Religion crowns the statesman and the man, Sole source of public and of private peace. —YOUNG.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.—HOSEA BALLOU.

The source of all good and of all comfort.—BURKE.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will alone.—S.T. COLERIDGE.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.—PLUTARCH.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. —COWPER.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.—SHELLEY.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions; keep the Church and the State forever apart.—U.S. GRANT.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.—GUTHRIE.

All belief which does not render more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, an erroneous and superstitious belief.—LAVATER.

Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man.—LORD BURLEIGH.

A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.—FROM THE LATIN.

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.—WALTER SCOTT.

Nowhere would there be consolation, if religion were not.—JACOBI.

A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without God in the world." Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation.—WEBSTER.

All who have been great and good without Christianity, would have been much greater and better with it.—COLTON.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.—DOUGLAS JERROLD.

Wonderful! that the Christian religion, which seems to have no other object than the felicity of another life, should also constitute the happiness of this.—MONTESQUIEU.

Pour the balm of the Gospel into the wounds of bleeding nations. Plant the tree of life in every soil, that suffering kingdoms may repose beneath its shade and feel the virtue of its healing leaves, till all the kindred of the human family shall be bound together in one common bond of amity and love, and the warrior shall be a character unknown but in the page of history.—THOMAS RAFFLES.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.—COLTON.

A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering. —MASON.

Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.—BUNYAN.

A good name is better than precious ointment.—ECCLESIASTES 7:1.

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe—that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.—LA PLACE.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—WASHINGTON.

"When I was young, I was sure of many things; there are only two things of which I am sure now; one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Jesus Christ is an all sufficient Saviour." He is well taught who gets these two lessons.—JOHN NEWTON.

If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. —H.G.J. ADAM.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. —BEECHER.

REMEMBRANCE.—Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.—RICHTER.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.—THACKERAY.

I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. —SHAKESPEARE.

REMORSE.—Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.—JOUBERT.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. —COWPER.

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there.—CHATEAUBRIAND.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.—TILLOTSON.

REPENTANCE.—Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak.—DILWYN.

Repentance is but another name for aspiration.—BEECHER.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.—EPICTETUS.

Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. —JULIAN.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.—COLTON.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.—DR. JOHNSON.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.—DEWEY.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.—GOLDSMITH.

I will to-morrow, that I will, I will be sure to do it; To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, And still thou art to do it. Thus still repentance is deferred. From one day to another: Until the day of death is come, And judgment is the other. —DREXELIUS.

As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend: I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.—ARTHUR WARWICK.

Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.—SHAKESPEARE.

REPOSE.—Power rests in tranquillity.—CECIL.

Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.—MONTAIGNE.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations."—BOVEE.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.—LAVATER.

REPROOF.—If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.—HALIBURTON.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.—HOSEA BALLOU.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.—LYTTON.

Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.—HORACE MANN.

He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.—ATTERBURY.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.—SOLON.

REPUTATION.—The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.—SOCRATES.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!—HOLMES.

O, reputation! dearer far than life, Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil Of the rude spiller, ever can collect To its first purity and native sweetness. —SEWELL.

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.—LATENA.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.—THOMAS PAINE.

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.—TILLOTSON.

RESIGNATION.—Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. —PROFESSOR VINET.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.—QUARLES.

"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.—PRESSENSE.

With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the human soul and of its discipline.—GLADSTONE.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.—JOB 1:21.

Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thou wilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothing that pleases Thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thou choosest."—EPICTETUS.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.—BISHOP HORNE.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.—MOUNTFORD.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?—WILLIAM PENN.

RESOLUTION.—He only is a well-made man who has a good termination. —EMERSON.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect. —SHAKESPEARE.

REST.—Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!—CARLYLE.

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

God giveth quietness at last.—WHITTIER.

Of all our loving Father's gifts I often wonder which is best, And cry: Dear God, the one that lifts Our soul from weariness to rest, The rest of silence—that is best. —MARY CLEMMER.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.—HORACE GREELEY.

