GARLAND >F 2UIET rnouGHTs ot <&uiet of Quiet SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY J.E. AND H.S. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COY. PUBLISHERS First Edition, 2,000 copies, Oct., 1905. Reprinted, 3,000 copies, Feb., 1906. Second Edition, revised, 4,000 copies, Feb., 1907. Third Edition, 3,000 copies, Feb., 1908. (Braep of * Jfnenbebip matter of friendship is often regarded slightingly as a mere accessory of life, a happy chance if one falls into it, but not as entering into the substance of life. No mistake can be greater. It is, as Emerson says, not a thing of " Glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know." <3> What does your anxiety do ? It does not empty to-morrow, brother, of its sor- row ; but ah ! it empties to-day of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil ; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes. IAN MACLAREN. O If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you ; and then to you nothing will be pure. You 5 2075627 will spoil everything you touch, you will make misery for yourself out of every- thing which Gods sends you ; you will be as wretched as you choose. CHARLES KINGSLEY. You have a disagreeable duty to do at twelve o'clock. Do not blacken nine and ten and all between with the colour of twelve. Do the work of each, and reap your reward in peace. So when the dreaded moment in the future becomes the present you shall meet it walking in the light, and that light shall overcome its darkness. GEO. MACDONALD. O The good we can each of us accomplish in this world is small. The good that all men in all ages could accomplish if they would is vast. But in order that this may be done, each working being must serve his own generation, and do his part to render the next generation more efficient. T. D. WOOLSEY. O They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truths they needs must think J 6 They axe slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. LOWELL. Go m tfrienD. God never loved me in so sweet a way before, 'Tis He alone who can such blessings send, And when His love would new expression find, He brought thee to me, and He said, " Behold a friend." <> Friendship, a dear balm Whose coming is as light and music are 'Mid dissonance and gloom : a star Which moves not "mid the moving heavens alone ; A smile among dark frowns : a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. P. B. SHELLEY. o Only he who lives a life of his own can help the lives of other men. PHILLIPS BROOKS. <> Be true to thy friend. Never speak of his faults to another, to show thy own dis- 7 crimination ; but open them all to him, with candour and true gentleness ; forgive all his errors and his sins, be they ever so many ; but do not excuse the slightest deviation from rectitude. Never forbear to dissent from a false opinion, or a wrong practice, from mistaken motives of kind- ness ; nor seek thus to have thy own weaknesses sustained ; for these things cannot be done without injury to the soul. LYDIA MARIA CHILD. True sympathy always purifies. It cheers. It helps to right seeing. It heals. It strengthens. It exalts and brings one nearer to God. It puts evil passions to sleep and awakens holy emo- tions. It quickens not the worst things but the best things in a man. It has in it always a pulse of heavenly love. It never aggravates a bad symptom. It never accelerates a wicked course. It stills the troubled waters. It rests and soothes the aching heart. It makes a man hate the mean and low, and love the good and high. It takes one forward into companion- ships which are above the stars. It is more palatable than food ; it is more refreshing than light ; it is more fragrant than flowers ; it is sweeter than songs. F. A. NOBLE. 8 The very ground and gist of a noble friendship is the cultivation in common of the personal inner lives of those who partake in it, their mutual reflection of souls and joint sharing of experience inciting them to a constant betterment of their being and their happiness. Disappointments are wings that bear the soul skyward. Those who are gone you have. Those who departed loving you love you still ; and you love them always. They are not really gone those dear hearts, and true they are only gone into the next room ; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will be closed upon you, and you will be no more seen. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. There is after all something in those trifles that friends bestow upon each other which is an unfailing indication of the place the giver holds in the affections. I would believe that one who preserved a lock of hair, a simple flower, or any trifle of my bestowing, loved me, though no show was made of it ; while all the pro- testations in the world would not win my 9 confidence in one who set no value on such little things. Trifles they may be : but it is by such that character and disposition are oftenest revealed. WASHINGTON IRVING. It has been truly said that to those who love little, love is a primary affection ; a secondary one to those who love much. Be sure he cannot love another much who loves not honour more. For that higher affection sustains and elevates the lower human one, casting round it a glory which mere personal feeling could never give. F. W. ROBERTSON. <> Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician ; the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse ; and the tender- ness and patience of the best mother. LORD CLARENDON. The only way to have a friend is to be one. R. w. EMERSON. O I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen ; that, when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men. J. G. WHITTIER. IO I beg you, my dear friend, whatever be your suffering, to learn first of all that not to take your sorrow off is what God means, but to put strength into you that you may carry it. Be sure your sorrow is not giving you its best, unless it makes you a more thoughtful person than you have ever been before. PHILLIPS BROOKS. O The only way to regenerate the world is to do the duty which lies nearest to us, and not to hunt after grand far-fetched ones for ourselves. CHARLES KINGSLEY. O Do it immediately, Do it with prayer, Do it reliantly, Casting off care ; Do it with reverence, Tracing His hand Who hath placed it before thee With earnest command. Stayed hi omnipotence Safe 'neath His wing, Leave all resultings " Doe ye nexte thynge." O Cultivate the thankful spirit ! It will be to thee a perpetual feast. There is, or ought to be, with us no such thing as small mercies ; all are great, because the II least are undeserved. Indeed, a really thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from everything, making the most even of scanty blessings. J. R. MACDUFF. Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done ; Out of the thirst of Pursuing, Into the rapture of Won ; Out of the gray mist into brightness, Out of pale dusk into dawn Out of all wrong into Tightness, We from these fields shall be gone. " Nay," say the Saints, " not gone, but come, Into Eternity's Harvest Home ! " w. M. L. JAY. <> In that unknown world in which our thoughts become instantly lost, still there is one object on which our thoughts and imaginations may fasten, no less than our affections ; that amidst the light, dark from excess of brilliance, which surrounds the throne of God, we may yet discern the gracious form of the Son of Man. DR. ARNOLD. o Begin with a generous heart. Think how you can serve others. Then you shall ",find resources grow. Your own 12 portion shall not be left desolate. Strength shall be shed through you. Do the utmost with what you have, and it shall go far enough. o. B. FROTHINGHAM. O Self-denial, for the sake of self-denial, does no good ; self-sacrifice for its own sake is no religious act at all. . . . Self- sacrifice, illuminated by love, is warmth and life, the blessedness and the only proper life of man. F. w. ROBERTSON. O There is full compensation for failure in every true life, and the highest, where the struggle and the loss have been the deep- est. JOHN KER. O All the past is shut up within us, and is a sort of perpetual present. All the future is before us, and though duty is a present thing, it is constructed out of the past, and runs endlessly into the future. We thus have the past with its memories, the present with its duties, and the future with its anticipations one for wisdom, one for action, and one for hope. THEODORE HUNGER. O Each cloud has of silver a lining, Though we may not see its light ; 13 The sun has not ceased its shining, Though hidden awhile from our sight. Be faithful, and active, and earnest ; In idleness never sit down : The better the dark cross you carry. The brighter will sparkle your crown. w. JOHNSON. <> Always say a kind word if you can if only that it may come in perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room like a beautiful firefly, whose happy convolu- tions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. ARTHUR HELPS. O To find the ideal life in the normal, you must do two hard things get rid of the world in your heart, and get rid of self of thinking of yourself, and of feeling round yourself. One thing is needful only one and that one thing is Love. <> A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. <> True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. 14 Acquaintance, born and nourished in ad- versity, is worth the cherishing ; 'tis proved steel which one may trust one's life to. O Take heed of thy friends. A faithful friend is a strong defence ; and he that hath found such a one hath found a trea- sure. The friends thou hast, and their adop- tion tried. Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of Steel. SHAKESPEARE. <> A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attach- ment of friends. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Like warp and woof all destinies Are woven fast, Linked in sympathy like the keys Of an organ vast. Back to thyself is measured well All thou hast given ; Thy neighbour's wrong is present hell, His bliss, thy heaven. WHITTIER. IS A common friendship who talks of a common friendship ? There is no such thing in the world. On earth no word is more sublime. HENRY DRUMMOND. <> A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. DR. s. JOHNSON. O It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It re- freshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. GEORGE ELIOT. O Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. JANE PORTER. O We are in God's hands, brother. SHAKESPEARE. Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. j. COOPER. Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and most refined improvement of love. SOUTH. O What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other ? GEORGE ELIOT. 16 Jealousy is said to prove love it may do so ; it certainly weakens it, and as cer- tainly shows its wantingness in love's strongest pillow trust. If we loved a little more, we should not be jealous. Indeed, jealousy is only a polite word for the most subtle selfishness. If we believe our friends are as good as we say, how dare we wish to keep all their love for ourselves ? Is it that we fear they are, after all, not loving enough to love many people ? And if love is the virtue of virtues, how can true love show itself by seeking to circumscribe our friends' exercise of it ? Do we grudge them their lovingness ? Or can we venture to deprive others of some share of the love which blesses us ? One ought never to speak of the faults of one's friends ; it mutilates them : they can never be the same afterwards. W. D. HOWELLS. I can only urge you to prefer friendship to all human possessions, for there is nothing so suited to our nature, so well adapted to prosperity or adversity. But first of all I am of opinion that amongst the virtuous friendship cannot exist. . . . In the first place, to whom can life be " worth living," as Ennius says, who does 17 not repose on the mutual kind feeling of some friend ? What can be more delight- ful than to have one to whom you can speak on all subjects, just as to yourself ? And adversity would indeed be difficult to endure, without some one who would bear it even with greater regret than yourself. . . . Now the foundation of that steadfastness and constancy which we seek in friendship is sincerity. For nothing is steadfast which is insincere. CICERO. <3> How often a new affection makes a new man ! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministra- tion, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. E. H. CHAPIN. <> Truthfulness, frankness, disinterested- ness, and faithfulness are the qualities absolutely essential to friendship, and these must be crowned by a sympathy that enters into all the joys, the sorrows and the interests of the friend ; that delights in all his upward progress, and when he stumbles or falls, stretches out the helping hand, and is tender and patient even when it condemns. MARY C. WARE. IS That secrets are a sacred trust, That friends should be sincere and just, That constancy befits them ; And observations on the case, That savours much of commonplace, And all the world admits them. WM. COWPER. O Beyond all wealth, honour, or even health, is the attachment we form to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to become in a measure good, generous, and true ourselves. DR. T. ARNOLD. <> A pennyweight of love is better than a hundredweight of law. Try it if there is a feud in your family. c. H. SPURGEON. Happiness does not depend on money, or leisure, or society, or even on health ; it depends on our relation to those we love. <5> No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ROBERT SOUTHEY. <> There are times when we have had enough even of our friends, when we begin 19 inevitably to profane one another, and must withdraw religiously into solitude and silence, the better to prepare our- selves for a loftier intimacy. Silence is the ambrosial night in the intercourse of friends, in which their sin- cerity is recruited and takes deeper root. The language of friends is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language. H. D. THOREAU. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. WM. COWPER. <> For every one who is living a life at all worth the living, a liberal margin of un- invaded leisure is absolutely essential to the reception of energy from the world beautiful. One must listen if he would hear the voice of the gods. One must hold himself in receptive conditions if he would receive from the spiritual side of life. LILIAN WHITING. 20 The love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing, j. R. LOWELL. Friendship is the highest degree of per- fection in society. MONTAIGNE. Friendship is a seed Needs tendance. You must keep it free from weed Nor, if the tree has sometimes bitter fruit, Must you for this lay axe unto the root. W. GILMORE SIMMS. The more we love, the better we are ; and the greater our friendships are, the dearer we are to God. JEREMY TAYLOR. O I think that the two things above all others that have made men in all ages relieve in immortality apart, so far as we know, from any revelation save that which is written on the human heart have been the broken loves and broken friend- ships of the world. <> Men could not believe that this young life, broken off so suddenly, was done for ever. It suggested its own continu- 21 ance. Instinctively friendship triumphed over the grave. Love was too strong for death. PHILLIPS BROOKS. Those who have loved longest love best. Nothing so much shows what a human being is in moral advancement as the quality of his love. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. O Reason is the torch of friendship, judg- ment its guide, tenderness its aliment. DE BONALD. If it were expediency that cemented friendships, expediency when changed would dissolve them ; but because one's nature can never change, therefore true friendships are eternal. CICERO. The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We cannot stay it if we would. We must go on and leave our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await beyond. PHILLIPS BROOKS. He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions. JEREMY TAYLOR. 