yesterday was once To-morrow.—<span class="smcap">Persius</span>.</p> + +<p>Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do +to-day.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that +because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do +it.—<span class="smcap">Charles Buxton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Progress.</big></b>—He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting +softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is +entering into living peace.—<span class="smcap">Ruskin</span>.</p> + +<p>"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of +the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from +exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always +something different from what is expected. Everything new is received +with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power +unobserved.—<span class="smcap">Feuerbach</span>.</p> + +<p>Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; +and lend a hand.—<span class="smcap">E.E. Hale</span>.</p> + +<p>I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread +nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a +fossil.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks +forward hopefully.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Human improvement is from within outwards.—<span class="smcap">Froude</span>.</p> + +<p>An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the +centuries.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that +more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the +history of mankind a series of ascending developments.—<span class="smcap">Horace +Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time +presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. +But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and +our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at +immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness +of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we +start toward a perfection of being.—<span class="smcap">Sir Humphry Davy</span>.</p> + +<p>By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great +mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is +never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of +unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual +decay, fall, renovation, and progression.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no +such thing as remaining stationary in this life.—<span class="smcap">James Freeman +Clarke</span>.</p> + +<p>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 a +Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on +Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one +who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron +constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong +hands.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain +off those of yesterday.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span></p> + +<p>The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and +to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply +total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience +alone.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Prosperity.</big></b>—Watch lest prosperity destroy +generosity.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little +adversity.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a +necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a +civilized people.—<span class="smcap">Buret</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to +bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by +pleasure.—<span class="smcap">Tacitus</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than +adversity.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity +leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.—<span class="smcap">Landor</span>.</p> + +<p>He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in +adversity.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with +which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too +dear.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the +blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of +man.—<span class="smcap">Hooker</span>.</p> + +<p>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 learns +only to draw in.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Prosperity makes some friends and many +enemies.—<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></p> + +<p>They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat +themselves at the altar.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your +being one in adversity.—<span class="smcap">Zimmerman</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Providence.</big></b>—The Providence of God is the great protector of our +life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe +from danger.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I know not where His islands lift<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Their fronded palms in air;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">I only know I cannot drift<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Beyond His love and care.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Whittier.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The decrees of Providence are inscrutable. In spite of man's +short-sighted endeavors to dispose of events according to his own +wishes and his own purposes, there is an Intelligence beyond his +reason, which holds the scales of justice, and promotes his +well-being, in spite of his puny efforts.—<span class="smcap">Morier</span>.</p> + +<p>Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect. +He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may +neither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased to +make both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesome +and safe.—<span class="smcap">W. Wogan</span>.</p> + +<p>He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the +designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy +Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but +Him.—<span class="smcap">Racine</span>.</p> + +<p>Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden +from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this +consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his +eyes.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Yes, thou art ever present, power supreme!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Not circumscribed by time, nor fixt to space,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Confined to altars, nor to temples bound.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In wealth, in want, in freedom or in chains,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hannah More.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We must follow, not force Providence.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Go, mark the matchless working of the power<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That shuts within the seed the future flower;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bids these in elegance of form excel.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In color these, and those delight the smell;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his +steps.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 16:9</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Prudence.</big></b>—Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order +that they should see twice as much as they say.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done +under the various circumstances of time and place.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">When any great design thou dost intend,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Think on the means, the manner, and the end.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Sir J. Denham.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of +the best of hearts.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + +<p>Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which +they degenerate into folly and excess.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Collier</span>.</p> + +<p>No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of +prudence.—<span class="smcap">Juvenal</span>.</p> + +<p>Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and +moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them +all.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span></p> + +<p>The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the +most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic +formula.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Punctuality.</big></b>—I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that +the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will +never be respected or successful in life.—<span class="smcap">Rev. W. Fisk</span>.</p> + +<p>I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has +made a man of me.—<span class="smcap">Lord Nelson</span>.</p> + +<p>Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear +dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his +time.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.—<span class="smcap">La +Fontaine</span>.</p> + +<p>I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if +he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.—<span class="smcap">Emmons</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Purity.</big></b>—Purity in person and in morals is true +godliness.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 5:8</span>.</p> + +<p>God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the +barnacles will not cling.—<span class="smcap">J.G. Holland</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">While our hearts are pure,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Our lives are happy and our peace is sure.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—William Winter.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of +God.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful +within.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Quarrels" id="Quarrels"></a>Quarrels.</big></b>—Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on +one side.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more +beautiful when they have passed.—<span class="smcap">Madame Necker</span>.</p> + +<p>I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always +found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, +doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of +unquietness.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no +right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Those who in quarrel interpose,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Must often wipe a bloody nose.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gay.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Reading" id="Reading"></a>Reading.</big></b>—Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is +but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make +itself felt at the end of the year.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we +mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we +already possess.—<span class="smcap">Zimmermann</span>.</p> + +<p>When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble +aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is +good, and is the work of a master-hand.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should +take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we +would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely +consulted.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p> + +<p>We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it +only to the best books.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under +every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and +cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, +however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would +be a taste for reading.—<span class="smcap">Sir John Herschel</span>.</p> + +<p>Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an +exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, +subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, +able to contend.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers +of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of +extensive and various reading without reflection.—<span class="smcap">Dugald +Stewart</span>.</p> + +<p>Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and +used to advise young people never to be without a book in their +pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "It +has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that +all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by +running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue +ready to talk."—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Piozzi</span>.</p> + +<p>Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from +one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, +than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower +gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the +butterfly.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.—<span class="smcap">Collect</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span></p> + +<p>Much reading is like much eating,—wholly useless without +digestion.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Reason.</big></b>—Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief +eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower +world.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Watts</span>.</p> + +<p>Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for +reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to +behave worthily.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>Though reason is not to be relied upon as universally sufficient to +direct us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed +where it tells us what we are not to do.—<span class="smcap">South</span>.</p> + +<p>He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, +and he that dares not reason is a slave.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. Drummond</span>.</p> + +<p>Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by +experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by +nature.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good +reason for letting it alone.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, is +only our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needs +light,—to see clearly and far, it needs the light of Heaven.</p> + +<p>The language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness, will often fail of +making an impression; it has no effect on the understanding, because +it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unassociated with +reason, will frequently be unable to persuade; because, though it may +gain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to convince +the judgment. But let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, +and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to +resist.—<span class="smcap">Gisborne</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span></p> + +<p>Good reasons must, of force, give place to +better.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything +subverts reason.—<span class="smcap">Epes Sargent</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Rebuke.