Chapter 4

Death is delightful. Death is dawn—The waking from a weary nightOf fevers unto truth and light.—Joaquin Miller.

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.—Pope.

All that lives must die,Passing through nature to eternity.—Shakespeare.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.—Richter.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.—Martial.

No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarter of the world he abides—whatever be his circumstances—however strong his present hold of life—however unlike the prey of death he looks—that it is his doom beyond reverse to die.—Stebbing.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.—Metastasio.

God giveth quietness at last.—Whittier.

Death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.—John Webster.

Death will have his day.—Shakespeare.

Death comes but once.—Beaumont and Fletcher.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.—Gotthold.

Death is the crown of life.—Young.

So live, that, when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan, that movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'dBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one that draws the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.—Bryant.

Debt.—Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.—Tusser.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.—Franklin.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor.—Lytton.

Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity.—Delany.

Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score.—Sir M. Hale.

Debt is the worst poverty.—M.G. Lichtwer.

Delicacy.—Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.—Marguerite de Valois.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.—Novalis.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.—Mrs. Sigourney.

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.—Mary Howitt.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.—Degerando.

Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.—Greville.

Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.—Achilles Poincelot.

Delusion.—Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to the stern realities of life.—A.R.C. Dallas.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.—Bovee.

We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain.—James Ellis.

Despair.—It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.—Jeremy Taylor.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.—Beaconsfield.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.—South.

Despair is infidelity and death.—Whittier.

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. I would not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.—Collier.

Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He is, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.—Mrs. Browning.

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.—Confucius.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.—Lady Blessington.

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has drivenTo censure fate, and pious hope forego.—Beattie.

Diet.—Simple diet is best.—Pliny.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.—Shakespeare.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.—Franklin.

Difficulties.—Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.—Seneca.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.—Aaron Hill.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence—as a compliment from God.—Beecher.

It is difficulties which give birth to miracles.—Rev. Dr. Sharpe.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men.—Samuel Warren.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.—Burke.

There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance.

Discipline.—No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.—William Penn.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.—Seneca.

Discord.—Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtue this same discord can be turned to harmony.—James Ellis.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?—St. Bernard.

Discretion.—Remember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.—Sir Walter Raleigh.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.—Addison.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.—Bacon.

Discretion and hard valor are the twins of honor.—Beaumont and Fletcher.

The better part of valor is discretion.—Shakespeare.

Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little.—Father du Bosc.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stopNot to outsport discretion.—Shakespeare.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the duties of life.—Addison.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.—Gambetta.

Dissimulation.—Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not, artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.—La Bruyère.

Dress.—In the matter of dress people should always keep below their ability.—Montesquieu.

Those who are incapable of shining but by dress would do well to consider, that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.—Shenstone.

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin.—Matthew 6:28.

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods; and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.—Abba Goold Woolson.

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.—Sir Walter Raleigh.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.—George D. Prentice.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.—Shakespeare.

No real happiness is foundIn trailing purple o'er the ground.—Parnell.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.—Chamfort.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best invidious; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.—Shenstone.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.—Rousseau.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.—Haliburton.

Dress has a moral effect on the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence ofaddress.—Sir Jonah Barrington.

We sacrifice to dress, till household joysAnd comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,And keeps our larder clean; puts out our fires,And introduces hunger, frost and woe,Where peace and hospitality might reign.

Dress changes the manners.—Voltaire.

Drink.—Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink.—Isaiah 5:11.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast.—William Penn.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.—Franklin.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.—Colton.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.—Douglas Jerrold.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee—devil! * * * O, that men should put an enemy to their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!—Shakespeare.

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.—Shakespeare.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.—Sir Walter Raleigh.

Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself. Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.—Sir G. Sinclair.

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections—this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul—this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way—this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.—Quarles.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.—Judge Coleridge.

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee; where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.—Quarles.

Duty.—Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass.—Emerson.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.—Hannah More.

The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs human nature can give, that wherever the path of duty and honor may lead, however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk in it.—James A. Garfield.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure.—Mme. de Motteville.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.—Carlyle.

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.—Ecclesiastes 12:13.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.—Samuel Smiles.

Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.—Theodore Parker.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.—Theodore Parker.

In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful.

Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.—Theodore Parker.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern.—Epictetus.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.—Thomas à Kempis.

There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the seas, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape their power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at its close, and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity which lies yet further onward we shall still find ourselves surrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it has been violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us grace to perform it.—Webster.

Early Rising.—Whoever has tasted the breath of morning, knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of Nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.—Southey.