22 The noblest life is the life that loves, that gives, that loses itself, that over- flows, as it were, irrigates the great fields of human anxiety and toil ; the warm, hearty, social, helpful life : the life that cheers and comforts, and sustains by its serenity and patience and gratitude. O Friendship is the greatest bond in the world. JEREMY TAYLOR. Commend me to the friend that comes When I am sad and lone, And makes the anguish of my heart The suffering of his own ; Who calmly shuns the glittering throng At pleasure's gay levee, And comes to gild a sombre hour And gives his heart to me. He hears me count my sorrows o'er, And when the task is done He freely gives me all I ask A sigh for every one. He cannot wear a smiling face When mine is touched with gloom, But, like the violet, seeks to cheer The midnight with perfume. Commend me to that generous heart Which, like the pine on high. Uplifts the same unvarying brow To every change of sky : Whose friendship does not fade away When wintry tempests blow, But like the winter's icy crown, Looks greener through the snow. He flits not with the flitting stork That seeks a southern sky, But lingers where the wounded bird Hath laid him down to die. Oh such a friend ; he is in truth, Whate'er his lot may be, A rainbow on the storm of life, An anchor on its sea. ANON. <> Once let friendship be given that is born of God, nor time nor circumstance can change it to a lessening ; it must be mutual growth increasing trust, widening faith, enduring patience, forgiving love, unselfish ambition, and an affection built before the Throne which will bear the test of time and trial. ALLAN THROCKMORTON. Life to be rich and fertile must be re- inforced with friendship. It is the sap that preserves from blight and withering ; it is the sunshine that beckons on the blossom- ing and fruitage ; it is the starlight dew that perfumes life with sweetness and besprinkles it with splendour ; it is the 24 music-tide that sweeps the soul, scattering treasures ; it is the victorious and blessed leader of integrity's forlorn hope ; it is the potent alchemy that transmutes failure into success ; it is the hidden manna that nourishes when all other sustenance fails ; it is the voice that speaks to hopes all dead, " Because I live, ye shall live also." For the loftiest friendships have no com- mercial element in them : they are founded on disinterestedness and sacri- fices. They neither expect nor desire a return for gift or service. Amid the tireless breaking of the billows on the shores of experience, there is no surer anchorage than a friendship that " bear- eth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things." SARAH B. COOPER, in Overland Monthly^ <> True happiness consists not in the mul- titude of friends, but in the worth and choice. DR. JOHNSON. 3> A faithful friend is better than gold a medicine for misery, an only possession. BURTON. <> Surely, the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to G.Q.T. 25 B feel with him which gives us a fine ear for the heart pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstances and opinion. GEORGE ELIOT. o Does friendship really go on to be more a pain than a pleasure ? I doubt it ; for even hi its deepest sorrows there is a joy which makes ordinary pleasure a very poor, meaningless affair ; no, no, we need never be scared from the very depths of friendship by its possible consequences. The very fact of loving another more than yourself is in itself such a blessing that it seems scarcely to require any other, and puts you in a comfortable position of independence. From Caroline Fox's Journal. A Friend it is another name for God, Whose love inspires all love is all in all. Profane it not, lest lowest shame befall ! Worship no idol, whether star or clod ! Nor think that any friend is truly thine Save as life's closest link with Love Divine. LUCY LARCOM. My treasures are my friends. 26 If thought unlock her mysteries, If friendship on me smile, I walk in marble galleries, I talk with kings the while. EMERSON. O Great friendships, great duties, and noble purposes make man seem a part of the very world itself. <3> What a thing friendship is World without end ! ROBERT BROWNING. <> Misunderstandings and neglect cause more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. F. W. ROBERTSON. <> Sweet friends ; Man's love ascends To finer and diviner ends Than man's mere thought e'er compre- hends. SIDNEY LANIER. After friendship it is confidence, before friendship it is judgment. SENECA. A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to 27 be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby ; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. SAADI. <> Human spirits are only to be drawn together and held together by the living bond of having found something in which they really do agree. DORA GREENWELL. O The heart is not a treasury which is im- poverished by giving, but a power which is strengthened and enriched by loving. ELIZABETH CHARLES. O The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friend- ship, all the more sacred as their friend- ship deepens and grows old. <> The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence ; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant. GEORGE WASHINGTON. <$> Such a friendship, that through it we love places and seasons ; for as bright bodies emit rays at a distance, and flowers 28 drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favour even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts ; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were extinguished than that we should be without friends. S. CHRYSOSTOM. Take heed of thy friends. A faithful friend is a strong defence, and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure. PROVERBS. <> If a man does not make new friendships as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. DR. JOHNSON. Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL. Constant and solid, whom no storms can shake, Nor death unfix, a right friend ought to be; 29 And if condemned to survive, doth make No second choice, but grief and memory. But friendship's best fate is, when it can spend A life, a fortune, all to serve a friend. KATHERINE PHILLIPS. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. R. W. EMERSON. o Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : Oh, no ! it is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken. SHAKESPEARE. From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. CARLYLE. Build as thou wilt, unspoiled by praise or blame, Build as thou wilt, and as thy light is given ; Then, if at last the airy structure fall, 30 Dissolve and vanish, take thyself no shame They fail and they alone who have not striven. T. B. ALDRICH. O Plant blessings, and blessings will bloom ; Plant hate, and hate will grow ; You can sow to-day to-morrow shall bring The blossom that proves what sort of thing Is the seed, the seed that you sow. O Men differ even more in their amounts of will than their amounts of can, and one's individual success or failure is estab- lished more by his own amount of will than his amount of can. The practical and great consideration is not how much can I do, but how much will I do of what I can. WILLIAM C. GANNETT. Content to keep the upper windows of his mind open to the holy winds and the pure lights of heaven, and the side win- dows of tone, of speech, and behaviour open to the earth to let forth upon his fellow-men the tenderness and truth those upper influences bring forth in any region exposed to their operation. GEO. MACDONALD. 31 The highest branch is not the safest roost. <3> A moment of time is a moment of mercy. O It is nothing to a man to be greater or less than another to be esteemed, or otherwise, by the public or private world in which he moves. Does he, or does he not, behold, and love, and live, the un- changeable, the essential, the divine ? <> Carry the sunshine with you into the sick-room of your patient, and you will leave it there when you depart. REUBEN LUDLAM. o Kind hearts can make December blithe as May A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead ; In filling love's infinite store, A rose to the living is more, If graciously given before The hungering spirit is fled : A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. NIXON WATERMAN. 32 I think that Father expresses the rela- tion of the Infinite to Man. He is all love all tenderness, all compassion. His provi- dences come about in exactly the right time and in exactly the right way to pro- duce the most transient evil and the most enduring good. ANDREW p. PEABODY. <> How often do we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource. We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but unto the desired haven. GEO. MACDONALD. O Surely I shall be wiser in a year. <3> It is a great thing when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, and when we pray that it may pass away to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us. E. H. CHAPIN. Above the clouds the sky is blue. <> It was not anything she said, It was not anything she did, It was the movement of her head. The lifting of her lid ; 33 Her little motions when she spoke, The presence of an upright soul, The living light that from her broke It was the perfect whole. JAMES H. PERKINS. <:> The example of good men is visible philosophy. O Not what has happened to myself to- day, but what has happened to others through me that should be my thought. FREDERICK DEERING BLAKE. <> Bacchus hath drowned more than Nep- tune. <> There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. HAZLITT. O Let us conclude by saying to you, what I have had too frequent occasions to say to my other remaining old friends, the fewer we become, the more let us love one another. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. O Can friend lose friend ? Believe it not 1 The tissue whereof life is wrought, 34 Weaving the separate into one, No end hath, nor beginning ; spun From subtle threads of destiny, Finer than thought of man can see ; God takes not back His gifts divine ; While thy soul lives, thy friend is thine. If but one friend have crossed thy way, Once only, in thy mortal day ; If only once life's best surprise Has opened on thy human eyes : Ingrate thou wert, indeed, if thou Didst not hi that rare presence bow, And on earth's holy ground, unshod, Speak softlier the dear name of God. LUCY LARCOM. <> Form is good but not formality. <> Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. O He knew that the mission of man is to help his neighbour. But inasmuch as he was ready to help he recoiled from med- dling. To meddle is to destroy the holy chance. Meddlesomeness is the very opposite of helpfulness, for it consists in forcing yourself into another self instead of opening yourself as a refuge to the other. GEO. MACDONALD. 35 Fetters though made of gold, are fetters still. O A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will, and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition. They do a better thing than that : they practically demonstrate the great theorem of the liveableness of life. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. <3> Pardon others often, but thyself seldom. <5> Only man can help man ; money with- out man can do little or nothing, more likely less than nothing. As our Lord redeemed the world by being a man, the true Son of the true Father, so the only way for a man to help men is to be a true man to this neighbour and that. GEO. MACDONALD. Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life. At a great bargain pause awhile. 36 There are no times in life when oppor- tunity, the chance to be and to do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends upon whether the man looks to the lower or the higher helps. . . If he looks to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of life. PHILLIPS BROOKS. Loss may be no dishonour, but dis- honour must be deadliest loss. He that is not with Me is against Me. The year's at the spnng, The day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven ; The hillside's dew pearled ; The lark's on the wing ; The snail's on the thorn ; God's in His heaven ; All's right with the world. It is the Being that is the precious thing. Being is the mother to all little Doings, as well as the grown-up Deeds, and the mighty heroic Sacrifice ; and these little Doings, like the good children of the house, make the bliss of it. GEORGE MACDONALD. 37 He that will not answer to the rudder must answer to the rock. ARCHBISHOP HERVE. <> If you choose, you are free ; if you choose, you will blame no one ; you will charge" no one. All will be at the same time according to your mind and the mind of God. EPICTETUS. <> Lord, let me live and act this day, Still rising from the dead : Lord, make my spirit good and gay, Give me my daily bread. GEO MACDONALD. o Reckless youth makes rueful age. <> Better to hunt in the fields for health un- bought, Than to fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. DRYDEN. <> He that will not leave the lower for the higher is not worthy of the higher. FRANCIS TIFFANY, O To be humble is not to think meanly of one's self. To be humble is, knowing 38 your character and abilities, to be willing to take a lower place, and perform a menial service. LYMAN ABBOTT. <> The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. MARCUS AURELIUS. <> The inner side of every cloud Is bright and shining. I therefore turn my clouds about, And always wear them inside out, To show the lining. The day of payment is always nearer the day of promise than it seems. <> God alone knows what life is enough for us to live, what life we shall find worth our while : and be sure He is labouring to make it as full and lovely, and best in beauty, as it is possible for Him to make it only that depends on how much we make possible by believing He is what He is, and letting Him have His own blessed way with us. GEO. MACDONALD. O The best mirror is an old friend. O Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch, as the sunbeam. 39 I begin to suspect that the common transactions of life are the most sacred channels for the spread of the heavenly leaven. GEO. MACDONALD. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain ; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. EMILY DICKINSON. " Set thy house in order " is a precept but half obeyed till every voice and motion within are in unison, and the har- mony reaches through all the chords of that musical instrument our nature still is, however jangled out of tune. BARTOL. It is one thing to take no thought for want of thought, and another to take no thought from sufficing thought, whose flower is confidence. The one way is the lovely way of God in the birds, the other His lovelier way in His men and women. GEO. MACDONALD. 40 A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. GIBBON. O Every man's words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on then- own part. . . . Only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold ! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind. O fmown bg bis Companions. " Tell me," said Goethe, " your associ- ates, and I will tell you what you are ; tell me what you busy yourself about, I will tell you what may be expected of you." This thought has been expressed in many ages and in many languages. Socrates said : "A man is known by the company he keeps. The French have the saying : " Dis moi qui tu hautes et je te dirai qip tu es." In Germany the proverb runs thus : Willst du erkennen den Mann, So schau' seine Gesellschaft an. prager. God looks, not at the oratory of our prayers, how eloquent they are ; nor at 41 their geometry, how long they are ; nor at their arithmetic, how many they are ; nor at their logic, how methodical they are ; but looks at their sincerity, how spiritual they are. B Dual OLife. The true Christian life is dual. It is a life in the flesh, and it is also a life in faith. These two, as I have said, are like two spheres, in either of which a man's course is passed, or, rather, the one is surface and the other is central. Here is a great trailing spray of seaweed floating golden on the unquiet water, and rising and falling on each wave or ripple. Aye ! but its root is away deep, deep, deep below the storms, below where there is motion, anchored upon a hidden rock that can never move. And so my life, if it be a Christian life at all, has its surface amidst the shifty mutabilities of earth, but its root in the silent eternities of the centre of all things, which is Christ in God. ALEXANDER MApLAREN, D.D. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. <> There is a great gain to be obtained by the practice of nightly self-scrutiny. He 42 who seeks to " know himself " must study day by day the details of his moral health, he who desires to lay up " treasures in heaven " must allow no waste of his soul's wealth to pass unheeded. FRANCES POWER COBBE. O Prayer is the true help for the builder, His right attitude is on his knees. When men go out to weed some great field they often kneel at their task. And it is only when kneeling that we can cleanse the soil of our own hearts of the quick- growing and poisonous weeds that are there. My prayer breaks the bond of many a temptation that holds me. My prayer is the test for many a masked evil that seeks to seduce me. My prayer will be like a drop of poison on a scorpion it will kill the sin on the instant. We shall conquer when we go into the battle as the Puritans did, with the old Psalm upon their lips, " Let God arise ; and let His enemies be scattered." DR. MACLAREN. <> Compensation. In bitterness there is sweetness ; in affliction, joy ; in submission, strength ; in the God who punishes, the God who loves. To lose one's life that one may 43 gain it, to offer it that one may receive it, to possess nothing that one may conquer all, to renounce self that God may give Himself to us. How impossible a problem, and how sublime a reality ! No one truly knows happiness who has not suffered, and the redeemed are happier than the elect. O Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. Suffer not gentle sleep to close thine eyes, E'er thou hast thrice reviewed the labours of the day. What hast thou learned ? What done ? What duty neglected ? For the evil thou hast done, repent, for the good rejoice. GOLDEN VERSES. O What is meant by redeeming time ? It is to fill the hours full of the richest freight, to fill them with the life of thought, feel- ing, action, as they pass by. One moment of self-conquest, one good action, really done, yes, one effort to do right, really made, has the seal of time put on it. J. F. CLARKE. O Be still sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; 44 Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. LONGFELLOW. <3> Our times of greatest pleasure are when we have won some higher peak of diffi- culty, trodden under foot some evil, and felt day by day so sure a growth of moral strength within us that we cannot con- ceive of an end of growth. STOPFORD BROOKE. Tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul. To show a heart grief-rent ; To starve thy sin, Not bin ; And that's to keep thy Lent. HERBERT. Things are not half so unequal as some people imagine. What is wrong here will be righted there. God may seem slow, but He is building men's characters for an eternal life. <> The doors of your soul are open on others and theirs on you. . . . Simply 45 to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence an influence, too, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble. HORACE BUSHNELL. Faith, hope, and love are purifiers of the blood. They have a peptic quality. They open and enlarge all the channels of bodily vitality. As was learned long ago, " A merry heart doeth good like a medi- cine." And the self-control which keeps reason on the throne and makes passion serve is the best of all domestic physi- cians. CHARLES G. AMES. O There are three kinds of silence. Sil- ence from words is good, because in- ordinate speaking tends to evil. Silence or rest from desires and passions is still better, because it promotes quietness of spirit. But the best of all is silence from unnecessary and wandering thoughts, be- cause that is essential to internal recol- lection, and because it lays a foundation for a proper regulation and silence in other respects. MOLINOS. <> Severity of judgment and censure may endure for a space ; but if love, real love, has once drawn two hearts together, it 46 must reassert itself, slowly softening the reproach and at last reuniting. ANONYMOUS. O Let us remember that each day is ordered by Almighty'.ove, and brings with it that measure of the bitter and the sweet which, according to the judgment of in- finite wisdom, is most conducive to our true peace and welfare. KRUMMACHER. o The storm looks like riot : it is a kind of quiet. It looks like chaos : it is perfect cosmos. It makes us think of chance ; and chance, when we really think of it, resolves itself into unknown depths on depths of law. WILLIAM c. GANNETT. <> The common problem, yours, mine, every one's. Is not to fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be, but finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. We shall one day forget all about duty, and do everything from the love of the loveliness of it, the satisfaction of the lightness of it. GEO. MACDONALD. 47 The man who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply Without. PHILLIPS BROOKS. " Doe tbe "Wejte From an old English parsonage Down by the sea, There came in the twilight A message to me ; Its quaint Saxon legend, Deeply engraven, Hath, as it seems to me, Teaching for heaven ; And on through the hours The quiet words ring. Like a low inspiration " Doe the nexte thynge." Many a questioning, Many a fear, Many a doubt, Hath its guiding here Moment by moment, Let down from heaven. Time, opportunity, Guidance are given ; Fear not to-morrow, Child of the King, Trust it with God " Doe the nexte thynge." 48 Do it immediately, Do it with prayer, Do it reliantly, Casting all care ; Do it with reverence, Tracing His hand Who hath placed it before thee With earnest command ; Stayed on Omnipotence, Safe 'neath His wing, Leave all resultings " Doe the nexte thynge." Looking to God Ever serener, Working or suffering, Be thy demeanour. In the shade of His presence, The rest of His calm, The light of His countenance, Live out thy psalm ; Strong in His faithfulness, Praise Him and sing, Then as He beckons thee, " Doe the nexte thynge." ANONYMOUS, Seest thou good days ? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity. QUARLES. G.Q.T. 49 c nig In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause. LONGFELLOW. Ube IRabfant %ife. E knack of making good use of moderate abilities secures the esteem of men, and often raises to higher fame than real merit. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. o The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men : youth, by the old ; health, by the diseased ; and wealth, by the needy. <> Behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image. GOETHE. <> Wouldst thou taste to the full the sweetness of life ? Then keep thyself low at humility's feet. The sweetest of the cane is the part that grows nearest the earth. FEISI. <> In every life There's a pause that is better than on- ward rush, 52 Better than hewing, or mightiest doing ; 'Tis the standing still at sovereign will. There's a hush that is better than ardent speech, Better than sighing or wilderness crying ; 'Tis the being still at sovereign will O Life is not made up of great sacrifices of duties, but of little things, of which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually, are what win and pre- serve the heart. SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. O The strength of affection is a proof not of the worthiness of the object, but of the largeness of the soul which loves. F. W. ROBERTSON. Every flower is a hint of His beauty ; every grain of wheat a token of His benefi- cence ; every atom of dust, a revelation of His power. In and through all things He is attracting our regard. FURNESS. O The law of nature is : Do the thing, and you shall have the power ; but they who do not the thing have not the power. , O We often live under a cloud, and it is well for us that we should do so. Unin- 53 terrupted sunshine would parch our hearts : we want shade and rain to cool and refresh them. HARE. O Not how much talent have I, but how much will, to use the talent that I have, is the main question. O So long as one loves one forgives. O The only love worthy of the name ever and always uplifts. <> If our plans are not for time, but for eternity, our knowledge, and therefore our love to God to each other will progress for ever. O We often try and convince others to our way of thinking, from sheer wish to rule, and in our heart of hearts we do not care a jot beyond the conversion to our wishes of those we try to influence. GENERAL GORDON. <3> Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work ! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullen- 54 ness. He does more in the same time- he will do it better he will persevere longer. CARLYLE. O History makes a young man to be old without either wrinkles or grey hairs, privileging him with the experience of age without either the infirmities or in- conveniences thereof. O Some people carry their hearts in their heads, very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. HARE. <> Believe me better than my best, And stronger than my strength can hold, Until your royal faith transmutes My pebbles into gold. PHELPS, <5> Those who live on the mountains have a longer day than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher. <3> It's good to live only a moment at a time ... it isn't for you and me to lay plans ; we've nothing to do but to obey and trust. GEORGE ELIOT. 55 Absence strengtheneth friendship, where the last recollections were kindly. O Better is one smile for the living, than fountains of tears for the dead. Do as well as you can to-day, and per- haps to-morrow you may be able to do better. NEWTON. <> Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, And spite of old sorrow, and older sinning And puzzles forecasted, and possible pain Take heart with the day, and begin again. O If you fear, Cast all your care on God ; that anchor holds. <> The true test of life is character. All else is extraneous, belonging only to the husk, which shall fall off in the day of ripening ; character is the kernel, the wheat, that which is true and enduring. O Let no one think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, " It will not come near me." 56 Even by the falling of water drops a water pot is filled ; and the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gathers it little by little. BUDDHA. If I cannot realize my ideal, I can at least idealize my real. O You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people ; why not make earnest efforts to confer that pleasure on others ? You will find half the battle is gained if you will never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. O The gentleness of perfect freedom can only be won by the discipline of self- restraint. BARRETT. <> To maintain a fault known is a double fault. JEWEL. <> Life to be worthy of a rational being must be always in progression ; we must always purpose to do more or better than in past times. DR. JOHNSON. O Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. 57 Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the person who listens to it. <> 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support them after. SHAKESPEARE. o What can harm us if we are true to our- selves and do what we think is right ? BLACK. <> The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. LONGFELLOW. <> Our past victories should be but rounds on the ladder up which we are constantly climbing. <> Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. O God will not seek thy race, Nor will He ask thy birth ; Alone He will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth ? PERSIAN. o Folly, as it grows in years, The more extravagant appears. s. BUTLER. 58 Conviction of ignorance is the doorstep to the temple of wisdom. <3> Force rules the world and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force. PASCAL. O The forgiveness we want is infinite, changeless, everlasting. <> * I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the mar- ket, not into opinion, not into patronage. O Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. O Of all the arts beneath the heaven That man has found, or God has given, None draws the soul so sweet away As music's melting, mystic lay ; Slight emblem of the bliss above, It soothes the spirit all to love. HOGG. O The key to man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. 59 By six qualities may a fool be known : anger, without cause ; speech, without profit ; change, without motive ; inquiry, without an object ; trust, in a stranger and incapacity to distinguish between friend and foe. <5> Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute, what you can do, or think you can, begin it. LORD CHESTERFIELD. O Censure and criticism never hurt any- body. If false, they cannot harm you unless you are wanting in character ; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble. <> And see how everywhere Love comforts, strengthens, helps, and saves us all ; What opportunites of good befall To make life sweet and fair. CELIA THAXTER. <3> Time indeed is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. O Fashion easily transforms deformity to beauty and beauty to deformity. 60 That \ve spent, we had ; That we gave, we have ; That we left, we lost. O We are much bound to them that do succeed. But, in a more pathetic sense are bound To such as fail. JEAN INGELOW. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength ; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. O He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come ; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungen- erous spirit. O He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. O Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble, and are fighting their unseen battles. 61 All life is seed dropped in Time's yawn- ing furrow, Which will slow sprout and shoot, In the revolving world's unfathomed morrow Will blossom and bear fruit. MATHILDE BLIND. O If one looks upon the bright side, It is sure to be the right side, At least that's how I've found it as I've journeyed through each day. And it's queer how shadows vanish, And how easy 'tis to banish From a bright side sort of nature every doleful thing away. O Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. MARGARET FULLER. o Would you always remain young, and would you carry all joy and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years ? Then have care concerning but one thing how you live in your thought world. R. w. TRINE. <> Prejudices are most difficult to eradi- cate from the heart whose soil has never 62 been loosened or fertilized by education ; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. c. BRONTE. -3> Disappointment should always be taken as a stimulant, and never viewed as a discouragement. c. B. NEWCOMB. <3> Discontent is want of self-reliance ; it is infirmity of will. EMERSON. <> He that lives in the shade does not see his own shadow : he that walks in sun- shine does ; and yet he is in fuller, clearer light. O A grindstone that had no grit in it, how long would it take to make an axe sharp ? And affairs that had no pinch in them, how long would they take to make a man ? <> Let us respect the ancient manners, and recollect that if the true soul of chivalry has died among us, with it all that is good in society has died. <> We like to read others but do not like to be read ourselves. 63 Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful. PLATO. Don't nurse opportunity too long take it into active partnership with you at once, lest it leave you for other com- pany. O This learned I from the shadow of a tree, That to and fro did sway upon a wall, Our shadow selves, our influence may fall Where we can never be. A. E. HAMILTON. o He lives long who lives well ; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. O Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal ; whereas, it was its con- tinuance which should have taught us its Value. HANNAH MORE. <> Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny people, and the old are hungrier for love than for bread. Th 64 Oil of Joy is very cheap, and if you can help the poor with a garment of praise, it will be better for them than blankets. DRUMMOND. <> You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. <3> Would'st shape a noble life ? Then cast No backward glances toward the past, And though somewhat be lost and gone, Yet do thou act as one new-born : What each day needs, that shalt thou ask. Each day will set its proper task. <> You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity. T. L. CUYLER. o What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin to-day to build my own truer and better world from within. H. w. DRESSER. 65 Reading is indeed to the mind as food is to the body the material of which its fibre is made. It is surprising to note the difference in the quality of mental thoughts which even one half-hour's good reading each day will make. LILIAN WHITING. O We must compromise with life ; accept what it will give you, for there is nothing complete, nothing absolutely perfect. If you demand that, if you refuse to con- cede, you get nothing but struggles and insufficiency. JONATHAN STURGES. <> If every man's eternal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share. Who raise our envy now ! <> If you would not be known to do a thing never do it. EMERSON. O Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. LOCKE. <> Let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. <> Sow an act, and you reap a habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a character ; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny 66 Every man is the architect of his own fortune. SALTER. O In freedom you lay the firmest founda- tions both of loyalty and order. <> Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were the easiest for his feet Find your niche, and fill it. If it be ever so little, if it is only to be hewer of wood or drawer of water, do something in this great battle for God and truth. SPURGEON. O Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. <> There are four things that come not back the spoken word, the spej arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Men know not how great a revenue frugality is. CICERO. <> Every man is open to commit the fault of which he is least capable. G. MACDONALD. 67 Gentleness is indeed the best test of gentlemanliness. SMILES. O Mercy is the spring of God's longsuffer- ing ; forgiveness is the activity of this mercy ; and longsuffering is its quiet flow, In character, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is sim- plicity. LONGFELLOW. o If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. <> The thirst for gold hath made men demons O Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. O Honour him whose life is perpetual victory ; him, who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labour, instead of praise, who does not shine and would rather not. O Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to contract none. 68 Nothing can bring you peace but your- self. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. O That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and neces- saries are not wanting. O Every man's task is his life-preserver. The conviction that his work is dear to God defends him. O It is a Dutch proverb that " paint costs nothing," such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finger pigment ; and so of cheerfulness, the more it is spent the more it remains. EMERSON. True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undis- turbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. j. LOCKE. O Too many, through want of prudence, are golden apprentices, silver journey- men, and copper masters. G. WHITFIELD. <5> The smallest effort is not lost ; Each wavelet on the ocean toss'd 69 Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow ; Each rain-drop makes some flow' ret blow, Each struggle lessens human woe. MACKAY. O Love is sunshine. LONGFELLOW. Time was, is past ; thou can'st not it recall. Time is, thou hast ; employ the portion small. Time future, is not, and may never be : Time present is the only time for thee. O Chearefulnesse Doth expresse A settled, pious mynde, Which is not prone to grudging, From murmuring refined. ANNE COLLINS. o Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. Children love them; quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they grow ; they are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded town mark, as with a little broken frag- ment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose hearts rest the covenant of peace. 7 Every man can help on the world's work more than he knows of. What we want is the single eye, that we may see what our work is.the humility to accept it, however lowly, the faith to do it for God, the perseverance to go on till death. NORMAN MACLEOD. O Don't speak of what you are going to do. Do it. <> Books are the depository of everything that is most honourable to man. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. w. GOODWIN. <> The rewards of duty are not rest from labour, but greater tasks. FOLLEN. <3> Since each has his trials and troubles to bear, While as pilgrims we journey along the same road, When we meet with a brother with more than his share, 'Tis humanity bids us to lighten his load. <> Publicity is the force which, beyond all others, keeps the atmosphere of a country sweet and pure. 71 Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind. PITMAN. O It is not how great a thing we do, but how well we do the thing we have to, that puts us in the noble brotherhood of artists. O Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still ; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill. <> Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes. FABER. The doors of your soul are open on others, and theirs on you. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence an influence com- pared with which mere language and per- suasion are feeble. HORACE BUSHNELL. To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. AMIEL. A man's conduct is an unspoken sermon. AMIEL. <> Look up and not down, Look forward and not back, 72 Look out and not in, Lend a hand. <5> Every flower that blooms, every plant that grows, every bird that sings, every cloud that flits across the sky, every star that shines, every human face, suggests something about God the Creator, reveals some feature of his power, His wisdom, His goodness. O Every heart contains perfection's germs. O Does any man wound thee ? Not only forgive, but work into thy thought intelli- gence of the kind of pain, that thou mayst never inflict it on another spirit. MARGARET FULLER. <3> The straightest way, perhaps, which may be sought, Lies through the great highway men call " I ought." O Love is the cross and passion of the heart ; its end its errand. O Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. G.Q.T. 73 D The love of Heaven makes one heavenly. SHAKESPEARE. o Books are men of higher stature, And the only men that speak Aloud for future times to hear. O As our life is a sea, hope is compared to an anchor, which makes us stand steady in a storm. <> He who governs his tongue is perfectly able to control all his passions. CHANNING. <> Man's if is God's determination. <3> Love is God's loaf ; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray. BEECHER. <> Wise men are instructed by reason ; men of less understanding, by experience ; the most ignorant by necessity ; and beasts by nature. CICERO. O Fear is implanted in us as a preserva- tive from evil ; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. DR. JOHNSON. 74 Jealousy, "Tis a monster, Begot upon itself, born on itself. SHAKESPEARE. <5> A vacant mind is open to all sugges- tions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds. <> Yes ! you find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. O We have got work to do. . . . Nothing can release us from the obligation to prosecute that work to its accomplishment. <> The end of labour is to gain leisure. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Read Nature- Nature is a friend to truth. O Manual labour is the study of the external world. The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir. 75 God never put one man or one woman into the world without giving each some- thing to do in it, or for it some visible, tangible work, to be left behind them when they die. <3> Necessity is stronger than human nature. O The burden of suffering seems a tomb- stone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls. RICHTER. O There is nothing useless to men of sense ; clever people turn everything to account. <> I hate to see a thing done by halves ; if it be right, do it boldly ; if it be wrong, leave it undone. GILPIN. Opinions are not necessarily truths any more than botanical propositions are trees. O Opportunities are for eternity, but not to eternity. O It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they grow older, and fools more foolish. 76 Hope is the mainspring of human action ; Faith seals our lease of immor- tality ; and Charity and Love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. <> Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little name- less acts of kindness, little silent victories over favourite temptations these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. F. W. FARRAR. Real merit is not in the success, but in the endeavour. <> A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to per- form. R. BURN. <> Simplicity is Nature's first step and the last of art. O What ignorance attends the human mind, How if we are to our misfortunes blind ! <3> To rule oneself is in reality the greatest triumph. SIR j. LUBBOCK. 77 Modesty's the charm That coldest hearts can quickest warm Which all our best affections gains And gaining, ever still retains. <> For the best that thou canst be Is the service asked of thee. O The present moment is a powerful duty. An ideal may seem unattainable, but when it is distinctly acknowledged as the object of aspiration, it will be found close at hand. To get money, study and act out the Book of Proverbs. Motives are everything with God, and as far as we are upright, they are every- thing to us. EVANS. <=> Service is our destiny in life or in death. Then let it be my choice, living to serve the living, and be fretted uncomplain- ingly. If I can assure myself of doing service, I have my home within. GEORGE MEREDITH. 78 The only reward of virtue is virtue ; the only way to have a friend is to be one. The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid, than in that which is said in any conversation. There's music in the sighing of a reed ; There's music in the gushing of a rill ; There's music in all things, if man had ears. BYRON. Confidence is the secret of strength. MONOD. o He is an unskilful limner who paints deformities in the fairest colours. " Self-ease is pain, thy only rest To labour for a worthy end." WHITTIER. O Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. Malice will with joy the tie receive, Report, and what it wishes true, believe. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty well done. GEORGE MACDONALD. 79 What is the best Government ? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. GOETHE. <3> A jealous man sleeps a dog's sleep. O Leisure is a very pleasant garment to look at, but a very bad one to wear. The ruin of millions may be traced to it. O Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention. O Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. Money is so good a servant, that it will never suffer its master to die a beggar. <> Be but faithful, that is all ; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still, and find thee, Help, sure help I A. H. CLOUGH. O A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials. CHINESE. 80 Work and wages make a light heart. Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body. CICERO. All as God wills, who wisely heeds To give or to withhold, And knoweth more of all my needs, Than all my prayers have told. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. All worldly joys go lesse To the one joy of doing kindnesse. GEORGE HERBERT. Aye, better to climb and fall, Or sow though the yield be small, Than to throw away day after day, And never strive at all ! I should never have made my success in life, if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken, the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest. c. DICKENS. 81 A kindly act is a kernel sown, That will grow to a goodly tree, Shedding its fruit when time has flown Down the gulf of eternity. Never hold any one by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. CHESTERFIELD. The enemies which rise within the body, hard to be overcome thy evil passions should be manfully fought ; he who con- quers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds. Each of us is bound to make the small circle in which he lives better and happier ; each of us is bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow. A. P. STANLEY. Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep : for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. PAXTON HOOD. 82 The sweeter words of love and home are all of low degree. There is not one that well accords with prideful dignity. O The difficult part of good temper con- sists in forbearance and accommodation to the ill-humour of others. EMERSON. O Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes. F. w. FABER. <> Like alone acts upon like. Therefore, do not amend by reasoning, but by exam- ple ; approach feeling by feeling ; do not hope to excite love except by love. Be what you wish others to become. Let yourself and not your words preach. AMIEL. <> Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning. F. W. FABER. O It is hardly exaggeration to say that two-thirds of all that makes it " beautiful to be alive " consists in cup offerings of water. O In heaven hands clasp forever. GREEK PROVERB. 83 Progress is our being's motto and hope. Gaining and losing in this world, rising and falling, enjoying and suffering, are but the incidents of life. Onward, then, pilgrims, to eternity. DR. DEWEY. $> Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty is the way to glory. O Never fancy you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned to you. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. <> Character is not only written in the face, expressed in conduct and language, but is sent forth as a thought atmosphere. DRESSER. O Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. DR. JOHNSON. <3> Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. H. DRUMMOND. 84 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. All things exist in the man, tinged with the manners of his soul. <> The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. O There is no music in a rest, that I know of, but there is the making of music in it. O Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruit- less words of him who does not act accord- ingly. O Sweet is the smile of home, the mutual look, When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the house- hold nook The haunt of all affections pure. O There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving. WHITTIER. O Wisdom is knowing what to do next : Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. DAVID STARR JORDAN. 85 If we are not responsible for tie thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain. CHARLES B. NEWCOMB. <> There is no greater honour to a man than to suffer for the sake of that which he thinks to be righteous. O If you would have a happy family life, remember two things : In matters of principle, stand like a rock ; in matters of taste, swim with the current. <> Immortality will come to such as are fit for it ; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now. EMERSON. O Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain ; And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning. Take heart with the day and begin again. <3> Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. WORDSWORTH. Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true. 86 Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth ; For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice, And whoso suffers most hath most to give. <> Honour to those whose words or deeds, Thus help us in our daily needs And by their overflow Raise us from what is low. LONGFELLOW. This world is a world of men, and these men are our brothers. We must not banish from us the divine breath ; we must love. Evil must be conquered by good ; and before all things one must keep a pure conscience. AMIEL. O Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base ; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, dis- tinction. An untempted virtue is only a possible virtue ; it is not certain yet that it will stand the test. We must meet tempta- tion, and win the crowns which are only for the overcomers. 87 Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. O Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. <> What is greatness ? Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears. O Nothing is so simple as greatness ; indeed, to be simple is to be great. O Come what may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. SHAKESPEARE. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. AMIEL. Angels are round the good man to catch the incense of his prayers. <> Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. TERENCE. 88 The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. HERBERT SPENCER. O There's no dearth of kindness In this world of ours ; Only in our blindness We gather thorns from flowers. MASSEY. <> To live long it is necessary to live slowly. CICERO. O We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dis- satisfied with ourselves. O A great integrity makes us immortal ; an inspiration, an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, lifts us above fear. It makes a day memorable. We say we lived years in that hour. <> Be a gift and a benediction. Shine with a real light, and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts. O If we live truly, we shall see truly. . . . Life only avails, not the having lived. 89 To make our word or act sublime, we must make it real. Love will creep where it cannot go, will accomplish that by imperceptible methods . . . which force could never achieve. O Who fights With passions and o'ercomes, that man is armed With the best virtue passive fortitude. WEBSTER. The way to conquer men's prejudices is to appeal freely to their good sense, and allow reasonable scope to their free will and choice. True worth is in being, not seeming, In doing each day that goes by Some little good, not in dreaming Of great things to do by-and-by. ALICE GARY. Endure and dare, true heart ; through patience, joined with boldness, come we at a crown encircled with a thousand blessings. SPANISH PROVERB. 90 A word spoken in quietness, and by way of appeal to the free judgment and reason of men, can rarely fail to be in season. <> To-day is a king in disguise. To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, . . all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days. <> To fill the hour that is happiness. Everything good is on the highway. <> Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. O To finish the moment, to find the jour- ney's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. O The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. O Instead of a gem, or even a flower, cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend. GEO. MACDONALD. 91 Be satisfied with nothing but your best. EDWARD ROWLAND HILL. <> Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. JOHNSON. O The smallest roadside pool has its water from heaven, and its gleam from the sun, and can hold the stars in its bosom, as well as the great ocean. <> When God gives to us the clearest sight, He does not touch our eyes with love, but sorrow. j. B. O'REILLY. O The stoutest armour of defence is that which is worn within the bosom ; And the weapon that no enemy can parry is a bold and cheerful spirit. O The thoughts that come often unsought and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again. LOCKE. O When the sun of joy is hidden, And the sky is overcast, Just remember light is coming, And a storm can never last. j. B. SMILEY. 