He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.—BAILEY.

All offences come from the heart.—SHAKESPEARE.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.—RICHTER.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—MATTHEW 12:34.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? —JOHN LYLY.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his.—G.D. PRENTICE.

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.—CHESTERFIELD.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.—GIBBON.

The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.—LANDOR.

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.—WHITTIER.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.—TRENCH.

There are treasures laid up in the heart,—treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world.—BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?—JEREMIAH 17:9.

HEAVEN.—The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.—LAVATER.

The redeemed shall walk there.—ISAIAH 35:9.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world!—HOSEA BALLOU.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.—PHILLIPS BROOKS.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.—BAILEY.

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.—DANIEL WEBSTER.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.—BISHOP HORNE.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.—HANNAH MORE.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.—REV. DR. GUTHRIE.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.—HARE.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The kingdom of God is within you."—BEECHER.

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.—THOS. A KEMPIS.

HEROES.—Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.—HAWTHORNE.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.—ADDISON.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.—GOETHE.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.—SENECA.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.—JAMES ELLIS.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.—EMERSON.

HISTORY.—History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs,—privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.—THOMAS FULLER.

History teaches everything, even the future.—LAMARTINE.

It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!"—BANCROFT.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.—TACITUS.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.—CICERO.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.—CERVANTES.

There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes.—CHAMFORT.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

HOME.—There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.—CHAPIN.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.—GOETHE.

'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. —BYRON.

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. —JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. —CHURCHILL.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.—YOUNG.

Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home?—JAMES HAMILTON.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! —SCOTT.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.—SPURGEON.

Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither.—CHARLES BUXTON.

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs—and God has given my share— I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and die at home at last. —GOLDSMITH.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.—CHAPIN.

HONESTY.—To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.—SHAKESPEARE.

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.—H. MARTYN.

The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as to be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world is in possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. The course of such a man will be firm and steady, because he has nothing to fear from the world, and is sure of the approbation and support of heaven.—WIRT.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.—OTWAY.

"Honesty is the best policy;" but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.—WHATELY.

The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness,"—it is greatness itself.—BOVEE.

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. —FRANKLIN.

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.—WHIPPLE.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. —LAVATER.

No man is bound to be rich or great,—no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.—SIR BENJAMIN RUDYARD.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.—POPE.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.—BISHOP HORNE.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. —DR. JOHNSON.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature.—MONTAIGNE.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.—SHAKESPEARE.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.—CICERO.

HOPE.—All which happens in the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear. How much more are we helped on by hope in the way to eternal life!—LUTHER.

"Hast thou hope?" they asked of John Knox, when he lay a-dying. He spoke nothing, but raised his finger and pointed upward, and so died.—CARLYLE.

The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.—BISHOP HORNE.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.—ADDISON.

Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearing our prayers to the throne of God.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

Hope is our life when first our life grows clear, Hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear: Yet the day comes when fain we would not hope— But forasmuch as we with life must cope, Struggling with this and that—and who knows why? Hope will not give us up to certainty, But still must bide with us. —WM. MORRIS.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. —POPE.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.—HUME.

True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.—VON KNEBEL.

Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. —GOLDSMITH.

HOSPITALITY.—Like many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in its perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would the woes of this world be lightened!—MRS. KIRKLAND.

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast.—CLARENDON.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.—HEBREWS 13:2.

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair: Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. —GOLDSMITH.

HUMILITY.—The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.—ST. AUGUSTINE.

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.—WORTHINGTON.

He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world.—THE TALMUD.

True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.—BURKE.

By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life. —PROVERBS 22:4.

"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same—humility." Is it not as the steps of degree in the Temple, whereby we descend to the knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God? Would we attain mercy? humility will help us.—C. SUTTON.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.—MATTHEW 5:5.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.—BEECHER.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were."—BOVEE.

Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven.—BURDER.

The grace which makes every other grace amiable.—ALFRED MERCIER.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason.—QUARLES.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. —BISHOP REYNOLDS.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. —LEIGHTON.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.—FRANKLIN.

HURRY.—No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.—COLTON.

HYPOCRISY.—If the world despises hypocrites, what must be the estimate of them in heaven?—MADAME ROLAND.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.—ADDISON.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. —PSALM 55:21.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.—CECIL.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.—MATTHEW HENRY.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. —PETER PINDAR.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his neighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the milk for his customers.—GEORGE MACDONALD.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.—COLTON.

