A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.—SWIFT.

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.—BARTOL.

Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.—BOUHOURS.

By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. —RUTLEDGE.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.—COLTON.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.—CARLYLE.

MORALITY.—In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, Is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another: Is there any harm in letting it alone? —COLTON.

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.—LOCKE.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—WASHINGTON.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from defect in intellect.—HORACE MANN.

Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honest man alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in nature so closely united as virtue and interest. —ENFIELD.

The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.—FROUDE.

Morality without religion, is only a kind of dead reckoning,—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have to run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. —LONGFELLOW.

The system of morality which Socrates made it the business of his life to teach was raised upon the firm basis of religion. The first principles of virtuous conduct which are common to all mankind are, according to this excellent moralist, laws of God; and the conclusive argument by which he supports this opinion is, that no man departs from these principles with impunity.—ENFIELD.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.—VOLTAIRE.

MOTHER.—The mother in her office holds the key of the soul.—OLD PLAY.

There is a sight all hearts beguiling— A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. —BAILLIE.

"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the reply. The emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word."—ABBOTT.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. —COLERIDGE.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love!—MARCHIONESS DE SPADARA.

I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers.—DICKENS.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.—RICHTER.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.—LAMENNAIS.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.—GEORGE HERBERT.

"An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of clergy."—T.W. HIGGINSON.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. —HOLMES.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives us.—BOVEE.

All that I am, my mother made me.—J.Q. ADAMS.

MOURNING.—He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.—YOUNG.

Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun will shine to-morrow.—RICHTER.

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.—XENOPHON.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.—BURKE.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. —SHAKESPEARE.

MUSIC.—Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains.—HENRY GILES.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.—CHARLES G. LELAND.

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures,—first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.—BOVEE.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music, with her silver sound, With speedy help doth lend redress. —SHAKESPEARE.

Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.—SIR W. TEMPLE.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.—EMERSON.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. —CONGREVE.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears. —BYRON.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. —SHAKESPEARE.

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss When day's dull round is o'er; And sweet the music of the step That meets us at the door. —J.R. DRAKE.

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words. —BARRY CORNWALL.

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. —BEATTIE.

Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.—HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. —LUTHER.

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.—ELIHU BURRITT.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.—TUCKERMAN.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.—BEETHOVEN.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.—CHATEAUBRIAND.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. —HORACE WALPOLE.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.—LUTHER.

NATURE.—Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.—WHIPPLE.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.—ROUSSEAU.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists.—WILLIAM PENN.

O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all: the earth is full of Thy riches.—PSALM 104:24.

The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the laws of man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the laws of nature,—were man as unerring in his judgments as nature.—LONGFELLOW.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.—T. EDWARDS.

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. —WORDSWORTH.

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible, that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.—LOCKE.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul. —POPE.

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.—HUME.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth; Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind; And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. —YOUNG.

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.—T.W. HIGGINSON.

Our old mother nature has pleasant and cheery tones enough for us when she comes in her dress of blue and gold over the eastern hill-tops; but when she follows us upstairs to our beds in her suit of black velvet and diamonds, every creak of her sandals and every whisper of her lips is full of mystery and fear.—HOLMES.

Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness. —EMERSON.

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! —BEECHER.

Nature is God's Old Testament.—THEODORE PARKER.

To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. —BRYANT.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.—JUVENAL.

Those who devote themselves to the peaceful study of nature have but little temptation to launch out upon the tempestuous sea of ambition; they will scarcely be hurried away by the more violent or cruel passions, the ordinary failings of those ardent persons who do not control their conduct; but, pure as the objects of their researches, they will feel for everything about them the same benevolence which they see nature display toward all her productions.—CUVIER.

"Behold the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on a single flower, and draws from it the delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and that the same heart may be occupied with all that is serious in the contemplations of religion, and be at the same time alive to the charms and the loveliness of nature.—DR. CHALMERS.

Who loves not the shady trees, The smell of flowers, the sound of brooks, The song of birds, and the hum of bees, Murmuring in green and fragrant nooks, The voice of children in the spring, Along the field-paths wandering? —T. MILLAR.

You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.—ST. BERNARD.

NOBILITY.—He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.—SIR E. BRYDGES.

If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.—PLATO.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.—H.W. SHAW.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lives In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. —LOWELL.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. —TENNYSON.

OBEDIENCE.—The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.—HARE.

To obey is better than sacrifice.—1 SAMUEL 15:22.

Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be the principle and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the glory of God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thy actions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in every enterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace be unto them, and mercy."—BURKITT.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.—SAADI.

