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diff --git a/17112.txt b/17112.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a591459 --- /dev/null +++ b/17112.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12073 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Many Thoughts of Many Minds, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: ASCII + +*** 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 + + + + + + + + + +MANY THOUGHTS OF +MANY MINDS + +A Treasury of Quotations from the +Literature of Every Land +and Every Age. + +[Illustration] + +COMPILED BY +LOUIS KLOPSCH + +PUBLISHED BY +THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, +LOUIS KLOPSCH, Proprietor, +BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK. + + + + +Copyright, 1896, +By LOUIS KLOPSCH. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +In the limited compass of this small volume, the compiler 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. + + + + +Many Thoughts of Many Minds. + + +ABILITY.--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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others +judge us by what we have already done.--LONGFELLOW. + +Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his +abilities, and for no more.--GAIL HAMILTON. + +The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for +mere external show.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often +acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Ability is a poor man's wealth.--MATTHEW WREN. + +The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or +woman.--ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. + +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.--SCHOPENHAUER. + +An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. +--CHESTERFIELD. + + +ABSOLUTION.--No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just +and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.--BEDE. + +He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of +all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience. +--ST. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. + +It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the 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.--ST. AMBROSE. + +It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from +their sins.--ST. CYRIL. + +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.--ST. AMBROSE. + + +ACTION.--The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.--EMERSON. + +Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness +without action.--BEACONSFIELD. + +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.--A. REED. + +To the valiant actions speak alone.--SMOLLETT. + +It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.--HORACE MANN. + +Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are +incompatible.--BOVEE. + + Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, + Is our destined end or way; + But to act, that each to-morrow + Finds us farther than to-day. + + * * * * * + + Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! + Let the dead Past bury its dead! + Act, act, in the living Present! + Heart within, and God o'erhead! + --LONGFELLOW. + +Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the +world weigh less than a single lovely action.--LOWELL. + + Prodigious actions may as well be done + By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. + --DRYDEN. + +It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, 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.--CARLYLE. + +Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with +graciousness, or oppose with firmness.--COLTON. + +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.--J. SHIRLEY. + +Our acts make or mar us,--we are the children of our own deeds. +--VICTOR HUGO. + +Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well +as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, +is its own reward.--WHIPPLE. + + +ADVERSITY.--Times of great calamity and confusion have ever 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.--COLTON. + +In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day +of adversity only one.--HORATIUS BONAR. + +Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds +rise above them.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, + We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; + But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, + As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, + But most chastises those whom most he likes. + --POMFRET. + +The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. +--BOLINGBROKE. + + On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; + In every rill a sweet instruction flows. + --DR. YOUNG. + + When Providence, for secret ends, + Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; + We must conclude it best it should be so, + And not desponding or impatient grow. + --POMFRET. + +If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. +--PROVERBS 24:10. + +Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous +circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE. + + In this wild world the fondest and the best + Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. + --CRABBE. + +The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they 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. +--CHENEVIX. + +There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY. + +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.--BACON. + +In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's +disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON. + +Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6. + +The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and +smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. +--CHAPIN. + +Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a +state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to +virtue.--SCHILLER. + + +AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of +many a comparatively wise man. + +We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as +by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH. + +Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. +--ST. EVREMOND. + +All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to +appear rich.--LAVATER. + +Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. +--HORACE MANN. + + +AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS. + +Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. +--COLOSSIANS 3:2. + +Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to 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.--HAWTHORNE. + + A solitary blessing few can find, + Our joys with those we love are intertwined, + And he whose wakeful tenderness removes + The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves, + Smooths not another's rugged path alone, + But scatters roses to adorn his own. + +Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant +spot on the surface of the globe. + +Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is +the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER. + +If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and +repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS. + + +AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears +in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. +--T.L. CUYLER. + +The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his +burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able +to bear the burden.--PHILLIPS BROOKS. + +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.--RICHTER. + +Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + + Aromatic plants bestow + No spicy fragrance where they grow; + But crushed and trodden to the ground, + Diffuse their balmy sweets around. + --GOLDSMITH. + +Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of +humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the +strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity. + +Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of +extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary +graces.--MATTHEW HENRY. + +If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to +what it teaches.--BURGH. + +Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.--JOB 5:7. + + Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; + Where patience, honor, sweet humanity, + Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. + --MALLET AND THOMSON. + + Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; + A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! + --BURNS. + +With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, +the chaff from the corn.--MOLINOS. + +No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: +nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of +righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--HEBREWS 12:11. + + +AGE.--No wise man ever wished to be younger.--SWIFT. + +I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look 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.--LONGFELLOW. + +It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no +fault committed that I have not committed myself.--GOETHE. + +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.--CICERO. + +We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age +brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE. + + Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; + You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill; + Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age + Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. + --POPE. + +If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written +upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.--VICTOR +HUGO. + +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.--W.A. NEWMAN. + +Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Few people know how to be old.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a +sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.--SWIFT. + +The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with +age.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--ADDISON. + +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.--RICHTER. + +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. +--H.W. SHAW. + + +AMBITION.--Most people would succeed in small things if they were not +troubled with great ambitions.--LONGFELLOW. + + He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find + The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; + He who surpasses or subdues mankind, + Must look down on the hate of those below. + --SOUTHEY. + + They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; + And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +The path of glory leads but to the grave.--GRAY. + +We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well; and +when that care is once taken, not to be over anxious about the +success.--ROCHESTER. + +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.--LYTTON. + + I charge thee, fling away ambition: + By that sin fell the angels. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is 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.--BEECHER. + +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. +--SOUTHEY. + + Ambition has but one reward for all: + A little power, a little transient fame, + A grave to rest in, and a fading name! + --WILLIAM WINTER. + + All my ambition is, I own, + To profit and to please unknown; + Like streams supplied from springs below, + Which scatter blessings as they go. + --DR. COTTON. + + +ANGELS.--If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, +they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.--G.D. PRENTICE. + +The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, +blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it +down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.--STERNE. + + There are two angels that attend unseen + Each one of us, and in great books record + Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down + The good ones, after every action closes + His volume, and ascends with it to God. + The other keeps his dreadful day-book open + Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, + The record of the action fades away, + And leaves a line of white across the page. + Now if my act be good, as I believe it, + It cannot be recalled. It is already + Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. + The rest is yours. + --LONGFELLOW. + + Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth + Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. + --MILTON. + + + ANGER.--And to be wroth with one we love + Doth work like madness in the brain. + --COLERIDGE. + +Anger is implanted in us as a sort of sting, to make us gnash with our +teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set +us in array against each other. + + When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action, + Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. + --SAVAGE. + +Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, +alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.--PLUTARCH. + +He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will +not.--SENECA. + +Men in rage strike those that wish them best.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.--W.R. ALGER. + +Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; +it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed +by it more than any other against whom it is directed.--CLARENDON. + +When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. +--JEFFERSON. + +An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.--CATO. + +When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. +--HALIBURTON. + +Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.--EPHESIANS 4:26. + +Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.--PYTHAGORAS. + +Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve of in +another.--PASQUIER QUESNEL. + + +ANXIETY.--Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than +ruined by too confident a security.--BURKE. + +Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human +events?--BLAIR. + +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.--ROGERS. + +Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which +we endure and generally occasion ourselves.--BEACONSFIELD. + + +ART.--The perfection of art is to conceal art.--QUINTILIAN. + +Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of +folly.--HAZLITT. + +Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of +art.--GOETHE. + +Art does not imitate, but interpret.--MAZZINI. + +Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his glory.--LONGFELLOW. + + +ASSOCIATES.--Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good +manners.--1 CORINTHIANS 15:20. + +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.--LAVATER. + +He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.--SOLOMON. + +If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to +limp.--FROM THE LATIN. + +If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only +who are estimable.--LA BRUYERE. + +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.--QUARLES. + +A companion of fools shall be destroyed.--PROVERBS 13:20. + +Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.--LORD +CHESTERFIELD. + +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.--THACKERAY. + +Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.--GEORGE HERBERT. + +It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in +eternity.--FULLER. + + +ASTRONOMY.--The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both +speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to +human affairs.--CICERO. + + The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced + Daily the wisdom, power and love of God. + The moon awoke, and from her maiden face, + Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth, + And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens,-- + Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked, + Of purity, and holiness, and God. + --ROBERT POLLOK. + + I love to rove amidst the starry height, + To leave the little scenes of Earth behind, + And let Imagination wing her flight + On eagle pinions swifter than the wind. + I love the planets in their course to trace; + To mark the comets speeding to the sun, + Then launch into immeasurable space, + Where, lost to human sight, remote they run. + I love to view the moon, when high she rides + Amidst the heav'ns, in borrowed lustre bright; + To fathom how she rules the subject tides, + And how she borrows from the sun her light. + O! these are wonders of th' Almighty hand, + Whose wisdom first the circling orbits planned. + --T. RODD. + + +ATHEISM.--I should like to see a man sober in his habits, moderate, +chaste, just in his dealings, assert that there is no God; he would +speak at least without interested motives; but such a man is not to be +found.--LA BRUYERE. + + An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange + For Deity offended! + --BURNS. + +The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.--PSALM 14:1. + +Kircher, the astronomer, having an acquaintance who denied 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. + +"It was not made by any person," said the astronomer. + +"That is impossible," replied the sceptic; "you surely jest." + +Kircher then took occasion to reason with his friend upon his own +atheistical principles, explaining to him that he had adopted this +plan with a design to show him the fallacy of his scepticism. + +"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." + +He pursued this chain of reasoning till his friend was totally +confounded, and cordially acknowledged the absurdity of his notions. + +By night an atheist half believes a God.--YOUNG. + +No one is so much alone in the world as a denier of God.--RICHTER. + +When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them +that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade +themselves so.--TILLOTSON. + +Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and +feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +Atheism can benefit no class of people,--neither the unfortunate, whom +it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders +insipid.--CHATEAUBRIAND. + + +AUTHORITY.--Self-possession is the backbone of authority.--HALIBURTON. + + Man, proud man! + Dressed in a little brief authority: + Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd. + His glassy essence--like an angry ape + Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, + As make the angels weep. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose +with gold.--SHAKESPEARE. + + +AUTHORS.--Choose an author as you choose a friend.--EARL OF ROSCOMMON. + +The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, +as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many 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.--LONGFELLOW. + +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.--COLTON. + +Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.--ROGER +ASCHAM. + +He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.--DRYDEN. + +Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man +whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.--DOUGLAS +JERROLD. + +No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this +self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the +mind.--CERVANTES. + +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.--COLTON. + + An author! 'Tis a venerable name! + How few deserve it, and what numbers claim! + Unblest with sense above their peers refin'd, + Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind? + Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause? + That sole proprietor of just applause. + --YOUNG. + +Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on +it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry +on it.--RICHTER. + + How many great ones may remember'd be, + Which in their days most famously did flourish, + Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, + But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, + Because the living cared not to cherish + No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, + Which might their names for ever memorize! + --SPENSER. + +The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things +familiar, and familiar things new.--THACKERAY. + +To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it +is to possess at once intellect, soul and taste.--BUFFON. + +Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.--JOUBERT. + + +AVARICE.--It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be +the chief good.--JOHNSON. + +Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.--PUBLIUS SYRUS. + +There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an +avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the +other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.--FIELDING. + + O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sake + The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, + First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. + --BLAIR. + +Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the +want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the +little great.--ZIMMERMANN. + +Avarice is the vice of declining years.--GEORGE BANCROFT. + + Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, + Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. + Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, + Sees but a backward steward for the poor; + This year a reservoir, to keep and spare; + The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir + In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, + And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. + --POPE. + +The love of money is the root of all evil.--1 TIMOTHY 6:10. + +The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, +which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no +fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.--ZENO. + +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?--CICERO. + +Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.--COWLEY. + + +BASHFULNESS.--Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; +bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.--MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. + +As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of 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.--PLUTARCH. + +Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. +--ARISTOTLE. + +Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; +and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of +principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a +total ignorance of vice.--COLTON. + + +BEAUTY.--It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that +completes the charm.--FONTENELLE. + +Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy +forever."--THACKERAY. + +Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to +whom it has been refused.--GIBBON. + + What is beauty? Not the show + Of shapely limbs and features. No. + These are but flowers + That have their dated hours + To breathe their momentary sweets, then go. + 'Tis the stainless soul within + That outshines the fairest skin. + --SIR A. HUNT. + +I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.--SOCRATES. + +Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the +beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, +believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.--G.A. SALA. + +There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of +woman.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half +married.--OUIDA. + +Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed +with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.--RICHTER. + +If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that +which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.--RALEIGH. + +It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue. +--BACON. + +The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. +--SHAFTESBURY. + +Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best +to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as +possible on the dark and the base.--CECIL. + +A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower +without fragrance, a tree without fruit.--REGNIER. + +All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--FREDERIKA BREMER. + +Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty +cannot supply the absence of good nature.--ADDISON. + +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.--POPE. + +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.--FROM THE ITALIAN. + + Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, + A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly; + A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; + A brittle glass, that's broken presently; + A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, + Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. + And as good lost is seld or never found, + As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh, + As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground, + As broken glass no cement can redress, + So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost, + In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + Give me a look, give me a face, + That makes simplicity a grace; + Robes loosely flowing, hair as free! + Such sweet neglect more taketh me, + Than all the adulteries of art; + That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. + --BEN JONSON. + + +BENEVOLENCE.--Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward +heaven.--BEECHER. + +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.--HOWELLS. + +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.--BISHOP MANT. + +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.--COLTON. + +The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. +--W.R. ALGER. + +There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as 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.--COLTON. + +The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem; +but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections.--FROM THE FRENCH. + +Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw 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. +--THACKERAY. + +You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil +and twopence.--SYDNEY SMITH. + +Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It _goeth_ +about doing good.--NEVINS. + +Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 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.--CHALMERS. + +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.--JAY. + +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.--KANT. + + The lessons of prudence have charms, + And slighted, may lead to distress; + But the man whom benevolence warms + Is an angel who lives but to bless. + --BLOOMFIELD. + +Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so +distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence. + + +BIBLE.--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.--NOVALIS. + +The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of +suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.--FLAVEL. + + Within that awful volume lies + The mystery of mysteries! + Happiest they of human race, + To whom God has granted grace + To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, + To lift the latch and force the way; + And better had they ne'er been born, + Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. + --SCOTT. + +Like the needle to the North Pole, the Bible points to heaven. +--R.B. NICHOL. + +There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our 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. +--BACON. + +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.--DR. NUTT. + +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.--BEECHER. + +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.--M.L. BAUTIN. + + Whence but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts, + In several ages born, in several parts, + Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why + Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? + --DRYDEN. + +Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.--MILTON. + +I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you 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. +--ROMAINE. + +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.--LOCKE. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + +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.--REV. HUGH STOWELL. + +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.--GOETHE. + + +BIGOTRY.--All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--POPE. + +Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.--CHAPIN. + +A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who +believes there is no virtue but on his own side.--ADDISON. + +Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that +man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.--FELTHAM. + + +BIOGRAPHY.--The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be +and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an +inspiration to others.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +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.--HORACE MANN. + +To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity +is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.--PLUTARCH. + + +BOASTING.--Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; +nature never pretends.--LAVATER. + +Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.--YOUNG. + +A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a +minute than he will stand to in a month.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--AESCHINES. + +The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of +it.--BACON. + + Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, + Brags of his substance, not of ornament: + They are but beggars that can count their worth. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + +BOOKS.--When friends grow cold, and the converse of 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.--WASHINGTON +IRVING. + +No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read. +--SENECA. + +He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will +hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.--CLARENDON. + +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.--O.W. HOLMES. + +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.--LONGFELLOW. + +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.--CHANNING. + +We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put _fire_ +into their works would only consent to put their works into the +_fire_.--COLTON. + + Books, dear books, + Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night, + Adversity, prosperity, at home, + Abroad, health, sickness--good or ill report, + The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich, + And source of consolation. + --DR. DODD. + +When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and +courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it +is good, and made by a good workman.--LA BRUYERE. + +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.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he +that studies men will know how things are.--COLTON. + +It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; +the rest are confounded with the multitude.--VOLTAIRE. + +Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and 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.--HORACE MANN. + +The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. +The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that +comes from a great thinker--it is a ship of thought, deep freighted +with truth and with beauty.--THEODORE PARKER. + +Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen. + +Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as 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.--FULLER. + + +BREVITY.--Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and +outward flourishes.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other +virtues--righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship +without the other.--SYDNEY SMITH. + +If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with +sunbeams--the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.--SOUTHEY. + +The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression; +the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.--ALFRED BOUGEANT. + +The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the +greater the profit.--FENELON. + + With vivid words your just conceptions grace, + Much truth compressing in a narrow space; + Then many shall peruse, but few complain, + And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. + --PINDAR. + +Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage. +--H.W. SHAW. + +A verse may find him whom a sermon flies.--GEORGE HERBERT. + +When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great +deal in a very narrow compass.--STEELE. + + +BUSINESS.--That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. +--IZAAK WALTON. + +Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a +business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, +business is war.--BOVEE. + +Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, +transact your business and go about your business, in order to give +him time to finish his business.--DUKE OF WELLINGTON. + +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.--SWIFT. + +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.--HELPS. + +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.--THEODORE PARKER. + +Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because +he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.--TACITUS. + +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.--SISMONDI. + +Few people do business well who do nothing else.--CHESTERFIELD. + +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."--STEELE. + + +CARE.--To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. +--HALIBURTON. + +Cast all your care on God: that anchor holds.--TENNYSON. + + Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, + And every grin, so merry, draws one out. + --DR. WOLCOT. + +He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his +God, has found the sunny side of life.--SPURGEON. + + +CAUTION.--It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of +others.--PUBLIUS SYRUS. + + Vessels large may venture more, + But little boats should keep near shore. + --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. + +Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.--VICTOR HUGO. + +All is to be feared where all is to be lost.--BYRON. + + +CENSURE.--Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which +is useful to them to praise which deceives them.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--DIOGENES. + +Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.--SWIFT. + +The villain's censure is extorted praise.--POPE. + + +CHARACTER.--How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of 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.--S.T. COLERIDGE. + +The great hope of society is individual character.--CHANNING. + +A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, 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.--RUSKIN. + +Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his +manner of portraying another.--RICHTER. + +There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, +are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and +bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet +stars.--TUCKERMAN. + +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.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +The man that makes a character makes foes.--YOUNG. + + He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer + The worst that man can breathe; + And make his wrongs his outsides, + To wear them like his raiment, carelessly; + And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, + To bring it into danger. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which he +has, and that which he thinks he has.--ALPHONSE KARR. + +The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, +to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's +own opinions, and value others that deserve it.--SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. + +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.--WENDELL PHILLIPS. + +All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher +characters that they differ.--BOVEE. + +You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends +are all good.--LAVATER. + +Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has +in substance been said, is "victory organized."--BOVEE. + +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.--HAWES. + +Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell +characters.--LAVATER. + + +CHARITY.--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.--MRS. JAMESON. + +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.--FITZOSBORNE. + +But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right +hand doeth.--MATTHEW 6:3. + +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.--BOSSUET. + +Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when +bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.--COLTON. + + The drying up a single tear has more + Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. + --BYRON. + +Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself.--JOUBERT. + +Almost all the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue 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.--CHILLINGWORTH. + +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.--LATIMER. + +You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. +--THOREAU. + +Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of +his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.--KORAN. + +Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity +shall cover the multitude of sins.--1 PETER 4:8. + +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.