</big></b>—In all reprehensions, observe to express rather thy love +than thy anger; and strive rather to convince than exasperate: but if +the matter do require any special indignation, let it appear to be the +zeal of a displeased friend, rather than the passion of a provoked +enemy.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Reconciliation.</big></b>—Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious +creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet +reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that +the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous +man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of +sinners!—<span class="smcap">Justin Martyr</span>.</p> + +<p>God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlasting +forgetfulness.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">As thro' the land at eve we went,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And pluck'd the ripen'd ears,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We fell out, my wife and I,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We fell out I know not why,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And kiss'd again with tears.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">And blessings on the falling out<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That all the more endears,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When we fall out with those we love<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And kiss again with tears!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">For when we came where lies the child<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We lost in other years,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">There above the little grave,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Oh, there above the little grave,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">We kiss'd again with tears.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Tennyson.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span></p> + +<p>Oh, my dear friends,—you who are letting miserable misunderstandings +run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day,—if you +only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would +break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you +might never have another chance to do!—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Refinement.</big></b>—Refinement is the delicate aroma of +Christianity.—<span class="smcap">Charlotte M. Yonge</span>.</p> + +<p>That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of +man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.—<span class="smcap">Hosea +Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's +refinement.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, +their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make +some compensation, and render them the admiration of +mankind.—<span class="smcap">Hume</span>.</p> + +<p>Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of +the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of +elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.—<span class="smcap">De +Quincey</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Reform.</big></b>—He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the +public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice +should 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 has +produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty +than it would cost to make it produce nothing.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Time yet serves, wherein you may redeem your tarnished honors, and +restore yourselves into the good thoughts of the world +again.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span></p> + +<p>Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst +man good.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Reform, like charity, must begin at home.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in +yourself.—<span class="smcap">Sprat</span>.</p> + +<p>He who reforms, God assists.—<span class="smcap">Cervantes</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Regeneration.</big></b>—Content not thyself with a bare forbearance of sin, +so long as thy heart is not changed, nor thy will changed, nor thy +affections changed; but strive to become a new man, to be transformed +by the renewing of thy mind, to hate sin, to love God, to wrestle +against thy secret corruptions, to take delight in holy duties, to +subdue thine understanding, and will, and affections, to the obedience +of faith and godliness.—<span class="smcap">Bp. Sanderson</span>.</p> + +<p>He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince +of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no +solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater +alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the +universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God +in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant +thing.—<span class="smcap">Cudworth</span>.</p> + +<p>Regeneration is the ransacking of the soul, the turning of a man out +of himself, the crumbling to pieces of the old man, and the new +moulding of it into another shape; it is the turning of stones into +children, and a drawing of the lively portraiture of Jesus Christ upon +that very table that before represented only the very image of the +devil.... Art thou thus changed? Are all old things done away, and all +things in thee become new? Hast thou a new heart and renewed +affections? And dost thou serve God in newness of life and +conversation? If not,—what hast thou to do with hopes of heaven? Thou +art yet without Christ, and so consequently without hope.—<span class="smcap">Bishop +Hopkins</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Regret.</big></b>—A wrong act followed by just regret and thoughtful caution +to avoid like errors, makes a man better than he would have been if he +had never fallen.—<span class="smcap">Horatio Seymour</span>.</p> + +<p>The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect +meets it in his way, but he who catches it by retrospection turns back +to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that +which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A feeling of sadness and longing<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That is not akin to pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And resembles sorrow only<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As the mist resembles the rain.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his +hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,—in +degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter +madness.—<span class="smcap">Miss Mulock</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Of all sad words of tongue or pen,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The saddest are these: "It might have been!"<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Whittier.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Religion.</big></b>—A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never +suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one +from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing +world.—<span class="smcap">Howe</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Religion crowns the statesman and the man,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Sole source of public and of private peace.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; +mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations +of the weak-minded.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>The source of all good and of all comfort.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span></p> + +<p>You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most +gentlemanly thing in the world. It will <i>alone</i> gentilize, if unmixed +with cant; and I know nothing else that will <i>alone</i>.—<span class="smcap">S.T. +Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, +without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without +schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth +not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever +saw.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Needs only to be seen to be admired.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really +made the principle of it instead of faith.—<span class="smcap">Shelley</span>.</p> + +<p>Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the +private school, supported entirely by private contributions; keep the +Church and the State forever apart.—<span class="smcap">U.S. Grant</span>.</p> + +<p>Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite +pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social +system.—<span class="smcap">Guthrie</span>.</p> + +<p>All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, +more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious +belief.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God +can never be true to man.—<span class="smcap">Lord Burleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.—<span class="smcap">From +the Latin</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to +mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and +solemn faces.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span></p> + +<p>Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were +not.—<span class="smcap">Jacobi</span>.</p> + +<p>A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures +describe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without God +in the world." Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the +circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and +away, far, far away, from the purposes of his +creation.—<span class="smcap">Webster</span>.</p> + +<p>All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have been +much greater and better with it.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their +religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy +occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day +wear.—<span class="smcap">Douglas Jerrold</span>.</p> + +<p>Wonderful! that the Christian religion, which seems to have no other +object than the felicity of another life, should also constitute the +happiness of this.—<span class="smcap">Montesquieu</span>.</p> + +<p>Pour the balm of the Gospel into the wounds of bleeding nations. Plant +the tree of life in every soil, that suffering kingdoms may repose +beneath its shade and feel the virtue of its healing leaves, till all +the kindred of the human family shall be bound together in one common +bond of amity and love, and the warrior shall be a character unknown +but in the page of history.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Raffles</span>.</p> + +<p>There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, +which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most +ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most +effectual.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>A house without family worship has neither foundation nor +covering.—<span class="smcap">Mason</span>.</p> + +<p>Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst +cloak.—<span class="smcap">Bunyan</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span></p> + +<p>A good name is better than precious ointment.—<span class="smcap">Ecclesiastes 7:1</span>.</p> + +<p>I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time +believe—that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without +the sentiment of religion.—<span class="smcap">La Place</span>.</p> + +<p>Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, +religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that +man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these +great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of +men and citizens. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that +morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded +to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, +reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality +can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>"When I was young, I was sure of many things; there are only two +things 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 is +well taught who gets these two lessons.—<span class="smcap">John Newton</span>.</p> + +<p>If we make religion our business, God will make it our +blessedness.—<span class="smcap">H.G.J. Adam</span>.</p> + +<p>The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but +to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the +individual.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Remembrance.</big></b>—Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we +cannot be driven away.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a +wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I cannot but remember such things were<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That were most precious to me.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Remorse.</big></b>—Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its +expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter +to a soul changed for the better.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In every bosom where her nest is made,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, +but it is not best to remain there.—<span class="smcap">Chateaubriand</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and +there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting +in his soul.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Repentance.</big></b>—Repentance, without amendment, is like continually +pumping without mending the leak.—<span class="smcap">Dilwyn</span>.</p> + +<p>Repentance is but another name for aspiration.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>If you would be good, first believe that you are +bad.—<span class="smcap">Epictetus</span>.</p> + +<p>Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have +erred.—<span class="smcap">Julian</span>.</p> + +<p>Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they +have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they +have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through +before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may +be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it +produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do +not.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a +barren anguish.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from +sin, to constitute repentance.—<span class="smcap">Dewey</span>.</p> + +<p>Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every +time we fall.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">I will to-morrow, that I will,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">I will be sure to do it;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And still thou art to do it.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thus still repentance is deferred.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">From one day to another:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Until the day of death is come,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And judgment is the other.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Drexelius.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 of +the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been +better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.