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 ''The simplest rule for 
 the upbuilding of char- 
 acter is to do in the 
 right spirit the hun- 
 dred little things which 
 make up our daily life 
 and to accept bravely 
 whatever happens.'* 
 
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 ''Character is not cut 
 in marble, it is not 
 something solid and 
 unalterable, but some- 
 thing living and chang- 
 ing, and may become 
 diseased as do our 
 bodies." 
 
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 COMPILED. PUBLISHED AND COPYRIGHTED BY 
 
 Willihm Jiugh mXcearthy 
 
 1903 \\ 
 
 102 SECOND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAI_. 
 
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 The Tapestry Weavers. 
 
 ^ ET us take to our hearts .a lesson — no lesson can braver 
 
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 yiL-^ From the -wWys ©f %li€ tapestry weavers on the other 
 , . . side of the .sea. , -' •, 
 . Ab©Ye- their he^ds: 0^4 pattern hangs, they study it 
 ■ with dare, ' 
 The while their fingers deftly work, their eyes are fastened 
 
 there. 
 They tell this curious thing, besides, of the patient plodding 
 
 weaver, 
 He works on the wrong side evermore, but works for the right 
 
 side ever. 
 It is only when the weaving stops and the web is loosed and 
 
 turned, 
 That he sees his real handiwork — that his marvelous skill is 
 
 learned. 
 Ah ! the sight of its delicate beauty, how it pays him for 
 
 all his cost! 
 No rarer, daintier work than his, was ever done by the frost. 
 Then the master bringeth him golden hire, and giveth him 
 
 praise as well, 
 And how happy the heart of the weaver is, no tongue but his 
 
 own can tell. 
 The years of man are looms of God, let down from the place 
 
 of the sun. 
 Wherein we are weaving always, till the mystic web is done; 
 Weaving blindly, but weaving surely, each for himself his fate ; 
 We may not see how the right side looks, we can only weave 
 
 and wait. 
 But, looking above for the pattern, no weaver need have fear. 
 Only let him look clear into heaven — the Perfect Pattern is 
 
 there. 
 If he keeps the face of our Saviour, forever and always in 
 
 sight. 
 His toil shall be sweeter than honey, his weaving is sure to 
 
 be right. 
 And when his task is ended, and the web is turned and shown, 
 He shall hear the voice of the Master, it shall say to him: 
 
 "Well done!" 
 And the white-winged angels of heaven, to bear him thence 
 
 shall come down. 
 And God for his wages shall give him — not coin, but a golden 
 
 crown. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 HE sententious sayings of 
 great men shine out like 
 stars in the firmament of 
 thought; there is a depth 
 of meaning and yet a clear- 
 ness of expression in themy 
 that carry the idea in- 
 tended to be conveyed 
 straight to the mind and 
 deep into the hearty exer- 
 cising the thoughts and 
 moving the feelings. 
 
 The maxims of the wise 
 and good are like so many 
 lamps hung at intervals 
 in the dark avenue of life; 
 in passing eachy the path 
 is illuminated, and help, 
 warning, counsel and com- 
 fort given on the onward 
 journey.** 
 
 — Anon. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 I 
 
 CHARACTER AND ITS FORMATION. 
 
 II 
 
 HEALTH, HABITS, TEMPERANCE. 
 
 Ill 
 
 MANNERS, THRIFT, FORTUNE. 
 
 IV 
 
 OPPORTUNITY, DUTY, TRUTH. 
 
 THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS. 
 
 VI 
 
 BOOKS, EDUCATION, WISDOM. 
 
 VII 
 
 PURPOSE, WORK, SUCCESS. 
 
 VIII 
 
 FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, COMPANY. 
 
 IX 
 
 THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. 
 
 PATIENCE, HUMILITY, RESIGNATION. 
 
 XI 
 
 PATRIOTISM. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 Charoccter ^nd How It Is Formed. 
 
 The real strength of a man is in his character. Popu- 
 lar estimate makes it consist in his circumstances. A 
 man's strength is measured by the number of his friends, 
 by his wealth, by his social position, and his influence 
 is in proportion to his reputation in the world's esteem. 
 But in truth, a man is strong only in his manhood. How 
 jnuch there is in a man, you must ascertain by measur- 
 ing his character. A man is not strong by what he has, 
 but by what he is; and in measuring what a man is we 
 are to measure his character. Now character is not a 
 massive unit, it is a fabric, rather. It is an artificial 
 whole made up by the interply of ten thousand threads. 
 Every faculty is a spinner, spinning each day its threads, 
 and almost every day threads of a different color. 
 Myriads and myriads of webbed products proceed from 
 the many active faculties of the human soul, and char- 
 acter is made up by the weaving together of all these 
 innumerable threads of daily life. Its strength is not 
 merely in the strength of some simple unit, but in the 
 strength of numerous elements. 
 
 A man without decision can never be said to belong to 
 himself. — Foster. 
 
 He conquers, who awaits the end, and dares to suffer 
 and be strong. — Lewis Morris. 
 
 Make youTself an honest man, and then you may be 
 sure that there is one rascal less in the world. — Carlyle. 
 
 I find that the great thing in this world is not so much 
 where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. — 
 0. W. Holmes. 
 
 And if you fall — why, arise again ! Get up, and go 
 on ; you may be sorely bruised and soiled with your fall, 
 but is that any reason for lying still, and giving up the 
 struggle cowardly? — Chas. Kingsley. 
 
Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 To bear is to conquer our fate. — Campbell. 
 
 No man can amount to much without constant prac- 
 tice of stern self-denial and rigid self-control. — W. D, 
 Hyde. 
 
 Solitude is the mother country of the strong. — Rev, 
 P. A. Sheehan, P. P. 
 
 Each one of us, with the help of God, and within the 
 narrow limits of" human capability, himself makes his 
 own disposition, character, and permanent condition. — 
 ■ Emile&ouvestre. 
 
 ' An indi'scr<3et man is more hurtful than an ill-natured 
 one; the latter will only attack his enemies, the other 
 injures indifferently both friends and foes. — Addison. 
 
 Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least 
 impurity without damage; it is a precious stone, the 
 price of which is lessened by the least flaw. — Bossuet. 
 
 Talents are nurtured best in solitude, but character 
 on lifers tempestuous sea. — Goethe. 
 
 Not education, but character, is man's greatest need 
 and man^s greatest safeguard. 
 
 Doing is the greatest thing. For if, resolutely, people 
 do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. — 
 Buskin. 
 
 Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all 
 things the supreme excellence is simplicity. — Longfel- 
 low. 
 
 All the events of our life are materials out of which 
 we may make what we will. — Novalis. 
 
 All great achievements are the natural fruits of a 
 great character. — Longfellow. 
 
 Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, 
 and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than 
 ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. — 
 Scott. 
 
 Let us so live as to be an inspiration, strength, and 
 blessing to those whose lives are touched by ours. 
 
 Alike for the nation and the individual, the one in- 
 dispensable requisite is character — character that does 
 and dares as w^ll as endures ; character that is active in 
 the performance of virtue no less than firm in the re- 
 fusal to do aught that is vicious or degraded. — Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt. 
 
 As it is better to be than to have — a good character is 
 more precious than gold. 
 
 Character is so largely affected by associations, that 
 we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what 
 
Character and Row It Is Formed. 
 
 our friends are. They write their names in our albums, 
 but they do more, they help to make us what we are. 
 Be therefore careful in selecting them ; and when wisely 
 selected, never sacrifice them. — M. Hubbard. 
 
 A strong and noble character is not he who tries to 
 domineer over others, and force his opinions on them; 
 but he who endeavors to overcome his natural inclina- 
 tions, and evil tendencies, yielding his opinions in indif- 
 ferent things for the sake of peace and charity, stead- 
 fastly adhering to truth and justice, and giving a kind 
 word and helping hand to those in sorrow and affliction. 
 
 The great thing which a young man needs in a crisis 
 of temptation is prayer and to declare for right quickly. 
 Leave no time for temptation to accumulate. It often 
 requires a good deal of character to do that, not only a 
 religious principle, but a strong character. — Rev. Fr. 
 Cook, C. S. S. R. 
 
 It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as 
 the having overcome them, that is an advantasfe to us. — 
 Swift. 
 
 Keep steadily before you the fact that all true suc- 
 cess depends at last upon yourself. — Theodore Hunger . 
 
 Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. — 
 Michael Angelo. 
 
 Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning 
 of life, and every setting sun be as its close — then let 
 every one of these short lives leave its sure record of 
 some kindly thing done for others, some good strength 
 or knowledge gained for yourselves. 
 
 We must not deceive ourselves, for he that overcometh 
 not himself in little matters, will not be able to do so in 
 great things. — St. Francis Xavier. 
 
 How can we expect a harvest of thought, who have not 
 had the seedtime of character? — Thoreau. 
 
 In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in 
 matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. — Robert 
 Hall. 
 
 Temptations are the crises which test the strength' 
 of one's character. Whether we stand or fall at these 
 decisive points depends largely on what we are before 
 the testing comes. 
 
 Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words 
 of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little 
 silent victories over favorite temptations — these are the 
 silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam 
 out so brightly in the pattern of life which God approves. 
 — F. W. Farrar. 
 
Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 Pass a little grievance by, 
 Don^t appear to heed it; 
 Be as helpful as you may, 
 
 Kind to those who need it. 
 Never flatter, never try 
 Skillfully to win them 
 To your own peculiar views, 
 Take them as you find them. 
 
 The qualities which are the most attractive in child- 
 hood are not by any means the most valuable in ma- 
 turity. We look for determination, will, decision of 
 character, firmness in the man, and refuse him our re- 
 spect if he have them not. But when the child exhibits 
 these qualities, even in their incipient stages, we are an- 
 noyed, and perhaps repulsed. Instead of rejoicing in 
 his strength of will, and guiding it into right channels, 
 we lament it as a grievous fault in him and a misfortune 
 to us. It is the meek and yielding child who cares not 
 to decide anything for himself in whom we delight and 
 whose feeble will we make still feebler by denying it all 
 exercise. Yet when he grows up and enters the world 
 and yields to temptation and perhaps disgraces himself 
 and family, we look at him and wonder that so good a 
 child should have turned out so bad a man, when in 
 truth, his course has been only the natural outcome of 
 his past life and training. 
 
 Temptations are the penalty of manhood; they are 
 the sign of a progress upward. Only a moral nature 
 can be tempted. Temptations are the appeals of the 
 lower nature, the impulses to be untrue to one's highest 
 vision, and to carry into a higher stage of life the char- 
 acteristics of a lower. In the nature of the case, there- 
 fore, they do not separate us from God. Only yielding 
 does that. There is no experience of human life that 
 lies outside the sphere of His purposes of grace. God 
 never meant our lives to be artificially screened from 
 danger. The safe life is not the sheltered life, but the 
 victorious life. Untested virtue is only a possible vir- 
 tue. The process of proving is for the purpose of ap- 
 proving. — if. S. Littlefield. 
 
 A man's character is his property. A good name is 
 more valuable than earthly goods. What injustice, 
 therefore, to take it from him or destroy it ! 
 
 Character is a perfectly educated will. — Novalis. 
 
 Doing things as well as they can be done is not only 
 the quickest way to advancement, but it has a very great 
 influence upon one's character and self-respect. If for 
 no other motive than to maintain our self-respect, we 
 
Character and How It Is Formed, 
 
 should never allow ourselves to get into a habit of half 
 doing things. — Success. 
 
 An even disposition is indispensable to the formation 
 of a strong, reliable character. No one will give his 
 confidence to a man who has the reputation of being 
 fickle or uncertain. — Success. 
 
 The virtue of a true character is not a mushroom that 
 springeth up of itself in one night, when we are asleep 
 or regard it not ; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly 
 and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much 
 care to guard it, much time to mature it. Neither is 
 vice a spirit that will be conjured away with a charm, 
 slain by a single blow or dispatched by one stab. Who, 
 then, will be so foolish as to leave the eradicating of 
 vice, and the planting in of virtue into its place, to a 
 few years or weeks ? Yet he who procrastinates his re- 
 pentance and amendment, grossly does so; with his eyes 
 open, he abridges the time allotted for the longest and 
 most important work he has to perform. He is a fool. 
 — Barrow. 
 
 The first thing to be aimed at by the young should be 
 the establishment of a good character. In all their 
 plans, anticipations, and prospects for future years, this 
 should form the grand starting point, the chief corner- 
 stone. It should be the foundation of every hope and 
 thought of prosperity and happiness in days to come. It 
 is the only basis on which such a hope can mature to 
 full fruition. A good character established in the sea- 
 son of youth becomes a rich and productive soil to its 
 possessor. 
 
 Heaven help the man who imagines he can dodge 
 ^^enemies" by trying to please everybody! If such an 
 individual ever succeeded we should like to know it. Not 
 that we believe in man's going through the world en- 
 deavoring to find beams to knock his head against; 
 disputing every man's opinion, fighting and elbowing 
 and crowding all who differ from him. That again is 
 another extreme. Other people have a right to their 
 opinions — so have you; don't fall into the error of sup- 
 posing they will respect you less for maintaining them 
 — or respect you more for turning your coat every day 
 to match the color of theirs. Wear vour own colors, 
 spite of wind or weather, storm or sunshine. It costs the 
 vacillating and irresolute ten times the trouble to wind, 
 shuffle, and twist that it does honest, manly indepen- 
 dence to stand its ground. Take what time you please 
 to make up your mind, but, having made it up, stick 
 to it. 
 
Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 How it is that every act we do leaves upon us its im- 
 pression we know not; but the sears and seams of our 
 bodily frame may warn us of the havoc sin makes in our 
 unseen nature. The current of our thoughts, the 
 wandering of our imaginations, the tumult of our pas- 
 sions, the flashes of our temper, all the movements and 
 energies of our moral being, leave some mark, wither 
 some springing grace, strengthen some struggling fault, 
 decide some doubtful bias, aggravate some growing 
 proneness, and always leave us other and worse then we 
 were before. This is ever going on. By its own con- 
 tinual acting, our fearful and wonderful inward nature 
 is perpetually fixing its own character. It has a power 
 of self-determination, which to those who give over 
 watching and self-control, becomes soon unconscious 
 and at last involuntary. — Cardinal Manning. 
 
 Character is greater and higher than money, intellect, 
 or love, because it determines the use and direction of 
 these three. It is the character of the rich man which 
 determines whether he be a benefactor or a curse to so- 
 ciety. It is character which determines whether the 
 learned man shall use his knowledge as a destructive or 
 as a constructive force in society. It is character which 
 determines whether love shall be a passion, working 
 havoc in life or a grace beautifying and ennobling life. 
 Character is the determining force behind money, intel- 
 lect, love, and so it is the greatest force in human life. 
 Eealizing this, all will appreciate the necessity of careful 
 thought and thoughtful care in building character. 
 
 Inscribed above the entrance to the temple of Apollo 
 at Delphi were the words "Man, know thyself.^' While 
 it is a grand thing for one to know himself, how much 
 grander is it through that knowledge to be able to con- 
 trol himself. "Greater is he,'^ says the wise man, "that 
 ruleth his own spirit, than he that taketh a city.^^ 
 
 The trees and flowers grow unconsciously and by no 
 eflPort of their own. Man, too, grows unconsciously, and 
 is educated by circumstances. But he can also control 
 those circumstances and direct the course of his life. 
 He can, by effort and thought, aquire knowledge, purify 
 his nature, develop his powers, and strengthen his char- 
 acter. 
 
 Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise 
 does the strength of the body. — Lewis. 
 
 Character, like knowledge, is only so far truly alive 
 as it is still further growing. Some things are un- 
 questioned, fixed, at once acted upon ; but there is plenty 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 of room still for moral thought and moral feeling. We 
 have not, in virtue of our habit, become a machine or a 
 law. 
 
 Strength of character consists of two things: power 
 of will and power of self-restraint. It requires two 
 things, therefore, for its existence, and a strong com- 
 mand over them. Now, we all very often mistake 
 strong feeling for strong character. A man who bears 
 all before him, before whose wild bursts of fury the 
 children of the household quake — because he has his 
 own way in all things — we call him a strong man. The 
 truth is, he is a weak man; it is his passions that are 
 strong; he, mastered by them, is weak. 
 
 • You must measure the strength of a man by the 
 power of the feelings he subdues, not by the power of 
 those which subdue him. And hence composure is often 
 the highest result of strength. Did we ever see a man 
 receive a flagrant injury and then reply calmly ? That 
 man is morally strong. Or did we ever see a man in 
 anguish stand as if carved out of solid rock, mastering 
 himself? Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial remain 
 silent, and never tell the world what cankered his home ? 
 That is strength. He who with strong passions remains 
 chaste, he who with indignation within him can be pro- 
 voked and remain himself and forgive — those are strong 
 men, the moral heroes. 
 
 Test of Character. — The supreme test of charac- 
 ter, that which measures its power for self and the 
 world, is the prayer : "Not my will, but Thine, be done." 
 Life, then, is not always renunciation, but consecration, 
 and is too holy a thing to be held in check, to be kept 
 from attainment by trifles. Man sees life from the 
 heights of divinity. Lesser heights mark the distance 
 between growth and attainment; they measure the dis- 
 tance between the real self and the ideal toward which 
 every true man struggles. The great tests are met 
 by the power accumulated in overcoming the trifles 
 borne in each day's battle. 
 
 It is upon the loyalty to sincere convictions that all 
 character rests. Otherwise, right and wrong, true and 
 false, just and unjust, would bear only a vague, confused, 
 and uncertain meaning. And exactly because of this 
 essential loyalty are we bound frequently to test our con- 
 victions in the light of advanced knowledge and im- 
 proved judgment, and to replace them by others when- 
 ever their imperfections become manifest. Herbert 
 Spencer says : "It is clear that a globe built up partly 
 of semblances instead of facts would not be long on this 
 
Character and How It Is Formed, 
 
 side of chaos. And it is certain that a community com- 
 posed ot men whose acts are not in harmony with their 
 innermost beliefs will be equally unstable." 
 
 We need all the varied experiences of life through 
 which we pass. They are necessary to the evolution of 
 a perfect character, just as all kinds of weather — sun 
 and dew, cold and heat, rain and wind — are necessary to 
 develop the grain of wheat that is sown in the ground. 
 
 Your character cannot be essentially injured except 
 by your own acts. 
 
 Over the beauty of the plum and the apricot there 
 grows a bloom and beauty more exquisite than the fruit 
 itself — a soft, delicate flush overspreads its blushing 
 cheek. Now, if you strike your hand over that, it is 
 gone. The flower that hangs in the morning impearled 
 with dew, arrayed as no queenly woman ever was arrayed 
 with jewels — once shake it so that the beads roll off, and 
 you may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet it 
 can never be again what it was when the dew fell silently 
 on it from heaven. On a frosty morning you may see 
 panes of glass covered with landscape, mountains, lakes, 
 trees, blended in a beautiful picture. Now, lay your 
 hand upon the glass, and by the scratch of your finger, 
 or by the warmth of your palm, that delicate tracery 
 will be obliterated. So there is in youth a beauty and. 
 purity of character, which, when once touched and de- 
 filed, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than 
 frostwork, and which, when torn and broken, will never 
 be re-embroidercd. He who hath spotted and spoiled 
 his garments in youth, though he may seek to make 
 them white again, can never wholly do it, even were he 
 to wash them with his tears. When a young man leaves- 
 his father's house with the blessings of a mother's tears- 
 still wet upon his brow, if he once lose the early purity 
 of character, it is a loss that he never can make whole 
 again. Such is the consequence of crime. Its effects 
 cannot be eradicated ; it can only be forgotten. 
 
 Let your character be real, the shining warp and woof 
 of each day, working out the part God has set you in 
 the great loom of time. — Geikie. 
 
 Noble words are next to noble deeds. 
 
 But noble lives are what the world most needs. 
 
 Many forget that character grows ; that it is not some- 
 thing to put on ready-made with womanhood Or man- 
 hood; day by day, here a little, there a little, it grow^ 
 with the growth and strengthens with the strength, 
 until, good or bad, it becomes almost a coat of mail. 
 Look at a man of business — prompt, reliable, conscien- 
 
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Charade 7' and How It Is Formed, 
 
 tious, yet clear-headed and energetic. When do you 
 suppose he developed all these admirable qualities? 
 When he was a boy. Let us see how a boy of ten years 
 gets up in the morning, works, plays, studies, and we 
 will tell you just what kind of a man he will make. 
 The boy that is late at breakfast, late at school, stands 
 a poor chance of being a prompt man. The boy who 
 neglects his duties, be they ever so small, and then ex- 
 cuses himself by saying, "I forgot ; I didn't think !" 
 will never be a reliable man; and the boy who finds 
 pleasure in the suffering of weaker things will never 
 be a noble, generous, kind man — a gentleman. 
 
 Absorbing devotion to self disintegrates the character. 
 In the flood-time of temptation it goes to pieces. 
 
 To him who would succeed in life, decision is a qual- 
 ity of vital importance. He need not, indeed, be blessed 
 with an extraordinary amount of mental acumen, he 
 may not be able to see through the words and deeds of 
 men with the same ease and rapidity as others; but if 
 he knows when to act, and how to follow an idea to the« 
 end, he is possessed of a power superior to strength of 
 intelligence. What can appear more ridiculous than to 
 s.ee men of brains and skill wasting their energies on 
 trifles, light as air, flitting from one thing to another, 
 without any fixed, determinate object in view? They 
 might accomplish almost anything they undertake, and 
 yet they undertake nothing worthy of their abilities, but, 
 like anxious swimmers, stand shivering on the bank, 
 afraid to plunge into the stream. 
 
 They are men of promise while youth's vigor remains, 
 and they go to their graves meti of promise, leaving be- 
 hind nothing to attest the great gifts with which God 
 has endowed them. Life is too short for all such fear- 
 ing, doubting, hesitating. Did we live in the days of 
 the flood, when man's life was numbered by centuries, 
 we might with safety spend years in consultation; but 
 the present age requires prompt decision, concentration 
 of aim, and tenacity of purpose. We have no time for 
 experimenting on the various callings of life. We must 
 be up and doing, keeping a steady eye on our cherished 
 goal, working with might and main, never swerving to 
 the right or the left. 
 
 Let us, once for all, know distinctly what we wish. 
 The greatest difficulty in life arises from the fact that 
 men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They 
 undertake to build a mansion, but lay the foundations 
 for a miserable hut. They would be great, are not with- 
 out ambition, but lack the first requisite — decision. 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed, 
 
 Character is not a gift, but a formation. Judas had 
 the same chances of better things which his brother 
 Apostles had. Character grows from habits, and he 
 adopted bad ones. 
 
 Brave conquerors ! for so you are, 
 That war against your own affections, 
 And the huge army of the world's desires. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 By a right character I mean one that would make a 
 man a vital co-operative force in all that would tend to 
 build up society, and to aid in the onward movement of 
 the moral government of God. Character transcends 
 knowledge. Knowledge teaches how to do; character 
 determines what he will do. It is a man's deepest love 
 that will determine his ultimate destiny. Hence, 
 the highest form of benevolence is in seeking to 
 improve character. This was thes subject of Christ. 
 His coming was a testimony to the value of character. 
 He who appreciates this value clearly, and devotes him- 
 self with energy and self-denial to its improvement in 
 himself and others, is the highest style of man; and 
 the institution that does the most for character will do 
 most for the individual and for the country. Mere 
 teaching without formative influences on character is 
 simply a trade. But can education insure right char- 
 acter? No. Character is not from the intellect, but 
 from the will, or, rather, the person that lies back of 
 the will. Some knowledge may be forced upon us; .i 
 right character cannot be; still, there are indirect forma- 
 tive influences, and the education that ignores character 
 is radically defective. 
 
 What is it that makes a man? Character. It is 
 character that gives him his individual greatness and 
 distinguishes him in his individual being. And char- 
 acter does not find its source in the intellect. A man 
 may have all knowledge and still be a kuave. He may 
 know everything that the mind can know, and still be 
 imperfect. He may have a mind that will do honor 
 to the country in which he lives, and a heart that will 
 dishonor humanity. Mere development of the intellect, 
 mere scientific training, will never develop character or 
 make a man. Indeed, it is the astonishment of history 
 that the greatest culture of the intellect has often gone 
 with the greatest depravity of heart, and the scandal of 
 the world that of all those wonderful philosophers of 
 Greece and Rome, whose minds were so great and whose 
 individuality so massive that they yet influence the 
 world, only one or two lived lives of moral rectitude 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed, 
 
 that correspond in any wise even with the principles of 
 right reason. This certainly is an argument against 
 mere exclusive intellectual culture. 
 
 Nor does the greatness of character reside in the heart. 
 Every attachment, indeed, has something generous in 
 it, and may lead on to the performance of heroic deeds ; 
 but even legitimate affection may degenerate into weak- 
 ness. 
 
 It is the will which is the source of greatness, where 
 those motives reside which lead us to action. For man in 
 himself is inert, like matter, and does not act unless 
 he is impelled to action. These tendencies are a result 
 of habit, of practice, of divine grace, of heredity. When 
 they are noble, the man is noble ; when they are exalted, 
 the man is exalted ; when they are base, the man is base. 
 So it is by the training of the will, the constant devel- 
 opment of the will, that character develops and blos- 
 soms out into the perfection of a man. — Fr. Brown, S. J. 
 
 Character is made, not given. The elements are born, 
 indeed, and constructive grace is given; but the build- 
 ing is nevertheless left to us. Every man has been 
 materially molded and spiritually created to the image 
 and likeness of God. Though the infinite aggregation 
 of humanity does not exhaust the infinite model, yet all 
 represent God, and no two men reflect Him alike. 
 
 Few men like to own that they are not masters of 
 themselves. The more a man feels himself to be a slave, 
 the louder are likely to be his boasts of freedom. In a 
 sense, one may grant his claim. But in every man are 
 two selves, the lower and the higher. The question is, 
 Which of them is mast&r? Does the flesh obey the spirit's- 
 will, or does the spirit yield to the craving of the flesh? 
 Is it the body or the soul that is kept under? Which is- 
 the self that rules the life? 
 
 If you ask what is the temper most fitted to be vic- 
 torious over sin on earth, I answer that in it the warp 
 of a sunny gentleness must be woven across the woof 
 of a strong character. That will make the best tissue 
 to stand the wear and tear of the world's trials. Our 
 Lord was divinely gentle, but He was also strong with 
 a wondrous strength and firmness. 
 
 Boys, and even young men, do not appreciate high 
 value of character, though they think they do. It i.^ 
 only when one gets further along in lilPe that its price- 
 lessness is perceived. It brings immediate respect, honor, 
 and prosperity. The boy who is known to be truthful, 
 known to be faithful and trustworthy, in every place is 
 looked upon with warm friendship and admiration by 
 
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Character and Bow It Is Formed 
 
 people whom he does not suspect of such sentiments 
 toward him. He holds the key to the homes and to the 
 business houses of the best people. He is in the line of 
 first promotion wherever he is. A cigar will place him 
 under distrust; a glass of beer will condemn him as a 
 counterfeit coin. So will a lie. So will disrespectful 
 conduct toward his parents. Any of these is a fatal 
 mark of discredit. Nothing is so admirable, nor any- 
 thing so much admired and prized, as a pure, honest, 
 honorable boy or young man. Character is the most 
 precious thing in the world. — Alp. M. J. Spalding. 
 
 The chief concern of every man is not, as it should be, 
 the formation of character. The most wish merely to 
 find a receipt for comfort, or a way to acquire riches and 
 whatever else they aim at. — Goethe. 
 
 The youth Avho to-day is building a character should 
 cultivate patience, with which he can suffer wrongfully, 
 the fortitude with which he can endure hardships, and 
 the forbearance with which to labor under misrepresenta- 
 tion. These constitute, in themselves, not only one of 
 the greatest means of developing character, but also one 
 of the greatest evidences of strength. At some time in 
 his experience every Christian will be brought to the 
 place where he must stand alone with God. 
 I held it truth, with him who sings 
 To one clear harp in divers tones. 
 That men may rise on stepping-stones 
 Of their dead selves to higher things. 
 
 — Tennyson. 
 
 The person who has a reputation for accuracy and 
 for punctuality, whose work is always thorough, and 
 whose name stands for the best he can do, never need 
 fear that he will not find room at the top. 
 
 What a man is, is his character; and what men think 
 him to be, is his reputation. A man's reputation may 
 be variable, but his character is apt to be steadfast and 
 abiding. Men sometimes think they are building char- 
 acter when they are only getting reputation. Nobody 
 can give character but the man himself to whom it 
 belongs. 
 
 Though a man have comparatively little culture, slen- 
 der abilities, and but small wealth, yet if his character 
 be of sterling worth he will always command an influ- 
 ence, whether it be in the workshop, the counting-house, 
 the mart, or the senate. 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 Ever remember, in thy youth, 
 
 That he who firmly tries 
 To conquer and to rule himself 
 Is noble, brave, and wise. 
 
 —Bro. Luke, F, S. C. 
 
 Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So 
 the highest knowledge we have of God is through the 
 gift of His Son. — William Harris. 
 
 When we ask what kind of a man one is, we do not 
 mean to inquire about his information or his posses- 
 fcions, but about his character; and to get insight into 
 his character we wish to learn, not what he knows, but 
 what in his inmost soul he believes, hopes and strives 
 for — his tastes and preferences, his bearing and be- 
 havior, the breadth and depth of his love, the largeness 
 and fullness of his sympathies, his attitude toward the 
 temporal and eternal. 
 
 Character is primarily moral; it is what a man is, 
 not the kind of clothes he wears, or the kind of infor- 
 mation he possesses. It is a result of nutrition and 
 growth, and can in no wise be formed by mechanical 
 processes; and since character is the man him- 
 self, it is precisely this moral growth which it is 
 the chief business of the school to promote ; and if it 
 fail in this, it fails radically. A characterless man is 
 neither good in himself nor good in his relations to any 
 form of the social environment. Character is formed 
 by cultivating a taste for what is true, good, and fair; 
 a love for justice, honesty, and kindness; for reverence, 
 modesty, and courage; a loathing for dirt, physical and 
 moral, in thought, word, and deed; a scorn of lies, hy- 
 pocrisy, and cant; by filling the young with profound 
 faith in the worth and sacredness of life, by helping 
 them to feel how divine a thing it is to be alive when 
 one has hope and enthusiasm, is chaste and loving, wise 
 and helpful. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Just as the understanding can be developed and the 
 memory can be trained, so the will can be cultivated. 
 
 The young 'man who has no mind of his own, who 
 gives in to his companions on all occasions, who cannot 
 deny himself, who yields easily to temptation, who is 
 a slave to his stomach, who gratifies every passion of his 
 body, is a poor stick. He lacks stamina. He wants 
 will-power. To the valiant heart nothing is impossible; 
 and that strength of character, that tenacity of purpose, 
 that fearlessness of resolution that bears down all obsta- 
 cles in the way of success, can be obtained by practice of 
 the will. 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 "The cultivation of this quality/' declares Mr. Samuel 
 Smiles, "is of the greatest importance — resolute deter- 
 mination in the pursuit of worthy objects being the 
 foundation of all true greatness of character. Energy 
 enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery 
 and dry details and carries him onward and upward in 
 every station in life. It accomplishes more than genius, 
 with not one-half the disappointment and peril. It is 
 not eminent talent that is required to insure success in 
 any pursuit so much as purpose ; not merely the power to 
 achieve, but the will to labor energetically and perse- 
 veringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be 
 the very central power of character in a man — in a word, 
 it is the man himself." 
 
 What cannot a strong will accomplish ? Who does not 
 desire to possess a will of steel ? 
 
 The great De Lamennais once said to a young man : 
 "That which the easiest becomes a habit in us is the 
 will. Learn, then, to will strongly and decidedly. Thus 
 -fix your wavering life and let it no longer he moved 
 hither and thither, like a luithered leaf, hy every wind 
 that hloius/' 
 
 The experience of mankind has made the proverb, 
 "W^here there's a will there's a way." Now, let there be 
 made a new proverb: "We can have the will if we 
 want to/' 
 
 Do you want a firm will ? Exercise that faculty. Set 
 yourself a task every day — yes, a dozen times a day — a 
 task irksome to nature, and make yourself do it, just 
 to let the will rule, just to get the mastery. Are you 
 disposed to lie abed late? Fix an hour at which you 
 will resolve to get up, and then do get up at that time 
 exactly, day after day, until the will finds no resistance 
 to its determination to arise then. 
 
 Are you inclined to over-indulge your appetite in eat- 
 ing ? Determine, before you sit down to table, how much 
 food you shall take, and that you will arise before you 
 feel quite satisfied. Then stick to the portion you have 
 allowed yourself. 
 
 Are you slow at work? Resolve to be prompt and 
 quick, and if 3^ou can set yourself a stint, do so; and 
 then get through with that stint or die. 
 
 Exercise the will ! Exercise the will ! ! Exercise the 
 will!!! 
 
 I once knew a young man who, under the advice of 
 a wise director, used to take delight in the struggle for 
 self-conquest, to tempt his tempter, by getting up 
 struggles between his lower self and his will. For in- 
 
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Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 stance, he found that nicotine was getting a hold on his 
 nervous system, so he resolved to give up tobacco, but 
 he would not abandon it all at once. ''Oh, no," he said ; 
 "I must have some fun with it." For some days, while 
 he retrenched somewhat, he would take a pretty good 
 allowance of smoking. The next day he would not suf- 
 fer himself to have one whiff. He gloated in the pangs 
 that it caused him and he gloried in his strength of will 
 to refuse them. The next day he would smoke one 
 cigar — only one — and it was harder to stop at one than 
 to have none at all. So he kept up the torture, merely 
 to exercise his resolution, until tobacco had no more hold 
 on him than candy cigars, and his system, in a sort of 
 way, almost waited for the decision of his will before 
 asserting any liking for the weed. Similarly, that same 
 chap was wont, after he resolved to give up drink- 
 ing liquor, to go up to the very door of the saloons on his 
 way home from work, and then come away laughing at 
 his lower self and saying to himself: "Nixey, my boy; 
 no whisky for you any more !" 
 
 But to economize, to save, cost him the hardest fight 
 of all. He was a born spendthrift. Money burned a 
 hole in his pocket. The first trinket he saw after he 
 had a dollar of his own in hand pulled him to buy it, 
 as the pole draws the needle. Strangest of all, he was 
 not selfish in his purchases, many of the knicknacks 
 on which he squandered his money being intended as 
 gifts to his friends. Finally he overcame that weakness 
 and made his will the master by living up to these two 
 resolutions : 1. I will save six dollars a week out of my 
 salary, no matter what happens. 2. I will make no 
 ordinary purchases except on Wednesdays. So he kept 
 watch on his needs, so as to provide for them on Wednes- 
 day, in advance, and when he had neglected to do so he 
 waited, unless the purchase was indispensably immedi- 
 ate, until the following Wednesday. In that way he 
 controlled his passion to spend and forced his will to 
 make him frugal. It was not long before he had his 
 first thousand dollars, and, that point once reached, the 
 greatest obstacle toward his getting a home and amass- 
 ing a fortune .was overcome. 
 
 He kept himself pure, too, by using, besides spiritual 
 means, his will, aided by other means. 
 
 First, he resolved to be continent, as being a duty 
 required by God. Then he resolutely avoided thoughts, 
 persons, places, reading, food, and drink that tended to 
 make him unchaste. He took plenty of exercise. He 
 ate sparingly at night. He got up early out of bed. He 
 
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C ha racier and H o w 1 1 Is Formed, 
 
 took a cold bath daily, and twice a day for about one 
 week each month. 
 
 With his will fixed on virtue, with his imagination 
 under control, with his body kept down by abstemious, 
 diet, long walks, and tiresome gymnasium work, he had 
 good reason to hope that his prayer, his flight of the 
 occasion of sin, and his monthly communion would keep 
 him clean of heart. For all this a will-power like iron 
 was needed, and it was on hand when it was needed, 
 because it had been made firm by practice. 
 
 Fowel Buxton, who was a principal agent in the eman- 
 cipation of the slaves throughout the British Empire in 
 1834, once said : 
 
 "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the 
 great difference between men, between the feeble and 
 powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — in- 
 vincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then 
 death or victory ! That quality will do anything that 
 can be done in this world, and no talents, no circum- 
 stances, no opposition, will make a two-legged creature 
 a man without it." 
 
 For what purpose should a young man cultivate his 
 will? 
 
 1. To conquer his body, to let the spiritual part of 
 him "boss" the animal part of him, to be master of the 
 house in which he lives. 
 
 2. To achieve some durable successs in life, to have 
 an aim and to strive to reach it, whether it be learning, 
 or riches, or fame. 
 
 3. To get a good seat in heaven. Let the weak-willed 
 be satisfied with a "roost" on the "bleachers"; don't 
 you be content with anything less than a cushioned chair 
 in the grand stand. Exercise the will ! Exercise the 
 will ! ! Exercise the will ! ! ! 
 
 We lack Avill rather than strength, are able to do more 
 and better than we are inclined to do, and say we can- 
 not because we have not the courage to say we will not. 
 
 Our Ideals. 
 
 Using the word "ideal," not as something visionary 
 or unreal, but as "the conception of a thing in its most 
 perfect state," and making ourselves the object of this 
 conception, we open to our minds a vista of great pos- 
 sibilities. To have a conception of a perfect man or per- 
 . feet woman is not sufficient, however ; we should also 
 have an unquenchable desire and ambition to become 
 p&rfect mentally and physically, as nearly as possible. 
 To do this it is necessary to constantly keep our ideals 
 
Character and How It Is Formed. 
 
 before our consciousness, thereby making them a part 
 of our life. As the mental faculties in their action cre- 
 ate all our ideals, we need but cultivate the specific 
 faculties, which will make our ideals more perfect. Let 
 us individually find oat which faculties in our mental 
 constitution need cultivation, and which need restrain- 
 ing, and then act accordingly, and our ideals will soon 
 reach a higher plane. 
 
 As the noblest and highest creature in the universe, 
 ought we not be ashamed to blame heredity, environ- 
 ment, circumstances, or anything but ourselves, for our 
 shortcomings, our weaknesses, our failures? Are we 
 not, as men and women, capable of harnessing nearly 
 all nature's power and having it do our bidding, able 
 to master all animals, qualified to delve into the mys- 
 teries of nature, and by a daily acquisition of knowledge, 
 added to the experience gleaned from the brightest 
 minds in all the past ages, enhance our knowledge and 
 power to an extent undreamt of, even fifty years ago ? 
 
 Too long have we considered ourselves weak, helpless 
 mortals, incapable of reaching a state of mind and body 
 which may be termed approximately perfect. Let us 
 throw aside this thought, let us believe in our ability 
 to become better and better in character, and keep this 
 ideal before us until the end of our days. We can then 
 be satisfied that we are doing the work for which we 
 have been placed on earth, and leave it better because 
 we have lived on it. 
 