RETIREMENT.—How much they err who, to their interest blind, slight the calm peace which from retirement flows!—MRS. TIGHE.

Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell; Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. —SMOLLETT.

O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline— How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease! —GOLDSMITH.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. —GRAY.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.—ST. CHRYSOSTOM.

Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.—DR. JOHNSON.

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, Or recollected only to gild o'er And add a smile to what was sweet before, He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, Improve the remnant of his wasted span. And having lived a trifler, die a man. —COWPER.

But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life of retirement? A man may be weary of the toils and torments of business, and yet quite unfit for the tranquil retreat. Without literature, friendship, and religion, retirement is in most cases found to be a dead, flat level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body nor the soul can enjoy health and life in a vacuum.—RUSTICUS.

RICHES.—Riches exclude only one inconvenience,—that is, poverty. —DR. JOHNSON.

Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and kept without sin.—ERASMUS.

Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for its heavenly food; poverty, disgrace, and pain are the bitters which restore it.—BISHOP HORNE.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.—MOHAMMED.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. —SHAKESPEARE.

He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income.—LA BRUYERE.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.—BEECHER.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.—FRANKLIN.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.—PROVERBS 28:20.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.—FIELDING.

SABBATH.—The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society.—EMERSON.

Students of every age and kind, beware of secular study on the Lord's day.—PROFESSOR MILLER.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week.—BEECHER.

He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.—O.W. HOLMES.

SCANDAL.—If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.—CECIL.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame;— On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. —ELLA LOUISA HERVEY.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.—ST. JEROME.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.—EPHESIANS 4:31.

SCEPTICISM.—Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.—CHAPIN.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.—BEECHER.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.—STERNE.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.—DR. JOHNSON.

SECRECY.—The secret known to two is no longer a secret.—NINON DE LENCLOS.

Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.

A woman can keep one secret,—the secret of her age.—VOLTAIRE.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. —DR. JOHNSON.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.—HOLMES.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.—FRANKLIN.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. —DRYDEN.

SELF-CONTROL.—He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.—PROVERBS 16:32.

What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.—GOETHE.

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.—MILTON.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.—THOMSON.

He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who will not.—ENGLISH PROVERB.

SELF-DENIAL.—Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set us the example.—ARY SCHEFFER.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.—PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not, and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything. —CONYBEARE.

The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God. —HORACE.

The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.—JOHN STERLING.

SELFISHNESS.—Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.—BEECHER.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.—FELTHAM.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.—H.W. SHAW.

We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but worship ourselves.—CECIL.

SILENCE.—Be silent, or say something better than silence.—PYTHAGORAS.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. —JOAQUIN MILLER.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. —QUARLES.

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.—FRANKLIN.

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.—FULLER.

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. —BOUHOURS.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. —BOVEE.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.—S.T. COLERIDGE.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.—PROVERBS 17:28.

SIN.—Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God.—SIR HENRY VANE.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,—dark misgivings at the inmost heart.—SCHILLER.

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

Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.—SOUTHEY.

Many afflictions will not cloud and obstruct peace of mind so much as one sin: therefore, if you would walk cheerfully, be most careful to walk holily. All the winds about the earth make not an earthquake, but only that within.—ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

Think not for wrongs like these unscourged to live; Long may ye sin, and long may Heaven forgive; But when ye least expect, in sorrow's day, Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay. —CHURCHILL.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.—BARROW.

Other men's sins are before our eyes, our own are behind our back. —SENECA.

Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.—E.B. PUSEY.

Cast out thy Jonah—every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.—REYNOLDS.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you; and though it brings you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall not be able to keep you there. You love not death; love not the cause of death.—BAXTER.

SINCERITY.—I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."—HOLMES.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?—TILLOTSON.

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.—LOWELL.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.—BARTOL.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "honest man."—WASHINGTON.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.—TILLOTSON.

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship.—LONGFELLOW.