Who would in such a gloomy state remainLonger than nature craves; when ev'ry museAnd every blooming pleasure wait without,To bless the wildly devious morning walk?—Thomson.

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years to a man's life.—Doddridge.

I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing."—Chatham.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.—Wellington.

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.—Dr. John Todd.

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.—Flint.

Thus we improve the pleasures of the day,While tasteless mortals sleep their time away.—Mrs. Centlivre.

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty;—let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only,—those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learnt.—Colton.

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will be emperor, he is so early."—Caussin.

Earnestness.—Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men, he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it the depth of shadow.—Peter Bayne.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace.—Emerson.

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.—Bovee.

There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.—Dickens.

He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.—John Foster.

Economy.—Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.—H.W. Shaw.

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.—Spurgeon.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy hide-bound pocket soon begin to thrive and will never again cry with the empty belly-ache; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.—Franklin.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.—Feltham.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.—Dr. Johnson.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.—Franklin.

If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone.—Franklin.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.—Joubert.

A penny saved is two pence clear,A pin a day's a groat a year.—Franklin.

Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do not the work better, they behave better and are more respectable; and I would sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money than two hundred who would spend every shilling they get. In proportion as individuals save a little money their morals are much better; they husband that little, and there is a superior tone given to their morals, and they behave better for knowing that they have a little stake in society.

No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.—Haliburton.

Education.—The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.—Mrs. Sigourney.

A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,—whether he is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent.—Lady Hervey.

The world is only saved by the breath of the school children.—The Talmud.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses.—Beecher.

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.—Milton.

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.—Webster.

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanics' institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour.—Horace.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.—G.W. Curtis.

Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.—James A. Garfield.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.—Gascoigne.

On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.—Webster.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind.—Hosea Ballou.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.—Chapin.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.—Beattie.

Into what boundless life does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being—positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.—Chapin.

All that a university or final highest school can do for us is still but what the first school began doing—teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.—Carlyle.

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them—you first make thieves and then punish them.—Sir Thomas More.

'Tis education forms the common mind,Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.—Pope.

Egotism.—When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never.—Montaigne.

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.—Chesterfield.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves at all.—La Rochefoucauld.

It is never permissible to say, I say.—Madame Necker.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.—Zimmermann.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.—Hare.

The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.—Lavater.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.—Pascal.

He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.—La Rochefoucauld.

Eloquence.—Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a manuscript; every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.—Colton.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.—La Rochefoucauld.

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.—Webster.

There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker, as in his choice of words.—La Rochefoucauld.

Employment.—Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit.—Blair.

The rust rots the steel which use preserves.—Lytton.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.—Seneca.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.—Jeremy Taylor.

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

Enthusiasm.—Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.—Emerson.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.—Beaconsfield.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.—Tuckerman.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.—Lytton.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.—Emerson.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader.—Arthur Helps.

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.—Phillips Brooks.

Envy.—There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.—Sheridan.

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.—Socrates.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.—St. Chrysostom.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.—Pliny.

Base envy withers at another's joy,And hates that excellence it cannot reach.—Thomson.

The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him!—Steele.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.—La Rochefoucauld.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.—Colton.

Envy—the rottenness of the bones.—Proverbs 14:30.

There is no guard to be kept against envy, because no man knows where it dwells, and generous and innocent men are seldom jealous and suspicious till they feel the wound.

Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.—Saadi.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.—Colton.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.—Rochester.

Eternity.—He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.—Colton.

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations, we are eternally happy.—Burnet.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.—Bishop Heber.

The vaulted void of purple skyThat everywhere extends,That stretches from the dazzled eye,In space that never ends;A morning whose uprisen sunNo setting e'er shall see;A day that comes without a noon,Such is eternity.—Clare.

"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given by one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty."—John Bate.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.—Tillotson.

Evil.—The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.—Coleridge.

The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.—Shakespeare.

Evil is wrought by want of thought,As well as want of heart.—Hood.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.—Mohammed.

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.—Desmahis.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.—Emerson.

If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.—Franklin.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.—Southey.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.—Chapin.

Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.—Channing.

Example.—Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.—Rev. R. Cecil.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.—Goldsmith.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.—Thomas à Kempis.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.—Franklin.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.—Hosea Ballou.

I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.—Herodotus.

Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.—H.W. Shaw.

If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts; such as thy behavior is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.—Quarles.

Example is contagious behavior.—Charles Reade.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but he went about doing good.—Horace Mann.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.—Dr. Johnson.

Excess.—Excess always carries its own retribution.—Ouida.

The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety.—Knox.

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