Chapter 2

O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sakeThe fool throws up his interest in both worlds,First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.—Blair.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great.—Zimmermann.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.—George Bancroft.

Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie,Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,Sees but a backward steward for the poor;This year a reservoir, to keep and spare;The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heirIn lavish streams to quench a country's thirst,And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.—Pope.

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

The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.—Zeno.

Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end?—Cicero.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.—Cowley.

Bashfulness.—Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.—Mary Wollstonecraft.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.—Plutarch.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.—Aristotle.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.—Colton.

Beauty.—It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm.—Fontenelle.

Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."—Thackeray.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.—Gibbon.

What is beauty? Not the showOf shapely limbs and features. No.These are but flowersThat have their dated hoursTo breathe their momentary sweets, then go.'Tis the stainless soul withinThat outshines the fairest skin.—Sir A. Hunt.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.—Socrates.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.—G.A. Sala.

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.—J. Petit-Senn.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.—Ouida.

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.—Richter.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.—Raleigh.

It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.—Bacon.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth.—Shaftesbury.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base.—Cecil.

A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower without fragrance, a tree without fruit.—Regnier.

All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth.—Shakespeare.

Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.—Frederika Bremer.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.—Addison.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.—Pope.

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods.—From the Italian.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,A shininggloss, that fadeth suddenly;A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud;A brittle glass, that's broken presently;A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.And as good lost is seld or never found,As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh,As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,As broken glass no cement can redress,So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost,In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.—Shakespeare.

Give me a look, give me a face,That makes simplicity a grace;Robes loosely flowing, hair as free!Such sweet neglect more taketh me,Than all the adulteries of art;That strike mine eyes, but not my heart.—Ben Jonson.

Benevolence.—Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.—Beecher.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect but not the image of God.—Howells.

Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded; here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance in His Father's house.—Bishop Mant.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.—Colton.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.—W.R. Alger.

There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as our benevolence. We should husband our means as the agriculturalist his fertilizer, which if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop, if over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in weeds.—Colton.

The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our esteem; but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections.—From the French.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.—Thackeray.

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence.—Sydney Smith.

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. Itgoethabout doing good.—Nevins.

Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It is a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn by the rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform at the call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to give splendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead your willing footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not the impulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. You must go to the poor man's cottage, though no verdure flourish around it, and no rivulet be nigh to delight you by the gentleness of its murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction you will be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere, in spite of every discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but a principle; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a business for the hand to execute.—Chalmers.

The only way to be loved, is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others.—Jay.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.—Kant.

The lessons of prudence have charms,And slighted, may lead to distress;But the man whom benevolence warmsIs an angel who lives but to bless.—Bloomfield.

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.

Bible.—The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.—Novalis.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.—Flavel.

Within that awful volume liesThe mystery of mysteries!Happiest they of human race,To whom God has granted graceTo read, to fear, to hope, to pray,To lift the latch and force the way;And better had they ne'er been born,Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.—Scott.

Like the needle to the North Pole, the Bible points to heaven.—R.B. Nichol.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.—Bacon.

Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. It ought, therefore, to hold the chief place in every situation of learning throughout Christendom; and I do not know of a higher service that could be rendered to this republic than the bringing about this desirable result.—Dr. Nutt.

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William, it is the Gospel according to Mary, it is the Gospel according to Henry and James, it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.—Beecher.

A single book has saved me; but that book is not of human origin. Long had I despised it; long had I deemed it a class-book for the credulous and ignorant; until, having investigated the Gospel of Christ, with an ardent desire to ascertain its truth or falsity, its pages proffered to my inquiries the simplest knowledge of man and nature, and the simplest, and at the same time the most exalted system of moral ethics. Faith, hope and charity were enkindled in my bosom; and every advancing step strengthened me in the conviction that the morals of this book are as infinitely superior to human morals as its oracles are superior to human opinions.—M.L. Bautin.

Whence but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or whyShould all conspire to cheat us with a lie?—Dryden.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.—Milton.

I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.—Romaine.

It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter: it is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting.—Locke.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.—Franklin.

Here there is milk for babes, whilst there is manna for angels; truth level with the mind of a peasant; truth soaring beyond the reach of a seraph.—Rev. Hugh Stowell.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.—Goethe.

Bigotry.—All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.—Pope.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.—Chapin.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.—Addison.

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.—Feltham.

Biography.—The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.—Samuel Smiles.

Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.—Horace Mann.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.—Plutarch.

Boasting.—Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.—Lavater.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.—Young.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.—Shakespeare.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.—Æschines.

The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it.—Bacon.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,Brags of his substance, not of ornament:They are but beggars that can count their worth.—Shakespeare.

Books.—When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow.—Washington Irving.

No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read.—Seneca.

He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.—Clarendon.

I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses.—O.W. Holmes.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.—Longfellow.

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.—Channing.

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot putfireinto their works would only consent to put their works into thefire.—Colton.

