Chapter IV: Part 4

From God derived, to God by nature join'd.
We act the dictates of His mighty mind:
And though the priests are mute and temples still,
God never wants a voice to speak His will.
--ROWE.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me His existence.--BRUYÈRE.

We find in God all the excellences of light, truth, wisdom, greatness, goodness and life. Light gives joy and gladness; truth gives satisfaction; wisdom gives learning and instruction; greatness excites admiration; goodness produces love and gratitude; life gives immortality and insures enjoyment.--JONES OF NAYLAND.

We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.--BISHOP HEBER.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.--FELTHAM.

The man who forgets the wonders and mercies of the Lord is without any excuse; for we are continually surrounded with objects which may serve to bring the power and goodness of God strikingly to mind.--SLADE.

God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colors. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth.--RICHTER.

A secret sense of God's goodness is by no means enough. Men should make solemn and outward expressions of it, when they receive His creatures for their support; a service and homage not only due to Him, but profitable to themselves.--DEAN STANHOPE.

All is of God. If He but wave His hand,
The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud;
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud.

Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er;
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?
--LONGFELLOW.

"God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good." * * * Wheresoever I turn my eyes, behold the memorials of His greatness! of His goodness! * * * What the world contains of good is from His free and unrequited mercy: what it presents of real evil arises from ourselves.--BISHOP BLOMFIELD.

GOLD.--Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.--RIVAROL.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp,--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.--COLTON.

Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Cæsar which are Cæsar's, and unto God which are God's.--QUARLES.

Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold, that's put to use, more gold begets.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.--FELTHAM.

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds.
--BLAIR.

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!--GEORGE VILLIERS.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.--MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

GOODNESS.--A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.--BASIL.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.--SOPHOCLES.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.--POPE.

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.--LAVATER.

He that is a good man is three-quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.--SOUTH.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends. --BISHOP HALL.

Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.--CHALMERS.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.--WILLIAM PENN.

What is good-looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle, generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.--WHITTIER.

Some good we all can do; and if we do all that is in our power, however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and may be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and applauded by thousands.--BOWDLER.

GOVERNMENT.--The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of those who receive the trust.--CICERO.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. --SENECA.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.--MADISON.

The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy.--DUCLOS.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades,--that of government.--SOCRATES.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.--BEECHER.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.--GLADSTONE.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Those who think must govern those who toil.--GOLDSMITH.

GRACE.--Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.--DRYDEN.

The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.--BEECHER.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment,--divested of affectation and free from all pretence.--FUSELI.

Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.--HAZLITT.

GRATITUDE.--Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to.

He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.--CHARRON.

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.--SHAKESPEARE.

What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the benefit.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father in heaven!--HOSEA BALLOU.

GRAVE.--There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.--JOB 3:17, 18, 19.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead;" but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."--BEECHER.

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.--CHAPIN.

There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave!--the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

What is the grave?
'Tis a cool, shady harbor, where the Christian
Wayworn and weary with life's rugged road,
Forgetting all life's sorrows, joys, and pains,
Lays his poor body down to rest--
Sleeps on--and wakes in heaven.

GREATNESS.--He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.--LAVATER.

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.--CHANNING.

Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors
Are barren in return.
--ROWE.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are the portions of eternity.
--LOWELL.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.--CARLYLE.

If the title of great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of honor, justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.--SPARKS.

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."--LAVATER.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.--HAZLITT.

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.--COLTON.

A really great man is known by three signs,--generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.--BISMARCK.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness.--MATTHEW HENRY.

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.--EMERSON.

GRIEF.--Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. --MADAME DE GIRARDIN.

Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.--SENECA.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?--METASTASIO.

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

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.--MADAME SWETCHINE.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.--GREVILLE.

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.--BYRON.

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain.
--DRYDEN.

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.--CICERO.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.--H.W. SHAW.

Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls,
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest:
Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.
--YOUNG.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.--HORACE GREELEY.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.--SHAKESPEARE.

GRUMBLING.--When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.--D.L. MOODY.

Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining.--GRAVES.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.--GREVILLE.

No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business; but those who are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.--ROBERT WEST.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "It is all barren."--STERNE.

GUILT.--Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,--these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.--ROBERT HALL.

Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.--JUNIUS.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.--SIR WALTER SCOTT.

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all above him.--WIRT.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.--SHAKESPEARE.

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt.--SCHILLER.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.--SOUTHEY.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. --SENECA.

HABIT.--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.--COWPER.

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.--G.D. BOARDMAN.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink drop soileth the pure white page.--HOSEA BALLOU.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.--H.W. SHAW.

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.--PALEY.

Habit is ten times nature.--WELLINGTON.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.--GOETHE.

I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other; for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?--SENECA.

The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.--HENRY GILES.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.--COLTON.

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.--MRS. SIGOURNEY.

I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.--HOSEA BALLOU.

HAPPINESS.--He who is good is happy.--HABBINGTON.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam:
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
--COTTON.

The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.--PALEY.

Happiness and virtue react upon each other,--the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.--LYTTON.

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.--BISHOP HALL.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit!--HOSEA BALLOU.

Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy.--NORRIS.

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.--DICKENS.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.--ADDISON.

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind. --TILLOTSON.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.--HAWTHORNE.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.--J. PETIT-SENN.

There is no man but may make his paradise.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.--COLERIDGE.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. --FROUDE.

The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.--FROM THE FRENCH.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.--DUCHESSE DE PRASLIN.

HATRED.--The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation.--BRUYÈRE.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.--COLTON.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.--PLUTARCH.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.--BALZAC.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.--TACITUS.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.--LAMARTINE.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.--J. PETIT-SENN.

The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent. --TACITUS.

When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

HEALTH.--The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.--COLTON.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.--LYTTON.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words, health, peace and competence:
But health consists with temperance alone;
And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own.
--POPE.

O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.--STERNE.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.--STERNE.

Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.--MASSILLON.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.--JOHN RAY.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.--ABBA GOOLD WOOLSON.

For life is not to live, but to be well.--MARTIAL.

From labor health, from health contentment springs.--BEATTIE.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain--LYTTON.

The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.--FRANKLIN.

HEART.--Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.--PROVERBS 4:23.

The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven.
--LONGFELLOW.

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

All offences come from the heart.--SHAKESPEARE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.--ADDISON.

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

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

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

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

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

History teaches everything, even the future.--LAMARTINE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.--SHAKESPEARE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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