He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life.—BURKITT.

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.—HENRY GILES.

"His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; His service freedom, and His judgments right. —WALLER.

Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the whole.—GEORGE SEWELL.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.—J.C. HARE.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.—METASTASIO.

OBSTINACY.—Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.—MADAME NECKER.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.—BLAIR.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.—POPE.

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.—THOMAS PAINE.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.—BARTON.

OCCUPATION.—Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.—DR. HORNE.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.—BURTON.

Occupation alone is happiness.—DR. JOHNSON.

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor." —SAMUEL SMILES.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.—SCHILLER.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.—EMERSON.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.—CARLYLE.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind—and that is as much in our hands as theirs—is the right of having something to do.—MISS MULOCK.

OPINION.—Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.—H.W. SHAW.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.—HORACE MANN.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.—KLOPSTOCK.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.—VENNING.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.—JOUBERT.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.—CICERO.

Who observes not that the voice of the people, yea of that people that voiced themselves the people of God, did prosecute the God of all people, with one common voice, "He is worthy to die." I will not, therefore, ambitiously beg their voices for my preferment; nor weigh my worth in that uneven balance, in which a feather of opinion shall be moment enough to turn the scales and make a light piece go current, and a current piece seem light.—ARTHUR WARWICK.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.—CICERO.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,—the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.—LOWELL.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

OPPORTUNITY.—Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.—BAYARD TAYLOR.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.—REV. T. JONES.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations.—RICHTER.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them,—besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.—CHAPIN.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries: And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —SHAKESPEARE.

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.—VOLTAIRE.

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it.—BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

There is no man whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window.—CARDINAL IMPERIALI.

Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.—MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.—HALIBURTON.

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.—COLTON.

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.—SENECA.

OPPOSITION.—The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority—demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice,—comes graceful and beloved as a bride. —EMERSON.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.—BURKE.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition.—JOHN NEAL.

It is not ease, but effort,—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.—SAMUEL SMILES.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.—GOETHE.

ORDER.—Order is heaven's first law.—POPE.

Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.—JOUBERT.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.—SOUTHEY.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. —SHAKESPEARE.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.—BLAIR.

Let all things be done decently and in order.—1 CORINTHIANS 14:40.

PARADISE.—Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.—LONGFELLOW.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. —BARTOL.

PARENTS.—The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: "If you would be holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you."—MONTESQUIEU.

Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural.—ADDISON.

Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for "Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father."—JEREMY TAYLOR.

Next to God, thy parents.—WILLIAM PENN.

Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed, Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. —RANDOLPH.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted.—SCOT'S MAGAZINE.

With joy the parent loves to trace Resemblance in his children's face: And, as he forms their docile youth To walk the steady paths of truth, Observes them shooting into men, And lives in them life o'er again. —LLOYD.

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.—EXODUS 20:12.

PASSION.—The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.—DR. WATTS.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.—COLTON.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. —POPE.

Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.—STEELE.

The art of governing the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.—JORTIN.

Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it.—FULLER.

In the human breast two master-passions cannot coexist.—CAMPBELL.

The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move, without the pilot she would be lost.—FROM THE FRENCH.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.—MRS. JAMESON.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. —CONFUCIUS.

Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner.—JACOBI.

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable. —JOUBERT.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,—efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.—HELPS.

As rivers, when they overflow, drown those grounds, and ruin those husbandmen, which, whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fertilized and enriched; so our passions, when they grow exorbitant and unruly, destroy those virtues, to which they may be very serviceable whilst they keep within their bounds.—BOYLE.

Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle.—REV. THOMAS ADAM.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.—SOUTHERN.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.—BOVEE.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.—SOUTH.

Exalted souls Have passions in proportion violent, Resistless, and tormenting; they're a tax Imposed by nature on pre-eminence, And fortitude and wisdom must support them. —LILLO.

One master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. —POPE.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey! —CRABBE.

A great passion has no partner.—LAVATER.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.—THOMAS PAINE.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.—LAVATER.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.—BOVEE.

It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.—MME. DE MAINTENON.

PAST.—The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.—WILLIAM WINTER.

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man.—CHATFIELD.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. —BYRON.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.—TRENCH.

Study the past if you would divine the future.—CONFUCIUS.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.—BYRON.

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!—C. BINGHAM.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.—WILLIAM PENN.

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.—RICHTER.

PATIENCE.—He that can have patience can have what he will.—FRANKLIN.

Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,—a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. —DECKER.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.—ADDISON.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.—MADAME DE SEVIGNE.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.—BUFFON.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.—BURKE.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.—MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age.—RICHTER.

We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within.—CHANNING.

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. —SHAKESPEARE.

Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.—C.A. BARTOL.

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age.—BISHOP HORNE.

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of this world, and then in perdition.—BISHOP HOPKINS.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.—LA BRUYERE.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.—COLTON.

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health.—FULLER.

Patience is sorrow's salve.—CHURCHILL.

PATRIOTISM.—He serves his party best, who serves the country best. —RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

This is a maxim which I have received by hereditary tradition, not only from my father, but also from my grandfather and his ancestors, that after what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more sacred than the love and respect I owe to my country.—DE THOU.

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

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home. —GOLDSMITH.

I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life.—SHAKESPEARE.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band! Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies! —JOSEPH HOPKINSON.

Strike—for your altars and your fires; Strike—for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! —FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation evermore! —HOLMES.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.—JOHN A. DIX.

The noblest motive is the public good.—VIRGIL.

The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever, The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever! —GEORGE P. MORRIS.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. —DANIEL WEBSTER.

Our country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurement more or less—still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.—ROBERT C. WINTHROP.

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,—are all with thee! —LONGFELLOW.

I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the world, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts!—VOLTAIRE.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.—DANIEL WEBSTER.

PEACE.—Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.—MATTHEW 5:9.

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.—GEORGE ELIOT.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.—PETRARCH.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.—WASHINGTON.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.—ISAIAH 2:4.

I never advocated war except as a means of peace.—U.S. GRANT.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul—to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.—CHAPIN.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.—ANDREW JACKSON.

PERSEVERANCE.—The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.—CARLYLE.

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial.—CHARLES JAMES FOX.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.—SIR T.F. BUXTON.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.—BAYARD TAYLOR.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.—DR. JOHNSON.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.—WHIPPLE.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.—LUCRETIUS.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing so hard but search will find it out. —LOVELACE.

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. —WASHINGTON IRVING.

Press on! a better fate awaits thee.—VICTOR HUGO.

PHILOSOPHY.—True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.—LAVATER.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.—W.B. CLULOW.

The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.—BACON.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. —SENECA.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.—BACON.

Whence? whither? why? how?—these questions cover all philosophy. —JOUBERT.

PHYSIOGNOMY.—Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.—BARTOL.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room.—JEREMY COLLIER.

Spite of Lavater, faces are oftentimes great lies. They are the paper money of society, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the human coffer.—F.G. TRAFFORD.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.—BOVEE.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. —JEREMY COLLIER.

PIETY.—True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive. —FENELON.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place. —CHAPIN.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.—CARLYLE.

Piety raises and fortifies the mind for trying occasions and painful events. When our country is threatened by dangers and pressed by difficulties who are the best bulwarks of its defence? Not the sons of dissipation and folly, not the smooth-tongued sycophants of a court, nor sceptics and blasphemers, from the school of infidelity; but the man whose moral conduct is animated and sustained by the doctrines and consolations of religion. Happy is that country where patriotism is sustained and sanctified by piety; where authority respects and guards freedom, and freedom reveres and loves legitimate authority; where truth and mercy meet together, righteousness and peace embrace each other.—TON.

It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence; the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, and the volcano; the circuit of the seasons and the revolutions of empires; without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.—DWIGHT.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.—BEECHER.

We are surrounded by motives to piety and devotion, if we would but mind them. The poor are designed to excite our liberality; the miserable, our pity; the sick, our assistance; the ignorant, our instruction; those that are fallen, our helping hand. In those who are vain, we see the vanity of the world; in those who are wicked, our own frailty. When we see good men rewarded, it confirms our hope; and when evil men are punished, it excites our fear.—BISHOP WILSON.

PITY.—Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.—GOLDSMITH.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. —ROUSSEAU.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.—SHAKESPEARE.

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.—WHITTIER.

The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.—THACKERAY.

Pity melts the mind to love.—DRYDEN.

PLEASURE.—Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasures, take this rule:—Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.—SOUTHEY.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.—SENECA.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure—that is the choicest of all.—HAWTHORNE.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.—LAVATER.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.—JEREMY COLLIER.

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.—FULLER.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.—MADAME DE LAMBERT.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.—EPICTETUS.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.—COLTON.

Pleasure's the only noble end To which all human powers should tend; And virtue gives her heavenly lore, But to make pleasure please us more! Wisdom and she were both design'd To make the senses more refined, That man might revel free from cloying, Then most a sage, when most enjoying! —MOORE.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. —POPE.

