THE covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus, IT up to his chin in water and yet thirsty. Adams. T is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit-trees, or grain, it produces briers and weeds. It is the same with man, if he is not virtuous he is likely to become vicious. DEA EATH to a good man is like passing through a dark entry, out of a little dusky room in his father's house, into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. Adam Clarke. IF life. F the way to heaven be narrow, it is not long; Bishop Beveridge. HE E 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. THE poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If we would get to heaven we must climb thither by putting Sion upon mount Sinai. Bishop Hopkins. 'HRISTIANS are like the several flowers in a CHE garden, that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished and become nourishers of each other. THE Bunyan, HE chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases. Sharp. THE HE perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breezes. Burke. FAITH is letting down our nets into the un transparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take. C Faber. HRISTIAN faith is a grand cathedral with divinely-pictured windows: standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendour. Nat. Hawthorne. WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is said a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise, To higher levels rise, The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares, Out of all nearer cares. Longfellow. ERE RROR is sometimes so nearly allied to truth, that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other. Marlowe. 5252 THE 'HE soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home, Edmund Waller. IT is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, and the way to seek it does not appear to all the world. Goethe. THE person whose clothes are extremely fine, I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but like those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in a bob at the end of their noses. Goldsmith. AS first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave To do the like; our bodies but forerun The spirit's duty; true hearts spread and heave Unto their God, as flowers do to the sun. Vauhan. 2525 BEWARE of little expenses; a small leak will ED sink a great ship. Franklin, DUCATION is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster we must raise those of the recruiting-sergeant. EVILS Edward Everett. VILS in the journey of life are like the ills which alarm travellers upon their road; they both appear great at the distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. FA Colton. `AITH builds a bridge across the gulf of death To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. ΕΧΑΝ Young. XAMPLE is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh, 252525 Cecil. 525252525252525252525252525252525 |