—<span class="smcap">Arthur +Warwick</span>.</p> + +<p>Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life +ensuing.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Repose.</big></b>—Power rests in tranquillity.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<p>Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal +more 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.—<span class="smcap">Montaigne</span>.</p> + +<p>Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. +"The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without +perturbations."—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the +repose of minds.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Reproof.</big></b>—If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do +it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the +reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most +telling.—<span class="smcap">Haliburton</span>.</p> + +<p>The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury +inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done +it.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a +bow.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly +administered, it will do harm instead of good.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were +not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.—<span class="smcap">Atterbury</span>.</p> + +<p>Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.—<span class="smcap">Solon</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Reputation.</big></b>—The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be +what you desire to appear.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<p>How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might +have made!—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O, reputation! dearer far than life,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of the rude spiller, ever can collect<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To its first purity and native sweetness.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Sewell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better +than his principles.—<span class="smcap">Laténa</span>.</p> + +<p>Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God +and angels know of us.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Paine</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p> + +<p>If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never +have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their +good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as +to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all +at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the +world, 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.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Resignation.</big></b>—Resignation is the courage of Christian +sorrow.—<span class="smcap">Professor Vinet</span>.</p> + +<p>If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it +wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be +intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur +not. After the cross is the crown.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy +will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made +Gethsemane the gate of heaven.—<span class="smcap">Pressensé</span>.</p> + +<p>With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we +have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the +human soul and of its discipline.—<span class="smcap">Gladstone</span>.</p> + +<p>The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of +the Lord.—<span class="smcap">Job 1:21</span>.</p> + +<p>Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thou +wilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothing +that pleases Thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thou +choosest."—<span class="smcap">Epictetus</span>.</p> + +<p>No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a +rainbow in it.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it +be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of +it.—<span class="smcap">Mountford</span>.</p> + +<p>Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which +is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have +his own when he calls for it?—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Resolution.</big></b>—He only is a well-made man who has a good +termination.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That you resolved to effect.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Rest.</big></b>—Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye +dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of +business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Absence of occupation is not rest.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>God giveth quietness at last.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Of all our loving Father's gifts<br /></span> +<span class="i2">I often wonder which is best,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And cry: Dear God, the one that lifts<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Our soul from weariness to rest,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The rest of silence—that is best.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Mary Clemmer.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.—<span class="smcap">Horace Greeley</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Retirement.</big></b>—How much they err who, to their interest blind, slight +the calm peace which from retirement flows!—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Tighe</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Smollett.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A youth of labor with an age of ease!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And waste its sweetness on the desert air.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gray.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed +ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep +her fruit till it be ripe.—<span class="smcap">St. Chrysostom</span>.</p> + +<p>Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of +retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. +I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a +corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let +him come out as I do, and bark.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where all his long anxieties forgot<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or recollected only to gild o'er<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And add a smile to what was sweet before,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Improve the remnant of his wasted span.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And having lived a trifler, die a man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life of +retirement? 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 a +dead, flat level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body nor +the soul can enjoy health and life in a vacuum.—<span class="smcap">Rusticus</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Riches.</big></b>—Riches exclude only one inconvenience,—that is, +poverty.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span></p> + +<p>Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and kept +without sin.—<span class="smcap">Erasmus</span>.</p> + +<p>Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind's +appetite for its heavenly food; poverty, disgrace, and pain are the +bitters which restore it.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.</p> + +<p>A man's true wealth is the good he does in this +world.—<span class="smcap">Mohammed</span>.</p> + +<p>Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives +longer.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor +whose expenses exceed his income.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>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 to +what he is, not according to what he has.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys +it.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs +28:20</span>.</p> + +<p>Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to +him who makes them a blessing to others.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Sabbath" id="Sabbath"></a>Sabbath.</big></b>—The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to +thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the +noblest society.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Students of every age and kind, beware of secular study on the Lord's +day.—<span class="smcap">Professor Miller</span>.</p> + +<p>A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a +summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is +the joyous day of the whole week.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.—<span class="smcap">O.W. Holmes</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Scandal.</big></b>—If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is +the person of whom you ought never to speak.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There is a lust in man no charm can tame,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame;—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">While virtuous actions are but born and die.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Ella Louisa Hervey.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 that +you do not listen to it with pleasure.—<span class="smcap">St. Jerome</span>.</p> + +<p>Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil +speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.—<span class="smcap">Ephesians +4:31</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Scepticism.</big></b>—Scepticism has never founded empires, established +principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history +have always been men of faith.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<p>Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or +lighthouse.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Freethinkers are generally those who never think at +all.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as +poisoning the sources of eternal truth.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Secrecy.</big></b>—The secret known to two is no longer a secret.—<span class="smcap">Ninon +de Lenclos</span>.</p> + +<p>Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhaps +more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by +discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.</p> + +<p>A woman can keep one secret,—the secret of her +age.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span></p> + +<p>To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without +guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always +treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with +folly.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is +folly.—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<p>To whom you betray your secret you sell your +liberty.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his +master.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Self-Control.</big></b>—He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that +taketh a city.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 16:32</span>.</p> + +<p>What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, +is more than a king.—<span class="smcap">Milton</span>.</p> + +<p>Real glory springs from the silent conquest of +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Thomson</span>.</p> + +<p>He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who will +not.—<span class="smcap">English Proverb</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Self-Denial.</big></b>—Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set +us the example.—<span class="smcap">Ary Scheffer</span>.</p> + +<p>Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust +gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight +and peace which such complete self-surrender has to +give.—<span class="smcap">Phillips Brooks</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Conybeare</span>.</p> + +<p>The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from +God.—<span class="smcap">Horace</span>.</p> + +<p>The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best +which teaches everything else, and not that.—<span class="smcap">John Sterling</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Selfishness.</big></b>—Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will +forgive in others, and no one is without in +himself.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who +desires to go thither alone.—<span class="smcap">Feltham</span>.</p> + +<p>Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more +happiness than we should know what to do with.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but +worship ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Cecil</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Silence.</big></b>—Be silent, or say something better than +silence.—<span class="smcap">Pythagoras</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Joaquin Miller.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts +himself.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy +tongue.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle +silence.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' +silence.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in +understanding.—<span class="smcap">Bouhours</span>.</p> + +<p>Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of +discretion.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>Silence does not always mark wisdom.—<span class="smcap">S.T. Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs +17:28</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Sin.</big></b>—Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against +God.—<span class="smcap">Sir Henry Vane</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous +harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own +avenging angel,—dark misgivings at the inmost +heart.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<p>I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between +myself and God.—<span class="smcap">George Eliot</span>.</p> + +<p>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; the +evil effect on himself is certain.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>Many afflictions will not cloud and obstruct peace of mind so much as +one sin: therefore, if you would walk cheerfully, be most careful to +walk holily. All the winds about the earth make not an earthquake, but +only that within.—<span class="smcap">Archbishop Leighton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Churchill.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance +in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come +back.—<span class="smcap">Barrow</span>.</p> + +<p>Other men's sins are before our eyes, our own are behind our +back.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to +root 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 or +sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou +leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.—<span class="smcap">E.B. +Pusey</span>.</p> + +<p>Cast out thy Jonah—every sleeping and secure sin that brings a +tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.