IDLENESS.—I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.—CHESTERFIELD.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.—HALIBURTON.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.—JUDGE HALE.

If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride or luxury or ambition or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity. —ZIMMERMANN.

A poor idle man cannot be an honest man.—ACHILLES POINCELOT.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. —COWPER.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.—FRANKLIN.

Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool.—FROM THE LATIN.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.—BUNYAN.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.—BEECHER.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.—HILLARD.

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.—DR. JOHNSON.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. —COWPER.

IMMIGRATION.—If you should turn back from this land to Europe the foreign ministers of the Gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign merchants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of our pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses, and our beneficent institutions, and what a putting back of every monetary, merciful, moral, and religious interest of the land! This commingling here of all nationalities under the blessing of God will produce in seventy-five or one hundred years the most magnificent style of man and woman the world ever saw. They will have the wit of one race, the eloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity of another, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral character of another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve and muscle an intertwining of the fibres of all nationalities, nothing but the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clear through body and mind and soul, can take of them an adequate picture. —T. DEWITT TALMAGE.

IMMORTALITY.—Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. —CHANNING.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.—LYTTON.

It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. —ADDISON.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.—SOUTHEY.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies which invite me.—VICTOR HUGO.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.—SOCRATES.

Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: Thou livest forever!—BYRON.

INDEPENDENCE.—It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.—COBBETT.

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,—manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.—WORDSWORTH.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill; We may be independent if we will. —CHURCHILL.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—POPE.

INDUSTRY.—Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward. —E.L. MAGOON.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.—PROVERBS 22:29.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it. —SIR J. REYNOLDS.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.—FRANKLIN.

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ship as soon to him as he can desire. In a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution. —CLARENDON.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.—FRANKLIN.

The celebrated Galen said employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.—COLTON.

In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. —GAY.

INFIDELITY.—There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—insincerity, unbelief. —CARLYLE.

Infidelity is one of those coinages,—a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.—CHALMERS.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."—HELPS.

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,—diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.—BISHOP HALL.

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.—RICHTER.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.—MACAULAY.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.—SOUTH.

INGRATITUDE.—If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude.—H. BROOKE.

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.—DE BOUFFLERS.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. —SHAKESPEARE.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.—BUNYAN.

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world.—SOUTH.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.—GOETHE.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.—PLAUTUS.

And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. —YOUNG.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. —AUSONIUS.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.—NAPOLEON.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. —SHAKESPEARE.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. —PUBLIUS SYRUS.

INNOCENCE.—We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.—CHAPIN.

True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within. —HORACE.

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears.—HOOPER.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.—WILLIAM PENN.

How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid! Serenity and cheerfulness are his portion. Hope is continually pouring its balm into his soul. His heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded and tortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances and risings up of principles which they cannot forget; perpetually teased by returning temptations, perpetually lamenting defeated resolutions. —PALEY.

Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!—CAROLINE OF DENMARK.

There are some reasoners who frequently confound innocence with the mere incapacity of guilt; but he that never saw, or heard, or thought of strong liquors, cannot be proposed as a pattern of sobriety. —DR. JOHNSON.

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.—MADAME SWETCHINE.

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause.—SOUTHERN.

INSPIRATION.—Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?—GEORGE ELIOT.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.—OVID.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.—CICERO.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. —GREVILLE.

INTELLECT.—If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.—FRANKLIN.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.—SAMUEL SMILES.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.—REV. THOMAS SCOTT.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—COLTON.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.—EMERSON.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.—BACON.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.—CHANNING.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,—this is the mark and character of intelligence. —EMERSON.

INTEMPERANCE.—A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.—DR. JOHNSON.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.—JOHN B. GOUGH.

Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.—ATTERBURY.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.—PROVERBS 23:29-32.

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!—SHAKESPEARE.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three,—the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.—STERNE.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.—CHARRON.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. —WALTER SCOTT.

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.—JUNIUS.

Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.—BAXTER.

The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"—JEFFERSON.

JEALOUSY.—People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable.—BARNES.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. —FIELDING.

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her.—HELPS.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.—ADDISON.

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. —SHAKESPEARE.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.—SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6.

Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity. —SPENSER.