 What does it mean to become perfect ? Does it mean 
 to improve our desire for money, for honor, for fame, 
 for selfish power, for selfish pleasure ? No, No ; emphat- 
 ically No. To become perfect means to become more 
 loving, more sympathetic, more reverent, more hopeful, 
 more conscientious, more courageous, more moral, more 
 self-reliant, more self-controlled, more helpful, more 
 tolerant, more spiritual, more tactful, more agreeable, 
 more thoughtful, more considerate, more learned, more 
 cheerful, more sincere, more cultured, more faithful, 
 more appreciative of the beautiful ; to become less fitful, 
 less conceited, less quarrelsome, less subject to anger, 
 less stubborn, less grasping, less subject to our appetites, 
 less impulsive, less revengeful, less fearful, less regardful 
 of petty censure, less fault-finding — in a few words, to 
 become perfect, we must strive to attain the highest 
 and best qualities of character that the greatest and best 
 men and women of all ages possessed. 
 
 Now comes that weather-stained and moth-eaten ex- 
 cuse, "But environment and circumstances are against 
 
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Character and Row It Is Formed, 
 
 me." To use a pertinent slang phrase, "Forget it ; for- 
 get it/' It is simply an acknowledgment of our weakness. 
 What were insurmountable difficulties physically to the 
 majority of people have been overcome by a few who 
 had sufficient strength, self-confidence, and persistence. 
 So-called mental impossibilities can also be overcome 
 if you work hard enough. Brace up ! Make up your, 
 mind to be stronger than your environment. Get out 
 of it, if no duty is holding you; if it is necessary that 
 you stay in your present unfavorable environment, 
 change it. Perhaps it is only your view of it that is 
 wrong, and your environment to another would be the 
 means of improvement, calling out your best mental and 
 physical powers. Never for one moment dwell on the 
 thought that circumstances are against you. Quit your 
 whining, and use the strength, wasted in telling and 
 thinking about your troubles, in efforts to overcome 
 them. Be patient, keep your ambition fixed on improve- 
 ment, learn, study, think, concentrate on whatever you 
 do, aim at perfection, and with every step forward the 
 seemingly impossible will become easy, and your life 
 will become filled out with the pleasure of knowledge 
 and culture. This, in turn, means an intense desire to 
 help others to lead a happier life, which happiness, like 
 the boomerang, returns to the sender, but, unlike it, 
 leaves its impression on every one in its path. — W. N. 
 Holmes. 
 
 Two practical considerations should flow from a rec- 
 ognition of the tremendous power of influence: 1. A 
 young man must be on his guard about the example he 
 gives to younger members of the family, to his business, 
 to his chums, to the members of societies to which he 
 belongs, and to inmates of homes that he visits. 2. He 
 will be particular about the company that he himself 
 keeps. One bad apple in a barrel will rot the whole lot. 
 One young man whose heart is corrupt, whose words are 
 foul, whose actions are vicious, whose principles are 
 base, whose character is mean, goes about like a smallpox 
 patient, scattering the seeds of his disease among all 
 those with whom he comes in contact. His influence 
 is maleficent. And it cannot be escaped by any one 
 who habitually associates with him. So the young man 
 who is determined not to become vile, as he is, will 
 avoid him and all who are like him. He will choose 
 for his friends those whose minds are bright, whose 
 talk is clean, and whose conduct is virtuous; for their 
 influence will buoy him. upward and onward. 
 
Character and How It Is Formed. 
 The Dehacahle, or Evil Aftermath, 
 
 (The Old Worldlng.) 
 
 He shambles by each sunny afternoon; 
 
 His portly form is shrunken as a specter. 
 His face is vacant as the morning moon. 
 
 Quaffed is his nectar. 
 
 Out of his eyes the dancing light is gone, 
 
 Out of his blood the wanton warmth that thrilled it, 
 Out of his air the charm that conquests won 
 
 When fancy willed it. 
 
 Proud was his port and tasty his array; 
 
 His days and nights o'erflowed with song and 
 laughter ; 
 He never dreamed that these would pacs away 
 
 And this come after. 
 
 He courted pleasure and secured it still; 
 
 He asked for friends and loves, and these were given ; 
 He craved all worldly good and had his fill; 
 
 He sought not Heaven. 
 
 His friends have vanished never to return; 
 
 His pleasures, treasures, all his heart's desire; 
 His passions only in their embers burn; 
 
 Mute is his lyre. 
 
 For him the eventide has brought no light; 
 
 Its sighing breezes pity as they kiss him; 
 The dark will bear him to the wastes of night; 
 
 Earth will not miss him. 
 
 — Boston Transcript. 
 
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CHAPTEE 11. 
 Health, Hatbits atiid Temperance. 
 
 No man is a free man who has a vice for his master. — 
 Socrates. 
 
 All philosophy lies in two words — sustain and ahstam. 
 — Epictetus. 
 
 I have learDed to seek my happiness by limiting my 
 desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — 
 John Stuart Mill. 
 
 Most men call fretting a minor fault — a foible, and 
 not a vice. But there is no vice, except it be drunken- 
 ness, which can so utterly destroy the peace and happi- 
 ness of a home. — Helen Hunt. 
 
 To live long it is necessary to live slowly. — Cicero. 
 
 Health is, indeed, so necessary to all the duties as 
 well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering 
 it is equal to the folly; and he that for a short gratifi- 
 cation brings weakness and diseases upon himself, and 
 for the pleasure of a few years passed in the tumults 
 of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the 
 maturer and more experienced part of his life to the 
 chamber and the couch, may be justly reproached, not 
 only as a spendthrift of his happiness, but as a robber 
 of the public ; as a wretch that has voluntarily disquali- 
 fied himself for the business of his station and refused 
 that part which Providence assigns him in the general 
 task of human nature. — Johnson. 
 
 There are four good habits — punctuality, accuracy, 
 steadiness, and dispatch. Without the first of these, time 
 is wasted; without the second, mistakes the most hurtful 
 to our own credit and interest, and that of others, may be 
 committed; without the third, nothing can be well done; 
 and without the fourth, opportunities of great advan- 
 tage are lost which it is impossible to recall. 
 
 Be reserved, but not sour; grave, but not formal; 
 bold, but not rash ; humble, but not servile ; patient, but 
 not insensible; constant, but not obstinate; cheerful, but 
 
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Health, Habits and Temperance, 
 
 not light. Eather be sweet-tempered than familiar, fa- 
 miliar rather than intimate, and intimate with very 
 FEW^ and upon good ground with all. 
 
 Lay aside life's harming heaviness, 
 And cultivate a cheerful disposition. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 The art of life is to knov/ how to enjoy little and 
 endure much. — Hazlitt. 
 
 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will 
 make it the most agreeable. — Bacon. 
 
 Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought 
 to make the worst man good. — FranJdin. 
 
 We are the slaves of our needs; the fewer they are, 
 the freer are we; the higher they are, the nobler the mas- 
 ters we serve. Not independence, but interdependence, 
 is the law of our life. It is only in ministering to one 
 another, in bearing one another's burdens, in sharing 
 one another's joys, that we become human and truly 
 live. Let us draw closer together, that we may feel 
 pulsings of divine sympathy and love in one another's 
 hearts. If we stand apart we shall be stranded in the 
 great river; we shall miss the good of living; we shall 
 lose God. 
 
 Prosperity goes by the saloon without stopping. 
 
 It is not what we earn, but what we save, that makes 
 us rich. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that 
 makes us strong. It is not what we read, but what we 
 remember, that makes us wise. It is not what we in- 
 tend, but what we do, that m.akes us useful. It is not 
 a few faint wishes, but a lifelong struggle, that makes 
 us valiant. 
 
 To be pure-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours 
 of meat, sleep, and exercise is one of the best precepts 
 of long lasting. — Bacon. 
 
 The cheerful man, truly wise, creams off nature, leav- 
 ing the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason 
 to lap on. — Swift. 
 
 Temperance and labor are the two best physicians 
 of man. Labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance 
 prevents him from indulging to excess. — Rousseau. 
 
 To be truly temperate we must be moderate in eating 
 and drinking — yes. and in fasting too. We must have 
 self-confidence without stubbornness, and self-respect 
 without pride. We must neither be anxious nor apa- 
 thetic, neither cowardly nor quarrelsome. We may be 
 polite without being deceitful, and candid without being 
 rude. We need not be silent, yet we must not talk in- 
 cessantly. 
 
Health, Habits and Temperance, 
 
 When alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the 
 family, our temper ; in society, our tongues. We should 
 endeavor to illustrate our devotions in the morning by 
 our conduct through the day. 
 
 In the company of strangers, silence is safe. 
 
 He who gives his heart will not deny his money. 
 
 We are not done with life as we live. We shall meet 
 our acts and words and influence again. A man will 
 reap what he sows, and he himself will be the reaper. 
 We go on sowing carelessly, never dreaming that we 
 shall see our seeds again. Then, some day, we come to 
 an ugly plant growing somewhere, and when we ask, 
 "What is this?" the answer comes, "I am one of your 
 plants. You dropped the seed which grew in me." We 
 shall have to give an account of the seed that grows from 
 our sowing. — Fr. McLaughlin, C. S. S. R. 
 
 To be honest ; to be kind ; to earn a little and to spend 
 a little less; to ma*ke, upon the whole, a family happier 
 by his presence; to renounce where that shall be neces- 
 sary, and not to be embittered ; to keep few friends, but 
 these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim 
 condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task 
 for all men of fortitude and delicacy. — Robert Louis 
 Stevenson. 
 
 An old toper says it's the drinking between drinks 
 that hurts a fellow. 
 
 Irresolution is a fatal habit; is not vicious in itself, 
 but it leads to vice, creeping upon its victims with a 
 fatal facility, the penalty of which many a fine heart 
 has paid at the scaffold. The idler, the spendthrift, 
 the epicurean, and the drunkard are among its victims. 
 Perhaps in the latter its effects appear in the most 
 hideous form. He knows that the goblet he is about 
 to drain is poison, yet he swallows it. He knows, for 
 the example of thousands has painted it in glaring 
 colors, that it will deaden all his faculties, take the 
 strength from his limbs and the happiness from his 
 heart, oppress him with disease, and hurry his progress 
 to a dishonored grave; yet he drains it. How beautiful, 
 on the contrary, is the power of resolution, enabling 
 the one who possesses it to pass through perils and 
 dangers, trials and temptations. Avoid, then, the con- 
 traction of the habit of irresolution. Strive against it 
 to the end. 
 
 The Scientific American says : "It is our observation 
 that constant beer-drinking in this country produces 
 the very lowest kind of inebriety, closely allied to in- 
 sanity. Intellectually, a stupor amounting to almost 
 
Health, II ah it s and Temperance, 
 
 paralysis arrests the reason, changing all the higher 
 faculties into a mere animalism, selfish, sluggish, varied 
 only with paroxysm of anger, senseless and brutal." 
 
 Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a 
 mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over 
 it altogether. So it is with our moral improvements: 
 we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would 
 have no hold of us if we ascended into a higher moral 
 etmosphere. 
 
 Intemperance is one of the greatest curses of our age; 
 the young, especially, should therefore be put upon their 
 guard against a vice that is yearly bringing thous;inds 
 To ruin and degradation. It should be borne in mind 
 that a disorder so difficult, almost impossible, to cure, is 
 easily prevented. It behooves all, and parents in par- 
 ticular, to keep from the young what might be to them 
 on occasion of sin, of ruin of body and soul. The 
 ancient Spartans held the vice of drunkenness in such 
 horror that they intoxicated their slaves in order to show 
 by their example to what a degrading condition drunk- 
 enness brings human nature. Christians who fall have 
 aids that the pagans had not, namely, the sacraments; 
 but such is the effect of drunkenness that few can be 
 prevailed upon to apply the remedy. Prevention is the 
 safer course. 
 
 His best companions, innocence and health; 
 And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 
 
 — Goldsmith. 
 
 The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt 
 until they are too strong to be broken. — Johnson. 
 
 While we would ardently rejoice and pray at our young 
 men conquering the bad habit of drinking, we would 
 rather prefer that they would not acquire it. 
 
 Whenever an indulged propensity becomes a passion, 
 and the will is enslaved by blind impulse, the question 
 of insanity is only one of time. 
 
 Impure w^ords and blows are often the accompani- 
 ments of wine. — Lucretius. 
 
 Do you want to know where a boy usually begins to 
 be fast? With a cigarette. It is the lad's first step 
 to bravado, resistance to sober morality, and a bold step 
 in disobedience. Just now take the matter on the sci- 
 entific side. Tobacco blights a boy's finest powers — 
 wit, muscle, conscience. Nations are legislating against 
 it. Germany, with all her smoke, says: "No tobacco 
 in the schools." It spoils their brains and makes them 
 too small for soldiers. Knock at the great military in- 
 stitutions of France. "No tobacco" is the response. 
 
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Health, Habits and T em p erance . 
 
 Try West Point and Annapolis. "Drop that cigarette!", 
 is the word. Indeed, smoking boys are not likely to go 
 so far as that. 
 
 Major Huston of the Marine Corps, who is in charge 
 of the Washington navy barracks, says that one-fifth of 
 all the boys examined are rejected for heart disease, 
 of which ninety-nine cases in one hundred come from 
 cigarettes. His first question is, "Do you smoke ?" "No, 
 sir," is the invariable reply. But the record is stamped 
 on the very body of the lad, and out he goes. Apply for 
 a position in a bank. If you use tobacco, beer, cards, 
 the bank has no use for you. 
 
 Business life demands fine brains, steady nerve, firm 
 conscience. Watch the boys. See one sixteen years in 
 age, twelve in size, twenty in sin, and he smokes, prob- 
 ably chews and drinks. Babes of seven and eight are 
 in it. The vice increases. I could pile up statistics by 
 the hour, testimony from the highest medical authority, 
 of the misery preparing and already come. 
 
 The requirements of health can be counted on the 
 fingers of one hand. They are good air, good food, suit- 
 able clothing, cleanliness, exercise, and rest. 
 
 Temperance is the moderate use of all things helpful 
 and total abstinence from all things harmful. 
 
 To effect great popular moral reforms, the religious 
 element in man, the conscience power within him, must 
 be appealed to. You cannot legislate him into moral- 
 ity. Morality requires sacrifice of selfishness, and sac- 
 rifice of selfishness requires a motive; and religion alone 
 can furnish the adequate motive. You may seek to 
 strike at the saloon, and urge men to pass it, as the 
 Greeks passed the temples of their Furies, "without look- 
 ing, without speaking, without breathing"; you may 
 enact the most stringent laws against Sunday drinking, 
 and create a powerful public opinion which will brand as 
 disgraceful the slightest abuse of alcoholic drinks. All 
 these influences may act as breakwaters against the tide 
 of intemperance, and thus do some good. But that tide 
 will flow in part into other channels. The so-called 
 "speak-easy" will succeed the saloon, and private drink- 
 ing, perhaps to even greater excess, will succeed the 
 public indulgence. Men will flatter themselves that they 
 can avoid disgrace by remaining at home, or that they 
 are strong enough to drink without its being observed 
 by their neighbors. The saloons are, indeed, causes for 
 intemperance, but they are themselves but the effects 
 of the unrestrained thirst for drink. You must seek 
 out the cause of the cause and go to the foundation of 
 
Health, Habits and Temperance. 
 
 the heart and there drop in the sweetening word of 
 religious influence. Tell the man that drunkenness is 
 not a mere pardonable weakness, made to excuse many 
 excesses into which he falls whilst in this state. Appeal 
 to the religious element within him; tell him drunken- 
 ness is a mortal sin, which excludes from the Kingdom 
 of Heaven, into which "drunkards shall never enter.'* 
 Tell him it is a great crime which destroys the image 
 of God in his soul; that otiier sins are against the dic- 
 tates of reason, hut this aims a blow at Reason herself, 
 which it dethrones; that it strikes down the trinity of 
 the soul — intellect, memory, and will; that by it man 
 is subjected to the punishment of hell, and is guilty 
 of the blackest ingratitude toward a beneficent God. 
 Tell him that intemperance wakes up the sleeping de- 
 mons, the passions of the human heart — anger, pride, 
 jealousy, impurity; and he has to fight these, unaided 
 by the reason he has dethroned and the God he has de- 
 serted; yet if he falls he is held accountable for the 
 crimes he could and should have foreseen, as the con- 
 sequences of his intemperance. Tell him he will con- 
 tinue to sin in his grave; that, "being dead, he will yet 
 speak" and blaspheme because of the example he has 
 left to his children. Bring him on his knees in the pres- 
 ence of God. Let the whole influence of the mighty 
 religious element which is part of every man's nature, 
 as real as the intellect and heart element — let all this be 
 brought into action, and you have done more than civil 
 law or public opinion can effect. Observe, I do not 
 condemn such laws if judiciously framed and wisely 
 administered, but I say they are not enough. They deal 
 with symptoms and effects and partial causes, but re- 
 ligion alone probes to the heart. And this principle is 
 true, not only of intemperance, but of other vices of 
 which intemperance is the parent. Hence the necessity 
 of religion for the stability of the State, which vice 
 undermines. — Ahp. Ryan of Philadelphia. 
 
 "Oh, if I had only been instructed in my youth !" 
 said a somewhat elderly man yesterdav, whose physical 
 health is breaking and whose mind begins to give in- 
 dications of decay. "I would not have committed the 
 indiscretions and excesses that have broken me down." 
 
 Fathers are reluctant to tell their adolescent sons 
 what they should know about self and sex, the care of 
 virginity and the transmission of life; and even teachers 
 and confessors most usually take many things for 
 granted in the way of supposing that youths are suffi- 
 ciently inform^ed concerning sins against holy purity. 
 
Health, Habits and Temper an ce. 
 
 Possibly, as a rule, they are. Sometimes, however, they, 
 are not. Occasionally they then form an injurious habit 
 before they know what they are doing. 
 
 Speaking, therefore, from the point of view, not of 
 the teacher or confessor who is treating of morality, nor 
 of the parent who wishes to guard against disgrace, but 
 of a physician concerned only about the physical health 
 of young men, may I offer some suggestions for the 
 well-being of the growing lads who read this article — 
 young fellows between fifteen and twenty-five, in the 
 decade before most men marry ? 
 
 1. Marriage is honorable. It was designed by God. 
 It is a holy state. Over it God and nature watch with 
 a jealous eye, because it is like an imitation of the origi- 
 nal and direct Creative Act of God; because, as it were, 
 it compels His co-operation, and because it has such 
 endless consequences on souls for generation after gen- 
 eration. Sins against its chastity are usually punished 
 in this life by diseases, by insanity, by death. Even in 
 marriage there is need of self-restraint, of the chastity 
 of the married state, and of great modesty. Before 
 marriage, continence should be inviolate. Purity is not 
 only possible, but it is, of precept, obligatory, beneficial, 
 and strengthening. It can be easily observed. Offenses 
 against it, if repeated at any length, are sure to be vis- 
 ited with chastisement from nature and are certain to 
 bring down on the guilty one the vengeance of God. 
 
 Go to our lunatic asylums and see the gibbering 
 wrecks of men there, moping, idiotic, raving, homicidal, 
 eager to kill themselves. What caused their insanity? 
 .In most cases, self-abuse, liquor, and debauchery. 
 
 Go to the graveyards, where young men are buried 
 before their time. What broke them down and sent 
 them to fill premature graves? Self-abuse and de- 
 bauchery. 
 
 Go and see the children in the hospitals for incur- 
 ables — syphilitic, scrofulous, broken out with sores, un- 
 able even to stand, from rotten bone or diseased mar- 
 row. What produced their afflictions? The sins of 
 their fathers against the sixth commandment. 
 
 Consider the families that are followed by misfor- 
 tunes, that meet with dreadful accidents, that are pur- 
 sued with trouble. To what are their tribulations at- 
 tributable? Often and often to the secret sins of the 
 father, committed maybe years before, but which have 
 merited the anger of Heaven. 
 
 King David^s sin was not punished for years, but 
 
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Health, II ah it s and Temperance, 
 
 finally it broke his heart when one of the penalties was 
 the death of his beloved son ! 
 
 How can a young man keep continent ? 
 
 1. By temperance in eating and drinking, especially 
 at the evening meal. A light supper is better than a 
 heavy dinner at night. 
 
 2. By abstinence from intoxicating liquor, especially 
 from whisky and the like, that fire the blood and stimu- 
 late passion. 
 
 3. By cutting off unnecessary sleep and spending no 
 time in bed in a half-awake, half-asleep condition. No 
 lolling in bed ! Lie only on the side, and preferably on 
 the right side. Lying on the back produces snoring and 
 leads to unpleasant dreams. 
 
 4. By hard exercise, that toughens the body, works oif 
 unnecessary energy, and brings back into the general 
 system strength not needed locally. Take brisk walks, 
 ride a bicycle, join a baseball club, use dumb-bells, join 
 a gymnasium; do any sort of labor that will keep the 
 fiesh from being soft and the mind in a flabby, yielding 
 frame. Be brave to be hard on your carcass, lest it get 
 the mastery and subdue your soul. 
 
 5. By pain, if necessary, to conquer the beast; by 
 sharp pain, inflicted with a rope's end, as the saints of 
 old did and the monks of to-day do when they "take 
 the discipline," as they call it. St. Paul, that hero, did 
 so. "I chastise my body," he wrote publicly, "and bring 
 it unto subjection." Do likewise, if ordinary means will 
 not suffice; do it anyhow, if you have the grit to be 
 resolved to be master of your body, be the cost what it 
 may. Don't be afraid that you'll hurt yourself. You'll 
 not be apt to strike too hard. 
 
 6. By avoiding touches, positions, etc., as loathsome, 
 degrading, and sinful. Keep out of solitude. Make an 
 elderly and virtuous friend in whom to conflde your 
 difficulties. Seek bright comany, the company of the 
 good, of the members of a young men's institute or so- 
 dality. 
 
 7. By keeping the mind pure. Don't indulge in im- 
 pure thoughts, imaginings, dreams. Don't listen to 
 dirty stories. Don't read vile books. Don't look at 
 suggestive objects — keep a guard over the eyes and don't 
 hesitate to look away or to close your eyelids at what 
 had better not be seen. Fill the imagination with pure 
 pictures, clean thoughts, pleasant memories. Read 
 good books. Eemember the presence of God. His eye 
 sees you now ! 
 
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Health, II ah it s and Temperance. 
 
 8. By avoiding corrupt companions, male and fe- 
 male, those who talk smart, those who permit improper 
 familiarities. 
 
 9. By taking cold baths for four or five days in suc- 
 cession, once a month, at regular times. By these means, 
 together with what the teacher or confessor will sug- 
 gest of prayer and the frequent reception of the sacra- 
 ments, any young man can keep his purity unsullied. 
 Thereby he will be healthier, stronger, and nobler than 
 if he yields to evil thoughts and vicious practices. 
 Thereby he will live longer. Thereby he will keep from 
 premature decay, from consumption due to a forced loss 
 of vitality, from paresis, locomotor ataxia, paralysis, and 
 insanity. Thereby he will remember his Creator in the 
 days of his youth and deserve the benediction of the 
 Beautitude, that says: "Blessed are the clean of heart, 
 for they shall see God." — Catholic Columbian. 
 
 Variety of exercise is healthful. Gladstone was 
 noted for his outdoor life. When asked the secret of 
 his vigorous health at the age of eighty-three years, he 
 replied : "There was once a road leading out of London, 
 on which more horses died than on any other; and in- 
 quiry revealed the fact that it was perfectly level. Con- 
 sequently the animals, in traveling over it, used only 
 one set of muscles. Continuous employment of the 
 same physical powers on the same lines result in phy- 
 sical exhaustion. It is varied and symmetrical exer- 
 cise of the mind and the muscles that lies at the base 
 of any sound system of physical training." 
 
 In every person who comes near you, look for what 
 is good and strong. Honor that; rejoice in it, as you 
 can ; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like 
 dead leaves when their time comes. — Buskin. 
 
 In the time of strength every one should prepare for 
 old age, for it advances inevitably and will not be de- 
 nied except by means of death. 
 
 The body, the mind, and the soul should be made 
 ready for it : the body, by temperance insuring its health 
 and by the accumulation of a competence for its care; 
 the mind, by the acquisition of noble thoughts and 
 sweet memories ; the soul, by a growth in goodness that 
 will increase its hope as the shadows darken around it. 
 
 The sins of youth are often visited on old age. In- 
 digence punishes former prodigality; disease follows 
 gluttony and impurity ; sorrow expiates old-time carous- 
 ing; and shame makes up for the infliction of disgrace 
 upon others in the days of wild passion. 
 
Health, H ah it s and Temperance. 
 
 How beautiful is a serene old age ! It is the best of 
 life, when anxieties no longer overwhelm, when gentle- 
 ness has taken the place of strife, when there are no 
 more fears, when enmities are all forgiven, when friend- 
 ships are treasured, when the conviction is formed that 
 transitory things never did matter except in so far as 
 they affected the eternal, and when faith grows more 
 bright as it looks calmly to the end. Halcyon time, 
 when the heart is no longer troubled by vanity, but fixes 
 itself on what will never die — on kindness and love and 
 God! — Catholic Columbian. 
 
 All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood 
 in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of 
 our youth. — Shelley. 
 
 God, that men should put an enemy in their 
 mouths to steal away their brains ! That we should, with 
 joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves 
 into beasts ! To be now a sensible man, by and by a 
 fool, and presently a beast ! strange ! Every inordinate 
 cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. — Shakes- 
 peare. 
 
 "We admonish those Catholics who are engaged in 
 the sale of intoxicating liquors, that they seriously con- 
 sider how many and how great are the dangers and oc- 
 casions of sin which surround their avocation, however 
 licit in itself this avocation may be. Let them adopt, 
 if they can, a more decent method of gaining a liveli- 
 hood.^' — Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1889. 
 
 Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is 
 a crime, and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake 
 of the profit derived, they are guilty of a form of moral 
 assassination as criminal as any that has ever been prac- 
 ticed by the bravos of any country or of any age. — Rus- 
 kin. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 Ma-nners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary 
 display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures 
 love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we 
 strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful 
 guides to the performance of our duties. — Sydney Smith. 
 
 There is a lady hidden in every woman, as there is 
 a gentleman hidden in every man; and no matter how 
 far the actual may be from the possible, one thing is 
 certain, that a true lady or a true gentleman is always 
 recognized and acknowledged by this secret nobility in 
 the human heart. — John Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
 Good manners imply every saving grace known un- 
 der heaven among men and women. 
 
 Good manners are the absolutely transparent medium 
 of conveying to the world the benevolence of a good 
 heart; good manners involve and include every depart- 
 ment of the human being — body and soul, and spirit, 
 heart and mind, imagination and conscience, discrim- 
 ination and judsrment. The whole duty of man to man 
 is embraced in good manners. — Gail Hamilton. 
 
 Rise to take leave while you are the speaker — not 
 when the conversation has languished, lest you appear 
 to go because you are bored. 
 
 Deliberate much before doing or saying anything, for 
 you have not the power of recalling what has been said 
 or done. — Epictetus. 
 
 To-morrow is not elastic enough in which to press 
 the neglected duties of to-day. 
 
 Do not wear on your countenance offensive looks, 
 which, though harmless, are unpleasant. — Thucydides. 
 
 He who praises himself will soon find some one to 
 laugh at him. — Syracuse. 
 
 A moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront 
 me, and no other can. — Cowper. 
 
Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 Neglect no opportunity of doing good, nor cheek thy 
 desire of doing it by a vain fear of what may happen. — 
 Atterhury. 
 
 Immodest words admit of no defense, 
 
 For want of modesty is want of sense. — Pope. 
 
 Lend not beyond thy ability, nor refuse to lend out 
 of thy ability, especially when it will help others more 
 than it can hurt thee. 
 
 Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality. It has 
 been called the bright weather of the heart. It gives 
 harmony to the soul, and is a perpetual song without 
 words. It is tantamount to repose. It enables nature 
 to recruit its strength, whereas worry and discontent 
 debilitate it, involving constant wear and tear. 
 
 There is but little bad luck in this world, but there 
 is a heap of bad management. 
 
 Like the bee, we should make our industry our 
 amusement. 
 
 God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it 
 into the nest. 
 
 He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Frank- 
 lin. 
 
 All profuse apologies have some mixture of a lie in 
 them. Few people who plan apologies design to speak 
 the truth. They aim to gloss over the facts, but the 
 substance is false — the motive is adroitly hidden. No 
 one who is fair and honest in conscience and aims has 
 the apologetic impulse. 
 
 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we 
 write in water. — Shakespeare. 
 
 Used against a high soul, there is no surer method 
 of humiliation than an apology. In one skilled at- read- 
 ing human nature an apology becomes a weapon. When 
 you are not the one who should apologize first, when 
 you are less to blame than he, be you the one to apolo- 
 gize first, and see how quickly his noble nature will 
 abase itself and rush to meet you, and how sure and 
 glorious and complete the reconciliation will be. — Lil- 
 lian Bell. 
 
 Many men get rich by doing the work which the 
 other fellows neglect. 
 
 There is always good policy in keeping one's temper. 
 A<= often as temper is lost, a degree of influence is lost 
 with it ; and while the former may be recovered, it will 
 be found much more difficult to recover the latter. The 
 politician who allows himself to get angry in his capa- 
 city — whatever may be the provocation — does his cause 
 injury which his soundest argument will hardly repair. 
 
Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 Just so with men of all professions, and with men of 
 no profession. If they would be able to exert a sway 
 in their sphere, they must learn to keep cool. Who 
 ever listened to a discussion in which one party went 
 raving mad, while the other maintained his composure, 
 without having his sympathies enlisted with the latter, 
 even though, in the beginning, his prejudice might have 
 been in favor of the former? It is commonly taken 
 for granted, and with a good share of reason, that he 
 who has the best side of an argument will exhibit the 
 most coolness. 
 
 Anger is an affected madness compounded of pride 
 and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mis- 
 chief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of 
 all passions which naturally disturb the mind of man, 
 it is most in our power to extinguish, at least to sup- 
 press and correct, our anger. — Clarendon. 
 
 You cannot learn to please people in business or 
 society by any merit or sound knowledge you are mas- 
 ter of, but by studying people and serving them witli 
 a desire to please. 
 
 Good sense will give you the general outlines of busi- 
 ness; observation, usage, contact, and experience alone 
 give the delicate touches and bring out the fine points. 
 
 Economy no more means saving money than spend- 
 ing money. It means spending and saving, whether 
 time or money, or anything else, to the best possible 
 advantage. — Buskin. 
 
 Be merry but with modesty; be sober but not sul- 
 len; be valiant but not venturous; let your clothes be 
 comely but not costly ; your diet wholesome but not ex- 
 cessive; mistrust no man without cause, neither be 
 credulous without proof. Serve God, love God, fear 
 God, and God will bless you as either your heart can 
 wish or your friends desire. — Lyly. 
 
 Whatever you are, be brave, boys! 
 The liar's a coward and a slave ; 
 
 Though clever at ruses, 
 
 And sharp at excuses. 
 He's a sneaking and pitiful knave, boys! 
 
 Whatever you are, be frank, boys! 
 'Tis better than money and rank; 
 
 Still cleave to the right. 
 
 Be lovers of lig-ht. 
 Be open, aboveboard, and frank, boys ! 
 
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 Whatever you are, be kind, boys! 
 Be gentle in manner and mind; 
 
 The man gentle in mien, 
 
 Words, and temper, I ween. 
 Is the gentleman truly refined, boys! 
 
 Nothing in your possession should be so carefully 
 watched as your lips. Do and say all you can to cheer, 
 but never, never, never, under any provocation, allow 
 yourself to strengthen a rumor of scandal. If there 
 is wrong in any soul it will produce its own results, 
 for the laws of the universe are inexorable; but if the 
 wrong is not there, and by any word from your mouth 
 you give the impression that it is there, you judge as 
 you would not like to be judged, and you would think 
 it a great calamity if a like measure were meted out 
 to you. 
 
 It is not vanity for a man to pride himself on what 
 he has honestlv got and prudently uses. 
 
 Civility costs nothing — so we have been duly in- 
 structed from an early age — but, the civility that has 
 cost us nothing is of very little worth. True civility 
 implies some degree, however small, of self-sacrifice, 
 and self-sacrifice certainly costs us something. No 
 doubt there is such a thing as feeling pleasure in self- 
 sacrifice, a pleasure keener than can be gained by self- 
 seeking. But such a pleasure is itself an evidence of 
 goodness, and must not be confounded with natural 
 passion or instinct. It is the fruit of an habitual en- 
 deavor to act kindly by those with whom we have to 
 do, and has reached maturity after many struggles and 
 conflicts. Thus, whoever takes pleasure in civility has 
 generally something good in him ; for the civility we 
 mean is not a mere superficial politeness ; but a hearty 
 wish to make others comfortable even at our own ex- 
 pense. 
 
 The love and admiration which Sydney Smith won 
 from every one, rich or poor, with whom he came in 
 contact, seems to me to have arisen from the one fact 
 that, without perhaps having any such conscious inten- 
 tion, he treated rich and poor, his own servants, and 
 the noblemen, his guests, alike, and alike courteously, 
 considerately, cheerfully, affectionately, so leaving a 
 blessing and reaping a blessing, wheresoever he went. — 
 Kingsley. 
 
 Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, 
 that we may hear from others twice as much as we 
 speak. — Ihid. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune, 
 
 Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a 
 great ship. — Benj. Franklin. 
 
 Any thoughtful man or woman knows that a lax dis- 
 cipline in the home which permits young people to 
 seek their pleasures in the streets, in company unknown 
 to parents, or with books that do not improve the mind, 
 is sure to breed disorder in individuals and in families. 
 No less disastrous is the domestic tyranny that forces 
 boys and girls, whose perfectly natural and laudable 
 craving for fun ought to be satisfied, away from home 
 to find in public places diversion, which may begin by 
 being harmless enough, but which, unguarded by neces- 
 sary restraints, soon passes into dangerous, and finally 
 into criminal, associations. Many young lives of bright- 
 est promise have thus been lost to happiness and social 
 usefulness through the combined influence of parental 
 carelessness, the allurem.ents of the street, and absence 
 of religious training. 
 
 Never break your promises. And to this end never 
 make a promise that you are not sure that you can ful- 
 fill. You may think it a trifling matter to make an ap- 
 pointment with a friend or agree to do a certain thing 
 and then fail to "come to time," but it is assuredly not 
 a small affair. If you get into the habit of neglecting 
 to make good your promises, how long do you think 
 will your friends and acquaintances retain confidence 
 in you ? The nearest and dearest of them will in time 
 learn to doubt you and will put but little faith in your 
 words. Keep your promises to the letter, be prompt 
 and exact, and it will save you much trouble and care 
 through life, and win for you the respect and trust of 
 your friends. 
 
 Youth is the proper season for cultivating benevo- 
 lent and humane affections. As a great portion of our 
 happiness depends on our neighbors and acquaintances, 
 it is of importance that we acquire the temper and 
 manners which will render such agreeable. A sense of 
 justice should be the foundation of all our social qual- 
 ities; even in youthful amusements, let no unfairness 
 be found; that sacred rule of "doing in all things to 
 others, according as we wish that they should do unto 
 us," should be firmly impressed upon every juvenile 
 mind; for this purpose, consider the original and 
 natural equality of men ; whatever advantage of for- 
 tune we may possess, it should never be displayed with 
 an ostentatious superiority; for the vicissitudes of life 
 are unknown. How often have they, whom supercilious 
 
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 young men have looked upon with scorn, risen to be 
 their superiors in after years ! 
 
 Compassion is an emotion, of which the young ought" 
 never be ashamed; graceful in youth is the tear of 
 sympathy, and the heart that melts at a tale of woe. 
 Ease and indulgence should not be permitted to con- 
 tract our affections, or envelop us in selfish enjoyments. 
 
 Ofttimes, excusing of a fault 
 
 Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; 
 
 As patches, set upon a little breach. 
 
 Discredit more in hiding of the fault, 
 
 Then did the fault before it was so patched. 
 
 — Shakespeare, in King John. 
 It never costs very much, at most a sacrifice of our 
 tender feelings, to keep a sweet temper, and it is a 
 wonderfully well-paying investment. Try it some day. 
 As soon as you awake in the morning say. "I'll do any- 
 thing to-day before I growl," and though you may 
 have almost given away more than once to the tempta- 
 tion, you will go to bed with a new and fresh apprecia- 
 tion of life, wondering "Why cannot life always run as 
 smoothly as it did to-day?" 
 
 There was once a man who was almost pre-eminent 
 in this respect. He never complained, never went 
 "wild," but if anything that looked like a misfortune 
 befell him he would bow his head and thank God that 
 it was not something worse. Passing along a city 
 street one day, dressed in his new clothes, a full can of 
 paint fell upon him from a painter's scaffold. It ruined 
 his clothes, almost blinded him, and hurt him quite se- 
 verely. Most men would have gone off at a tangent 
 and let everybody within a mile radius know that they 
 had been foully dealt with. Xot so with this even-tem- 
 pered man. He merely said, "Thank God it wasn't 
 bricks.'' Try to be even-tempered. It pays, particularly 
 in adversity. 
 
 Refinement is fastidiousness. It is not luxury. It 
 is nothing of this kind. It is far removed from excess 
 or waste. A person who is truly refined will not squan- 
 der or needlessly consume anvthing. Refinement, on 
 the contrary, is always allied to simplicity and a judi- 
 cious and tasteful employment of the means of the good 
 and happiness which it has at command. It seeks to 
 divest itself of superfluities, and aspires continually to 
 the utmost possible purity. Refinement leads to per- 
 sonal cleanliness and elegant neatness, ^ood taste and 
 simplicity in dress. All "loudness" or flashiness is re- 
 pugnant to its spirit. In its home and surroundings. 
 
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 the same chasteness and natural grace are maintained. 
 The abode of genuine refinement, and a mere pretender 
 to it, are very different. In the former you will find 
 no excess, gaudiness, or false glittering; but the latter 
 abounds in it. In personal manners, refinement is most 
 conspicuous. A man of refinement is always polite 
 without effeminacy, and considerate without stiffness. 
 Display and ceremony are identical without refinement 
 like that of the heart, which impels its possessor to show 
 on all occasions a regard for the feelings of others. 
 No adherence to etiquette can compare with it for the 
 spontaneous observance of true and gratifying polite- 
 ness. 
 
 Deal tenderly with the absent ; say nothing to inflict 
 a wound on their reputation. They may be wrong and 
 wicked, yet your knowledge of it does not oblige you 
 to disclose their character, except to save others from 
 injury. Then do it in a way that bespeaks a spirit of 
 kindness to the absent offender. Be not hasty to credit 
 evil reports. They are often the result of misunder- 
 standing or of evil design, or they proceed from an 
 exaggerated or partial disclosure of facts. Wait and 
 learn the whole history before you decide; then believe 
 just what evidence compels you to, and no more. But 
 even then, take heed not to indulge the least unkindness, 
 else you dissipate all the spirit of your prayer for them, 
 and unnerve yourself for doing them good. 
 
 Foolish spending is the father of poverty. Do not be 
 ashamed of hard work. Work for the best salaries and 
 wages you can get, but work for half price rather than 
 be idle. Be your own master, and do not let society 
 or fashion swallow up your individuality — hat, coat, and 
 boots. Do not eat up or wear all you can earn. Com- 
 pel your selfish body to spare something for profit's 
 sake. Be stingy with your own appetite, but merciful 
 to others' necessities. JEIelp others and ask no help for 
 yourself. Be proud. Let your pride be of the right 
 kind. Be too proud to wear a coat you cannot afford 
 to buy; too proud to be in company that you cannot 
 keep up with in expenses; too proud to lie or steal or 
 cheat ; too proud to be stingy ; in short, be a man of in- 
 tegrity and individuality. — Weekly Bouquet. 
 