92 The diminutive chain of habit is scarcely heavy enough to be felt till it is too strong to be broken. DR. JOHNSON. O Silence is the understanding of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. TILLOTSON. <3> It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. SIR w. SCOTT. <> Confidence cannot dwell where selfish- ness is porter at the gate. Consider then the lilies, heart of mine, to-day : They neither toil nor spin to win Their beautiful array ; 1 would that thou couldst lead a life So fearless, sweet as they. MARGARET E. SANGSTER. The ministry of little things, Not counted mean or small By that dear alchemy which brings Some grain of gold from all : The faith to wait as well as work, Whatever may befall. SUSAN COOLIDGE. 93 The fame of good men's actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles distance. O There never was a day that did not bring its opportunity for doing good that never could have been done before, and never can be again. It must be improved then or never. O The men and women that are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticise. ELIZABETH HARRISON. O The best preacher is the heart ; the best teacher is time ; the best book is the world ; the best friend is God. TALMUD. O O Friend, my bosom said. Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red. <> Good deeds are trophies erected in the hearts of men. XENOPHON. <> The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life 94 Provided it could be but finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means : a very different thing ! O We need never be impatient to know our future ; it is better that we be content to see just the next step, and to take that ; to know the next duty, and to do it. O Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating ; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. <3> Well to suffer is divine ; Pass the watchword down the line, Pass the countersign " endure " 1 Not to him who rashly dares, But to him who nobly bears Is the victor's garland sure. J. G. WHITTIER, O Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. CHARLOTTE BRONTfi. <> Remember now and always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality based upon eternity and encompassed by eter- 95 nity. Find out your task ; stand to it ; the night cometh when no man can work. CARLYLE. o It is easy in the world, to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude, to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. EMERSON. O A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green which otherwise would heal and do well. BACON. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. FRANKLIN. o Be noble ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. 96 from the Jfatbers, /fcarrfage. shall I be able sufficiently to describe the happy state of that couple whom the Church hath joined, prayer and thanksgiving have confirmed, angels in heaven have pro- claimed, and the parents on earth ap- proved ! S. TERTULLIAN. <> Wee and Dirtue. If you tell me of the pleasure of vice, tell out its end too ; for it issueth in death, even as virtue leadeth to life. Or, if you think fit, scrutinize them both even before their end, for we shall see that vice has a great deal of pain attached to it, and virtue great pleasure. Nothing is so painful as a bad conscience ; nothing more pleasing than a good hope. S. CHRYSOSTOM. G.Q.T. 97 E Stuos of Self. Above all other subjects study thine own self, for he who is thoroughly acquainted with himself hath attained to a more valuable sort of learning than if the course and position of the stars, the virtues of plants, and the nature of all sorts of animals had employed his thoughts. S. BERNARD. 3Beaut of a Wife. Seek thou not for outward beauty in a wife, but for beauty of soul. Outward beauty is full of conceit, and disease may prematurely spoil the whole. Seek, then, for a wife full of affection, modesty, gentle- ness ; these are the precious character- istics of true beauty. How many hus- bands after living with beautiful wives have ended their lives pitiably ? and how many husbands who have lived with wives of no great beauty have run on to extreme old age with great enjoyment ? Let us wipe off the spot that is within ; let us smooth the wrinkles on the soul ; such is the beauty God requires, and the wife will then be fair in His sight, if not thine also. S. CHRYSOSTOM. 98 Sfgbt of tbe Sea. A pleasant sight is the whitening sea when a steady calm possesses it ; pleasant, too, when gentle breezes roughen its surface, and impart to it a purple colour or a blue, when it smites not its neighbour land with violence, but salutes it, as it were, with a gentle embrace. s. BASIL. proper place for IRepentance. Let us repent while we are yet upon the earth, for we are as clay in the hands of the artificer. The potter, when he makes a vessel, and it turns amiss in his hands, forms it anew ; but if he had gone so far as to throw it into the furnace of fire, he can no more bring any remedy to it. So we, while we are in this world, should repent with our whole heart for whatsoever evil we have done in the flesh, while we have yet the time of repentance, that we may be saved of the Lord, for after we shall have departed out of this world we shall no longer be able either to confess our sins, or repent in the other. S. CLEMENT OF ROME. IHnoeretanotng. The understanding enables us to grasp great matters, honourable, even divine, and therefore is most blessed. S. AUGUSTINE. 99 IRelfgion in tbe Return. Show me not the wrestler in the place of exercise, but in the lists ; and show me religion not at the season of hearing, but at the season of practice. S. CHRYSOSTOM. O kittle anJ> reat Seest thou how hi matters of trade, they who are so employed make their profit not only with gold, but with silver also ? So, if we are not come to slighting the little things, we shall keep hold also of the great things ; but if we despise the small, neither shall we lay hand on the large. Individuals become rich by gather- ing both kinds. Thus Christians must act, that they may become enriched in all things, and finally obtain the Kingdom of Heaven. s. CHRYSOSTOM. ttbe 3Dle WorD. The idle word is that which profits neither him that speaks nor him that hears. That is not an idle word which bears upon it the meaning of a joyous, affectionate, cheerful spirit, kindling what it expresses the happiness of human hearts. s. JEROME. IOO fleeting Days roll on, some pass, others come, some remaineth ; the moments in which we speak each in turn expel other, and the first syllable abideth not in order that it may be possible for the second to sound. Even while we speak we are somewhat aged ; and without all doubt I am older at this moment than I was this morning ; so fleeting is time, in which nothing standeth, nothing abideth fixed. s. AUGUSTINE. <3> Dappfness. Happiness assuredly is to be the end of our course, wherein we are to be shaken by no misery, deceived by no error. S. AUGUSTINE. ffears. He feareth no one who is not conscious to himself of any wickedness ; on the con- trary, he who liveth in crime is never confident, but scans them with suspicion, and trembles in their presence. Why, say his slaves ? He cannot bear the tribunal of his own conscience. His inward thoughts affect him profoundly, and suffer him not to rest either by day or night. His evil doing is ever before him. s. CHRYSOSTOM. 101 Conduct ant) Xtfe. Man, destined to die, takes pains that he may not die ; and yet man, destined to live for ever, takes no pains that he may not sin ! And when he takes pains that he may not die, he takes them to no purpose ; for his aim is that death may be a long time deferred, not that it may be escaped from ; whereas, if he refuse to sin, he will have no pains, and will live for ever. Oh ! that we could rouse men to be such lovers of the life that abideth, as men are of the life that fleeth. S. AUGUSTINE. B jflfcorning 1b\>mn. Radiant Giver of the light, By whose calm and piercing ray, When have flown the hours of night Comes the re-awakening day. But brighter than the noontide blaze, Fount and Source of all our day, Potent in men's hearts to raise Sparks that ne'er shall fade away. Framer of the realms of space, Glory of Thy Father's light, Teach, by treasures of Thy grace, Hearts to scan themselves aright Still the Spirit's aid impart, Make us shrines of the Most High, 1 02 Lest the arch-rebel traitor's art Lure us by its witchery. Thus the prayerful soul aspires, Such its votive gifts to Thee, Trusting that thy morn-lit fires Serve for nightly custody S. HILARY. Govern your passions, manage your actions with prudence, and, where false steps have been made, correct them for the future. Let nothing be allowed to grow headstrong and disorderly ; but bring all under discipline. Set all your faults before your eyes and pass sentence upon yourself with the same severity as you would do upon another, for whom no partiality hath biassed your judgment. S. BERNARD. "Cdealtb. We must impart our wealth benevo- lently ; avoiding the extremes of mean- ness and ostentation. We must not let our love of the beautiful run into selfish- ness or excess, lest it should be said of us " His horse, or his farm, or his servant, or his plate, is worth fifteen talents, while he himself would be dear at three farthings." S. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. 103 A certain wise man saith rightly " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity," for neither does prosperity show a friend, nor adversity hide an enemy, in that the first is often hidden by awe of his fortune, and the latter is disclosed to view from presuming on his adverse condition. Let the holy man, then, set in the midst of scourges, exclaim " He that taketh away pity from his friend forsaketh the fear of the Lord ; " in that doubtless he that contemns his neighbour in conse- quence of his adversity is clearly con- victed never to have loved him in his pros- perity. S. GREGORY THE GREAT. O By friendship I mean the greatest love and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings and the most exemplary faith- fulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of mind, of which brave men and women are capable. JEREMY TAYLOR. O There is no so certain evidence of friend- ship as never to overlook the sins and failings of our brethren. Hast thou seen them at enmity ? Reconcile them. 104 Hast thou seen them set on unlawful gain ? Check them. Hast thou seen them wronged ? Stand up in their defence. It is not on them but on thyself thou art conferring the chief benefit. It is for this purpose that we are friends that we may be of good service one to another. A man will listen in a different spirit to a friend. An indifferent person he will regard perhaps with suspicion, and so in like manner an instructor, but not so a true friend. s. CHRYSOSTOM. O True friendship is : but true friendship cannot be unless God cements it in those who cleave to Him by that " love which is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." S. AUGUSTINE. Doings of tbe Bvaricious. The avaricious put things in the contrary order from the natural they make the soul exist for the body, and the body for external things. s. SYNESIUS. O The time is one of difficulty ; those who take counsel against us are many ; the genuineness of love is perished, and the 105 pest of detraction has been put in its place. We travel in the midst of snares, and walk about on the battlements of cities ; those who are ready to exult in our mis- fortunes are many, and have beset us on every side ; there is no one to condole with us, or such are very few. Brother helped by brother is like a strong city and a well fortified kingdom ; do not dissolve this relationship, nor break down this barrier. s. BASIL. a Description of Truth, the mother of virtue, is painted in garments as white as snow : her looks are serene, pleasant, courteous, cheerful yet modest ; she is the pledge of all honesty, the bulwark of all honour, the light and joy of all human society. She is com- monly accounted the daughter of Time because she is discovered in course of time. TReal JSeautg, The man in whom the Word dwells is become like God, and is fair without striv- ing to seem so ! This is real Beauty. S. CLEMENT. I O6 ffattbful in Xittte. The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. S. BUONA VENTURA. o prevailing over Ibabft. When thou art beginning to correct an evil habit, though thou shouldest trans- gress thy law a first, a second, a third, nay a twentieth time, do not despair, but rise up again, and resume the same diligence, and thou shalt surely prevail. S. CHRYSOSTOM. O a Cgpe of tbe twman "Race. The wounded man in the parable of the Good Samaritan typifies the human race, which in the persons of our first parents forsook the celestial state, and by their sin fell into the misery of this world of exile, being by the cozenage of the old enemy despoiled by the robe of innocence and immortality, and sorely wounded by the taints of original sin. s. AMBROSE. ur fjeavenlg f>ome. " Him that cometh unto Me," said Christ, " I will not cast out of doors." 107 What must the " within doors " be where there is no more going out " of doors." Innermost depth of home ! sweet secrecy of dwelling. O secret place to dwell in, where is no dullness, no bitterness of evil thoughts, no throng of temptations and griefs crying for help ! Is it not that secret place into which that well-deserving servant shall enter to whom his Lord shall say " Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." s. AUGUSTINE. O (Boot) Ibearers. The more frequently you hear me the longer I preach. I compare you to hard drinkers, who become the more thirsty the more wine they consume. S. CHRYSOSTOM. O Ibospltalitg. The observance of hospitality, even to an enemy, is inculcated by a Hindu author with great elegance : " The sandal tree imparts its fragrance even to the axe that hews it." jfl&utual 1belp. It is reported of harts that, having to travel far by herds on the land, or else to pass over some great water, they go behind 1 08 one another, and when the foremost is weary, then he resteth his weary head upon the hindmost, and so, mutually bearing one another's burden they come happily to the place where they would be. Thus, as the souls of holy men long and thirst after God with whom is the well of life, like as the harts desire the water-brook ; let them, as deer, support the sick and heavy heart of one another, bear up a brother who is falling, strengthening one another in the way of this earthly pilgrimage, until theyallrest upon God's holy mountain where they shall be satisfied with the pleasures of His house, drinking out of the comforts thereof as out of a river. S. AUGUSTINE. <3> Cbe properties of Sir. Ah- is a subtle element, heavier than fire, but lighter than earth or water, in itself colourless and non-luminous, but serving as a vehicle to three of our senses sight, hearing, and smell. S. JOHN OF DAMASCUS. o Gbe Ibeart. The heart is the most noble of all the members in our body ; the strength of our whole life is entrusted to it, and death 109 happens when it receives but a slight blow. God hath fortified it on every side with stiff hard bones, surrounding it by the protection of the breast-bone before and the blade-bones behind. And what He did with respect to the membranes of the brain He hath done in this instance also ; for in order that it might not be rubbed and pained in striking against the hard bones which encompass it, through the leaping and quick pulsation to which it is subject in anger and similar affections, He both interposed many membranes there, and placed the lungs by it so as to act the part of a soft bed to these pulsations, so that the heart may spend its force on these without sustaining injury or distress. All this is truly wonderful. " Keep thine heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." s. CHRYSOSTOM. God does not regard what amount of evil each person may be able to do, but what amount of evil he may have a mind tO do. S. GREGORY. O Bflecttons. Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they no are not lost in Thy sight. And yet the hairs of his head are easier to be numbered than his affections, and the motions of his heart. s. AUGUSTINE. There is nothing so powerful as humble- mindedness. It is stronger even than a rock, and harder than adamant, and places us in a safety greater than that of towers and cities, being too high for any of the artillery of Satan. s. CHRYSOSTOM. <> 1ftnowle&0e in Tbcaven. How great, how delightful, how true shall our knowledge of all things be in heaven ! We shall drink there at the spring-head of God's wisdom without difficulty, and in all felicity ! S. AUGUSTINE. O tTbe Splendour of fbeaven. O one, O only mansion ! O paradise of joy! Where tears are ever banished, and smiles have no alloy ; The Lamb is all thy splendour, the Crucified thy praise ; His laud and benediction thy ransom'd people raise. Ill With jasper glow thy bulwarks, thy street with emeralds blaze ; The jasper and the topaz unite in thee their rays ; Their ageless walls are bounded with amethyst unpriced ; The saints build up its fabric, the Corner- stone is Christ. s. BERNARD. <> 1bow to make a <5ooD /ifcan. No evil can make another man good. If no evil, therefore, can make another man good, how can an evil man make himself good ? Verily, He only can make a good man out of an evil man who is Himself eternally good. S. AUGUSTINE. I)usban5 and TKHife. A certain man, setting down a number of things in the rank of blessings, set down this also A wife agreeing with her husband. And elsewhere again he sets it down among blessings that a wife should dwell in harmony with her husband. From the beginning God made special provision for such perfect union and concord. So David said of Jonathan " Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women." In very deed, this 112 love is of all empires the most absolute. Others may be exceedingly strong, but this passion has not only strength but unfadingness. It is the kind of love, deeply seated in our nature, which imper- ceptibly to ourselves so knits together these bodies of ours that " the twain become one flesh." s. CHRYSOSTOM. <> THnDerstan&ing. Art thou proud of thy understanding ? It is no proof of understanding to be proud. Nay, by this thou deprivest thyself of every chance of becoming thoughtful. S. CHRYSOSTOM. Motives of CbaritB. What are the poor to whom we give but our carriers by whom we convey our goods from earth to heaven ? Give then ; thou art but giving to thy carrier ; he carrieth what thou givest to heaven. How, sayest thou, does he carry it to heaven ? What ! hast thou forgotten " Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom ; for I was an hungered, and ye gave Me meat ; " and " Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of Mine, ye did it unto Me ? " If thou hast not despised the beggar that standeth before thee, consider to whom what thou gavest him hath come. " Inasmuch," saith He, "as ye did it unto the least of one of Mine, ye did it unto Me." He hath received it who gave thee wherewith to give. He hath received it who in the end will give His own self to thee ! s. AUGUSTINE. <3> Sntemperancc. Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She always stalks abroad accom- panied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies. S. CHRYSOSTOM. <3> ur Glorious prije. Look upward where the prize is ; the sight of the prize increaseth the determin- ation of the will ; this hope suffereth not to toil or distress ; it maketh the distance appear short. And what is this prize ? No palm branch ; but what ? The king- dom of heaven, everlasting rest, glory, together with Christ, the promised inherit- ance, glorified brotherhood, and ten thou- sand other blessed things. It is impossible to describe the beauty of that prize ; he who hath it alone knoweth it, and he who is about to receive it. It is not of gold, it is not of jewels ; it is far more precious. Gold is mire in comparison 114 with it, pearly stones are mere bricks in contrast with its beauty. If thou hast this, and takest thy departure to heaven, thou wilt be able to walk there with great honour ; the angels will reverence thee when thou bearest this prize ; with much confidence wilt thou approach them all. S. CHRYSOSTOM. O Dots flben's Bjultation. Holy men do not exult when they learn the things for them to do, but when they do the things they have learnt. S. GREGORY. in race. Age or stature is not at one's own will. A man does not grow in respect of the flesh, any more than he is born, when he will. So no man is " born of water and he Spirit " except he is willing ; conse- quently, if he wills, he grows or makes increase ; or, if he wills, he decreases. To grow is to go onward by proficiency ; but Christians are to " grow in grace " and never to " draw back." S. AUGUSTINE. O a (Boot) Intention. The intent of the heart is denoted by the eye, as it is written " If thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light." For when anything is done with a good intention, the enacting of that intention contracts no soil in the sight of God ; and so when friends are full of words, that is when the very same persons retract that are joined with us in faith, the eye must needs pour out tears to God. S. GREGORY THE GREAT. Sin of pri&e. " Innocent from the great offence." What is " the great offence ? " That which cast down a mighty angel, and made of him the worst of devils, and for ever closed the kingdom of heaven against him. That is " the great offence," and the head and cause of all offences. From this vice is produced a departing from God, while the soul goes into darkness, and makes evil use of its free will, with all other sins too in its train ; so that a man squanders all his substance by prodigal living ; and he who was the associate of angels becomes a feeder of swine ! On account of this tremendous evil God came down from heaven in the person of Jesus in all humility, even in the form of a servant, exposed Himself to despiteful treatment, was hanged on the accursed tree, and died there that He might atone 116 for the awful guilt of this awful sin ! Therefore let every immortal being in the universe blush to be proud after this ! S. AUGUSTINE. Wages of ffattb. Life eternal is, so to speak, the wages of faith ; God seems indeed in bestowing life eternal to be repaying a debt. S. AUGUSTINE. <> pure praters. He only above all others " made pure prayers to God," in that even in the very anguish of His passion He prayed in behalf of His persecutors, saying " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ; " for what can be described what can be conceived more pure in prayer that, when the mercifulness of intercession is vouchsafed even those from whose hands pain is undergone. S. GREGORY THE GREAT. <> /HboDeration. It is better to have all goods even in a less degree, than great good with great evil, just as it is better to have the stature of Zacchaeus with sound health than the stature of Goliath with fever. S. AUGUSTINE. 117 travelling TOpwarD. Let us be sober, and bidding farewell to all evil in life and thought, let us travel along the narrow way, being both fearful and confident fearful because of the precipices on either side ; confident be- cause Jesus is our guide. S. CHRYSOSTOM. <> Cburcb /DMisfc. The use of singing is very great in churches. It stirs up the mind with a certain pleasure into an ardent desire of that which is celebrated in the song ; it appeases the desires and affections of the flesh ; it drives away the evil thoughts of our enemies that are invisible and secretly arise ; it makes the mind irriguous and apt to bring forth holy and divine fruits ; it makes the generous contenders in piety, valiant and strong in adversity ; and it brings a medicine and remedy to all the evil accidents of our life. St. Paul in his spiritual armoury calls this " the Sword of the Spirit ; " for it is all of it the Word of God, which is celebrated in the mind, in the song, and in the verse ; it drives away evil spirits, and the pious mind is, by the ongs of the Church, perfected in virtue. S. JUSTIN MARTYR. 118 a /Hbarnage of ilrue What a union for two believers is a Christian marriage to have one hope, one desire, one course of life, one service of God in common one with one another. S. TERTULLIAN. O /iften Surpassed bg XClomen. In worldly matters we in no point yield to them, but in spiritual matters they get the advantage of us, and are the first to seize the prize, and soar higher like so many eagles, whilst we, like jack- daws, are ever living in the steam and smoke. Hearken about the women of old ; they were great characters, great women and admirable : such were Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Deborah, and Hannah ; and such-like there were also in the days of Christ. Yet did they in no case out- strip the men, but occupied the second rank. But now it is the very contrary ; women outstrip and eclipse us. What a shame is this ! We are ordained to rule over them to rule by excelling in virtue ; but if we are surpassed by them, we can no longer be rulers over them. S. CHRYSOSTOM. o tTbc "RewarD of a (SooO Bcc5. A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who 119 plants kindness gathers love : pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. s. BASIL. H <5oo& an& God made man upright, and conse- quently self-willed, otherwise he could not have been upright : so that his good will was God's work, man being therewith created. But the evil will which was in man before his evil work was rather a falling from the work of God to its own works than any work at all ; and therefore were the works evil because they were ac- cording to themselves and not according to God, this evil will being as a tree bear- ing such bad fruit, or man himself in respect of his evil will. s. AUGUSTINE. THflatcb pour I bid thee watch thy tongue more than the apple of thine eye. The tongue is a royal steed. If thou then put a bridle on it, and teach it to pace orderly, the King of Heaven will take his seat thereon ; but if thou suffer it to rush about un- bridled and leap wildly, it becomes a beast to ride on for Satan and evil spirits S. CHRYSOSTOM. 1 20 Olfc Inquire of him that is grown old, and when you have reminded him of sump- tuous banqueting which he hath enjoyed, and of glory and honour, and of good works he hath done, ask in which he exults the more ; and you will see him for the first ashamed and covering his face, but for these latter soaring and leaping with joy. s. CHRYSOSTOM. o flbotives to TRigbt If thou wilt cleave to the higher, thou shalt tread lower things under foot ; but if thou depart from the higher, the lower shall be turned to thy punishment. S. AUGUSTINE. O Custom. So great is the strength of custom that it hath oftentimes prevailed over the commands of God ; nay, over His choicest blessings. The Hebrews, when they were divinely fed with manna in the desert, required the garlic of Egypt ; when enjoy- ing full liberty under the leadership of Moses, they were continually extolling their experience of Egypt, and longing for a repetition of it. s. CHRYSOSTOM. G.Q.T. 121 F <3uar& against Doubting. Doubting is the daughter of the devil, and deals very wickedly with the servants of God. Despise it, therefore, and thou shalt rule over it on every occasion. s. HERMAS. a Staple Garment. Clad thee with the love of wisdom, with hospitality, with the succouring of the saints, with continual prayer. These be better than cloth of gold, these more stately than jewels and necklaces ; these make thee of good repute among men, and bring thee great reward with God. This is the dress of the Church, worthy of heaven. s. CHRYSOSTOM. ^faults anD Dices. The faults of ordinary men, which are as though committed in the dark, ruin only those who perpetuate them ; but the vices of a man who is conspicuous and widely known inflict a common injury upon all, making them more remiss who have relaxed in their strivings after good, and rendering capricious those who wish to give heed to themselves. S. CHRYSOSTOM. 122 TbatreD of an If thine enemy hate thee, and unjustly hate thee, know that the lust of the world reigns in him, therefore he hates thee. If thou also hate him because he hateth thee, thou renderest evil for evil. S. AUGUSTINE. t>fob anfc Xowlg. " Condescend to men of low estate." Bring thyself down to their humble con- dition, ride or walk with them ; reach forth thy hand to them, as father taking care of a child. This is acting nobly. S. CHRYSOSTOM. O Delfgbt in JBusfnees. Whoever desires to make his way pros- perous in this world, to surpass the rest of the world, to swell high with substance and honours, to this man, no doubt, worldly business is a delight and repose a labour. s. GREGORY THE GREAT. JSrave 2>eeD0. There are some just persons who, albeit they live virtuous lives and keep them- selves from things unlawful, yet never work any great deeds of good. There 123 are others also who at first have lived worldly and criminal lives, but who after- ward return unto their heart, considering with themselves that they have acted wrongfully ; these, pricked with grief, are inflamed with love to God, practise themselves in great virtues, seek out the posts of peril in the holy contest, and for- sake all the allurements of the world, and because they perceive that they have wandered away from God, make up for their former losses by ensuring gains. S. ANSELM. ffalse Gbarftg. There are charitable Christians who are barren fig trees, with leaves only. There are also some whose souls are narrow, who are charitable by fits, who will give once or twice, and no more. Let us resemble the olive let us bring forth abundant fruits the fruits of peace and mercy. S. CHRYSOSTOM. of tbe Why is man capable of evil at all ? Dn account of the freedom of his will, which is suitable to his position as a rational being. Released from all re- straint, and receiving from his Maker a 124 life which is free because he is made in the image of God, he perceives the good and knows the happiness of it, and has power, if he continues in the contempla- tion of the good and the enjoyment of spiritual blessings, to keep the life which is according to his nature ; but has also power on occasion to turn from the good ; therefore, expelled from Paradise, he was deprived of that happy life, and be- came evil, not of necessity, but through folly. s. BASIL. <> fnimblenesg. He that hath learned to make his boast of the Lord will never be unduly elated respecting himself, but will be moderate at all times, and thankful under all cir- cumstances. S. CHRYSOSTOM. <$> Soul anD JBo&B. Suppose the body to be good, still it is vastly inferior to the soul ; nevertheless, in the same way as lead is of less value than gold, and yet gold needs lead to solder it, just so has the soul need of the body. Or in the same way as a noble child needs a conductor, so does the soul stand in need of the body. S. CHRYSOSTOM. 125 TKHan&erfng abougbts in prater. How may we check wandering thoughts in prayer ? By being fully certain that God is before our eyes ; for if when we see a prince or ruler and converse with him, we keep our eyes fixed on him, how much more shall he who prays to God keep his mind fixed on Him who " searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men ? " s. BASIL. O SelfsDenial. Let us first learn what it is to deny another, and then we shall know what it is to deny oneself. s. CHRYSOSTOM. (Boofc /feen aa XJoofcs. The lives of good men are living studies ; whence such are not undeservedly termed books in the language of Scripture, as it is written " The books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books." The books also said " to be opened," because the conduct of just men in whom the com- mands of Heaven are seen impressed in act, is then made manifest. And the dead were so judged, because in the con- 126 duct of the righteous, which is set forth, they read, as in an open book, the good or otherwise which they did. S. GREGORY THE GREAT. JSaD Company. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little diffi- culty, 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. S. AUGUSTINE. and toe&itatfon. Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. s. AMBROSE. Ibouse llfce a Citg. Every house is a little city, and every man a prince in his own house. That the house of the rich is of this character, is clear enough where there are stewards and rulers over rulers. But I say that the 127 house of every poor man is also a city. There are officers of authority in it ; for instance the husband has authority over the wife, and the wife over the children. It is like as if there were two kings in one house, one only wearing the diadem. S. CHRYSOSTOM. Cbristtan racea. There is not a grace in the Christian but is more glorious than the sun with all its regiments of stars, and is more like God than the great fountain of light with all its amazing splendour. It is something of that Heaven which is more glorious than all the rest of the heavens, and is above the reach of the natural eye. JMeness. An idle soul stands in the world for a cipher, and God writes the book of life. Heaven is no hive for drones ; an idle person is fit for temptation. When the bird sits still on the bough, then it is in danger of the gun ; one sits still in sloth, then the devil shoots him with a tempta- tion ; standing water putrefies. 128 prater anfc Prayer without study is presumption, and study without prayer is infidelity. s. AMBROSE. t)ow to Cure Ibabit. Consider how many among the Greeks have entirely cured the lisping of their halting tongue by much practice, while others, who were used to shrug up their shoulders in an unseemly way, by putting a sword over them have broken themselves Of it. S. CHRYSOSTOM. 3mperfectfon0. An athlete, so long as he remains at home, and contends with nobody, may conceal his imperfections ; but when he strips for the conflict, he is easily found out. And some men who live a private and inactive life have their seclusion as a veil over their faults ; but when they come into the arena, they are forced to strip off solitude as a garment, and to show their naked souls to all men by means of their outward movements. S. CHRYSOSTOM. 129 JSeautg of a parable. The very surface of a parable, if con- sidered only from without, is beautiful indeed ; but whoso cracks the nut will find in it a kernel still pleasanter and far more delightful. s. BERNARD It is not only a most hateful evil, but it is a radical evil. As all other lusts are found lodging in it, so they are found springing from it. It is a foul leprosy in face of morality, and a hurtful worm gnawing at the root of humility. O Iftnowlefccje. There are men who wish to learn merely that they may know, and such curiosity is blameable ; there are others who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is a ridiculous vanity ; while others again learn only that they may make merchan- dise of their knowledge, and that merchan- dise is ignoble. When then are all kinds of knowledge good and salutary ? They are good when they are put in practice ; and he is blameable who, having the knowledge of the good he ought to do, does not do it. s. BERNARD. 