--CUMBERLAND. + +Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!--HOOD. + +You cannot separate charity and religion.--COLTON. + +Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren 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.--HAWEIS. + +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.--ARCHBISHOP SECKER. + +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. +--ST. BASIL. + +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."--BURKITT. + +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.--SENECA. + +As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.--VICTOR HUGO. + + Then gently scan your brother man, + Still gentler, sister woman; + Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, + To step aside is human. + --BURNS. + + +CHEERFULNESS.--Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good +health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human +nature.--CHARLES KINGSLEY. + +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.--PLINY. + +A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth +the bones.--PROVERBS 17:22. + +Be of good cheer.--JOHN 16:33. + +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.--HORACE. + +An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God +with.--FULLER. + +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!--ARCHBISHOP USHER. + +Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the +mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to +cheerfulness.--BLAIR. + +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.--MRS. L.M. CHILD. + +Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come +in contact with it.--J.T. FIELDS. + +The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our +minds at ease.--STEELE. + +Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to +bear are those which never happen.--LOWELL. + +A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, +knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, +poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, +and render deformity itself agreeable.--ADDISON. + + +CHILDREN.--If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities 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.--T.W. HIGGINSON. + +I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, +who are so fresh from God, love us.--DICKENS. + + They are idols of hearts and of households; + They are angels of God in disguise; + His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses; + His glory still gleams in their eyes. + Oh those truants from home and from heaven, + They have made me more manly and mild, + And I know now how Jesus could liken + The kingdom of God to a child. + --DICKENS. + + The child is father of the man. + --WORDSWORTH. + +The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are +nearest the sun.--RICHTER. + +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.--HORACE MANN. + + Childhood shows the man + As morning shows the day. + --MILTON. + +Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, +lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, +straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou +makest him, such commonly shalt thou find him. Let his first lesson be +obedience, and his second shall be what thou wilt.--QUARLES. + +A child is an angel dependent on man.--COUNT DE MAISTRE. + +A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought--what on 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.--MRS. NORTON. + +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.--BEECHER. + + Children are the keys of Paradise. + * * * They alone are good and wise, + Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. + --STODDARD. + +Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there +is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.--DOUGLAS JERROLD. + +Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.--BOVEE. + + If there is anything that will endure + The eye of God because it still is pure, + It is the spirit of a little child, + Fresh from His hand, and therefore undefiled. + Nearer the gate of Paradise than we, + Our children breathe its airs, its angels see; + And when they pray, God hears their simple prayer, + Yea, even sheathes His sword, in judgment bare. + --STODDARD. + +Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love. +--BEECHER. + +Of all sights which can soften and humanize the heart of man, there is +none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children +enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural +portion.--SOUTHEY. + + Ah! what would the world be to us, + If the children were no more? + We should dread the desert behind us + Worse than the dark before. + --LONGFELLOW. + +Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy +for childhood. When He said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it +was a revelation.--EDWARD EGGLESTON. + +Where children are there is the golden age.--NOVALIS. + + +CHRIST.--The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a +sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first +true gentleman that ever breathed.--DECKER. + +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.--THOMAS A KEMPIS. + +From first to last Jesus is the same; always the same, majestic and +simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.--NAPOLEON I. + +He, the Holiest among the mighty, and the Mightiest among the holy, +has lifted with His pierced hands empires off their hinges, has turned +the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the +ages.--RICHTER. + +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.--LUTHER. + +Jesus Christ was more than man.--NAPOLEON I. + +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.--CHANNING. + +Alexander, Caesar, 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.--NAPOLEON I. + +If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and +death of Jesus were those of a God.--ROUSSEAU. + +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. + + +CHRISTIANITY.--A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.--HARE. + +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.--MACAULAY. + +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.--PIERRE. + +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. +--CHANNING. + +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. +--MRS. JOHN SANFORD. + +I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the +Lord's Prayer.--MADAME DE STAEL. + +Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, +taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, 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.--STEPHEN CHARNOCK. + +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.--ADDISON. + + +COMPANY.--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.--SWIFT. + +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.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--LESSING. + +No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not +respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.--CHESTERFIELD. + +A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a +man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.--ST. CLEMENT. + +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.--LOCKE. + + +CONCEIT.--Be not wise in your own conceits.--ROMANS 12:16. + +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.--HAZLITT. + +The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than +others.--CHARRON. + +Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, +but impairs what it would improve.--POPE. + +Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is 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.--COLTON. + +We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is +like us--he is thinking of himself.--CHARLES READE. + +Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool +than of him.--PROVERBS 26:12. + +A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great +to him.--MADAME DE GIRARDIN. + +Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the +job.--H.W. SHAW. + +Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's +own making.--ADDISON. + +He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of +impotence.--LAVATER. + +The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another +talked of.--LAVATER. + + +CONDUCT.--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?--SENECA. + +The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their +professions.--JUNIUS. + + Have more than thou showest, + Speak less than thou knowest, + Lend less than thou owest, + Learn more than thou trowest, + Set less than thou throwest. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.--WILLIAM +PENN. + + I would, God knows, in a poor woodman's hut + Have spent my peaceful days, and shared my crust + With her who would have cheer'd me, rather far + Than on this throne; but being what I am, + I'll be it nobly. + --JOANNA BAILLIE. + + Only add + Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, + Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, + By name to come call'd charity, the soul + Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath + To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess + A Paradise within thee, happier far. + --MILTON. + + Take heed lest passion sway + Thy judgment to do aught which else free-will + Would not admit. + --MILTON. + + +CONFIDENCE.--Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those +who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth +than they do to others.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.--HARE. + +When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others 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.--COLTON. + +He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. +--AUERBACH. + +Trust not him that hath once broken faith.--SHAKESPEARE. + +People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In 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. +--FREDRIKA BREMER. + +Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him +least who is indifferent about all.--LAVATER. + + +CONSCIENCE.--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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + + Oh! Conscience! Conscience! Man's most faithful friend, + Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend: + But if he will thy friendly checks forego, + Thou art, oh! wo for me, his deadliest foe! + --CRABBE. + +In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is +but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest +avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment. +--QUARLES. + +A good conscience is a continual Christmas.--FRANKLIN. + + Be mine that silent calm repast, + A conscience cheerful to the last: + That tree which bears immortal fruit, + Without a canker at the root; + That friend which never fails the just, + When other friends desert their trust. + --DR. COTTON. + +No man ever offended his own conscience, but first or last it was +revenged upon him for it.--SOUTH. + +He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. +Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your +health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good +conscience.--IZAAK WALTON. + +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.--JOSEPH COOK. + +A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, +he cannot outlive himself.--SOUTH. + +Rules of society are nothing, one's conscience is the umpire.--MADAME +DUDEVANT. + +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.--DOUGLAS JERROLD. + +In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of +prudence last thoughts are best--REV. ROBERT HALL. + +A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; +his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last 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.--ADDISON. + +Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness for +his Creator. + +We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of +God; and with God, as in the presence of men.--COLTON. + +I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his +cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.--LUTHER. + +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.--FICHTE. + +There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose +sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. +--STERNE. + +He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead 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. +--PATRICK HENRY. + +Conscience is its own readiest accuser.--CHAPIN. + +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.--FULLER. + + Yet still there whispers the small voice within, + Heard thro' gain's silence, and o'er glory's din; + Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, + Man's conscience is the oracle of God! + --BYRON. + +The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity 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.--STEELE. + + +CONTENTMENT.--To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by +your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + + I press to bear no haughty sway; + I wish no more than may suffice: + I do no more than well I may, + Look what I lack, my mind supplies; + Lo, thus I triumph like a king, + My mind's content with anything. + --BYRD. + +Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of +another.--CONDORCET. + +To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, +impossible.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. + +My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be +Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to +acquiesce in what is Thy will.--GOTTHOLD. + +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.--BOVEE. + +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.--BALGUY. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth +of nature.--SOCRATES. + + Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; + But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, + To him that ever fears he shall be poor. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us +beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; +and with obscurity, for being unenvied.--PLUTARCH. + +It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we +are.--SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. + +Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please +others as ourselves.--GREVILLE. + +True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough +for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.--COLTON. + + Content with poverty my soul I arm; + And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. + --DRYDEN. + +Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it +elsewhere.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +The noblest mind the best contentment has.--SPENSER. + +I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. +--PHILIPPIANS 4:11. + + +CONVERSATION.--The pith of conversation does not consist in 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.--SIR WALTER SCOTT. + +There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before +some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.--SOUTHEY. + +The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the +subject.--VOLTAIRE. + +Speak little and well if you wish to be considered as possessing +merit.--FROM THE FRENCH. + +The less men think, the more they talk.--MONTESQUIEU. + +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.--LAVATER. + +Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to +talk less; or if you must talk, say little.--LA BRUYERE. + +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.--G.A. SALA. + +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.--COLTON. + +Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; +for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your +tongue than them.--CHESTERFIELD. + +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. +--LA BRUYERE. + +Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.--A. BRONSON +ALCOTT. + +The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make +us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us. +--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Many can argue, not many converse.--A. BRONSON ALCOTT. + +One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable 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.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, +the third good humor, and the fourth wit. + +It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct 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.--STEELE. + +In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it +was pleasant to speak--_i.e._, 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.--METTERNICH. + + +COUNSEL.--I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be +one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.--SHAKESPEARE. + +The best receipt--best to work and best to take--is the admonition of +a friend.--BACON. + +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.--SENECA. + +Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's counsel.--GEORGE +CHAPMAN. + + +COURAGE.--The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the +foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human +character.--THOMAS HUGHES. + + To struggle when hope is banished! + To live when life's salt is gone! + To dwell in a dream that's vanished! + To endure, and go calmly on! + + The brave man is not he who feels no fear, + For that were stupid and irrational; + But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, + And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. + --JOANNA BAILLIE. + + A valiant man + Ought not to undergo or tempt a danger, + But worthily, and by selected ways; + He undertakes by reason, not by chance. + --BEN JONSON. + +True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of 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.--SHAFTESBURY. + +Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.--MARSTON. + +Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it +and conquering it.--RICHTER. + +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.--JONES OF NAYLAND. + +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.--COLTON. + +He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but +he that loses his courage loses all.--CERVANTES. + + +COURTSHIP.--Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, +and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when 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!--THACKERAY. + +Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake!--POPE. + + With women worth the being won, + The softest lover ever best succeeds. + --HILL. + +The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes 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.--ADDISON. + +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!--FREDERIC SAUNDERS. + +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.--DE FINOD. + +Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as +to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.--STERNE. + + +COVETOUSNESS.--Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the +splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.--F. OSBORN. + +The only instance of a despairing sinner left upon record in the New +Testament is that of a treacherous and greedy Judas. + +He deservedly loses his own property who covets that of another. +--PHAEDRUS. + +Covetousness, which is idolatry.--COLOSSIANS 3:5. + +There is not a vice which more effectually contracts and deadens 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.--BISHOP MANT. + +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.--SOUTH. + +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.--BURTON. + +Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which we +hoard is not for ourselves.--MADAME DELUZY. + +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.--BACON. + +Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if +they could keep it any longer.--BISHOP HALL. + + +CRITICISM.--He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent +production, is to undervalue it, will never have one of his own to +show.--AIKEN. + +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.--SIMMS. + +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.--GLADSTONE. + +It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate +him.--VAUVENARGUES. + +It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.--BEACONSFIELD. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +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.--GOETHE. + + A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade, + Save censure; critics all are ready-made. + + +CUNNING.--In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunning +management.--JUNIUS. + +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.--LA BRUYERE. + +Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering +other people's weaknesses.--HAZLITT. + +A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.--BEECHER. + +The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know +always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to +cunning, he blunders and betrays.--THOMAS PAINE. + +The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived, is to +consider yourself more cunning than others.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + +DEATH.--God's finger touch'd him, and he slept.--TENNYSON. + + But no! that look is not the last; + We yet may meet where seraphs dwell, + Where love no more deplores the past, + Nor breathes that withering word--Farewell! + --PEABODY. + +How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be +called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and +rest in heaven.--N.P. WILLIS. + +I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was +Death.--REVELATION 6:8. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +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.--SIR HENRY HALFORD. + +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.--WEBSTER. + + There is no death. The thing that we call death + Is but another, sadder name for life. + --STODDARD. + + To die,--to sleep,-- + No more;--and by a sleep to say we end + The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks + That flesh is heir to. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +All that nature has prescribed must be good; and as death is 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.--STEELE. + +There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose +it.--OWEN MEREDITH. + +Death robs the rich and relieves the poor.--J.L. BASFORD. + +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.--COLTON. + + Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep, + And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. + --BYRON. + +The finest day of life is that on which one quits it.--FREDERICK THE +GREAT. + + Death is delightful. Death is dawn-- + The waking from a weary night + Of fevers unto truth and light. + --JOAQUIN MILLER. + + The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear, + Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. + --POPE. + + All that lives must die, + Passing through nature to eternity. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.--RICHTER. + +You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. +--MARTIAL. + +No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever 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.--STEBBING. + +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.--METASTASIO. + +God giveth quietness at last.--WHITTIER. + + Death hath ten thousand several doors + For men to take their exits. + --JOHN WEBSTER. + +Death will have his day.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Death comes but once.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. + +It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.--GOTTHOLD. + +Death is the crown of life.--YOUNG. + + So live, that, when thy summons comes to join + The innumerable caravan, that moves + To that mysterious realm, where each shall take + His chamber in the silent halls of death, + Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, + Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd + By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, + Like one that draws the drapery of his couch + About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. + --BRYANT. + + +DEBT.--Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.--TUSSER. + +Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a +superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.--FRANKLIN. + +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.--LYTTON. + +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. +--DELANY. + +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.--SIR M. HALE. + +Debt is the worst poverty.--M.G. LICHTWER. + + +DELICACY.--Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.--MARGUERITE DE +VALOIS. + +Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. +--NOVALIS. + +An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness +of character.--MRS. SIGOURNEY. + +True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits +itself most significantly in little things.--MARY HOWITT. + +Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.--DEGERANDO. + +Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive 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.--GREVILLE. + +Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.--ACHILLES +POINCELOT. + + +DELUSION.--Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to the +stern realities of life.--A.R.C. DALLAS. + +No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as +necessary to our happiness as realities.--BOVEE. + +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.--JAMES ELLIS. + + +DESPAIR.--It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that +his Helper is omnipotent.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +Despair is the conclusion of fools.--BEACONSFIELD. + +He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted +model.--SOUTH. + +Despair is infidelity and death.--WHITTIER. + +Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. +'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues 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.--COLLIER. + +Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He +is, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.--MRS. BROWNING. + +He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.--CONFUCIUS. + +Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which +submits.--LADY BLESSINGTON. + + Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven + To censure fate, and pious hope forego. + --BEATTIE. + + +DIET.--Simple diet is best.--PLINY. + +Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.--SHAKESPEARE. + +In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice +as much as nature requires.--FRANKLIN. + + +DIFFICULTIES.--Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does +the body.--SENECA. + +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.--AARON HILL. + +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.--BEECHER. + +It is difficulties which give birth to miracles.--REV. DR. SHARPE. + +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.--SAMUEL WARREN. + +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.--BURKE. + +There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they +fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance. + + +DISCIPLINE.--No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no +glory; no cross, no crown.--WILLIAM PENN. + +No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not +be subdued by discipline.--SENECA. + + +DISCORD.--Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtue +this same discord can be turned to harmony.--JAMES ELLIS. + +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?--ST. BERNARD. + + +DISCRETION.--Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, +keepeth his life.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + +There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is +none so useful as discretion.--ADDISON. + +Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.--BACON. + +Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. + +The better part of valor is discretion.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they +have less trouble to speak well than to speak little.--FATHER DU BOSC. + + Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop + Not to outsport discretion. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the +duties of life.--ADDISON. + +Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic +end.--GAMBETTA. + + +DISSIMULATION.--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. +--LA BRUYERE. + + +DRESS.--In the matter of dress people should always keep below their +ability.--MONTESQUIEU. + +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.--SHENSTONE. + +And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, +how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin.--MATTHEW 6:28. + +A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the 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.--ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON. + +No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.--SIR +WALTER RALEIGH. + +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.--GEORGE D. PRENTICE. + +Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; +rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.--SHAKESPEARE. + + No real happiness is found + In trailing purple o'er the ground. + --PARNELL. + +If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a +little time to perfect her toilet.--CHAMFORT. + +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.--SHENSTONE. + +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.--ROUSSEAU. + +As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and +conversation partake of the same element.--HALIBURTON. + +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 _address_.--SIR JONAH +BARRINGTON. + + We sacrifice to dress, till household joys + And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, + And keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires, + And introduces hunger, frost and woe, + Where peace and hospitality might reign. + +Dress changes the manners.--VOLTAIRE. + + +DRINK.--Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may +follow strong drink.--ISAIAH 5:11. + +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.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, +gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, +children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.--FRANKLIN. + +Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory--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.--COLTON. + +Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.--DOUGLAS JERROLD. + +O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, +let us call thee--devil! * * * O, that men should put an enemy to +their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, +revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! +--SHAKESPEARE. + +Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to +drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a +drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.--SIR WALTER +RALEIGH. + +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.--SIR G. SINCLAIR. + +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.--QUARLES. + +There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly +caused by strong drink.--JUDGE COLERIDGE. + +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.--QUARLES. + + +DUTY.--Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass.--EMERSON. + +Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.--HANNAH MORE. + +The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs 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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in +it our pleasure.--MME. DE MOTTEVILLE. + +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.--CARLYLE. + +Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of +man.--ECCLESIASTES 12:13. + +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.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.--THEODORE PARKER. + +Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, +the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood 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.--THEODORE PARKER. + +In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful. + +Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You +have time and eternity to rejoice in.--THEODORE PARKER. + +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.--EPICTETUS. + +It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, +to leave undone that thou wouldst do.--THOMAS A KEMPIS. + +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.--WEBSTER. + + +EARLY RISING.--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.--SOUTHEY. + + Who would in such a gloomy state remain + Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse + And every blooming pleasure wait without, + To bless the wildly devious morning walk? + --THOMSON. + +The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in 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.--DODDRIDGE. + +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."--CHATHAM. + +When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.--WELLINGTON. + +Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became +distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.--DR. JOHN TODD. + +Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active +habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.--FLINT. + + Thus we improve the pleasures of the day, + While tasteless mortals sleep their time away. + --MRS. CENTLIVRE. + +No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, +if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty;--let 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.--COLTON. + +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."--CAUSSIN. + + +EARNESTNESS.--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.--PETER BAYNE. + +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.--EMERSON. + +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.--BOVEE. + +There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere +earnestness.--DICKENS. + +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.--JOHN FOSTER. + + +ECONOMY.--Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and +get dollars in return.--H.W. SHAW. + +Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as +to spend it well.--SPURGEON. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + +He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would +not, have too little to spend.--FELTHAM. + +Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and +the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. +--FRANKLIN. + +If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's +stone.--FRANKLIN. + +Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a +king and the hand of a wise economist.--JOUBERT. + + A penny saved is two pence clear, + A pin a day's a groat a year. + --FRANKLIN. + +Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do 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. + +No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor +whose incomings exceed his outgoings.--HALIBURTON. + + +EDUCATION.--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.--MRS. SIGOURNEY. + +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. +--LADY HERVEY. + +The world is only saved by the breath of the school children.--THE +TALMUD. + +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.--BEECHER. + +A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, +skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.--MILTON. + +Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large 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.--WEBSTER. + +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. + +Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns +sour.--HORACE. + +Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the +alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.--G.W. CURTIS. + +Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, +without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently +maintained.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +A boy is better unborn than untaught.--GASCOIGNE. + +On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation +and perpetuation of our free institutions.--WEBSTER. + +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.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has +been through him; if he is a walking university.--CHAPIN. + +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.--BEATTIE. + +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.--CHAPIN. + +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.--CARLYLE. + +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.--SIR THOMAS MORE. + + 'Tis education forms the common mind, + Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. + --POPE. + + +EGOTISM.--When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without +loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises +never.--MONTAIGNE. + +Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will +take it upon your word.--CHESTERFIELD. + +We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves +at all.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +It is never permissible to say, I say.--MADAME NECKER. + +The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. +--ZIMMERMANN. + +What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words +sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.--HARE. + +The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another +talked of.--LAVATER. + +Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of +yourself.--PASCAL. + +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.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + +ELOQUENCE.--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.--COLTON. + +True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing +but what is necessary.