SLANDER.—When will talkers refrain from evil-speaking? When listeners refrain from evil-hearing.—HARE.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you must have dirty hands.—JOSEPH PARKER.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.—HOSEA BALLOU.

Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Out-venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world: kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters. —SHAKESPEARE.

Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down; Or, by the tossing of the fan, describe the lady and the man. —SWIFT.

Those men who carry about and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged, if so it could be at my decision—the carriers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears.—PLAUTUS.

Oh! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. —WALTER SCOTT.

SLEEP.—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.—FIELDING.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. —SAADI.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.—QUARLES.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. —BEECHER.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.—ALCOTT.

There are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.—STERNE.

Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. —ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. —COLERIDGE.

SOCIETY.—Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure.—MME. ROLAND.

Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.—EMERSON.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie. To these we owe true friendship, love sincere, Each home-felt joy that life inherits here. —POPE.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.—HAZLITT.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.—BERANGER.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use. —COWPER.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.—ADDISON.

Society is composed of two great classes,—those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.—CHAMFORT.

SUCCESS.—Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.—MIRABEAU.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.—TALLEYRAND.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.—DE MAISTRE.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.—SAMUEL SMILES.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.—LONGFELLOW.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.—SHERIDAN.

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.—SAMUEL SMILES.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.—W.B. CLULOW.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. —ADDISON.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.—JOUBERT.

Successful minds work like a gimlet,—to a single point.—BOVEE.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.—ADDISON.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.—H.W. SHAW.

SUICIDE.—Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.—YOUNG.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.—SIR P. SIDNEY.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. —ARISTOTLE.

Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not: this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. Like sentries that must keep their destined stand, And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved, Those only are the brave who keep their ground, And keep it to the last. —BLAIR.

Suicide is not a remedy.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. —COWPER.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.—DR. GEORGE SEWELL.

SUPERSTITION.—I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.—ROUSSEAU.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.—GEORGE MACDONALD.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.—CARLYLE.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.—SENECA.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable. —JOUBERT.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.—LAVATER.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.—DR. WATTS.

Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship of God.—CICERO.

Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad. —FIELDING.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.—VOLTAIRE.

SYMPATHY.—Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.—TALFOURD.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.—MOUNTFORD.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,—but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. —BEECHER.

The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.—PARKE GODWIN.

What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once—bright—pure—from pity's mine, Already polish'd by the Hand Divine. —BYRON.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.—SPURGEON.

TACT.—Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer.—COLTON.

A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome.

TALENT.—Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.—ROBERT HALL.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. —SYDNEY SMITH.

Talent without tact is only half talent.—HORACE GREELEY.

TALKING.—Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.—ALPHONSE KARR.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.—OUIDA.

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.—PLUTARCH.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoken can never be recalled. —ROSCOMMON.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy deeds. —SOCRATES.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. —DRYDEN.

He who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like.—TERENCE.

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.—LAVATER.

A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.—FROM THE FRENCH.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.—MONTESQUIEU.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in deed.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

TEARS.—Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored.—RICHTER.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. —WALTER SCOTT.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.—AARON HILL.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.—THOMAS PAINE.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.—AARON HILL.

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.—H.W. SHAW.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—PSALM 126:5.

Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.—MARC ANDRE.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. —PSALM 30:5.

TEMPER.—The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. —SPENSER.

With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete. —FROM THE GERMAN.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.—BLAIR.

Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?—JOHN ANGELL JAMES.

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.—ISAAC BARROW.

A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.—GUTHRIE.

TEMPERANCE.—Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.—FRANKLIN.

Fools! not to know how far an humble lot Exceeds abundance by injustice got; How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, While luxury destroys her pamper'd train. —HESIOD.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.—CLAUDIAN.

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.—DEAN SOUTH.

It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?—SYDNEY SMITH.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.—BURTON.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. —SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.—JOHN NEAL.

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

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.—SYDNEY SMITH.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.—SHAKESPEARE.

TEMPTATION.—'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. —SHAKESPEARE.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.—SPURGEON.