130 ttbe "UdaE to perfsb. A man will justly perish, if, having the knowledge of the way of truth, he shall nevertheless not refrain himself from the way of darkness. O JngratttuDe. Ingratitude is a nail, which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither ; it is a broken channel by which the founda- tions of the affections are undermined ; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavour. s. BASIL. O ttrue Cbarfts. Charity is the mother of good deeds, not bare words or mere ways of speaking to men, but taking care of them, and a putting forth of itself by relieving poverty, lending aid to the sick, rescuing from dangers, standing by our fellow-creatures in difficulties, weeping with them that weep, and even rejoicing with them that rejoice. s. CHRYSOSTOM. power of Pity is peculiar to power, and even the world itself was established by power. S. CHRYSOSTOM. H>angerou0 Xibeitg. He that will go as near the ditch as he can, will at some time or other fall in ; so he that will take all liberty that possibly he may lawfully, cannot but fall into many unlawful things. S. AUGUSTINE. The aiming after a happy life is common to philosophers and Christians ; but where is the thing to be found ? He who is good, is good that he may be happy ; and he who is bad, would not be bad if he did not hope that he might be happy thereby. As touching the good, they are good because they seek a happy life ; as touching the bad, if I could say to them " Do you wish to be happy ? " they would answer " We do." But while they aspire after the reward of the good they do evil. A happy life is the reward of good ; good- ness is the work, happiness is the reward. S. AUGUSTINE. 132 Mosaics of Eastern Wisbom. Divine JBeings. E pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine. BUDDHIST. O Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles. <> Discretion. If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds. PERSIAN. Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring. Slow anD Sure. Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean ; and his fortune is then exalted. HITOPADESA. The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving ; of the head, Bending before a teacher ; of the mouth, Veracious speaking ; of a victor's arms, Undaunted valour ; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied ; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire. BHARTRIHARI. O If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of con- querors. DHAMMAPADA. o Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates : the brook reaches the ocean by the river's aid. MAGHA. O Sin. Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, 134 is odious, but most of all in men of learn- ing ; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive. SA'DI. <3> To-day is thine to spend, but not to- morrow ; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow ; O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee ; Make not too sure another breath to borrow. OMAR KHAYYAM. O JrfenDs of <5oD. Whosoever does not persecute them that persecute him ; whosoever takes an offence in silence ; he who does good because of love ; he who is cheerful under his sufferings these are the friends of God, and of them the Scripture says, " They shall shine forth like the sun at noontide." TALMUD. <3> Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong. SA'DI. He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his know- 135 ledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away. TALMUD. <> A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. CHINESE. Deart of fllban. The fish dwell in the depths of the water, and the eagles in the sides of heaven ; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook ; but the heart of man at a foot's distance cannot be known. BURMESE. O Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour. TALMUD. <5> Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength ; if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing ? HITOPADESA. O Abstemiousness. Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it. ARABIC. 136 perseverance. The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged ; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. MAGHA. <> Never put thyself in the way of tempta- tion : even David could not resist it. TALMUD. <> Xife. Death comes, and makes a man his prey, A man whose powers are yet unspent ; Like one on gathering flowers intent, Whose thoughts are turned another way. Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares ; To-morrow's task to-day conclude. MAHABHARATA. Cbe JBest of The best preacher is the heart ; the best teacher is time ; the best book is the world ; the best friend is God. TALMUD. O Dope. In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds. NIZAMI. 137 We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy ? tfalse ff rfenDsbfp. Be cautious in your intercourse with the great ; they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. Friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no assist- ance in time of actual need. TALMUD. As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E'en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth. BUDDHIST. <> Tbappinees. The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy. BHARAVI. Worfc. Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself : the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion. HITOPADESA. 138 Health is the greatest gift, contented- ness the best riches. DHAMMAPADA. O Circumstances. A wise man adapts himself to circum- stances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. CHINESE. <5> There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it ; and again nature brings good out of evil. MENANDER. <3 <5oo& Works. The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked : even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others. BHARTRIHARI. <3> actions. Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error. TALMUD. <> The friendships formed between good and evil men differ. The friendship of 139 the good, at first faint like the morning light, continually increases ; the friend- ship of the evil at the very beginning is like the light of midday, and dies away, like the light of evening. BHARTRIHARI. All that we are is made up of our thoughts ; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happi- ness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him. DHAMMAPADA. <:> To friends and eke to foes true kindness show ; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do ; Harshness will alienate a tosom friend And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. OMAR KHAYYAM, O fcisb aspirations. Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity ; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it. BURMESE. O A prudent man will not display his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace. HITOPADESA. 140 Most men the good they have despise, And blessings which they have not, prize In winter, wish for summer's glow, In summer, long for winter's snow. SANSKRIT. O If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key to the door of hell. SA'DI. O Selffsbness. The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live. HITOPADESA. <5ooD an& A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one. SIMONIDES, <> Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey's end we should lay in the more provision for it. <3> Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft ; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may 141 run to waste, but the purse of the arti- san's industry can never get empty. SA'DI. O The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with them- selves ; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other's wickedness. ARISTOTLE. Sclfs'Relfance. Depend not on another, rather lean Upon thyself ; trust to thine own exer- tions : Subjection to another's will gives pain ; True happiness consists in self-reliance. MANU. <3> Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work ! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on. PERSIAN. tongue anD tbe Bars. Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means : listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one. HAFIZ. 142 Be modest and simple in your deport- ment, and treat with indifference what- ever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race ; obey God. MARCUS AURELIUS. o a IbastB TUfloro. If your foot slip, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slip, you cannot recall your words. TELUGU. O Compassion. To bad as well as good, to all, A generous man compassion shows ; On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall. RAMAYANA. O Wrtue. Single is every creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good ; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay. Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away : Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, track- less gloom. MANU. 143 Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away. All Nature's face delight to view, As changing seasons come anew ; None sees how each revolving year Abridges swiftly man's career. RAMAYANA. Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathizing tear on the woes of his neighbour. NAKHSHABI. Questions. What is the most profitable ? Fellow- ship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world ? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss ? Failure in one's duty. Where is the greatest peace ? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero ? The man who sub- dues his senses. Who is the best beloved ? The faithful wife. What is wealth ? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness ? Staying at home. BHARTRIHARI. 144 The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream. CHINESE. faults. The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to per- ceive ; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester. DHAMMAPADA. O jfalse Bppearances. Even a blockhead may respect inspire. So long as he is suitably attired ; A fool may gain esteem among the wise. So long as he has sense to hold his tongue. HITOPADESA. o <5ooD an& JSaD ffrfen&s. He who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself ; he whose associations are pure becomes purer each day. TALMUD. He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had pre- pared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed. METASTASIO. G.Q.T. 145 G ZTbe TKnagee of Sin. Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues. BURMESE. <> With knowledge, say, what other wealth Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey, Which, lavished, never wastes away. SANSKRIT. In no wise ask about the faults of others, for he who reporteth the faults of others will report thine also. FIRDAUSI. O Patience in calamity : mercy in great- ness ; fortitude in adversity ; these are the self-attained perfections of great SOulS. HITOPADESA. pen /HMnD. In youth a man is deluded by other ideas than those which delude him in middle life, and again in his decay he embraces other ideas. MAHABHARATA. O Knowledge. He who has more learning than good- ness is like a tree with many branches 146 and few roots, which the first wind throws down ; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot. TALMUD. O Perseverance. A feverish display of over-zeal. At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success ; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees. HITOPADESA. <5oo& DeeDs. As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours wafts from blooming trees, So too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds. SANSKRIT. o There never was, there never will be, a man who is always praised, or a man who is always blamed. DHAMMAPADA. <> promptitude. Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow ; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow ? The rose-garden which to-day is full of flowers, 147 when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose may not afford thee one. FIRDAUSI. To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of Chaff. HITOPADESA. o IRepentance. He who formerly was reckless and after- wards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from Clouds. DHAMMAPADA. o IClorfc. Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for- nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another's hand. SA'DI. Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not over- whelmed by calamities. MAHABHARATA. a iraortbB ffrfenD. The good man shuns evils and follows good ; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden ; he makes his virtues mani- 148 fest to all j he does not forsake one in adversity ; he gives in season : such are the marks of a worthy friend. BHARTRIHARI. <> Jntcrest In tbers Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior ; the rain cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season. BHARTRIHARI. Entangled in a hundred worldly snares, Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded, Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches. Then, in their self-complacency, they say, " This acquisition I have made to-day, That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf Is hoarded up already, so much more Remains that I have yet to treasure up. This enemy I have destroyed, him also, And others in their turn, I will despatch. I am lord ; I will enjoy myself ; I'm wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy ; I'm absolutely perfect ; no one else 149 In all the world can be compared to me. Now will I offer up a sacrifice, Give gifts with lavish hand, and be tri- umphant." Such men, befooled by endless vain con- ceits, Caught in the meshes of the world's illu- sion, Immersed in sensuality, descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits. MAHABHARATA. o Dfrtue anD Sin. Repeated sin destroys the understand- ing, and he whose reason is impaired repeats his sins. The constant practis- ing of virtue strengthens the menta faculties, and he whose judgment stronger grows acts always right. MAHABHARATA. O Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain : this is the sum of duty. MAHABHARATA. IRigbt an& In one short verse I here express The sum of tomes of sacred lore : Beneficence is righteousness, Oppression's ski's malignant core. SANSKRIT. ISO Knowledge produces mildness of speech ; mildness of speech, a good character ; a good character, wealth ; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness. HITOPADESA. A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart. MAHABHARATA. <3> Slander. When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander. SA'DI. Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruit- less words of him who does not act accord- ingly. DHAMMAPADA. O Conff&ettces. Trust not thy secret to a confident, for he too will have his associates and friends ; and it will spread abroad through the whole city, and men will call thee woak- headed. FIRDAUSI. In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate. MENANDER. o Gatfcers. The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by any one. FIRDAUSI. O A man is fretted not so much by events themselves as by his thoughts about them. EPICTETUS. O Avoid inflicting upon others sufferings you dread for yourself. Do you fear slavery ? See to it that you do not keep slaves. O Liberality attended with mild lan- guage ; learning without pride ; valour united with mercy ; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it these four qualities are with difficulty acquired. HITOPADESA. O Words of blame from those who are hostile to a great man cannot injure him. The moon is not hurt when barked at by a dog. ARABIC. 152 B&vancement. A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox ; his flesh grows, but his know- ledge does not. DHAMMAPADA. (Sentiences. Good words, good deeds, and kindly thoughts, A wise man ever culls from every quarter E'en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn. MAHABHARATA. O Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out ; But is there one I have a doubt Who can his own defects discern ? SANSKRIT. C5oo& Deefcs. Just as the track of birds that cleave the air Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish That skim the water, so the course of those Who do good actions is not always seen. MAHABHARATA. <3> By nature all men are alike, but by education very different. CHINESE. 153 Justice. Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume. SA'DI. <> All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her. TALMUD. Cbarttg. The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact ; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act. MAHABHARATA. O A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. MAGHA. 3Beneffcence. If thou intendest to do a good act, do it quickly, and then thou wilt excite grati- tude ; a favour if it be slow in being con- ferred causes ingratitude. AUSONIUS. 