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them the means of innocent ones. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and if innocent are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature.—CHANNING.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.—COLTON.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.—MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. —J. PETIT-SENN.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

POETRY.—True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.—EPES SARGENT.

Then, rising with aurora's light, The muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head and bite your nails. —SWIFT.

It is uninspired inspiration.—HENRY REED.

Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.—COLERIDGE.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays! —WORDSWORTH.

Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in music of language. —CHATFIELD.

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime.—MADAME DUDEVANT.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.—MAZZINI.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.—SHELLEY.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. —ABRAHAM COLES.

Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.—DENHAM.

Poetry is the child of enthusiasm.—SIGMA.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.—COWPER.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.—S.T. COLERIDGE.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.—MACAULAY.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.—VOLTAIRE.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.—HARE.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.—PERCIVAL.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.—JOUBERT.

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin.—BEECHER.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.—CERVANTES.

POLITENESS.—True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. —CHESTERFIELD.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.—STANISLAUS.

Christianity is designed to refine and to soften; to take away the heart of stone, and to give us hearts of flesh; to polish off the rudeness and arrogances of our manners and tempers; and to make us blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke.—JAY.

Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts.—JOUBERT.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. —ALPHONSE KARR.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the want of it.—LYTTON.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable.—H.W. SHAW.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,—a letter of credit everywhere. —BARTOL.

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.—BEECHER.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.—JULIA WARD HOWE.

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.—MONRO.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?—CHATHAM.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.—GREVILLE.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.—GOLDSMITH.

When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either to pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.—CECIL.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.—FIELDING.

POPULARITY.—Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit.—WILLIAM PENN.

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!—LUKE 6:26.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.—KANT.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.—LORD GREVILLE.

POVERTY.—Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.—DR. JOHNSON.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.—BOVEE.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.—HORACE GREELEY.

Poverty is the only burden which is not lightened by being shared with others.—RICHTER.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime.—BOVEE.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. —HAZLITT.

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life: they enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.—SHERLOCK.

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. —DRYDEN.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.—HOSEA BALLOU.

That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no man is, properly speaking, poor, but he.—PALEY.

That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little.—CHANNING.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in supporting it.—RICHTER.

POWER.—Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.—COLTON.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.—BACON.

Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. —NAPOLEON.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.—J. PETIT-SENN.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.—PUBLIUS SYRUS.

It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.—PLUTARCH.

PRAISE.—Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.—BOVEE.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.—PROVERBS 27:2.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. —SPENSER.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.—FELTHAM.

Solid pudding against empty praise.—POPE.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.—SPRAT.

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.—BURKITT.

As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."—WENDELL PHILLIPS.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.—LOWELL.

Good things should be praised.—SHAKESPEARE.

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.—CHURCHILL.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. —YOUNG.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.—DR. JOHNSON.

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise.—FROM THE LATIN.

He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.—MANUEL.

Thou may'st be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence.—FULLER.

Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. —PLUTARCH.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.—HARE.

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. —STEELE.

Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.—PSALM 150:6.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.—STEELE.

PRAYER.—The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. —SENECA.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. —SPURGEON.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty; by what we require of God we see what He requires of us.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.—COWPER.

We have assurance that we shall be heard in what we pray, because we pray to that God that heareth prayer, and is the rewarder of all that come unto Him; and in His name, to whom God denieth nothing; and, therefore, howsoever we are not always answered at the present, or in the same kind that we desire, yet, sooner or later, we are sure to receive even above that we are able to ask or think, if we continue to sue unto Him according to His will.—ARCHBISHOP USHER.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.—CHAPIN.

So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of prayer.—HOOKER.

Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leave off sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying. —FULLER.

Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and evening; let our days begin and end with God.—CHANNING.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. —MONTGOMERY.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!—ST. CYPRIAN.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.—EMERSON.

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. —COLERIDGE.

More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. —TENNYSON.

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.—ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER.

Prayer is the first breath of Divine life; it is the pulse of the believing soul;—by prayer "we draw water with joy from the wells of salvation;" by prayer faith puts forth its energy, in apprehending the promised blessings, and receiving from the Redeemer's fullness; in leaning on His almighty arm, and making His name our strong tower; and in overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil.—T. SCOTT.

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.—MATTHEW 6:6.

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

Holy beginning of a holy cause, When heroes, girt for freedom's combat, pause Before high Heaven, and, humble in their might, Call down its blessing on that coming fight. —MOORE.