If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.—RICHTER.

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—DRYDEN.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. —J.Q. ADAMS.

When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out long.—BISHOP WILSON.

We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.—KING.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. —POPE.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.—WILLIAM PENN.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—MATTHEW 26:41.

THOUGHT.—Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.—ABBE RAYNAL.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.—COLTON.

Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.—HOLMES.

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. —WORDSWORTH.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.—ROBERT HALL.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.—BUFFON.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.—DISRAELI.

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?—PESTALOZZI.

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.—MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.—HARE.

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.—BACON.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.—C.A. BARTOL.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.—RIVAROL.

Learning without thought is labor lost.—CONFUCIUS.

The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and novelty. —CATHERALL.

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.—PROVERBS 23:7.

TIME.—Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go.—H.W. SHAW.

Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth; And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. —YOUNG.

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last. —KEN.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.—COLTON.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;—there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.—WALTER SCOTT.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.—SENECA.

The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. —LAVATER.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!—HORACE MANN.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.—MASON.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.—THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation.—THOMAS FULLER.

Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.—SENECA.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.—FENELON.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.—HAWTHORNE.

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—FRANKLIN.

TOLERATION.—Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. —THACKERAY.

There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.—DEWEY.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.—ARTHUR HELPS.

It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira. —ELIZABETH CHARLES.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?—THOMAS A KEMPIS.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.—BEECHER.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.—FENELON.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.—HOSEA BALLOU.

TRAVEL.—A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.—SAADI.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.—CARLO GOLDONI.

Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.—RUSKIN.

To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a banishment become.—DONNE.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—DR. JOHNSON.

He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.—CORTES.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.—SWIFT.

TRUST.—I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. —THOREAU.

Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear no evil, for be assured that even "if the enemy comes in like a flood" the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. While at that dread hour, when the world cannot help you, when all the powers of nature are in vain, yea, when your heart and your flesh shall fail you, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon Him who has said "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for ever." —H. BLUNT.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.—GEORGE MACDONALD.

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.—PROVERBS 16:20.

TRUTH.—There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.—WHATELY.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers. —BRYANT.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.—AMMIAN.

And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty above all things.—ESDRAS.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.—NEWTON.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. —DRYDEN.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.—WALTER SCOTT.

Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.—AMMIAN.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.—TILLOTSON.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.—HORACE MANN.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.—BACON.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.—CHARLES SUMNER.

The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; and her constant companion is humility.—COLTON.

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.—PALEY.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.—HORACE MANN.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty.—MME. DE STAEL.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity. —WHITTIER.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.—TILLOTSON.

The expression of truth is simplicity.—SENECA.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.—DEMOSTHENES.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.—WHITTIER.

The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.—EMERSON.

UNHAPPINESS.—The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.—HENRY HOME.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.—CICERO.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.—GOETHE.

VANITY.—All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.—AUERBACH.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.—H.W. SHAW.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.—POPE.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.—ADDISON.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.—LA BRUYERE.

Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—the vices of affectation and common lying.—ADAM SMITH.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.—SHAKESPEARE.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.—WASHINGTON.

Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.—STEELE.

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.—H.W. SHAW.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. —MRS. JAMESON.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.—LAVATER.

Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.—PSALM 39:5.

VICE.—Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.—COLTON.

The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.—DIOGENES.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.—PLUTARCH.

Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.—COLTON.

One sin another doth provoke.—SHAKESPEARE.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.—FRANKLIN.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.—DR. WATTS.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew.—COLTON.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. —PUBLIUS SYRUS.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.—CHAPIN.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. —POPE.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.—FRANKLIN.

VIRTUE.—Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.—HELVETIUS.

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. —EMERSON.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.—PASCAL.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,—temperance, fortitude, and justice.—EPICURUS.

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal.—CHILD.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.—SIR P. SIDNEY.

Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men.—VOLTAIRE.