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--WEBSTER. + +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.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + +EMPLOYMENT.--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.--BLAIR. + +The rust rots the steel which use preserves.--LYTTON. + +Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.--SENECA. + +The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. +--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to +human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of +misery.--BURTON. + + +ENTHUSIASM.--Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from +the human to the divine.--EMERSON. + +Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. +--BEACONSFIELD. + +Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever +we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or +chilling a single earnest sentiment.--TUCKERMAN. + +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.--LYTTON. + +Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the +triumph of enthusiasm.--EMERSON. + +The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. +--ARTHUR HELPS. + +Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory 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.--PHILLIPS BROOKS. + +ENVY.--There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as +envy.--SHERIDAN. + +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.--SOCRATES. + +As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.--ST. CHRYSOSTOM. + +We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion +that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.--PLINY. + + Base envy withers at another's joy, + And hates that excellence it cannot reach. + --THOMSON. + +The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give 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!--STEELE. + +The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born +without envy.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; +they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses +them they censure.--COLTON. + +Envy--the rottenness of the bones.--PROVERBS 14:30. + +There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows where +it dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous and +suspicious till they feel the wound. + +Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.--SAADI. + +Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a +victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a +defeat.--COLTON. + +Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had +the confidence to own it.--ROCHESTER. + + +ETERNITY.--He that will often put eternity and the world before him, +and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that +the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and +the latter less.--COLTON. + +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.--BURNET. + +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.--BISHOP HEBER. + + The vaulted void of purple sky + That everywhere extends, + That stretches from the dazzled eye, + In space that never ends; + A morning whose uprisen sun + No setting e'er shall see; + A day that comes without a noon, + Such is eternity. + --CLARE. + +"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb +Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given +by one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty."--JOHN BATE. + +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. +--TILLOTSON. + + +EVIL.--The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.--COLERIDGE. + + The evil that men do lives after them; + The good is oft interred with their bones. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + Evil is wrought by want of thought, + As well as want of heart. + --HOOD. + +To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is +evil.--MOHAMMED. + +We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.--DESMAHIS. + +Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the 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.--EMERSON. + +If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. +--FRANKLIN. + +As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary +evil.--SOUTHEY. + +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. +--CHAPIN. + +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.--CHANNING. + + +EXAMPLE.--Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six +days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.--REV. R. CECIL. + +People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to +copy after.--GOLDSMITH. + +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.--THOMAS A KEMPIS. + +None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.--FRANKLIN. + +No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a +good example.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what +we see.--HERODOTUS. + +Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.--H.W. SHAW. + +If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father'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.--QUARLES. + +Example is contagious behavior.--CHARLES READE. + +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. +--HORACE MANN. + +The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.--DR. JOHNSON. + + +EXCESS.--Excess always carries its own retribution.--OUIDA. + +The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon the +feast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his own +delight by excess and satiety.--KNOX. + + To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, + To throw a perfume on the violet, + To smooth the ice, or add another hue + Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light + To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, + Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with +interest, about thirty years after date.--COLTON. + +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. +--HORACE. + +Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired +digestion.--SOUTH. + +Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. +--ST. EVREMOND. + + +EXERCISE.--A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be +sick.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in +vigor.--CICERO. + +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.--BEECHER. + +Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. +--BLAIR. + +You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with +exercise.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + + +EXPERIENCE.--To Truth's house there is a single door, which is +experience.--BAYARD TAYLOR. + + Experience join'd with common sense, + To mortals is a providence. + --GREEN. + +Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like +no other.--CARLYLE. + +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. +--TERENCE. + +Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get +brightened by it, and not ground.--H.W. SHAW. + +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.--L'ESTRANGE. + + To wilful men, + The injuries that they themselves procure, + Must be their schoolmasters. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and +scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give +conduct.--FRANKLIN. + +All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + + +EXTRAVAGANCE.--He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and +poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.--DR. JOHNSON. + + The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, + Provides a home from which to run away. + --YOUNG. + + +FAITH.--What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve; +wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is God. 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. + +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.--J. STEPHENS. + +Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.--YOUNG. + +It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero +in faith.--JACOBI. + +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. + +Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is +dead.--BISHOP WILSON. + +The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in +his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.--ADDISON. + +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.--EDWARD EVERETT. + + He had great faith in loaves of bread + For hungry people, young and old, + And hope inspired; kind words he said + To those he sheltered from the cold. + In words he did not put his trust; + His faith in words he never writ; + He loved to share his cup and crust + With all mankind who needed it. + He put his trust in Heaven and he + Worked well with hand and head; + And what he gave in charity + Sweetened his sleep and daily bread. + +No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a +rainbow in it.--BISHOP HORNE. + +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.--LOWELL. + + +FAME.--None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible +claim to it.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The +dread of censure is the death of genius.--SIMMS. + +Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts. +--BYRON. + +He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions 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.--CHARLES SUMNER. + +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!"--HOLMES. + +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.--LONGFELLOW. + +The way to fame is like the way to heaven--through much tribulation. +--STERNE. + + Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call: + She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. + --POPE. + +Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the +thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be +forgotten.--CHALMERS. + + The drying up a single tear has more + Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. + --BYRON. + + +FASHION.--Fashion's smile has given wit to dullness and grace to +deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, except +virtue.--COLTON. + +A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes +her appear.--MLLE. DE L'ESPINASSE. + +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.--J.G. HOLLAND. + +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.--CHANNING. + +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.--J.G. HOLLAND. + +A fashionable woman is always in love--with herself.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of +the rich.--CHAMFORT. + + Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use + Their knavery and folly to excuse. + --CHURCHILL. + + +FEAR.--The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.--PSALM 111:10. + + O, fear not in a world like this, + And thou shalt know ere long,-- + Know how sublime a thing it is + To suffer and be strong. + --LONGFELLOW. + +Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. +--SAADI. + +Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who 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.--GOLDSMITH. + + The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; + And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. + --WALLER. + +The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?--PSALM 27:1. + +Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.--DR. JOHNSON. + +God planted fear in the soul as truly as He planted hope or courage. +Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life +and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for +rallying.--BEECHER. + +There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because +fear hath torment.--1 JOHN 4:18. + +Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.--GEORGE SEWELL. + +Fear not; for I am with thee.--ISAIAH 43:5. + + +FIDELITY.--To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN. + +He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not +matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged +class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + + His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; + His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; + His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; + His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. +Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments +of the human mind.--CICERO. + +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.--DEAN STANLEY. + + +FLATTERY.--Those are generally good at flattering who are good for +nothing else.--SOUTH. + +If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best +friend.--FRANKLIN. + + No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't; + It is a little sneaking art, which knaves + Use to cajole and soften fools withal. + If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't; + Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive. + --OTWAY. + +A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make +her one.--RICHARDSON. + +Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.--TACITUS. + +It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the +dead only, these the living.--ANTISTHENES. + +Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.--SWIFT. + +Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.--JEAN PAUL. + + 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, + That flattery's the food of fools; + Yet now and then your men of wit + Will condescend to take a bit. + --SWIFT. + + Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, + The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for +our vanity.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, + Save he who courts the flattery. + --HANNAH MORE. + +Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.--PROVERBS 20:19. + +Men are like stone jugs,--you may lug them where you like by the ears. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will +receive you into their bosoms.--FIELDING. + + +FLOWERS.--Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and +forgot to put a soul into.--BEECHER. + + In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, + And they tell in a garland their loves and cares: + Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers + On its leaves a mystic language bears. + --PERCIVAL. + +How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed +round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.--MRS. L.M. CHILD. + +There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to +look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly +Maker.--SOUTH. + +Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and +botanize them.--H.N. HUDSON. + + And with childlike credulous affection + We behold their tender buds expand; + Emblems of our own great resurrection, + Emblems of the bright and better land. + --LONGFELLOW. + + +FOOLS.--He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, +is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.--TILLOTSON. + +The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has 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.--COLTON. + +People are never so near playing the fool as when they think +themselves wise.--LADY MONTAGU. + +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.--POPE. + +Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters +them.--BISHOP HALL. + +It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him +that he had none.--BABINET. + + At thirty man suspects himself a fool; + Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; + At fifty, chides his infamous delay, + Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, + Resolves--and re-resolves; then dies the same. + --YOUNG. + +It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, +and to forget his own.--CICERO. + +Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.--POPE. + +A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more +incorrigible.--COLTON. + +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.--HELPS. + +Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are +fools.--CHAPMAN. + +None but a fool is always right.--HARE. + +People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no +relations to blush for them.--HALIBURTON. + + +FORBEARANCE.--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.--VALPY. + + The kindest and the happiest pair + Will find occasion to forbear; + And something every day they live + To pity, and perhaps forgive. + --COWPER. + +It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and to 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.--SOUTH. + + +FORGIVENESS.--If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father +will also forgive you.--MATTHEW 6:14. + +He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must +pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.--LORD HERBERT. + +They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.--BAILEY. + +The brave only know how to forgive.--STERNE. + +The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of 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."--HORATIUS BONAR. + +Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to +forgive.--LYTTON. + +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.--COWPER. + +Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against +us.--THE LORD'S PRAYER. + +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.--LEIGHTON. + + +FORTITUDE.--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.--CHANNING. + +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.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +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.--LOCKE. + + +FORTUNE.--It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, +because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.--DRYDEN. + +The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.--PLAUTUS. + +Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she +never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.--POPE. + +Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness +thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Every man is the architect of his own fortune.--SALLUST. + +The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the +good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.--SAADI. + +Fortune favors the bold.--CICERO. + +The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.--MOLIERE. + + +FREEDOM.--I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among +freemen.--SWIFT. + +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.--CHARLES +KINGSLEY. + +The cause of freedom is the cause of God.--BOWLES. + + Stone walls do not a prison make, + Nor iron bars a cage; + Minds innocent and quiet take + That for an hermitage; + If I have freedom in my love, + And in my soul am free, + Angels alone that soar above, + Enjoy such liberty. + --RICHARD LOVELACE. + + And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, + While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. + --ROBERT TREAT PAINE. + +Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-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.--MACAULAY. + +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.--RAHEL. + + When Freedom from her mountain height + Unfurled her standard to the air, + She tore the azure robe of night, + And set the stars of glory there. + She mingled with its gorgeous dyes + The milky baldric of the skies, + And striped its pure, celestial white + With streakings of the morning light. + --JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. + +Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.--C.A. BARTOL. + +Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" +intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that, wheresoever, +whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will +die freemen.--JOSIAH QUINCY. + + Who then is free?--the wise, who well maintains + An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains, + Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; + Who boldly answers to his warm desire; + Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; + Firm in himself, who on himself relies; + Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course, + And breaks misfortune with superior force. + --HORACE. + +The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to +a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.--CHANNING. + + He was the freeman whom the truth made free; + Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; + Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, + In spite of fools consulted seriously. + --POLLOCK. + + +FRIENDSHIP.--Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the +usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.--CICERO. + + The man that hails you Tom or Jack, + And proves by thumping on your back + His sense of your great merit, + Is such a friend, that one had need + Be very much his friend indeed + To pardon or to bear it. + --COWPER. + +He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.--PLAUTUS. + +Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.--PROVERBS 27:10. + +To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN. + +There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere +enough to tell him disagreeable truths.--LYTTON. + +A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; +for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. +--ADDISON. + +A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man 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.--GEORGE WASHINGTON. + +No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.--BEAUMONT AND +FLETCHER. + +The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold +friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, +warm friends.--LAVATER. + +Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will +cease to love.--FULLER. + +The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend +worth dying for.--HENRY HOME. + +Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted +upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.--CHESTERFIELD. + +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.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + + 'Tis thus that on the choice of friends + Our good or evil name depends. + --GAY. + +We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; +this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game; +because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.--COLTON. + +That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end. +--QUARLES. + +Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm +and constant.--SOCRATES. + +We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay +the price, a self-sacrificing love.--PELOUBET. + +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. +--BOVEE. + +Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.--FRANKLIN. + +The greatest medicine is a true friend.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in +adversity they come without invitation.--THEOPHRASTUS. + +Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.--MLLE. DE SCUDERI. + + Who friendship with a knave hath made, + Is judg'd a partner in the trade. + --GAY. + +Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy +faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard +thy hatred.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + +He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly +happy that hath no need of his friend.--WARWICK. + + I would not enter on my list of friends + (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, + Yet wanting sensibility) the man + Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. + --COWPER. + +True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the +worth and choice.--DR. JOHNSON. + + +FRUGALITY.--Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have +limits.--BURKE. + +Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of +temperance, and the parent of liberty.--DR. JOHNSON. + +The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.--CICERO. + + +FUTURITY.--It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never +acting toward it.--J.F. BOYES. + +The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the +last duty done.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + + Trust no future howe'er pleasant; + Let the dead past bury its dead; + Act,--act in the living present, + Heart within and God o'erhead! + --LONGFELLOW. + +The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to +future events, must be most deplorable.--SENECA. + +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.--ST. AUGUSTINE. + +Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may +bring forth.--PROVERBS 27:1. + +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.--CHAPIN. + +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.--ADDISON. + +How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! +it is only the thought of the future that makes them great.--RICHTER. + +If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.--RICHTER. + + +GAMBLING.--There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigils +of the card-table, and those cutting passions which naturally attend +them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks and pale complexions are the natural +indications.--STEELE. + +Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping +country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. +--CUMBERLAND. + +All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of +another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.--WHATELY. + +There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them +away.--CHATFIELD. + +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.--CUMBERLAND. + +It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of +mischief.--WASHINGTON. + + +GENEROSITY.--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.--MRS. JAMESON. + +He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without +generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.--HENRY +TAYLOR. + +Generosity is only benevolence in practice.--BISHOP KEN. + +The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe. +--DRYDEN. + +If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must +be by what he gives.--SOUTH. + +Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to +pay debts.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + +When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you +deny yourself something in order that you may give.--HENRY TAYLOR. + +The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, +may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER. + +Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others +share their happiness with them.--DUNCAN. + +In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in +proportion to the worth of the thing given.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + +Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to +proportion His blessings to our alms.--BEVERIDGE. + +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. +--SPURGEON. + + +GENIUS.--Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble.--CARLYLE. + +Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.--LAVATER. + +There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who +has but one talent for a genius.--HELPS. + +Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham +in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.--OUIDA. + +Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a +forest of oaks.--BEECHER. + +The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of +truth.--GOETHE. + +Genius can never despise labor.--ABEL STEVENS. + + And genius hath electric power, + Which earth can never tame; + Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower-- + Its flash is still the same. + --LYDIA M. CHILD. + +Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--DRYDEN. + +Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and +brings it out.--LADY BLESSINGTON. + + One science only will one genius fit; + So vast is art, so narrow human wit. + --POPE. + +I know no such thing as genius,--genius is nothing but labor and +diligence.--HOGARTH. + +Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing +meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.--LONGFELLOW. + +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.--HANNAH MORE. + +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.--SIR J. REYNOLDS. + + +GENTLEMAN.--Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are +the two main characteristics of a gentleman.--BEACONSFIELD. + +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.--BISHOP DOANE. + +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?--THACKERAY. + +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.--SHAFTESBURY. + +Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and +reflection must finish him.--LOCKE. + +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. +--COLERIDGE. + +He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not +the degenerated heir of another's virtue.--VICTOR HUGO. + +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.--HAZLITT. + +He is gentle that doth gentle deeds. + +Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the +mind and the feelings in every station.--TALFOURD. + +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.--JULIANA BERNERS. + + +GENTLENESS.--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.--BLAIR. + +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."--EMERSON. + +Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent +gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.--BALZAC. + +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.--AUERBACH. + +Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished +from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. +--BLAIR. + + +GIFTS.--Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when +bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.--COLTON. + +Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that +is a way of giving to thyself.--FULLER. + +The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, +correspondent to my flowing unto him.--EMERSON. + +The only gift is a portion of thyself. * * * Therefore the poet 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.--EMERSON. + +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.--LAVATER. + +God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, +the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the 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.--LUTHER. + +There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.--SENECA. + + +GLORY.--Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and +without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave.--THOMSON. + +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.--GOETHE. + +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.--COLTON. + +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.--PLINY. + +Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and +contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper +medium.--SHENSTONE. + + +GLUTTONY.--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.--BURTON. + +I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much +food.--SYDNEY SMITH. + + Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits + Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who +strangle those whom they embrace.--SENECA. + +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.--ADDISON. + + +GOD.--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.--QUARLES. + +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.--MASSILLON. + +God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and +leave the issue to Him.--JOHN JAY. + +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.--BACON. + +God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything +that He has made.--HENRY BROOKE. + +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.--RICHTER. + +I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. +--SAADI. + +A foe to God was never true friend to man.--YOUNG. + + God moves in a mysterious way + His wonders to perform; + He plants His footsteps in the sea, + And rides upon the storm. + --COWPER. + +There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are +sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by +an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.--SIR +WALTER RALEIGH. + + Who guides below, and rules above, + The great disposer, and the mighty king; + Than He none greater, next Him none, + That can be, is, or was. + --HORACE. + + Thou art, O God, the life and light + Of all this wondrous world we see; + Its glow by day, its smile by night, + Are but reflections caught from Thee! + Where'er we turn thy glories shine, + And all things fair and bright are thine! + --MOORE. + + From God derived, to God by nature join'd. + We act the dictates of His mighty mind: + And though the priests are mute and temples still, + God never wants a voice to speak His will. + --ROWE. + +The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is +not, discovers to me His existence.--BRUYERE. + +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.--JONES OF NAYLAND. + +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.--BISHOP HEBER. + +It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no +greater infelicity than to be left to himself.--FELTHAM. + +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.--SLADE. + +God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, +and clothes itself in colors. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine +heart feels its warmth.--RICHTER. + +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.--DEAN STANHOPE. + + All is of God. If He but wave His hand, + The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud; + Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, + Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud. + + Angels of life and death alike are His; + Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er; + Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, + Against His messengers to shut the door? + --LONGFELLOW. + +"God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good." +* * * Wheresoever I turn my eyes, behold the memorials of His greatness! +of His goodness! * * * What the world contains of good is from His +free and unrequited mercy: what it presents of real evil arises from +ourselves.--BISHOP BLOMFIELD. + + +GOLD.--Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands +great souls and contracts bad hearts.--RIVAROL. + +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.--COLTON. + +Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, +and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Caesar which +are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's.--QUARLES. + + Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; + But gold, that's put to use, more gold begets. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the +world.--FELTHAM. + + O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake + The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. + --BLAIR. + +How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!--GEORGE VILLIERS. + +Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.--MARGUERITE DE +VALOIS. + + +GOODNESS.--A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps +friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.--BASIL. + +It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being +good.--SOPHOCLES. + +Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.--POPE. + +Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of +love.--LAVATER. + +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.--SOUTH. + +A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. +--BISHOP HALL. + +Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument 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.--CHALMERS. + +He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, +though sure of both at last.--WILLIAM PENN. + +What is good-looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? 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.--WHITTIER. + +Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power, +however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and may +be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, +and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands.--BOWDLER. + + +GOVERNMENT.--The administration of government, like a guardianship, +ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of those +who receive the trust.--CICERO. + +Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but +temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. +--SENECA. + +No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected +without being truly respectable.--MADISON. + +The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but +that which renders the greatest number happy.--DUCLOS. + +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.--SOCRATES. + +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.--BEECHER. + +The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to +do good, and difficult for them to do evil.--GLADSTONE. + +All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of +the people.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +Those who think must govern those who toil.--GOLDSMITH. + + +GRACE.--Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy +affections.--DRYDEN. + +The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.--BEECHER. + +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.--FUSELI. + +Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony +of the soul.--HAZLITT. + + +GRATITUDE.--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. + +He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, +should never remember it.--CHARRON. + +O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with +thankfulness.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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!--HOSEA BALLOU. + + +GRAVE.--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.--JOB 3:17, 18, 19. + +We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead;" but angels +throng about him, saying, "A man is born."--BEECHER. + +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.--CHAPIN. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + What is the grave? + 'Tis a cool, shady harbor, where the Christian + Wayworn and weary with life's rugged road, + Forgetting all life's sorrows, joys, and pains, + Lays his poor body down to rest-- + Sleeps on--and wakes in heaven. + + +GREATNESS.--He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets +himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end +with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.--LAVATER. + +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.--CHANNING. + + Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, + Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors + Are barren in return. + --ROWE. + + Great truths are portions of the soul of man; + Great souls are the portions of eternity. + --LOWELL. + +No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than +disbelief in great men.--CARLYLE. + +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.--SPARKS. + +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."--LAVATER. + +He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a +very low standard of it in his mind.--HAZLITT. + +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.--COLTON. + +A really great man is known by three signs,--generosity in the design, +humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.--BISMARCK. + +Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking +of God's holiness.--MATTHEW HENRY. + +The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men. + +Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness +thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--PHILLIPS BROOKS. + +Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be +great.--EMERSON. + + +GRIEF.--Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. +--MADAME DE GIRARDIN. + +Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.--SENECA. + +If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his +forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects +of pity?--METASTASIO. + +Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to +the living, and the dead know it not.--XENOPHON. + +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.--MADAME SWETCHINE. + +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.--GREVILLE. + +They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.--BYRON. + + Alas! I have not words to tell my grief; + To vent my sorrow would be some relief; + Light sufferings give us leisure to complain; + We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. + --DRYDEN. + +It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be +assuaged by baldness.--CICERO. + +Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are +easiest consoled.--H.W. SHAW. + + Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls, + Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: + Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. + --YOUNG. + +Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may +elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.--HORACE +GREELEY. + +Every one can master a grief but he that has it.--SHAKESPEARE. + + +GRUMBLING.--When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he is the very last +man to be complaining of other people.--D.L. MOODY. + +Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere +habit of complaining.--GRAVES. + +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.--GREVILLE. + +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.--ROBERT +WEST. + +I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "It is +all barren."--STERNE. + + +GUILT.--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.--ROBERT HALL. + +Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the +light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.--JUNIUS. + +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.--SIR WALTER SCOTT. + +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.--WIRT. + +They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds +their blame.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is +guilt.--SCHILLER. + +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.--SOUTHEY. + +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. +--SENECA. + + +HABIT.--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, +'tis being flayed alive.--COWPER. + +The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and +you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a +character, and you reap a destiny.--G.D. BOARDMAN. + +A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an +ink drop soileth the pure white page.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out +the one, I will smooth out the other.--H.W. SHAW. + +A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.--PALEY. + +Habit is ten times nature.--WELLINGTON. + +Habit is the most imperious of all masters.--GOETHE. + +I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were 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?--SENECA. + +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.--HENRY GILES. + +It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his +knowledge.--COLTON. + +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.--MRS. SIGOURNEY. + +I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.--HOSEA +BALLOU. + + +HAPPINESS.--He who is good is happy.--HABBINGTON. + + If solid happiness we prize, + Within our breast this jewel lies; + And they are fools who roam: + The world has nothing to bestow, + From our own selves our joys must flow, + And that dear hut, our home. + --COTTON. + +The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is 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.--PALEY. + +Happiness and virtue react upon each other,--the best are not only the +happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.--LYTTON. + +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.--BISHOP HALL. + +Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its +counterfeit!--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and +consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy.--NORRIS. + +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.--DICKENS. + +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.--ADDISON. + +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. +--TILLOTSON. + +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.--HAWTHORNE. + +The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take +away from the wretchedness of others.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +There is no man but may make his paradise.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. + +The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,--the little, +soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt +compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless +other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.--COLERIDGE. + +To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. +--FROUDE. + +The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our +being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.--FROM +THE FRENCH. + +Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled +to inspire.--DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN. + + +HATRED.--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.--BRUYERE. + +We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know +them because we hate them.--COLTON. + +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.--PLUTARCH. + +Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their +littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.--BALZAC. + +It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have +injured.--TACITUS. + +Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this +evil passion.--LAMARTINE. + +The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our +own.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent. +--TACITUS. + +When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate. +--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + +HEALTH.--The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and +abstinence, to live as if he was poor.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +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.--COLTON. + +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.--LYTTON. + + Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, + Lie in three words, health, peace and competence: + But health consists with temperance alone; + And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own. + --POPE. + +O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou 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.--STERNE. + +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.--STERNE. + +Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to +vegetation.--MASSILLON. + +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.--JOHN RAY. + +The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which +custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.--ABBA GOOLD +WOOLSON. + +For life is not to live, but to be well.--MARTIAL. + +From labor health, from health contentment springs.--BEATTIE. + +In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in +overwork of the brain--LYTTON. + +The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be +healthy.--FRANKLIN. + + +HEART.--Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the +issues of life.--PROVERBS 4:23. + + The poor too often turn away unheard, + From hearts that shut against them with a sound + That will be heard in heaven. + --LONGFELLOW. + +He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.--BAILEY. + +All offences come from the heart.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. +Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, +but constant in looking to Him.--RICHTER. + +Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.--MATTHEW 12:34. + +Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? +--JOHN LYLY. + +When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is +pretty certain that she has his.--G.D. PRENTICE. + +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.--CHESTERFIELD. + +A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.--GIBBON. + +The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains +the pulse of youth forever.--LANDOR. + +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.--WHITTIER. + +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.--TRENCH. + +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.--BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES. + +The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who +can know it?--JEREMIAH 17:9. + + +HEAVEN.--The generous who is always just, and the just who is always +generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER. + +The redeemed shall walk there.--ISAIAH 35:9. + +If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, +which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be +forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the +everlasting world!--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.--PHILLIPS +BROOKS. + +I cannot be content with less than heaven.--BAILEY. + +Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that +enter there must go upon their knees.--DANIEL WEBSTER. + +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.--BISHOP +HORNE. + +Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, +health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal +good.--HANNAH MORE. + +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.--REV. DR. GUTHRIE. + +Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than +heaven to earth.--HARE. + +Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The +kingdom of God is within you."--BEECHER. + +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.--THOS. A +KEMPIS. + + +HEROES.--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.--HAWTHORNE. + +Troops of heroes undistinguished die.--ADDISON. + +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.--GOETHE. + +There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.--SENECA. + +We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our +lives.--JAMES ELLIS. + +Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person +whatever he says has an enhanced value.--EMERSON. + + +HISTORY.--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.--THOMAS +FULLER. + +History teaches everything, even the future.--LAMARTINE. + +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!"--BANCROFT. + +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.--TACITUS. + +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.--CICERO. + +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.--CERVANTES. + +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.--CHAMFORT. + +History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of 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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + + +HOME.--There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that +growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a +home.--CHAPIN. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his +home.--GOETHE. + + 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark + Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; + 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark + Our coming, and look brighter when we come. + --BYRON. + + 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, + Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. + --JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. + + There's a strange something, which without a brain + Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, + Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, + In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. + --CHURCHILL. + +The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and +pleasure felt at home.--YOUNG. + +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?--JAMES HAMILTON. + + Breathes there a man with soul so dead, + Who never to himself hath said, + This is my own, my native land! + Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, + As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, + From wandering on a foreign strand! + --SCOTT. + +When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to +stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their +element.--SPURGEON. + +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.--CHARLES BUXTON. + + In all my wanderings round this world of care, + In all my griefs--and God has given my share-- + I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, + Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; + To husband out life's taper at the close, + And keep the flame from wasting, by repose: + I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, + Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, + Around my fire an evening group to draw, + And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; + And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, + Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, + I still had hopes, my long vexations past, + Here to return--and die at home at last. + --GOLDSMITH. + +Home is the seminary of all other institutions.--CHAPIN. + + +HONESTY.--To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out +of ten thousand.--SHAKESPEARE. + +The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.--H. MARTYN. + +The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as 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.--WIRT. + +Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.--OTWAY. + +"Honesty is the best policy;" but he who acts on that principle is not +an honest man.--WHATELY. + +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.--BOVEE. + +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. +--FRANKLIN. + +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.--WHIPPLE. + +The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. +--LAVATER. + +No man is bound to be rich or great,--no, nor to be wise; but every +man is bound to be honest.--SIR BENJAMIN RUDYARD. + +An honest man's the noblest work of God.--POPE. + +When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find +them so to each other will be much disappointed.--BISHOP HORNE. + +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. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and +good-nature.--MONTAIGNE. + +No legacy is so rich as honesty.--SHAKESPEARE. + +What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be +becoming.--CICERO. + + +HOPE.--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!--LUTHER. + +"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.--CARLYLE. + +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.--BISHOP HORNE. + +A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings +but makes her rejoice in them.--ADDISON. + +Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearing +our prayers to the throne of God.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + + Hope is our life when first our life grows clear, + Hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear: + Yet the day comes when fain we would not hope-- + But forasmuch as we with life must cope, + Struggling with this and that--and who knows why? + Hope will not give us up to certainty, + But still must bide with us. + --WM. MORRIS. + + Hope springs eternal in the human breast, + Man never is, but always to be blest. + --POPE. + +A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, +real poverty.--HUME. + +True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind 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.--VON KNEBEL. + + Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, + Adorns and cheers the way; + And still, as darker grows the night, + Emits a brighter ray. + --GOLDSMITH. + + +HOSPITALITY.--Like many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in its +perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would the +woes of this world be lightened!--MRS. KIRKLAND. + +It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the +guests, which makes the feast.--CLARENDON. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have +entertained angels unawares.--HEBREWS 13:2. + + Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire + To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; + Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, + And every stranger finds a ready chair: + Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, + Where all the ruddy family around + Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, + Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, + Or press the bashful stranger to his food, + And learn the luxury of doing good. + --GOLDSMITH. + + +HUMILITY.--The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not +sufficient.--ST. AUGUSTINE. + +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.--WORTHINGTON. + +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.--THE TALMUD. + +True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep +and firm foundation of all virtues.--BURKE. + +By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life. +--PROVERBS 22:4. + +"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I 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.--C. SUTTON. + +Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.--MATTHEW 5:5. + +Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.--BEECHER. + +Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he +retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I +were."--BOVEE. + +Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, +the farther they are from heaven.--BURDER. + +The grace which makes every other grace amiable.--ALFRED MERCIER. + +If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the 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.--QUARLES. + +The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. +--BISHOP REYNOLDS. + +If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very +low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. +--LEIGHTON. + +After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.--FRANKLIN. + + +HURRY.--No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry 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.--COLTON. + + +HYPOCRISY.--If the world despises hypocrites, what must be the +estimate of them in heaven?--MADAME ROLAND. + +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.--ADDISON. + +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. +--PSALM 55:21. + +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.--CECIL. + +Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.--MATTHEW HENRY. + + To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, + The God of goodness, was an undertaker. + --PETER PINDAR. + +Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at 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.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + +If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest +dupes he has.--COLTON. + + +IDLENESS.--I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.--CHESTERFIELD. + +Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it +assiduously.--HALIBURTON. + +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.--JUDGE HALE. + +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. +--ZIMMERMANN. + +A poor idle man cannot be an honest man.--ACHILLES POINCELOT. + + Absence of occupation is not rest, + A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. + --COWPER. + +Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he 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.--FRANKLIN. + +Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are +generated in a stagnant pool.--FROM THE LATIN. + +An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.--BUNYAN. + +If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few +stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.--BEECHER. + +The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.--HILLARD. + +Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole +employment is to watch its flight.--DR. JOHNSON. + + An idler is a watch that wants both hands, + As useless if it goes as when it stands. + --COWPER. + + +IMMIGRATION.--If you should turn back from this land to Europe 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 aesthetic 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. +--T. DEWITT TALMAGE. + + +IMMORTALITY.--Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. +--CHANNING. + +We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a 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.--LYTTON. + + It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well-- + Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, + This longing after immortality? + Or whence this secret dread and inward horror + Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul + Back on herself, and startles at destruction? + 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; + 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, + And intimates eternity to man. + The stars shall fade away, the sun himself + Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, + But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, + Unhurt amidst the war of elements, + The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. + --ADDISON. + +Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as 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.--SOUTHEY. + +The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the +immortal symphonies which invite me.--VICTOR HUGO. + +All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are +immortal and divine.--SOCRATES. + +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!--BYRON. + + +INDEPENDENCE.--It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him +independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.--COBBETT. + +These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go +together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and +manly self-reliance.--WORDSWORTH. + + Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill; + We may be independent if we will. + --CHURCHILL. + +Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she +never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.--POPE. + + +INDUSTRY.--Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race +to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward. +--E.L. MAGOON. + +Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before +kings.--PROVERBS 22:29. + +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. +--SIR J. REYNOLDS. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + +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. +--CLARENDON. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + +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.--COLTON. + + In every rank, or great or small, + 'Tis industry supports us all. + --GAY. + + +INFIDELITY.--There is but one thing without honor, smitten with +eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,--insincerity, unbelief. +--CARLYLE. + +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.--CHALMERS. + +A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, +observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. +"Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I +know."--HELPS. + +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.--BISHOP HALL. + +No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.--RICHTER. + +Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most 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.--MACAULAY. + +When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, +they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.--SOUTH. + + +INGRATITUDE.--If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty +train of human vices, it is ingratitude.--H. BROOKE. + +Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.--DE BOUFFLERS. + + Blow, blow, thou winter wind, + Thou art not so unkind + As man's ingratitude. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets +his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.--BUNYAN. + +You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, +nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not 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.--SOUTH. + +Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that +clever men have been ungrateful.--GOETHE. + +You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.--PLAUTUS. + +And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful +has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. +--YOUNG. + +Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. +--AUSONIUS. + +Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It +is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.--NAPOLEON. + + How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is + To have a thankless child. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. +--PUBLIUS SYRUS. + + +INNOCENCE.--We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and +Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.--CHAPIN. + + True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; + He's arm'd without that's innocent within. + --HORACE. + +Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not +again, though watered with tears.--HOOPER. + +To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome +our evil inclinations.--WILLIAM PENN. + +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. +--PALEY. + +Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!--CAROLINE OF DENMARK. + +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. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a +mark, but not a stain.--MADAME SWETCHINE. + +There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest +cause.--SOUTHERN. + + +INSPIRATION.--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble +impulse by the name of inspiration?--GEORGE ELIOT. + +The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the +seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.--OVID. + +No man was ever great without divine inspiration.--CICERO. + +A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and +agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. +--GREVILLE. + + +INTELLECT.--If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take +it from him.--FRANKLIN. + +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.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated +family.--REV. THOMAS SCOTT. + +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.--COLTON. + +Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to +live, as well as strong to think.--EMERSON. + +God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given +us, on this side of the grave.--BACON. + +Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is +sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.--CHANNING. + +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. +--EMERSON. + + +INTEMPERANCE.--A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness +and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.--JOHN B. GOUGH. + +Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the +evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a +dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +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.--ATTERBURY. + +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.--PROVERBS 23:29-32. + +O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their +brains!--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--STERNE. + +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.--CHARRON. + +Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. +--WALTER SCOTT. + +Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.--JUNIUS. + +Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls to +bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.--BAXTER. + +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?"--JEFFERSON. + + +JEALOUSY.--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.--BARNES. + +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. +--FIELDING. + +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.--HELPS. + +The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it +converts all it takes into its own nourishment.--ADDISON. + + Trifles light as air + Are to the jealous confirmations strong + As proofs of holy writ. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, +which hath a most vehement flame.--SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6. + + Yet is there one more cursed than they all, + That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, + Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, + Turning all love's delight to misery, + Through fear of losing his felicity. + --SPENSER. + + +JOY.--The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights +upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle +burns the more easily will it light mine.--SOUTH. + +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.--BISHOP PORTEUS. + +Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who +partakes in his griefs.--LAVATER. + +Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is +medicine.--BEECHER. + +Without kindness, there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE. + + Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; + Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; + Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one. + --YOUNG. + + +JUDGMENT.--How are we justly to determine in a world where there are +no innocent ones to judge the guilty?--MADAME DE GENLIS. + +Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?--BYRON. + +One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. +--GOETHE. + +Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but +by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. +--L'ESTRANGE. + +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.--2 COR. 5:10. + +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.--BALLOU. + +The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. +--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got +the least of; and that is judgment.--H.W. SHAW. + +There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the +inexperienced, and the young.--MISS MULOCK. + +The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. +--KOSSUTH. + +Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others +with a judgment of charity.--MASON. + + 'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none + Go just alike, yet each believes his own. + --POPE. + + +JUSTICE.--Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with honor; +and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even to wish +to withhold.--WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND DUTIES. + + Be just and fear not: + Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, + Thy God's, and truth's. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + And heaven that every virtue bears in mind, + E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind. + --POPE. + +He who is only just is cruel.--BYRON. + + The sweet remembrance of the just + Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. + --PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 112:6. + +Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, and +obedience is the premium which we pay for it.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, +represented as blind.--ADDISON. + +At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we 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.--POPE. + +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.--DR. WATTS. + +The books are balanced in heaven, not here.--H.W. SHAW. + + Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd + With those that are not, never change thy mind. + --DENHAM. + +The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. +--ARISTOTLE. + +Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament +which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.--WEBSTER. + + +KINDNESS.--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.--TILLOTSON. + +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. +--SIR H. DAVY. + +Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or +learning.--F.W. FABER. + +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!--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, +perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's +darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions +he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.--HELPS. + + One kindly deed may turn + The fountain of thy soul + To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn + Long as its currents roll. + --HOLMES. + +We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at 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.--BENTHAM. + +There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the +wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.--EMERSON. + + +KISSES.--A kiss from my mother made me a painter.--BENJAMIN WEST. + +It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it +is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.--BOVEE. + +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. +--HALIBURTON. + +Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,--these are +love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.--BOVEE. + +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.--CHARLES BUXTON. + + +KNOWLEDGE.--Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or +we know where we can find information upon it.--BOSWELL. + +If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when +we are old.--CHESTERFIELD. + + In reading authors, when you find + Bright passages, that strike your mind, + And which, perhaps, you may have reason + To think on, at another season, + Be not contented with the sight, + But take them down in black and white; + Such a respect is wisely shown, + As makes another's sense one's own. + --BYRON. + +Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth 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.--WINSLOW. + + Knowledge is + Bought only with a weary care, + And wisdom means a world of pain. + --JOAQUIN MILLER. + +The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a 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.--LEIBNITZ. + +Knowledge is power as well as fame.--RUFUS CHOATE. + +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.--TUPPER. + +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." + +Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give +all that he has to get knowledge.--DR. JOHNSON. + +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.--THOMAS +A KEMPIS. + +If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.--FULLER. + +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.--FELTON. + +Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that +he knows no more.--COWPER. + +All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are +willing to pay the price.--JUVENAL. + +Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace +of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.--BISHOP HALL. + +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.--LADY BLESSINGTON. + +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.--G.W. CURTIS. + + +LABOR.--Labor is one of the great elements of society,--the great +substantial interest on which we all stand.--DANIEL WEBSTER. + +Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation. +--BOVEE. + +Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises the +happiness of the poor.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who +disgrace labor.--U.S. GRANT. + +If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible +substitute for it.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +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. +--BEECHER. + +Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.--HORACE MANN. + +God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. +He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it +in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. +--J.G. HOLLAND. + +Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.--CARLYLE. + +Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for +physic.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.