—<span class="smcap">Reynolds</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span></p> + +<p>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 shall +not be able to keep you there. You love not death; love not the cause +of death.—<span class="smcap">Baxter</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Sincerity.</big></b>—I think you will find that people who honestly mean to +be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who +try to be "consistent."—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<p>If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is +better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is +not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he +pretends to?—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives +himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are +comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his +daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may +be, has taken possession of him.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<p>Private sincerity is a public welfare.—<span class="smcap">Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>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."—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to +perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would +seem and appear to be.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things +keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of +friendship.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Slander.</big></b>—When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When +listeners refrain from evil-hearing.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty +hands.—<span class="smcap">Joseph Parker</span>.</p> + +<p>Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is +without sin that may cast the first stone.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">Slander,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie<br /></span> +<span class="i1">All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave<br /></span> +<span class="i1">This viperous slander enters.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Nor do they trust their tongues alone,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But speak a language of their own;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Can read a nod, a shrug, a look,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Far better than a printed book;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Convey a libel in a frown,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And wink a reputation down;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or, by the tossing of the fan,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">describe the lady and the man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Swift.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be +hanged, if so it could be at my decision—the carriers by their +tongues, the listeners by their ears.—<span class="smcap">Plautus</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Oh! many a shaft, at random sent,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Finds mark the archer little meant;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And many a word, at random spoken,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Walter Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Sleep.</big></b>—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two +after.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + +<p>God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be +undisturbed.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span></p> + +<p>Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy +labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.—<span class="smcap">Quarles</span>.</p> + +<p>We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was +weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up +to-morrow.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.—<span class="smcap">Alcott</span>.</p> + +<p>There are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, +or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge +fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much +better than any of these succedaneums.—<span class="smcap">Sterne</span>.</p> + +<p>Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from +time.—<span class="smcap">Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O sleep! it is a gentle thing,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Beloved from pole to pole.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Coleridge.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Society.</big></b>—Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely +forgives failure.—<span class="smcap">Mme. Roland</span>.</p> + +<p>Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the +best places.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every +bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling +verdure of a velvet surface.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Heaven forming each on other to depend,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A master, or a servant, or a friend,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Bids each on other for assistance call,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The common interest, or endear the tie.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To these we owe true friendship, love sincere,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Each home-felt joy that life inherits here.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span></p> + +<p>Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he +brings into society for the reception he meets with in +it.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he +shows.—<span class="smcap">Beranger</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Man in society is like a flow'r,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His faculties expanded in full bloom<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Shine out, there only reach their proper use.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where +another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, +and mix them in society.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Society is composed of two great classes,—those who have more dinners +than appetite, and those who have more appetite than +dinners.—<span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Success.</big></b>—Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that +necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of +success.—<span class="smcap">Mirabeau</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing succeeds so well as success.—<span class="smcap">Talleyrand</span>.</p> + +<p>To know how to wait is the great secret of success.—<span class="smcap">De +Maistre</span>.</p> + +<p>The path of success in business is invariably the path of +common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," +the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes +by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping +for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.—<span class="smcap">Samuel +Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>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 comes +at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought +after.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span></p> + +<p>The surest way not to fail is to determine to +succeed.—<span class="smcap">Sheridan</span>.</p> + +<p>The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of +steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work +in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success +treads on the heels of every right effort.—<span class="smcap">Samuel Smiles</span>.</p> + +<p>It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which +is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit +itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never +command.—<span class="smcap">W.B. Clulow</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">'Tis not in mortals to command success,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Addison.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if +she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him +success.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Successful minds work like a gimlet,—to a single +point.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, +experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope +your guardian genius.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making +the same one the second time.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Suicide.</big></b>—Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without +treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are +demanded.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. Sidney</span>.</p> + +<p>To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that +is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a +coward.—<span class="smcap">Aristotle</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How long, how short, we know not: this we know,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Those only are the brave who keep their ground,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And keep it to the last.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Blair.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Suicide is not a remedy.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.—<span class="smcap">Dr. George +Sewell</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Superstition.</big></b>—I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, +which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine +religion, which is the support of it.—<span class="smcap">Rousseau</span>.</p> + +<p>There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that +is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been +the most credulous.—<span class="smcap">George Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning +the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping +draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. +The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the +stars are there and will reappear.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that +worship.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are +capable.—<span class="smcap">Joubert</span>.</p> + +<p>Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; +the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to +deities.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span></p> + +<p>The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any +day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of +his understanding.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Watts</span>.</p> + +<p>Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship +of God.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him +mad.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + +<p>I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and +detesting superstition.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Sympathy.</big></b>—Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should +learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his +emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered +in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which +he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or +noble.—<span class="smcap">Talfourd</span>.</p> + +<p>To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external +to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own +soul.—<span class="smcap">Mountford</span>.</p> + +<p>A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad +track,—but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling +prosperity.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the +pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.—<span class="smcap">Parke Godwin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That starts at once—bright—pure—from pity's mine,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Already polish'd by the Hand Divine.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Byron.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Tact" id="Tact"></a>Tact.</big></b>—Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and +conciliate those you cannot conquer.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force +might vainly strive to overcome.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Talent.</big></b>—Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to +command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Robert +Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line +of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be +anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than +nothing.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Talent without tact is only half talent.—<span class="smcap">Horace Greeley</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Talking.</big></b>—Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one +tongue. Draw your own moral.—<span class="smcap">Alphonse Karr</span>.</p> + +<p>No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this +world.—<span class="smcap">Ouida</span>.</p> + +<p>If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a +bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely +with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your +business.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What you keep by you, you may change and mend;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But words once spoken can never be recalled.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Roscommon.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such +will thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy +deeds.—<span class="smcap">Socrates</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But far more numerous was the herd of such,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who think too little, and who talk too much.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which +he will not like.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span></p> + +<p>The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest +evil that is done in the world.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike +dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects +on what he has uttered.—<span class="smcap">From the French</span>.</p> + +<p>Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less +men think, the more they talk.—<span class="smcap">Montesquieu</span>.</p> + +<p>Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is +a niggard in deed.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Tears.</big></b>—Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness +is mirrored.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but +of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They +are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of +unspeakable love.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The tear down childhood's cheek that flows,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is like the dewdrop on the rose;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When next the summer breeze comes by,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And waves the bush, the flower is dry.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Walter Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of +another's sorrow.