Man shall not die! Thought shall not die ! John S. Van Cleve. XXXI. BURNING GLASSES. ABSTRACTS, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use as burning glasses, to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. Swift. It is the first step that costs. A MAN is only as old as he feels. French Proverb. Douglas Jerrold. THE race of life has become intense; the runners are treading upon each others' heels. Woe be to him who stops to tie his shoe-strings! Carlyle. I DID not think that because I had done wrong I ought not to do right. Beecher. HYPOCRISY can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises, it costs nothing. Burke. LET us, therefore, stop, while to stop is in our power; let us live as men who are sometime to grow old, and to whom it will be the most dreadful of all evils to count their past years by follies, and to be reminded of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has produced. Samuel Johnson. To man this earth is something more than a dormitory and a larder and a gymnasium. It is a school-house and a work-shop and a gallery of art. It is a mighty lesson-book for his perpetual study. Taking a broad view of our whole existence, it is not too much to say that our entire life on earth is thus basal and preparative. It is foundation work, root work, a getting ready rather than an achievement. Cyrus D. Foss, D.D. REMORSE, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. Cowper. THE vain regret that steals above the wreck of squan dered hours. Whittier. O HUMAN beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee. Barry Cornwall. have seen SIR, when you have seen one green field you all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside. Samuel Johnson. EYES raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. WE are very much what others think of us. Joubert. The recep tion our observation meets with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. Hazlitt. MAN has interests other than those that are material; he has aspirations that sweep beyond time and this world. He is more than his body; he is greater than his life; he has a vision that is not of the eye; he has within him a “still, small voice," that compels attention now and then. We are apt to forget these things in this whirling age and country. Most of us are utterly immersed in worldly pursuits, and wholly occupied with selfish struggles, so that the moral part of our nature is neglected. Now, we would not undervalue the necessities of the hour. It is proper that the work of the day should be done manfully; that the battles of life should be fought with resolution, and that people should try to improve their material fortunes. But still there is something else that must not be overlooked. There is a moral nature, the neglect of which is moral death. NOTHING more thoroughly contemptible, nothing more thoroughly confuted by its own processes, than agnosticism has ever held up its head amongst men. The entire process by which it arrives at the unknown somewhat is an ascent from effects to causes, a series of discoveries of causes from their effects, but the last cause, forsooth, is the unique exception, and is not to be known by what it does and produces. We are indebted for this excessively disgraceful and senseless admission to that prolific source of unspeakable nonsense and folly, German philosophical speculation. We are not indulging in vituperation, but are simply calling a spade a spade. To fill the cup of astonishment to the very brim, the persons indulging in the utter senselessness of agnosticism are actually introduced to us as exceptionally intelligent. Christian Intelligencer. HAVING looked upon the great mountains of Colorado, God seems greater to me than ever, and the Ancient of Days older than ever, and His goodness better than ever. J. B. Bittinger, D.D. Now good digestion wait on appetite, Shakespeare. GIVE a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Emerson. MEN are like stone jugs-you may lug them where you like by the ears. Samuel Johnson. Ir is vain to be always looking towards the future and never acting towards it. J. F. Boyes. LOVE and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Fielding. THERE is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. MAN is more than constitutions. Thoreau. Whittier. THERE are but three classes of men: the retrogade, the stationary, and the progressive. Lavater. MAN is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this; one dog does not change a bone with another! MAN is an animal that cooks his victuals. Adam Smith. Burke. If there are men in whom the ridiculous has never appeared, it is because they have not been well searched. Rochefoucauld. GOD made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. Shakespeare. FRIENDSHIP closes its eyes rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. Hare. MAN is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended from the first appearance of the Paleozoic fishes. Agassiz. A MAN ought to carry himself in the world as an orangetree would if it could walk up and down in the gardenswinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air. Beecher. MAN is greater than a world, than systems of worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physi cal than in the creation of a universe. Henry Giles. THE personal element tells in the formation of character. No conceivable advantages of endowment or appliances, and no prestige of position, should make a Christian parent willing to place son or daughter in an undevout atmosphere, for scholastic training. Christian Intelligencer. ALL great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promises of their faculties. Emerson. THIS is not a land of peace; it is a nation of armed men. There should be general disarmament, and we should guard the sale of pistols as we guard the sale of poisons. It is the brutality that comes from the possession of weapons that does the harm. Robert Collyer. |