It is so natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.—JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. —WELLINGTON.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. —WASHINGTON IRVING.

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

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.—BUNYAN.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers. The only password is prayer.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends, the other descends.—BISHOP HOPKINS.

Prayer is the voice of faith.—HORNE.

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.—COLTON.

PREACHING.—That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.—BURNET.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.—NATHANIEL EMMONS.

A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing without taking the life.—FENELON.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.—JOSEPH COOK.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it.—CECIL.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. —BAXTER.

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.—LUTHER.

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon as what is.—CECIL.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.—J. PETIT-SENN.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.—EMERSON.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.—LUTHER.

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.—MASSILLON.

PRECEPT.—Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.—SENECA.

He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives and moderating our passions obliges human nature, not only in the present, but in all succeeding generations.—SENECA.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.—SENECA.

Precept must be upon precept.—ISAIAH 28:10.

PREJUDICE.—Prejudice is the child of ignorance.—HAZLITT.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.—FREDERICK DOUGLASS.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.—DUCHESS D'ABRANTES.

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.—TERENCE.

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot.—SOUTH.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.—BANCROFT.

Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them.—BUTLER.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.—G.D. PRENTICE.

Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.—KANE O'HARA.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.—ADDISON.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.—MADAME NECKER.

PRESENT.—Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.—HORACE.

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, to-morrow cannot be assured: to-day is only thine; which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever: one to-day is worth two to-morrows.—QUARLES.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.—SCHILLER.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.—HORACE.

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.—T.C. UPHAM.

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come.—COLTON.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours.—FULLER.

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.—CORNEILLE.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.—MISS EDGEWORTH.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.—VICTOR HUGO.

Every day is a gift I receive from Heaven; let us enjoy to-day that which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and to-morrow belongs to no one.—MANCROIX.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.—EMERSON.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.—WHITTIER.

PRESS.—In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.—CHAPIN.

Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.—JUNIUS.

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal.—CHATFIELD.

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe.—WHIPPLE.

PRETENSION.—It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.—WHATELY.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.—LAVATER.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.—SPURGEON.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.—CICERO.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.—PLUTARCH.

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.—LAVATER.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

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

PRIDE.—Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. —CLARENDON.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.—LOWELL.

Of all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. —POPE.

It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors.—CLARENDON.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. —ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.

Some people are proud of their humility.—BEECHER.

Pride requires very costly food—its keeper's happiness.—COLTON.

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. —ROSCOMMON.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.—STERNE.

There is this paradox in pride,—it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.—COLTON.

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself.—FRANKLIN.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!—JOAQUIN MILLER.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.—FRANKLIN.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. —PROVERBS 16:18.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. —LEGOUVE.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.—BEECHER.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.—LOUIS XI.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.—HOSEA BALLOU.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. —LYTTON.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.—DR. JOHNSON.

An avenging God closely follows the haughty.—SENECA.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.—QUARLES.

The proud man is forsaken of God.—PLATO.

PROCRASTINATION.—Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.—REV. DR. CHEEVER.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.—TILLOTSON.

By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." —CERVANTES.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.—L'ESTRANGE.

Procrastination is the thief of time.—YOUNG.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.—PERSIUS.

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.—FRANKLIN.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.—CHARLES BUXTON.

PROGRESS.—He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace.—RUSKIN.

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Everything new is received with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.—FEUERBACH.

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.—E.E. HALE.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Human improvement is from within outwards.—FROUDE.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the centuries.—EMERSON.

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.—HORACE MANN.

We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.—SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.—BURKE.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.—JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands. —EMERSON.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.—LYTTON.

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.—COLTON.

PROSPERITY.—Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.—BEECHER.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.—HOSEA BALLOU.

The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people.—BURET.

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.—TACITUS.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. —CICERO.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment.—LANDOR.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. —COLTON.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man.—HOOKER.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.—BEECHER.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.—VAUVENARGUES.

They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar.—SOUTH.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity.—ZIMMERMAN.

PROVIDENCE.—The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.—SPURGEON.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. —WHITTIER.

The decrees of Providence are inscrutable. In spite of man's short-sighted endeavors to dispose of events according to his own wishes and his own purposes, there is an Intelligence beyond his reason, which holds the scales of justice, and promotes his well-being, in spite of his puny efforts.—MORIER.

Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect. He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may neither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased to make both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesome and safe.—W. WOGAN.

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.—RACINE.

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.—CECIL.

Yes, thou art ever present, power supreme! Not circumscribed by time, nor fixt to space, Confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom or in chains, In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee! —HANNAH MORE.