 Business men, in business hours, attend only to busi- 
 ness matters. Social calls are best adapted to the so- 
 cial circle. Make your business known in a few words, 
 without loss of time. Let your dealings with a stranger 
 be most carefully considered, and tried friendship duly 
 appreciated. A mean act will soon recoil, and a man 
 
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 of honor will be esteemed. Leave ^^tricks of trade" to 
 those whose education was never completed. Treat all 
 with respect, confide in few, wrong no man. Be never 
 afraid to say no, and always prompt to acknowledge and 
 rectify a wrong. Leave nothing for to-morrow that 
 should be done to-day. Because a friend is polite, do 
 not think his time is valueless. Have a place for every- 
 thing, and everything in its place. To preserve long 
 friendship, keep a short credit; the way to get credit 
 is to be punctual; the way tc preserve it is not to use 
 it much. Settle often; have short accounts. Trust no 
 man^s appearances; they are often deceptive, and as- 
 sumed for the purpose of obtaining credit. Rogues gen- 
 erally dress well. The rich are generally plain men. 
 Be well satisfied before you give a credit that those to 
 whom you give it are safe men to be trusted. 
 
 The desire to get something for nothing makes men 
 pay something for nothing. 
 
 Thou shalt be a great monarch if thou canst com- 
 mand thy tongue. — Ven. Louis of Grenada. 
 
 The reward of one's duty is the power to fufill an- 
 other. 
 
 By gambling we lose both our time and our treasure, 
 — two things most precious to the life of man. 
 
 A calm, contented life is worth far more to the in- 
 surance office, as the tables of probabilities go, than the 
 life of one who drains his soul away by anxiety. "What 
 is the use of fretting ! It never coined a penny for our 
 poverty, nor prepared a slice of meat for our hunger. 
 It is a killing thing, and should be avoided by all who 
 love life. We do not waste strength by labor, for there 
 is a recuperative power within which restores us after 
 activity; but we lose life by anxiety, and lose it fast." 
 A peaceful life is a sermon with a quiet but irresistible 
 eloquence in it, which wins men to a desire after its se- 
 cret. 
 
 Every one has his weak point ; every one has his faults. 
 We may make the worst of these; we may fix our atten- 
 tion constantly on these. It is a very easy task, and 
 by so doing we shall make the burden "of life unendur- 
 able, and turn friends into enemies, and provoke strife, 
 hatred, heart-burnings, wherever we go, and cut off 
 from ourselves one of the chief sources of happiness and 
 goodness and usefulness. But we may also make the 
 best of one another. We may forgive even as we hope 
 to be forgiven. We may put ourselves in the place of 
 others, and ask what we should wish to be done to ns 
 and thought of us were we in their place. By fixing 
 
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 Gur attention on their good qualities we shall rise to 
 their level as surely as by fixing our attention on their 
 bad qualities we shall sink below their level. By loving 
 whatever is lovable in those around us love will flow 
 back from them to us, and life will become a pleasure 
 instead of a pain, and earth will become like heaven; 
 and we, if God so please, shall become not unworthy 
 followers of Him whose name is Love. — Stanley. 
 
 What makes a boy popular? Manliness. The boy 
 who respects his mother has leadership in him. The 
 boy who is careful of his sister is a knight. The boy 
 who will never violate his word, who will pledge his 
 honor to his own heart, and change not, will have the 
 confidence of his fellows. The boy who defends the 
 weak will one day become a hero among the strong. A 
 boy who will never hurt the feelings of any one will one 
 day find himself in the atmosphere of universal sym- 
 pathy. Shall we tell you how to become a popular boy ? 
 We will. Be too manly and generous and unselfish to 
 seek to be popular ; be the soul of honor, and love others 
 better than yourself, and people will give you their 
 hearts. 
 
 Flat contradiction, severe criticism, fault-finding and 
 condemnation, the omission of gentle and pleasing at- 
 tentions, curt manners, blunt speeches, unkind allu- 
 sions, are continually excused on the plea of sincerity. 
 "I said what I thought/' and "I never pretend to what 
 I do not feel,'' are common assertions, supposed to Jus- 
 tify all manner of rude and ill-natured words and 
 actions. Yet one who unites sincerity with kind feel- 
 ing is never heard to utter such language. His sym- 
 pathies are too keen to allow him to hurt another need- 
 lessly, and it never occurs to him that it is insincere to 
 offer such courteous attentions as express a general feel- 
 ing of good-will, even though he may not be drawn by 
 any bonds of affection. 
 
 Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take 
 thee prisoner. A word unspoken is, like the sword in 
 the scabbard, thine ; if vented, thy sword is in another's 
 hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to 
 hold thy tongue. — Quarles. 
 
 Profane swearing seems to be as much a part of 
 every-day life as the use of language itself. The ador- 
 able name of Jesus is blasphemed. Who has not ob- 
 served this lack of reverence for the name — above all 
 names — ^the name that is pronounced with ineffable 
 solemnity by the angels of heaven, and that causes the 
 demons of hell to tremble? Now that blasphemy is so 
 
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 general, we should redouble our efforts to honor and 
 cause to be honored, as much as we can, the name of our 
 blessed Saviour. We shall be sure to find in it strength 
 and consolation at the hour of death, if we honor it 
 during life. 
 
 A statesman of national reputation said: "You ask 
 for a word of wisdom to young men. Well, my one 
 will be two. (1) Make a written pledge not to drink 
 'fire-water' until you're a grandfather; and (2) save 
 something regularly every Saturday night, if it's only 
 a penny. Given health and opportunities, the man who 
 is temperate and frugal is bound to be a respectable 
 member of society. Whether or not he will amass 
 riches is a question partly depending on whether or 
 not the money-making talent has been placed in his 
 crib by his fairy godmother; partly depending on his 
 wife. But the main thing in this world is to be an hon- 
 orable citizen, and the abstemious and thrifty man is 
 most apt to attain that measure of success. 
 
 Charm of manner is made up usually of gracious ob- 
 servances of small courtesies. Heredity is unrelenting, 
 and charm is a great birthright, but when these quali- 
 ties are lacking attention, effort and, above all things, 
 desire may overcome tremendous barriers. Though so- 
 ciety may do without a good heart, it will not dispense 
 with that appearance of it which we call amiability of 
 manner. This amiability may not always give that illu- 
 sive something known as charm, but charm never exists 
 when it is absent. Simple flattery is not pleasing, but 
 the actual making one do his best, and not alone think- 
 ing he is doing it, may be. Unselfishness is the root 
 and spawn of all graciousness. One of the greatest se- 
 crets of charm is charitableness and scrupulousness in 
 imputing motives to those who interfere with our even 
 way. Wit and eloquence fall flat when unkindly leveled 
 at the weak and defenseless. 
 
 Serving riches, instead of making riches serve you, 
 is the most piteous of all poverty. It is slavery. 
 
 On personal appearance and habits much of our suc- 
 cess in life depends. There have been many instances, 
 where the soul, shining through a maimed or deformed 
 body, has conquered the most adverse circumstances. 
 This is far easier to do than to overcome an offensive 
 or disgraceful trick of behavior ; for society will accord 
 its sympathy to natural defects, but for acquired ones 
 it reserves only its disgust. 
 
 Every reader will recall to mind some person toward 
 whom he or she has felt some repugnance almost un- 
 
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 endurable, merely from an offensive habit such a one 
 has formed — sometimes a mere turn of the lip, a cast 
 of the eye, or a peculiar inflection of the voice. 
 
 Often the habit has been formed of clearing the 
 throat, or spitting profusely about, or picking the ears, 
 or sorae other vulgar habit. These things will create 
 a distaste for such persons in a fastidious mind; and 
 deny it as much as we please, or call it squeamish or 
 silly, we are all in a greater or less degree fastidious. 
 
 It is the duty of every person to make himself agree- 
 able to others. Most of these peculiarities of manner 
 which create aversions are spontaneous in their origin, 
 but becomes so habitual that they are unconscious of 
 them. Many of them were formed in childhood, when 
 habits are more easily removed than in after years. While 
 we cannot like everybody, or be loved by everybody in re- 
 turn, still we should take especial care that we do not 
 make ourselves personally offensive by habits and ways 
 that shock the delicate fastidiousness of those around us. 
 
 We must never undervalue any person. The work- 
 man loves not to have his work despised in his pres- 
 ence. Now, God is present everywhere, and every per- 
 son is His work. 
 
 Do not be quick to speak ; say much by a modest and 
 judicious silence. 
 
 "Think twice and speak once" is good advice which, 
 alas, is but too seldom followed. 
 
 The secret of pleasing in conversation is not so much 
 in talking yourself, as in inducing others to talk. The 
 average man would rather hear himself talk than any- 
 one else, and there is no subject on which he can wax 
 more eloquent than the all-important topic of number 
 one and what pertains to that individual. Therefore, 
 I say, if you want to interest a man and gain his favor, 
 make him talk of himself. Confine your utterances to 
 enthusiastic monosyllables of assent or dissent, as the 
 case may require, and he will vote you a brilliant con- 
 versationalist. 
 
 On the other hand, nothing disgusts the average man 
 more than to hear some one prating about his own abil- 
 ities. "Pshaw !" he sa5^s, "the fellow is all the time 
 talking about himself." So you must be careful to 
 avoid the subject of your own perfections, and say noth- 
 ing about yourself, except in reply to a direct question. 
 
 Do not be quick to speak. "Least said, soonest mend- 
 ed," says the proverb. Weigh your words well before 
 speaking and enunciate them clearly and distinctly, but 
 
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 in a natural and unaffected manner, avoiding all sug- 
 gestion of pomposity. Finally be slow to speak evil of 
 others and do not betray secrets. Tattle-tale is the most 
 scornful word in a child^s vocabulary, and grown peo- 
 ple detest a gossip. Then again, think, think, think, 
 before you speak ! 
 
 Manhood begins when we have in any way made 
 truce with necessity; but begins joyfully, and hopefully 
 only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity. 
 
 He who wishes to preserve his own dignity and self- 
 respect must be careful not to wound needlessly the 
 self-respect of others. 
 
 Learn to save something from your income, be it ever 
 so small. Do not be in a hurry to invest in "good 
 things;" they generally prove to be the worst. 
 
 Xever put your money in a business until you have 
 studied it up; a little practical knowledge of your own 
 is better than trusting all to the other fellow. 
 
 The man who invests his money against the experi- 
 ence of his partner sometimes in the end finds he has 
 made a bad "swap." Beware of loaning money to 
 enable others to start business or speculate. When you 
 are rich, you may take a risk of this kind, but not while 
 you are struggling for yourself. 
 
 If you are a youth carefully select a trade or profes- 
 sion, and then master it ; if you fail in business you will 
 always have something to fall back on. 
 
 Be truthful and honest. Nothing serves so well in 
 the battle of life, or is so valuable as integrity of char- 
 acter. It is better than gold, always current, and im- 
 possible to be stolen. 
 
 Never brag about your savings. This will save you 
 the disagreeable experience of refusing to lend them to 
 a friend. 
 
 Before associating yourself with any person in busi- 
 ness, inquire into his personal character, his habits and 
 general fitness for the proposed enterprise. 
 
 Recollect that the savings of a lifetime are often 
 swept away in a day by foolishly acting on the impulse, 
 or being influenced by the glib tongue of a schemer. 
 Always investigate, even if you pay for the information ; 
 the money thus expended frequently insures you against 
 great loss, and cannot possibly lessen your chances for 
 gain. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 The Best Way to Get Rich, 
 
 Are the experiences and methods of the man who be- 
 gan building his present fortune fifty years ago likely 
 to be regarded by the city youth of to-day as of any 
 practical benefit ? 
 
 "In their details and as affecting young men at large 
 — no," says the veteran William J. Onahan, who has 
 been an observer of men and things for two generations. 
 "The sane, sober, careful methods of fifty years ago are 
 as applicable to-day to the founding of fortunes as ever 
 they were in history. But they read too tamely for the 
 young men of this strenuous age. The spirit of specu- 
 lation has gone too far. The excitement of gaming, 
 from the penny-tossing by the newsboys to the 'margin- 
 ing^ in the bucket shops, has led the young men of to- 
 day to look upon the methods of founding fortunes 
 fifty years ago just as they would look upon the methods 
 used at that time in sending merchandise from New 
 \ork to San Francisco. 
 
 "You can't reach the masses of the young men of 
 Chicago, for instance, by saying to them that the only 
 way to build a safe, desirable and lasting fortune is by 
 slow accretion, and that this accretion should begin with 
 the first salary that they draw. Tell a young man who 
 may be taking up business life that even on a salary of 
 $10 a week he should be laying some of it aside, and 
 the chances are that he will laugh at you. Why? 
 Simply because the temptation to spend never was so 
 great as it is now. Yet this habit of saving is easier 
 to acquire on $10 a week than it will be afterward at 
 $25 a week, and you may be sure that it is the one 
 dominant trait that must be at the foundation of for- 
 tune building. 
 
 "In the nervous energy of the present there is a gen- 
 eral disposition abroad to shelve almost any philosophy 
 of materialism fifty years old as being out of date. It 
 has been so easy to say, ^Yes, you could do so and so 
 once, but you can't do it now.' 
 
 "But a truth is a truth, and that permanent fortune 
 must be the product of sound, conservative building is 
 truer to-day, almost, than it ever was before. Most of 
 the wealthy men of to-day began fortune building from 
 the ground up. They began when habits of thrift and 
 frugality were far more general in both old and young 
 than they are now, and, while they worked longer hours 
 for less pay, they saved more money. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 "I have looked to the Civil War, always, as being the 
 line of demarcation between the young man of yesterday 
 and the young man of to-day. I don't know but what 
 war is productive of the spirit of extravagance. It 
 represents waste and ruin. It creates a feeling of un- 
 stableness. Certainly the great Civil War in this 
 country changed the traits and characteristics of the 
 people. Excitement took the place of repose. Specula- 
 tion supplanted steady trade, and this has led to the 
 spirit of gambling, which in one or another form has 
 become dangerously widespread. 
 
 "Too many young men to-day have become infected 
 with this passion. There is a haste to grow rich. Con- 
 servative methods in business are too slow. The hope 
 of gaining fortune without labor has become widely 
 alluring. 
 
 "This is a fatal delusion. Even where wealth is thus 
 gained, it is more often a curse than a blessing. The 
 fortune quickly gained and without labor generally is 
 as speedily dissipated. Yet just to the extent that we 
 see flattering opportunities held out to young men for 
 the making of fortunes by some short-cut, just to that 
 extent one may guess that these propositions are ac- 
 cepted. 
 
 "No doubt there is now more restless energy displayed 
 by young men in all pursuits than formerly, but there 
 were more steadiness, greater perseverance, and, as a 
 consequence, more lasting results fifty years ago. Then 
 habits of life were simpler, temptations were less com- 
 mon, and extravagance of living comparatively un- 
 known. Now it requires great strength of character in 
 the young man to stand out against the temptations of 
 environment. No doubt there is a certain fascination 
 in these modern activities — in the whirl and excitement 
 of latter day trading and speculation. Amusements, 
 too, are more common and costly, and dissipations are 
 more alluring. 
 
 "That there are $2,500,000,000 in the savings banks 
 of the United States and that the totals are increasing 
 every year shows promise. At the same time, I am not 
 sure that it would not be shown by analysis that adopted 
 citizens from continental Europe lead as these depos- 
 itors. At one time ^Yankee thrift' was proverbial. To 
 some extent it may be true of the direct descendants of 
 that old stock, but it has lost its significance when ap- 
 plied to the typical American. 
 
 "In these observations it should not be lost to mind 
 that in general a vice is more apparent than a virtue. 
 
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 And on the surface we often see traits to be deplored — 
 lack of reverence and respect for parents and parental 
 authority, loss of the deference due to age, and a falling 
 off in the chivalrous respect due to women. 
 
 "But as for opportunity for young men to-day, it is 
 greater than it ever was before, only vp is not to be 
 sought in the bucket shops or on the race course. 
 Steadiness, sobriety, and perseverance will assuredly 
 bring their reward to the young men of to-day as in the 
 past, and more swiftly. The enormous activities of 
 the present age; the universal expansion of American 
 trade which now as never before, pushes its giant rami- 
 fications all over the country, point to the gates of 
 boundless possibilities to the energy and capacity of 
 American enterprise. And the young men of to-day 
 hold the keys." — W. J. Onahan. 
 
 Gold is one of the best and one of the worst, one of 
 the most divine, and one of the most diabolic things in 
 the world. 
 
 Gold is one of the bitterest possessions when we are 
 sordidly attached to it; one of the sweetest when we give 
 it through generosity and love for God. 
 
 You should tremble whenever you look upon a gold 
 piece. You should tremble particularly to possess it, 
 for you have before you good or evil, an angel or a 
 devil. 
 
 According as you hoard it without necessity or give 
 it to the poor, you bring from your purse hell or heaven. 
 — Fr. Lacordaire. 
 
 A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. 
 
 Give me the man who has been tried in the crucible, 
 who has been purified by the fire of misfortune, and 
 comes forth purged from vanity and its train of de- 
 mands. 
 
 Three things to avoid — idleness, loquacity and flip- 
 pant jesting. 
 
 Thousands of well-meaning young men have been 
 failures largely from gruff, coarse, rude manners. A 
 courteous disposition counts in the world to-day. Take 
 two persons, possessing equal advantages in every other 
 respect, but let one be kind, obliging, and conciliating, 
 the other disobliging, rude, harsh and insolent, and the 
 one will become rich while the other will starve. Those 
 who throw their good deeds should not always expect 
 them to be caught with a thankful smile. But "there is 
 no policy like politeness," and courtesy is profitable ad- 
 vertising. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune, 
 
 Manners are not a garment to be taken off; they are 
 the flesh and blood of life itself. They are a person's 
 habitual ways of doing everything; they show in the 
 smallest details and in the largest matters alike. They 
 are so intimately and so essentially part of us that they 
 express us better than we know. The most fugitive 
 deed and word, the mere air of doing a thing, the in- 
 timated purpose, expresses character. The world is full 
 of judgment days, and into every assembly that a man 
 enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and 
 stamped. Our manners are the measures of our real 
 selves. 
 
 A person with truly good manners, then, to begin 
 with, must be a good person, kind and gentle. Mere 
 polish does not make manners, though many foolish 
 minds appear to think so; for selfishness and even evil 
 can be veneered and polished into a very fair imitation 
 of the real thing, though it can never be more than an 
 imitation. Real manners stand the test of any search- 
 ing occasion; for they go as deep as character itself. 
 
 The manners that keep their gentle courtesy through 
 defeat or ill luck, that claim no advantage over an ad- 
 versary, that do not unduly exult in victory, are a tes- 
 timonial to their possessor's thorough good breeding 
 that exceeds any framed pedigree or crested note paper. 
 
 Good manners are a part of good morals, and it is 
 as much a man's duty as a man's interest to practice 
 both. 
 
 In the noise and tumult of the world where every life 
 is invaded and encroached upon by "the pride of man'' 
 and "the strife of tongues," w^e wrap around us the robe 
 of God's eternal mercy in Jesus Christ, and look out 
 undaunted upon the dangers that cannot harm us there. 
 — Phillips Brooks. 
 
 The mischief of flattery is not that it persuades any 
 man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the 
 influence of honest ambition by raising an opinion that 
 honor may be gained without the merit of toil. — John- 
 
 S071. 
 
 Who misses or who wins the prize? 
 
 Go, lose or conquer as you can; 
 But if you fail, or if you rise. 
 Be each, pray God, a gentleman. 
 
 — Anon. 
 A man's own good breeding is the best security 
 against other people's ill manners. — Chesterfield. 
 
 The manner of saying or doing anything goes a great 
 way towards the value of the thing itself. — Seneca. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 I believe more follies are committed out of complai- 
 sance to the world than in following our own inclina- 
 tions. — Lady Mary Montagu. 
 
 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — 
 Emerson. 
 
 Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, 
 the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. — 
 Johnson. 
 
 He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and 
 poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption. 
 — Johnson. 
 
 To catch Dame Fortune^s golden smile. 
 
 Assiduously wait upon her; 
 And gather gear by every wile 
 
 That^s justified by honor ; 
 Not for to hide it in a hedge. 
 
 Not for a trained attendant; 
 But for the glorious privilege 
 Of being independent. 
 
 — Burns. 
 
 Eiches is a comparative term ; but every person is rich 
 who has more income than outgo. When this degree of 
 riches is reached a man can act deliberately, he is more 
 independent, and if his tastes and ambition call for 
 greater wealth, the way to affluence is much easier. 
 
 Recollect that one of the greatest helps to prosperity 
 and riches is health. It is so priceless that the wealthiest 
 person in the world would give his whole fortune to 
 possess it if it were necessary. Therefore, always guard 
 your health. Health makes us enjoy a crust of bread 
 with 2 cup of water, while the most sumptuous banquet 
 has no charms for the sick ; next to honor, health is the 
 dearest possession to man or woman. 
 
 Be prudent, but do not be mean. The poorest person 
 has the power of doing some good to a fellow-sufferer. 
 If ever so little, give to the worthy needy according to 
 your circumstances. It will make you feel better, and 
 always gives pleasure when remembered. Besides, many 
 a poor person has become fortunate, and the friends of 
 adversity should win the gratitude of all true hearts. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin said: "The way to wealth is as 
 plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two 
 words: industry and frugality; that is, waste not time 
 nor money, but make the best use of both. Without 
 industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them 
 everything.'^ 
 
 He who plays with dollars in his youth will probably 
 have to beg for farthings in his age. — Howe. 
 
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 Thousands of people might be enjoying reasonable 
 lives, with opportunities for self-culture, for social en- 
 joyment, and for charitable effort, whose whole energy 
 is absorbed in the desperate struggle to add superfluities 
 to comforts. . . . 
 
 The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to 
 heaven, and the good fortune of the bad bows their 
 heads down to earth. — Saadi. 
 
 He is poor whose expenses exceed his income. — De La 
 Bruyere. 
 
 I take him to be the only rich man that lives upon 
 what he has, owes nothing, and is contented. — Howe. 
 
 One of the great battles that we have to fight in this 
 world — for twenty great battles have to be fought, all 
 at once and in one — is the battle with appearances. — 
 George Macdonald. 
 
 The fear of what people will think is an enemy to 
 all manliness, independence and sincerity. 
 
 People seldom improve when they have no model but 
 themselves to copy after. — Goldsmith. 
 
 He who is most slow in making a promise, is the most 
 faithful in the performance of it. — Rousseau. 
 
 Incivility is not a vice of the soul, but the effect of 
 several vices — of vanity, ignorance of duty, laziness, 
 stupidity, distraction, contempt of others, and jealousy. 
 — De La Bruyere. 
 
 The best traits of character in a beginner that prom- 
 ise success are: first, integrity; second, earnestness; 
 third, application to detail.— /Samwe? Smiles. 
 
 The mind should be fixed upon the highest position ; 
 and the constant struggle to attain it, is the strongest 
 incentive to win success. — Col. M. J. O'Brien. 
 
 Always be steadfast and loyal in promoting the inter- 
 ests of your employers, and let integrity be your guid- 
 ing star. — Ihid. 
 
 Pay every debt as soon as it is due. — Col. Albert A. 
 Pope. 
 
 It is one thing to be economical, and quite another to 
 be stingy and mean. — Ihid. 
 
 I cannot too strongly impress upon young men the 
 absolute indispensability of politeness. — George G. Will- 
 iams. 
 
 Experience is the name men give to their follies or 
 their sorrows. 
 
 A reputation will always work for you or against you. 
 
 We do not need the half of what we demand in order 
 to make life comfortable. A slender income with a 
 warm heart is better than riches and a restless soul. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 The man who makes the most of the little that he has 
 is of more intrinsic worth than he who owns worlds, but 
 is unhappy because he has not more. 
 
 There is hardly a day passes but that brings to one's 
 attention the absolute necessity of taking care of the 
 future with a policy of life insurance, either an endow^ 
 ment 'policy, if one can afford it, or what is called 
 straight life, or industrial insurance. There is no man, 
 whatever his condition may be, who should not carry a 
 policy for some amount, if even for no other purpose 
 than that of taking care of his own funeral expenses 
 and clearing up such bills which will inevitably accumu- 
 late. 
 
 There is no profession so forbidding, no work so 
 crabbed, that a man who strives to exact the utmost 
 happiness from it may not twine about it roses of fancy 
 and hide the most of its thorns. 
 
 I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, 
 but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil 
 and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest 
 form of success which comes, not to the man who de- 
 sires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not 
 shirk from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who, out 
 of these, wins the splendid, ultimate triumph. — Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt. 
 
 Money is a good thing. It is a foolish affectation to 
 deny it. But it is not the only good thing, and after a 
 certain amount has been amassed it ceases to be the 
 chief even of material good things. It is far better, for 
 instance, to do well a bit of work which is well worth 
 doing. — Ihid. 
 
 Truth, justice, and reason lose all their force, and all 
 their luster, when they are not accompanied with agree- 
 able manners. — Thomson. 
 
 Bad manners are a species of bad morals. A conscien- 
 cious man will not grossly offend in that way.—Bovel. 
 
 The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without 
 ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without 
 freedom. — Chesterfield. 
 
 To be always thinking about your manners is not the 
 way to make 'them good ; because the very perfection of 
 manners is not to think about jomseU.—Whately. 
 
 There is a deportment which suits the figure and tal- 
 ents of each person ; it is always lost when we quit it to 
 assume that of another. — Rousseau, 
 
 In society, good temper and animal spirits are nearly 
 everything. They are of more importance than sallies ot 
 
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 wit or refinements of understanding. They give a gen- 
 eral tone of cheerfulness and satisfaction to the company. 
 The French have the advantage over us in external man- 
 ners. They breathe a lighter air and have a brisker cir- 
 culation of the blood. — Hazlitt. 
 
 Parents are commonly more careful to bestow wit on 
 their children than virtue, the art of speaking well than 
 doing well ; but their manners ought to be the great con- 
 cern. — Fuller. 
 
 What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners ! How 
 difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart ! 
 Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or 
 talent; they will more than supply all. — Bulwer Lytton. 
 
 A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. — 
 Montaigne. 
 
 Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Alcott. 
 
 Manners are ornaments of action. — Samuel Smiles. 
 
 Civility costs nothing and buys everything. — Mary 
 Worthy Montagu. 
 
 As a man's salutation, so is the total of his character ; 
 in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner 
 of meeting and salutation. — Lavater. 
 
 Nothing except what flows from the heart can render 
 even external manners truly pleasing. — Blair. 
 
 When we listen to folks retailing faults that have no 
 need of publicity, our curiosity is aroused to this effect — 
 is the narrator without sin ? 
 
 To live content with small means; to seek elegance 
 rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; 
 to be worthy, not respectable, wealthy not rich ; to study 
 hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to 
 stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to 
 bear all cheerfully; do all bravely, await occasions, hurry 
 never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and un- 
 conscious, grow up through the common — this is my 
 symphony. — Channing. 
 
 False sayings, such as. It is impossible to be honest and 
 to make a living, commend themselves only to the weak 
 and incompetent. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 "The fact is," said the senior member of the firm, 
 when the co-partnership papers were signed, "you have 
 been one of us from the day you came to us an office boy. 
 You have shown the same enthusiasm for our service 
 that a soldier displays in fighting for his flag." 
 
 We earnestly entreat every young man, after he has 
 chosen a vocation to stick to it. Don't leave it because 
 hard blows are to be struck or disagreeable work per- 
 formed. 
 
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Manners, Thrift, Fortune. 
 
 Those who have worked their way up to wealth and in- 
 fluence do not belong to the shiftless and unstable class, 
 but may be reckoned among such as pulled off their 
 coats, rolled up their sleeves, conquered their prejudices 
 against labor, and manfully bore the heat and burden of 
 the day. 
 
 Whether upon the old farm, where our fathers toiled 
 diligently, striving to bring the soil to productiveness, in 
 the machine shop or in the factory, or the thousand other 
 business places that invite honest toil and skill, let the 
 motto ever be, Perseverance and Industry. Stick to one 
 thing, boys, and you will have success. 
 
 God gives all things to industry. 
 
 A good occupation prevents mental dissipation. 
 
 Atmosphere is everything to a small artist ; some men 
 would paint perfectly in heaven. The real artist, how- 
 ever, can work in a factory. 
 
 No one will ever govern well who has not become a 
 thorough master in the art of obeying well. — Ignatius 
 Loyala. 
 
 No man is above politeness and no man below it. 
 Louis the XIV, a proud and autocratic monarch, always 
 raised his hat to the poorest peasant woman; and a 
 greater man than he, George Washington, wrote the first 
 American book of etiquette. 
 
 The president of the London Chamber of Commerce 
 gives these maxims, which he has tested through years of 
 business experience and which he recommends as tend- 
 ing to insure success : 
 
 Have a definite aim. Go straight for it. Master all 
 details. Always know more than your are expected to 
 know. Remember that difficulties are only made to be 
 overcome. Treat failures as stepping-stones to further 
 effort. Listen well, answer cautiously, decide promptly. 
 Preserve by all means in your power "a sound mind in 
 a sound bodv." 
 
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CHAPTEE IV. 
 
 Opportunity, Duty. Tr\ith. 
 
 He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty ap- 
 proaches sublimity. 
 Once to every man and nation comes the moment to 
 
 decide, 
 In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil 
 side.— Lowell. 
 If you have but an hour, will you improve that hour 
 instead of idling it away ? — Chesterfield. 
 
 The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest 
 enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is hu- 
 mility. — Colton. 
 
 I slept, and dreamed that life is beauty : 
 I awoke and saw that it is duty. 
 
 There is no remedy for time misspent ; 
 No healing for the waste of idleness, 
 Whose very languor is a punishment 
 
 Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. 
 hours of indolence and discontent. 
 
 Not now to be redeemed ! 3''e sting not less 
 Because I know this span of life was lent 
 
 For lofty duties, nor for selfishness. 
 Not to be whiled away in aimless dreams, 
 
 But to improve ourselves, and serve mankind, 
 Life and its choicest faculties were given — 
 Man should be ever better than he seems ; 
 And shape his acts, and discipline his mind. 
 To walk adoring earth, with hope of heaven. 
 
 — Aubrey de Vere. 
 While yet thy days are long. 
 And this fair change of seasons passes slow. 
 Gather and treasure up the good they yield. 
 
 — Bryant. 
 My friend, you make very free with your days; pray, 
 how many do you except to have ? — De Quincey. 
 
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Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if 
 he have lost no time. — Bacon. 
 
 Look not mournfully into the Past ; it comes not back 
 again. Wisely improve the Present : it is thine. — Long- 
 fellow. 
 
 Hold fast by the Present ! Every situation — nay, every 
 moment — is of infinite value, for it is the representative 
 of a whole eternity. 
 
 Do the duty which lies nearest to you. Every duty 
 which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties 
 at its back. — C Kingsley. 
 
 Full many a day for ever is lost 
 
 By delaying its work till to-morrow ; 
 The minutes of sloth have often cost 
 Long years of bootless sorrow. 
 
 — Eliza Cook. 
 
 Time wasted, is existence; used, is life. — Young. 
 
 You may delay, but time will not. 
 
 A man is not always irresponsible for his opinions; 
 for he may hold erroneous opinions because he has not 
 desired or sought diligently for the truth, which, with 
 a proper exercise of his faculties, he might have found. 
 
 — Dr. Brownson. 
 
 He that doeth the truth cometh to the light. — John Hi, 
 21. 
 
 Kemember that to-day shall never dawn again. 
 
 Time breathes his mists on the vast ocean of ages, and 
 rolls along the surface, the dark, impenetrable fog of 
 forgetfulncss. — P. J. 0. Chauveau. 
 
 Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces 
 conviction for the moment, but it is only by truth to 
 nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that 
 those abiding influences are won that enlarge from gen- 
 eration to generation. — Lowell. 
 
 He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the 
 loom, and will see the defect when the weaving of a life- 
 time is unrolled. 
 
 What about the twenty, and thirty, and fifty, and a 
 hundred thousand years of eternity ? The moment that 
 is flying holds more eternity than all our past, and the 
 future holds none at all. — Father Faher. 
 
 By whomsoever Truth is spoken, it is spoken by the 
 aid of Him who is Truth itself. — St. Augustine. 
 
 Time takes heavy toll as we pass, one after one, the 
 Janus-gated years, but he goes bravely on who bears with 
 him the perfume of the morning, and the lavish heart 
 of youth. — Benjamin F. Taylor. 
 
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Opportunity, Duty, Truth, 
 
 The most valuable thing on this earth is time ; since it 
 is the price of eternity, inasmuch as with time — with 
 only one instant of ti^e — we can purchase an eternal 
 joy ! How careful, then, should we be of so precious a 
 possession, and how solicitous to spend every moment of 
 it in the most perfect manner, and with the greatest 
 profit possible. — Fr. Duffy, S. J. 
 
 Future or Past no richer secret folds, 
 
 friendless Present ! than thy bosom holds. 
 
 — Emerson. 
 
 The True Past departs not ; nothing that was worthy 
 in the past departs — no truth or goodness realized by 
 man ever dies, or can die. — Carlyle. 
 
 The mere lapse of years is not life. Knowledge, truth, 
 love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to 
 the mechanism of existence.— Jo^mes Mmrtineau. 
 
 We are apt to believe what is pleasant rather than 
 what is true. — Addison. 
 
 So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 
 
 So near is God to man^ 
 When Duty whispers low, "Thou must,'' 
 The youth replies, "I can." — Emerson. 
 The one secret of life and development is not to desire 
 and plan, but to fall in with the forces at work, to do 
 every moment's duty Mighi.^George Macdonald. 
 Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; 
 The eternal years of God are hers. 
 But Error, wounded, writhes in pain. 
 And dies among his worshipers. 
 
 Seize the Truth where'er it's found 
 On Christian or on heathen ground. 
 The Truth's divine where'er it grows. 
 Leave thou the thorns but pluck the rose. 
 
 Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should 
 have known. — Ruskin. 
 
 How mankind defers from day to day the best it can 
 do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without 
 thinking that every day may be the last one, and that 
 lost time is lost eternity. — Max Muller. 
 
 We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives 
 who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. — P. F. 
 Bailey. 
 
 Very few people are good economists of their fortune, 
 and still fewer of their time. — Chesterfield. 
 
 We are always complaining our days are few, and act- 
 ing as though there would be no end of them. — Addison. 
 
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Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 Many a man spends half his time anticipating to-mor- 
 row and the other half in regretting yesterday. 
 
 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. — Richard 
 III. 
 
 Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your 
 houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted 
 relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accom- 
 plished ? — Massillon. 
 
 Drive the minutes or they will drive you. 
 
 Some squander time, some invest it, some kill it. That 
 precious half hour a day which many of us throw away, 
 rightly used, would save us from the ignorance which 
 mortifies us, the narrowness and pettiness which always 
 attend too exclusive application to our callings. It would 
 tinge and color the day as the drop of ruby liquid im- 
 parts its hue to the gallon of water in a druggist's globe. 
 Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped 
 arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity. — 
 Success. 
 
 Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good 
 health is short-lived and apt to have ague fits. 
 
 The consciousness of duty performed gives us music- 
 at midnight. — George Herbert. 
 
 Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know, yes- 
 terday cannot be recalled, to-morrow cannot be assured; 
 to-day only is thine; one to-day is worth two to-morrows. 
 — Enchiridion. 
 
 Love, the true love of God, is the love of His truth, 
 of His holiness, of His whole will ; the true love is that 
 which reflects itself in obedience; the true love is that 
 which stirs and purifies the conscience. — Vinet. 
 
 Only truth commands truth; he who lies will always 
 be deceived. 
 
 As the ivy clings to a lofty tower, so should we cling 
 to the truth. 
 
 It makes no difference whether we be praised or 
 blamed by men, as in reality we are only that which we 
 are before God. — Ven. Clement. 
 
 Shun delays, they breed remorse ; 
 Use thy time while time is lent thee. 
 Good is best when soonest wrought. 
 Lingering labors com.e to naught. 
 
 — Southwell. 
 
 Truth comes to us only by glimpses. There are some 
 who refuse to receive a partial truth, who insist upon 
 having a clear idea of the whole, or at least upon per- 
 suading themselves that they have it, before they yield 
 
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Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 assent to anything. They will believe nothing which 
 they cannot understand, they say, forgetting that, al- 
 though we may both believe and understand many things 
 to be true, it is only by occasional glimpses that we can 
 ever discover how they came to be so. For instance, we 
 all believe the wonders of the natural world, the exist- 
 ence and motions of the planets and stars, the changes 
 in the earth^s surface, the marvelous growth in the vege- 
 table world, and the still more wonderful development 
 of the animal creation — of conscious life and human in- 
 telligence. In believing these things we understand 
 that they are so, how they came to be so, how they per- 
 form their several functions, what are the laws which 
 uphold them and the forces they obey — these things we 
 do not understand, except as study or thought, or partici- 
 pation in another^s thought, give us glimpses of the 
 truth. 
 
 Benevolence is a duty. He who frequently practices 
 it, and sees some of his benevolent intentions realized, at 
 length comes really to love him to whom he hath done 
 good. When it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
 as thyself," it is not meant thou shalt love him first, and 
 do good to him in consequence of that love; but thou 
 shalt do good to thy neighbor, and this, thy benevolence, 
 will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the 
 fullness and consummation of the inclination to do good. 
 
 It is love in duties that God regards more than the 
 duties themselves. 
 
 Rise ! for the day is passing ; 
 
 The sound that you scarcely hear 
 Is the enemy marching to battle : — 
 
 Arise ! for the foe is here ! 
 
 Stay not to sharpen your weapons. 
 Or the hour will strike at last. 
 
 When from dreams of a coming battle. 
 You may wake to find it past ! 
 
 — Procter. 
 
 Catch, then, catch, the transient hour ; 
 
 Improve each moment as it flies; 
 Life's a short summer — man a flower — 
 
 He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 
 
 — Johnson. 
 
 Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that 
 shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. 
 — Marcus Aurelius. 
 
Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
 
 Old Time is still a-flying ; 
 And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
 To-morrow will be dying. — Herrick. 
 
 The first of all gospels is this, that a lie can not en- 
 dure forever. — CaHyle. 
 
 For he who once is guilty of a lie 
 
 Is always doubted though he speaketh true. 
 
 — Calderon. 
 Now is the time for sowing the seed 
 
 For the harvest of future years, 
 Now is the time for a noble deed, 
 While the need for the work appears. 
 
 You must earn the bread of your liberty 
 By the toil and the sweat of your brow 
 
 And hasten the good time yet to be 
 By improving the good time now. 
 
 There is not a moment without some duty. 
 
 Nothing can atone for the want of truth; not the 
 most brilliant imagination, the most playful fancy, the 
 most pure feeling (supposing that feeling could be pure 
 and false at the same time), .not the most comprehen- 
 sive grasp of intellect, can make amends for the want 
 of truth. And that for two reasons: First, because 
 falsehood is in itself revolting and degrading, and sec- 
 ondly, because Nature is so immeasurably superior to 
 all the human mind can conceive, that every departure 
 from her is a fall beneath her, so that there can be no 
 such thing as an ornamental falsehood. All falsehood 
 must be a blot as well as a sin, an injury as well as a de- 
 ception. — Ruskin. 
 