—<span class="smcap">Aaron Hill</span>.</p> + +<p>Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Paine</span>.</p> + +<p>Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing +virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart +by.—<span class="smcap">Aaron Hill</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span></p> + +<p>Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 126:5</span>.</p> + +<p>Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.—<span class="smcap">Marc +André</span>.</p> + +<p>Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the +morning.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 30:5</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Temper.</big></b>—The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper +than fortune.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">In vain he seeketh others to suppress,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Spenser.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and +"good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is +complete.—<span class="smcap">From The German</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the +injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of +an ill temper.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<p>Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the +influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? +If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or +morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or +to?—<span class="smcap">John Angell James</span>.</p> + +<p>If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all +honest 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 be +useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.—<span class="smcap">Isaac Barrow</span>.</p> + +<p>A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest +cloud.—<span class="smcap">Guthrie</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Temperance.</big></b>—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 the +body.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Fools! not to know how far an humble lot<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Exceeds abundance by injustice got;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How health and temperance bless the rustic swain,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">While luxury destroys her pamper'd train.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hesiod.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men +wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her +gifts.—<span class="smcap">Claudian</span>.</p> + +<p>Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person +it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other +particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed +so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the +mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it +is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best +preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid +to devotion.—<span class="smcap">Dean South</span>.</p> + +<p>It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider +and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?—<span class="smcap">Sydney +Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a +god than a man.—<span class="smcap">Burton</span>.</p> + +<p>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.—<span class="smcap">Sir Walter Raleigh</span>.</p> + +<p>Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a +widow.—<span class="smcap">John Neal</span>.</p> + +<p>Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all +virtues.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span></p> + +<p>If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from +all fermented liquors.—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never +did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my +blood.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Temptation.</big></b>—'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to +fall.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack +the idle.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; +but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to +defeat.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span>.</p> + +<p>Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to +God.—<span class="smcap">J.Q. Adams</span>.</p> + +<p>When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out +long.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Wilson</span>.</p> + +<p>We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or +draw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, but +rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an +overdaring presumption.—<span class="smcap">King</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">But Satan now is wiser than of yore,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And tempts by making rich, not making poor.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many +formal prayers.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p>Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—<span class="smcap">Matthew 26:41</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Thought.</big></b>—Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one +of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.—<span class="smcap">Abbé +Raynal</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span></p> + +<p>Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have +usually been those who began by daring to think with +themselves.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up +once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands +of the Angel of the Resurrection.—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Thanks to the human heart by which we live,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wordsworth.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of +prudence last thoughts are best.—<span class="smcap">Robert Hall</span>.</p> + +<p>Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not +think.—<span class="smcap">Buffon</span>.</p> + +<p>Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes +heroes.—<span class="smcap">Disraeli</span>.</p> + +<p>Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and +learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that +which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the +property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by +thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, +and what remains?—<span class="smcap">Pestalozzi</span>.</p> + +<p>One thought cannot awake without awakening others.—<span class="smcap">Marie +Ebner-Eschenbach</span>.</p> + +<p>Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the +vessel.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p>A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down +the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly +the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom +return.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span></p> + +<p>Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.—<span class="smcap">C.A. Bartol</span>.</p> + +<p>Speech is external thought, and thought internal +speech.—<span class="smcap">Rivarol</span>.</p> + +<p>Learning without thought is labor lost.—<span class="smcap">Confucius</span>.</p> + +<p>The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. +The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and +novelty.—<span class="smcap">Catherall</span>.</p> + +<p>As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 23:7</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Time.</big></b>—Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the +further we make it go.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Part with it as with money, sparing; pay<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No moment but in purchase of its worth;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Redeem the misspent time that's past,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And live this day as 'twere thy last.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap"> —Ken.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern +corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing +all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the +other.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same +gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal +appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves +another and yet the same;—there is a change of views, and no less of +the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of +action.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my +last.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect +time.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden +hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for +they are gone forever!—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of +time.—<span class="smcap">Mason</span>.</p> + +<p>No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who +never loses any.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Jefferson</span>.</p> + +<p>Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be +recalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, if +thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost +forever.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and +his own salvation.—<span class="smcap">Thomas Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing +nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We +are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though +there would be no end to them.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will +not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent +it.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.</p> + +<p>Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.—<span class="smcap">Hawthorne</span>.</p> + +<p>Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff +life is made of.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Toleration.</big></b>—Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and +forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be +forgiven.—<span class="smcap">Thackeray</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span></p> + +<p>There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their +virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and +their injuries with forgiveness.—<span class="smcap">Dewey</span>.</p> + +<p>Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.—<span class="smcap">Arthur +Helps</span>.</p> + +<p>It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our +cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel +the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and +Madeira.—<span class="smcap">Elizabeth Charles</span>.</p> + +<p>If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst +thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?—<span class="smcap">Thomas à +Kempis</span>.</p> + +<p>The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for +it.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become +indulgent toward those of others.—<span class="smcap">Fénelon</span>.</p> + +<p>Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to +others.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Travel.</big></b>—A traveler without observation is a bird without +wings.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.</p> + +<p>He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.—<span class="smcap">Carlo +Goldoni</span>.</p> + +<p>Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to +a place, and very little different from becoming a +parcel.—<span class="smcap">Ruskin</span>.</p> + +<p>To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a +banishment become.—<span class="smcap">Donne</span>.</p> + +<p>The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and +instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they +are.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.—<span class="smcap">Cortes</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span></p> + +<p>Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler +just returned from abroad.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Trust.</big></b>—I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we +do.—<span class="smcap">Thoreau</span>.</p> + +<p>Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear no +evil, 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 at +that dread hour, when the world cannot help you, when all the powers +of nature are in vain, yea, when your heart and your flesh shall fail +you, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon Him who has +said "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for +ever."—<span class="smcap">H. Blunt</span>.</p> + +<p>To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.—<span class="smcap">George +Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 16:20</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Truth.</big></b>—There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we +believe it because it is true.—<span class="smcap">Whately</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The eternal years of God are hers;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">But error, wounded, writhes with pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And dies among his worshipers.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Bryant.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.—<span class="smcap">Ammian</span>.</p> + +<p>And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty +above all things.—<span class="smcap">Esdras</span>.</p> + +<p>I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to +have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting +myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell +than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered +before me.—<span class="smcap">Newton</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">For truth has such a face and such a mien,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dryden.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be +no other virtue.—<span class="smcap">Walter Scott</span>.</p> + +<p>Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by +silence.—<span class="smcap">Ammian</span>.</p> + +<p>Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it +out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready +to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and +sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many +more to make it good.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to +know it; but let all you tell be truth.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of +truth.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. +Truth alone is final.—<span class="smcap">Charles Sumner</span>.</p> + +<p>The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; +and her constant companion is humility.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could +be trusted in matters of importance.—<span class="smcap">Paley</span>.</p> + +<p>Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by +truth.—<span class="smcap">Horace Mann</span>.</p> + +<p>Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its +publication, a duty.