JOY.—The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.—SOUTH.

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.—BISHOP PORTEUS.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.—LAVATER.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.—BEECHER.

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.—CARLYLE.

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one. —YOUNG.

JUDGMENT.—How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?—MADAME DE GENLIS.

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?—BYRON.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. —GOETHE.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. —L'ESTRANGE.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.—2 COR. 5:10.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.—BALLOU.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. —JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.—H.W. SHAW.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.—MISS MULOCK.

The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. —KOSSUTH.

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.—MASON.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. —POPE.

JUSTICE.—Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with honor; and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even to wish to withhold.—WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND DUTIES.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. —SHAKESPEARE.

And heaven that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind. —POPE.

He who is only just is cruel.—BYRON.

The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. —PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 112:6.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium which we pay for it.—WILLIAM PENN.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt. —SHAKESPEARE.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.—ADDISON.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.—POPE.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.—DR. WATTS.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.—H.W. SHAW.

Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind. —DENHAM.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. —ARISTOTLE.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.—WEBSTER.

KINDNESS.—A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.—TILLOTSON.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. —SIR H. DAVY.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.—F.W. FABER.

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.—HELPS.

One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn Long as its currents roll. —HOLMES.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.—BENTHAM.

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.—EMERSON.

KISSES.—A kiss from my mother made me a painter.—BENJAMIN WEST.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.—BOVEE.

It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. —HALIBURTON.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.—BOVEE.

You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as the birds.—CHARLES BUXTON.

KNOWLEDGE.—Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.—BOSWELL.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.—CHESTERFIELD.

In reading authors, when you find Bright passages, that strike your mind, And which, perhaps, you may have reason To think on, at another season, Be not contented with the sight, But take them down in black and white; Such a respect is wisely shown, As makes another's sense one's own. —BYRON.

Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in life. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession of knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at twenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the most important years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred per cent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Its price is above rubies.—WINSLOW.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. —JOAQUIN MILLER.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.—LEIBNITZ.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.—RUFUS CHOATE.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.—TUPPER.

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant."

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.—DR. JOHNSON.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.—THOMAS A KEMPIS.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.—FULLER.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.—FELTON.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.—COWPER.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.—JUVENAL.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.—BISHOP HALL.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.—LADY BLESSINGTON.

The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.—G.W. CURTIS.

LABOR.—Labor is one of the great elements of society,—the great substantial interest on which we all stand.—DANIEL WEBSTER.

Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation. —BOVEE.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises the happiness of the poor.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.—U.S. GRANT.

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices. —BEECHER.

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.—HORACE MANN.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. —J.G. HOLLAND.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.—CARLYLE.

Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.—WILLIAM PENN.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.—BOVEE.

Labor is rest—from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. —FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him. —LOWELL.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. —FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

LANGUAGE.—In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver. —JOUBERT.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.—BOVEE.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.—MARK HOPKINS.

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.—WHIPPLE.

LAUGHTER.—Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.—DR. HUFELAND.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.—GOETHE.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.—LAMB.

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.—CARLYLE.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.—TALMAGE.

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. —THACKERAY.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.—GREVILLE.

LEARNING.—Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.—CHESTERFIELD.

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.—SAADI.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. —POPE.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.—CATHERALL.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.—MILTON.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.—SIR W. TEMPLE.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.—YOUNG.

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think that he knows enough.—POWELL.

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.—LORD BACON.

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.—STEELE.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.—BISHOP TAYLOR.

Learning is better worth than house or land.—CRABBE.

LIBERALITY.—If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.—JOUBERT.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.—BACON.

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.—LA BRUYERE.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. —PROVERBS 11:24.

Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.—LA BRUYERE.

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.—PROVERBS 11:25.

LIBERTY.—The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. —THOMAS JEFFERSON.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. —COWPER.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.—BISHOP BUTLER.

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.—BURKE.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.—AUERBACH.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. —ADDISON.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.—HILLARD.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. —ALFRED DE MUSSET.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.—COWLEY.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.—CHANNING.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.—BURKE.

LIFE.—Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.—SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer—man a flower— He dies—alas! how soon he dies! —DR. JOHNSON.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God. —BAILEY.

In the midst of life we are in death.—CHURCH BURIAL SERVICE.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.—MONTAIGNE.