 If you do your duty with patience. 
 
 No matter how homely the toil, 
 You're sure to find at the ending, 
 
 What sloth cannot master or soil. 
 If your standard is lofty and steadfast, 
 
 You may win if you climb with a will, 
 The prize to be yours by possession 
 
 Must be sought at the top of the hill. 
 Whenever Temptation is present, 
 
 Don't loiter and list to her say, 
 'Tis best to avoid a near danger. 
 
 By getting well out of the way. 
 
 Those who never retract their opinion love themselves 
 more than they love truth. 
 
Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 It is difficult to persuade men that the love of virtue 
 is the love of themselves. 
 
 The man of pure and simple heart 
 Through life disdains a double part; 
 
 He never needs the screen of lies 
 
 His inward bosom to disguise. — Gay. 
 
 The man who prefers his dearest friend to the call of 
 duty will soon show that he prefers himself to his dear- 
 est friend. 
 NO; 
 Learn to speak this little word 
 
 In its proper place; 
 Let no timid doubt be heard, 
 Cloth'd with skeptic grace ; 
 Let thy lips, without disguise. 
 
 Boldly pour it out, 
 Though a thousand dulcet lies 
 
 Keep hovering about. 
 For be sure our lives would lose 
 
 Future years of woe, 
 If our courage could refuse 
 The present hour with "No." 
 
 — Eliza Cook. 
 
 Dost thou love life? Then waste not time, for time 
 is the stuff that life is made of. — Franklin. 
 
 Devote each day to the object then in time, and every 
 evening will find something done. — Goethe. 
 
 Everything comes if a man will only wait. — Disraeli. 
 
 Never idle precious time ; 
 
 Never grumble, scold, or whine ; 
 As far as earth is from the skies. 
 Above all petty quarrels rise. 
 
 At the falling of another, 
 
 Be it friend or be it brother, 
 Never sneer, and ne'er deride. 
 Help the weak and conquer pride. 
 
 Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of hu- 
 man society. 
 
 As you value the approbation of Heaven and the es- 
 teem of men, cultivate the love of truth. Ingenuity and 
 candor possess the most powerful charms ; they bespeak 
 universal favor, and carry an apology for almost every 
 failing. 
 
Opportunity, Duty, Truth, 
 
 We cannot stay thy footsteps, Time ! 
 
 Thy flight no hand may bind, 
 Save His whose foot is on the sea, 
 
 Whose voice is on the wind ; 
 Yet when the stars from their bright spheres 
 
 Like living flames are hurled. 
 Thy mighty form will sink beneath 
 
 The ruins of a world ! 
 
 If you loved only what were worth your love. 
 Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you. 
 Make the low nature better by your throes! 
 Give earth yourself, go up for gain above ! 
 
 — Browning. 
 
 It is not enough that we swallow truth ; we must feed 
 upon it, as insects do upon the leaf, till the whole heart 
 be colored by its qualities, and shows its food in every 
 part. — Coleridge. 
 
 Truth hovers about the thoughtful and smiles on 
 them unawares. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Crowns of roses fade; crowns of thorns endure. Cal- 
 varies and crucifixions take deepest hold on humanity. 
 The triumphs of might are transient; they pass away 
 and are forgotten. The sufferings of right are graven 
 deepest on the chronicle of nations. — Fr. Ryan. 
 
 Happiness is to be found in no road, but that of duty. 
 Eeal respect or esteem cannot be bought by all the 
 wealth in the world. But the beauty which beams from 
 moral worth will not be dimmed by time or fortune ; the 
 more known, the more will it be admired ; and the lapse 
 of years which shades other beauty will only give to this 
 an increasing luster. Walk steadily on in the path of 
 duty whithersoever that path may lead you. There 
 neither is nor can be any middle ground between right 
 and wrong. Excel in every good word and work. 
 
 Thrift of time is as necessary as thrift of money, and 
 he who knows how to save time has learned the secret 
 of accumulating educational opportunity. Men who 
 regard it as sinful to waste money, waste time with a 
 prodigal's lavishness because they do not understand the 
 value of short periods of time. Society is full of peo- 
 ple who might enrich themselves a hundred fold and 
 make their lives immensely more interesting if they 
 learned this commonplace truth. 
 
Opportunity, Duty, Truth. 
 
 The Course of Truth. 
 
 "Him God raised up the third day, and showed Him 
 openly, not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen 
 before of God/^ 
 
 When royal Truth, released from mortal throes, 
 Burst His brief slumber, and triumphant rose, 
 
 111 had the Holiest sued 
 
 A patron multitude. 
 Or courted Tetrarch's eye, or claimed to rule 
 By the world's winning grace, or proof from learned 
 
 school. 
 But, robing Him in viewless air. He told 
 His secret to a few of meanest mold ; 
 
 They in their turn imparted 
 
 Their gift to men pure-hearted. 
 While the brute many heard His mysteries high. 
 As some strange fearful tongue, and crouched they knew 
 not why. 
 
 Still is the might of Truth, as it has been. 
 Lodged in the few, obey'd and yet unseen. 
 
 Rear'd on four heights, and rare. 
 His saints their watch-flame bear, 
 And the mad world sees the wide-circling blaze. 
 Vain search whence it streams and how to quench its 
 rays. — Cardinal Newman, 
 
 Truth is the goal of human aspiration. 
 
 Thfc sweetest lives are those to duty wed, 
 
 Wliose deeds, both great and small. 
 Are close-knit strands of unbroken thread. 
 Where love ennobles all. 
 The world mav sound no trumpets, ring no bells; 
 The book of life the shining record tells. 
 Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes 
 After its own life working. A child's kiss 
 Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad. 
 A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong. 
 Thou shalt be served thyself in every sense 
 Of service which thou renderest. 
 
 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
 
Opportunity, Duty, Truth 
 
 If I can live 
 
 To make some pale face brighter, and to give 
 
 A second luster to some tear-dimmed eye, 
 Or e'en impart 
 One throb of comfort to an aching heart, 
 
 Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by; 
 
 If I can lend 
 
 A strong hand to the fallen, or defend 
 
 The right against a single envious strain, 
 My life, though bare, 
 Perhaps, of much that seemeth dear and fair 
 
 To us on earth, will not have been in vain. 
 
 The purest joy. 
 
 Most near to heaven, far from earth's alloy, 
 
 Is bidding clouds give way to sun and shine. 
 And 'twill be well 
 If on that day of days the angels tell 
 
 Of me: "She did her best for one of Thine." 
 
 — Helen Hunt Jackson, 
 
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CHAPTER V. 
 Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 The great high-road of human welfare lies along the 
 old highway of steadfast well-doing. — Smiles. 
 
 If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot 
 enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the pos- 
 session of, it is the power of relieving distress. — Lacon. 
 
 Noble desires, unless filled up with action, 
 Are but a shell of gold, hollow within. 
 
 — Roscoe. 
 
 Faith shares the future's promise ; Love's 
 
 Self-offering is a triumph won; 
 And each good thought or action moves 
 
 The dark world nearer to the sun. 
 
 —J, G. Whittier. 
 
 He who receives a good turn should never forget it; 
 he who does one should never remember it. — Charron, 
 
 Life is made up, not of great sacrifices, or duties, but 
 of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and 
 small obligations, given habitually, are what win and 
 preserve the heart, and secure comfort. — Sir Humphry 
 Davy. 
 
 If you would help others, forget yourself; for self- 
 interest destroys all good. 
 
 A kindly thought toward a fellow mortal has but lit- 
 tle virtue in it if it be not transmuted into a generous 
 deed. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Goodness and love mold the form into their own 
 image, and cause the beauty and joy of love to shine 
 forth from every part of the face. 
 
 Few can utter words of wisdom, but opportunity to 
 speak kind words is offered to every one and they are 
 more helpful. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 You never lose by doing a good act. 
 
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Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 How many people would be mute if they were forbid- 
 den to speak well of themselves and evil of others? 
 
 Never to give up, but ever to keep up and to keep at 
 it, is the duty and the test of heroism in times that are 
 hard and in hours that are dark. 
 
 The only sacrifice agreeable to God is that which the 
 fire of charity consumes on the altar of good works. — 
 St. Gregory the Great. 
 
 Be good, do good, and you will be happy. • 
 
 Never call that little which God tells you to do; it 
 may be the last grain in the balance that shall turn the 
 scale of a life-destiny. 
 
 Let it, however, be remembered, that he who has 
 money to spare, has it always in his power to benefit 
 others; and, of such power a good man must always be 
 desirous. — Johnson. 
 
 When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to 
 make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature. — Sydney 
 Smiih. 
 
 Thinking has often made me very unhappy, acting 
 never has. Do something — do good if you can, but do 
 something. — Mrs. Gaskell. 
 
 Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire 
 good actions in others. — Samuel Smiles. 
 
 He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will 
 never do anything. — Johnson. 
 
 And if our brethren were not kind, this earth were 
 but a dreary place. — Bryant. 
 
 Think that day lost whose descending sun 
 Views from thy hand no noble action done. 
 
 — Jacob Bohart. 
 He who wishes to secure the good of others has already 
 secured his own. — Confucius. 
 
 Those who are quite satisfied, sit still and do nothing ; 
 those who are not quite satisfied, are the sole benefactors 
 of the world. — W. S. Landor. 
 
 The hospitality of some people has no roof to it. Ten 
 people will give you a dinner for one who will offer you 
 a bed and a breakfast. — George Macdonald. 
 
 Sure of the Spring that warms them into birth. 
 The golden germs thou trusteth to the earth ; 
 Heed'st thou as well to sow in Time 
 The seeds of Wisdom for eternity — good deeds. 
 
 — Schiller. 
 
 There is nothing truly great save goodness. — Bossuet. 
 
 How often has good grain fallen into a corner of the 
 
 heart, and when it has been long forgotten, all at once 
 
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Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 puts forth the blade and comes into ear. It is a treasure 
 laid aside in a time of ignorance, and we do not know 
 its value till the day we find ourselves in need of it. — 
 An Attic Philosopher. 
 
 The way of life is bv no means smooth, but let us not 
 make it rougher than it is. The world is not all we 
 could wish; but, if it goes wrong, let us not spend our- 
 selves trying to make it go worse. Eather let us make 
 it a little smoother, and a little pleasanter by our dispo- 
 sition, manners and deeds. If men in general are out 
 of sorts, there is the worse need of our being in sorts. 
 
 Every good action has a merit, that is a certain con- 
 formity to the will of God, and every evil action has a 
 demerit that is a deformity, which will be followed by 
 punishment. 
 
 There is something so noble and elevating in thought- 
 fulness, that it cannot be wholly expressed in words. By 
 thoughtfulness I mean consideration for others' failings, 
 forgetfulness of self, joined by a constant and generous 
 desire to be of service. It makes us resemble our Lord, 
 who thought not of Himself, nor of His comfort, but of 
 the welfare of others. 
 
 I expect to pass through this life but once. If, there- 
 fore, there is any kindness I can show or any good I can 
 do to any fellow-being, let me do it now. Let me not 
 defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. — 
 Anon. 
 
 We are commanded to beware of idle speaking; be- 
 ware we also of things which foster it — idle hearing and 
 idle seeing, and knowledge of idle things. — Pusey. 
 
 The effect of noble thoughts, just privileges, of ele- 
 vated conceptions, is never lost. — Alison. 
 
 The virtues of a man are seen in his actions. — Cicero. 
 
 That best portion of a good man's life, his little, name- 
 less, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. — 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Kindness : A language which the dumb can speak, and 
 the deaf can understand. 
 
 No human being ever yet was sorry for love or kind- 
 ness shown to others. But there is no pang of remorse 
 as keen as the bitterness with which we remember neg- 
 lect or coldness shown to loved ones that are dead. Do 
 not begrudge loving deeds and kind words, especially to 
 those who gather with you about the same hearth. In 
 
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Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 many families a habit of nagging, crossness or ill-na- 
 tured gibing, gradually covers the real feelings of love 
 that lie deep beneath. And after all, it is such a little 
 way that we can go together. 
 
 A good thought propagated is an angel, who sets 
 forth in the name and for the benefit of those who send 
 him, to do good wherever his mission lies. 
 
 You long to accomplish works of mercy, so sweet to 
 the soul, so meritorious before heaven ; to give alms, for 
 instance; but you are poor. Send a thought suggestive 
 simply of the happiness of giving, and, guided by Provi- 
 dence, it will touch the heart of some rich man, until 
 moved by it he will dispense his riches widely, and the 
 good God will have two persons to reward — the giver 
 and the inspirer of the gift. 
 
 You wish to visit those who are sick and in prison, to 
 console mourners, and speak of God to little children 
 who do not know Him; but your duty keeps you within 
 the strict inclosure of a family circle. Send out a 
 thought speaking of God's goodness, of the blessing and 
 merit of suffering, of the sweet repose of Paradise which 
 may soon be ours. This thought will call forth a smile, 
 a hope, an act of love, and God will thank you for a soul 
 which was, perhaps, forgetting Him. 
 
 A fervent soul at the point of death said, "What com- 
 forts me about the judgment of God is the devout books 
 and good reading that I have distributed during my life. 
 It seems as if every good thought they have suggested 
 or will suggest must plead for me with the good God." 
 
 How many hearts, long locked and hard, 
 
 Have to their inmost depths been stirred, 
 And evermore remained unbarred 
 
 By just a little kindly word ! 
 Hearts that the world had tried to break. 
 
 Or even bend — but all in vain — 
 Their strong foundation none could shake, 
 
 They only steeled beneath their pain. 
 
 Life is too short, and overmuch 
 
 We feel the chilling shrug or sneer; 
 ! But oh ! the kindly word and touch 
 
 Have power to soothe, and force to cheer; 
 And yet for years and years apart 
 
 Some friend may dwell in anguished mind, 
 While all it needs to reach his heart 
 
 Is just some word or action kind. 
 
Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 The gentle word and gracious voice 
 
 Are set to sweetest harmony; 
 Their music bids the heart rejoice, 
 
 And though we may not, God can see 
 The imprint of His Love Divine, 
 
 In characters by time unblurred. 
 On loving acts and tender sign. 
 
 And ev'ry little kindly word. 
 
 —E. A. O'Reilly. 
 
 Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse 
 sounds no drum, it beat no gong, and yet, far over the 
 waters, its friendly spark is seen by the mariner. So let 
 our actions shine out. Let the main sermon of our lives 
 be illustrated by our conduct, and it shall not fail to be 
 eloquent and fruitful. 
 
 The look of sympathy, the gentle word, 
 Spoken so low that only angels heard; 
 The secret act of pure self-sacrifice, 
 Unseen by men, but marked by angels' eyes, — 
 
 These are not lost. 
 The kindly plan devised for others' good. 
 So seldom guessed, but little understood; 
 The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win 
 Some wanderers from the ways of sin, — 
 These are not lost. 
 
 — Richard Metcalf. 
 
 How many regrets, how many sighs, how many tears 
 are oftentimes the price of one thoughtless word! — St. 
 Vincent. 
 
 As a man hath but two hands and but two feet, so he 
 hath but two kinds of ways for those feet, but two sorts 
 of works for those hands. His deeds be either good or 
 bad, his ways either right or wrong. — Thomas Adams. 
 
 The unwelcome kick of a mule may leave a black-and- 
 blue mark, but one unkind word may often cause more 
 pain: 
 
 Soft words may appease an angry man — bitter words 
 never will. Would you throw fuel on a house in flames 
 in order to extinguish the fire? 
 
 More hearts pine away in secret anguish from the want 
 of kindness from those who should be their comfort 
 than from any other calamities in life. 
 
 Kindness is the golden chain by which society is 
 bound together. — Goethe. 
 
 The only important thing in good works is the amount 
 of love we put into them. The soul of an action is its 
 motive. — Faber. 
 
Thoughts, Words, Deeds. 
 
 Life is made up of little things. It is but once in an 
 age that occasion is offered for doing a great deed. True 
 greatness consists in being great in little things. 
 
 We condemn gossip — -scandal's twin sister — yet it is 
 a fault easily committed. We begin by a gentle depre- 
 catory reference to somebody's infirmity of temper, and 
 we find ourselves specifying a particular time and scene, 
 which straightway the one who hears tells to some one 
 else with additions, slight, perhaps, but material. Before 
 we know it we have stirred up a hornet's nest. This may 
 be done without any more potent motive than a mere 
 love of fun — and half the gossip in the social world is 
 of the unthinking kind indulged in merely from a spirft 
 of drollery. Far worse is that other sort of talk which 
 ends in slander and begins in malice, and which sepa- 
 rates friends and sunders ties of years of intercourse with 
 its sharp and Jarring discords. The only way to avoid 
 this evil is to refrain from making the affairs of our 
 friends a staple article of conversation in the household. 
 There are plenty of subjects at hand — let us carefully 
 avoid personalities. 
 
 Kind words — as the breath of the dew to the tender 
 plant, they gently fall upon the drooping heart, refresh- 
 ing its withered tendrils and soothing its burning woes. 
 Bright oases they are in life's great desert. Who can esti- 
 mate the pang they have alleviated, or the good works they 
 have accomplished? Long after they are uttered do 
 they reverberate in the soul's inner chamber, and sing 
 low, sweet, liquid strains, that quell all the raging 
 storms that may have before existed, and oh ! when the 
 heart is sad, and, like a broken harp, the sweetest chords 
 of pleasure cease to vibrate, who can tell the power of 
 one kind word ? One little word of tenderness gushing 
 in upon the soul will sweep the long-neglected chords, 
 and awaken the most pleasant strains. 
 
 When, borne down with the troubles of life, we are 
 ready to sink fainting by the way, how like the cheerful 
 rays of sunshine do kind words come. They disperse 
 the clouds, dispel the gloom, and drive sorrow far away. 
 Kind words are like jewels in the heart, never to be for- 
 gotten, but perhaps to cheer by their memory a long sad 
 life, while words of cruelty are like darts in the bosom, 
 wounding and leaving scars that will be borne to the 
 grave by their victim. Why is it, then, that we do not 
 always seek by kind words to scatter sunbeams along 
 the pathway of others ? 
 
 It has been well said : "The pains we spend upon our 
 mortal selves will perish with ourselves ; but the care we 
 
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 give out of a good heart to others, the efforts of disin- 
 terested duty, the deeds and thoughts of pure affection, 
 are never lost/^ 
 
 We need never be useless; a pious word, an act of 
 kindness, are so many seeds which always bear fruit. 
 
 Boyle O'Reilly's little poem, "What Is Good?" con- 
 tains the whole philosophy of the best thing in the 
 world — "kindness is the word !" 
 
 What sad heart has not been made glad by kindness? 
 It fills the world with sunshine and fragrance. There 
 is a magic in it greater than the art of the sorcerer; it 
 lifts the weight from the overburdened spirit, it heals 
 the wounded feelings; it kindles a gleam of hope for 
 the despairing, and encourages the timid to higher effort. 
 
 It is the little acts of kindness which make up the sum 
 total of human happiness. A pleasant word, a smile, a 
 caress, even a glance of the eye, may often light up the 
 face of sorrow with joy. It is strange that a thing that 
 costs such little effort is so often undervalued and neg- 
 lected. 
 
 Kindness is also a great virtue. A man who is un- 
 kind is not a practical Christian, for Christ was always 
 kind. Integrity, industry and kindness are the three 
 great hinges of respectability, success and happiness 
 among men. 
 
 A great amount of suffering and evils without number 
 might be avoided if we would but cherish in our hearts 
 the determination to make those about us happy. Then 
 the satisfaction of giving a cup of cold water in Christ's 
 name would bring its own reward, though no earthly ob- 
 server see or praise the action. 
 
 Even our bitterest enemies may sometimes be over- 
 come by a kind act or word. What a pleasant place this 
 world would be "if hearts were always kind!" Christ 
 left us by His example and precepts the law of love and 
 kindness, which makes "a heaven of heaven V True it 
 is, "kindness is the word !" 
 
 As one fault leads to another, so one good deed dis- 
 poses us to perform others. 
 
 Thoughtfulness teaches us to adapt ourselves to those 
 with whom we come in contact ; to study their likes and 
 dislikes, that we may, in all lawful things, give them 
 pleasure and avoid whatever tends to cause them anger 
 or disgust. 
 
 We may note the faults of others, for by them we may 
 be taught a useful lesson ; we may give them an under- 
 standing, but no tongue, always remembering that 
 
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 "To others' faults we should be ever kind, 
 To others' virtues never blind." 
 
 In association with others we should bear in mind one 
 great truth : None are wholly bad ; there is some good, 
 be it ever so little, in every man. We cannot always see 
 it, nevertheless it is there. Consequently we must never 
 look down on anyone, for however lowly he may now ap- 
 pear, "he may one day be our superior by being truer to 
 his gifts than we are to ours." If we are truly thought- 
 ful, kindliness will animate all our actions, for often, as 
 the poet beautifully remarks : 
 
 I "0, many a shaft at random sent 
 
 Finds mark the archer little meant; 
 And many a word at random spoken 
 May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.'^ 
 
 It is not so very difficult to be thoughtful, if one really 
 tries. A cheery smile, a pleasant word, a sincerely 
 meant "Good morning" are not much in themselves, yet 
 oftentimes they bring peace and consolation to a deso- 
 late heart. A sympathetic glance, a heartfelt pressure 
 of the hand — what power these have to comfort and to 
 soothe. 
 
 Thoughtfulness, however, to produce the best results, 
 must be tactful ; for then it becomes a peculiar aptitude 
 of acting under all circumstances with the greatest deli- 
 cacy and propriety. This happy quality is the result or 
 consequence of refinement, and genuine refinement be- 
 longs rather to the heart than to the head. "Therefore," 
 as St. Bonaventure says, "let more attention be given to 
 training the heart than to developing the mind." 
 
 Should we in our efforts not be met half-way, we 
 should not, on that account, grow discouraged; nor 
 should we give way to impatience, for a hasty word once 
 uttered can with difficulty be recalled. The complaint 
 of Cassius to Brutus should be ever ringing in our ears: 
 "A friend should bear his friend's infirmities." To get 
 on with others, then, we need thoughtfulness. It teaches 
 us to rise above self, to care for the interests and feel- 
 ings of others ; it bids us have a kind word ever upon our 
 lips, a pleasant greeting for all, and manifest sympathy 
 for those in sorrow or distress. 
 
 Thoughtfulness for others tends to make us earnest, 
 straightforward and sincere. Though they may not ap- 
 preciate what we do for them, still the thought of duty 
 done will be a source of pleasure which ingratitude can- 
 not wholly destroy. It is in man's nature to fail ; let it 
 
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 be in our higher nature to forgive and by constant en- 
 deavors to realize, at least in ourselves, the happiness and 
 joy to be found in thoughtfulness for others. 
 
 However inconsiderable the act, there is something in 
 the well-doing of it which has fellowship with the no- 
 blest forms of manly virtue. — Buskin. 
 
 The .world might be divided into those who let things 
 go, and to those who do not; into the forces and facts, 
 the slaves and fancies; into those who are always doing 
 something on God's creative lines and others striving 
 against them. — George Macdonald. 
 
 Let a man do all the good he can, and whenever he 
 can, he will never do too much for his own happiness, 
 or the happiness of others. — Bentham. 
 
 We tarnish the splendor of our best actions by too of- 
 ten speaking of them. — Blair. 
 
 I count this thing to be grandly true : 
 That a noble deed is a step toward God, 
 Lifting the soul from the common clod 
 
 To purer air and broader view. 
 
 — J. G. Holland. 
 
 Act well at the moment, and you have performed a 
 good action to all eternity. — Lavater. 
 
 What do we live for, if it is not to make life less dif- 
 ficult to each other? — George Eliot. 
 
 No man yet came to beggary by giving alms ; no man 
 was ever yet made poor by a holy prodigality; for by 
 the act in which he impoverished himself, he laid God 
 under the pledge, sealed seven times, to restore to him in 
 abundance, that which He gave according to His prom- 
 ise. 
 
 One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. 
 
 The poor hold out their hands, but God receives what 
 is given to them. 
 
 Alms multiply alms, and there is special blessing 
 upon all unselfishness. No gifts are so much blessed 
 as those given by such as are in need themselves. 
 
 Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, 
 eloquence or learning. — Faher. 
 
 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 the 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. 
 
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 Be what thou seemest ; live thy creed. 
 
 Hold up to earth the torch divine. 
 Be what thou prayest to be made ; 
 
 Let the Great Master's steps be thine. 
 Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure; 
 
 Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright ; 
 Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor, 
 
 And find a harvest home of light. 
 
 Just live thy life in full content, 
 Do all thy best with what is sent. 
 Thou but receivest what was meant. 
 Just live thy life. 
 
 Just live thy life. Be not in fear. 
 The strength of wrong shall disappear. 
 And right is ever drawing near. 
 Just live thy life. 
 
 Just live thy life. Seem what thou art. 
 Nor from simplicity depart. 
 And peace shall come upon thy heart. 
 Just live thy life. 
 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 Books, Educattion, Wisdom. 
 
 Reading maketh the full man; writing maketh the 
 correct man, and speaking maketh the ready man. — 
 Lord Bacon. 
 
 To educate is to give man full power over all his in- 
 tellectual, moral and physical faculties. 
 
 Apply the results of your reading to your every-day 
 life. — David Pryde. 
 
 The truth is, that ignorance and indifference are al- 
 most the same ; we are sure to grow interested as fast as 
 our knowledge extends, in any subject whatever. — W. B. 
 0, Pedbody. 
 
 With pleasure own your errors past, 
 
 And make each day a critic of the last. — Pope. 
 
 Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and es- 
 sentially raises one man above another. — Addison. 
 
 Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward 
 of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind 
 to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleas- 
 ure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands 
 of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their 
 point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. — 
 Beynolds. 
 
 He that studies books alone will know how things 
 ought to be; and he that studies men will know how 
 things are. — CoUon. 
 
 He that loveth a book will never want a faithful 
 friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, 
 an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow. 
 
 A good book is the precious life blood of a master 
 spirit, embalmed and treasured up, on purpose to a life 
 beyond life. — Milton. 
 
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 Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph 
 by paragraph. — Coleridge. 
 
 There is an art of which every man should be master, 
 the art of reflection. — Hid. 
 
 Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good 
 company and reflection must finish him. — Locke. 
 
 The first ingredient of conversation is truth ; the sec- 
 ond, good sense; the third, good humor. 
 
 Every absurdity hath a champion to defend it, for er- 
 ror is always talkative. — Goldsmith. 
 
 As in men, so in books, the soul is all with which our 
 souls must deal; and the soul of the book is whatever 
 beautiful, true and noble we can find in it. — Charles 
 Kingsley. 
 
 An Educated Man. 
 
 What is an "educated" man or woman and how is he 
 or she to be distinguished ? Professor Butler, of Colum- 
 bia, proposes five tests of education in the broadest sense 
 of the term : 
 
 1. Correctness and precision in the use of the mother 
 tongue. 
 
 2. Those refined and gentle manners which are the 
 expression of fixed habits of thought and of action. 
 
 3. The power and habit of refiection. 
 
 4. The power of intellectual growth. 
 
 5. Efficiency, the power to do. 
 
 This brief list constitutes such a good answer to a dif- 
 ficult question that it is given here without comment. 
 
 A person is made by the company he keeps in the 
 world of books no less than in the world at large. Low, 
 coarse associates will leave their impress on the mind, 
 whether we meet them at school, on the street, in the 
 shop or attractively set forth in the pages of some book. 
 Just so with those that are pure and ennobling. If we 
 seek their society, and enter into their aims, we shall 
 become like them. Choose your friends with discretion, 
 and your books with good judgment ; and you will grow 
 toward the high standard of perfection. 
 
 Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense 
 without prejudice till your resolve. — Bacon. 
 
 The talents granted to a single individual do not bene- 
 fit himself alone, but are gifts to the world; every one 
 shares them, for every one suffers or benefits by his ac- 
 tions. Genius is a lighthouse, meant to give light from 
 afar; the man who bears it is but the rock upon which 
 the lighthouse is built. — An Attic Philosopher. 
 
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Boohs, Education, Wisdom. 
 
 It is strange that most students should inquire with 
 much diligence concerning the virtues of plants, the 
 motions of the stars, the transmutations of metals and 
 other similar subjects, while few or none make it their 
 purpose to acquire a good mind, though all other things 
 are to be esteemed not so much for themselves as for 
 their influence on the right use of reason. — Descartes. 
 
 Learn to live with the thoughts which are symbols of 
 His Eternal Being and thou shalt come to feel that noth- 
 ing else is so fresh or fair. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Learning is acquaintance with what others have felt, 
 thought, done; knowledge is the result of what we our- 
 selves have felt, thought and done. — Ihid. 
 
 The popular breath, even when winnowed by the 
 winds of centuries, is hardly pure. — Ibid. 
 
 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. . . . 
 
 He who teaches often learns himself. . . . It is 
 chiefly through books that we hold intercourse with su- 
 perior minds. . . . 
 
 Do not think it a wasted time to submit yourself to 
 any influence which may bring upon you any noble feel- 
 ing. — Ruskin. 
 
 Is there a fairer sight than that of children early led 
 in the strait and narrow way? Train up a child in 
 the way he should go, and when he is old he will not de- 
 part from it, is the assurance of inspiration. Life is a 
 way, a path ; as we begin, so we progress. 
 
 Indolence is the rust of wisdom and of genius. — St. 
 Jerome. 
 
 The excellence of every creature consists in persever- 
 ing in its own being and in accomplishing the most com- 
 plete expression of its own qualities. — M. Adam. 
 
 Never try to uproot bad propensities by tearing them 
 out — they only come out safely by persuasion and educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Never copy servilely any man. Many copies, if hon- 
 estly made, have been improvements upon the originals. 
 
 In the private affairs of life, as in political and in- 
 ternational questions, he who speaks or writes the best 
 will always gain an ascendency over his fellow-citizens. 
 —^Marcel. 
 
 Know how to will! Education consists in forming 
 men of character— that is, men of wills energetically 
 anchored in good by principles which nothing can shake. 
 To will is to love and to hate, for there are necessary 
 hatreds. To will is to enlarge one's heart, to refuse to 
 limit one's horizon, either in desire or in deed, to the 
 
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 vulgar realities of a life easy for self, useless for others. 
 Action is the sign of life; vigorous action is the sign 
 of youth. You must act. 
 
 It is the wise head that makes the still tongue. — 
 Lucas. 
 
 Alas ! What are we doing all our lives, both as a 
 necessity and as a dut}^, but unlearning the world's 
 poetry and attaining to its prose. This is our education 
 as boys, and as men; in the action of life, in the closet, 
 or the library, in our aifections, in our homes and in 
 our memories. — Cardinal Newman. 
 
 They that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars 
 for all eternity. — Dan. xii. 3. 
 
 Suffer the little children and forbid them not to come 
 to me, for the kingdom of Heaven is for such. — Matt. 
 xix, 14. 
 
 The only worthy end of all learning, of all science — 
 of all life, in fact — is that human beings should love 
 one another better. — George Eliot. 
 
 'Tis education forms the common mind; 
 Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. 
 
 — Pope. 
 
 I love my books ! They are companions dear^ 
 
 Sterling in worth, in friendship most sincere; 
 
 Here talk I with the wise in ages gone, 
 
 And with the nobly gifted of our own. 
 
 If love, joy, laughter, sorrow, please my mind, 
 
 Love, joy, grief, laughter in my books I find. 
 
 — Francis Bennoch. 
 
 In the highest civilization the book is still the high- 
 est delight. He who has once known its satisfactions 
 is provided with a resource against calamity. Angels 
 they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provo- 
 cation — ^silent guides, tractable prophets, historians and 
 singers, whose embalmed life is the highest feat of art, 
 who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, 
 weariness and fallen fortune. — Emerson. 
 
 Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly 
 as the gods, whose feet were shod with wool. 
 
 The evolution which is slowly proceeding in human 
 society is not primarily intellectual, but religious in 
 character. 
 
 We must look, as educators, most closely to those 
 sides of the national life where there is the greatest 
 menace of ruin. It is plain that our besetting sin, as 
 a people, is not intemperance or unchastity, but dis- 
 honesty. From the watering and manipulating of 
 
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 stocks to the adulteration of food and drink, from the 
 booming of towns and lands to the selling of votes and 
 the buying of office, from the halls of Congress to the 
 policeman^s beat, from the capitalist who controls trusts 
 and syndicates to the mechanic who does inferior work, 
 the taint of dishonesty is everywhere. We distrust one 
 another, distrust those who manage public affairs, dis- 
 trust our fixed will to suffer the worst that may befall 
 rather than cheat or steal or lie. Dishonesty hangs, 
 like mephitic air, about our newspapers, our legislative 
 assemblies, the municipal government of our towns and 
 cities, about our churches even, since our religion itself 
 seems to lack the highest kind of honesty, the downright 
 and thorough sincerity which is its life breath. — Rt, 
 Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 To my mind and country, learning cures the disease 
 of the purse fairly well, that of the soul not at all. To 
 him who has not the science of virtue all other knowl- 
 edge is harmful. — Montaigne. 
 
 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, 
 who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; 
 and it shall be given him. — St. James i, 5. 
 
 He will guide the mind in judgment; he will teach 
 the meek his ways. — Psalm xxiv, 9. 
 
 In connection with amusements, I have never been 
 able to understand why the young men of to-day deem 
 the theater an absolute essential in seeking diversion. 
 An evening with a good book is, or ought to be, more 
 satisfying to the young man of brains than an evening 
 in a hall where a lot of make-believe characters are 
 strutting up and down the stage, like children at a 
 masquerade. When the human race reaches its highest 
 mental and moral development there will probably be 
 no theaters. — Russell Sage. 
 
 It is criminally unscientific to judge a people or an 
 institution by one feature or one epoch in its career. 
 Peoples, like individuals, have their ups and downs, 
 periods of advance and retreat ; and, though through all 
 the ages one unceasing purpose runs, it is well to 
 . . . remember how the course of time will swerve. 
 
 Intellect is the simple power anterior to all action or 
 construction. — Emerson. 
 
 Every system of education which rests not upon re- 
 ligion will fall in the twinkling of an eye, and will 
 spread only poison through the State. — Le Maistre. 
 
 If there is one thing that education must aim at it 
 is the formation of character. That missed, the educa- 
 tion is a failure. To that the training of the intellect 
 
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 is necessarily auxiliary and subservient. You may daz- 
 zle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of 
 natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge 
 which were never dreamed of before; yet if you have 
 not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of 
 virtue which will sustain him in the struggle of life, 
 you have not educated him, but only put in his hand 
 a powerful instrument of self-destruction. You have 
 made a monster and not developed a man. — Rev. T. J. 
 CampheU. 
 
 The poorest education that teaches self-control is bet- 
 ter than the best that neglects it. — Sterling. 
 
 Good sense is the great master of human life. — Bos- 
 suet. 
 
 Common sense is not a common commodity. — Rt. 
 Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh 
 wretchedness or happiness, rich or poor. 
 
 If you would succeed, qualify yourself by superfluous 
 work and study, that will equip you not only for doing 
 your particular line of work, but for anything that may 
 come in your way. He had no faith in genius. — Hon. 
 C. K. Davis, U. S. Senator. 
 
 Guard well thy thoughts; 
 
 Our thoughts are heard in Heaven. 
 
 — Young. 
 
 Laying the Foundation. 
 
 "A youth thoughtless," says Euskin, "when hia every 
 act is a foundation-stone of future conduct, and every 
 imagination a fountain of life or death? Be thought- 
 less in any other years rather than now, though, indeed, 
 there is only one place where a man may be nobly 
 thoughtless — his death-bed." 
 
 What thrilling, noble words are these! That lad is 
 idle — does not apply himself in school or college. Ah, 
 well, he is such a precocious youth, says one, that he 
 can easily make it up and repass them with flying colors. 
 But what of the habits that are being formed? What 
 of the ideals lost sight of as he seizes now at this straw 
 of pleasure and now at that. 
 
 The need of strength to carry out purposes should 
 never be lost sight of in education. The idea that a 
 child should always yield to those wiser than himself 
 sometimes blinds the parent to the importance of teach- 
 ing him to think and act for himself. But power can 
 only be developed by exercise, and the child who always 
 depends upon others, who makes no decisions, weighs 
 
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 no arguments, carries out no plans, is invested with no 
 responsibility, can never become a strong and steadfast 
 man. Obedience is a good and useful habit; it fosters 
 the power of self-restraint in one important direction; 
 but the wise educator will never be satisfied until it is 
 supplemented by a training in strength of purpose and 
 independent, forceful thought, leading to wise and per- 
 manent self-government. — Sacred Heart Union. 
 
 Mr. Locke was asked how he had contrived to ac- 
 cumulate a mine of knowledge so rich, yet so extensive 
 and so deep. He replied that he attributed what little 
 he knew to not having been ashamed to ask for informa- 
 tion, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing 
 with all descriptions of men, on those topics chiefly that 
 formed their own peculiar professions or pursuits. I 
 myself have heard a common blacksmith eloquent when 
 welding of iron had been the theme. What we know 
 thoroughly we can usually express clearly, since ideas 
 will supply words, but words will not always supply 
 ideas, therefore, when I meet with any that write ob- 
 scurely, or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two 
 things : first, that such persons do not understand them- 
 selves; and second, that they are not worthy of being un- 
 derstood by others. 
 
 If young people only knew the value of their youth ! 
 A half hour each day steadily given to the vanquishing 
 of some real books in history, science, literature, is 
 three hours a week, is more than twelve solid days, of 
 twenty-four hours each, a year. What can not the busi- 
 ness man accomplish by such seizure of fragments of 
 his time? Oh, if young people only knew the culture 
 possible for them by such simple means ! And for 
 evermore it is the man who knows who gets to be the 
 man who does, and to whom the chance of doing comes. 
 Merely frittering newspapers and novel reading — a 
 youthhood devoted only to that, how pitiably sad ! No 
 ships drift into harbor. No young persons drift into an 
 achieving manhood or womanhood. 
 
 Knowledge is modest, cautious and pure; 
 Ignorance is boastful, conceited and sure. 
 
 Man is an eternal mystery to himself; his own per- 
 son is a house into which he never enters, and of which 
 he studies the outside alone. Each of us need have con- 
 tinually before him the famous inscription which once 
 instructed Socrates, and which was engraved by an un- 
 known hand on the walls of Delphi: "Know thyself.^' 
 — Emile Souvestre. 
 
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 In a great mind everj'thing is great. — Pascal. 
 
 Some men think that the gratification of curiosity is 
 the end of knowledge ; some the love of fame ; some the 
 pleasure of dispute; some the necessity of supporting 
 themselves by their knowledge; but the real use of all 
 knowledge is this, that we should dedicate that reason 
 which was given us by God to the use and advantage of 
 man. — Lord Bacon. 
 
 You will find good in everything you have learned. 
 By degrees your destiny will open before you. You 
 will learn what you are good for — what you are made 
 for. One can say nothing more definite, and this is 
 definite enough, and full of animation; do your duty, 
 and you cannot fail to fit yourself for an honorable 
 work. 
 
 The man who can l(?arn from his own mistakes will 
 always be learning something. 
 
 The gossip in a home decreases as the library increases. 
 Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. 
 These three alone lead life to sovereign power. 
 