—<span class="smcap">Mme. de Stael</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i5">Truth is one;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And, in all lands beneath the sun,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whoso hath eyes to see may see<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The tokens of its unity.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Whittier.<br /></span> +</div></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span></p> + +<p>Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither +in a straight line.—<span class="smcap">Tillotson</span>.</p> + +<p>The expression of truth is simplicity.—<span class="smcap">Seneca</span>.</p> + +<p>What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and +justice.—<span class="smcap">Demosthenes</span>.</p> + +<p>Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration +of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which +is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the +presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, +is the sovereign good of human nature.—<span class="smcap">Whittier</span>.</p> + +<p>The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the +real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where +they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and +not otherwise.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Unhappiness" id="Unhappiness"></a>Unhappiness.</big></b>—The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself +to be so.—<span class="smcap">Henry Home</span>.</p> + +<p>A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail +render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so +much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, +and then they choose to call themselves miserable.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Vanity" id="Vanity"></a>Vanity.</big></b>—All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with +himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which +to others is indifferent.—<span class="smcap">Auerbach</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel +thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.—<span class="smcap">H.W. +Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>Every man has just as much vanity as he wants +understanding.—<span class="smcap">Pope</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span></p> + +<p>Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him +to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins +the character he is so industrious to advance by +it.—<span class="smcap">Addison</span>.</p> + +<p>An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in +censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his +conversation.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible +vices—the vices of affectation and common lying.—<span class="smcap">Adam +Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor +with all others.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a +little vanity.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition +terrible.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to +us.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag +of its vices.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra +modesty.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Jameson</span>.</p> + +<p>She neglects her heart who too closely studies her +glass.—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.—<span class="smcap">Psalm +39:5</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Vice.</big></b>—Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that +men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their +masters.—<span class="smcap">Diogenes</span>.</p> + +<p>A few vices are sufficient to darken many +virtues.—<span class="smcap">Plutarch</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span></p> + +<p>Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in +our pains.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>One sin another doth provoke.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<p>What maintains one vice would bring up two +children.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in +this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and +the other world.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Watts</span>.</p> + +<p>He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice +should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, +otherwise he will have his labor to renew.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones +reprehend.—<span class="smcap">Publius Syrus</span>.</p> + +<p>This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a +man.—<span class="smcap">Chapin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">We first endure, then pity, then embrace.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but +forbidden because they are hurtful.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Virtue.</big></b>—Virtue has many preachers, but few +martyrs.—<span class="smcap">Helvetius</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Virtue alone is sweet society,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And opens you a welcome in them all.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Emerson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary +exertions, but by his every-day conduct.—<span class="smcap">Pascal</span>.</p> + +<p>Virtue consisteth of three parts,—temperance, fortitude, and +justice.—<span class="smcap">Epicurus</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span></p> + +<p>Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in +the heavens immortal.—<span class="smcap">Child</span>.</p> + +<p>When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as +pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your +life.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our +natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. +Sidney</span>.</p> + +<p>Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while +everything else is of men.—<span class="smcap">Voltaire</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O let us still the secret joy partake,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Well may your heart believe the truths I tell;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Collins.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no +bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or +undermine and destroy.—<span class="smcap">Sir P. Sidney</span>.</p> + +<p>Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or +abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing +good.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Butler</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is virtue's prize.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too +long.—<span class="smcap">Lady Rachel Russell</span>.</p> + +<p>If you can be well without health, you can be happy without +virtue.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.</p> + +<p>Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not +gold.—<span class="smcap">Beethoven</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span></p> + +<p>I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as +I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see +me.—<span class="smcap">Shaftesbury</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Know then this truth, enough for man to know,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Virtue alone is happiness below.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the +intention of pleasing God alone.—<span class="smcap">Bernardin de St. Pierre</span>.</p> + +<p>Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,—all these +belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your +love.—<span class="smcap">Cowper</span>.</p> + +<p>Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our +capital.—<span class="smcap">J. Petit-Senn</span>.</p> + +<p>Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a +million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed +and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of +little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because +you are neither a hero nor a saint.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Want" id="Want"></a>Want.</big></b>—How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary +ones!—<span class="smcap">Lavater</span>.</p> + +<p>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 real +wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he +does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied +with everything that nature can command, than we sit down to contrive +artificial appetites.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known +waste.—<span class="smcap">Spurgeon</span>.</p> + +<p>Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.—<span class="smcap">Thomas +à Kempis</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span></p> + +<p>Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts +not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.—<span class="smcap">Manilius</span>.</p> + +<p>If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer +that it was in some place where there was no other just man.—<span class="smcap">St. +Clement</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants +are chiefly derived.—<span class="smcap">Fielding</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>War.</big></b>—War will never yield but to the principles of universal +justice and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of +Jesus Christ.—<span class="smcap">Channing</span>.</p> + +<p>Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of +blood.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the +cost of the conflict must be paid.—<span class="smcap">James A. Garfield</span>.</p> + +<p>A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, +because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations +generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found +them.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>War is a crime which involves all other crimes.—<span class="smcap">Brougham</span>.</p> + +<p>To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of +preserving peace.—<span class="smcap">Washington</span>.</p> + +<p>War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is +the smell of powder.—<span class="smcap">Longfellow</span>.</p> + +<p>Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness for +war, and I have never advocated it except as a means of +peace.—<span class="smcap">U.S. Grant</span>.</p> + +<p>I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.—<span class="smcap">C.J. +Fox</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span></p> + +<p>Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would +pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing +again.—<span class="smcap">Wellington</span>.</p> + +<p>War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of +courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, +is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear +necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, +it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Waste.</big></b>—Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how +destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income +is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which +on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It +is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than +another, we cannot tell how.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Wealth.</big></b>—Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has +little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants +more.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The +cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of +an honest poverty.—<span class="smcap">L'Estrange</span>.</p> + +<p>Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use +soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave +contentedly.—<span class="smcap">Bacon</span>.</p> + +<p>Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.—<span class="smcap">Massinger</span>.</p> + +<p>He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he +is 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, cuts +himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness +hereafter.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend +it like a gentleman.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<p>The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst +for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and +leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at +all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should +be undone.—<span class="smcap">Emerson</span>.</p> + +<p>Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate +speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of +industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will +rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will +generally become bankrupt.—<span class="smcap">Wayland</span>.</p> + +<p>There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, +temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing +them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning +them.—<span class="smcap">Matthew Henry</span>.</p> + +<p>What does competency in the long run mean? It means, to all reasonable +beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, +opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of +giving.—<span class="smcap">Whipple</span>.</p> + +<p>The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends +chiefly on two words,—industry and frugality.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<p>Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object +of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high +a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but +the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation +between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which +is the essential thing.—<span class="smcap">Hillard</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span></p> + +<p>Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would +be 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 for +them, that the bargain is a loss.—<span class="smcap">La Bruyère</span>.</p> + +<p>It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence +of wealth.—<span class="smcap">Colton</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To purchase Heaven has gold the power?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Can gold remove the mortal hour?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In life can love be bought with gold?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">No—all that's worth a wish—a thought,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Let nobler views engage thy mind.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Dr. Johnson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Wife.</big></b>—The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear +in a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a +stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up +a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high +parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she +forgets what she is by match.