We must follow, not force Providence.—SHAKESPEARE.

Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. —COWPER.

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. —PROVERBS 16:9.

PRUDENCE.—Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.—COLTON.

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.—MILTON.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. —SIR J. DENHAM.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.—FIELDING.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.—JEREMY COLLIER.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.—JUVENAL.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.—BURKE.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.—COLERIDGE.

PUNCTUALITY.—I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.—REV. W. FISK.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.—LORD NELSON.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. —HORACE MANN.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.—LA FONTAINE.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.—EMMONS.

PURITY.—Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.—MATTHEW 5:8.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.—J.G. HOLLAND.

While our hearts are pure, Our lives are happy and our peace is sure. —WILLIAM WINTER.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.—COLTON.

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.—SOCRATES.

QUARRELS.—Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.—MADAME NECKER.

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.—BISHOP HALL.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.—FRANKLIN.

Those who in quarrel interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. —GAY.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. —SHAKESPEARE.

READING.—Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.—HORACE MANN.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.—ZIMMERMANN.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.—LA BRUYERE.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. —COLTON.

We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.—SYDNEY SMITH.

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.—SIR JOHN HERSCHEL.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.—BACON.

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.—DUGALD STEWART.

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk."—MRS. PIOZZI.

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.—LYTTON.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.—COLLECT.

Much reading is like much eating,—wholly useless without digestion. —SOUTH.

REASON.—Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world.—DR. WATTS.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.—CONFUCIUS.

Though reason is not to be relied upon as universally sufficient to direct us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed where it tells us what we are not to do.—SOUTH.

He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, and he that dares not reason is a slave.—SIR W. DRUMMOND.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.—CICERO.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.—WALTER SCOTT.

One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, is only our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needs light,—to see clearly and far, it needs the light of Heaven.

The language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness, will often fail of making an impression; it has no effect on the understanding, because it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unassociated with reason, will frequently be unable to persuade; because, though it may gain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to convince the judgment. But let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to resist. —GISBORNE.

Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.—SHAKESPEARE.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.—EPES SARGENT.

REBUKE.—In all reprehensions, observe to express rather thy love than thy anger; and strive rather to convince than exasperate: but if the matter do require any special indignation, let it appear to be the zeal of a displeased friend, rather than the passion of a provoked enemy.—FULLER.

RECONCILIATION.—Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners!—JUSTIN MARTYR.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlasting forgetfulness.—BEECHER.

As thro' the land at eve we went, And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, We fell out, my wife and I, We fell out I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears.

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, Oh, there above the little grave, We kiss'd again with tears. —TENNYSON.

Oh, my dear friends,—you who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day,—if you only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do!—PHILLIPS BROOKS.

REFINEMENT.—Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. —CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.—BEECHER.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.—HUME.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.—DE QUINCEY.

REFORM.—He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.—LAVATER.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.—COLTON.

Time yet serves, wherein you may redeem your tarnished honors, and restore yourselves into the good thoughts of the world again. —SHAKESPEARE.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.—FRANKLIN.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.—CARLYLE.

Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in yourself.—SPRAT.

He who reforms, God assists.—CERVANTES.

REGENERATION.—Content not thyself with a bare forbearance of sin, so long as thy heart is not changed, nor thy will changed, nor thy affections changed; but strive to become a new man, to be transformed by the renewing of thy mind, to hate sin, to love God, to wrestle against thy secret corruptions, to take delight in holy duties, to subdue thine understanding, and will, and affections, to the obedience of faith and godliness.—BP. SANDERSON.

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.—CUDWORTH.

Regeneration is the ransacking of the soul, the turning of a man out of himself, the crumbling to pieces of the old man, and the new moulding of it into another shape; it is the turning of stones into children, and a drawing of the lively portraiture of Jesus Christ upon that very table that before represented only the very image of the devil.... Art thou thus changed? Are all old things done away, and all things in thee become new? Hast thou a new heart and renewed affections? And dost thou serve God in newness of life and conversation? If not,—what hast thou to do with hopes of heaven? Thou art yet without Christ, and so consequently without hope.—BISHOP HOPKINS.

REGRET.—A wrong act followed by just regret and thoughtful caution to avoid like errors, makes a man better than he would have been if he had never fallen.—HORATIO SEYMOUR.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, but he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.—DR. JOHNSON.

A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. —LONGFELLOW.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,—in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness. —MISS MULOCK.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" —WHITTIER.

RELIGION.—A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.—HOWE.