 — Tennyson. 
 
 All knowledge, however imposing in appearance, is 
 but a superficial knowledge, if it be merely the mind's 
 furniture, and not the mind's nutriment; it must be 
 transmuted into mind, as food into blood, in order to 
 become wisdom and power. Many of the generals op- 
 posed to Napoleon understood military science as well 
 as he did, but he beat them on every occasion where 
 victory depended on a wise movement made at a mo- 
 ment's thought, because science had been transfused 
 into his mind, while to theirs it was only attached. 
 
 "What is the object of education?" Is it to stunt 
 the frame, injure the physique, spoil the eyes, exhaust 
 the brain and leave the victim a walking encyclopedia 
 of hackneyed facts and dead languages? Or is it to 
 develop a healthy, active member of society, whose in- 
 tellect is stored with knowledge useful in the world 
 around him, and who is ready to cope with the aifairs 
 and incidents of every day? Surely the latter alterna- 
 tive should be the goal of every teacher ; but the former 
 is, unfortunately, too often the result of education as 
 practically carried out. 
 
 When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. 
 Take the reason of the thing into your own mind, and 
 then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. 
 The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your 
 power. 
 
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 To cover human life with beauty, to carve it into 
 nobleness, requires thought as truly as to cover canvas 
 with lovely forms or to make the hard, unwilling marble 
 assume a shape of majesty and grace. We all have to 
 learn to do well. Right thoughts have very much to 
 do with right comfort. 
 
 Many owe everything of their success to education. 
 Had they not been well started in this way, their 
 mediocre talents and ordinary application would never 
 have lifted them up. Hence the wisdom of every man 
 giving his children a good education. 
 
 In art and in science exists no distinction, 
 
 As the hilt to the sword, or the cord to the bow. 
 
 So science and genius unite in communion, 
 Both facts to elicit and grace to bestow. 
 
 There is harmony, ever unseen, unsuspected, 
 
 In the forces of nature, the powers of the mind. 
 
 And when by the counsel of Heaven directed, 
 The soul of the student that union shall find. 
 
 Wisdom is like a well-spring of water in the desert 
 that causes the grass to grow and the flowers to bloom 
 near by, and satisfies and refreshes the soul of every 
 man that drinks from it. 
 
 More failures of effort come from a lack of concen- 
 tration than from a want of ability to accomplish the 
 things undertaken. 
 
 A horse not broken becometh stubborn; and a child 
 left to himself will become headstrong. — Ecclesifistes. 
 
 We have known persons that were very exact and 
 scrupulous in their choice of company, but very careless 
 in their choice of reading, readily taking up and be- 
 coming familiar with books of whose authors they 
 would blush to be called the friends. What singular 
 kind of morality is this ! Such persons avoid bad com- 
 pany, not because of the evil that is in it, but for fear 
 of the judgment which the world will pass upon them. 
 This is a strange idea of honor. Whilst we close our 
 door against a person whom we despise, in secret we 
 allow him an entrance to our conscience, and for hours 
 we are alone with him, eagerly accepting his ideas and 
 making them our own. There are persons foolish enough 
 to be thus grossly inconsistent, and, in spite of their 
 strict propriety, to live habitually in the company of 
 degraded, or suspected individuals. . . . 
 
 Be upon your guard. Man lives a good deal in his 
 remembrances. Memory is the companion of his long 
 
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 hours of solitude and sleeplessness. Let this companion 
 be noble and pure. Do not permit it to lower itself, 
 and to bring you back only impressions that must be 
 rejected. Happy he whose memory has retained its 
 honor, its delicacy, its purity. 
 
 In reading for pastime, seek for simplicity, natural- 
 ness; for what is interesting because it is noble. I will 
 not speak of bad books, whose only mission it is to cor- 
 rupt the mind, and to blot out the boundary lines of 
 honor. Reject even those romantic compositions where- 
 in only complicated, forced and dramatic situations, as 
 they call them, are sought, and wherein the author 
 would think he failed if he consulted likelihood and 
 good sense — contemptible books, which do not address 
 themselves to the soul, but to the nerves and the blood, 
 and whose greatest success is to throw the reader into 
 a fever! Good, ennobling books in every way worthy 
 of our perusal, which are amusing as well as instruc- 
 tive, are not, thank God, either rare or hard to find. 
 Choose only such as these. In their company you will 
 find real, intelligent, cordial support. 
 
 The man who is continually talking seldom says any- 
 thing of importance; more than half the time he loves 
 the sound of his own voice, and his remarks are super- 
 ficial and valueless. The reserved man, on the con- 
 trar}^ finds it difficult to give utterance to his thoughts 
 which rush forward to the portals of his mouth in such 
 crowds that they, in fact, block it up. Whenever you 
 meet with a man of this kind give him time, do not 
 mistake his tardiness for ignorance or imbecility of 
 mind. In nine cases out of ten he has lived in solitude, 
 and because he has not been inhabituated to conversa- 
 tion his tongue grows so rusty that, when he does ven- 
 ture into society, no one will wait till he is drawn out, 
 and therefore his reserve continues to increase. Do not 
 contemptuously turn your back upon him, but listen 
 and he will, in all likelihood, repay your civility with 
 interest. The man who talks but little generally has 
 something to say when he does speak, his ideas have been 
 polished by the observation of years, and sink forcibly 
 into the minds of his hearers. 
 
 What does a young girl know of life but what she 
 hears and reads ? WTites Maud Anderson. I would rather 
 take an innocent young creature through the worst part 
 of New York at midnight than to put a bad book into 
 her white hands. There is little romance or allurement 
 in naked human vice, but vice clothed with a poet's 
 fancy, beautified by the imagination, is another sort of 
 
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 thing. There is so much in a girl's commencing right 
 in the things she reads. It is often the making or 
 marring of her whole future life. 
 
 There are women to-day forty years old still living 
 in the pernicious books they read. They started with 
 bad books in their teens. They follow bad heroines and 
 may, according to their now diseased minds, find them- 
 selves an improvement on the creatures they imitate. 
 They are, if not actually vicious, silly, unnatural crea- 
 tures w^hom everybody ridicules and nobody respects. 
 We know young women who have been acting out 
 French novels all their days to the best of their ability, 
 with the result of dressing like guys when they mean 
 to be artistic, acting like coarse women when they mean 
 to be sirens, and talking absurdities when they mean 
 to be enchanting. 
 
 Books and periodicals are the silent teachers of the 
 home. They enter, leave their influence, and give place 
 to others. They come and go in a long procession, each 
 one entering into life's thought and experience, and 
 leaving its impress on the character. 
 
 "I am a part of all that I have met." 
 
 A parent may well ask, "Who are these silent guests 
 that visit my children?" for a youth's character and 
 prospects may be as surely known by the books he reads 
 as by the companions with whom he associates. 
 
 Some people think there are no blessings in poverty, 
 but it is a mistake. The poor in pocket are blessed in 
 many ways; and from the lowly in this country have 
 sprung some of our most brilliant intellectual lights, 
 as well as the thousands of ingenious pieces of mechan- 
 ism. Poverty compels the poor of this country to exer- 
 cise the highest of their powers — intellect — and that 
 power elevates the laboring class above that of any 
 other nation, and is the one great cause of our national 
 prosperity and greatness. Of late years some of the 
 most useful inventions have been made by men who 
 labored at the bench or lathe, and daily something is 
 invented which heightens labor and cheapens the cost 
 of living. And if our mechanics would thoroughly edu- 
 cate themselves for practical, every-day life, and spend 
 less of their leisure in idleness, or worse still, in hang- 
 ing around drinking houses, studying the run of a 
 greasy pack of cards, and becoming expert in euchre, the 
 laboring population would be better fitted to maintain 
 the proud position of the most intelligent in the world, 
 art, science and mechanics make more rapid strides to 
 perfection, and reluctant nature be compelled to yield 
 
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 more of her hidden secrets. It is only by thorough edu- 
 cation and a systematic course of reading that human 
 perfection can be attained, and if all were to pursue 
 this course hundreds of half-formed theories would be- 
 come facts, and the sciences be enabled to prove their 
 positions beyond doubt or cavil. 
 
 It is wise — nay, often absolutely needful — to have 
 something for the mind to feed upon, something to look 
 forward to and live for, besides the round of daily 
 labor, or the counting of profit and loss. 
 
 Thoroughness and accuracy are two principal points 
 to be aimed at in study. Francis Horner, in laying 
 down rules for the cultivation of his mind and charac- 
 ter, placed great stress upon the habit of continuous 
 application to one subject for the sake of mastering it 
 thoroughly; confining himself, with this object, to but 
 a few books, and resisting with the greatest firmness 
 "every approach to desultory reading." The value of 
 knowledge to any man certainly consists not in its quan- 
 tity, but mainly in the good uses to which he may ap- 
 ply it. Hence a little knowledge, of an exact and per- 
 fect character, is always found more valuable for prac- 
 tical purposes than any extent of suj^rficial learning. 
 The phrase in common use, as to "the spread of knowl- 
 edge," is no doubt correct, but it is spread so widely, 
 and in such thin layers that it only serves to reveal the 
 mass of ignorance lying underneath. Never, perhaps, 
 were books more extensively read, or less studied; nnd 
 the number is rapidly increasing of those who know 
 a little of everything, but nothing well. Such reader^ 
 have not inaptly been likened to a certain sort of pocket- 
 knife which some people carry about with them, which, 
 in addition to a common knife, contains a file, a chisel, 
 a saw, a gimlet, a screw-driver, and a pair of scissors; 
 but all so diminutive that the moment they are needed 
 for use, they are found useless. 
 
 One of Ignatius Loyola's maxims was, "He who does 
 well one work at a time, does more than all." By spread- 
 ing our efforts over too large a surface we inevitably 
 weaken our force, hinder our progress, and acquire a 
 habit of fitfulness and ineffective working. Whatever 
 a youth undertakes to learn, he should not be suffered 
 to leave it until he can reach his arms round it and 
 clench his ands on the other side. Thus he will learn 
 the habit of thoroughness. Lord St. Leonards once com- 
 municated to Sir Fowell Buxton the mode in which he 
 had conducted his studies, and thus explained the secret 
 of his success. "I resolved," said he, "when beginning 
 
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 to read law, to make everything I acquired perfectly 
 my own, and never to go to a second thing till I had 
 entirely accomplished the first. Many of my competi- 
 tors read as much in a day as I read in a week; but, at 
 the end of twelve months, my knowledge was as fresh 
 as the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided away 
 from recollection." 
 
 Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of Nature, brings 
 back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish 
 of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm 
 which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines 
 youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature 
 by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feel- 
 ings and through the brightness of its prophetic visions 
 helps faith to lay hold on the future life. — Channing. 
 Perfect thyself — that is thy mission here; 
 In stern self-culture let thy life be spent 
 In earnest labor and development 
 Of thy souFs fitness for the higher sphere. 
 Grow greater, wider, wiser, year by year — 
 Wiser and wider both in heart and brain. 
 Subvert to noble uses grief and pain, 
 And banish doubt, despondency, and fear. 
 Live thou for Truth ; take her to be thy guide, 
 Thy souFs ideal — and thy spirit's bride — 
 Thy goal of hope, thy heart's best loved most dear. 
 So shape each hour that thou may'st ever say, 
 I am a little further on my way, 
 A little nearer her than I was yesterday. 
 Great thoughts belong only and truly to him whose 
 mind can hold them. No matter who first puts them 
 in words, if they come to a soul and fill it, they belong 
 to it, whether they floated on the voices of others, or on 
 the wings of silence and the night. 
 
 Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition 
 is that of good books. — Colton. 
 
 If we and our posterity reject religious instruction 
 and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle 
 with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy 
 the political constitution which holds us together, no 
 man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm 
 us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. 
 Should that catastrophe happen, let it have no history ! 
 Let the horrible narrative never be written. Let its 
 fate be that of the lost books of Livy, which no human 
 eye shall ever read; or the missing Pleiad, of which no 
 man can ever know more, than that it is lost, and lost 
 forever. — Daniel Webster. 
 
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 Knowledge unused for the good of others is more vain 
 than unused gold. 
 
 Think much, speak little, write with care. 
 
 "It is easy to procure and read the opinions of others 
 on great books/' says Bishop Spalding. "Thousands of 
 volumes have been wTitten on Shakespeare, but it is bet- 
 ter to learn one great book than to read thousands. Give 
 me a man who has really mastered one great book. 
 Fear the man of one book. To know a book of the 
 greatest kind you must read it over hundreds of times. 
 Read for yourself and make opinions yourself. Learn 
 to love what you find profitable; what we don't lik(3 
 does not profit us. We find in books inspiration for 
 self-activity. In proportion as a man rises out of him- 
 self and out of the present he becomes more manly. We 
 must rise above the childish ideas and trivialities of life 
 in order that God's image may be brought out in us." 
 
 Experience is the best teacher, but the school fees are 
 heavy. 
 
 The National Shortcomings. 
 
 In a remarkable address delivered at Stanford Uni- 
 versity, California, Whitelaw Reid said: "What de- 
 fects of human character does a republic tend to de- 
 velop that the higher education should correct ?" Well, 
 our critics, foreign and domestic, are free-spoken enough 
 to leave us little difficulty in finding answers to that. 
 We are conceited beyond endurance. We brag like Bom- 
 bastes. We are slow to believe that other people can 
 teach us anything. We have the provincial idea that be- 
 cause we are conspicuously ahead in some things, we 
 are ahead in everything. We reach a conclusion with- 
 out seeing a subject on all sides, and are intolerant of 
 a diversity of opinion. We value things simply because 
 of their bigness. We live in a whirl of money-making, 
 or amusement, or excitement of some kind; we rarely 
 take time to think of other things, and because we are 
 too busy for it ourselves, we let the newspapers make 
 up our minds for us. When acting collectively we are 
 liable to go off at half-cock, and are swept by sudden 
 waves of popular excitement, like the French. We do 
 so many things in a hurry that we often fail to do them 
 thoroughly. We come to think that pretty well is near 
 enough ; that veneer is better than solid mahogany, look- 
 ing just as well and costing far less; that a chromo is 
 as good as an oil painting from w^hich a casual glance 
 does not distinguish it ; that a machine-made American 
 carpet is as good as the rug from the looms of India ; 
 
Boohs, Education, W i s d o vj^ . 
 
 always the thing that has been done wholesale by ma- 
 chinery just as good for practical people as the thing 
 patiently wrought on every line to individual beauty by 
 a trained and beauty-loving intelligence. 
 
 The Corrective. 
 
 Does not the very quality of its defects and the nature 
 of its dangers compel the answer that what the republic 
 thus needs is not merely or mostly knowledge? No 
 doubt it must always strive for an education that will 
 place the experience of the world in all ages at its ser- 
 vice. But beyond and far above that must be its de- 
 velopment of the disposition for reflection, the power 
 to consider dispassionately, the capacity to reason ac- 
 curately, and then to reach just judgments on these ac- 
 quired facts. ... I plead, then, for a system of 
 education that would put the most into one's life, rather 
 than for that which enables one to quickest begin life 
 and earn a living. The plea for the former involves 
 no disparagement of the latter. ... To make a 
 life full, rounded, with balanced character and serenity 
 of judgment, with trained capacities for the highest 
 work, the highest appreciation, the fullest and purest 
 enjoyment, that is a greater thing than to make a liv- 
 ing ! Unless these observations have wholly missed their 
 purpose they must now have led your minds at least 
 to consider, if not to accept, two propositions, which 
 seem to me to sum up the next advances for American 
 colleges and universities. They need now to give more 
 attention to the individual pupil, and they need to lead 
 him on paths to the best learning for the best life, 
 rather than merely for quickest business or professional 
 success. The first proposition does not point to big 
 colleges; the second does not point to university devel- 
 ment exclusively on the lines thus far in most favor. 
 Bigger colleges must mean less individual influence on 
 the eager, immature mind; the specialization most in 
 favor in our universities is that which leads to w^ays to 
 make a living, and while no one wants less of that the 
 highest education must give more of something else. 
 
 Its Application. 
 
 The opportunity for differentiation and specialization 
 in educational effort would be greater than ever, but it 
 would be put where it belongs; not with the youth in 
 his plastic, uncertain formative period, but with the 
 trained young man, competent to select and eager to 
 
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 pursue. Thus when the graduate passed from the col- 
 lege, whether he devoted himself to the highest learn- 
 ing or sought at once a training in applied science or in 
 a profession, he would, at any rate, carry into the uni- 
 versity a mind fit for the work it demands. To borrow 
 the happy illustration of President Stryker of Hamil- 
 ton, the college would have made the intellectual iron 
 that came to it into steel; and therefore the university 
 would not be wasting its time in trying to put a fine 
 edge upon potmetal. The lecturer then dwelt on the 
 advantages of the old college training in the humanities, 
 philosoph}^, mathematics and science, as a preparation 
 for advanced education, and continued: This colles^i- 
 ate course was the best basis for the higher learning the 
 best systems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 
 had to offer. It is the best basis still, as we turn to the 
 wider and better attainments the twentieth century has 
 to offer. It has formed for the. generations of our race 
 the badge of the best title any of the race have ever 
 worn in any land zv can wear, the proud title of scholar 
 and gentleman. 
 
 At a dinner that Mr. C. P. Huntington gave to 
 some railroad men in San Francisco, he told his 
 guests that he feared too many of the young men of 
 the country were spending too much time in school. He 
 spoke with concern of young men with college educa- 
 tions who were standing around waiting for something 
 that will never come because the work nearest to hand 
 was not to their liking. 
 
 The modern college graduate is usually a modest 
 creature with a few illusions about what he is fit for, 
 and very little inclined to stand waiting for suitable em- 
 ployment to seek him out. He has to jump in and 
 find a job, and usually he loses no time in doing so. 
 It is true, as Mr. Huntington says, that the years be- 
 tween fifteen and twenty-one are of great value. They 
 should not be wasted. But while there is danger that 
 lads who spend these years in college may find them- 
 selves somewhat behind when they start as new gradu- 
 ates to make their living, there is a counter risk that 
 the lad who devotes himself to business too early may 
 become too soon a specialist in a limited field, and may 
 know a particular kind of business and very little be- 
 sides. It is hard at first for a young college graduate 
 who finds employment in business to make up for the 
 lack of the business training which he might have ac- 
 
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 quired in the years he spent at college. That it is not 
 too hard, however, is shown by the number of college- 
 bred men who succeed in almost every calling. 
 
 What is vastly more difficult is for the successful man 
 of business, who went early into business and kept at it, 
 to make up for the five or six years he didn't spend in 
 acquiring general education while he was still young. 
 Able men of limited education who have succeeded in 
 business commonly miss the education and the associa- 
 tions which they didn't ^et while they were young, and 
 try to make sure that their sons acquire them. They 
 know that they are valuable. As for themselves, they 
 do well to stick to business, for to be eminently success- 
 ful at money-making is one of the few employments in 
 which a rich man of limited education can hope to find 
 entertainment. The degree of commercial success which 
 will be fairly satisfactory to an educated man does not 
 open to a less educated man the same opportunities of 
 enjoyment. It is one of the great advantages of educa- 
 tion that by bringing a lot of cheap, durable intellectual 
 pleasures within its possessor's reach it relieves him of 
 the need of becoming excessively rich. It also helps his 
 social standing, and social position is a thing that is 
 valued, and which often proves very expensive to per- 
 sons who have to buy an outfit of it late in life for 
 cash. 
 
 Dollars are comparatively scarce in the world, and 
 w^hile there is enough of them to go around after a 
 fashion, there is not enough to give to each person any- 
 thing like as many as he wants. But satisfaction is 
 pretty scarce also, and is at least as hard to secure as 
 dollars. If the years spent in pursuit of education in- 
 crease the farmer's chances of getting satisfaction out 
 of life, they are profitably spent, even though they leave 
 him somewhat behind in the race for dollars. For dol- 
 lars and contentment are not synonymous terms, and 
 the man who can combine few dollars with intelligent 
 contentment is obviously better off than the man who, 
 having more dollars than he can use, finds that th^ only 
 employment which is really congenial to him is ac-' 
 cumulating more. It is more profitable to spend some 
 time in youth in cramming the mind with knowledge 
 not immediately useful, than to be compelled for lack 
 of other resources to spend one's old age cramming one's 
 pockets with money that one does not want. 
 
 The day that presents no opportunity to improve 
 one's self or benefit another is a black-letter day. 
 
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 What the student sows in tears he reaps in joy. For 
 years he lives in bondage, in strange countries, wanders 
 amid deserts, is straitened and bewildered, encompassed 
 by difficulties and doubts, has little more than faith 
 and hope to guide and cheer him; but, at length, he 
 enters the promised land and in the high and serene 
 world, which is now his own, his hardships and suffer- 
 ings grow sweet in memory. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 The thinker is one who strives to awaken himself 
 from the dream of life, in which the multitude pass 
 their existence. — Ibid. 
 
 The mind grows shallow when occupied perpetually 
 with trivialities. A course of solid reading is a good 
 tonic. When ignorant of our ignorance we do not know 
 when we betray ourselves. 
 
 One pound of learning requires ten pounds of com- 
 mon sense to apply it. — Persian. 
 
 The condition of progress is that as we advance, the 
 still greater effort must we make to go farther. — Rt. 
 Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 No man ever made an ill figure who understood his 
 own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. 
 
 Young men do not fail in pursuits in life because 
 they lack ability to succeed half as often as from the 
 neglect to study the real caliber of their minds. A mod- 
 erate capacity, industriously directed, will accomplish 
 much more than a wrong application of the most bril- 
 liant qualifications. Study, therefore, yourselves. Aim 
 to find out the actual talents you possess, and endeavor 
 to make the best use of them, and you can hardly come 
 short of making a good figure in the world; and what 
 is more, being amongst those who live not in vain. — 
 Swift. 
 
 It is a significant commentary on the truth that the 
 real goods of life are not moneys, lands, revenues, but 
 the fruits of the mind and heart — education and re- 
 ligion. Who knows or who cares, except some dustman 
 or scavenger of history about the rich bankers of Augs- 
 burg, the wool merchants of Florence, or the public car- 
 riers of Venice? With their wealth they wrote a line 
 upon the sands of time that the next wave obliterated. 
 But the names of the great artists shine forever in their 
 masterpieces and echo forever above the great procession 
 of humanity. — Rev. TJiomas J. Shahan. 
 
 Is our educational machinery subsidiary to its only 
 worthy end, viz., the fashioning of character? Have 
 we, so morbidly afraid of uniting church and state, 
 gone so far as to disunite God from the state? This 
 
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 is a most serious question. The faith of our sons and 
 daughters is involved, and the kingdom of God in this 
 country is involved. Our school system is not an or- 
 ganized skepticism, but a God-forgotten secularism. — 
 Rev. Henry C. Minton of California (Presbyterian), 
 Moderator of the General Assembly, May 19, 1901. 
 
 Moral training has for the most part been cast out 
 of our public schools. Every faculty, except the highest 
 and noblest, is exercised and invigorated ; but the crown- 
 ing faculty — that which is designed to animate and gov- 
 ern all others — is contemptuously ignored; and, unless 
 its education can be secured, our young men and women 
 will be graduated from our schools as moral imbeciles. 
 This country is facing a grave social problem. — Rev. 
 Dr. E. T. Wolf, Professor at Gettysburg Theological 
 Seminary, before the Evangelical Alliance. 
 
 Every inanimate creature does the will of its Creator ; 
 all creatures assist us in meriting the possession of God ; 
 man alone, the most gifted in choice and in will, is apt 
 to pervert his nature and wander fartherest from the 
 path his Creator laid out for him — hence education is 
 a corrective power and is designed to acquaint man fully 
 with the principles that are to supplement his faculties 
 and to co-ordinate the great fact of his being created 
 an intelligent and discerning being. Instinct circum- 
 scribes intelligence in lower animals and is constrained 
 by circumstance, but man's animal nature submits to 
 his will, and his will acts in obedience to his moral 
 sense. So the education for man is the one that deals 
 with religion as well as with comprehensive knowledge 
 and the highest mental culture. 
 
 Learn as if you were to live always; live as if you 
 were to die to-morrow. 
 
 Excessive newspaper reading is a sure destroyer of 
 mental health. Its effect is to corrupt the judgment, 
 to weaken the sense of mental discrimination, to dis- 
 courage intellectual initiative, and generally to deaden 
 the mental powers by substituting a habit of mechanical 
 for a habit of intelligent reading. A very little yielding 
 to this disposition will produce even in cultivated men 
 a habit which may almost be said to be worse from an 
 intellectual point of view than the habit of not think- 
 ing at all. — Saturday Review. 
 
 Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in 
 life — in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. 
 It teaches us to do, as well as to talk ; and to make our 
 actions and words all of a color. — Seneca. 
 
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 It is less painful to learn in youth than to be igno- 
 rant in age. 
 
 Culture must make us more virtuous, or it is not 
 culture. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Let the young be taught to believe in the best thing.-^ 
 — in courage, magnanimity, truthfulness, chastity, and 
 love; for so long as experience has not revealed their 
 supreme worth, through faith alone can their value be- 
 come known to them. — Ihid. 
 
 By speaking as we think, we learn to think what we 
 speak. — Ihid. 
 
 They who would rise must learn to stoop, as climbers 
 have to bend. — Ihid. ' 
 
 Genius is originality. Talent the fruit of industry. 
 Genius of birth. The one judges, combines, arranges, 
 composes. The other creates. A man of talent may be 
 a good historian, a commentator, a grammarian; only 
 a man of genius can be a poet, painter or statuary. — 
 Burr. 
 
 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth in- 
 struction. 
 
 It is the part of science to take things as it finds them, 
 and to explain, but not to explain away nature. 
 
 Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the 
 world calls wisdom. — Coleridge. 
 
 'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none go 
 just alike, yet each believes his own. — Pope. 
 
 To read without reflecting is like eating without di- 
 gesting. — Burke. 
 
 To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great help 
 to knowledge. — Disraeli. 
 
 Religion is the perfection of wisdom, practice, the best 
 instructor; thanksgiving, the sweetest recreation. 
 
 The death of President McKinley has set people to 
 thinking as to the insidious influences that may have 
 operated on the mind of the wretched and pitiable as- 
 sasin, little more than a perverted boy; and, as a con- 
 sequence, a healthy reaction has set in against the sensa- 
 tional newspaper. It will be well if this shall extend to 
 all newspapers of the class. But it will be best if the 
 country can be aroused to substitute for them decent 
 newspapers, magazines and books, and particularly to 
 study carefully the kind of reading which goes to the 
 formation of the character of children.— T/ie Century 
 Magazine. 
 
 Gladstone said that a man educated intellectually but 
 not morally may become more dangerous than before; 
 and that is precisely the case with the colored people. 
 
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 In the public schools they receive no moral instruction, 
 and while their wits are being sharpened, there is 
 scarcely any moral strengthening. This inability of the 
 public schools of our land to teach any system of morals 
 is going to lead, within a few years, to a struggle the 
 like of which this country has never seen, and it will be 
 with a generation that believes nothing at all. — Bishop 
 Johnston (Episcopal), of Western Texas. 
 
 We can in no way revive the judgment of Solomon 
 on the child, and divide him by an unreasonable and 
 cruel blow of the sword, separating his understanding 
 from his will. While cultivating the first it is neces- 
 sary to direct the second in the acquirement of virtuous 
 habits and to his last end. He who, in the edacation of 
 youth, neglects the will and concentrates all his ener- 
 gies on the culture of the intellect, succeeds in turning 
 education into a dangerous weapon in the hands of the 
 wdcked. It is the reasoning of the intellect that some- 
 times joins with the evil propensities of the will, and 
 gives them a power which baffles all resistance. — Leo 
 XIII. 
 
 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are 
 the three pillars of learning. — D'Israeli. 
 
 Teach the children ! It is painting in fresco. — Emer- 
 son. 
 
 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; 
 Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. — Cowp&r. 
 
 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Longfellow. 
 
 Conventions of educators are entitled to respect. They 
 are usually attended by men of acknowledged standing 
 — grave and erudite signors who draft programmes and 
 keep the school-machine running. If there be one thing 
 more than another characteristic of these conventions it 
 is the pleasant strain of jubilation running through the 
 sessions. One hears it in the papers read in the ad- 
 dresses; it is in the air, charming alike the men of learn- 
 ing and the individuals who pay them. But then one 
 is apt to find small justification for the melody of self- 
 congratulation wh. we hear an educator who has put 
 God out of the schoolroom, talking about the formation 
 of character. It is a good thing to do — it is the main 
 purpose of the school, but it will never be done if the 
 youth are trained and taught that money-getting is the 
 principal business in life and led away from contem- 
 plation of the world beyond. This kind of education 
 will form a character that will stand no strain because 
 
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 it rests on and is supported by nothing. Human life 
 wants a stronger prop than sentiment. — Eev. Geo. B, 
 Northgraves. 
 
 To rob one's self of the means of enjoyment which ed- 
 ucation and culture give has no compensation in mere 
 money — wealth. No material prosperity can compare 
 with a rich mind. It is a perpetual well-spring of sat- 
 isfaction, of enjoyment. It enables one to bear up un- 
 der misfortune, to be cheerful under discouragement, 
 trials, and tribulations, which overwhelm a shallow 
 mind and an empty heart. — Success. 
 
 So long as a man thinks, he loves his life, finding 
 delight in the exercise of its highest and most spiritual 
 power; but they who have never learned to think or who 
 have ceased to think, easily yield to despondency and 
 suffer themselves to drift almost without regret or 
 struggle into the sleep of death, the diviner part of life 
 having already perished within them. — Ihid. 
 
 A man should hear a little poetry and see a fine pic- 
 ture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares 
 may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God 
 has implanted in the human soul. — Goethe. 
 
 A man ought to know that it is not easy for him to 
 have a fixed principle, if he does not daily say the same 
 things and hear the same things, and at the same time 
 apply them to life. — Epictetus. 
 
 Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude 
 for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevi- 
 table reality of daily existence. Than this there can be 
 no nobler aim in life. — Maeterlinch. 
 
 Antidote against criticism : books, travel, society, soli- 
 tude. — Emerson. 
 
 I sigh for the days when I knew it all, 
 
 And had all I knew at the tip of my tongue ; 
 
 For I never again shall know as much 
 As I did when I was young. 
 
 {A sigh upheaved after an interview with an erudite soph- 
 omore. ) 
 
 They who live for gain or pleasure, and not to make 
 themselves wise and worthy, are ignoble — Bt. Bev. J. L. 
 Spalding. 
 
 He thought all time lost which was not devoted to 
 study. — Pliny, of his Uncle. 
 
 Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost; 
 thought, unassisted by learning, is perilous. — Confu- 
 cius. 
 
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 What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the 
 small man seeks is in others. — Ihid. 
 
 The cautious seldom err. — Ihid. 
 
 It is wise at night to read, but for a few minutes, 
 some book which will compose and soothe the mind; 
 which will bring us face to face with the true facts of 
 life, death, and eternity; which will make us remember 
 that man doth not live by bread alone; which will give 
 us, before we sleep, a few thoughts worthy of a Chris- 
 tian man with an immortal soul within him. — Kingsley. 
 
 In the discussion of education few phrases are more 
 commonly used than that which expresses the impor- 
 tance and beauty of ''ideal manhood." Indeed, this 
 may be considered the aim and purpose of all education. 
 What we should emphasize is that the religious idea, the 
 supernatural idea, is the essential element of all true 
 manhood. 
 
 Give me, Lord, heavenly wisdom, that I may learn 
 above all things to seek Thee, and to find Thee; above 
 all things, to relish Thee, and to love Thee, and so un- 
 derstand all other things as they are, according to the 
 order of Thy wisdom. — Thomas a Kempi^. 
 
 Each reader, according to his age and peculiar tastes, 
 will find, whether his reading be poetry, philosophy, his- 
 tory, or biography, new thoughts and passages which 
 appeal especially to him. To make a practice of mem- 
 orizing, in leisure moments, the most inspiring of such 
 passages, is one of the surest means of self-improvement. 
 — Success. 
 
 Popular education has everywhere been largely secu- 
 larized, and that process is still going on. Sunday 
 schools or other secondary influences can scarcely coun- 
 teract the general banishment of religion from the 
 training of the child. — New York Sun. 
 
 Eight and wrong in the affairs of conduct are not 
 matters of instinct; they have to be learned, just as 
 really, in fact, as history or handicrafts. Is this knowl- 
 edge being imparted to our children in any efficient way 
 and by any efficient teachers ? Is the public school do- 
 ing it? Are fathers and mothers doing it? We are 
 compelled to say No to these queries. . . . The 
 truth is, we are taking for granted a moral intelligence 
 which does not exist. We are leaning upon it, depend- 
 ing upon it, trusting to it, and it is not there. 
 
 Our whole machinery of education, from the kinder- 
 garten up to the university, is perilously weak at this 
 point. We have multitudes of youths and grown men 
 
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 and women who have no more intelligent sense of what 
 is right and wrong than had so many Greeks of the 
 time of Alcibiades. 
 
 The great company of educators and the whole Amer- 
 ican community need to be sternly warned that if mo- 
 rality cannot be specifically taught in the public schools 
 without admitting religious dogma, then religious dog- 
 ma may have to be taught in them. For righteousness 
 is essential to a people's very existence. And righteous- 
 ness does not come by nature any more than reading or 
 writing does. . . . We are within measureable dis- 
 tance of the time when society may for its own sake go 
 on its knees to any factor which can be warranted to 
 make education compatible with and inseparable from 
 morality, letting that factor do it on its own terms and 
 teach therewith whatsoever it lists. — Brooklyn (N. Y.) 
 Eagle. 
 
 The dreadful calamity (the assassination of President 
 McKinley) looks very much like a visitation on us 
 of the wrath of the Most High. We must get back 
 to the guiding principles of our forefathers. There 
 were two evils in our great country: First, the sin 
 of slavery — that we have expiated and wiped out; 
 then the sin of intemperance — that we can master and 
 are mastering. ... Is there, then, any evil still 
 in the land so widespread as to call down the wrath of 
 God upon us? There is. Our Godless system of edu- 
 cation is a far worse crime than slavery or intemper- 
 ance. I believe that the United States is suffering from 
 the wrath of God to-day because our people have con- 
 sented to the banishment of Jesus Christ from the daily 
 lives of our children. If to-day Christ were on earth 
 and should enter almost any public school-house in the 
 country, the teacher, acting under instruction, would 
 show Him the door. If, on the other hand, He were to 
 enter any of our private (parochial) schools. He would 
 be worshiped by teacher and scholars on bended knee. 
 Here is our fault, here is our sin. The question now is. 
 To what extent can we remold and remodel our educa- 
 tional system? Almost any system is better than the 
 present one. It would be infinitely better to divide up 
 the money received from the school tax among the vari- 
 ous Christian denominations and the Hebrews than to 
 continue the present irreligious system. — Rev. W. Mon- 
 tague Geer (Episcopalian), before the Sons of the Rev- 
 olution, in New York City, just after the death of Pres- 
 ident McKinley. 
 
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CHAPTEK VII. 
 Purpose, Work, Success. 
 
 There are no arts, no gymnastics, no cosmetics which 
 can contribute a tithe so much to the dignity, the 
 strength, the ennobling of a man's looks as a great pur- 
 pose, a high determination, a noble principle, an un- 
 quenchable enthusiasm. The soul that is full of pure 
 and generous affections fashions the features into its 
 own angelic likeness, as the rose by inherent impulse 
 grows in grace and blossoms into loveliness. . . . 
 
 If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his 
 calling, and in the grand sweep of things his turn will 
 come at last. — Walter McCune. 
 
 The deepest mysteries of life are explained, and the 
 deepest problems of life are solved, not by thinking, but 
 by living. . . . Genius can do much, but even 
 genius falls short of the actuality of a single human 
 life. — Hamilton W. Mahie. 
 
 Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm. 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. . . . 
 
 Every great and commanding movement in the annals 
 of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. — R. W. Em- 
 erson. 
 
 The blood of man is well shed for our family, for our 
 friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind ; the 
 rest is vanity — the rest is crime. — Edmund Burke. 
 
 Work should not only be accepted as our punishment 
 on account of Adam's transgression, but it is our reward 
 and our strength, our pleasure and our glory. . . . 
 
 It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, 
 and only by thought that labor can be made happy. — 
 Ruslcin. 
 
 How fine, how blest a thing is work ! — Jean Ingelow, 
 
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 The tendency to persevere, to persist in spite of hin- 
 drances, discouragements and impossibilities — it is this 
 that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the 
 weak. — Carlyle. 
 
 Nature has made occupation a necessity to us ; society 
 makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure. — Ca- 
 pelle. 
 
 Any life that is worth living for must be a struggle, 
 a swimming not with, but against the stream. — Dean 
 Stanley. 
 
 What is there that is illustrious that is not also at- 
 tended by labor? — Cicero. 
 
 Let us be content in work 
 
 To do the thing we can, and not presume 
 
 To fret because it^s little. 
 
 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
 The shortest way to do many things is to do only one 
 thing at once. — Cecil. 
 
 To him nothing is possible, who is always dreaming 
 of his past possibilities. — Carlyle. 
 
 There is abundance of work in this busy world for 
 every one who has a human heart. — David Pryde. 
 
 Art little ? Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know 
 Great men can do their greatest work no better than 
 just so. —Qoethe. 
 
 Beware of giving way to reveries. Have always some 
 employment in your hands. Look forward to the future 
 with hope. — C. Kingsley. 
 
 Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure 
 men, who have only remained in obscurity because their 
 timidity has prevented them from making a first effort. 
 — Sydney Smith. 
 
 There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
 Eough-hew them how we will. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 A good resolution is a fine starting point, but as a 
 terminus it has no value. 
 
 Trial stimulates growth in human virtues. Trial in 
 the form of doubt is good. Without doubt we might 
 have mental lethargy, but we would never possess the 
 healthy vigor of scholarship. Trial in the form of 
 labor is good. Without having to work we might be- 
 come good eaters and good sleepers, but we would never 
 be strengthened by the virtue of industry and endurance. 
 No man should ever for a moment entertain the thought 
 that his affliction is the indication that God has marked 
 
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 him as a failure. Let such remember that affliction is 
 only a signboard that points to wider usefulness. — Rev. 
 W. R. Rogers. 
 
 Whatever business you have, do it the first moment 
 you can ; never by halves, but finish it without interrup- 
 tion, if possible. — Chesterfield. 
 
 All true work is sacred ; in all true work, were it but 
 true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. — 
 Ccurhjle. 
 
 Confidence of success is almost success; and obstacles 
 often fall of themselves before a determination to over- 
 come them. — Moir. 
 
 Beauty is not confined to youthfulness; neither is it 
 the exclusive monopoly of those who are upon the hither 
 side of middle age. There is a slow but steady growing 
 beauty, which can come to maturity only in old age. It 
 is the fruit of noble hopes and purposes ; it is the result 
 of having something to do, something to live for, some- 
 thing worthy of humanity. — Fr. Clark, S. J. 
 
 Adversity, like wintry weather, is of use to kill those 
 vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to pro- 
 duce and nourish. :..,>. 
 