Books, dear books,Have been, and are my comforts; morn and night,Adversity, prosperity, at home,Abroad, health, sickness—good or ill report,The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich,And source of consolation.—Dr. Dodd.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman.—La Bruyère.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.—Jeremy Collier.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.—Colton.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude.—Voltaire.

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.—Horace Mann.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker—it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.—Theodore Parker.

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind.—Fuller.

Brevity.—Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.—Shakespeare.

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues—righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.—Sydney Smith.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.—Southey.

The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.—Alfred Bougeant.

The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.—Fénelon.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace,Much truth compressing in a narrow space;Then many shall peruse, but few complain,And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.—Pindar.

Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage.—H.W. Shaw.

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies.—George Herbert.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.—Steele.

Business.—That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.—Izaak Walton.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.—Bovee.

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.—Duke of Wellington.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.—Swift.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.—Helps.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.—Theodore Parker.

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.—Tacitus.

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.—Sismondi.

Few people do business well who do nothing else.—Chesterfield.

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do."—Steele.

Care.—To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.—Haliburton.

Cast all your care on God: that anchor holds.—Tennyson.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,And every grin, so merry, draws one out.—Dr. Wolcot.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.—Spurgeon.

Caution.—It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.—Publius Syrus.

Vessels large may venture more,But little boats should keep near shore.—Benjamin Franklin.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.—Victor Hugo.

All is to be feared where all is to be lost.—Byron.

Censure.—Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them to praise which deceives them.—La Rochefoucauld.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the others.—Diogenes.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.—Swift.

The villain's censure is extorted praise.—Pope.

Character.—How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.—S.T. Coleridge.

The great hope of society is individual character.—Channing.

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.—Ruskin.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.—Richter.

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.—Tuckerman.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.—Samuel Smiles.

The man that makes a character makes foes.—Young.

He's truly valiant that can wisely sufferThe worst that man can breathe;And make his wrongs his outsides,To wear them like his raiment, carelessly;And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,To bring it into danger.—Shakespeare.

Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.—Alphonse Karr.

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

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said, "Men succeed less by their talents than their character." There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.—Wendell Phillips.

All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.—Bovee.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.—Lavater.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is "victory organized."—Bovee.

A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors.—Hawes.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.—Lavater.

Charity.—I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.—Mrs. Jameson.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as irrational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.—Fitzosborne.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.—Matthew 6:3.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity—the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy, and the spirit of indifference.—Bossuet.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.—Colton.

The drying up a single tear has moreOf honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.—Byron.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself.—Joubert.

Almost all the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue of charity and love:—for "it suffereth long," and so it is longanimity; it "is kind," and so it is courtesy; it "vaunteth not itself," and so it is modesty; it "is not puffed up," and so it is humility; it "is not easily provoked," and so it is lenity; it "thinketh no evil," and so it is simplicity; it "rejoiceth in the truth," and so it is verity; it "beareth all things," and so it is fortitude; it "believeth all things," and so it is faith; it "hopeth all things," and so it is confidence; it "endureth all things," and so it is patience; it "never faileth," and so it is perseverance.—Chillingworth.

As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, who is the Lord above all lords, would have his servants known by their badge, which is love.—Latimer.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.—Thoreau.

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.—Koran.

Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.—1 Peter 4:8.

It is an old saying, that charity begins at home; but this is no reason it should not go abroad. A man should live with the world as a citizen of the world; he may have a preference for the particular quarter or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole.—Cumberland.

Alas for the rarity of Christian charity under the sun!—Hood.

You cannot separate charity and religion.—Colton.

Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.—Haweis.

Whoever would entitle himself after death, through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.—Archbishop Secker.

I have learned from Jesus Christ himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ, if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.—St. Basil.

There is a debt of mercy and pity, of charity and compassion, of relief and succor due to human nature, and payable from one man to another; and such as deny to pay it the distressed in the time of their abundance may justly expect it will be denied themselves in a time of want. "With what measure you mete it shall be measured to you again."—Burkitt.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.—Seneca.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.—Victor Hugo.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler, sister woman;Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,To step aside is human.—Burns.

Cheerfulness.—Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.—Charles Kingsley.

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.—Pliny.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.—Proverbs 17:22.

Be of good cheer.—John 16:33.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.—Horace.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.—Fuller.

If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause!—Archbishop Usher.

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.—Blair.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.—Mrs. L.M. Child.

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.—J.T. Fields.

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease.—Steele.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.—Lowell.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.—Addison.

Children.—If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.—T.W. Higginson.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.—Dickens.

They are idols of hearts and of households;They are angels of God in disguise;His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;His glory still gleams in their eyes.Oh those truants from home and from heaven,They have made me more manly and mild,And I know now how Jesus could likenThe kingdom of God to a child.—Dickens.

The child is father of the man.—Wordsworth.

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.—Richter.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.—Horace Mann.

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