--BOVEE. + + Labor is rest--from the sorrows that greet us; + Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, + Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, + Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. + --FRANCES S. OSGOOD. + + No man is born into the world, whose work + Is not born with him. + --LOWELL. + + Labor! all labor is noble and holy! + Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. + --FRANCES S. OSGOOD. + + +LANGUAGE.--In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver. +--JOUBERT. + +The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its +expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.--BOVEE. + +Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.--MARK HOPKINS. + +Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.--WHIPPLE. + + +LAUGHTER.--Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the +greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.--DR. HUFELAND. + +Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they +think laughable.--GOETHE. + +A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.--LAMB. + +A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without +kindness there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE. + +One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, +while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who +shoots it off.--TALMAGE. + +Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and +self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. +--THACKERAY. + +Man is the only creature endowed with the power of +laughter.--GREVILLE. + + +LEARNING.--Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; +and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have +one.--CHESTERFIELD. + +He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, +with a load of books.--SAADI. + + A little learning is a dangerous thing; + Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: + There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, + And drinking largely sobers us again. + --POPE. + +The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and +studying much.--CATHERALL. + +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.--MILTON. + +Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--YOUNG. + +He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think +that he knows enough.--POWELL. + +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.--LORD BACON. + +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.--STEELE. + +To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.--BISHOP TAYLOR. + +Learning is better worth than house or land.--CRABBE. + + +LIBERALITY.--If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if +rich, by your good deeds.--JOUBERT. + +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.--BACON. + +Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.--LA BRUYERE. + +There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that +withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. +--PROVERBS 11:24. + +Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving +judiciously.--LA BRUYERE. + +The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be +watered also himself.--PROVERBS 11:25. + + +LIBERTY.--The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. +--THOMAS JEFFERSON. + + 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower + Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume; + And we are weeds without it. + --COWPER. + +The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior +to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive +of a good life.--BISHOP BUTLER. + +Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.--BURKE. + +Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.--AUERBACH. + + A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty + Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. + --ADDISON. + +If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire +on the floor.--HILLARD. + +Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. +--ALFRED DE MUSSET. + +The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which 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.--COWLEY. + +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.--CHANNING. + +Liberty, without wisdom, is license.--BURKE. + + +LIFE.--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.--SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. + + Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; + Improve each moment as it flies; + Life's a short summer--man a flower-- + He dies--alas! how soon he dies! + --DR. JOHNSON. + + Life's but a means unto an end, that end, + Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. + --BAILEY. + +In the midst of life we are in death.--CHURCH BURIAL SERVICE. + +Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or +evil, as you make it.--MONTAIGNE. + + Since every man who lives is born to die, + And none can boast sincere felicity, + With equal mind what happens let us bear, + Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. + --DRYDEN. + + Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st + Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. + --MILTON. + +The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason +of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and +sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.--PSALM 90:10. + +A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.--GEORGE HERBERT. + +Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or +registering wrongs.--CHARLOTTE BRONTE. + +That man lives twice that lives the first life well.--HERRICK. + +He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and +he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.--JAMES MARTINEAU. + + Life is probation: mortal man was made + To solve the solemn problem--right or wrong. + --JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. + +Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too +long.--LADY RACHEL RUSSELL. + + Our life contains a thousand springs, + And dies if one be gone; + Strange that a harp of thousand strings + Should keep in tune so long. + --DR. WATTS. + +And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.--WILLIAM PENN. + + We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths; + In feelings, not in figures on a dial. + We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, + Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. + --BAILEY. + + This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth + The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, + And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: + The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; + And,--when he thinks, good easy man, full surely + His greatness is a ripening,--nips his root, + And then he falls. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, +will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all +things.--SOCRATES. + +For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon +earth are a shadow.--JOB 8:9. + +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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.--DR. JOHNSON. + + I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; + I woke and found that life was duty. + --ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER. + +The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.--WILLIAM +PENN. + +Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the +length of eternity.--BISHOP KEN. + + +LIGHT.--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.--CAUSSIN. + +Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.--MILTON. + +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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +I am the light of the world.--JOHN 9:5. + +No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as +the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle +says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under +the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language +of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great +light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light +is sprung up."--BASELEY. + +The light in the world comes principally from two sources,--the sun, +and the student's lamp.--BOVEE. + + +LOVE.--Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens +and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim to +every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and +courageous.--MISS JEWSBURY. + +We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.--ROWLAND HILL. + +It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less +difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the +listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, +attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric +telegraph of touch,--all these betray the yielding citadel before the +word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every +avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.--LONGFELLOW. + +Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much +as the two sides of an algebraic equation.--EMERSON. + +If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and +repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--N.P. WILLIS. + +The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl +it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each +assumes the qualities of the other.--VICTOR HUGO. + +The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and +the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, +when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; +there must be difficulty and danger.--WALTER SCOTT. + +Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like +danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; +it intoxicates like wine.--A.B. EDWARDS. + + Let those love now who never loved before, + Let those that always loved now love the more. + --PARNELL. + + Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, + And men below, and saints above; + For love is heaven, and heaven is love. + --SCOTT. + +If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest +thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is +begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is +nourished.--QUARLES. + +Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life. +--JERROLD. + +Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can +the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his +house for love, it would utterly be contemned.--SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7. + +Love is the fulfilling of the law.--ROMANS 13:10. + +Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric +of words.--BOVEE. + +A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because +love is more the study and business of her life.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +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?--HARE. + +It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. +--HAZLITT. + + Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing, + Who nothing feels but for himself alone. + --YOUNG. + + Love why do we one passion call, + When 'tis a compound of them all? + Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, + In all their equipages meet; + Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, + Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. + --SWIFT. + +Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous +love.--HENRY HOME. + + Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, + Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. + --POPE. + + But there's nothing half so sweet in life + As love's young dream. + --MOORE. + + They do not love, that do not show their love. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and +raiment.--LONGFELLOW. + +That you may be beloved, be amiable.--OVID. + +All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, +jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.--TERENCE. + +Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and 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.--LA BRUYERE. + + Love is a child that talks in broken language, + Yet then he speaks most plain. + --DRYDEN. + +Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is +short-lived.--ERASMUS. + +No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do +with only a single thread.--BURTON. + +It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could +not recognize him to be the same person.--TERENCE. + +Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. +--ABEL STEVENS. + +If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the +world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could +by any possibility marry.--HOLMES. + + True love is humble, thereby is it known; + Girded for service, seeking not its own; + Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. + --ABRAHAM COLES. + +Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.--BEECHER. + + +MAN.--Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of +the man.--1 COR. 11:7. + +Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, +discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, +and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?--SHAKESPEARE. + +A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he +inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined +him.--GOETHE. + +Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. +--TENNYSON. + +It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. +He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his +creditors, or to society in some form or other.--G.A. SALA. + +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.--HENRY GILES. + + How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, + How complicate, how wonderful, is man! + --YOUNG. + +He is the whole encyclopaedia 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.--EMERSON. + +Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.--BURKE. + +Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one +dog does not change a bone with another.--ADAM SMITH. + + Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; + The proper study of mankind is man. + --POPE. + + His life was gentle; and the elements + So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up + And say to all the world, "This was a man!" + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble. +--JOB 14:1. + +Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is +one rascal less in the world.--CARLYLE. + +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.--EMERSON. + +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!--SHAKESPEARE. + +There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, +and the progressive.--LAVATER. + +Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL. + + +MANNERS.--Evil communications corrupt good manners.--1 COR. 15:33. + +The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses +with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, +love measure.--EMERSON. + +Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we +converse.--SWIFT. + +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.--CHESTERFIELD. + +A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. +--LA BRUYERE. + +There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful +benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.--LYTTON. + +In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as +want of manners.--LAVATER. + +Good manners are a part of good morals.--WHATLEY. + +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.--SWIFT. + +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.--LAVATER. + +Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke 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.--EMERSON. + +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.--BURKE. + +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.--CHESTERFIELD. + +To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of +virtue.--HANNAH MORE. + +A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's +ill manners.--CHESTERFIELD. + +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.--LYTTON. + + +MARRIAGE.--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!--SHERIDAN KNOWLES. + +I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would +wear well.--GOLDSMITH. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +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.--SOUTHEY. + +It is not good that the man should be alone.--GENESIS 2:18. + +The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always +laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of +provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of +humor.--STEELE. + +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. +--TUPPER. + +An obedient wife commands her husband.--TENNYSON. + +No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. +--RICHTER. + +Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with 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.--ADDISON. + +Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.--AARON HILL. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest +a friend.--RABBI BEN AZAI. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + + Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, + We who improve his golden hours, + By sweet experience know, + That marriage, rightly understood, + Gives to the tender and the good + A paradise below. + --COTTON. + +As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead +of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +God the best maker of all marriages.--SHAKESPEARE. + +A light wife doth make a heavy husband. + +The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a 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:-- + +1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the +cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness. + +2. Never both be angry at once. + +3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company. + +4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire. + +5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. + +6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. + +7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has +been committed, and always speak lovingly. + +8. Never taunt with a past mistake. + +9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another. + +10. Never allow a request to be repeated. + +11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,--it is a +meanness. + +12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during +absence. + +13. Never meet without a loving welcome. + +14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. + +15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have +frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness. + +16. Never forget the happy hours of early love. + +17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what +is. + +18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His +blessing alone can make it what it should ever be. + +19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the +narrow way. + +20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home. +--COTTAGER AND ARTISAN. + +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.--LORD ROCHESTER. + + Let us no more contend, nor blame + Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive + In offices of love, how we may lighten + Each other's burden, in our share of woe. + --MILTON. + + The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life + Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. + --WILLIS. + +A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of +paradise.--GOETHE. + +Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.--ANDREW +JACKSON. + +If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.--MICHELET. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live +till I were married.--SHAKESPEARE. + +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.--FULLER. + +Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife.--SIMONIDES. + +Take the daughter of a good mother.--FULLER. + +Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop 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.--FULLER. + +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.--MASSILLON. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.--DR. JOHNSON. + + +MEDITATION.--Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in +her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. +--FELTHAM. + +Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; +honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, +that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. +--QUARLES. + + +MELANCHOLY.--I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts 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.--SYDNEY SMITH. + +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.--BOVEE. + +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.--FENELON. + + +MERCY.--Let us be merciful as well as just.--LONGFELLOW. + + Consider this,-- + That, in the course of justice, none of us + Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; + And that same prayer doth teach us all to render + The deeds of mercy. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines +with even more brilliancy than justice.--CERVANTES. + +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.--BISHOP REYNOLDS. + + It is enthroned in the heart of kings, + It is an attribute to God himself; + And earthly power doth then show likest God's + When mercy seasons justice. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is 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. +--HOSEA BALLOU. + + The quality of mercy is not strain'd; + It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven + Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; + It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; + 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes + The throned monarch better than his crown. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. +It is therefore my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished +by it.--WASHINGTON. + + Teach me to feel another's woe, + To hide the fault I see; + That mercy I to others show, + That mercy show to me. + --POPE. + +Underneath the wings of the seraphim are stretched the arms of the +divine mercy, ever ready to receive sinners.--THE TALMUD. + +Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.--SHAKESPEARE. + + +MERIT.--There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation +without some merit.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--ROBERT HALL. + +On their own merits modest men are dumb.--GEORGE COLMAN. + +The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins +esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.--LA BRUYERE. + +The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it +constrained to praise.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + +METHOD.--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."--SAMUEL SMILES. + + +MIND.--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.--ELIHU BURRITT. + +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.--POPE. + +It is the mind that makes the body rich.--SHAKESPEARE. + +A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but +cannot receive great ones.--CHESTERFIELD. + + Were I so tall to reach the pole, + Or grasp the ocean with my span, + I must be measur'd by my soul: + The mind's the standard of the man. + --DR. WATTS. + + The mind is its own place, and in itself + Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. + --MILTON. + +The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, +that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of +giving wholesome employment to others. + + He that has treasures of his own + May leave the cottage or the throne, + May quit the globe, and dwell alone + Within his spacious mind. + --DR. WATTS. + +The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows +corrupt.--ROUSSEAU. + +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.--SCHILLER. + +Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.--BOVEE. + +As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of +intelligence must direct the man of labor.--DR. JOHNSON. + +As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without +culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good +fruit.--SENECA. + +Few minds wear out; more rust out.--BOVEE. + +There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, +the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The +more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. +--T. EDWARDS. + +Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is +beyond their range.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven.--YOUNG. + + It is the mind that maketh good or ill, + That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. + --SPENSER. + +He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who 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.--COLTON. + +A good mind possesses a kingdom. + + +MIRTH.--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.--FULLER. + +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.--BEECHER. + + Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; + And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out. + --PETER PINDAR. + +There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I 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?--HALIBURTON. + +I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one +another next morning.--IZAAK WALTON. + +Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, +moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured 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.--BEECHER. + + +MISFORTUNE.--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.--F.A. DURIVAGE. + + A soul exasperated in ills, falls out + With everything, its friend, itself. + --ADDISON. + +We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of +others.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--SATAKA. + + Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew + Himself, or his own virtue. + --MALLET. + +Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds +rise above it.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +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.--FROM +THE FRENCH. + + When one is past, another care we have; + Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. + --HERRICK. + +The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. +--BIAS. + +I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great +misfortunes than to do great things.--STANISLAUS. + +Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure. +--ALCOTT. + +The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. +--ORVILLE DEWEY. + +It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes 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.--ADDISON. + +We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended +others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. +--MELMOTH. + +Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our +friends upon them.--COLTON. + + +MOB.--The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.--GOETHE. + +The mob have neither judgment nor principle,--ready to bawl at night +for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.--TACITUS. + +The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.--DRYDEN. + +The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it +will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you +lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.--JANE PORTER. + + Inconstant, blind, + Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; + Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired + Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, + Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand. + --THOMSON. + +Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout +this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would +be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.--HORACE MANN. + + +MODERATION.--Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in +bankruptcy.--GOETHE. + +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.--THOMAS PAINE. + +The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our +guardian angel quits his charge of us.--FELTHAM. + +Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all +virtues.--BISHOP HALL. + +The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his +conduct.--CONFUCIUS. + +Moderation resembles temperance. We are not unwilling to eat more, but +are afraid of doing ourselves harm.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +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.--PASCAL. + + +MODESTY.--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.--STEELE. + +Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler +virtues.--GOLDSMITH. + +True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty +everything that is unfashionable.--ADDISON. + +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.--BAXTER. + +Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.--SENECA. + +Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated. +--STEELE. + +A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, 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. +--ADDISON. + +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.--ADDISON. + +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.--EMERSON. + +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.--MIRANDA OF PIEDMONT. + + +MONEY.--The love of money is the root of all evil.--1 TIMOTHY 6:10. + +But for money and the need of it, there would not be half 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.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + +Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.--WESLEY. + +What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How +tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, +good-natured old creature we find her!--THACKERAY. + +Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in 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."--FRANKLIN. + +A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.--SWIFT. + +We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that 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.--BARTOL. + +Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.--BOUHOURS. + +By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God +upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. +--RUTLEDGE. + +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.--COLTON. + +The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark +of the covenant.--CARLYLE. + + +MORALITY.--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? +--COLTON. + +To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to +no other book than the New Testament.--LOCKE. + +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.--WASHINGTON. + +Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from +defect in intellect.--HORACE MANN. + +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. +--ENFIELD. + +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.--FROUDE. + +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. +--LONGFELLOW. + +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.--ENFIELD. + +All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is +everywhere the same, because it comes from God.--VOLTAIRE. + + +MOTHER.--The mother in her office holds the key of the soul.--OLD PLAY. + + There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- + A youthful mother to her infant smiling, + Who with spread arms and dancing feet, + A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. + --BAILLIE. + +"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in 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."--ABBOTT. + + A mother is a mother still, + The holiest thing alive. + --COLERIDGE. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a +mother's love!--MARCHIONESS DE SPADARA. + +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.--DICKENS. + +Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other +mothers venerable.--RICHTER. + +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.--LAMENNAIS. + +One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.--GEORGE HERBERT. + +"An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of +clergy."--T.W. HIGGINSON. + + Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; + A mother's secret hope outlives them all. + --HOLMES. + +A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; 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.--BOVEE. + +All that I am, my mother made me.--J.Q. ADAMS. + + +MOURNING.--He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.--YOUNG. + +Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun +will shine to-morrow.--RICHTER. + +Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to +the living, and the dead know it not.--XENOPHON. + +The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who +belong to them.--BURKE. + + No longer mourn for me when I am dead, + Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell + Give warning to the world that I am fled. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + +MUSIC.--Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad +measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by +exultant strains.--HENRY GILES. + +Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.--CHARLES G. LELAND. + +Music is the fourth great material want of our natures,--first food, +then raiment, then shelter, then music.--BOVEE. + + When griping grief the heart doth wound, + And doleful dumps the mind oppress, + Then music, with her silver sound, + With speedy help doth lend redress. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign +of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities +of heaven itself.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +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.--EMERSON. + + Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, + To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. + --CONGREVE. + + There's music in the sighing of a reed; + There's music in the gushing of a rill; + There's music in all things, if men had ears. + --BYRON. + + The man that hath no music in himself, + Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, + Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + O, pleasant is the welcome kiss + When day's dull round is o'er; + And sweet the music of the step + That meets us at the door. + --J.R. DRAKE. + + Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, + Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, + Are half so sweet as tender human words. + --BARRY CORNWALL. + + Is there a heart that music cannot melt? + Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. + --BEATTIE. + +Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a +realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.--HENRY WARD +BEECHER. + +Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she +makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. +--LUTHER. + +Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be +no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, +peace-breathing music.--ELIHU BURRITT. + +Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front +rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his +devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.--TUCKERMAN. + +Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from +the eyes of woman.--BEETHOVEN. + +Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.--CHATEAUBRIAND. + +Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. +--HORACE WALPOLE. + +Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we +see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts +into verse, rhyme, and song.--LUTHER. + + +NATURE.--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.--WHIPPLE. + +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.--ROUSSEAU. + +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.--WILLIAM PENN. + +O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all: +the earth is full of Thy riches.--PSALM 104:24. + +The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy 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.--LONGFELLOW. + +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.--T. EDWARDS. + + Nature never did betray + The heart that loved her. + --WORDSWORTH. + +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.--LOCKE. + + All are but parts of one stupendous whole, + Whose body nature is, and God the soul. + --POPE. + +It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art +and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, +either for beauty or value.--HUME. + + Read nature; nature is a friend to truth; + Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind; + And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. + --YOUNG. + +Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the +child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming +nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest +home.--T.W. HIGGINSON. + +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.--HOLMES. + + Nature ever faithful is + To such as trust her faithfulness. + --EMERSON. + +What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not 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! +--BEECHER. + +Nature is God's Old Testament.--THEODORE PARKER. + + To him who in the love of nature holds + Communion with her visible forms, she speaks + A various language; for his gayer hours + She has a voice of gladness, and a smile + And eloquence of beauty, and she glides + Into his darker musings, with a mild + And healing sympathy, that steals away + Their sharpness, ere he is aware. + --BRYANT. + +Nature and wisdom never are at strife.--JUVENAL. + +Those who devote themselves to the peaceful study of nature have 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.--CUVIER. + +"Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, +yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a 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.