 The Worke'*'''Wins, .;...,. ^ , 
 
 Business employers would vastly prefer boys of ordi- 
 nary natural ability and a great deal of industry, than 
 boys of marked genius but lazy. It is the worker who 
 wins, whether in business, in law, in medicine, in me- 
 chanics, or on the farm. Success is more than half won 
 by him who knows how to think and act, and utilize 
 time. If the quality of industry is shown in the school 
 boy, it is one of his strongest recommendations for a 
 business position. 
 
 The stayer wins, whether the weapons be brawn or 
 brains. The best work is done by hard work. — Rt. Rev, 
 J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Think of rest, but work on. . . . 
 
 All things come to him. who hustles while he waits. 
 
 Labor is health. It develops, strengthens and con- 
 tents the toiler, while it sweetens life. — Bonn Piatt. 
 
 The truest help we can render to an afflicted man is 
 not to take his burden from him. but to call out his best 
 strength, that he may be able to bear the burden. — 
 Phillips Broolcs. 
 
 Count not that labor evil which helps to bring out 
 the best elements of human nature. — George Macdonald, 
 
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 Labor is life ! 'Tis the still water f aileth ; 
 
 Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth. 
 
 Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth; 
 
 Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. 
 Labor is glory ! the flying cloud lightens, 
 Only the waving wing changes and brightens; 
 Idle hearts only the dark future frightens; 
 
 Play the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in tune ! 
 
 Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us, 
 
 Rest from the crime and the dangers that meet us, 
 
 Eest from sin-promptings, that ever entreat us; 
 
 Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. 
 Work, and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; 
 Work, thou shall ride over Evil's dark billow; 
 Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! 
 
 Work with a stout heart and resolute will ! 
 
 — Frances Sargent Osgood. 
 
 The real work of life, lament as we will, complain 
 as we may, must be done, not upon the mountain, but 
 in the valleys. . . . 
 
 A great amount -of opposition is a great help to a 
 man : it is what he Wants and must have to be good for 
 anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil 
 of nianhoDd and self- reliance. — John Neal. 
 
 The talent of success is doing nothing more than 
 what you can do well without a thought of fame. — 
 Longfellow. 
 
 It is no man's business whether he has genius or not : 
 work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily ; 
 and the natural and unforced results of such work will 
 always be the things that God meant him to do. and 
 will be his best. — Rushin. 
 
 Better to stem with heart and hand 
 The roaring tide of life, than lie 
 Unmindful, on its flowery strand. 
 Of God's occasions drifting by. 
 
 — Whittier. 
 
 If you wish success in life, make perseverance your 
 bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution 
 your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — 
 Addison. 
 
 Do not depend upon hope in undertaking an enter- 
 prise, nor upon success for persevering in it. — Prince 
 Taieh-Bey. 
 
 Run if you like, but try to keep your breath ; 
 Work like a man, but don't be worked to death. 
 
 —0. W. Holmes. 
 
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 The test of a man^s strength and worth is not so much 
 what he accomplishes, but what he overcomes. — Rt. Rev. 
 J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Life is old only to those who live in its conventions 
 and formulas ; the soil is exhausted only for those whose 
 plowshare turns the shallow furrow. To all others 
 it is still fresh with undiscovered truth, still inexhaust- 
 ible in the wealth with which the Infinite Mind has 
 stored it, as the Infinite Hand has filled the veins with 
 gold and its moutains with iron, — Hamilton W. Mabie. 
 
 At no time is the protection of angels and the help 
 of God more near to us than when "the blast of the 
 Mighty like a whirlwind beat against the wall." — Car- 
 dinal Manning. 
 
 Failures are with heroic minds tlie stepping-stones 
 to success. — Balihurton. 
 
 Work — for some good, be it ever so slowly; 
 Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; 
 Labor! all labor is noble and holy; 
 Let all thy deeds be thy prayer to thy God! 
 
 — Franc PS S. Osgood. 
 
 Our grand business in life is not to see what lies 
 dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. 
 — Carlyle. 
 
 Not what I have, but what I do, is my kingdom. — 
 Carlyle. 
 
 He that would relish success to purpose should keep 
 his passion cool, and his expectation low. — Collier. 
 
 But still with honest purpose toil we on; 
 
 And if our steps be upright, straight and true. 
 Far in the east a golden light shall dawn. 
 
 And the bright smile of God come bursting through. 
 
 — Will Carleton. 
 
 Stand upright ! speak thy thoughts ! declare 
 The truth thou hast, that all may share ! 
 Be bold ! proclaim it everywhere ! 
 They only live, who dare! 
 
 — Lewis Morris. 
 
 When people complain of life, it is almost always be- 
 cause they have asked impossible things from it. — 
 Renan. 
 
 No man is born into the world, whose work 
 Is not born with him. There is always work 
 And tools to work withal, for those who will. 
 And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 
 
 — Lowell. 
 
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 Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed ; 
 Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
 Does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more. 
 
 — Young. 
 
 Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, 
 with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. 
 Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring 
 him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o^clock 
 and, with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the founda- 
 tion of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. 
 Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. — Cohden. 
 
 Give us strength and we can wrestle with poverty; 
 give us strength and we can carry our burdens and bear 
 our troubles; give us strength and we can overcome sin 
 and the evil passions and inclinations of our hearts; 
 give us strength and we can pluck the sting from death 
 and open the gates of Paradise. We need nothing quite 
 so earnestly as we need strength. 
 
 Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of 
 celestial fire called Conscience. — George Washington. 
 
 Young people tell what they are doing, old people 
 what they have done, fools what they intend to do. — 
 French Proverb. 
 
 It is better to aim high and often come short of the 
 mark, than it is to aim at nothing and hit it every time. 
 
 "The world is wide, remember this. 
 
 Nor shrink from fate's deep furrowed frown. 
 Woo fortune with your brightest smiles, — 
 Don't let the world know when you're down. 
 
 "It spoils your chance for future deeds ! 
 
 To frame your face with dull care's crown; 
 Brace up and higher hold your head, — 
 
 Don't let the world know when you're down.'^ 
 
 "Keep pushing ! 'tis wiser than sitting aside, 
 And sighing and watching and waiting the tide; 
 In life's earnest battle they only prevail, 
 Who daily march onward and never say fail." 
 The measure of the value of opportunity is its in- 
 fluence on religious and moral life. We are athirst for 
 God and finding Him not we harden to mere material- 
 ists or sink into lethargy or drown consciousness in the 
 sloughs of sensuality. In the end each one has but 
 himself and if God be not in that self he is poor and 
 wretched though he possess a universe, for with a few 
 spadefuls of earth on his head it will all be over for- 
 ever. 
 
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 The followers of the Divine Master best know that 
 true men need not great opportunities. 
 
 It is only when we walk in the Spirit and follow in 
 the footsteps of the Son of God, that we come to under- 
 stand that life is opportunity, rich as earth, high as 
 heaven, deep as the soul. 
 
 After long years, work is visible. In agriculture, you 
 cannot see the growth. Pass that country two months 
 after, and there is a difference. We acquire firmness 
 and experience incessantly. Every action, every word, 
 every meal, is a part of our trial and our discipline. We 
 are assuredly ripening or else blighting. We are not 
 conscious of those changes which go on quietly and 
 gradually in the soul. We only count the shocks in our 
 journey. Ambitions die, but grace grows as life goes on. 
 
 Live for some purpose in the world. Act your part 
 well. Fill up the measure of your duty to others. Con- 
 duct yourself so that you shall be missed with sorrow 
 when you are gone. Multitudes of your species are 
 living in such a selfish manner that they are not likely 
 to be remembered after their disappearance. They leave 
 behind them scarcely any traces of their existence, but 
 are forgotten almost as though they had not been. They 
 are, while they live, like one pebble lying unobserved 
 among a million on the shore, and when they die they 
 are like the same pebble thrown into the sea, which just 
 ruffles the surf, sinks and is forgotten, without being 
 missed from the beach. They are neither regretted by 
 the rich, wanted by the poor, nor celebrated by the 
 learned. Who has been bettered for their life? Who 
 has been the worse for their death? Whose tears have 
 been dried up? Whose wants supplied? Whose mis- 
 eries have they healed ? Who would unbar the gates of 
 life to readmit them into existence? Or, what face 
 would greet them back again into our world with a 
 smile? Wretched, unproductive mode of existence! 
 Selfishness is its own curse; is is a starving vice. The 
 man who does no good gets none. He is like the heath 
 in the desert, neither yielding fruit nor seeing when 
 good Cometh; a stunted, dwarfish, miserable shrub. 
 
 The secret of success in life is to keep busy, to be per- 
 severing, patient and untiring in the pursuit or calling 
 you are following. The busy ones may now and then 
 make mistakes, but it is better to risk these than to be 
 idle and inactive. Motion is life, and the busiest are 
 the happiest. Cheerful, active labor is a blessing. 
 
 Every man must patiently abide his time. He must 
 wait, not in a listless idleness, not in useless pastime, 
 
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 not in querulous dejection, but in constant, steady ful- 
 filling and accomplishing his task, that when the occa- 
 sion comes he may be equal to it. The talent of suc- 
 cess is nothing more than doing what you can do well, 
 without a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will 
 come because it is deserved, not because it is sought 
 after. It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition 
 which cares so much what the world says of us; to be 
 always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; 
 to be always shouting to hear the echo of our own 
 voices. 
 
 Young men, you are the architects of your own for- 
 tunes. Take for your star, self-reliance. Don't seek 
 too much advice, on the theory that too many cooks 
 spoil the broth, but keep at the helm and steer your own 
 ship, and remember that the art of commanding is to 
 take a fair share of the work. Think well of yourself. 
 Put potatoes in a cart over a rough road and the small 
 ones go to the bottom. Rise above the envious and jeal- 
 ous. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, 
 invincible determination, with a right motive, are the 
 levers that move the world. Be in earnest. Be gen- 
 erous. Be civil. Read the papers. Advertise your 
 business. Make money, and do good with it. 
 
 The most wonderful and beautiful things are often- 
 est done in the world by those who had no opportuni- 
 ties, while people whose hands were full of the means 
 never arrived at any end. — Rosa Mulholland. 
 
 The man who really believes that the world owes him 
 a living is willing to do some work to earn what is due 
 him. 
 
 The Temple of Honor ought to be seated on an emi- 
 nence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remem- 
 bered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some diffi- 
 culty and some struggle. — Proctor. 
 
 Glorious it is to wear the crown 
 Of a deserved and pure success; 
 
 He who knows how to fail has won 
 A crown whose luster is not less. — Ibid. 
 
 Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, 
 througn carelessness or indolence or selfishness, a good 
 intention is not put into effect, we have lost an oppor- 
 tunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile 
 of possible good. To be born and not fed is to perish. 
 To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have 
 
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 a talent and bury it is to be a "wicked and slothful ser- 
 vant/' For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by 
 what we have done, but by what we could have done. 
 
 The secret of success in life is to keep busy, to be 
 persevering, patient and untiring in the pursuit or call- 
 ing you are following. The busy ones may now and 
 then make mistakes, but it is better to risk these than 
 to be idle and inactive. Motion is life, and the busiest 
 are the happiest. Cheerful, active labor is a blessing. 
 
 It is not ease, but effort — not facility, but difficulty 
 that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life 
 in which difficulties have not to be encountered and 
 overcome before any decided measure of success can 
 be achieved. Those difficulties are, however, our best 
 instructors, as our mistakes often form our best ex- 
 perience. The very greatest things — great thoughts, 
 discoveries and inventions — have generally been nur- 
 tured in hardships, often pondered over in sorrow, and 
 at length established with difficulty. 
 
 God has made no promises of success to any who are 
 half hearted, while they who seek Him with their whole 
 heart will prosper both at the throne of grace and in the 
 fields of conflict. 
 
 "I can't" can do noting; "I'll try" can do many 
 things; "I will" can do almost anything. 
 
 Discontentment with ourselves, our position and tal- 
 ents, if it end there and fail to stimulate us to improve 
 the one and develop the other, is a very dangerous con- 
 dition of mind. 
 
 If there is one lesson taught by human life, it is the 
 lesson of resignation to our lot. I do not mean by 
 resignation that state of abject cowardice which makes 
 one sit with idle hands and wait for things to turn up, 
 but the honest, manly sentiment of patient submission 
 to God's will when we have done all that in us lies to 
 effect our purpose, and have failed through no fault of 
 our own. 
 
 God has given to each of us a certain place in the 
 economy of creation, and it should be our pleasure as 
 wtII as our duty to fill that place effectively. 
 
 We can't change it for any other one's place, or trade 
 off our talents for any other one's talents. That it is 
 our place, and that they are our talents, should be 
 enough to reconcile us to the situation and to ourselves. 
 
 The least that we can do is to work with the tools 
 we have instead of vainly sighing for better ones. 
 
Purpose^ W T Ic , Success, 
 
 Besides, even where the tools are poor, and the de- 
 ficiency cannot be denied, it is wonderful how indus- 
 try and perseverance will help the work along, and al- 
 most force dull instruments to produce fine results. 
 "The race is not always to the strong ; it is to the active, 
 the vigilant, the brave." 
 
 Faith in ourselves and in our destiny, and diligent 
 and continuous cultivation of whatever talents Heaven 
 has blessed us with, will inevitably bring their rich and 
 adequate reward; while just as surely discontent with 
 ourselves will make life a wreck and a failure. 
 
 The only kind of discontent that should be tolerated 
 is the noble one which stimulates us to make up for 
 our deficiencies by patient and persevering labor. Dis- 
 contentment that ends with envy of others' advantages, 
 and results in no practical effort for our own advance- 
 ment, is a dangerous passion, and should be checked in 
 its infancy. 
 
 Young people whose means are limited and who, 
 struggling to get an education, are forced to overcome 
 almost insurmountable obstacles, often look with envy 
 upon their more fortunate companions and think, "Oh, 
 if I only had their leisure and wealth what I could ac- 
 complish !" But would their visions come to pass ? Or 
 would they perchance succumb to the soporific effects 
 of ease and riches? 
 
 There is a stern discipline which privations bring 
 which seems not to be obtainable in any other way. Re- 
 member this: "We are able to stand where we do to- 
 day only because of what we have passed through." 
 
 Then"^ thank God if you have trials. Thank Him 
 reverently, humbly. He knows what will best conduce 
 to the development of your character. And in time, if 
 not now, you can say fervently with one of the great' 
 ones of the age: "So what is noblest in my soul has 
 sprung from disease, present defeat, disppointment» 
 and untoward outward circumstances." 
 
 The talent of success is nothing more than doing 
 what you can do well, and doing well whatever you 
 do, without a thought of fame. — Longfellow. 
 
 The most perilous hour of a person's life is when 
 he is tempted to despond. The man who loses his cour- 
 age loses all. There is no more hope for him than a 
 dead man. But — it matters not how poor he may be, 
 how much pushed by circumstances, how much deserted 
 by friends, how much lost to the world — if he only 
 keeps his courage, holds up his head, and with uncon- 
 querable will determines to be and to do what become? 
 
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Purpose, Work, Success, 
 
 a man, all will be well. It is nothing outside of him 
 that kills ; it is what is within that makes or not makes. 
 
 Let us, then, be up and doing, 
 
 With a heart for any fate ; 
 Still achieving, still pursuing. 
 
 Learn to labor and to wait. 
 
 — Longfellow. 
 
 For a man to think that he is going to do the work 
 of his life without obstacles is to dream in the lap of 
 folly. 
 
 An achievement to be proud of is that which carries 
 immortality with it. No success is worthy the name 
 which does net include character development. If a 
 career has not an upward as well as an onward ten- 
 dency, if a man has groveled in the mire, he is a fail- 
 ure though he have millions. That only is real success 
 which aspires, which looks up, and which helps others 
 to look up as well. — Success. 
 
 If you examine the path of almost any man's success, 
 you will find it paved with failures ; in fact, in many 
 cases they have been the guides that pointed the way to 
 success. The lessons they taught, the suggestions they 
 gave, showed the man the way to win. The wrecks 
 of his initial ventures were danger signals, which en- 
 abled him to avoid the rocks and shoals where he was 
 first stranded. Most of the successes, in this country, 
 are built upon failures. — Ibid. 
 
 The secret of success is constancy of purpose. — Dis- 
 raeli. 
 
 Nothing succeeds like success. — French Proverb. 
 
 ^Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success. — 
 Pope. 
 
 Ah ! know what true success is ; young hearts dream. 
 
 Dream nobly, and plan loftily, nor deem 
 
 That length of years is length of living. See 
 
 A whole life's labor in an hour done; 
 
 Not by world-tests the heavenly crown is won, 
 
 To God the man is what he means to be. 
 
 — Katherine Conway. 
 
 True glory consists in doing what deserves to be writ- 
 ten, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so liv- 
 ing to make the world happier and better for our living 
 in it. — Pliny, 
 
Purpose, W r Jc ^ Success, 
 
 A Definite Purpose Needed. 
 
 He who lives without a definite purpose achieves no 
 higher end than to serve as a warning to others. He is 
 a kind of bellbuoy, mournfully tolled by the waves of 
 circumstance to mark the rocks or shoals which are to 
 be avoided. What the sun glass does to the sun's rays 
 — converge them until they become a blazing and irre- 
 sistible point — that a definite purpose does to the en- 
 ergies of the soul. It brings them to a focus, and 
 achievement follows as a matter of course. 
 
 To occupy one's self with trifles weans from the habit 
 of work more effectually than idleness. — Rt. Rev. J. L. 
 Spalding. 
 
 Nothing that is of real worth can be achieved with- 
 out courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly 
 to that active striving of the will, that encounter with 
 difficulty, which we call effort; and it is astonishing to 
 find how often results apparently impracticable are 
 thus made possible. 
 
 Invincible determination and a right motive are the 
 levers that move the world. — Porter. 
 
 Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring 
 in seizing opportunity ; force and persistence in crowding 
 opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement — these 
 are the martial virtues which must command success. 
 
 Alphabet of Success. 
 
 Attend carefully to details. 
 
 Be prompt in all things. 
 
 Consider well, then decide positively. 
 
 Dare to do right, fear to do wrong. 
 
 Endure trials patiently. 
 
 Fight life's battles bravely. 
 
 Go not into the society of the vicious. 
 
 Hold integrity sacred. 
 
 Injure not another's reputation. 
 
 Join hands with the virtuous. 
 
 Keep your mind free from evil thoughts. 
 
 Lie not for any consideration. 
 
 Make few special friends. 
 
 Never try to appear what you are not. 
 
 Observe good manners. 
 
 Pay your debts promptly. 
 
 Question not the veracity of a friend. 
 
 Eespect the counsel of your parents. 
 
 Sacrifice money rather than principle. 
 
 Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks. 
 
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purpose, 17 o r h , Success. 
 
 Use your leisure for improvement. 
 
 Venture not upon the threshold of wrong. 
 
 Watch carefully over your passions. 
 
 Extend to every one a kindly greeting. 
 
 Yield not to discouragement. 
 
 Zealously labor for right and success is certain. 
 
 The secret of progress lies in knowing how to make 
 use, not of what we have chosen, but of what is forced 
 upon us. — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 Fail — yet rejoice; because no less 
 The failure that makes thy distress 
 May teach another full success. — Procter. 
 
 Mankind is more indebted to industry than ingenu- 
 ity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and indus- 
 try is the purchaser. 
 
 As a spring can never rise higher than its source, so 
 one can never attain a greater success than he believes 
 he can. Absolute confidence in one's ability to suc- 
 ceed is an indispensable essential to the highest achieve- 
 ment. 
 
 When you have found your niche — when you realize 
 that you are working along the line of your strongest 
 faculties instead of your weakest — do not allow any- 
 thing to divert you from your choice. No matter what 
 difficulties may arise, no matter how much harder than 
 you anticipated your work may be, do not waver or turn 
 back. Stand firm by your choice. Remember that 
 there are times in every career when the thorns are 
 more plentiful than the roses. It is at such seasons that 
 your manhood must assert itself, that the strength of 
 your purpose must be proved. Do not, however dark 
 or discouraging the outlook, admit the possibility of de- 
 feat. Set your face toward your goal, and stoutly af- 
 firm and reaffirm your confidence in your ability to suc- 
 ceed. This keeping one's self up to the -success standard, 
 and maintaining, in all its dignity and integrity, one's 
 self-sufficiency to accomplish the thing undertaken, is 
 proof of a strong character. 
 
 Never permit any one or anything to undermine your 
 self-confidence. Never admit to yourself, even in 
 thought, that there may be a possibility of your failure. 
 This constant affirmation, this persistent dwelling upon 
 the possible, or plus, phase of success, and never admit- 
 ting the negative, will tend to strengthen, to render im- 
 pregnable, the great purpose, the one unwavering aim, 
 which brings victory. 
 
 Many fail because their self-confidence becomes 
 shaky; they allow people to inject their doubts and 
 
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Purpose, W T k , Success. 
 
 fears into their minds, until they become uncertain of 
 themselves, and ultimately lose altogether that buoyant 
 faith in their ability to succeed without which no great 
 thing ever was accomplished. 
 
 What though you are poor, or your environment un- 
 favorable! These things should incite you to greater 
 effort. Stoutly deny the power of adversity or poverty 
 to keep you down, constantly assert your superiority to 
 your environment, believe firmly that you were made 
 to dominate your surroundings, that you are the master 
 and not the slave of circumstances, and conditions will 
 soon improve. This very domination in thought, this 
 assumption of power, this affirmation of belief in your 
 ability to succeed, the mental attitude which claims suc- 
 cess on the highest plane as an inalienable birthright, 
 will strengthen the whole nature, and give wonderful 
 power to the combination of faculties which doubt, fear, 
 and lack of confidence undermine. 
 
 Many a man has accomplished his object by this de- 
 termined adherence to faith in his ability to succeed, 
 when everything but his determination and confidence 
 in himself has been swept away. One should cling to 
 this priceless birthright as he would cling to his honor. 
 
 Thoughts are forces, and the constant affirmation of 
 one's inherent right and power to succeed will soon 
 change inhospitable conditions and unkind environ- 
 ments to favorable paths to success and happiness. 
 "The thing we long for, that we are." — Success. 
 
 There is no rest from labor on earth; there are al- 
 ways duties to perform and functions to exercise, func- 
 tions which are ever enlarging and extending in pro- 
 portion to the growth of our moral and mental station. 
 
 The richest land produces only thorns when neglect- 
 ed by the laborer who relies on its natural fertility. — 
 D'Aguesseau. 
 
 Men give me credit for genius; but all the genius I 
 have lies in this: When I have a subject on hand T 
 study it profoundly. The effect I make they call the 
 fruit of genius; it is, however, the fruit of labor and 
 thought. — Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 The best way for a man to get out of a lowly posi- 
 tion is to be conspicuously effective in it. — Dr. John 
 Hall. 
 
 N"ever despair, but if you do, work on in despair. — 
 Burlce. 
 
 Tell me how much has been your patient toil in ob- 
 scurity and I will tell you how far you will triumph in 
 an emergency. — Wm. Mathews. 
 
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Purpose, ^Y T h , Success. 
 
 The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready 
 for his opportunity when it comes. — Disraeli. 
 
 Persistent people begin their success where others 
 end in failure. — Edward Eggleston. 
 
 He is a weak man who cannot twist and weave the 
 threads of his feeling — however ^ne, however tangled, 
 however strained, or however strong — into the great 
 cable of purpose, by which he lies moored to his life of 
 action. — Ik Marvel. 
 
 "Health, usefulness and success are mine; I claim 
 them." Keep on thinking the thought, no matter what 
 happens, and ere long these blessings will be yours. 
 
 The law that underlies this mental process may be 
 thus expressed: "Desire will fulfill itself." "Nothing 
 is impossible to him that believeth," to use Biblical 
 language. 
 
 We can achieve success and have health, wealth and 
 happiness, if we will persistently hold firmly to a de- 
 sire for these things and confidently believe in the real- 
 ization of our desire. 
 
 When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down. 
 Make the best of it. Always look forward to better 
 things, for conditions more prosperous. 
 
 By daily holding yourself in this mental attitude you 
 will set in motion subtle, silent and irresistible forces 
 that, sooner or later, will actualize in material form 
 that which is to-day simply an idea. 
 
 But let it be understood that ideas possess occult 
 power, and that ideas, when properly planted and care- 
 fully tended, are the seeds which ere long spring up as 
 material conditions. 
 
 Avoid with the utmost care all worrying and com- 
 plaining, and utilize the time that would be given to 
 this baneful habit, in looking forward to and actualiz- 
 ing the condition you desire. 
 
 Suggest prosperity to yourself. See yourself men- 
 tally in prosperous circumstances. Keep ever affirm- 
 ing to yourself that you will soon be in prosperous cir- 
 cumstances. Affirm it calmly and quietly, but strongly 
 and confidently. 
 
 Believe it absolutely. Expect it, keep it continually 
 watered by strong, persistent expectations. The poet 
 observes : 
 
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Purpose, W r Jc , Success, 
 
 The thing we long for, that we are, 
 
 For one transcendent moment, 
 Ere the present, poor and bare, 
 
 Can make its sneering comment; 
 Still through our paltry stir and strife 
 
 Glows down the wished ideal, 
 And longing molds the clay what Life 
 
 Carves in the marble real. 
 
 — Lowell, 
 
 Desire will fulfill itself. How ? By keeping up this 
 habit of thought you make yourself a magnet to at- 
 tract to yourself the things you strongly desire. Don't 
 be afraid to suggest, to affirm these things, for by so 
 doing you put forth ideas which are bound very soon 
 to clothe themselves in material form. By this process 
 of mentation you are utilizing one of the most subtle 
 and dynamic forces in the universe. 
 
 If you are specially desirous for anything that you 
 regard as good and right to possess, which will enlarge 
 your life or add to your usefulness, simply hold the 
 thought in mind. . Thus at the right time, in the proper 
 way and through the right instrumentality, there will 
 come to you or there will open up for you the way 
 whereby you can attain your desire. Faith, absolute 
 dogmatic faith, is the only law of true success. When 
 we recognize the fact that a man carries with him his 
 success or failure, and that it does not depend upon 
 outside conditions, we will come into the possession of 
 powers which will greatly change outside conditions into 
 agents that make for success. We will thus, like Napo- 
 leon, make circumstances subservient to our interests. 
 When we come into this higher realization and bring our 
 lives into complete harmony with the higher laws, we will 
 then be able to focus and direct the awakened interior 
 forces so that they will go out and return laden with 
 that for which they were sent. We will then be great 
 enough to attract success, which has so far been apparent 
 just a little ahead of us in the race of life. 
 
 The philosophy of this is not far to seek. The "law 
 of attraction" works ever through the universe. Like 
 attracts like. God holds all things in His hands for 
 His children. "All things are yours.'' Such is the be- 
 liever's heritage, though we often fail to realize it, 
 through lack of faith. 
 
 Have absolute confidence in your own ability. It has 
 been well said: "The men and women who are suc- 
 cessful in a worldy way are those who have absolute 
 
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 c c e s s 
 
 confidence in their ability." Hold in your mind the 
 thought of success, and you will be successful. — Dr. J. 
 C. Quvnn. 
 
 If we were to examine a list of the men who have 
 left their mark on the world we should find that, as a 
 rule, it is not composed of those who were brilliant in 
 youth, or who gave great promise at the outset of their 
 careers, but rather of the plodding young men who, if 
 they have not dazzled by their brilliancy, have had the 
 power of a day's w^ork in them, who could stay by a 
 task until it was done, and well done; who have had 
 grit, persistence, common sense and honesty. 
 
 It is the steady exercise of these ordinary homely vir- 
 tues, united with average ability, rather than a decep- 
 tive display of more showy qualities in youth, that en- 
 ables a man to achieve greatly and honorably. So, if 
 we were to attempt to make a forecast of the successful 
 men of the future, we should not look for them among 
 the ranks of the "smart" boys, those who think they 
 "know it all" and are anxious to win by a short route. — 
 Success. 
 
 The successful man, whether in business or politics, 
 who has risen by a conscienceless swindling of his 
 neighbors, by deceit and chicanery, by unscrupulous 
 boldness and unscrupulous cunning, stands toward so- 
 ciety as a dangerous wild beast. The mean and ring- 
 ing admiration which such a career commands among 
 those who think "crookedly or not at all, makes this kind 
 of success perhaps the most dangerous of all the influ- 
 ences that threaten our national life. Our standard of 
 public and private conduct will never be raised to the 
 proper level until w^e make the scoundrel who succeeds 
 feel the weight of a hostile public opinion even more 
 strongly than the scoundrel who fails. — Theodore 
 Roosevelt. 
 
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CHAPTEE VIII. 
 Friendship, Love. CompoLny. 
 
 This is the prize definition of "Friendship" selected 
 by a newspaper from a list submitted to it : 
 
 The person who comes in 
 when the whole world has gone 
 out. 
 
 The following are some of the best definitions sub- 
 mitted: A bank of credit on which we draw supplies 
 of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help and love. 
 
 One who considers my needs before my deservings. 
 
 The triple alliance of the three great powers, love, 
 sympathy and help. 
 
 One who understands our silence. 
 
 A jewel, whose luster the strong acids of poverty and 
 misfortune cannot dim. 
 
 One who smiles on our fortunes, frowns on our faults, 
 sympathizes with our sorrows, weeps at our bereave- 
 ments and is a safe fortress at all times of trouble. 
 
 One who, gaining the top of the ladder, won't forget 
 you if you remain at the bottom. 
 
 An insurance against misanthropy. 
 
 An earthly minister of heavenly happiness. 
 
 A friend is like ivy — the greater the ruin, the closer 
 he clings. 
 
 One who to himself is true, and therefore must be 
 so to you. 
 
 The same to-day, the same to-morrow, either in pros- 
 perity, adversity or sorrow. 
 
 One truer to me than I am myself. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company, 
 
 Who is my brother? Is it he 
 
 Whose lot is lifted high 
 Above earth's toiling ones? Not thus, 
 
 The Saviour made reply. 
 
 From the quiet hills I hear him say, 
 
 And from the busy coast, 
 "Thy brother is, questioner, 
 
 The one who needs thee most." 
 
 Friendship, like confidence, is a plant of slow growth. 
 
 Disarm your enemies by gentleness. 
 
 The friendship of the good is a refuge that fails not, 
 a treasure that angels prize, and in their diadems it is 
 set round with virtue, love and truth. 
 
 The rapidity with which the human mind levels it- 
 self to the standard around it gives us the most perti- 
 nent warning as to the company we keep. — James Rus- 
 sell Lowell. 
 
 If I should see 
 
 A brother languishing in sore distress, 
 
 And I should turn and leave him comfortless 
 When I might be 
 
 A messenger of hope and happiness, 
 How could I ask to have what I denied 
 In my own hour of bitterness supplied ? 
 
 If I might speak 
 
 Some words to cheer a fainting heart. 
 And I should seal my lips and sit apart 
 When I might bring 
 
 A bit of sunshine for life's ache and smart, 
 How could I hope to have my grief relieved 
 If I kept silent when my brother grieved? 
 
 And so I know 
 
 That day is lost wherein I fail to lend 
 A helping hand to some wayfaring friend, 
 
 But if it show 
 
 A burden lightened by the cheer I send, 
 
 Then do I hold the golden hours well spent 
 
 And lay me down to sleep in sweet content. 
 
 We cannot help who our relatives may be, but we 
 nave an unlimited autonomy in the selection of our 
 friends, and we should use it with the greatest of dis- 
 cretion. — John McCarthy. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Go 
 
 m p a n y 
 
 Small service is true service while it lasts; 
 
 Of friends, however humble, scorn not one; 
 The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, 
 
 Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 
 
 — Wordsworth. 
 
 A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the 
 vows of friendship. — Bolingbroke. 
 
 A man should keep his friendship in constant re- 
 pair. — Johnson. 
 
 It is easier to forgive the weak whom we have in- 
 jured than the powerful who have injured us. 
 
 man ! forgive thy mortal foe, 
 Nor ever strike him blow for blow; 
 For all the souls on earth that live, 
 To be forgiven, must forgive. 
 Forgive him seventy times and seven; 
 For all the blessed souls in lieaven 
 Are both forgivers and forgiven! 
 
 — Tennyson. 
 
 The heart of a Christian should be a tomb for the 
 faults of his friends. 
 
 Nothing can withstand or resist the evil influence of 
 bad companionship. Parental influence cannot check 
 it. No virtue is so strong, no intelligence or education 
 so superior or enlightened as not to fall a victim to the 
 baneful influence of evil companionship. The proverb 
 says: "Tell m.e with whom you go and I will tell you 
 who you are.'' Or again: "Companionship is among 
 likes or makes likes." This being so, therefore should 
 the greatest vigilance be exerted in this respect. St. 
 iVugustine says: "Bad company is like a nail driven 
 into a post, which after the first or second blow mav 
 be drawn out with little difficulty, but being once driven 
 up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw 
 it out. but which can only be done by the destruction 
 of the wood." 
 
 We may know a man by the company he keeps; we 
 may know him better by the books he loves, and if he 
 loves none he is not worth knowing. 
 
 Friendship is one of those subjects on which much 
 has been written — indeed, a great deal more has been 
 Avritten than is understood about it. Perhaps Dante's 
 definition of friendship is the shortest and best one of 
 all. He was asked by the Prince of Corona how the 
 fact was to be accounted for that in the household of 
 princes the court fool was in greater favor than the 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company, 
 
 philosopher. "Similarity of mind is the cause of friend- 
 ship the world over," was the fierce reply of Dante, 
 thereby incurring the eternal enmity of the Prince. 
 There are many causes that separate friends. One of 
 the chasms that part friends is sarcasm. Another is 
 borrowing money. Make friends with your creditors 
 if you can, but never make a creditor of your friend. 
 Some persons look for perfection in a friend. They 
 are doomed to disappointment. 
 
 We sigh for the touch of a vanished hand, 
 
 The hand of a friend most dear. 
 Who has passed from our side to the shadowy land, 
 
 But what of the hand that is near? 
 
 To the living's touch is the soul inert 
 
 That weeps o'er the silent urn? 
 For the love that lives is our hand alert 
 
 To make some sweet return? 
 
 Do we answer back in a fretful tone 
 
 When life's duties press us sore? 
 Is our praise as full as if they were gone, 
 
 And could hear our praise no more? 
 
 As the days go by are our hands more swift 
 
 For a trifle beyond their share 
 Than to grasp, for a kindly, helpful lift. 
 
 The burden some one must bear? 
 
 We sigh for the touch of a vanished hand. 
 
 And we think ourselves sincere, 
 But what of the friends that about us stand. 
 
 And the touch of the hand that is here ? 
 
 Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happi- 
 ness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger 
 links than common joy. 
 
 Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
 
 Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 
 
 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
 
 The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. 
 
 Grapple them to thv soul with hoops of steel; 
 
 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
 
 Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 
 
 — Shakespeare, 
 
 Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for 
 forgiveness, or else forgiving another. — Richter. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company. 
 
 Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a 
 friend part not with him in haste. — Solon. 
 
 I would not enter on my list of friends 
 
 (Though graced with polishM manners and fine sense, 
 
 Yet wanting sensibility) the man 
 
 Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 
 
 — Cowper, 
 If any little love of mine 
 
 May make a life the sweeter, 
 If any little care of mine 
 
 May make a friend the fleeter. 
 If any lift of mine may ease 
 
 The burden of another, 
 God give me love and care and strength 
 To help my toiling brother. 
 Friendship has a noble effect upon all states and 
 conditions. It relieves our cares, raises our hopes and 
 abates our fears. A friend who relates his success talks 
 himself into a new pleasure, and, by opening his mis- 
 fortunes, leaves part of them behind him. 
 
 The basis and groundwork of friendship is the for- 
 getting of self through that sympathy which must al- 
 ways exist between real friends. With such a starting 
 point, friendship — true friendship — must lead to a 
 better, nobler life, to higher ideas, and to purer desires. 
 If 3^ou associate with the wicked you will become 
 wicked yourself. — Menander. 
 
 Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree; love 
 is a present for a mighty king; much less make any man 
 thine enemy. — George Herbert. 
 
 We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we re- 
 tain them by the qualities we possess. 
 
 As soon as we begin to hate our neighbor God hates 
 us. — Cure of Ars. 
 
 That song is sweetest, bravest, best. 
 
 Which plucks the thistle-barb of care 
 From a despondent brother's breast, 
 And plants a sprig of heartsease there. 
 
 — Andrew Downing. 
 Human relations are sensitive things and require 
 care and watchfulness. 
 
 One's work ig the best company. — Rt. Rev. J. L. 
 Spalding. 
 
 Whoever would test friendship, or love, or culture, or 
 religion by its utility is a Philistine. — Ihid. 
 
 There are many lovers, but little love; many believ- 
 ers, but little faith. — Ihid. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company. 
 
 The deepest love is silent ; the deepest faith is dumb. 
 —Ibid, 
 
 The man who has friends has no friend. — Aristotle. 
 
 It is pleasant to hear of the success of a friend. — 
 Herodotus. 
 
 We make friends not by receiving, but by conferring 
 kindness. — Thucydides. 
 
 The deepest hunger of a faithful heart is faithful- 
 ness. — George Eliot. 
 
 Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. — 
 Solon. 
 
 Forgive thy neighbor if he has hurt thee, and then 
 thy sins shall be forgiven thee when thou prayest. — 
 Eccles. xxviii. 
 
 Friends are to be estimated from their deeds, not 
 their words. — Livy. 
 
 What fidelity can be expected among strangers if it 
 is wanting among friends. — Sallust. 
 
 "Friends, in this world of hurry 
 And work and sudden end, 
 If a thought comes quick of doing 
 
 A kindness to a friend. 
 Do it that blessed minute! 
 
 Don't put it oft' ! Don't wait ! 
 What's the use of doing a kindness 
 If you do it a day too late. 
 No one comes near us or across us, but it is through 
 an intention of God, that we may help, soothe or cheer 
 him. — Fdber. 
 
 People will, in a great degree, and not without rea- 
 son, form their opinion of you, upon that which they 
 have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb 
 which says, very justly, "Tell me with whom you asso- 
 ciate, and I will tell you who you are.'' 
 
 No man can be provident of his time who is not 
 prudent in the choice of his company. — Taylor. 
 
 What is friendship but a name, 
 A charm that lulls to sleep, 
 A shade that follows wealth or fame, 
 And leaves the wretch to weep ? 
 
 — Goldsmith. 
 The possession of friends is the purest happiness 
 and the greatest source of sweetness in life. 
 
 Having friends is multiplying one's knowledge. 
 We are three, said a philosopher, but, as we have but 
 one heart, we see through the mind of all, we labor 
 with the strength of all. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company. 
 
 Having friends, says De Maistre, is a conductor who 
 carries off sorrow. 
 
 Nothing is so healing as the balm of affection. 
 
 But friends must be won. Being loved for one's self 
 is a romantic dream. God makes advances to win 
 friends ; why should not we ? 
 
 Character doubtless has much to do with friendship 
 affording more or less sympathy, but unselfish efforts 
 complete what sympathy has begun. 
 
 To have friends, meriit them. If you do not merit 
 esteem and you have exterior qualities which please, or 
 riches which dazzle, or a position which can afford pro- 
 tection — three things which attract time servers — you 
 wdll perhaps be flattered, you will not be loved. 
 
 Friendship is as delicate and ti7nid as a dove. She 
 must be approached softly, and allured gently ; but once 
 taken, how faithful she is and how she fills all life with 
 her grace and beauty. Do you know what attracts her ? 
 
