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.