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. —DRYDEN.

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. —MILTON.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.—PSALM 90:10.

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.—GEORGE HERBERT.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.—CHARLOTTE BRONTE.

That man lives twice that lives the first life well.—HERRICK.

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—JAMES MARTINEAU.

Life is probation: mortal man was made To solve the solemn problem—right or wrong. —JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.—LADY RACHEL RUSSELL.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. —DR. WATTS.

And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.—WILLIAM PENN.

We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. —BAILEY.

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening,—nips his root, And then he falls. —SHAKESPEARE.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.—SOCRATES.

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.—JOB 8:9.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.—DR. JOHNSON.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. —ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.—WILLIAM PENN.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.—BISHOP KEN.

LIGHT.—We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.—CAUSSIN.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.—MILTON.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

I am the light of the world.—JOHN 9:5.

No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."—BASELEY.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.—BOVEE.

LOVE.—Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous.—MISS JEWSBURY.

We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.—ROWLAND HILL.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric telegraph of touch,—all these betray the yielding citadel before the word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.—LONGFELLOW.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.—EMERSON.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—N.P. WILLIS.

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.—VICTOR HUGO.

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.—WALTER SCOTT.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.—A.B. EDWARDS.

Let those love now who never loved before, Let those that always loved now love the more. —PARNELL.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. —SCOTT.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.—QUARLES.

Love's like the measles—all the worse when it comes late in life. —JERROLD.

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.—SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7.

Love is the fulfilling of the law.—ROMANS 13:10.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.—BOVEE.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?—HARE.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. —HAZLITT.

Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing, Who nothing feels but for himself alone. —YOUNG.

Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. —SWIFT.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.—HENRY HOME.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. —POPE.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. —MOORE.

They do not love, that do not show their love. —SHAKESPEARE.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment.—LONGFELLOW.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.—OVID.

All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.—TERENCE.

Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us. Friendship, on the contrary, is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.—LA BRUYERE.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, Yet then he speaks most plain. —DRYDEN.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived.—ERASMUS.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.—BURTON.

It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person.—TERENCE.

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. —ABEL STEVENS.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.—HOLMES.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. —ABRAHAM COLES.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.—BEECHER.

MAN.—Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.—1 COR. 11:7.

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?—SHAKESPEARE.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.—GOETHE.

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. —TENNYSON.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.—G.A. SALA.

The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood,—bounds into youth,—sobers into manhood,—softens into age,—totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,—thence to be watched and cared for.—HENRY GILES.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! —YOUNG.

He is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.—EMERSON.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.—BURKE.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,—one dog does not change a bone with another.—ADAM SMITH.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. —POPE.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" —SHAKESPEARE.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble. —JOB 14:1.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.—CARLYLE.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.—EMERSON.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!—SHAKESPEARE.

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.—LAVATER.

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.—LOWELL.

MANNERS.—Evil communications corrupt good manners.—1 COR. 15:33.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.—EMERSON.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.—SWIFT.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.—CHESTERFIELD.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. —LA BRUYERE.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,—fine breeding.—LYTTON.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.—LAVATER.

Good manners are a part of good morals.—WHATLEY.

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us.—SWIFT.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.—LAVATER.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.—EMERSON.

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.—BURKE.

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.—CHESTERFIELD.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.—HANNAH MORE.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.—CHESTERFIELD.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.—LYTTON.

MARRIAGE.—Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!—SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.—GOLDSMITH.

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.—SOUTHEY.

It is not good that the man should be alone.—GENESIS 2:18.

The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of humor.—STEELE.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being. —TUPPER.

An obedient wife commands her husband.—TENNYSON.

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. —RICHTER.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.—ADDISON.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.—AARON HILL.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.—DR. JOHNSON.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.—RABBI BEN AZAI.

Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time.—DR. JOHNSON.

Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, We who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below. —COTTON.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. —SHAKESPEARE.

God the best maker of all marriages.—SHAKESPEARE.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hasty reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands:—

1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.

2. Never both be angry at once.

3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company.

4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire.

5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.

6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each.

7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly.

8. Never taunt with a past mistake.

9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another.

10. Never allow a request to be repeated.

11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,—it is a meanness.

12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence.

13. Never meet without a loving welcome.

14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance.

15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness.

16. Never forget the happy hours of early love.

17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is.