 Good will and affability — obscure little virtues, one 
 of which does not see or at least does not look at the 
 defects of others, and the other, which attracts by a 
 hidden charm pervading one's bearing, one's smile, 
 one's w^ords. 
 
 Little virtues which cost little and are of great value. 
 
 It is sometimes possible to be too kind; we never 
 have too much good will and affability. 
 
 Kindness. There is nothing w^hich more strongly at- 
 tracts and binds a heart than deeds of kindness, and the 
 heart which is insensible to them is a bad heart. 
 
 Kind deeds are the net which we must cast every 
 hour; many hearts will doubtless escape; sufficient will 
 remain to compensate you for the trouble you have 
 taken and the outlay you have made. Is not happiness 
 worth a little fatigue ? The basis of happiness is kind- 
 ness. 
 
 Consideration. This is the small coin of kindness 
 and affability; it is current everywhere, with all, and 
 always brings back a little friendship. 
 
 The considerate man not only avoids giving pain, 
 but he further enters into the tastes, the views of all, 
 and profits by the least occasion to give pleasure. 
 
 Thus, you will find, that I have spoken better than 
 another who nevertheless shall have said the same 
 thing. You do not grow weary in diverting my weari- 
 ness ; you study my humor, to which you subject yours ; 
 you never wound my self-love by a too vivid picture 
 of my faults ; the duty which I have neglected you per- 
 form^ leaving me to believe I have done it myself. 
 
Friendship, Love, Company, 
 
 How could I not love you? 
 
 But consideration requires a good deal of tact. 
 
 Do too little, you are rude; do too much, you are 
 otRcious. 
 
 We must be considerate — in heart, to love; in mind 
 and tact, to do fittingly what is to be done; in patience, 
 to long bear with forgetfulness and even lack of grati- 
 tude. 
 
 Let us try to gain a friend each day. Doubtless we 
 may not always preserve them, but there will surely 
 be among them an affectionate heart won by our kind- 
 ness, and if one becomes an intimate friend of the soul, 
 surely we are repaid. 
 
 Perhaps it is better to be able to say my friend than 
 my friends. 
 
 An art still more difiicult than making friends is the 
 art of preserving them. Only remember that the pleas- 
 ures of friendship, the duties of friendship, are synony- 
 mous terms to kind hearts. 
 
 That your love may long endure in all its tenderness, 
 alivays live as if you were on the eve of parting and de- 
 sired to have a mutually pleasant memory. 
 
 Then do not judge your friend; according as we be- 
 gin to judge, our love begins to weaken. 
 
 Would you finally be sure that you are loved and that 
 you truly love? See if in your friend and yourself 
 there are these four qualities: 
 
 Prudent liberty, which proves in a friend the weak- 
 nesses he should correct, but does it with a tact and 
 delicacy which never causes a friend to blush. 
 
 Frank arid confiding intercourse, in which counsel is 
 simply given and asked. 
 
 Courageous justice to undertake the * defense of a 
 friend in order to establish, increase or maintain his 
 reputation, even at the risk of personal unpleasantness. 
 
 Constant kindness, which is a support and consola- 
 tion, making us always easy of access, and enabling our 
 friend to count upon us always and in all things. 
 
 All men have their frailties, and whoever looks for a 
 friend without imperfections will never find what he 
 seeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, 
 and we ought to love our friend in like manner. — Cyrus. 
 
 Few mortals are so insensible that their affections 
 cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sin- 
 cerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. — Zimmerman. 
 
 It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; 
 seldom safe to instruct, even our friends. — Colton. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company. 
 
 Friendship ! Mysterious cement of the soul ! 
 Sweetener of life ! and solder of society I 
 
 — Robert Blair. 
 
 Those who humble us are our friends, and those who 
 praise us are our enemies. — Cwe of Ars. 
 
 Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; 
 A mother's secret hope outlives them all. — Holmes. 
 
 We are all ungrateful to those from whom we re- 
 ceive the highest and holiest gifts. — Rt. Rev. J. L. 
 Spalding. 
 
 His Mother. 
 
 He is too young to know it now, 
 But some day he will know. 
 
 — Eugene Field. 
 
 Above her little sufferer's bed, 
 
 With all a mother's grace, 
 She stroked the curly, throbbing head 
 
 And soothed the fevered face. 
 "He does not know my love, my fears, 
 
 My toil of heart and hand; 
 But some day in the after years. 
 
 Some day he'll understand; 
 Some day he'll know 
 I loved him so. 
 
 Some day he'll understand." 
 
 A wild lad plays his thoughtless part 
 
 As fits his childhood's lot, 
 And tramples on his mother's heart 
 
 Oftimes and knows it not. 
 He plays among his noisy mates, 
 
 Nor knows his truest friend; 
 His mother sighs, as still she waits, 
 
 "Some day he'll comprehend; 
 The day will be 
 When he will see; 
 
 Some day he'll comprehend." 
 
 The strong youth plays his strenuous part; 
 
 His mother waits aione; 
 And soon he finds another heart — 
 
 To mate unto his own. 
 She gave him up in joy and woe. 
 
 He takes his young bride's hand, 
 
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 His mother murmurs, "Will he know 
 And ever understand? 
 
 When will he know 
 I love him so ? 
 When will he understand?" 
 
 The strong man fights his battling days, 
 
 The fight is hard and grim; 
 His mother's plain, old-fashioned ways 
 
 Have little charm for him. 
 The dimness falls around her years. 
 
 The shadows round her stand- 
 She mourns in loneliness and tears, 
 
 "He'll never understand; 
 He'll never know 
 I love him so; 
 
 He'll never understand." 
 
 A bearded man of serious years 
 
 Bends down above the dead. 
 And rains the tribute of his tears 
 
 Over an old gray head. 
 He stands the open grave above. 
 
 Amid the mourning bands; 
 And now he knows his mother's love. 
 And now he understands; 
 Now doth he know 
 She loved him so. 
 And now he understands. 
 
 — Sam Walter Foss. 
 
 A great help to advancement in spiritual life is to 
 have a friend whom you will permit to inform you of 
 your faults. — *S'/. Ignativs. 
 
 Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, 
 they encourage our love of ease, they make us content 
 with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our 
 glory. — lit. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
 Where's Mother? 
 
 Bursting from the school or play 
 This is what the children say; 
 Trooping, crowding, big and small. 
 On the threshold, in the hall, 
 Joining in the constant cry 
 Ever as the davs go bv — 
 
 "Where's mother?" 
 
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 From the weary bed of pain 
 This same question comes again; 
 From the boy with sparkling eyes, 
 Bearing home his earliest prize; 
 From the bronzed and bearded son, 
 Perils past and honors won — 
 "Where's mother T 
 
 Burdened with a lonely task, 
 One day we may vainly ask 
 For the comfort of her face. 
 For the rest of her embrace. 
 Let us love her while we may, 
 Well for us that we can say — 
 "Where's mother T 
 
 The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the 
 dungeon of self. — Macdonald. 
 
 Help somebody worse off than yourself, and you will 
 find that you are better off than you had thought. 
 
 Life's Scars. 
 
 The choicest garb, the sweetest grace 
 
 Are oft to strangers shown; 
 The careless mien, the frowning face 
 
 Are given to our own. 
 We flatter those we scarcely know — 
 
 We please the fleeting guest, 
 And deal full many a thoughtless blow 
 
 To those who love us best. 
 
 Love does not grow on every tree, 
 
 Nor true hearts yearly bloom. 
 Alas for those who only see 
 
 This cut across a tomb! 
 But, soon or late, the fact grows plain 
 
 To all through sorrow's test — 
 The only folks who give us pain 
 
 Are those we love the best. 
 
 —E. W. Wilcox, 
 
 Faith. 
 
 Better trust all and be deceived, 
 
 And weep that trust and that deceiving, 
 Than doubt one heart that, if believed. 
 Had blessed one's life with true believing. 
 
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Friendship, Love, Company, 
 
 0, in this mocking world too fast 
 
 The doubting friend overtakes our youth; 
 
 Better be cheated to the last 
 
 Than lose the blessed hope of truth. 
 
 — Frances Anne Kemble. 
 
 Care in the Choice of Friends. 
 
 We owe much to ourselves in the choice of friends. 
 Sir John Lubbock says: "In the choice of a dog or 
 of a horse we exercise the greatest care. We inquire 
 into its pedigree, its training and character, and yet 
 we too often leave the selection of our friends, which 
 is of infinitely greater importance — by whom our whole 
 life will be more or less influenced either for good or 
 evil — almost to chance." 
 
 And such is the fact. Meeting one in the most casual 
 way, we frequently adopt him as an intimate. The 
 curl of the lip, the twitch of the eyelid or the toss of 
 the head, having in some strange way fascinated us, 
 without hesitation we cultivate the acquaintanceship 
 until it ripens into friendship, and our whole life suf- 
 fers or gains thereby — imperceptibly, perhaps, but as 
 surely as the waters of the stream tend to the ocean. 
 There is so much of evil in the world which we cannot 
 avoid, and with which at times we come into close con- 
 tact, that it goes without saying that in matters 
 wherein we have a voice we should use it with wise dis- 
 cretion. 
 
 Our good or bad fortune depends greatly on the 
 choice we make of our friends. 
 
 A Lost Friend. 
 
 My friend he was; my friend from all the rest; 
 With childlike faith he oped to me his breast; 
 ^o door was locked on altar, grave or grief; 
 No weakness veiled, concealed no disbelief; 
 The hope, the sorrow and the wrong were bare, 
 And ah, the shadow only showed the fair ! 
 
 T gave him love for love ; but, deep within, 
 I magnified each frailty into sin ; 
 Each hill-topped foible in the sunset glowed, 
 Obscuring vales where rivered virtues flowed, 
 Eeproof became reproach, till common grew 
 The captious word at every fault I knew. 
 He smiled upon the censorship, and bore 
 With patient love the touch that wounded sore; 
 
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 Until at length, so had my blindness grown, 
 He knew I judged him by his faults alone. 
 
 Alone, of all men, I knew him best, 
 Refused the gold, to take the dross for test ! 
 Cold strangers honored for the worth they saw; 
 His friend forgot the diamond in the flaw. 
 
 At last it came — the day he stood apart 
 When from my eyes he proudly veiled his heart ; 
 When carping judgment and uncertain word, 
 A stern resentment in his bosom stirred; 
 When in his face I read what I had been, 
 And with his vision saw what he had seen. 
 
 Too late ! too late ! Oh, could he then have known. 
 When his love died, that mine had perfect grown. 
 That when the veil was drawn, abased, chastised. 
 The censor stood the lost one truly prized. 
 Too late we learn — a man must hold his friend 
 Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. 
 
 '^ohn Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
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CHAPTER IX. 
 The Waty to Hatppiness. 
 
 It has been said with truth that there is more love 
 in the world than is ever spoken. Equally true is it 
 that there is more happiness in the world than there 
 is ever spoken. Listen to any chance conversation, and 
 the probabilities are that you will hear dilated upon 
 in its details some misfortune, some accident, some try- 
 ing or annoying circumstance, or some sorrowful event, 
 while it is the great exception to hear a minute descrip- 
 tion of some joyful circumstance, or some enduring 
 happiness that has come into life. Perhaps one very 
 reason for this may be found in the fact that happiness 
 so greatly exceeds woe in the world, that it is less 
 vividly realized. 
 
 This is the case even with the common, outward 
 events of life. The countless safe and pleasant jour- 
 neys that are made on sea or land are taken as a mat- 
 ter of course, and excite no remark. But let a single 
 accident happen, and it is immediately telegraphed to 
 all parts of the country, and printed in all the news- 
 papers of the land. Or a family lives in unbroken 
 imity for years, without realizing their happiness, but 
 when at length a bereavement comes, how strong is the 
 impression of sorrow upon the survivors! Often do 
 we hear it said: "We did not know how happy we were/' 
 and frequently it is only the absence of something that 
 we never had thought of that reveals its true precious- 
 ness. 
 
 The abundance of light and air, the delights of the 
 eye and the ear, the security of our homes, our peace- 
 ful surroundings, the affection of our friends and 
 countless other blessings we scarcely think of in their 
 plenitude; while let but one of them be removed, even 
 for a brief space, and our woe is complete and over- 
 shadowing. 
 
 It is a great mistake which some melancholy people 
 make to imagine that they can shed happiness around 
 
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 them while permanently sad themselves. We cannot 
 give what we have not got. It is the bright eye and the 
 cheerful smile which lights up the face of another, and 
 the sadness which cannot be concealed is equally conta- 
 gious. Marcus Aurelius said: "It is not seemly that 
 I, who willingly have brought sorrow to none, should 
 permit myself to be sad.^^ 
 
 It will also help us to realize and to diffuse the hap- 
 piness of life, to speak often of its presence. Expres- 
 sion always emphasizes and increases its subject, what- 
 ever that may be. In recalling to the mind of another 
 the sources of joy mutually open to us, we bring to light 
 much happiness that was hidden, and give it new life 
 and vigor in a new consciousness. 
 
 Let those who are fond of reciting their woes think 
 of this, and cease to drop the poison of sadness into the 
 cup of life which all must drink. Let us, on the con- 
 trary, generously pour out upon other hearts all the 
 gladness, the brightness, the joy which we feel, and 
 open up to them all the sources of it that we have found. 
 Thus in the consciousness alike of ourselves and others 
 a true happiness m.ay be realized, too deep to be dis- 
 turbed, and too strong to be broken down. 
 
 The happiness of your life depends upon the charac- 
 ter of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 There are persons who will work for the good of their 
 fellow-creatures, who will give money and time, labor 
 and thought to reforms and schemes for general wel- 
 fare, who will not hesitate to make sacrifices, to perform 
 benevolent and kindly actions, but who never give free 
 and hearty utterance to the gladness that they feel or 
 the pleasures they enjoy. It is not that they intend to 
 deprive anyone of happiness, but they do not realize 
 how much they could thus bestow. While trying in 
 many ways to give light and warmth to their fellow- 
 creatures they bottled up their own sunshine, forgetting 
 that its influence might extend far and wide. Such 
 pernicious silence should be broken at the risk of being 
 called a chatterbox. If the day is fair, and the air 
 pure and clear, why not emphasize the fact; if we see 
 any beauty why not point it out ; if we feel any joy let 
 us hasten to show it, and if we have received any good, 
 let us freely express it, and the result is a free, happy, 
 generous disposition, which brings most perfect serenity 
 to every life. 
 
 Almost anyone can mention things for which we 
 should be grateful, such as home, friends, the right use 
 of all our faculties, etc., but few are so discerning as 
 
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 to note that even apparent misfortune and affliction 
 may prove blessings. When a disappointment shocks 
 us, when trouble smites us, when sorrow unseals the 
 tear-fonts, who then can be grateful ? And yet all 
 chastisement is for our good, and proves that we are 
 loved of the Lord. 
 
 Life, even in bondage or suffering, is more desirable 
 to most people than death. But how many robust, 
 sound, vigorous men there are who are full of discon- 
 tent, forgetful that their sinewy frames are boons for 
 which many a millionaire would give all his wealth. 
 There is a glow and an exhilaration in health which 
 makes life a song and a delight. Mere existence be- 
 comes luxury. And yet there are thousands of people 
 who have never had a sick day in all their lives, who 
 never thought to say, "Thank God." 
 
 You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheer- 
 ful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that 
 pleasure on others? An effort made for the happiness 
 of others lifts us above ourselves. — Lydia Maria Child. 
 
 If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the 
 reception of it is the rarest of virtues. — Attic Philoso- 
 pher. 
 
 The happiness of man in this life does not consist in 
 the absence, but in the mastery of his passions. 
 
 Next to the sunlight of heaven is the sunlight of a 
 cheerful face. There is no mistaking it — the bright 
 eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny smile — all tell of 
 that which dwells within. Who has not felt its electri- 
 fying influence? One glance at this face lifts us at 
 once out of the arms of despair; out of the mists and 
 shadows, away from tears and repining, into the beau- 
 tiful realms of hope. One cheerful face in a household 
 will keep everything bright and warm within. Envy, 
 hatred, malice, selfishness, and a host of evil passions 
 may lurk around the door, they may even look within, 
 but they never enter or abide there; the cheerful face 
 will put them all to shame and flight. It may be a 
 very plain face, but there is something in it we feel we 
 cannot express, and its cheery smile sends the blood 
 dancing through our veins for very joy ; we turn toward 
 the sun, and its warm genial influence refreshes and 
 strengthens our fainting spirit. Ah ! there is a world of 
 magic in the plain cheerful face ! It charms us with a 
 spell of eternity, and we would not exchange it for all 
 the soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest form on 
 earth. It may be a very little face — one that we nestle 
 upon our bosom, or sing to sleep in our arms, with a low, 
 
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 sweet lullaby; but it is such a bright cheery face! The 
 scintilations of a joyous spirit are flashing from every 
 feature. And what a power it has over the household, 
 binding each heart together in tenderness and love and 
 sympathy. Shadows may darken around us, but some- 
 how this face ever shines between, and the shining is so 
 bright, that the shadows cannot remain, and silentlj? 
 creep away into the dark corners, until the cheerful face 
 is gone. It may be a wrinkled face, but it is all the 
 dearer for that, and none the less bright. We linger 
 near it, and gaze tenderly upon it, and say, "Heaven 
 bless this happy face !" We must keep it with us as 
 long as we can, for home will lose much of its bright- 
 ness when that face is gone. 
 
 The greatest reward? Gratitude. 
 
 The greatest blessing? Health. 
 
 The greatest work ? Godliness. 
 
 The greatest wonder? Ourselves. 
 
 The greatest service ? To be trusted. 
 
 The greatest burden ? That borne • in silence. 
 
 The greatest aim? To form ideals and live up to 
 them. 
 
 The greatest path? Duty — that most difficult to 
 traverse. 
 
 The greatest jewel? An earthly sunbeam whose 
 light never fades. 
 
 The greatest power ? That which is used not for 
 self-gain. 
 
 The greatest task? To learn to suffer without com- 
 plaining. 
 
 The greatest o-rief? The snapping of a life's link. 
 
 The greatest happiness? Peace and contentment in 
 the home. 
 
 The greatest voice ? That which is silent when spite 
 is nigh. 
 
 The greatest riches? To be worthy of the love of 
 faithful friends. 
 
 The greatest misfortune ? To be in the drink demon's 
 clutches. 
 
 The greatest failure? That for want of courage 
 wrought. 
 
 The greatest crown? That borne without a stain. 
 
 The greatest folly? Pride and its brother, deceit. 
 
 The greatest victory? That gained over anger's 
 flame. 
 
 The greatest sacrifice? Self-denial for others' gain. 
 
 The greatest longing? To leave the world a little 
 better for having lived in it. 
 
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 As a brook brightens by stumbling over stones, so a 
 soul is beautified by resisting temptation. — St. Augus^ 
 tine. 
 
 To serve God. Herein lies true happiness, the hap- 
 piness of yesterday, the happiness of to-day, the happi- 
 ness of all days. But we must know this, and w^hen 
 we know this, we must act. Many never know it, and 
 of those who know it, many never commence to act; of 
 those who commence many do not continue, or else con- 
 tinue so feebly that their search for happiness serves 
 merely to weary and disgust them still more with their 
 false happiness; that is with their real unhappiness. 
 
 "I have searched for happiness in the elegant life of 
 the drawing-room, in sumptuous banquets, and in the 
 dissipation of balls and theatres. I have taken part in 
 every festival. I sought for it also in the possession of 
 gold, in the excitement of gaming, in the illusions of 
 marvelous romances, but in vain; while one hour spent 
 in visiting a sick person, in consoling one in affliction, 
 in helping an unfortunate man, has sufficed to procure 
 me an enjoyment more delicious than all worldly de- 
 lights." — A Young Man, quoted by the Rev. Fr. Felix. 
 
 Try to be happy in the very present moment, and put 
 not off being so to a time to come, as though that time 
 should be of another make, from this, which is already 
 come, and is ours. — Fuller. 
 
 The happiness of life depends very much on little 
 things; and one can be brave and great and good while 
 making small sacrifices and doing small duties faith- 
 fully and cheerfully. — Louisa M. Alcott. 
 
 Happiness is a perfume that one cannot shed over 
 another without a few drops falling on one's self. 
 
 It is a pleasure to meet people who are pleasant, af- 
 fable and kind ; who do not seek to extinguish you with 
 disdain or humiliate you with indifference. People 
 can be over-pleasant as well as overbearing, but the for- 
 mer is infinitely preferable. Habit has something to 
 do with a man's behavior, although disposition is the 
 stronger element — certainly, when men have contracted 
 habits of pride and insolence that are almost brutal. 
 Money enters into the life of some men and makes them 
 haughty and overbearing, who. lacking it, would have 
 been kind and considerate. Jesus inveighed most 
 strongly against pride and haughtiness, and said the 
 publican was justified rather than the proud Pharisee, 
 for all the lengthy prayers of the latter. In view of the 
 shortness of life and its manv unavoidable cares and 
 troubles, we think it is a wise thing to cultivate a pleas- 
 
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 ant manner toward all. "Oh, why should the spirit of 
 mortal be proud ?'^ must be an inscrutable puzzle from 
 any true and just point of view. "Pride goeth before 
 destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall," is as 
 true to-day as in the long ago when it was written. Pope 
 calls pride "the never-failing vice of fools/' and wisely, 
 too. There is in pride and hauteur a disennobling of 
 men beyond computation. If pride is not vice, it can 
 lay little claim to virtue. Why, then, be proud and 
 haughty? Rich or poor, high or low, should shun its 
 narrowing spirit, and learn to practice a pleasant man- 
 ner, a courteous spirit of kindness toward all whom we 
 may meet in this transitory world. — Alexander Macau- 
 ley. 
 
 It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm- 
 tree, to strive most upward when most burdened. — Sir 
 Philip Sidney. 
 
 It is seldom people are conscious of their actual bless- 
 ings ! Not that they are ignored through positive and 
 perverse ingratitude, but partly from sheer want of re- 
 flection, partly because custom steals the value from the 
 boon which we habitually receive. And yet, how bounti- 
 fully those simple, daily blessings are showered down 
 upon the poorest, humblest, saddest of us all ! 
 
 Those persons upon whom the golden rays of pros- 
 perity descend in unbroken floods, are frequently less 
 cognizant than all others of the opulent store of benefits 
 poured out upon them. 
 
 The fatal illusion from which we suffer is that riches 
 are what you carry in your purse, not what you have 
 in your heart. The eternal fact is that health is better 
 than a gold mine, and yet we spend the health to get 
 the mine and then, when it is too late, would be glad 
 to give the mine for health. 
 
 Almost everybody wishes to be rich, but riches mean 
 very different things to different people. If you give 
 its highest and best definition you discover that some 
 whom the world calls poor are really wealthy and some 
 whom the world envies on account of their possessions 
 are really "poor indeed." 
 
 The man of millions may have that in his soul which 
 is worth more than his bank account, the poor man may 
 have poverty of soul as well as of purse. The real 
 riches are those which you can take with you when you 
 go. They cannot be left to your heirs. They are yours 
 alone, and neither life nor death can deprive you of 
 them. 
 
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 It is a useful, a holy, a heart expanding practice, to 
 ponder over, and sum up, daily, the manifest blessings 
 which have been accorded us, and which we would not 
 willingly forego ! How great will even those who cry out 
 that they have received few, or none, find their allotted 
 share ! Try the experiment, and see if this be not so ! 
 
 Eesolve that it shall be one of the daily duties of 
 your life, one of its indispensable employments, to seek 
 out and sum up each day^s blessing. 
 
 St. Charles Borromeo struggled through great diffi- 
 culties in the discharge of his duties, without ever be- 
 traying the least impatience. A friend who highly ad- 
 mired these virtues, which he thought it impossible to 
 imitate, one day asked the prelate if he could communi- 
 cate the secret of being always quiet and happy. 
 
 "Yes,'^ he replied, "I can teach you my secret and 
 with great pleasure. It consists in nothing more than 
 in making a right use of my eyes." 
 
 His friend begged him to explain himself. 
 
 "Most willingly,'^ answered the archbishop. "In what- 
 ever state I am I first look up to heaven, and I remem- 
 ber that my principal aim here is to get there. I then 
 look down upon the earth, and call to mind how small a 
 space I shall occupy in it. I then look abroad into the 
 world and observe what multitudes there are more un- 
 happy than myself. Thus I learn where true happiness 
 is placed, where all our cares must end, and how very 
 little reason I have to repine or complain." 
 
 He is not rich that hath much, but he that hath 
 enough; nor he poor that hath but little, but he that 
 wants more. — Warwich. 
 
 An old philosopher had a maxim, "That happiness 
 consists not in a state of possession, but of desire; so 
 that when all wishes have been gratified, and we have 
 nothing left to long for, we are really further from be- 
 ing happy than we were in the beginning." 
 
 In worldly pursuits, happiness lies rather in the de- 
 sire and anticipation of a thing than in its actual pos- 
 session. It is, therefore, a wise dispensation of Provi- 
 dence which ordains that all our desires shall never be 
 gratified, and that we shall always have something to 
 wish for. 
 
 There was once a young prince of Abyssinia, who had 
 but to express a desire in order to secure its satisfac- 
 tion. 
 
 Heir to vast riches, he spent his youthful days in 
 luxurious idleness beneath the soft skies of a southern 
 clime. Master of a thousand slaves, his wishes were 
 
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 anticipated, and his commands executed with diligence 
 and devotion. 
 
 Health crowned all the other gifts and blessings 
 which Heaven had lavished on this favored being. Sure- 
 ly he, of all mortals, had most reason to be happy. And 
 yet he was of all men the most completely miserable. 
 None of the many pleasures at his command seemed to 
 fill his heart or satisfy his reason, and every new grati' 
 fication left behind it increased bitterness and disgust. 
 
 Filled by an infinite weariness, he left his princely 
 home, and in a mean disguise went forth among men, to 
 find whether less favored mortals had attained that hap- 
 piness which had always eluded his grasp. Here in a 
 modified form he found the same spirit of discontent 
 and unrest — men laboring for years to achieve an ob- 
 ject, and disappointed with the result when they had 
 attained it. But as their desires were fewer, and their 
 opportunities of gratification less numerous, they al- 
 ways imagined that happiness lay in the pleasures that 
 they had not vet tasted ; and, though all their past joys 
 had been more delightful in the expectation than in the 
 reality, they were convinced that the gratification of 
 their present desire would make them supremely happy. 
 They were happier than the prince, because he had ex- 
 hausted every joy, and knew the hoUowness of all; 
 whereas they had something to hope for, and believed 
 that their latest desire would secure them what every 
 preceding one had failed to do. 
 
 In our disappointed and unreasonable moments it 
 would be well to remember the Abyssinian prince, and 
 the lesson of his experience. 
 
 Even he might have secured, if not perfect happiness, 
 at least a reasonable measure of contentment if he had 
 adopted the right method. 
 
 All true happiness, according to the Christian idea, 
 is founded on peace of conscience. Do not make the 
 mistake of supposing that anything else in this world 
 can render you really happy. As we have seen, it is not 
 in the power of wealth, fame or honors to confer this 
 priceless blessing. All these may indeed afford a mo- 
 mentary intoxication, but this soon passes away and 
 leaves an after-sense of bitterness too deep for utterance. 
 
 The pleasures of this world, like the fruit of the Dead 
 Sea, wear an attractive appearance; but, like it also, 
 they are wormwood to the taste and ashes to the touch. 
 
 Duty, faithfully performed, is the only real way to 
 happiness. No matter how mean or small or trivial 
 the work may be, if it can only be classed under the 
 
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 sacred head of duty, its conscientious discharge conveys 
 a deep and abiding happiness; the most delightful emo- 
 tion, and the most satisfying we shall ever experience 
 in this world. It is better to perform well one's par- 
 ticular duty than it would be to achieve the grandest 
 and most heroic action recorded in the world's history. 
 There is no nobler word known to human speech than 
 duty; there is no nobler spectacle in human life than 
 its performance. 
 
 We shut our eyes to the beginnings of evil because 
 they are small, and in this weakness is contained the 
 germ of our defeat; how different they who gain the 
 strength of the temptation they resist. 
 
 Everything contributes to try you, but God who loves 
 you, will not permit you to be tempted beyond your 
 strength. He will make use of the temptation for your 
 advancement. — Fenelon, 
 
 It is the little pleasures which make life sweet, as the 
 little displeasures may do more than afflictions can to 
 make it bftter. — N. A. Tincker. 
 
 There is somehmg better for us in the world than 
 happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of 
 this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand 
 fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness 
 of the future which it brings; but we will not place 
 happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, 
 and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest 
 soils grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and 
 strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks. — 
 J. G. Holland. 
 
 Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an im- 
 pregnable fortress. — Epictetus. 
 
 The happiness of man lies in pursuing, not possessing. Y 
 — Longfellow. 
 
 Talk happiness; the world is sad enough without your 
 woes. 
 
 Go from world to world, from kingdom to kingdom, 
 from riches to riches, from pleasure to pleasure, — you 
 will never find happiness. The whole earth can no 
 more satisfy an immortal soul, than a pinch of meal 
 can satiate a famished man. 
 
 You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying 
 over your head; but you can prevent them from build- 
 ing their nests there. 
 
 To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's 
 breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Sheri- 
 dan. 
 
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The Way to Happiness. 
 
 We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts 
 down the tree in order to reach its fruits. But the fact 
 is that a blunder of this description is made by every 
 person who is over-eager and impatient in the pursuit 
 of pleasure. 
 
 Surely, if we want to be happy in this world of per- 
 plexities, and of visions too, the only way is to be self- 
 less; our lives then unconsciously express themselves in 
 big and little noble deeds through our selflessness. 
 
 Happiness is a state of mind — more active than con- 
 tentment, less pronounced and more abiding than joy- 
 fulness; whose principal and permanent source is in a 
 temperament disposed to make the best of what is; 
 whose immediate occasion is in a consciousness which, 
 pleased with the present, is without acute regret or un- 
 due apprehension. 
 
 Happiness is a matter of choice rather than of chance. 
 There is sunshine if you will take it, and shade if you 
 prefer it. But we have noticed that when lives are 
 spent in the shadow, the flowers of love and sympathy 
 open reluctantly, and the fruits ripen imperfectly. With 
 a sunshiny world to choose from, it is a pity that we 
 should dwarf and destroy the possibilities of our na- 
 tures by spending our days in shadow. 
 
 If you do not think much of your small trials, you 
 will talk little of them, and so your friends will be 
 spared a trouble as well as yourself. 
 
 Next to making complaints there is nothing so un- 
 profitable as listening to them. Learn to forget. For- 
 get the slights, errors in taste, gossip and scandals you 
 see or hear. Forget to remember the wrongs you have 
 had to meet, as soon as you have done your best to 
 straighten them out. Forget worries, small and great. 
 They only wear out heart and brain. Forget humilia- 
 tions, cares and trials. Let your mind and heart be 
 filled with the goodness and Justice and beauty that are 
 in the world. Do not be like the soldier who has fought 
 one hard battle, and who spends the rest of his life 
 thinking and telling about it. 
 
 Temptations are the crises which tempt the strength 
 of one's character. Whether we stand or fall at these 
 crises depends largely on what we are before the testing 
 comes. 
 
 We should blush with shame to show so much resent- 
 ment for what is done or said against us; knowing that 
 so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our 
 Redeemer and the Saints. — St. Teresa, 
 
The Way to Happiness, 
 
 False happiness renders men stern and proud, and 
 that happiness is never communicated. True happiness 
 renders them kind and sensible, and that is always 
 shared. 
 
 The true way to conquer temptations is not to fight 
 them in detail, but to go up into a loftier region, where 
 they cease to be temptations. How is it that men do 
 not long for the sweetmeats that used to tempt them 
 when they were children? They have outgrown them. 
 Then outgrow the temptations of the world ! How is it 
 that there are no mosquitoes or malaria on the moun- 
 tain tops? They cannot rise above the level of the 
 swamps by the river. Go up to the mountain top and 
 neither malaria nor mosquitoes will follow you — which 
 being interpreted is, go to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 
 the tabernacle, there ask Him to keep your hearts and 
 minds occupied with Him, and you will dwell in a re- 
 gion of bliss high above the temptations that buzz and 
 sting, infest and slay, on the lower levels. 
 
 Shun pleasure. Its price is pain and it makes one 
 an exile from high thoughts and noble deeds. — Bt. Rev. 
 J. L. Spalding. 
 
 He alone is happy who drinks from a fountain of joy 
 that wells within his own bosom. — Ibid. 
 
 That submission to one's lot means that one should 
 sit helplessly before sorrow and disappointment while 
 weeks and months pass by, is a terrible misajiprehension. 
 Life should be growth. These trials come to us that 
 we may conquer them, wrest power from them. To 
 yield faint-heartedly is surely ignoble, for there is no 
 life so barren, or hard, or sorrowful, that it does not 
 hold some door to wider living, if we will but seek it. 
 
 Is it loneliness that closes about us and shuts joy 
 from our days? Have we tried honestly and patiently 
 to touch other lonely lives? Is it because we have no 
 time for study that life seems so hard and barren? A 
 friend of working girls advised them to learn a poem as 
 they went to and from their work instead of simply 
 reading street car advertisements. A verse, a line of 
 poetry, a single noble thought every day — who of us 
 could not make time for this, if we would? And how 
 rich a harvest one short year would give us ! Is it pov- 
 erty that is eating the gladness from our days? It is 
 hard : but there are things within our reach that no gold 
 could purchase us — friendship, the power of an upright 
 life, the joy of earth and sky. Dare we, with all we 
 have within reach, bemoan our poverty? — Frank H. 
 Sweet, in Home and Flowers. 
 
The Way to Happiness, 
 
 Happiness does not consist in the indulgence of the 
 senses, but in the calm of a pure conscience and without 
 reproach. In order to be happy, it is then necessary to 
 have this thought always, that virtue even with its sac- 
 rifices is a source of felicitv, whilst vice, even with its 
 charms, does not lead to happiness. — St. Ambrose. 
 
 If each did a little towards increasing human happi- 
 ness, the world would be far better than it is, for Mercy 
 blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 
 
 There are things that the poor prize more highly 
 than gold, though they cost the donor nothing; among 
 these are, the kind word, the gentle compassionate look, 
 and the patient hearing of their sorrows. Each one can 
 do much to alleviate misery and increase happiness. 
 
 The Man Worth While. 
 
 ^Tis easy enough to be pleasant 
 When life flows along like a song, 
 
 But the man worth while 
 
 Is the one who will smile 
 When everything goes dead wrong. 
 
 For the test of the heart is trouble, 
 And it always comes with the years, 
 
 And the smile that is worth 
 
 The praise of the earth 
 Is the smile that comes through tears. 
 
 It is easy enough to be prudent 
 When nothing tempts you to stray, 
 
 When without or within 
 
 No voice of sin 
 Is luring your soul away. 
 
 But it^s only a negative virtue 
 Until it is tried by fire. 
 
 And the life that is worth 
 
 The honor of earth 
 Is the one that resists desire. 
 
 By the cynic, the sad, the fallen. 
 Who had no strength for the strife, 
 
 The world's highway 
 
 Is cumbered to-day; 
 They make up the item of life. 
 
 But the virtue that conquers passion, 
 And the sorrow that hides in a smile — 
 
 It is these that are worth 
 
 The honor of earth, 
 For we find them but once in a while. 
 
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CHAPTEK X. 
 Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 How poor are they that have not patience ! 
 What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever 
 procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires, 
 makes a wise and happy purchase. — Balguy. 
 
 Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness. — Carlyle, 
 
 The joy that comes in sorrow's guise, 
 The sweet pains of self-sacrifice, 
 I would not have them otherwise. 
 
 — Whittier. 
 
 Each man can learn something from his neighbor; 
 at least he can learn this — ^to have patience with his 
 neighbor, to live and let live. — C. Kingsley. 
 
 If a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, 
 he may have his remedy by cutting them shorter. — A. 
 Cowley. 
 
 The best thing to take people out of their own wor- 
 ries is to go to work and find out how other folks' wor- 
 ries are getting on. — Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. 
 
 It is easy not to steal and not to lie, but it is not easv 
 to keep from losing patience, and getting envious, and 
 wanting to have our own way. — A. H. R. 
 
 Patience? Why, 'tis the soul of peace; of all the vir- 
 tues 'tis the nearest kin to Heaven. — DehJcer. 
 
 Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were 
 plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his 
 plate is no more than earthenware. — Seneca. 
 
 Humility is eldest-born of Virtue, 
 And claims the birthright at the throne of heaven. 
 
 — Murphy's Zoheide. 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it 
 leads to self-improvement. Study your own characters ; 
 endeavor to learn and supply your own deficiencies; 
 never assume to yourelves qualities which you do not 
 possess; combine all this with energy and activity. — 
 Brodie. 
 
 True resignation, which always brings with it the 
 confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even 
 the disappointment of our hopes and the contradictions 
 of life conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tran- 
 quil light over the prospects of even a toilsome and 
 troubled life. — Humboldt. 
 
 Whatever real merit you have leave for others to dis- 
 cover, for people magnify their own discoveries and be- 
 little those of others. 
 
 Never be discouraged because good things go on so 
 slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which 
 lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be 
 diligent. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. 
 Be charitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; 
 why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? 
 Let Patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her 
 celestial fruits. Trust to God to weave your little 
 thread into a web, though the patterns show it not yet. 
 
 Nothing is worthy of contempt merely because it is 
 weak. 
 
 Calmness in the thought indicates the strength of the 
 intellect. — Maurice de Gu&rin. 
 
 Be patient and wait; 
 
 In every strait 
 
 God's mercy is certain, and never too late. 
 
 Forget not in fear 
 
 That One lingers near. 
 
 To help and protect you — 
 
 Be patient and wait. 
 
 The saddest birds a season find to sing; 
 
 The roughest storm a calm may soon allay. 
 
 — Southwell. 
 A wild intoxication of self-sacrifice, contempt for 
 death, the thirst for eternity, the delirium of love— - 
 these are what the unalterable gentleness of the Cruci- 
 fied has had power to bring forth. By His pardon of 
 His executioners, and by that unconquerable sense in 
 Him of an indissoluble union with God, Jesus, on His 
 Cross, kindled an inextinguishable fire and revolution- 
 ized the world. He proclaimed and realized salvation 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 by faith in the infinite mercy, and in the pardon granted 
 to simple repentance. By His saying "There is more 
 joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over 
 ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance/' 
 He made humility the gate of entrance into Paradise. — 
 Henri Fredrijc Amiel. 
 
 It sometimes happens that a sweet and gentle person 
 comes to the evening of life unembittered by experience, 
 however afflicting that experience may have been, and 
 able to contemplate the Past with serenity, the Present 
 with tolerance if not with sympathy, and the Future 
 with resignation and patient hope. 
 
 It is a blessed secret, this of living by the day. Any- 
 one can carry his burden, however heavy, till nightfall. 
 Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. 
 Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely till 
 the sun goes down. And this is all that life ever really 
 means to us — just one little day. Do to-day's duty; 
 fight to-day's temptations, and do not weaken and dis- 
 tract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot 
 see, and could not understand if you saw them. God 
 gives us nights to shut down the curtain of darkness on 
 our little days. We cannot see beyond. Short horizons 
 make life easier, and give us one of the blessed secrets 
 of brave, true, holy living. 
 