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. —POPE.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell. —COLLINS.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or undermine and destroy.—SIR P. SIDNEY.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.—BISHOP BUTLER.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. —POPE.

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

If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue. —BURKE.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not gold.—BEETHOVEN.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. —SHAFTESBURY.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. —POPE.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.—BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,—all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.—COWPER.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. —J. PETIT-SENN.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.—BEECHER.

WANT.—How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!—LAVATER.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.—COLTON.

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can command, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.—DR. JOHNSON.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.—SPURGEON.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.—THOMAS A KEMPIS.

Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.—MANILIUS.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man. —ST. CLEMENT.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.—FIELDING.

WAR.—War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.—CHANNING.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.—BEECHER.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.—JAMES A. GARFIELD.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.—COLTON.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.—BROUGHAM.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.—WASHINGTON.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder.—LONGFELLOW.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness for war, and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace. —U.S. GRANT.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.—C.J. FOX.

Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again. —WELLINGTON.

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.—SOUTHEY.

WASTE.—Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.—DR. JOHNSON.

WEALTH.—Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more.—COLTON.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.—L'ESTRANGE.

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.—BACON.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.—MASSINGER.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal, and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness hereafter.—COLTON.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.—COLTON.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.—EMERSON.

Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt.—WAYLAND.

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.—MATTHEW HENRY.

What does competency in the long run mean? It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.—WHIPPLE.

The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words,—industry and frugality.—FRANKLIN.

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.—HILLARD.

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them, that the bargain is a loss.—LA BRUYERE.

It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.—COLTON.

To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No—all that's worth a wish—a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. —DR. JOHNSON.

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

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. —POPE.

A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man,—his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselors, her bosom the softest pillow of his care.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.—BURKE.

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Thy wife is a constellation of virtues, she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.—CONGREVE.

For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. —MILTON.

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife; When friendship, love and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine? —COWPER.

O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other houses.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

WISDOM.—It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, both may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.—YOUNG.

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.—HUMPHREYS.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding: for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her.—PROV. 3:13-18.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.—SIMMS.

Where the eye of pity weep, And the sway of passion sleeps, Where the lamp of faith is burning, And the ray of hope returning, Where the "still small voice" within Whispers not of wrath or sin, Resting with the righteous dead— Beaming o'er the drooping head— Comforting the lowly mind, Wisdom dwelleth—seek and find.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.—LACTANTIUS.

Seek wisdom where it may be found. Seek it in the knowledge of God, the holy, the just and the merciful God, as revealed to us in the gospel; of Him who is just, and yet the justifier of them that believe in Jesus.—ARCHDEACON RAIKES.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. —WORDSWORTH.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow.—SAADI.

Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book without impoverishing it.—RABBI BEN-AZAI.

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.—CICERO.

Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass.—TERENCE.

That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.—BISHOP MANT.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.—PSALM 90:12.

WIT.—I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. —MADAME DE SEVIGNE.

Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others.—FROM THE LATIN.

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his pained steps over the burning marle."—SYDNEY SMITH.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.—BISHOP HORNE.

Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.—LOCKE.

There is many a man hath more hair than wit.—SHAKESPEARE.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. —POPE.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.—VAUVENARGUES.

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary.—M. DE MONTLOSIER.

WOMAN.—Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven into the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. —SCHILLER.

The world was sad!—the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh'd—till woman smiled. —CAMPBELL.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them. —J.G. HOLLAND.

O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?—RICHTER.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight; Domestic worth,—that shuns too strong a light. —LORD LYTTLETON.

Nature sent women into the world with this bridal dower of love, for this reason, that they might be, what their destination is, mothers, and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered and from whom none are to be obtained.—RICHTER.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure, she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. —SHAKESPEARE.

What's a table richly spread, Without a woman at its head? —T. WHARTON.

O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! —WALTER SCOTT.

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life, than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.—GOLDSMITH.

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. —GAY.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. —BEECHER.

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. —E.S. BARRETT.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. —ABRAHAM COLES.