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">All other goods by fortune's hand are given,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man,—his gem of many +virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles +his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms +the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy +his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the +softest pillow of his care.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness +of one.—<span class="smcap">Burke</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span></p> + +<p>Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, +who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial +roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising +in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under +misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast +of adversity.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Thy wife is a constellation of virtues, she's the moon, and thou art +the man in the moon.—<span class="smcap">Congreve</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">For nothing lovelier can be found<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In woman, than to study household good,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And good works in her husband to promote.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Milton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What is there in the vale of life<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Half so delightful as a wife;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When friendship, love and peace combine<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To stamp the marriage-bond divine?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Cowper.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will +return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him +at such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with +discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot +which should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the +soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the +door of other houses.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Wisdom.</big></b>—It is more easy to be wise for others than for +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>The clouds may drop down titles and estates, both may seek us; but +wisdom must be sought.—<span class="smcap">Young</span>.</p> + +<p>True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is +best worth doing.—<span class="smcap">Humphreys</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span></p> + +<p>Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth +understanding: for the merchandise of it is better than the +merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is +more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are +not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and +in 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 lay +hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her.—<span class="smcap">Prov. +3:13-18</span>.</p> + +<p>The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that +of which he supposes himself to have an abundance +already.—<span class="smcap">Simms</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Where the eye of pity weep,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And the sway of passion sleeps,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where the lamp of faith is burning,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And the ray of hope returning,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where the "still small voice" within<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whispers not of wrath or sin,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Resting with the righteous dead—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Beaming o'er the drooping head—<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Comforting the lowly mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Wisdom dwelleth—seek and find.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the +second, to know that which is true.—<span class="smcap">Lactantius</span>.</p> + +<p>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 the +gospel; of Him who is just, and yet the justifier of them that believe +in Jesus.—<span class="smcap">Archdeacon Raikes</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Than when we soar.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Wordsworth.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his +life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not +sow.—<span class="smcap">Saadi</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span></p> + +<p>Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.—<span class="smcap">La +Rochefoucauld</span>.</p> + +<p>As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without +exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great +Book without impoverishing it.—<span class="smcap">Rabbi Ben-Azai</span>.</p> + +<p>Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the +passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the +injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the +ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in +discerning those things which may come to pass.—<span class="smcap">Terence</span>.</p> + +<p>That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows +not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, +are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and +that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the +promotion of evangelical truth.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Mant</span>.</p> + +<p>So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto +wisdom.—<span class="smcap">Psalm 90:12</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Wit.</big></b>—I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day +long.—<span class="smcap">Madame de Sévigné</span>.</p> + +<p>Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to +others.—<span class="smcap">From the Latin</span>.</p> + +<p>Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by +tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and +laughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to +"charm his pained steps over the burning marle."—<span class="smcap">Sydney Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a +comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Horne</span>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span></p> + +<p>Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas +in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up +pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<p>There is many a man hath more hair than wit.—<span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Pope.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Wit does not take the place of knowledge.—<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>.</p> + +<p>To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the +necessary.—<span class="smcap">M. de Montlosier</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Woman.</big></b>—Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven +into the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating +bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they +cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy +hands.—<span class="smcap">Schiller</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The world was sad!—the garden was a wild!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And man, the hermit, sigh'd—till woman smiled.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Campbell.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is +reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind +them.—<span class="smcap">J.G. Holland</span>.</p> + +<p>O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a +man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and +dumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A woman's noblest station is retreat;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Her fairest virtues fly from public sight;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Domestic worth,—that shuns too strong a light.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Lord Lyttleton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> +Nature sent women into the world with this bridal dower of love, for +this reason, that they might be, what their destination is, mothers, +and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered and from +whom none are to be obtained.—<span class="smcap">Richter</span>.</p> + +<p>A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her +world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her +avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on +adventure, she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; +and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of +the heart.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">A woman impudent and mannish grown<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">What's a table richly spread,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Without a woman at its head?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—T. Wharton.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O woman! in our hours of ease,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And variable as the shade<br /></span> +<span class="i1">By the light quivering aspen made;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">When pain and anguish wring the brow,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">A ministering angel thou!<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Walter Scott.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much +more serviceable in life, than petticoated philosophers, blustering +heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children +happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to +virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, +whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their +quiver or their eyes.—<span class="smcap">Goldsmith</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Gay.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span> +Women are a new race, recreated since the world received +Christianity.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Not she denied him with unholy tongue;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—E.S. Barrett.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Completing him not otherwise complete!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">How void and useless the sad remnant left<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Abraham Coles.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>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 is +rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, +and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered by +Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man +in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with +sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his +nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the +broken heart.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>Women in health are the hope of the nation. Men who exercise a +controlling influence—the master spirits—with a few exceptions, have +had country-born mothers. They transmit to their sons those traits of +character—moral, intellectual, and physical—which give stability to +institutions, and promote order, security, and justice.—<span class="smcap">Dr. +J.V.C. Smith</span>.</p> + +<p>Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle +have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No +monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been +glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.—<span class="smcap">Gail Hamilton</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span> +American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits +(besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are +their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.—<span class="smcap">Abba +Goold Woolson</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Where is the man who has the power and skill<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To stem the torrent of a woman's will?<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women +sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters +which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust +seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such +intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it +approaches to sublimity.—<span class="smcap">Washington Irving</span>.</p> + +<p>To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself will always be the text +of the life of women.—<span class="smcap">Balzac</span>.</p> + +<p>All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of +a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother.—<span class="smcap">Steele</span>.</p> + +<p>I have always said it—nature meant to make woman its +master-piece.—<span class="smcap">Lessing</span>.</p> + +<p>The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the +order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man +as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To +religion alone do European women owe their liberty.—<span class="smcap">St. +Pierre</span>.</p> + +<p>Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which +distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,—compassion +and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm +they exalt themselves.—<span class="smcap">Lamartine</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span> +The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses +please less than red.—<span class="smcap">Holmes</span>.</p> + +<p>There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by +the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle +encouragement of amiable and sensible women.—<span class="smcap">Romilly</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Words.</big></b>—A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up +anger.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 15:1</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Shakespeare.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far +from speaking ill as from doing ill.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Immodest words admit of no defence,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For want of decency is want of sense.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Earl of Roscommon.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without +knowledge?—<span class="smcap">Job 38:2</span>.</p> + +<p>It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not +return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.—<span class="smcap">Abdel-Kader</span>.</p> + +<p>Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen +hunting for words.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p>I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to +see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a +parcel of big words without anything in them.—<span class="smcap">Hazlitt</span>.</p> + +<p>Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to +the bones.—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 16:24</span>.</p> + +<p>Men who have much to say use the fewest words.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span>What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken +can never be recalled.—<span class="smcap">Roscommon</span>.