 Death did not first strike Adam, the first rebel; nor 
 Cain, the first hypocrite and murderer; but Abel, the 
 innocent and righteous. Death argues not displeasure, 
 because he whom God loved best died first and the mur- 
 derer was punished with living. — Hall. 
 
 Sense shines with a double luster when set in humil- 
 ity. — Penn. 
 
 All things find rest after their journey's end. — 
 Michael Angelo. 
 
 Silence is the safest response for all the contradic- 
 tions that rise from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. 
 
 Whatever manner of death may take us from earth, 
 let us make sure of God's mercy, which alone can save 
 us in the hour of dissolution, whether forese^i or unex- 
 pected. 
 
 Gentleness is the part of the virtue of fortitude by 
 which we exercise self-restraint when under serious prov- 
 ocation to anger. It requires patience and forbearance. 
 It should not be considered timidity or weakness. The 
 gentle man avoids offending others; but none braver 
 than he in keeping others from offending God. 
 
 Sorrows may crush you if you let them fall on you 
 wrongly, but if you bend a little they fall on the earth 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 and pack the soil more firmly about your roots, give you 
 a better hold on earth and a firmer grip toward heaven. 
 If a branch is lopped off perhaps it will help you grow 
 more symmetrical. Pruning and thinning of fruit 
 makes the rest of the yield larger and more luscious. — 
 Fr. SmuU&rs, C. S. 8. R. 
 
 A truly patient man bears, with the same evenness of 
 temper, ignominious trials and those which are honora- 
 ble. As the sting of bees is more painful than that of 
 flies, so the contradictions we experience at the hands 
 of good people are more trying than those which come 
 from the wicked. — St. Francis de Sales. 
 
 It is wanting in humility to wish to raise ourselves 
 to sublime things before being called to them by God 
 y and to wish to be Mary before having labored with Mar- 
 tha. — Life of St. Teresa. 
 
 No school is more necessary to children than that of 
 patience, because either the will must be broken in 
 childhood or the heart in old age. 
 
 Worry is a state of spiritual corrosion. A trouble 
 either can be remedied or it cannot. If it can be, then 
 set about it; if it cannot be, dismiss it from conscious- 
 ness, or bear it so bravely that it may become trans- 
 figured to a blessing. — Fr. Gloyd. 
 
 For the love of God remain calm and keep an unruf- 
 fled demeanor. Divine Providence permits all; receive 
 with a good grace what it sends you, and you will your- 
 self be astonished at soon finding yourself pretty happy 
 in that which is now a torture to you. Take everything 
 in good part, the words spoken to us, the things done to 
 us, all the proceedings of others that concern us. 
 
 Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punish- 
 ment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of 
 extraordinary graces. — Matthew Henry. 
 
 There are lives sown in out of the way places, and 
 carelessly passed by as weeds, whose blossoms angels 
 might stoop to wear in the whiteness of their pure 
 breasts. — Amher. 
 
 Fiat Voluntas Tua. 
 
 "Thy will be done'^ is the sum of all true worship and 
 right prayer. The rest is aside from the divine pur- 
 pose, and could it be realized would make the world a 
 chaos or a desert. We should not love the flowers if it 
 were always spring; and our purest pleasures would 
 pall did not pain and loss come to teach us their worth. 
 — Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding. 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation, 
 
 We have need of patience with ourselves and with 
 others ; for the greatest things and the least ; against 
 sudden inroads of trouble, and against our daily bur- 
 dens; in the weariness of the body, or the wearing of 
 the soul; in every-day wants; in the aching of sickness 
 or the decay of age; in disappointments, bereavements, 
 losses, injuries, reproaches; in heaviness of the heart, 
 or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these things 
 from childhood's little troubles to the great troubles 
 through life's journey, patience is the grace of God, 
 whereby we endure evil for the love of God. . . . 
 
 It is an evident sign of great humility to desire to be 
 little esteemd, to be persecuted and condemned, though 
 without cause, and moreover, to make no defense, but 
 silently bear the disgrace. — St. Teresa. 
 
 He shall be honored who despises and flies honors for 
 Jesus Christ; and whosoever shall rejoice in being de- 
 spised and humiliated will assuredly be exalted. — Ibid. 
 
 When people speak ill of you, they say what is true; 
 when they pay you compliments, they are laughing at 
 you. . . . Which is best, that you should be warned, 
 or that you should be misled? that you should be 
 treated seriously or in joke? — Cure of Ars. 
 
 If you desire a test to know if you have the life of 
 the Resurrection in you, see how you bear yourself to 
 those who bear you ill will. They are among your best 
 friends. The friends who love you and speak fair and 
 soft things to you are not friends compared with those 
 who look upon you with sharp eyes, and speak with cold 
 voices, and bear unkind hearts. They try what you are, 
 they try your patience, the spirit of your humility, 
 whether you have a crucified will, which is the sure 
 mark of the disciples of Jesus Christ. If you have 
 enemies, look to see all that is good in them, and though 
 you cannot be blind to their sin, nevertheless, in your 
 conduct towards all who are sinful, and your treatment 
 of sinners, you will be as if you were blind. You will 
 be even as our Lord is to you, although He sees every 
 sin in you, bears with you with an inimitable patience, 
 never sharpens His voice, never makes a gesture of im- 
 patience, but seeing that the flax is not yet quenched 
 and the reed not yet broken. He bears with you with a 
 divine pity; so bear with your enemies! 
 
 The men who learn endurance are those who call the 
 world brother. — Biclcens. 
 
 Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Rousseau. 
 
 Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. — Earl 
 of Beaconsfleld. 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation, 
 
 A most important means to acquire gentleness of 
 heart is the pious custom of performing all our actions 
 and uttering all our words, both on trifling and impor- 
 tant occasions, with tranquillity and without hurry. Mul- 
 tiply these little acts as often as possible during the 
 time of tranquillity, so shall you lay up in your heart a 
 store of mildness against the storm. — St. Francis de- 
 Sales. 
 
 When we step across the drawbridge of death, it is 
 no foreign land we enter, but our native home. — Stop- 
 ford A. Brooke. 
 
 Eather say we are the dead, not they; our barks are 
 still tempest tossed on the laboring sea; theirs are safe 
 within a windless haven, moored to the Rock of Ages. — 
 Fr. Woodward, C. S. P. 
 
 Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley 
 the only journeying that will cure us of age and the 
 gathering fatigue of years. — George Eliot. 
 
 Each separate death is an undisclosed secret between 
 the Creator and the creature. — Faher. 
 
 Fame is an undertaker; it pays but little attention to 
 the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their 
 funerals, and follows them to the grave. — Colton. 
 
 There are two things which ought to teach us to think 
 but meanly of human glory ; the very best have had their 
 calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists. — Colton. 
 
 God makes a threefold appeal to every soul: He asks 
 it to act, to suffer, to pray — To act courageously and 
 unselfishly, to suffer uncomplainingly, to pray perseve- 
 ringly, never disheartened if God delays to answer. 
 
 It often costs more to revenge injuries than to bear 
 them. 
 
 Of all things most ignoble is complaint. The queru- 
 lous are stricken with disease. 
 
 He who walks the path of humility has a short road 
 to heaven ; he has wings to bear him to Paradise ; he is 
 in the way of peace and perfect tranquility. — B. Henry 
 Suss. 
 
 It is the abnegation of self which has wrought out all 
 that is noble, all that is good, all that is useful, nearly 
 all that is ornamental in the world. 
 
 It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility to be 
 recognized and applauded. — St. Bernard. 
 
 Meekness is a rarer virtue than charity. It is more 
 excellent than this virtue, being the fullness of charity, 
 which is in its perfection when it is meek and beneficent. 
 Meekness is a virtue which supposes a noble soul. Those 
 who possess it are superior to all one may say of them 
 
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F ati enc e J Humility, Resignation. 
 
 or do to them. Though they may receive indignities 
 from others in word or action, they preserve their tran- 
 quality and lose not their peace of soul. We must, then, 
 have a great esteem for meekness and labor to acquire it. 
 
 Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine 
 thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying 
 his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which 
 makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the 
 greatest of all Sufferers. — James Hamilton. 
 
 At the first impulse of passion be silent until you can 
 be soft. 
 
 The hardest kind of work, and the work that in the 
 sight of God tells most, is often, perhaps always, the 
 work a man does in his own heart. It is work to learn 
 patience and self control. The faith that overcomes 
 the world is often the result of a still greater victory 
 over temptation and weakness, achieved not at one 
 stroke, but after a long and severe struggle in which 
 every step of vantage ground has been contested. 
 
 What we need most of all is to believe, and act upon 
 the belief, that God's plan for us is better than any 
 that we can make for ourselves; but that plan will de- 
 pend for its success upon our constant effort. He will 
 always furnish the means, the tools to work with, but 
 we must do the work. If we can realize this, then no 
 position will seem small, no sphere of life circumscribed ; 
 because, whatever it is, it gives us the opportunity to 
 develop the best there is in us. If through our own 
 negligence we throw away some of the best tools, then 
 we must work the harder with what remains, and be 
 sure even then that the result will be far beyqnd our 
 greatest thought. 
 
 When we have once undergone the pelting of the piti- 
 less and unpitied storm of adversity, and when few 
 sympathized with us, we felt these were indeed days of 
 anguish, and when they have once come upon us with 
 their appalling weight, we can never be beguiled into 
 a forgetfulness of them; the memory of them will en- 
 dure as long as life shall last. 
 
 In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man 
 As modest stillness and humility. 
 
 — Shakespeare. 
 
 Good men and women are often tempted to speak or 
 write hard things of their neighbors. Those who have 
 grace enough will steadily resist this temptation, but 
 the worldly will often yield to it unless restrained by 
 
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 policy. When a Christian has been wronged, he 
 should remember the counsel of St. James, "Be swift 
 to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.'' If at any time 
 one should, in a sudden fit of passion, write a scathing 
 letter, he should not mail it at once, but keep it two or 
 three days. It will be well to withhold it until after 
 Sunday. Perhaps after the hallowed influences of 
 the holy day have come upon him he will not send the 
 letter. Many a letter as been written under a spell of 
 wrath and sent in haste which would never have gone 
 if the author had delayed for a day. His wrath would 
 have cooled, his judgment would have had time to act, 
 his conscience would have been heard from, his memory 
 would have called up the wholesome counsels of the 
 word of God. He would have spared himself and 
 others much pain and trouble. 
 
 He that despairs, measures Providence by his own 
 little contracted model. — Smith. 
 
 Despair is like froward children, who, when you take 
 away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the 
 fire for madness. — Charron. 
 
 This is a world full of trouble, full of disappoint- 
 ment, as we all know ; but there is, after all, no folly so 
 great as that of ceasing to invite the smiles of Hope, 
 not only because her smiles are so sweet, but also be- 
 cause while we live, there must always be some good, as 
 well as some sorrow, awaiting us. 
 
 We can no more stand still in life than we can turn 
 back. When we have no desire to go on, invisible 
 forces are at work to compel us to do so. There are 
 things we must do; people we must meet; events that 
 will accrue to us. We cannot believe that the deeds 
 will all be such as we m.ust regret, the events all sor- 
 rowful ones, the new acquaintances all enemies. 
 
 And since we may do good, and have good done to 
 us — since true hearts may meet ours, though we to-day 
 do not so much as know that they beat, what may we not 
 hope? 
 
 Your home may be cold and dark, but it is not be- 
 cause the sun does not shine. It only needs a hand to 
 open the door, and put aside the curtain, to let in 
 warmth and light. So, any moment the shut doors of 
 your life may open, and earth's sunshine fall across your 
 heart. Wait and hope; it may be only that the angel 
 whose mission it is to do this deed tarries for a little 
 on the road. 
 
 Patience and humility in adversity are more pleasing 
 to God than much comfort and devotion in prosperity. 
 
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 To endure misfortune is greater than to die. — Caesar. 
 
 There is no greater mystery than death, except life — 
 no nobler and more inspiring theme than the immortal 
 part of man. 
 
 From the dawn of creation to the present time, the 
 never ending caravan of mankind has sought the con- 
 fines of the mysterious land, whose gates swing ever in- 
 ward. 
 
 Amongst all nations and peoples, civilized and sav- 
 age, the constant and ever recurring aspiration of the 
 heart has been to know of the future life. All the 
 learning of the world that has preceded us, based on the 
 "cold confidence of reason," has left the heart of man 
 still yearning and unsatisfied — still struggling with an 
 unsolved problem. But since faith and revelation have 
 solved the mystery which the most instructed minds 
 could not penetrate — the Christian lives and dies in the 
 belief — confident and abiding — that the grave is not the 
 end of man. Where then is the sting of death, where 
 the victory of the grave? 
 
 There are two ways of getting through this world. 
 One way is to make the best of it, and the other is to 
 make the worst of it. Those who take the latter course 
 work hard for poor pay. 
 
 Let your soul never be disturbed; ignore what worry 
 is. If an affair does not succeed as well as you ex- 
 pected, you must rejoice before God at everything that 
 He is pleased to do. The things that appear most im- 
 portant to nature are only trifles in the estimation of a 
 Christian, because nothing has any importance for him 
 except what God wishes. Trouble and worry are for 
 hell ; the children of God ought not to know them. Work 
 in all peace and tranquillity; do your utmost according 
 to the nature of the things by which you are surrounded, 
 and to the circumstances in which you find yourselves ; 
 leave the rest to the care of God's Providence. If He 
 is pleased to crown your labors with success, rejoice be- 
 fore Him and give Him most humble thanks ; if, on 
 the other hand, everything goes wrong, bless Him still 
 with your whole soul. A Christian who acts thus always 
 passes his life in peace, in joy and happiness. At the 
 end of this miserable life, which is of little account, 
 there will come a happiness of which I shall not under- 
 take to speak to you for fear of not doing so worthily. — 
 Ven. Fr. Lihermann. 
 
 We must bear, as St. Augustine says, the burden of 
 the daily confusion of our sins. We must feel our 
 weakness, our misery, our powerlessness to correct our- 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 selves. We must bear with ourselves without flattering 
 ourselves and without neglecting to labor for our cor- 
 rection. And whilst waiting for God to please to de- 
 liver us from ourselves, we must be undeceived about 
 ourselves. Let us suffer ourselves to be humbled under 
 His powerful hand; let us make ourselves pliable and 
 ready for His guidance, by yielding as soon as we feel 
 any resistance of our will. — Fenelon. 
 
 The most helpful and sacred work which can at 
 present be done for humanity is to teach people (chief- 
 ly by example, as all best teaching must be done) not 
 how to "better themselves," but how to "satisfy them- 
 selves." It is the curse of every evil nature and evil 
 creature to eat and not be satisfied. 
 
 Silence makes us great-hearted and judging makes 
 us little-minded. — Faber. 
 
 Ah, yes, I know that "I must go," 
 Into the waiting grave below. 
 
 Into the lone cold grave we fear; 
 And tho' I feel that those who'll kneel 
 Beside my grave in mute appeal 
 
 Will weep in grief sincere : — 
 ^Tis hard to sink below the brink. 
 Severing every sacred link 
 
 That binds affection here. 
 
 Oh! may I die as wafts a sigh 
 
 From heart that throbs its mute "good-by" 
 
 To all it holds most dear: 
 Eesigned to God's just, holy will, 
 And may His peace my spirit fill, 
 And my glad soul with love athrill 
 
 Mount to the Eternal Sphere. 
 
 —F. de C. M. 
 
 There is seldom a line of glory written upon the 
 earth's face but a line of suffering runs parallel with 
 it. They that read the lustrous syllables of the one and 
 stoop not to decipher the other, get the least half of the 
 lesson the earth has to give. — Faber. 
 
 If thou desirest peace in this life, keep thy secrets 
 undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning 
 from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hith- 
 erto hidden beauties, when in full bloom gives its leaves 
 and its fragrance to the winds. — Persian. 
 
 Happy is he who does not speak in hope of praise, 
 who is not always ready to divulge his secrets, who is 
 
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 not eager to speak, but who reflects prudently on what 
 he should say, and on the manner in which he should 
 say it. — St. Francis. 
 
 If we would follow our Lord and Saviour, we must 
 die entirely to ourselves ; for it is by self-denial and bear- 
 ing sufferings patiently that we shall attain eternal 
 happiness. — St. Angela of Merci. 
 
 He Is Not Unworthy. 
 If one has failed to reach the end he sought, 
 If out of effort no great good is wrought, 
 It is not failure, if the object be 
 The betterment of man; for all that he 
 Has done and suffered is but gain 
 To those who follow seeking to attain 
 The end he sought. His efforts they 
 Will find are guide posts on the way 
 To that accomplishment which he, 
 For some wise purpose, could not be 
 The factor in. There is a need 
 Of unsuccessful effort; ^tis the seed 
 Whose mission is to lie beneath 
 The soil that grows the laurel wreath, 
 And he is not unworthy who 
 Falls struggling manfully to do 
 What must be done, in dire distress. 
 That others may obtain success. 
 
 — William J. Lampton. 
 
 Let our old age be childlike, and our childhood like 
 old age; that we may be wise without being proud, 
 and humble without being ignorant. — St. Augustine. 
 
 The men who rejoice in their celebrity are simple- 
 tons; the men who are proud of their genius are fools. 
 — Dumas. 
 
 'Not to heed calumny is the only way to triumph over 
 it. — Madame de Maintenon. 
 
 Every man who worries about the morrow is sure to 
 be miserable. — Seneca. 
 
 The pleasure of dying without anguish is much bet- 
 ter than the pain of living without pleasure. 
 
 However dark our lot may be, there is light enough 
 on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean 
 where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of the 
 world; light enough to clear every ditficult question, re- 
 move every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic 
 suspicion; silence every hard judgment, light enough 
 to satisfy, nay to ravish the mind forever. — Horace 
 Bushnell. 
 
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P ail enc 6 , Humility, Resignation, 
 
 Only a few more years ! 
 Weary years ! 
 Only a few more tears ! 
 Bitter tears! 
 And then — and then — like other men, 
 I cease to wander, cease to weep ; 
 Dim shadows o'er my way shall creep ; 
 And out of the day and into the night, 
 Into the dark and out of the bright 
 I go, and death shall veil my face. 
 
 — Father Ryan — Reverie. 
 We may die at any moment, and when we die, we 
 die as we are. — Faher. 
 
 Speak gently; 'tis a little thing 
 
 Dropped in the heart's deep well. 
 The good, the joy, that it may bring 
 Eternity shall tell. — Langford. 
 Be not quickly angry ; for anger resteth in the bosom 
 of fools. — Eccles. vii. 
 
 To be thought ill of, worse than we deserve, to have 
 hard speeches said, cold looks displayed, by those who 
 should have cheered us when we swerve, is one of 
 Heaven's best lots, and may be made a treasure ere we 
 know it. — Faber. 
 
 The world will never adjust itself 
 
 To suit your whims to the letter ; 
 Some things go wrong your whole life long 
 
 And the sooner you know it the better. 
 
 True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as 
 the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. — Dickens. 
 
 Leave your place in the world for ten minutes, and 
 when you come back somebody else has taken it, but 
 when you leave the world for good, who remembers that 
 3'OU had ever a place even in the parish register? — 
 Buliver. 
 
 They also serve who only stand and wait. — Milton. 
 
 Let nothing sadden or dishearten thee; but in the 
 midst of things that are forever passing away, live in 
 worlds which can never pass away. — Rt. Rev. J. L. 
 Spalding. 
 
 Though all I have and striven for be cast aside as 
 having no worth, yet am. I certain that failure, not less 
 than success, serves God's purpose, if we but have good 
 will. — Ibid. 
 
 There is no road too long to the man who advances 
 deliberately and without undue haste; there are no 
 
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Patience, H umility , Resignation, 
 
 honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for 
 them with patience. — Bruyere. 
 
 There is a general feeling that life is dull and sleepy 
 because it is not made up of things calculated to excite 
 wonder and applause. The things which give life its 
 roundness and completeness are the things that often 
 pass unnoticed. When the representatives of God tell 
 men that God estimates their character, not by occa- 
 sional striking events in their lives, but rather by the 
 simple, obscure duties well performed, they turn away, if 
 not in anger, at least in disappointment. They can 
 understand how God can contemplate with delight that 
 gloriousness of martyrdom, but they cannot understand 
 how He can be interested in the simple, unobtrusive 
 things of life. Why does God place so high an estimate 
 on little things? It is because the lives of most of us 
 are made up of little things. As we go on, year after 
 year, we do not do anything calculated to attract the 
 attention of others, but after twenty years have passed 
 what an amazing amount of work has been done! — a 
 character good or bad has been built. — Rev. A. Rear- 
 don. 
 
 We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather 
 picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death 
 as the ending; let us rather think of life as beginning 
 and that more abundantly. We think of losing it; let 
 us think of gaining. We think of parting ; let us think 
 of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of 
 arriving. As the voice of death whispers, "You must 
 go from earth,^^ let us hear the voice of Christ saying, 
 "You are but coming to me." 
 
 In the calm and sweetness of a good conscience the 
 trials of life become light; for the virtue of patience 
 renders their burden easy. 
 
 The lesson of our daily lives should be always to be 
 faithful to conscience in all things, no matter how 
 small and trivial they may be. Then peace and happi- 
 ness will make their dwelling place within us, a boon 
 which surpasses the possession of every other earthly 
 good. 
 
 How wonderful God's ways are! With a star He 
 guides the wise men, who seek the new-born King. So 
 it is. Let us seek Him with sincerity and He will guide 
 us safely on. What though the journey may be weary 
 and toilsome, we will, at length, reach the end, and oh ! 
 what happiness awaits. Why should we grieve on the 
 way ? We, who can look forward to a meeting so full of 
 bliss — ^to a country overflowing with delights beyond 
 
Patience, Humility, Resignation. 
 
 the human mind to conceive — to a love, far beyond that 
 which the fondest heart can bestow on us. Courage 
 then. Do not mind those sorrows we meet on the way. 
 Do we not leave them on the road after us, and receive, 
 in exchange, eternal joys? 
 
 In this world it is in vain to expect a complete full- 
 iillment of our wishes. 
 
 People are never so fortunate, or so unfortunate, as 
 they suppose themselves to be. — Rochefoucauld. 
 
 Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal he Proud? 
 
 [The following poem was a particular favorite with Abraham 
 Lincoln. It was first shown to him when a young man, by a friend, 
 and afterwards he cut it from a newspaper and learned it by heart, 
 He said to a friend, "I would give a great deal to know who wrote 
 it, but I have never been able to ascertain." He was told in 1864.] 
 
 Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
 Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
 A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
 Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. 
 
 The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade. 
 
 Be scattered around and together be laid ; 
 
 And the young and the old, and the low and the high; 
 
 Shall molder to dust and together shall lie. 
 
 The infant a mother attended and loved. 
 The mother that infant's affection who proved; 
 The husband that mother and infant who blessed. 
 Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest. 
 
 The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye^ 
 Shone beauty and pleasure, — her triumphs are by; 
 And the memory of those who loved her and praised 
 Are alike from the minds of the living erased. 
 
 The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, 
 The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn. 
 The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave. 
 Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. 
 
 The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap. 
 The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep; 
 The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, 
 Have faded away like the grass that we tread. 
 
 The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, 
 The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, 
 The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just. 
 Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. 
 
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Patience, Humility, Resignation, 
 
 So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed 
 That wither away to let others succeed; 
 So the multitude comes, even those we behold, 
 To repeat every tale that has often been told. 
 
 For we are the same that our fathers have been ; 
 We see the same sights that our fathers have seen, — 
 We drink the same stream and view the same sun, 
 And run the same course that our fathers have run. 
 
 The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think; 
 From the death we are shrinking from, they too would 
 
 shrink, 
 To the life we are clinging to, they too would cling; 
 But it speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. 
 
 They loved, but their story we cannot unfold; 
 They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; 
 They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will 
 
 come ; 
 They joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb. 
 
 They died — ay ! they died ; and we things that are now, 
 Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow, 
 Who make in their dwelling a transient abode, 
 Meet the changes they met on their pilgrimage road. 
 
 Yea ! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, 
 Are mingled together in sunshine and rain ; 
 And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge. 
 Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 
 
 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath. 
 From the blossom of health to the paleness of death. 
 From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud, 
 Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? 
 
 — William Knox. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 Patriotism. 
 
 \Vheii a deed is done for freedom, through the broad 
 
 earth^s aching breast, 
 Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from East 
 
 to West. 
 
 For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears 
 
 along 
 Round the earth's electric circle the swift flash of right 
 
 or wrong; 
 Whether conscious or unconscious, yet humanity's vast 
 
 frame. 
 Through its ocean-sundered fibers, feels the gush of joy 
 
 or shame; 
 In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal 
 
 claim. ■ — Lowell. 
 
 The measure of a man's life is the well spending of 
 it, and not the length. — Plutarch. 
 
 Rise ! for the day is passing, 
 
 And you lie dreaming on; 
 The others have buckled their armor, 
 
 And forth to the fight are gone. 
 A place in the ranks awaits you, 
 
 Each man has some part to play; 
 The Past and the Future are nothing, 
 In the face of the stern To-day. 
 
 — Procter. 
 After what I owe to God, nothing should be more 
 dear or more sacred than the love and respect I owe 
 to my country. — De Thou. 
 Then up with our flag ! Let it stream on the air ; 
 
 Though our fathers are cold in their graves. 
 They had hands that could strike, they had souls that 
 could dare, 
 And their sons were not born to be slaves. 
 Up, up with that banner ! where'er it may call. 
 
 Our millions shall rally around. 
 And a nation of freemen that moment shall fall 
 When its stars shall be trailed on the ground. 
 
 — George Washington Cutter. 
 
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Patriotism. 
 
 The men to make a state must be brave men. I 
 mean the men that walk with open face and unpro- 
 tected breast. I mean the men that do, but do not talk. 
 I mean the men that dare to stand alone. I mean the 
 men that are to-day where they were yesterday, and will 
 be there to-morrow. I mean the men that can stand 
 still and take the storm. — George Washington Doane. 
 
 The highest duty that ever comes to a man is not to 
 do a deed of prowess or win a material victory, but to 
 endure, suffer and die for truth and freedom. — John 
 Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
 Of all human things, nothing is more honorable or 
 more excellent than to deserve well of one's country. — 
 Cicero. 
 
 The highest honor that a man can bear in life, in 
 death, is the scar of a chain borne in a good cause. — 
 John Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
 Free people, remember this maxim: We may ac- 
 quire liberty, but it is never recovered if once lost. — 
 Rousseau. 
 
 We cannot honor our country with too deep a rev- 
 erence; we cannot love her with an affection too pure 
 and fervent ; we cannot serve her with an energy of pur- 
 pose or a faithfulness of zeal too steadfast and ardent. 
 — Gnmhe. 
 
 Lives of great men all remind us 
 
 We can make our lives sublime, 
 And, departing, leave behind us 
 Footprints on the sands of time ; 
 
 Footprints that perhaps another, 
 
 Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
 A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, 
 Seeing, shall take heart again. 
 
 — Longfellow. 
 Behold, its streaming rays unite, 
 One mingling flood of braided light ; 
 The red that fires the southern rose. 
 With spotless white from northern snows, 
 And, spangled o'er its azure, see 
 The sister stars of liberty. 
 
 Then hail the Banner of the Free, 
 The starry flower of Libertv ! 
 
 —0. W. Holmes. 
 Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where 
 liberty is, there slavery cannot be. — Abraham Lincoln. 
 Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor 
 morality without faith. — Horace Greeley. 
 
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Patriotism. 
 
 America, to thee 
 
 We pledge our loyalty. 
 
 Mind, heart and hand; 
 Thy laws be wisely made 
 And faithfully obeyed, 
 Thy honor ne^er betrayed — 
 God, keep our land. 
 
 — Thomas Moore. 
 Firm as the firmest, where duty led. 
 
 He hurried without a falter. 
 Bold as the boldest he fought and bled, 
 And the day was won — but the field was red — 
 And the blood of his fresh young heart was shed 
 On his country's hallowed altar. 
 
 — Father Ryan in "Memory of His Brother/' 
 "Patriotism,'' said Mgr. Turinaz, Bishop of Na jes, 
 at the late national requiem for the soldiers who had 
 died in the service of France, "is the love of family 
 enlarged and translated ; it is love of the soil which our 
 infant steps first trod and upon which we first drew 
 light and breath. Patriotism preserves and defends 
 the heritage of labors and conquests transmitted to us 
 by our forefathers. Patriotism is a holy thing inspired 
 by God. The man-God experienced its throbs when He 
 wept over His own blind and ungrateful country. In 
 forming Christian countries He has imbued it with a 
 glory and a prestige which paganism knew not." 
 
 Loyalty is the highest, noblest and most generous of 
 human virtues. — Brownson. 
 
 To God, thy country and thy friend be true. — 
 Vaughn. 
 
 The love of liberty with life is given, 
 And life itself the inferior gift of heaven. 
 
 — Dryden. 
 There is no qualification for government but virtus 
 and wisdom, actual or presumptive. — Edmund Burke. 
 
 0, say, can you see by the dawn's early light. 
 
 What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last 
 gleaming ; 
 Whose stripes and bright stars through the perilous 
 
 fight, 
 
 O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly 
 
 streaming. 
 And the rockets' red glare, and the bombs bursting in 
 
 air, 
 Gave proof through the night that our flag was still 
 
 there. 
 
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Patriotism. 
 
 Oj say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ? 
 
 Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand 
 
 Between their loved home, and the war's desolation; 
 Blest with vicfry and peace, may the Heaven rescued 
 land 
 Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us 
 a nation; 
 And this be our motto, "In God is our trust." 
 
 And conquer we must when our cause it is just, 
 And the Star- Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 
 
 — Francis Scott Key. 
 
 If we are true to our country in our day and genera- 
 tion, and those who come after us shall be true to it 
 also, assuredly we shall elevate her to a pitch of pros- 
 perity and happiness, of honor and power never yet 
 reached by any nation beneath the sun. — Daniel Web- 
 ster. 
 
 Flag of the heroes who left us their glory, 
 
 Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame ! 
 Blazoned in song and illumined in story, 
 Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame ! 
 Up with our banner bright ! 
 Sprinkled with starry light, 
 Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore ! 
 While through the sounding sky 
 Loud rings the Nation's cry — 
 Union and Liberty ! One evermore ! 
 
 — Holmes. 
 Sail on, Ship of State! 
 Sail on, Union, strong and great ! 
 Humanity, with all its fears, 
 With all its hopes of future years, 
 Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 
 
 ^ 9p SfC •!« ^ 9|C 9p 
 
 Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! 
 Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee; 
 
 Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. 
 
 Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. 
 Are all with thee, — are all with thee ! 
 
 — H. W. Longfellow. 
 
 Let our object be our country, our whole country, 
 and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of 
 God, may that country itself become a vast and splen- 
 did monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wis- 
 
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 m. 
 
 dom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the worh 
 may gaze with admiration foveYei.— Daniel Webster, 
 Take that Banner down ! 'tis tattered ; 
 
 Broken is its staff and shattered; 
 And the valiant hosts are scattered 
 
 Over whom it floated high. 
 Oh ! 'tis hard for us to fold it; 
 
 Hard to think there's none to hold it; 
 Hard that those who once unrolled it 
 Now must furl it with a sigh. 
 
 — Father Ryan, in a "Conquered Banner/* 
 
 Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! 
 
 Treat it gently— it is holy— 
 For it droops above the dead. 
 
 Touch it not — unfold it never. 
 Let it droop there, furled forever. 
 For its people's hopes are dead ! 
 
 —Ibid 
 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power 
 
 And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave 
 Await alike the inevitable hour: — 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
 — Gray. Elegy in a Country Churchyard 
 
 Theirs not to make reply. 
 Theirs not to reason why. 
 Theirs but to do and die. 
 — Tennyson. Charge of the Light Brigade 
 
 When Freedom, from her mountain height, 
 
 Unfurled her standard to the air. 
 She tore the azure robe of night. 
 
 And set the stars of glory there ! 
 
 She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
 
 The milky baldric of the skies, 
 And striped Its pure celestial white 
 
 With streakings of the morning light; 
 Then, from his mansion in the sun. 
 
 She called her eagle-bearer down. 
 And gave into his mighty hand 
 
 The symbol of her chosen land. 
 
 — Joseph Rodman Drake. 
 
 Flag of the free hearths hope and home, 
 
 ■ By angel hands to valor given ! 
 Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 
 And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
 
 leo 
 
P at r i t i s m. 
 
 Forever float that standard sheet ! 
 
 Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
 With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
 
 And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 
 
 —Ibid, 
 
 Breathes there a man with soul so dead 
 Who never to himself has said, 
 
 "This is my own, my native land!" 
 Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, 
 As home his footsteps he hath turned 
 
 From wandering in a foreign strand ? 
 
 If such there be, go mark him well ; 
 For him no minstrel raptures swell ; 
 High though his titles, proud his name. 
 Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; 
 Despite those titles, power, and pelf. 
 The wretch concentered all in self. 
 Living shall forfeit fair renown. 
 And, doubly dying, shall go down 
 To the vile dust from whence he sprung, 
 Umvept, unhonored, and unsung! 
 
 — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 How they shouted! What rejoicing! 
 How the old bell shock the air. 
 Till the clang of freedom ruffled 
 
 The calmly gliding Delaware!" 
 How the bonfires and the torches 
 
 Lighted up the night's repose! 
 And from flames, like fabled Phoenix, 
 
 Our glorious liberty arose ! — Anon. 
 
 Death is the worst ; a fate which all must try. 
 
 And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. The Iliad. 
 
 The moment 1 heard of America I lo^ed her, the mo- 
 ment I knew she was fighting for freedom I burnt 
 with a desire of bleeding for her; and the moment I 
 shall be able to serve her at any time or in any part of 
 the world, will be the happiest of my life. — Lafayette. 
 
 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased 
 at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it. Almighty 
 God ! I know not what course others may take, but as 
 for me, give me liberty or give me death. — Patrich 
 Henry. 
 
P at r i ti s m. 
 
 Be just and fear not; 
 Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
 Thy God's, and truth's. — Shakespeare. 
 
 Oh, if there be on this earthly sphere 
 A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, 
 'Tis the last libation Liberty draws 
 From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. 
 
 — Moore. 
 Land of song ! said the warrior bard, 
 
 Though all the world betrays thee, 
 One sword at least thy right shall guard. 
 
 One faithful harp shall praise thee. — Ibid. 
 
 folds of white and scarlet ! blue field with your 
 silver stars ! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet 
 follow you, strong hands defend you, warm hearts cher- 
 ish you, and dying lips give you their blessing ! Ours 
 by inheritance, ours by allegiance, ours by affection, — 
 long may you float on the free wdnds of heaven, the em- 
 blem of liberty, the hope of the world ! — Anon. 
 
 What pity is it 
 That we can die but once to serve our country ! 
 
 — Addison. 
 I am Liberty — God's daughter! 
 
 My symbols — a law and a torch : 
 Not a sword to threaten and slaughter, 
 
 Nor a flame to dazzle and scorch ; 
 But a lisfht that the world may see, 
 And a truth that shall make men free. 
 
 I am the sister of Duty, 
 
 And I am the sister of Faith: 
 To-day adored for my beauty. 
 
 To-morrow led forth to death. 
 I am she whom ages prayed for. 
 Heroes suffered undismayed for. 
 Whom the martyrs were betrayed for. 
 
 — John Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
 A song for our banner? The watchword recall 
 
 Which gave the republic her station : 
 "United we stand, divided we fall !" 
 
 It made and preserved us a nation ! 
 
 — George P. Morris. 
 
 Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers called 
 Bunker Hill a defeat ; but libertv dates from it, though 
 Warren lay dead on the field. — Wendell Phillips. 
 
Patriotisvi . 
 
 Rules of the Road. 
 
 What man would be wise, let him drink of the river 
 
 That bears on its bosom the record of time: 
 A message to him every wave can deliver 
 
 To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. 
 Who heeds not experience, trust him not; tell him 
 
 The scope of one mind can but trifles achieve : 
 The weakest who draws from the mine will excel him 
 
 The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. 
 
 For peace do not hope — to be just one must break it; 
 
 Still work for the minute and not for the year ; 
 When honor comes to you, be ready to take it ; 
 
 But reach not to seize it before it is near. 
 Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you ; 
 
 Be true to your word and your work and your friend; 
 Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, 
 
 Nor judge of a road till it draws to the end. 
 
 Stand erect in the vale, nor exalt in the mountain ; 
 
 Take gifts with a sigh — most men give to be paid ; 
 "I had," is a heartache, "I have," is a fountain. — 
 
 You're worth what you save, not the million you made. 
 Trust toil not intent, or your plans will miscarry; 
 
 Your wife keep a sweetheart, instead of a tease ; 
 Rule children by reason, not rod ; and, mind, marry 
 
 Your girl when you can — and your boy when you please. 
 
 Steer straight as the wind will allow; but be ready 
 
 To veer just a point to let travelers pass: 
 Each sees his own star — a stiff course is too steady 
 
 When this one to Meetings goes, that one to Mass. 
 Our stream's not so wide but two arches may span it — 
 
 Good neighbor and citizen ; these for a code. 
 And this truth in sight, every man on the planet 
 Has just as much right as yourself to the road. 
 
 ^John Boyle O'Reilly 
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F at r i t i s 
 
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 In a Tideway. m 
 
 In the clutch of a tide that my course compels, T 
 
 A merciless tide, that ebbs and swells ! 
 
 To suns and moons 1 do not control — 
 
 And because I cannot would wreck my soul; 
 
 The storm-tossed toy of a turbulent tide — 
 
 And only one star through the night to guide — 
 
 In a cockleshell on its crest afloat, 
 
 Still I trim the sails of my tiny boat, 
 
 And strive to steer by that star remote — 
 
 For the tide that threatens and thwarts, I know. 
 
 Is itself controlled in its ebb and flow: h 
 
 And what am I, a speck on the main. ' 
 
 Of the stars that sway the sea to complain? 
 
 If it be in the plan that I sink at sea, 
 
 Let me sink as I sail, with pennon free; 
 
 If land I make, as a sailor should. 
 
 It is not I am great, but that One is good; 
 
 But happen what may. let the log-book tell 
 
 That I did my best with my cockleshell. 
 
 — Charles Henry Wehh. 
 
 % 
 
 A Builder's Lesson. 
 
 "How shall I a habit break?" 
 As you did that habit make. 
 As you gathered, you must lose ; 
 As you yielded, now refuse. 
 Thread by thread the straws we twist 
 Till they bind us neck and wrist ; 
 Thread by thread the patient hand 
 Must untwine ere free we stand. 
 As we builded, stone by stone, 
 We must toil unhelped, alone, 
 Till the wall is overthrown. 
 
 But remember, as we try. 
 Lighter every test goes by ; 
 Wading in, the stream grows deep 
 Toward the center's downward sweep; 
 Backward turn, each step ashore 
 Shallower is than that before. 
 
 Ah, the precious years we waste 
 Leveling what we raised in haste; 
 Doing what must be undone 
 Ere content or love be won ! 
 First across the gulf we cast 
 Kite-borne threads, till lives are passed, 
 And habit builds the bridge at last ! 
 
 —John Boyle O'Reilly. 
 
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