--DR. CHALMERS. + + Who loves not the shady trees, + The smell of flowers, the sound of brooks, + The song of birds, and the hum of bees, + Murmuring in green and fragrant nooks, + The voice of children in the spring, + Along the field-paths wandering? + --T. MILLAR. + +You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find +in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never +learn from masters.--ST. BERNARD. + + +NOBILITY.--He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own +resources, is a noble but a rare being.--SIR E. BRYDGES. + +If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of +nobility.--PLATO. + +A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the +pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.--JAMES +A. GARFIELD. + +Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never +made one yet.--H.W. SHAW. + + Be noble! and the nobleness that lives + In other men, sleeping, but never dead, + Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. + --LOWELL. + + Howe'er it be, it seems to me, + 'Tis only noble to be good. + --TENNYSON. + + +OBEDIENCE.--The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of +Christianity is obedience.--HARE. + +To obey is better than sacrifice.--1 SAMUEL 15:22. + +Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be 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."--BURKITT. + +Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is +dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.--SAADI. + +He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of +thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life.--BURKITT. + +No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a +true obedience.--HENRY GILES. + + "His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, + Unless He does in our affections reign. + How fond it were to wish for such a King, + And no obedience to his sceptre bring, + Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; + His service freedom, and His judgments right. + --WALLER. + +Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an +element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the +whole.--GEORGE SEWELL. + +The virtue of Christianity is obedience.--J.C. HARE. + +Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable +to God than every other sacrifice.--METASTASIO. + + +OBSTINACY.--Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the +wrong.--MADAME NECKER. + +People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper +they are in error the more angry they are.--BLAIR. + +An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.--POPE. + +Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their +suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first +wound is mortal.--THOMAS PAINE. + +Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily +believe beyond what we see.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of +stupidity.--BARTON. + + +OCCUPATION.--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.--DR. HORNE. + +Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to +human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of +misery.--BURTON. + +Occupation alone is happiness.--DR. JOHNSON. + +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." +--SAMUEL SMILES. + +The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the +regular discharge of some mechanical duty.--SCHILLER. + +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.--EMERSON. + +Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other +blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.--CARLYLE. + +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.--MISS MULOCK. + + +OPINION.--Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed +with greater.--H.W. SHAW. + +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.--HORACE +MANN. + +He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and +taste of others, is a slave.--KLOPSTOCK. + +To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is +true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.--VENNING. + +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.--JOUBERT. + +No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for +having changed his opinion.--CICERO. + +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.--ARTHUR WARWICK. + +It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard +the world's opinion of himself.--CICERO. + +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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.--LOWELL. + +Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally +has a strong underlying sense of justice.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN. + + +OPPORTUNITY.--Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go +by him.--BAYARD TAYLOR. + +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.--REV. T. JONES. + +Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to +use ordinary situations.--RICHTER. + +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.--CHAPIN. + + There is a tide in the affairs of men, + Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; + Omitted, all the voyage of their life + Is bound in shallows, and in miseries: + And we must take the current when it serves, + Or lose our ventures. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and +that of doing good once a year.--VOLTAIRE. + +There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, +if then he seize it.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. + +There is no man whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when +she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door +and flies out at the window.--CARDINAL IMPERIALI. + +Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily +occurrence.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. + +Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has +had his chance already, and neglected it.--HALIBURTON. + +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.--COLTON. + +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.--SENECA. + + +OPPOSITION.--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. +--EMERSON. + +He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our +skill. Our antagonist is our helper.--BURKE. + +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.--JOHN NEAL. + +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.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to +oppose and separate them.--GOETHE. + + +ORDER.--Order is heaven's first law.--POPE. + +Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is +to matter.--JOUBERT. + +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.--SOUTHEY. + + The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, + Observe degree, priority, and place, + Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, + Office, and custom, in all line of order. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are +negligent of order.--BLAIR. + +Let all things be done decently and in order.--1 CORINTHIANS 14:40. + + +PARADISE.--Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the +angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.--LONGFELLOW. + +Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. +--BARTOL. + + +PARENTS.--The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: "If you would +be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform +will be imputed to you."--MONTESQUIEU. + +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.--ADDISON. + +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."--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +Next to God, thy parents.--WILLIAM PENN. + + Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed, + Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. + --RANDOLPH. + +How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is +like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has +planted.--SCOT'S MAGAZINE. + + With joy the parent loves to trace + Resemblance in his children's face: + And, as he forms their docile youth + To walk the steady paths of truth, + Observes them shooting into men, + And lives in them life o'er again. + --LLOYD. + +Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the +land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.--EXODUS 20:12. + + +PASSION.--The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only +that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.--DR. WATTS. + +Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and +conquered without being killed.--COLTON. + + The ruling passion, be it what it will, + The ruling passion conquers reason still. + --POPE. + +Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of +employing their passions in the service of their lives.--STEELE. + +The art of governing the passions is more useful, and more important, +than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. +Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will +give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be +neither happy, nor wise, nor good.--JORTIN. + +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.--FULLER. + +In the human breast two master-passions cannot coexist.--CAMPBELL. + +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.--FROM THE FRENCH. + +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.--MRS. JAMESON. + +Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. +--CONFUCIUS. + +Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best +government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the +meaner.--JACOBI. + +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. +--JOUBERT. + +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.--HELPS. + +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.--BOYLE. + +Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle.--REV. THOMAS ADAM. + +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.--SOUTHERN. + +A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no +impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.--BOVEE. + +Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.--SOUTH. + + Exalted souls + Have passions in proportion violent, + Resistless, and tormenting; they're a tax + Imposed by nature on pre-eminence, + And fortitude and wisdom must support them. + --LILLO. + + One master-passion in the breast, + Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. + --POPE. + + Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, + Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; + Make us the madness of their will obey; + Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey! + --CRABBE. + +A great passion has no partner.--LAVATER. + +When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is +the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.--THOMAS PAINE. + +He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, +dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.--LAVATER. + +The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous +only in one, through their excess.--BOVEE. + +It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords +happiness.--MME. DE MAINTENON. + + +PAST.--The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.--WILLIAM +WINTER. + +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.--CHATFIELD. + +No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. +--BYRON. + +The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.--TRENCH. + +Study the past if you would divine the future.--CONFUCIUS. + +The best of prophets of the future is the past.--BYRON. + +Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is 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!--C. BINGHAM. + +Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients +that they know not how to live with the moderns.--WILLIAM PENN. + +The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; +the future, the virgin's.--RICHTER. + + +PATIENCE.--He that can have patience can have what he will.--FRANKLIN. + +Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it 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. +--DECKER. + +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.--ADDISON. + +If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; +time takes away as much as it gives.--MADAME DE SEVIGNE. + +Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; +hold out. Patience is genius.--BUFFON. + +There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a +virtue.--BURKE. + +We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait +for.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH. + +No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either +the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age.--RICHTER. + +We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according 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.--CHANNING. + +He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.--C.A. BARTOL. + +Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, 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.--BISHOP HORNE. + +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.--BISHOP HOPKINS. + +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.--LA BRUYERE. + +Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of +strength.--COLTON. + +If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are +fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health.--FULLER. + +Patience is sorrow's salve.--CHURCHILL. + + +PATRIOTISM.--He serves his party best, who serves the country best. +--RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. + +This is a maxim which I have received by hereditary tradition, 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.--DE THOU. + + Be just, and fear not; + Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's, + Thy God's, and Truth's. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, + His first, best country ever is at home. + --GOLDSMITH. + +I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and +profound, than my own life.--SHAKESPEARE. + + Hail, Columbia! happy land! + Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band! + Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, + Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, + And when the storm of war was gone, + Enjoyed the peace your valor won. + Let Independence be our boast, + Ever mindful what it cost; + Ever grateful for the prize, + Let its altar reach the skies! + --JOSEPH HOPKINSON. + + Strike--for your altars and your fires; + Strike--for the green graves of your sires; + God, and your native land! + --FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. + + One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, + One nation evermore! + --HOLMES. + +If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the +spot.--JOHN A. DIX. + +The noblest motive is the public good.--VIRGIL. + + The union of lakes, the union of lands, + The union of States none can sever, + The union of hearts, the union of hands, + And the flag of our Union forever! + --GEORGE P. MORRIS. + +I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. +--DANIEL WEBSTER. + +Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, 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.--ROBERT C. WINTHROP. + + Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, + Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, + Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, + Are all with thee,--are all with thee! + --LONGFELLOW. + +I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never 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.--ABRAHAM +LINCOLN. + +How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!--VOLTAIRE. + +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.--DANIEL WEBSTER. + + +PEACE.--Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the +children of God.--MATTHEW 5:9. + +I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between +myself and God.--GEORGE ELIOT. + +Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, +anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly +enjoy perpetual peace.--PETRARCH. + +There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to +meet the enemy.--WASHINGTON. + +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.--ISAIAH 2:4. + +I never advocated war except as a means of peace.--U.S. GRANT. + +There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too 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.--CHAPIN. + +Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be +spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.--ANDREW JACKSON. + + +PERSEVERANCE.--The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the +pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the +strong.--CARLYLE. + +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.--CHARLES JAMES FOX. + +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.--SIR T.F. BUXTON. + +Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen +pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.--BAYARD +TAYLOR. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more +than talents and accomplishments.--WHIPPLE. + +A falling drop at last will carve a stone.--LUCRETIUS. + + Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; + Nothing so hard but search will find it out. + --LOVELACE. + +It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create +themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their +solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. +--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +Press on! a better fate awaits thee.--VICTOR HUGO. + + +PHILOSOPHY.--True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, +and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more +content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and +pure enjoyment.--LAVATER. + +Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than +learned men.--W.B. CLULOW. + +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.--BACON. + +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. +--SENECA. + +A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in +philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.--BACON. + +Whence? whither? why? how?--these questions cover all philosophy. +--JOUBERT. + + +PHYSIOGNOMY.--Children are marvelously and intuitively correct +physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.--BARTOL. + +As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; +no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds +a great deal in a little room.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +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.--F.G. TRAFFORD. + +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.--BOVEE. + +People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. +--JEREMY COLLIER. + + +PIETY.--True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing +constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. +--FENELON. + +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. +--CHAPIN. + +Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, +and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.--CARLYLE. + +Piety raises and fortifies the mind for trying occasions and 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.--TON. + +It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, +to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation 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.--DWIGHT. + +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.--BEECHER. + +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.--BISHOP WILSON. + + +PITY.--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.--GOLDSMITH. + +We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. +--ROUSSEAU. + +No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.--SHAKESPEARE. + +Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, 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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the +peace of God is there.--WHITTIER. + +The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, +there would have been less kindness.--THACKERAY. + +Pity melts the mind to love.--DRYDEN. + + +PLEASURE.--Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness 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.--SOUTHEY. + +Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to +such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.--SENECA. + +The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of +all.--HAWTHORNE. + +He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches +sublimity.--LAVATER. + +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.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.--FULLER. + +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.--MADAME DE +LAMBERT. + +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.--EPICTETUS. + +The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the +harvest is reaped in age by pain.--COLTON. + + Pleasure's the only noble end + To which all human powers should tend; + And virtue gives her heavenly lore, + But to make pleasure please us more! + Wisdom and she were both design'd + To make the senses more refined, + That man might revel free from cloying, + Then most a sage, when most enjoying! + --MOORE. + + Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, + Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. + --POPE. + +People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures 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.--CHANNING. + +Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are +increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened +by enjoyment.--COLTON. + +I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are +to myself.--MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. + +We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. +--J. PETIT-SENN. + +Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet +and tranquillity of thy life.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + + +POETRY.--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.--EPES SARGENT. + + Then, rising with aurora's light, + The muse invoked, sit down to write; + Blot out, correct, insert, refine, + Enlarge, diminish, interline; + Be mindful, when invention fails, + To scratch your head and bite your nails. + --SWIFT. + +It is uninspired inspiration.--HENRY REED. + +Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human +thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.--COLERIDGE. + + Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, + Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares, + The poets, who on earth have made us heirs + Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays! + --WORDSWORTH. + +Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language. +--CHATFIELD. + +He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is +a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his +entire lifetime.--MADAME DUDEVANT. + +Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high +thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.--MAZZINI. + +Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest +and best minds.--SHELLEY. + +Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would +suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. +--ABRAHAM COLES. + +Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one +language into another it will evaporate.--DENHAM. + +Poetry is the child of enthusiasm.--SIGMA. + +The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them +on the side of virtue.--COWPER. + +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.--S.T. COLERIDGE. + +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.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great +poet, must first become a little child.--MACAULAY. + +Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling +souls.--VOLTAIRE. + +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.--HARE. + +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.--PERCIVAL. + +You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.--JOUBERT. + +Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its +divine origin.--BEECHER. + +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.--CERVANTES. + + +POLITENESS.--True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply +consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. +--CHESTERFIELD. + +Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may +affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural +politeness.--STANISLAUS. + +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.--JAY. + +Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.--JOUBERT. + +Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. +--ALPHONSE KARR. + +There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best +thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the +want of it.--LYTTON. + +There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none +more profitable.--H.W. SHAW. + +Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. +--BARTOL. + +True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in 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.--BEECHER. + +Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of +mind.--JULIA WARD HOWE. + +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.--MONRO. + +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?--CHATHAM. + +As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness +before men.--GREVILLE. + +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.--GOLDSMITH. + +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.--CECIL. + +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.--FIELDING. + + +POPULARITY.--Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN. + +Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!--LUKE 6:26. + +Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and +lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, +but weigh them.--KANT. + +Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary +men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.--LORD +GREVILLE. + + +POVERTY.--Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few +would be poor.--DR. JOHNSON. + +In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His +responsibility to God is so much the less.--BOVEE. + +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.--HORACE +GREELEY. + +Poverty is the only burden which is not lightened by being shared with +others.--RICHTER. + +We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not +that the world treats it so much as a crime.--BOVEE. + +Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. +--HAZLITT. + +There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between 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.--SHERLOCK. + + Want is a bitter and a hateful good, + Because its virtues are not understood; + Yet many things, impossible to thought, + Have been by need to full perfection brought. + The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, + Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; + Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; + And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. + --DRYDEN. + +Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the 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.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +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.--PALEY. + +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.--CHANNING. + +Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones +there are to assist in supporting it.--RICHTER. + + +POWER.--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.--COLTON. + +The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.--BACON. + +Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. +--NAPOLEON. + +The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel +them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the +governed.--PUBLIUS SYRUS. + +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.--PLUTARCH. + + +PRAISE.--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.--BOVEE. + +Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and +not thine own lips.--PROVERBS 27:2. + + For if good were not praised more than ill, + None would chuse goodness of his own free will. + --SPENSER. + +Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it +makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak +brain giddy.--FELTHAM. + +Solid pudding against empty praise.--POPE. + +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.--SPRAT. + +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.--BURKITT. + +As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to +praise."--WENDELL PHILLIPS. + +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.--LOWELL. + +Good things should be praised.--SHAKESPEARE. + +He hurts me most who lavishly commends.--CHURCHILL. + + The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, + Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. + --YOUNG. + +Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. +It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise +expectation or animate enterprise.--DR. JOHNSON. + +It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is +himself deserving of praise.--FROM THE LATIN. + +He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what +you have.--MANUEL. + +Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than +when thou speakest in presence.--FULLER. + +Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. +--PLUTARCH. + +What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he +condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.--HARE. + +Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. +--STEELE. + +Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.--PSALM 150:6. + +Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which +distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of +sycophants and admiration of fools.--STEELE. + + +PRAYER.--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. +--SENECA. + +Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. +Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. +--SPURGEON. + +When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well 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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +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.--COWPER. + +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.--ARCHBISHOP USHER. + +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.--CHAPIN. + +So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the +exercise of prayer.--HOOKER. + +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. +--FULLER. + +Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and +evening; let our days begin and end with God.--CHANNING. + + Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, + Uttered or unexpressed, + The motion of a hidden fire + That trembles in the breast. + --MONTGOMERY. + +If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner +to pray!--ST. CYPRIAN. + +No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.--EMERSON. + + He prayeth best who loveth best + All things both great and small. + --COLERIDGE. + + More things are wrought by prayer + Than this world dreams of. + --TENNYSON. + +It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply 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.--ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER. + +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.--T. SCOTT. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +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.--MATTHEW 6:6. + +Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe. + + Holy beginning of a holy cause, + When heroes, girt for freedom's combat, pause + Before high Heaven, and, humble in their might, + Call down its blessing on that coming fight. + --MOORE. + +It is so natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from +doing it.--JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. + +The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. +--WELLINGTON. + +It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. +--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the +Lord's Prayer.--MADAME DE STAEL. + +In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words +without a heart.--BUNYAN. + +Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there +are no barriers. The only password is prayer.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the +one ascends, the other descends.--BISHOP HOPKINS. + +Prayer is the voice of faith.--HORNE. + +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.--COLTON. + + +PREACHING.--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.--BURNET. + +Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing +than loathing.--NATHANIEL EMMONS. + +A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without +taking the life.--FENELON. + +We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but +by the men they make.--JOSEPH COOK. + +The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean +when in it.--CECIL. + + I preached as never sure to preach again, + And as a dying man to dying men. + --BAXTER. + +Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; 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.--LUTHER. + +It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be +put into a sermon as what is.--CECIL. + +To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, +sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the +same key.--J. PETIT-SENN. + +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.--EMERSON. + +I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with +long and tedious preaching.--LUTHER. + +I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; +who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves to +be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts +only to promote truth and virtue.--MASSILLON. + + +PRECEPT.--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.--SENECA. + +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.--SENECA. + +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.--SENECA. + +Precept must be upon precept.--ISAIAH 28:10. + + +PREJUDICE.--Prejudice is the child of ignorance.--HAZLITT. + +As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, +so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise +and hate.--FREDERICK DOUGLASS. + +Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.--DUCHESS +D'ABRANTES. + +Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the +affairs of other men than in their own.--TERENCE. + +To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the +present, as blind as he who cannot.--SOUTH. + +The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the +prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second +willfully preferred.--BANCROFT. + +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.--BUTLER. + +Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.--G.D. PRENTICE. + +Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.--KANE +O'HARA. + +Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of +the world and ignorance of mankind.--ADDISON. + +How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.--MADAME NECKER. + + +PRESENT.--Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of +to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet +assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.--HORACE. + +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.--QUARLES. + +He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.--SCHILLER. + +Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of 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.--HORACE. + +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.--T.C. UPHAM. + +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.--COLTON. + +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.--FULLER. + +Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how +to manage when the occasion arrives.--CORNEILLE. + +We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no +moment like the present.--MISS EDGEWORTH. + +Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. +It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and +to-morrow we may never see.--VICTOR HUGO. + +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.--MANCROIX. + +One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, +decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day +in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that +every day is Doomsday.--EMERSON. + +What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by +which the future is shaped and colored.--WHITTIER. + + +PRESS.--In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, +like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, +go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent 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.--CHAPIN. + +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.--JUNIUS. + +The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for +all freedom without this must be merely nominal.--CHATFIELD. + +The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. +From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, +the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the +world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than +the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe.--WHIPPLE. + + +PRETENSION.--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.--WHATELY. + +Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never +pretends.--LAVATER. + +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.--SPURGEON. + +True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions +fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.--CICERO. + +It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, +or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but +extremely troublesome and vexatious.--PLUTARCH. + +He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of +impotence.--LAVATER. + +The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. +--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. +--LAVATER. + + +PRIDE.--Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary 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. +--CLARENDON. + + +Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.