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Women in health are the hope of the nation. Men who exercise a controlling influence—the master spirits—with a few exceptions, have had country-born mothers. They transmit to their sons those traits of character—moral, intellectual, and physical—which give stability to institutions, and promote order, security, and justice.—DR. J.V.C. SMITH.

Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.—GAIL HAMILTON.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.—ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself will always be the text of the life of women.—BALZAC.

All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother.—STEELE.

I have always said it—nature meant to make woman its master-piece. —LESSING.

The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.—ST. PIERRE.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,—compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.—LAMARTINE.

The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.—HOLMES.

There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women.—ROMILLY.

WORDS.—A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.—PROVERBS 15:1.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. —SHAKESPEARE.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.—CICERO.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. —EARL OF ROSCOMMON.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?—JOB 38:2.

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.—ABDEL-KADER.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.—H.W. SHAW.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.—HAZLITT.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.—PROVERBS 16:24.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.—H.W. SHAW.

What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken can never be recalled.—ROSCOMMON.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.—CARLYLE.

It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.—M.M. BREWSTER.

"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us from the destructive power of words! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!—MARY HOWITT.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!—PROVERBS 15:22, 23.

WORK.—Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.—MRS. BROWNING.

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it—always assuming that his conscience approves—it brings an abounding satisfaction.—LEO W. GRINDON.

Nothing is impossible to industry.—PERIANDER.

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.—LEO W. GRINDON.

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.—II THESS. 3:10.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.—RUSKIN.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.—LOWELL.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.—LORD STANLEY.

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.—SCHLEIERMACHER.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. —EMERSON.

We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment.—JACOBI.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.—CARLYLE.

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.—WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you could hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.—BEECHER.

WORLD.—The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of the world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, who judiciously endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it.—CHESTERFIELD.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little long. —YOUNG.

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or permanent habitation.—CICERO.

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.—GEORGE MACDONALD.

The world is a bride superbly dressed; who weds her, for a dowry must pay his soul.—HAFIZ.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute? —QUARLES.

This world is God's world, after all.—CHARLES KINGSLEY.

There is another and a better world.—KOTZEBUE.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.—BOVEE.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.—LOCKE.

Take this as a most certain expedient to prevent many afflictions, and to be delivered from them: meddle as little with the world, and the honors, places and advantages of them, as thou canst. And extricate thyself from them as much, and as quickly as possible.—FULLER.

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

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.—SOUTHEY.

Thou must content thyself to see the world so imperfect as it is. Thou wilt never have any quiet if thou vexest thyself, because thou canst not bring mankind to that exact notion of things and rule of life which thou hast formed in thy own mind.—FULLER.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.—JEAN INGELOW.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.—H.W. SHAW.

O what a glory doth this world put on, For him who with a fervent heart goes forth, Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed and days well spent. —LONGFELLOW.

Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. —ST. AUGUSTINE.

WORSHIP.—The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.—HOSEA BALLOU.

It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may be made better,—that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.—BLAIR.

Lord, let us to thy gates repair To hear the gladdening sound, That we may find salvation there, While yet it may be found.

There let us joy and comfort reap; There teach us how to pray, For grace to choose, and strength to keep The strait, the narrow way.

And so increase our love for Thee, That all our future days May one continued Sabbath be Of gratitude and praise. —OKE.

Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.—BISHOP HENSHAWE.

The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the times and improving the condition of mankind.—ABULFAZZI.

YOUTH.—The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.—BISHOP MANT.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.—J. HAWES.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.—HARE.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.—RUeCKERT.

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity. —J. HAWES.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.—SIR W. TEMPLE.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.—ECCLESIASTES 12:1.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.—J.T. FIELDS.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.—DR. JOHNSON.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.—GOETHE.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.—FRANKLIN.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. —HANNAH MORE.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.—LYTTON.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.—GOETHE.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.—DR. METCALF.

As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the youth.—CICERO.

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