</p> + +<p>If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk +about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do +nothing else.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words +and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping +wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.—<span class="smcap">M.M. +Brewster</span>.</p> + +<p>"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us +from the destructive power of words! There are words which can +separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting +can remain through a whole life!—<span class="smcap">Mary Howitt</span>.</p> + +<p>A word spoken in due season, how good is it!—<span class="smcap">Proverbs 15:22, 23</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Work.</big></b>—Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to +get.—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Browning</span>.</p> + +<p>No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work +for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full +understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be +present with him; if he but love it—always assuming that his +conscience approves—it brings an abounding satisfaction.—<span class="smcap">Leo W. +Grindon</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing is impossible to industry.—<span class="smcap">Periander</span>.</p> + +<p>In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active +employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into +indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness +only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.—<span class="smcap">Leo W. +Grindon</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span>This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he +eat.—<span class="smcap">II Thess. 3:10</span>.</p> + +<p>If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do +you must do more than pray for it, you must work for +it.—<span class="smcap">Ruskin</span>.</p> + +<p>No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There +is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and +blessed are the horny hands of toil.—<span class="smcap">Lowell</span>.</p> + +<p>I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt +anybody.—<span class="smcap">Lord Stanley</span>.</p> + +<p>Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments +occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of +the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the +greater part.—<span class="smcap">Schleiermacher</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Emerson.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is +our best enjoyment.—<span class="smcap">Jacobi</span>.</p> + +<p>The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest +ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing +it.—<span class="smcap">Carlyle</span>.</p> + +<p>Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as +eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man +can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The +world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own +eyes.—<span class="smcap">Wilhelm von Humboldt</span>.</p> + +<p>It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you could +hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the +blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the +friction.—<span class="smcap">Beecher</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span><b><big>World.</big></b>—The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by +description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted +with it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of +the world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, who +judiciously endeavored to instruct Hannibal in +it.—<span class="smcap">Chesterfield</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">To know the world, not love her, is thy point;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">She gives but little, nor that little long.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Young.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my +course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason +to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I +shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature +appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of +sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or +permanent habitation.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to +worship.—<span class="smcap">George Macdonald</span>.</p> + +<p>The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must +pay his soul.—<span class="smcap">Hafiz</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Quarles.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>This world is God's world, after all.—<span class="smcap">Charles Kingsley</span>.</p> + +<p>There is another and a better world.—<span class="smcap">Kotzebue</span>.</p> + +<p>God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and +pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their +eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a +miserable production, a poor concern.—<span class="smcap">Bovee</span>.</p> + +<p>The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of +it.—<span class="smcap">Locke</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span>Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, +and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and +the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And +extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as +possible.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a +knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except +at the expense of a hardened or wounded heart.—<span class="smcap">Lady +Blessington</span>.</p> + +<p>A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at +times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with +the world who did his duty in it.—<span class="smcap">Southey</span>.</p> + +<p>Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is. Thou +wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canst +not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life +which thou hast formed in thy own mind.—<span class="smcap">Fuller</span>.</p> + +<p>I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only +to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God +appoints.—<span class="smcap">Jean Ingelow</span>.</p> + +<p>Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than +ourselves.—<span class="smcap">H.W. Shaw</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O what a glory doth this world put on,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For him who with a fervent heart goes forth,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks<br /></span> +<span class="i1">On duties well performed and days well spent.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Longfellow.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.—<span class="smcap">St. +Augustine</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big>Worship.</big></b>—The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of +man, the only created being who bows in humility and +adoration.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span>It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are +required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may +be made better,—that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his +dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in +which his highest improvement consists.—<span class="smcap">Blair</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Lord, let us to thy gates repair<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To hear the gladdening sound,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That we may find salvation there,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">While yet it may be found.<br /></span> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">There let us joy and comfort reap;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">There teach us how to pray,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For grace to choose, and strength to keep<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The strait, the narrow way.<br /></span> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">And so increase our love for Thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That all our future days<br /></span> +<span class="i1">May one continued Sabbath be<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Of gratitude and praise.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap"> —Oke.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the +worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with +our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Henshawe</span>.</p> + +<p>The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the +times and improving the condition of mankind.—<span class="smcap">Abulfazzi</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Youth" id="Youth"></a>Youth.</big></b>—The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as +in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace +and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant +harvest.—<span class="smcap">Bishop Mant</span>.</p> + +<p>He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in +manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.—<span class="smcap">J. Hawes</span>.</p> + +<p>Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for +fruit on it in autumn.—<span class="smcap">Hare</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span>Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. +Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to +enjoy them.—<span class="smcap">Rückert</span>.</p> + +<p>Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But +youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, +pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of +disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any +other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and +the young are wont to take their course for time and for +eternity.—<span class="smcap">J. Hawes</span>.</p> + +<p>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's +own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.—<span class="smcap">Sir W. +Temple</span>.</p> + +<p>Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.—<span class="smcap">Ecclesiastes +12:1</span>.</p> + +<p>What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always +produces the thistle.—<span class="smcap">J.T. Fields</span>.</p> + +<p>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, young +acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young +men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments +in every respect.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Johnson</span>.</p> + +<p>Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to +be.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Reckless youth makes rueful age.—<span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i12">Oh! the joy<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of young ideas painted on the mind,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads<br /></span> +<span class="i1">On objects not yet known, when all is new,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And all is lovely.<br /></span> +<span class="i11 smcap">—Hannah More.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span>In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, +there is no such word as fail.—<span class="smcap">Lytton</span>.</p> + +<p>If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin +anew, and go through the stages of culture from the +beginning.—<span class="smcap">Goethe</span>.</p> + +<p>Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be +so.—<span class="smcap">Dr. Metcalf</span>.</p> + +<p>As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so +I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the +youth.—<span class="smcap">Cicero</span>.</p> + +<p>Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due +consideration.—<span class="smcap">Rivarol</span>.</p> + + +<p class="sec"><b><big><a name="Zeal" id="Zeal"></a>Zeal.</big></b>—Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of +exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.—<span class="smcap">Coleridge</span>.</p> + +<p>Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more +disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable +zeal.—<span class="smcap">Barrow</span>.</p> + +<p>Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is +lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place +himself that knowledge may grow.—<span class="smcap">Buddha</span>.</p> + +<p>Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, +while judicious men are showing you the grounds of +it.—<span class="smcap">Shenstone</span>.</p> + +<p>He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden +thread that ties their hearts together.—<span class="smcap">Jeremy Taylor</span>.</p> + +<p>Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the +latter is divine.—<span class="smcap">Hosea Ballou</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, +true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.—<span class="smcap">William Penn</span>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span>Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of +gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord +prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an +attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure +from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy +men's lives, but to save them."—<span class="smcap">Bishop Mant</span>.</p> + +<p>Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either +petulancy, ambition, or pride.—<span class="smcap">Swift</span>.</p> + +<p>Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the +dark.—<span class="smcap">Newton</span>.</p> + +<p>Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busily +to please God, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices which +please Him not.—<span class="smcap">Hooker</span>.</p> + +<p>We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid to +answer.—<span class="smcap">Scott</span>.</p> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Transcriber's Notes"> +<tr><td align='left'>Transcriber's Notes: The following have been changed from the original book:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Publius_Syrus">Publius Syrius</a> (<a href="#Syrus">twice</a>) changed to: Publius Syrus (for consistency).</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#gloss">A shining glass, that fadeth suddenly;</a> changed to A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly; (typo).</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Proverbs_11_25">Proverbs 11:24</a> changed to Proverbs 11:25 (correct verse).</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Topics">Topics Grouped by Alphabet</a> has been added for your convenience.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Many Thoughts of Many Minds, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANY THOUGHTS OF MANY MINDS *** + +***** This file should be named 17112-h.htm or 17112-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/1/17112/ + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Diane Monico, and +the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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