--LOWELL. + + Of all the causes that conspire to blind + Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, + What the weak head with strongest bias rules, + Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. + --POPE. + +It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our +neighbors.--CLARENDON. + +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. +--ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. + +Some people are proud of their humility.--BEECHER. + +Pride requires very costly food--its keeper's happiness.--COLTON. + + Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, + Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. + --ROSCOMMON. + +If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action +done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the +bottom of it.--STERNE. + +There is this paradox in pride,--it makes some men ridiculous, but +prevents others from becoming so.--COLTON. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + +Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached +a place from which they fell!--JOAQUIN MILLER. + +Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with +infamy.--FRANKLIN. + +Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. +--PROVERBS 16:18. + +If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the +proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. +--LEGOUVE. + +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.--BEECHER. + +When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very +closely.--LOUIS XI. + +How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest +fruit of religion.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, +fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only 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. +--LYTTON. + +Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in +others, and to overlook in himself.--DR. JOHNSON. + +An avenging God closely follows the haughty.--SENECA. + +Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so +does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride +takes her glory from man.--QUARLES. + +The proud man is forsaken of God.--PLATO. + + +PROCRASTINATION.--Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's +nurse for man's perdition.--REV. DR. CHEEVER. + +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.--TILLOTSON. + +By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." +--CERVANTES. + +By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till +there's no more future left for them.--L'ESTRANGE. + +Procrastination is the thief of time.--YOUNG. + +For Yesterday was once To-morrow.--PERSIUS. + +Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.--FRANKLIN. + +Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that +because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.--CHARLES +BUXTON. + + +PROGRESS.--He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, +whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into +living peace.--RUSKIN. + +"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.--FEUERBACH. + +Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; +and lend a hand.--E.E. HALE. + +I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread +nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a +fossil.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks +forward hopefully.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Human improvement is from within outwards.--FROUDE. + +An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the +centuries.--EMERSON. + +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.--HORACE MANN. + +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.--SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. + +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.--BURKE. + +We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no +such thing as remaining stationary in this life.--JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. + +It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. +You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes 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. +--EMERSON. + +A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain +off those of yesterday.--LYTTON. + +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.--COLTON. + + +PROSPERITY.--Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.--BEECHER. + +Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little +adversity.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +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.--BURET. + +Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to +bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.--TACITUS. + +Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. +--CICERO. + +We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity +leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.--LANDOR. + +He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. +--COLTON. + +Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with +which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too +dear.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the +blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of +man.--HOOKER. + +It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, +instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns +only to draw in.--BEECHER. + +Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.--VAUVENARGUES. + +They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat +themselves at the altar.--SOUTH. + +Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your +being one in adversity.--ZIMMERMAN. + + +PROVIDENCE.--The Providence of God is the great protector of our life +and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from +danger.--SPURGEON. + + I know not where His islands lift + Their fronded palms in air; + I only know I cannot drift + Beyond His love and care. + --WHITTIER. + +The decrees of Providence are inscrutable. In spite of man'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.--MORIER. + +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.--W. WOGAN. + +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.--RACINE. + +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.--CECIL. + + Yes, thou art ever present, power supreme! + Not circumscribed by time, nor fixt to space, + Confined to altars, nor to temples bound. + In wealth, in want, in freedom or in chains, + In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee! + --HANNAH MORE. + +We must follow, not force Providence.--SHAKESPEARE. + + Go, mark the matchless working of the power + That shuts within the seed the future flower; + Bids these in elegance of form excel. + In color these, and those delight the smell; + Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, + To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. + --COWPER. + +A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. +--PROVERBS 16:9. + + +PRUDENCE.--Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order +that they should see twice as much as they say.--COLTON. + +Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done +under the various circumstances of time and place.--MILTON. + + When any great design thou dost intend, + Think on the means, the manner, and the end. + --SIR J. DENHAM. + +The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of +the best of hearts.--FIELDING. + +Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which +they degenerate into folly and excess.--JEREMY COLLIER. + +No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of +prudence.--JUVENAL. + +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.--BURKE. + +The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the +most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic +formula.--COLERIDGE. + + +PUNCTUALITY.--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.--REV. W. FISK. + +I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has +made a man of me.--LORD NELSON. + +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. +--HORACE MANN. + +It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.--LA FONTAINE. + +I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if +he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.--EMMONS. + + +PURITY.--Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.--MATTHEW 5:8. + +God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the +barnacles will not cling.--J.G. HOLLAND. + + While our hearts are pure, + Our lives are happy and our peace is sure. + --WILLIAM WINTER. + +Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.--COLTON. + +I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.--SOCRATES. + + +QUARRELS.--Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one +side.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more +beautiful when they have passed.--MADAME NECKER. + +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.--BISHOP HALL. + +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.--FRANKLIN. + + Those who in quarrel interpose, + Must often wipe a bloody nose. + --GAY. + + Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; + And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, + Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + +READING.--Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but +a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make +itself felt at the end of the year.--HORACE MANN. + +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.--ZIMMERMANN. + +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.--LA BRUYERE. + +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. +--COLTON. + +We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it +only to the best books.--SYDNEY SMITH. + +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.--SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. + +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.--BACON. + +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.--DUGALD STEWART. + +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."--MRS. PIOZZI. + +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.--LYTTON. + +Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.--COLLECT. + +Much reading is like much eating,--wholly useless without digestion. +--SOUTH. + + +REASON.--Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief +eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower +world.--DR. WATTS. + +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.--CONFUCIUS. + +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.--SOUTH. + +He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, +and he that dares not reason is a slave.--SIR W. DRUMMOND. + +Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by +experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by +nature.--CICERO. + +When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good +reason for letting it alone.--WALTER SCOTT. + +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. + +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. +--GISBORNE. + +Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.--SHAKESPEARE. + +There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything +subverts reason.--EPES SARGENT. + + +REBUKE.--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.--FULLER. + + +RECONCILIATION.--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!--JUSTIN +MARTYR. + +God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlasting +forgetfulness.--BEECHER. + + As thro' the land at eve we went, + And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, + We fell out, my wife and I, + We fell out I know not why, + And kiss'd again with tears. + + And blessings on the falling out + That all the more endears, + When we fall out with those we love + And kiss again with tears! + + For when we came where lies the child + We lost in other years, + There above the little grave, + Oh, there above the little grave, + We kiss'd again with tears. + --TENNYSON. + +Oh, my dear friends,--you who are letting miserable 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!--PHILLIPS BROOKS. + + +REFINEMENT.--Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. +--CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. + +That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of +man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's +refinement.--BEECHER. + +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.--HUME. + +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.--DE QUINCEY. + + +REFORM.--He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the +public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.--LAVATER. + +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.--COLTON. + +Time yet serves, wherein you may redeem your tarnished honors, and +restore yourselves into the good thoughts of the world again. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst +man good.--FRANKLIN. + +Reform, like charity, must begin at home.--CARLYLE. + +Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in +yourself.--SPRAT. + +He who reforms, God assists.--CERVANTES. + + +REGENERATION.--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.--BP. SANDERSON. + +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.--CUDWORTH. + +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.--BISHOP +HOPKINS. + + +REGRET.--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.--HORATIO SEYMOUR. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + + A feeling of sadness and longing + That is not akin to pain, + And resembles sorrow only + As the mist resembles the rain. + --LONGFELLOW. + +The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of 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. +--MISS MULOCK. + + Of all sad words of tongue or pen, + The saddest are these: "It might have been!" + --WHITTIER. + + +RELIGION.--A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never +suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one +from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing +world.--HOWE. + + Religion crowns the statesman and the man, + Sole source of public and of private peace. + --YOUNG. + +A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; +mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations +of the weak-minded.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +The source of all good and of all comfort.--BURKE. + +You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most +gentlemanly thing in the world. It will _alone_ gentilize, if unmixed +with cant; and I know nothing else that will _alone_.--S.T. COLERIDGE. + +If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, +without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without +schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth +not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.--PLUTARCH. + + Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, + Needs only to be seen to be admired. + --COWPER. + +Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really +made the principle of it instead of faith.--SHELLEY. + +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.--U.S. GRANT. + +Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite +pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.--GUTHRIE. + +All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, +more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious +belief.--LAVATER. + +Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God +can never be true to man.--LORD BURLEIGH. + +A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.--FROM THE +LATIN. + +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.--WALTER SCOTT. + +Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were not.--JACOBI. + +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.--WEBSTER. + +All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have been +much greater and better with it.--COLTON. + +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.--DOUGLAS JERROLD. + +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.--MONTESQUIEU. + +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.--THOMAS RAFFLES. + +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.--COLTON. + +A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering. +--MASON. + +Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.--BUNYAN. + +A good name is better than precious ointment.--ECCLESIASTES 7:1. + +I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time +believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without +the sentiment of religion.--LA PLACE. + +Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, +religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would 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.--WASHINGTON. + +"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.--JOHN NEWTON. + +If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. +--H.G.J. ADAM. + +The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but +to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. +--BEECHER. + + +REMEMBRANCE.--Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot +be driven away.--RICHTER. + +You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a +wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.--THACKERAY. + + I cannot but remember such things were + That were most precious to me. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + +REMORSE.--Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its +expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter +to a soul changed for the better.--JOUBERT. + + Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, + In every bosom where her nest is made, + Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, + And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. + --COWPER. + +We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, +but it is not best to remain there.--CHATEAUBRIAND. + +There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and +there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting +in his soul.--TILLOTSON. + + +REPENTANCE.--Repentance, without amendment, is like continually +pumping without mending the leak.--DILWYN. + +Repentance is but another name for aspiration.--BEECHER. + +If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.--EPICTETUS. + +Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. +--JULIAN. + +Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because 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.--COLTON. + +Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a +barren anguish.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from +sin, to constitute repentance.--DEWEY. + +Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every +time we fall.--GOLDSMITH. + + I will to-morrow, that I will, + I will be sure to do it; + To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, + And still thou art to do it. + Thus still repentance is deferred. + From one day to another: + Until the day of death is come, + And judgment is the other. + --DREXELIUS. + +As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend: +I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair 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.--ARTHUR +WARWICK. + +Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.--SHAKESPEARE. + + +REPOSE.--Power rests in tranquillity.--CECIL. + +Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great 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.--MONTAIGNE. + +Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. +"The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without +perturbations."--BOVEE. + +There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the +repose of minds.--LAVATER. + + +REPROOF.--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.--HALIBURTON. + +The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury +inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.--HOSEA +BALLOU. + +No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a +bow.--LYTTON. + +Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly +administered, it will do harm instead of good.--HORACE MANN. + +He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were +not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.--ATTERBURY. + +Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.--SOLON. + + +REPUTATION.--The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be +what you desire to appear.--SOCRATES. + +How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might +have made!--HOLMES. + + O, reputation! dearer far than life, + Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, + Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, + Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil + Of the rude spiller, ever can collect + To its first purity and native sweetness. + --SEWELL. + +One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better +than his principles.--LATENA. + +Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God +and angels know of us.--THOMAS PAINE. + +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.--TILLOTSON. + + +RESIGNATION.--Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. +--PROFESSOR VINET. + +If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use 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.--QUARLES. + +"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.--PRESSENSE. + +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.--GLADSTONE. + +The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of +the Lord.--JOB 1:21. + +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."--EPICTETUS. + +No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a +rainbow in it.--BISHOP HORNE. + +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.--MOUNTFORD. + +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?--WILLIAM PENN. + + +RESOLUTION.--He only is a well-made man who has a good termination. +--EMERSON. + + Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose + That you resolved to effect. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + +REST.--Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; +let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your +limbs rest, ye children of toil!--CARLYLE. + + Absence of occupation is not rest. + A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. + --COWPER. + +God giveth quietness at last.--WHITTIER. + + Of all our loving Father's gifts + I often wonder which is best, + And cry: Dear God, the one that lifts + Our soul from weariness to rest, + The rest of silence--that is best. + --MARY CLEMMER. + +The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.--HORACE GREELEY. + + +RETIREMENT.--How much they err who, to their interest blind, slight +the calm peace which from retirement flows!--MRS. TIGHE. + + Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, + By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell; + Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, + And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. + --SMOLLETT. + + O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline-- + How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, + A youth of labor with an age of ease! + --GOLDSMITH. + + Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, + And waste its sweetness on the desert air. + --GRAY. + +Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed +ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep +her fruit till it be ripe.--ST. CHRYSOSTOM. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + + The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade + Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, + Where all his long anxieties forgot + Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, + Or recollected only to gild o'er + And add a smile to what was sweet before, + He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, + Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, + Improve the remnant of his wasted span. + And having lived a trifler, die a man. + --COWPER. + +But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life 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.--RUSTICUS. + + +RICHES.--Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and kept +without sin.--ERASMUS. + +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.--BISHOP HORNE. + +A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.--MOHAMMED. + +Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor +whose expenses exceed his income.--LA BRUYERE. + +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.--BEECHER. + +Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.--FRANKLIN. + +He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.--PROVERBS 28:20. + +Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to +him who makes them a blessing to others.--FIELDING. + + +SABBATH.--The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to +thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the +noblest society.--EMERSON. + +Students of every age and kind, beware of secular study on the Lord's +day.--PROFESSOR MILLER. + +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.--BEECHER. + +He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.--O.W. HOLMES. + + +SCANDAL.--If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the +person of whom you ought never to speak.--CECIL. + + There is a lust in man no charm can tame, + Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame;-- + On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, + While virtuous actions are but born and die. + --ELLA LOUISA HERVEY. + +No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. +Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that +you do not listen to it with pleasure.--ST. JEROME. + +Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil +speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.--EPHESIANS 4:31. + + +SCEPTICISM.--Scepticism has never founded empires, established +principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history +have always been men of faith.--CHAPIN. + +Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.--BEECHER. + +Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.--STERNE. + +I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as +poisoning the sources of eternal truth.--DR. JOHNSON. + + +SECRECY.--The secret known to two is no longer a secret.--NINON DE +LENCLOS. + +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. + +A woman can keep one secret,--the secret of her age.--VOLTAIRE. + +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. +--DR. JOHNSON. + +To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is +folly.--HOLMES. + +To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.--FRANKLIN. + +He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. +--DRYDEN. + + +SELF-CONTROL.--He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh +a city.--PROVERBS 16:32. + +What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern +ourselves.--GOETHE. + +He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, +is more than a king.--MILTON. + +Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.--THOMSON. + +He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who will +not.--ENGLISH PROVERB. + + +SELF-DENIAL.--Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set us +the example.--ARY SCHEFFER. + +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.--PHILLIPS +BROOKS. + +Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not, +and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything. +--CONYBEARE. + +The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God. +--HORACE. + +The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best +which teaches everything else, and not that.--JOHN STERLING. + + +SELFISHNESS.--Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will +forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.--BEECHER. + +It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who +desires to go thither alone.--FELTHAM. + +Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more +happiness than we should know what to do with.--H.W. SHAW. + +We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but +worship ourselves.--CECIL. + + +SILENCE.--Be silent, or say something better than silence.--PYTHAGORAS. + + God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, + And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, + It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, + And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. + --JOAQUIN MILLER. + +Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts +himself.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. +--QUARLES. + +As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle +silence.--FRANKLIN. + +Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' +silence.--FULLER. + +Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. +--BOUHOURS. + +Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. +--BOVEE. + +Silence does not always mark wisdom.--S.T. COLERIDGE. + +Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.--PROVERBS 17:28. + + +SIN.--Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God.--SIR +HENRY VANE. + +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.--SCHILLER. + +I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between +myself and God.--GEORGE ELIOT. + +Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, +without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the +evil effect on himself is certain.--SOUTHEY. + +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.--ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON. + + Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live; + Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive; + But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day, + Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay. + --CHURCHILL. + +Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance +in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.--BARROW. + +Other men's sins are before our eyes, our own are behind our back. +--SENECA. + +Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, 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.--E.B. PUSEY. + +Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a +tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.--REYNOLDS. + +Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; +it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, +therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you; +and though it brings you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall +not be able to keep you there. You love not death; love not the cause +of death.--BAXTER. + + +SINCERITY.--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."--HOLMES. + +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?--TILLOTSON. + +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.--LOWELL. + +Private sincerity is a public welfare.--BARTOL. + +I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, +what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an +"honest man."--WASHINGTON. + +Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to +perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would +seem and appear to be.--TILLOTSON. + +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.--LONGFELLOW. + + +SLANDER.--When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners +refrain from evil-hearing.--HARE. + +Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty +hands.--JOSEPH PARKER. + +Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is +without sin that may cast the first stone.--HOSEA BALLOU. + + Slander, + Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue + Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath + Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie + All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states, + Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave + This viperous slander enters. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + Nor do they trust their tongues alone, + But speak a language of their own; + Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, + Far better than a printed book; + Convey a libel in a frown, + And wink a reputation down; + Or, by the tossing of the fan, + describe the lady and the man. + --SWIFT. + +Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be +hanged, if so it could be at my decision--the carriers by their +tongues, the listeners by their ears.--PLAUTUS. + + Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, + Finds mark the archer little meant; + And many a word, at random spoken, + May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. + --WALTER SCOTT. + + +SLEEP.--One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.--FIELDING. + +God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. +--SAADI. + +Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy +labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.--QUARLES. + +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. +--BEECHER. + +Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.--ALCOTT. + +There are many ways of inducing sleep,--the thinking of purling rills, +or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge +fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much +better than any of these succedaneums.--STERNE. + +Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. +--ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA. + + O sleep! it is a gentle thing, + Beloved from pole to pole. + --COLERIDGE. + + +SOCIETY.--Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely +forgives failure.--MME. ROLAND. + +Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the +best places.--EMERSON. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + Heaven forming each on other to depend, + A master, or a servant, or a friend, + Bids each on other for assistance call, + Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. + Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally + The common interest, or endear the tie. + To these we owe true friendship, love sincere, + Each home-felt joy that life inherits here. + --POPE. + +Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he +brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.--HAZLITT. + +A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he +shows.--BERANGER. + + Man in society is like a flow'r, + Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone + His faculties expanded in full bloom + Shine out, there only reach their proper use. + --COWPER. + +There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where +another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, +and mix them in society.--ADDISON. + +Society is composed of two great classes,--those who have more dinners +than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.--CHAMFORT. + + +SUCCESS.--Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that +necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.--MIRABEAU. + +Nothing succeeds so well as success.--TALLEYRAND. + +To know how to wait is the great secret of success.--DE MAISTRE. + +The path of success in business is invariably the path 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.--SAMUEL +SMILES. + +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.--LONGFELLOW. + +The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.--SHERIDAN. + +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.--SAMUEL SMILES. + +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.--W.B. CLULOW. + + 'Tis not in mortals to command success, + But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. + --ADDISON. + +If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if +she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.--JOUBERT. + +Successful minds work like a gimlet,--to a single point.--BOVEE. + +If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, +experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope +your guardian genius.--ADDISON. + +Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making +the same one the second time.--H.W. SHAW. + + +SUICIDE.--Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.--YOUNG. + +God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without +treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are +demanded.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + +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. +--ARISTOTLE. + + Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd; + How long, how short, we know not: this we know, + Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, + Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. + Like sentries that must keep their destined stand, + And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved, + Those only are the brave who keep their ground, + And keep it to the last. + --BLAIR. + +Suicide is not a remedy.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + + Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, + Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. + --COWPER. + +The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.--DR. GEORGE SEWELL. + + +SUPERSTITION.--I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, +which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine +religion, which is the support of it.--ROUSSEAU. + +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.--GEORGE MACDONALD. + +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.--CARLYLE. + +Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.--SENECA. + +Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. +--JOUBERT. + +Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; +the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.--LAVATER. + +The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any +day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of +his understanding.--DR. WATTS. + +Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship +of God.--CICERO. + +Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad. +--FIELDING. + +I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and +detesting superstition.--VOLTAIRE. + + +SYMPATHY.--Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. +It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions 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.--TALFOURD. + +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.