217. The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enamelling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. -Geo. Bancroft.

218.

219.

Happy the man who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that checker life!
Resolving all events, with their effects
And manifold results, into the will

And arbitration wise of the Supreme.

-Cowper.

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.-Horace Mann.

220.

Over and over again,

No matter which way I turn,
I always find in the book of life,
Some lesson that I must learn;
I must take my turn at the mill,

I must grind out the golden grain,
I must work at my task with a resolute will,
Over and over again.—Anon.

221. The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;

But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night.

-Longfellow.

222. Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.-IIumboldt.

223. The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.-Sterling.

224.

Dare to be true,-nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. -Herbert.

225. As the countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of a God.—Jacobi.

226. The firefly only shines when on the wing; So is it with the mind; when once we rest,

227.

We darken.-Festus.

"Tis a kind of good deed to say well;
And yet words are not deeds.—Shaks.

228. Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain top, A child may first set off, a giant cannot stop.

-Trench.

229. In youth the habit of system, method, and industry, is as easily formed as others; and the benefits and enjoyments which result from it, are more than the wealth and honors which they always secure.-J. T. Trowbridge.

230. 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. 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.

231.

We often praise the evening clouds,
And tints so gay and bold,

But seldom think upon our God

Who tinged the clouds with gold.
-W. Scott.

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

233. There are times when a heaviness comes over the heart and we feel as if there was no hope. Who has not felt it? For this there is no cure but work. Plunge into it, put all your energies into motion, rouse up the inner man,-act, and this heaviness shall disappear as mist before the morning sun.

-Cassius M. Clay.

234. Sad are the sorrows that oftentimes come, Heavy and dull, and blighting and chill, Shutting the light from our heart and our home,

Marring our hopes and defying our will; But let us not sink beneath the woe;

'Tis well, perchance, we are tried and bowed, For be sure, though we may not oft see it below, There's a silver lining to every cloud.

235. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment.-Locke.

236. The deeds we do, the words we say,

Into the still air they seem to fleet;

We count them ever past;

But they shall last,

In the dread judgment they

And we shall meet.-John Keble.

237. Be not censorious, for thou knowest not whom thou judgest; it is a more dexterous error to speak well of an evil man, than ill of a good man.

-Quarles.

238.

Ne'er be hasty in your judgment,
Never foremost to extend
Evil mention of a neighbor,
Or of one you've called a friend!
Of two reasons for an action
Choose the better, not the worse;
Never let the meaner motive
Be the one you urge the first;
But be gentle with misfortune,
Never foremost to extend
Evil mention of a neighbor,

Or of one you've called a friend.

-Swain.

239. The universe is a mighty tree; and the great truth for us to connect with the majestic science of these days, and to keep vivid by a religious imagination, is, that from the roots of its mystery to the silver-leaved boughs of the firmanent, it is continually filled with God, and yet unconsumed.

-T. Starr King.

240. Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like seasoned timber, never gives;

But, though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.-Herbert.

241. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;

The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

-Shakespeare.