18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing alone can make it what it should ever be.

19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way.

20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home. —COTTAGER AND ARTISAN.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch—the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.—LORD ROCHESTER.

Let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe. —MILTON.

The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. —WILLIS.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.—GOETHE.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.—ANDREW JACKSON.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.—MICHELET.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.—DR. JOHNSON.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—SHAKESPEARE.

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.—FULLER.

Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife.—SIMONIDES.

Take the daughter of a good mother.—FULLER.

Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad. To this end, a good husband never publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to do penance before all that are present; after which, many study rather revenge than reformation.—FULLER.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.—MASSILLON.

A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.—DR. JOHNSON.

MEDITATION.—Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. —FELTHAM.

Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. —QUARLES.

MELANCHOLY.—I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against melancholy: one was a bright fire; another, to remember all the pleasant things said to her; another, to keep a box of sugar-plums on the chimney-piece and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought this mere trifling at the moment, but have in after life discovered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher and more exalted objects; and that no means ought to be thought too trifling which can oppose it either in ourselves or in others.—SYDNEY SMITH.

Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.—BOVEE.

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.—FENELON.

MERCY.—Let us be merciful as well as just.—LONGFELLOW.

Consider this,— That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. —SHAKESPEARE.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.—CERVANTES.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.—BISHOP REYNOLDS.

It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. —SHAKESPEARE.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. —HOSEA BALLOU.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. —SHAKESPEARE.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.—WASHINGTON.

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. —POPE.

Underneath the wings of the seraphim are stretched the arms of the divine mercy, ever ready to receive sinners.—THE TALMUD.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.—SHAKESPEARE.

MERIT.—There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Distinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and follow him in his course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for his reception, and to invest with variegated tints and with a softened effulgence the luminary which they cannot hide.—ROBERT HALL.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.—GEORGE COLMAN.

The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.—LA BRUYERE.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

METHOD.—Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to be got through with satisfaction. "Method," said Cecil (afterward Lord Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's despatch of business was extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."—SAMUEL SMILES.

MIND.—Our minds are like certain vehicles,—when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.—ELIHU BURRITT.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.—POPE.

It is the mind that makes the body rich.—SHAKESPEARE.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.—CHESTERFIELD.

Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. —DR. WATTS.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. —MILTON.

The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

He that has treasures of his own May leave the cottage or the throne, May quit the globe, and dwell alone Within his spacious mind. —DR. WATTS.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.—ROUSSEAU.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.—SCHILLER.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.—BOVEE.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.—DR. JOHNSON.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.—SENECA.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.—BOVEE.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. —T. EDWARDS.

Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven.—YOUNG.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. —SPENSER.

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.—COLTON.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

MIRTH.—Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season.—FULLER.

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.—BEECHER.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out. —PETER PINDAR.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?—HALIBURTON.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.—IZAAK WALTON.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,—all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.—BEECHER.

MISFORTUNE.—The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.—F.A. DURIVAGE.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. —ADDISON.

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant.—SATAKA.

Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. —MALLET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.—FROM THE FRENCH.

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. —HERRICK.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. —BIAS.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.—STANISLAUS.

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure. —ALCOTT.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. —ORVILLE DEWEY.

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.—ADDISON.

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. —MELMOTH.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.—COLTON.

MOB.—The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.—GOETHE.

The mob have neither judgment nor principle,—ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.—TACITUS.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.—DRYDEN.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.—JANE PORTER.

Inconstant, blind, Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand. —THOMSON.

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.—HORACE MANN.

MODERATION.—Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.—GOETHE.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.—THOMAS PAINE.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.—FELTHAM.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.—BISHOP HALL.

The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.—CONFUCIUS.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not unwilling to eat more, but are afraid of doing ourselves harm.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within it.—PASCAL.

MODESTY.—A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.—STEELE.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.—GOLDSMITH.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.—ADDISON.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.—BAXTER.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.—SENECA.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated. —STEELE.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without. —ADDISON.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.—ADDISON.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.—EMERSON.

God intended for women two preventatives against sin, modesty and remorse; in confession to a mortal priest the former is removed by his absolution, the latter is taken away.—MIRANDA OF PIEDMONT.

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

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms.—GEORGE MACDONALD.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.—WESLEY.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!—THACKERAY.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."—FRANKLIN.