25252525252525 A DYING man is a balloon throwing down its ballast. PASSIONS are the winds that bear along our life-ship. Reason is the helmsman that guides it; the ship would stop without wind, and would strand without the helmsman. UPON T. Schulz. PON the whole I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way of knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see. Bishop Berkeley. LIFE, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence, where it comes upon soundings. THE Holmes. 'HE first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge except by a like process. We must fall on our knees at the threshold, or we shall not gain entrance into the temple. FORM ORMULAS fashion themselves as paths do; as beaten highways, leading towards some sacred or high object, whither many men are bent. Carlyle. WHEN God would educate a man he compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him to school to the Necessities rather than to the Graces, Burleigh. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtues. 2525252 Bacon. LET but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born, that drops into its place; Lowell. 252525 52525252525 252520 AMONG the best of men are diversities of opinions; which are no more, in true reason, to breed hatred than one that loves black should be angry with her that is clothed in white; for, thoughts are the very apparel of the mind. A to a man. Sir Philip Sidney. CERTAIN amount of opposition is a great help Kites rise against the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man, therefore, wax pale because of opposition. Neal. 252525252525252 A LL that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be, by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heaps particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. Elihu Burritt. PRAYER is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gate of death, НЕ Montgomery. E who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who laboured in his fields but did not sow the seed. THE HEY who do disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always seen. THE Hare. 'HE flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry. MORALITY without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning, an endeavour to find our place on a cloudy day by measuring the distance we have to run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. 25252 Longfellow. 5252525252525 2525 2525252 THE HE faith that does not throw a warmth as of summer around the sympathies and charities of the heart, and drop invigorations like showers upon the conscience of the sick, is as false as it is unsatisfying. SOME often repent, but never reform. They resemble a man travelling a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back. Thornton. NEVE EVER respect men for their riches only, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. Bailey. THE greatest thoughts are the simplest, and so are frequently the greatest men. THE part past, a third part in full-bloom-is a type of this world. In all things that live, there are certain irregularities and deficiencies, which are not |