Part 10

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,--diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.--BISHOP HALL.

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.--RICHTER.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.--MACAULAY.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.--SOUTH.

INGRATITUDE.--If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude.--H. BROOKE.

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.--DE BOUFFLERS.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. --SHAKESPEARE.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.--BUNYAN.

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world.--SOUTH.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.--GOETHE.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.--PLAUTUS.

And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. --YOUNG.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. --AUSONIUS.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.--NAPOLEON.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. --SHAKESPEARE.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. --PUBLIUS SYRUS.

INNOCENCE.--We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.--CHAPIN.

True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within. --HORACE.

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears.--HOOPER.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.--WILLIAM PENN.

How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid! Serenity and cheerfulness are his portion. Hope is continually pouring its balm into his soul. His heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded and tortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances and risings up of principles which they cannot forget; perpetually teased by returning temptations, perpetually lamenting defeated resolutions. --PALEY.

Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!--CAROLINE OF DENMARK.

There are some reasoners who frequently confound innocence with the mere incapacity of guilt; but he that never saw, or heard, or thought of strong liquors, cannot be proposed as a pattern of sobriety. --DR. JOHNSON.

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.--MADAME SWETCHINE.

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause.--SOUTHERN.

INSPIRATION.--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?--GEORGE ELIOT.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.--OVID.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.--CICERO.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. --GREVILLE.

INTELLECT.--If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.--FRANKLIN.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.--SAMUEL SMILES.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.--REV. THOMAS SCOTT.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.--COLTON.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.--EMERSON.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.--BACON.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.--CHANNING.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence. --EMERSON.

INTEMPERANCE.--A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance.--DR. JOHNSON.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.--JOHN B. GOUGH.

Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.--ATTERBURY.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.--PROVERBS 23:29-32.

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!--SHAKESPEARE.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three,--the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.--STERNE.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.--CHARRON.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. --WALTER SCOTT.

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.--JUNIUS.

Sinners, hear and consider; if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.--BAXTER.

The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"--JEFFERSON.

JEALOUSY.--People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable.--BARNES.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. --FIELDING.

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her.--HELPS.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.--ADDISON.

Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. --SHAKESPEARE.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.--SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6.

Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity. --SPENSER.

JOY.--The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.--SOUTH.

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.--BISHOP PORTEUS.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.--LAVATER.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.--BEECHER.

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two; Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never pluck'd by one. --YOUNG.

JUDGMENT.--How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?--MADAME DE GENLIS.

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly?--BYRON.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. --GOETHE.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. --L'ESTRANGE.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.--2 COR. 5:10.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.--BALLOU.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. --JAMES A. GARFIELD.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.--H.W. SHAW.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.--MISS MULOCK.

The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. --KOSSUTH.

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.--MASON.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. --POPE.

JUSTICE.--Justice offers nothing but what may be accepted with honor; and lays claim to nothing in return but what we ought not even to wish to withhold.--WOMAN'S RIGHTS AND DUTIES.

Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. --SHAKESPEARE.

And heaven that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind. --POPE.

He who is only just is cruel.--BYRON.

The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. --PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 112:6.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium which we pay for it.--WILLIAM PENN.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge that no king can corrupt. --SHAKESPEARE.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.--ADDISON.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.--POPE.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.--DR. WATTS.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.--H.W. SHAW.

Be just in all thy actions, and if join'd With those that are not, never change thy mind. --DENHAM.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. --ARISTOTLE.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.--WEBSTER.

KINDNESS.--A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.--TILLOTSON.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. --SIR H. DAVY.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.--F.W. FABER.

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!--WASHINGTON IRVING.

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 circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.--HELPS.

One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn Long as its currents roll. --HOLMES.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.--BENTHAM.

There is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.--EMERSON.

KISSES.--A kiss from my mother made me a painter.--BENJAMIN WEST.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.--BOVEE.

It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. --HALIBURTON.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,--these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.--BOVEE.

You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as the birds.--CHARLES BUXTON.

KNOWLEDGE.--Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.--BOSWELL.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.--CHESTERFIELD.

In reading authors, when you find Bright passages, that strike your mind, And which, perhaps, you may have reason To think on, at another season, Be not contented with the sight, But take them down in black and white; Such a respect is wisely shown, As makes another's sense one's own. --BYRON.

Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in life. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession of knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at twenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the most important years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred per cent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Its price is above rubies.--WINSLOW.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. --JOAQUIN MILLER.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.--LEIBNITZ.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.--RUFUS CHOATE.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.--TUPPER.

A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant."

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.--DR. JOHNSON.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.--THOMAS À KEMPIS.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.--FULLER.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.--FELTON.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.--COWPER.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.--JUVENAL.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.--BISHOP HALL.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.--LADY BLESSINGTON.

The sure foundations of the State are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.--G.W. CURTIS.

LABOR.--Labor is one of the great elements of society,--the great substantial interest on which we all stand.--DANIEL WEBSTER.

Hard workers are usually honest. Industry lifts them above temptation. --BOVEE.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind; and hence arises the happiness of the poor.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.--U.S. GRANT.

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices. --BEECHER.

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.--HORACE MANN.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. --J.G. HOLLAND.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.--CARLYLE.

Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.--WILLIAM PENN.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.--BOVEE.

Labor is rest--from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. --FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him. --LOWELL.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. --FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

LANGUAGE.--In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver. --JOUBERT.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.--BOVEE.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.--MARK HOPKINS.

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.--WHIPPLE.

LAUGHTER.--Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.--DR. HUFELAND.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.--GOETHE.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.--LAMB.

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.--TALMAGE.

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. --THACKERAY.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.--GREVILLE.

LEARNING.--Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.--CHESTERFIELD.

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.--SAADI.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. --POPE.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.--CATHERALL.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, by possessing our souls of true virtue.--MILTON.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--YOUNG.

He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think that he knows enough.--POWELL.

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.--LORD BACON.

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.--STEELE.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.--BISHOP TAYLOR.

Learning is better worth than house or land.--CRABBE.

LIBERALITY.--If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.--JOUBERT.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.--BACON.

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.--LA BRUYÈRE.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. --PROVERBS 11:24.

Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.--LA BRUYÈRE.

The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.--PROVERBS 11:25.

LIBERTY.--The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. --THOMAS JEFFERSON.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. --COWPER.