154 Xittle bB Xittle. By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled : such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue. HITOPADESA. Cbe pri&e of fools. When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment ; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash. MENANDER. ffrfen& in fleefc. As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity. METASTASIO. o There is nothing in this world which a resolute man, who exerts himself, cannot attain. SOMADEVA. Gbe Wise Ohm. He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learn- 155 ing, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding the being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man. BURMESE. O tlbe 2)eceitfulness of TRicbes. He who has wealth has friends ; he who has wealth has relations ; he who has wealth is a hero among the people ; he who has wealth is even a sage. HITOPADESA. <> Two sources of success are known : wisdom and effort ; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise. MAGHA. Bee&s an5 Increase in goodness as long as thou art here, that when thou departest, hi that thou mayest still be joyful. Accord- ing to our words and deeds in this life will be the remembrance of us in the world. FIRDAUSI. Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, 156 I thought within myself, I all things knew ; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease passed off ; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am. BHARTRIHARI. a Contented The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations. HERODOTUS. <$> To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is silence. NIZAMI. O Gfttee Evils. There are three things to beware of through life : when a man is young, let hun beware of his appetites ; when he is middle-aged, of his passions ; and when old, of covetousness, especially. CONFUCIUS. 157 <5oo& for Evil. His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays ; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites. PANCHATANTRA. o There is no fire like passion ; there is no shark like hatred ; there is no snare like folly ; there is no torrent like greed. DHAMMAPADA. O S&vtce an& practice. Skill in advising others is easily attained by men ; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing. HITOPADESA. <> Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin. TALMUD. O Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy him- self about the frost on his neighbour's tiles. CHINESE. O We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep ; our passions are the winds IS8 that sweep us impetuously forward ; each pleasure is a rock ; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride. METASTASIO. <> passions. As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through an unre- flecting mind. DHAMMAPADA. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. CHINESE. Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on : That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me's enough. Behold this world's delight, and view its various pains ; If not to you, the joy it shows to me's enough. HAFIZ. O {True pietg. There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow-men. TALMUD. 159 Dost them desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery. SA'DI. a Stea&g Course. As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise. DHAMMAPADA. The enemies which rise within the body, hard to be overcome thy evil passions should manfully be fought : he who conquers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds. BHARAVI. <> Cbarttg. Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog ; an outcast kindly treat ; And so thou shalt be blest in turn. MAHABHARATA. O Worldly fame and pleasure are destruc- tive to the virtue of the mind ; anxious thoughts or apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body. CHINESE. 160 fmowle&ge. Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen, and is the eye of every one who is not absolutely blind. HITOPADESA. The worth of a horse is known by its speed ; the value of oxen by their carry- ing power, the worth of a cow by its milk, and that of a wise man by his speech. BURMESE. O olfcen Silence. When thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it ; when thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee. SA'DI. <> Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure : a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learn- ing ; a just man gains the reward of his virtue. HITOPADESA. Slotb anD TXaorfc. Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. BHARTRIHARI. 161 The man who every sacred science knows, Yet has not strength to keep in check the foes That rise within him, mars his Fortune's fame, And brings her by his feebleness to shame. BHARAVI. The man of worth is really great with- out being proud ; the great man is proud without being really great. CHINESE. O Gbaritg. Be thou generous, and gentle, and for- giving ; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others. SA'DI. O Understand a man by his deeds and words ; the impressions of others lead to false judgment. TALMUD. Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy ? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator cele- brated by the whole creation. NAKHSHABI. 162 (Suar&lng tbe ttongue. Hast thou not perfect excellence, 'tis best To keep thy tongue in silence, for 'tis this Which shames a man ; as lightness does attest The nut is empty, nor of value is. SA'DI. Xiving for otbers. He only does not live in vain Who all the means within his reach Employs his wealth, his thought, his speech To advance the weal of other men. SANSKRIT. Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come ; do not vainly regret what is already past. CHINESE. <3ooJ> an& JBa& Dessels. Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation ; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty and easily repaired. HITOPADESA. 163 /Rite. Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified. MAHABHARATA. <3> CarDtnat Dfrtues. Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety, knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance. SA'DI. O In this world, however little happiness may have been our portion, yet have we no desire to die. Whether he can speak of life as cheerful and delicate, or as full of pain, anxiety, and sorrow, never yet have I seen one who wished to die. FIRDAUSI. O Bngels anD jflfcen. The angel grows up in divine know- ledge, the brute in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two. PERSIAN. Heed not the flatterer's fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain ; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain. SA'DI. 164 Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base ; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, dis- tinction. HITOPADESA. If thou desirest that the pure in heart should praise thee, lay aside anger ; be not a man of many words ; and parade not thy virtues in the face of others. FIRDAUSI. O If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming. METASTASIO. "GQlfs&om of ffools. The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far at least ; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed. DHAMMAPADA. O Keep thy heart afar from sorrow, and be not anxious about the trouble which ia not yet come. FIRDAUSI. 165 Women's wealth is beauty, learning that of men. BURMESE. a ffool in bis A man of little learning deems that little a great deal ; a frog never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea. BURMESE. O Through avarice a man loses his under- standing, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds. HITOPADESA. ttbe "Rewarfc of Dlrtue. The son who delights his father by his good actions ; the wife who seeks only her husband's good ; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity these three things are the reward of virtue. BHARTRIHARI. O A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness ; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth. HITOPADESA. 166 a f rtenfc in It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance ; friends at hand are better than relations afar off. CHINESE. O Purpose without power is mere weak- ness and deception ; and power without purpose is mere fatuity. SA'DI. O Cbe (Sate of tjeaven. Heaven's gate is narrow and minute, It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E'en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust. MAHABHARATA. O The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own. TALMUD. By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may 167 make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. DHAMMAPADA. O 'Tis those who reverence the old That are the men versed in the Faith ; Worthy of praise while in this life, And happy in the life to come. BUDDHIST. o Gbe l& r&er. Losing the simple customs of our ances- tors, we multiply laws and magistrates ; confessing our corruption by the very remedies we employ for its correction. PHOCION. <3> Desire neither life nor death ; but await the inevitable hour as a servant his lord's command. MANU. of JSefng. The essence of all philosophies being the same, all are at one with the Unity of Being. AUVAYAR. A golden cup, if broken, is still gold ; but of what use are the shreds of an earthen 168 pot ? The wise are useful and happy even in adversity ; but where is the fool should he become poor ? PHOCION. pleasant Xies. Speak the truth but without offence Should this be too disagreeable, be silent ; but tell no pleasant lies. MANU. Overcome evil with good, greed by liberality, and lying with truth. BUDDHIST. GolDen Silence. The wise man, if he become poor, if there be sorrow on his mind or evil in his house, if any deceive or mock him, keepeth silence. PHOCION. an& JSoofce. As the lotus floats on the surface of the pool, so the level of conduct is determined by what a man reads, and the character of those who surround him AUVAYAR. G.Q.T. 169 H Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man, swift as a racer, leaveth the hack behind. DHAMMAPADA. Cboice of ffrfen&s. A man becomes like those with whom he lives, whose society he loves, such, in fine, as he desires to be. The influence of his associates, whether good or bad men, thieves or ascetics, dyes his being as the vat of cloth. AUVAYAR. <> Cardinal Virtues. Charity, penitence, patience, contin- ence, modesty, uprightness and com- passion these are the seven gates of heaven. MAHABHARATA. The world is full of delights for him who, be he rich or poor, his passions conquered, has a soul at peace. BHARTRIHAR. Self*restraint. Whence comes happiness ? From tran- quillity and self-control. Men without self-restraint drift before their passions like rudderless boats before the wind. BHAGAVAT GITA. 170 Stupid men speak and act rashly, but the wise have regard to their future peace. PYTHAGORAS. <> a Xittle Xower tban tbe Bngels. Man holds a middle place between the pure intelligences and the brutes. Be not, then, one or other of these. PHOCION. <> Beware when speaking of other men that thou dost not make them the sub- jects of praise or blame. EP:CTETUS. Action and self-renunciation lead alike to happiness ; for he who either acts or denies himself reaps the harvests of both virtues. Right action, undertaken heed- less of consequences, is indeed renuncia- tion BHAGAVAT GITA. Test thy troubles ; if they be not of thine own making they are nothing to thee. EPICTETUS. <> Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. This is the foundation of all moral law. CONFUCIUS. 171 Never tire of introspection ; that which we call self is but a passing guest, and its concerns are like the mirage of the desert. BUDDHIST. <3> The wise will remember, even through seven incarnations, the love that has helped them in adversity. TIRUVALLUVAR. JBonO anfc The cruel chain of the body is circum- stance ; that of the soul, vice. Who is loosed in the body and bound in the soul is a slave, but who is bound in body and loosed in soul is free. EPICTETUS. As the rising sun tarries not for invoca- tions before he shines upon the world, so wait not thou for praise before thou doest well. O <5ooD 2lDv>fce. Avoid wounding the feelings of the ignorant. Respect what is time-honoured, conforming yourself to national and family customs. AUVAVAR. 172 The repentance of a wicked man, truly forsaking sin, lights the dark world as does the moon emerging from a cloud. DHAMMAPADA. O> pure passions. Strive not to destroy thy passions, for they too are Nature's work and immortal like their Author. But regulate these by reason, so shall they yield thee happiness instead of poisoning thy life. PHOCION. <8> Eacb /ban plags bis part. We do not choose our parts in the drama of lite ; our business is to act them well. A mind unshaken by life's vicissitudes, unstirred by grief or passion, is the greatest of all blessings. BUDDHIST. Go Brr is Duman. Man is by nature prone to err. If thou shouldest chance to fall, forget not this striving again to rise. Thyself canst break the straightest bonds of sin, the roughest paths of virtue canst make smooth. CONFUCIUS. 173 Be not envious ; envy makes moral progress impossible. Reflect well before you act or speak. AUVAYAR. Economy, generosity, compassion, all these are good, but each, if ungoverned by justice, might become a vice. So patriotism, if too narrow to be dominated by the love of humanity, may endanger the safety of States. PHOCION. <3> Ebe Xast ipost. As, at the pilot's signal, a sailor throws aside shells idly gathered from the beach, in haste to reach his ship ; so should man leave wife and child without a backward look whenever the Master calls. EPICTETUS. Honour thy parents and be true to thy friends. PHYTHAGORAS. Earnestness. A wise man, replacing vanity by earnest- ness, climbs a terraced height, whence he looks down serenely on the fools, as one standing on a mountain surveys those in the plain. DHAMMAPADA 174 A religious man shrinks from each of two extremes a life of pleasure, ignoble, unspiritual, and unreal, and a life of mortification, gloomy, unworthy, and also unreal. BUDDHIST. O Cleanse thy thoughts, and they will cleanse thine actions. CONFUCIUS. <> As a child eating stolen honey with a knife scarcely tastes the sweetness before he cuts his tongue : so a man, grasping unfairly at wealth or pleasure, may seize his prey and yet wound his own soul. BUDDHIST. J8itternes5 of Sin. Let no man say of sin, " It cannot over- take me." While it bears no fruit, he thinks it sweet, but matured, he tastes its full bitterness. BUDDHIST. Fools follow every new thing ; but the wise man regards earnestness as the most precious of jewels. DHAMMAPADA. 175 Conquer the mind, so difficult to tame, so flighty and so wilful, for from such a victory cometh happiness. Guard, too, thy thoughts, artful against restraint, for thoughts controlled bring also happiness. How the well-sinker leads the waters forth ! See how the skilful archer bends his bow ! Fashions the carpenter the tree ! So, see virtuous manhood strive to shape his soul. DHAMMAPADA. O Those noble men who falsehood dread, In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed. But like to flames with water drenched, Which faintly flickering, die away, So liars day by day decay, Till all their lustre soon is quenched. SANSKRIT. If you wish to know how much pre- ferable wisdom is to gold, then observe : if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone ; but if you ex- change one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before. TALMUD. 176 As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. BHARAVI. A foolish husband fears his wife ; a prudent wife obeys her husband. CHINESE. O Xffe. Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief. MAHABHARATA. O Dices anD Virtues. Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it ; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it. CHINESE. The schools of philosophy are always in conflict, and the noise of their passionate discussions rises like the waves of the sea. 177 Heretics of the different sects attach themselves to particular teachers, and, by iifferent routes, walk to the same goal. HIOUEN THSANG. <> Self*confiDence. A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is condemned by himself. MAHABHARATA. IbatreD. " He injured, he defeated," or " he robbed me ! " Harbouring such feel- ings, how shall hatred cease ? " He injured, he defeated," or " he robbed me ! " Who being aggrieved, yet thinks not thus, is happy. True is the old saw, " Never did hate kill hate." EPICTETUS. Beware of violence, control thy body ; renounce its weaknesses and practise its virtues- BUDDHIST. an ascetic. The highest happiness is his alone who, freed from passion, and absorbed in devo- 178 tion, transcends his earthly senses, and becomes one with the Universal Spirit. BHAGAVATGITA. <3> Cruelty and strength can never conquer mercy and patience. An axe may cleave an elephant's hide, but cannot cut a cotton bale, and the rock that defies the quarry- ing tool may be split by the root of a tree. AUVAYAR. O Either edify by thy conversation or hold thy peace. To express unpleasantly what might be pleasantly said, is like eating unripe instead of ripe fruit. TIRUVALLUVAR. o> The archer plumes an arrow for its flight, so should we steady thought with virtue's wing ; or, as a fish snatched from its watery home all shuddering seeks again his native stream ; no less con- vulsed, does virtuous thought rebel against the durance of the tempter's realm. EPICTETUS. Butler & Tanner, Printers, Frome and London. 179 UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY A 000 048 029 3