--MOUNTFORD. + +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. +--BEECHER. + +The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the +pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.--PARKE GODWIN. + + What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain? + The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, + That starts at once--bright--pure--from pity's mine, + Already polish'd by the Hand Divine. + --BYRON. + +Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.--SPURGEON. + + +TACT.--Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate +those you cannot conquer.--COLTON. + +A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force +might vainly strive to overcome. + + +TALENT.--Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to +command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.--ROBERT HALL. + +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. +--SYDNEY SMITH. + +Talent without tact is only half talent.--HORACE GREELEY. + + +TALKING.--Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one +tongue. Draw your own moral.--ALPHONSE KARR. + +No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.--OUIDA. + +If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a +bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely +with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.--PLUTARCH. + + What you keep by you, you may change and mend; + But words once spoken can never be recalled. + --ROSCOMMON. + +Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such +will thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy deeds. +--SOCRATES. + + But far more numerous was the herd of such, + Who think too little, and who talk too much. + --DRYDEN. + +He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which +he will not like.--TERENCE. + +The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest +evil that is done in the world.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + +He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike +dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.--LAVATER. + +A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects +on what he has uttered.--FROM THE FRENCH. + +Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less +men think, the more they talk.--MONTESQUIEU. + +Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is +a niggard in deed.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + + +TEARS.--Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is +mirrored.--RICHTER. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, + Is like the dewdrop on the rose; + When next the summer breeze comes by, + And waves the bush, the flower is dry. + --WALTER SCOTT. + +Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of +another's sorrow.--AARON HILL. + +Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.--THOMAS PAINE. + +Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing +virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart +by.--AARON HILL. + +Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.--H.W. SHAW. + +They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.--PSALM 126:5. + +Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.--MARC ANDRE. + +Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. +--PSALM 30:5. + + +TEMPER.--The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than +fortune.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + + In vain he seeketh others to suppress, + Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. + --SPENSER. + +With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and +"good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete. +--FROM THE GERMAN. + +Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the +injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of +an ill temper.--BLAIR. + +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?--JOHN ANGELL JAMES. + +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.--ISAAC BARROW. + +A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.--GUTHRIE. + + +TEMPERANCE.--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, +flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, +contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the +body.--FRANKLIN. + + Fools! not to know how far an humble lot + Exceeds abundance by injustice got; + How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, + While luxury destroys her pamper'd train. + --HESIOD. + +Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men +wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her +gifts.--CLAUDIAN. + +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.--DEAN SOUTH. + +It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider +and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?--SYDNEY SMITH. + +Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a +god than a man.--BURTON. + +Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, +that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. +--SIR WALTER RALEIGH. + +Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a +widow.--JOHN NEAL. + +Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all +virtues.--FULLER. + +If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from +all fermented liquors.--SYDNEY SMITH. + +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.--SHAKESPEARE. + + +TEMPTATION.--'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. +--SHAKESPEARE. + +Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack +the idle.--SPURGEON. + +If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; +but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.--RICHTER. + +Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.--DRYDEN. + +Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. +--J.Q. ADAMS. + +When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out +long.--BISHOP WILSON. + +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.--KING. + + But Satan now is wiser than of yore, + And tempts by making rich, not making poor. + --POPE. + +God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many +formal prayers.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--MATTHEW 26:41. + + +THOUGHT.--Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of +his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.--ABBE RAYNAL. + +Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have +usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.--COLTON. + +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.--HOLMES. + + Thanks to the human heart by which we live, + Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears; + To me the meanest flower that blows can give + Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. + --WORDSWORTH. + +In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of +prudence last thoughts are best.--ROBERT HALL. + +Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not +think.--BUFFON. + +Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes +heroes.--DISRAELI. + +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?--PESTALOZZI. + +One thought cannot awake without awakening others.--MARIE +EBNER-ESCHENBACH. + +Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.--HARE. + +A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down +the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly +the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom +return.--BACON. + +Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.--C.A. BARTOL. + +Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.--RIVAROL. + +Learning without thought is labor lost.--CONFUCIUS. + +The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. +The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and novelty. +--CATHERALL. + +As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.--PROVERBS 23:7. + + +TIME.--Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the +further we make it go.--H.W. SHAW. + + Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor; + Part with it as with money, sparing; pay + No moment but in purchase of its worth; + And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. + --YOUNG. + + Redeem the misspent time that's past, + And live this day as 'twere thy last. + --KEN. + +Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the 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.--COLTON. + +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.--WALTER SCOTT. + +Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.--SENECA. + +The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. +--LAVATER. + +Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden +hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for +they are gone forever!--HORACE MANN. + +As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.--MASON. + +No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who +never loses any.--THOMAS JEFFERSON. + +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.--JEREMY +TAYLOR. + +He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and +his own salvation.--THOMAS FULLER. + +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.--SENECA. + +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.--FENELON. + +Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.--HAWTHORNE. + +Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff +life is made of.--FRANKLIN. + + +TOLERATION.--Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and +forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. +--THACKERAY. + +There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their +virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and +their injuries with forgiveness.--DEWEY. + +Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.--ARTHUR HELPS. + +It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our +cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel +the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira. +--ELIZABETH CHARLES. + +If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst +thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?--THOMAS A +KEMPIS. + +The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for +it.--BEECHER. + +Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become +indulgent toward those of others.--FENELON. + +Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to +others.--HOSEA BALLOU. + + +TRAVEL.--A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.--SAADI. + +He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.--CARLO GOLDONI. + +Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to +a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.--RUSKIN. + +To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a +banishment become.--DONNE. + +The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead +of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.--DR. JOHNSON. + +He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.--CORTES. + +Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler +just returned from abroad.--SWIFT. + + +TRUST.--I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. +--THOREAU. + +Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear 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." +--H. BLUNT. + +To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.--GEORGE +MACDONALD. + +Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.--PROVERBS 16:20. + + +TRUTH.--There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we +believe it because it is true.--WHATELY. + + Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; + The eternal years of God are hers; + But error, wounded, writhes with pain, + And dies among his worshipers. + --BRYANT. + +Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.--AMMIAN. + +And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty +above all things.--ESDRAS. + +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.--NEWTON. + + For truth has such a face and such a mien, + As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. + --DRYDEN. + +Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be +no other virtue.--WALTER SCOTT. + +Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by +silence.--AMMIAN. + +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.--TILLOTSON. + +You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to +know it; but let all you tell be truth.--HORACE MANN. + +No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of +truth.--BACON. + +Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. +Truth alone is final.--CHARLES SUMNER. + +The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; +and her constant companion is humility.--COLTON. + +I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could +be trusted in matters of importance.--PALEY. + +Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.--HORACE +MANN. + +Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, +a duty.--MME. DE STAEL. + + Truth is one; + And, in all lands beneath the sun, + Whoso hath eyes to see may see + The tokens of its unity. + --WHITTIER. + +Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither +in a straight line.--TILLOTSON. + +The expression of truth is simplicity.--SENECA. + +What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and +justice.--DEMOSTHENES. + +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.--WHITTIER. + +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.--EMERSON. + + +UNHAPPINESS.--The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself +to be so.--HENRY HOME. + +A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail +render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.--CICERO. + +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.--GOETHE. + + +VANITY.--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.--AUERBACH. + +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.--H.W. SHAW. + +Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.--POPE. + +Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him +to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins +the character he is so industrious to advance by it.--ADDISON. + +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.--LA BRUYERE. + +Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible +vices--the vices of affectation and common lying.--ADAM SMITH. + +Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor +with all others.--SHAKESPEARE. + +There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a +little vanity.--WASHINGTON. + +Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.--STEELE. + +It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to +us.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag +of its vices.--H.W. SHAW. + +Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. +--MRS. JAMESON. + +She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.--LAVATER. + +Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.--PSALM 39:5. + + +VICE.--Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that +men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.--COLTON. + +The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.--DIOGENES. + +A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.--PLUTARCH. + +Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in +our pains.--COLTON. + +One sin another doth provoke.--SHAKESPEARE. + +What maintains one vice would bring up two children.--FRANKLIN. + +Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in +this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and +the other world.--DR. WATTS. + +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.--COLTON. + +Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. +--PUBLIUS SYRUS. + +This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.--CHAPIN. + + Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, + As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; + Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, + We first endure, then pity, then embrace. + --POPE. + +Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but +forbidden because they are hurtful.--FRANKLIN. + + +VIRTUE.--Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.--HELVETIUS. + + Virtue alone is sweet society, + It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, + And opens you a welcome in them all. + --EMERSON. + +The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary +exertions, but by his every-day conduct.--PASCAL. + +Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and +justice.--EPICURUS. + +Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in +the heavens immortal.--CHILD. + +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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our +natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + +Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while +everything else is of men.--VOLTAIRE. + + O let us still the secret joy partake, + To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. + --POPE. + + Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; + 'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell. + --COLLINS. + +The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no +bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or +undermine and destroy.--SIR P. SIDNEY. + +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.--BISHOP BUTLER. + + What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, + The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, + Is virtue's prize. + --POPE. + +Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too +long.--LADY RACHEL RUSSELL. + +If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue. +--BURKE. + +Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not +gold.--BEETHOVEN. + +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. +--SHAFTESBURY. + + Know then this truth, enough for man to know, + Virtue alone is happiness below. + --POPE. + +An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the +intention of pleasing God alone.--BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. + +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.--COWPER. + +Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. +--J. PETIT-SENN. + +Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made 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.--BEECHER. + + +WANT.--How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!--LAVATER. + +We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; +therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be 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.--COLTON. + +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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known +waste.--SPURGEON. + +Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.--THOMAS A +KEMPIS. + +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.--MANILIUS. + +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. +--ST. CLEMENT. + +It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants +are chiefly derived.--FIELDING. + + +WAR.--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.--CHANNING. + +Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.--BEECHER. + +Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the +cost of the conflict must be paid.--JAMES A. GARFIELD. + +A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, +because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations +generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.--COLTON. + +War is a crime which involves all other crimes.--BROUGHAM. + +To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of +preserving peace.--WASHINGTON. + +War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is +the smell of powder.--LONGFELLOW. + +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. +--U.S. GRANT. + +I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.--C.J. FOX. + +Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would +pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again. +--WELLINGTON. + +War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations 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.--SOUTHEY. + + +WASTE.--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.--DR. JOHNSON. + + +WEALTH.--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.--COLTON. + +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.--L'ESTRANGE. + +Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use +soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.--BACON. + +Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.--MASSINGER. + +He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while 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.--COLTON. + +It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend +it like a gentleman.--COLTON. + +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.--EMERSON. + +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.--WAYLAND. + +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.--MATTHEW HENRY. + +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.--WHIPPLE. + +The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends +chiefly on two words,--industry and frugality.--FRANKLIN. + +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.--HILLARD. + +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.--LA BRUYERE. + +It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence +of wealth.--COLTON. + + To purchase Heaven has gold the power? + Can gold remove the mortal hour? + In life can love be bought with gold? + Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? + No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, + Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. + Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, + Let nobler views engage thy mind. + --DR. JOHNSON. + + +WIFE.--The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to 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.--FULLER. + + All other goods by fortune's hand are given, + A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. + --POPE. + +A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man,--his gem of 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.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness +of one.--BURKE. + +Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, +who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every 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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +Thy wife is a constellation of virtues, she's the moon, and thou art +the man in the moon.--CONGREVE. + + For nothing lovelier can be found + In woman, than to study household good, + And good works in her husband to promote. + --MILTON. + + What is there in the vale of life + Half so delightful as a wife; + When friendship, love and peace combine + To stamp the marriage-bond divine? + --COWPER. + +O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house 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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + +WISDOM.--It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. +--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +The clouds may drop down titles and estates, both may seek us; but +wisdom must be sought.--YOUNG. + +True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is +best worth doing.--HUMPHREYS. + +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.--PROV. 3:13-18. + +The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that +of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.--SIMMS. + + Where the eye of pity weep, + And the sway of passion sleeps, + Where the lamp of faith is burning, + And the ray of hope returning, + Where the "still small voice" within + Whispers not of wrath or sin, + Resting with the righteous dead-- + Beaming o'er the drooping head-- + Comforting the lowly mind, + Wisdom dwelleth--seek and find. + +The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the +second, to know that which is true.--LACTANTIUS. + +Seek wisdom where it may be found. Seek it in the knowledge of God, +the holy, the just and the merciful God, as revealed to us in the +gospel; of Him who is just, and yet the justifier of them that believe +in Jesus.--ARCHDEACON RAIKES. + + Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop + Than when we soar. + --WORDSWORTH. + +He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his +life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow.--SAADI. + +Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. + +As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without +exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great +Book without impoverishing it.--RABBI BEN-AZAI. + +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.--CICERO. + +Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in +discerning those things which may come to pass.--TERENCE. + +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.--BISHOP MANT. + +So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto +wisdom.--PSALM 90:12. + + +WIT.--I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. +--MADAME DE SEVIGNE. + +Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others.--FROM +THE LATIN. + +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."--SYDNEY SMITH. + +Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a +comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.--BISHOP HORNE. + +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.--LOCKE. + +There is many a man hath more hair than wit.--SHAKESPEARE. + + You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; + Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. + --POPE. + +Wit does not take the place of knowledge.--VAUVENARGUES. + +To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the +necessary.--M. DE MONTLOSIER. + + +WOMAN.--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. +--SCHILLER. + + The world was sad!--the garden was a wild! + And man, the hermit, sigh'd--till woman smiled. + --CAMPBELL. + +A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is +reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them. +--J.G. HOLLAND. + +O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a +man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and +dumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?--RICHTER. + + Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; + A woman's noblest station is retreat; + Her fairest virtues fly from public sight; + Domestic worth,--that shuns too strong a light. + --LORD LYTTLETON. + +Nature sent women into the world with this bridal dower of love, 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.--RICHTER. + +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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + + A woman impudent and mannish grown + Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. + --SHAKESPEARE. + + What's a table richly spread, + Without a woman at its head? + --T. WHARTON. + + O woman! in our hours of ease, + Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, + And variable as the shade + By the light quivering aspen made; + When pain and anguish wring the brow, + A ministering angel thou! + --WALTER SCOTT. + +The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are 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.--GOLDSMITH. + + If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, + The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. + --GAY. + +Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. +--BEECHER. + + Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, + Not she denied him with unholy tongue; + She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, + Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. + --E.S. BARRETT. + + O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, + Completing him not otherwise complete! + How void and useless the sad remnant left + Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. + --ABRAHAM COLES. + +As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, +and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant 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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +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.--DR. J.V.C. +SMITH. + +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.--GAIL HAMILTON. + +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.--ABBA GOOLD +WOOLSON. + + Where is the man who has the power and skill + To stem the torrent of a woman's will? + For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, + And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. + +I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which 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.--WASHINGTON IRVING. + +To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself will always be the text +of the life of women.--BALZAC. + +All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of +a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother.--STEELE. + +I have always said it--nature meant to make woman its master-piece. +--LESSING. + +The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in 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.--ST. PIERRE. + +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.--LAMARTINE. + +The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses +please less than red.--HOLMES. + +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.--ROMILLY. + + +WORDS.--A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up +anger.--PROVERBS 15:1. + + My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, + Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. + --SHAKESPEARE. + +We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far +from speaking ill as from doing ill.--CICERO. + + Immodest words admit of no defence, + For want of decency is want of sense. + --EARL OF ROSCOMMON. + +Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2. + +It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not +return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.--ABDEL-KADER. + +Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen +hunting for words.--H.W. SHAW. + +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.--HAZLITT. + +Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to +the bones.--PROVERBS 16:24. + +Men who have much to say use the fewest words.--H.W. SHAW. + +What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken +can never be recalled.--ROSCOMMON. + +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.--CARLYLE. + +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.--M.M. BREWSTER. + +"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!--MARY HOWITT. + +A word spoken in due season, how good is it!--PROVERBS 15:22, 23. + + +WORK.--Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.--MRS. +BROWNING. + +No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular 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.--LEO W. +GRINDON. + +Nothing is impossible to industry.--PERIANDER. + +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.--LEO W. GRINDON. + +This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he +eat.--II THESS. 3:10. + +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.--RUSKIN. + +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.--LOWELL. + +I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt +anybody.--LORD STANLEY. + +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.--SCHLEIERMACHER. + + On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! + Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. + --EMERSON. + +We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is +our best enjoyment.--JACOBI. + +The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest +ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.--CARLYLE. + +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.--WILHELM +VON HUMBOLDT. + +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.--BEECHER. + + +WORLD.--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.--CHESTERFIELD. + + To know the world, not love her, is thy point; + She gives but little, nor that little long. + --YOUNG. + +I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed 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.--CICERO. + +The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.--GEORGE +MACDONALD. + +The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must +pay his soul.--HAFIZ. + + O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, + That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? + --QUARLES. + +This world is God's world, after all.--CHARLES KINGSLEY. + +There is another and a better world.--KOTZEBUE. + +God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it 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.--BOVEE. + +The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.--LOCKE. + +Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, +and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and +the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And +extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.--FULLER. + +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.--LADY BLESSINGTON. + +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.--SOUTHEY. + +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.--FULLER. + +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.--JEAN INGELOW. + +Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than +ourselves.--H.W. SHAW. + + O what a glory doth this world put on, + For him who with a fervent heart goes forth, + Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks + On duties well performed and days well spent. + --LONGFELLOW. + +Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. +--ST. AUGUSTINE. + + +WORSHIP.--The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of +man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.--HOSEA +BALLOU. + +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.--BLAIR. + + Lord, let us to thy gates repair + To hear the gladdening sound, + That we may find salvation there, + While yet it may be found. + + There let us joy and comfort reap; + There teach us how to pray, + For grace to choose, and strength to keep + The strait, the narrow way. + + And so increase our love for Thee, + That all our future days + May one continued Sabbath be + Of gratitude and praise. + --OKE. + +Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the +worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with +our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.--BISHOP HENSHAWE. + +The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the +times and improving the condition of mankind.--ABULFAZZI. + + +YOUTH.--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.--BISHOP +MANT. + +He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in +manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.--J. HAWES. + +Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for +fruit on it in autumn.--HARE. + +Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. +Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to +enjoy them.--RUeCKERT. + +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. +--J. HAWES. + +The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, +to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's +own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.--SIR W. TEMPLE. + +Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.--ECCLESIASTES 12:1. + +What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always +produces the thistle.--J.T. FIELDS. + +I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, +I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, 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.--DR. JOHNSON. + +Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to +be.--GOETHE. + +Reckless youth makes rueful age.--FRANKLIN. + + Oh! the joy + Of young ideas painted on the mind, + In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads + On objects not yet known, when all is new, + And all is lovely. + --HANNAH MORE. + +In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, +there is no such word as fail.--LYTTON. + +If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin +anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.--GOETHE. + +Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be +so.--DR. METCALF. + +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.--CICERO. + +Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due +consideration.--RIVAROL. + + +ZEAL.--Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of +exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.--COLERIDGE. + +Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more +disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.--BARROW. + +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.--BUDDHA. + +Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, +while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.--SHENSTONE. + +He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden +thread that ties their hearts together.--JEREMY TAYLOR. + +Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the +latter is divine.--HOSEA BALLOU. + +It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, +true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.--WILLIAM PENN. + +Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, 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."--BISHOP MANT. + +Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either +petulancy, ambition, or pride.--SWIFT. + +Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.--NEWTON. + +Zeal, unless it be rightly guided, when it endeavors the most busily +to please God, forceth upon Him those unseasonable offices which +please Him not.--HOOKER. + +We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid to answer. +--SCOTT. + + + + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: The following have been changed from the original +book: + +Publius Syrius (twice) changed to: Publius Syrus (for consistency). +A shining glass, that fadeth suddenly; changed to A shining gloss, +that fadeth suddenly; (typo). +Proverbs 11:24 changed to Proverbs 11:25 (correct verse). + + + + + + + + +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.txt or 17112.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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