guiltiness. It ventures for Christ, in opposition to all difficulties and discouragements.-W. Bridges.

While reason is puzzling herself about the mystery, faith is turning it into her daily bread and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.-F. D. Huntington.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. Bulwer.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. - W. M. Evarts.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice?— If not, have none of it.-H. Ballou.

Ignorance as to unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith; and understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge.-Understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.-Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance. Quarles.

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy. Jeremy Taylor.

Faith does nothing alone-nothing of itself, but everything under God, by God, through God-Stoughton.

Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.Heraclitus.

I prefer a firm religious faith to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes, when those of the world vanish; throws over the decay of life the most gorgeous of all lights; and awakens life even in death. Sir H. Davy.

Faith is like love: it cannot be forced. -As trying to force love begets hatred, so trying to compel religious belief leads to unbelief. Schopenhauer.

FALSEHOOD.- (See "LIARS.")

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.-C. Johnson.

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.-Herbert.

The lie of fear is the refuge of cowardice, and the lie of fraud the device of the cheat. The inequalities of men and the lust of acquisition are a constant premium on lying.-Edward Bellamy.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.-E. W. Rice.

If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms; for we should then take the contrary to what the liar says for certain truth; but the reverse of truth hath a hundred figures, and is a field indefinite without bound or limit. Montaigne.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. - Daniel Webster.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.-Sir W. Raleigh.

Some men relate what they think, as what they know; some men of confused memories, and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man what belongs to another; and some talk on without thought or care. A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by suc

cessive relaters. -Johnson.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.Shenstone.

None but cowards lie.-Murphy.

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one.-Pope.

No species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery; to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer those that are sometimes right.Colton.

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It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intention of lying, that Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Whately.

When Aristotle was asked what a man could gain by telling a falsehood, he replied "Never to be credited when he speaks the truth."

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. Swift.

The telling of a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.Saadi.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult! Examine your words well and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false it is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings-much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.-George Eliot.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.-H. Ballou.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients, may be swallowed unperceived. Whately.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath; a goodly apple rotten at the heart! Shakespeare.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.-Rousseau.

Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside; they may be light and accidental, but they are ugly soot from the smoke of the pit, and it is better that our hearts should be swept clean of them, without one care as to which is largest or blackest.-Ruskin.

Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.-Bacon.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth.

ever after.-Hazlitt.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.G. J. Bennett.

Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips. Shame on the policy that first began to tamper with the heart, to hide its thoughts. And doubly shame on that inglorious tongue that sold its honesty, and told a lie.-Havard.

Half a fact is a whole falsehood.-He who gives the truth a false coloring by his false manner of telling it, is the worst of liars.-E. L. Magoon.

Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but Omniscience can fathom.-C.

Reade.

This above all; to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.-Shakespeare.

FAME. What is fame? -The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus.

The way to fame is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation.

Sterne.

Fame, to the ambitious, is like salt water to the thirsty the more one gets, the more he wants. -Ebers.

Human life is too short to recompense the cares which attend the most private condition: therefore it is, that our souls are made, as it were, too big for it; and extend themselves in the prospect of a longer existence, in good fame, and memory of worthy actions, after our decease. Steele.

Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such, it is an accident, not a property of man. Carlyle.

That fame is the universal passion is by nothing more discovered than by epitaphs. The generality of mankind are not content to sink ingloriously into the grave, but wish to be paid that tribute after their deaths, which in many cases may not be due to the virtues of their lives. Kett.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.Socrates. I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame wil soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.-Mallet.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead; the dead are gone, either to a place where they hear them not, or where, if they do, they will despise them.-Colton.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame: life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Bruyère.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.Johnson.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of the dead.Hazlitt.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.-Caussin.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world, whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. Hare.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.Davenant.

Much of reputation depends on the period in which it rises. In dark periods, when talents appear, they shine like the sun through a small hole in the window-shutter, and the strong beam dazzles amid the surrounding gloom.open the shutter, and the general diffusion of light attracts no notice.-Walpole.

Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so while living-Hazlitt.

Let us satisfy our own consciences, and trouble not ourselves by looking for fame. If we deserve it, we shall attain it: if we deserve it not we cannot force it. The praise bad actions obtain dies soon away; if good deeds are at first unworthily received, they are after

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some of his weaknesses and infirmities.-Addison.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.-Thoreau.

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character.-History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of its words and deeds.-E. Everett.

A man who cannot win fame in his own age, will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. There may be some half dozen exceptions to this truth among myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?-Bulwer.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. - "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims.-"Keep up a reputation or go to bed," would be nearer the truth.-E. H. Chapin.

What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous. - Voltaire.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. -Colton.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.-Dante.

In fame's temple there is always to be found a niche for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. Zimmerman.

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shakespeare.

Fame is a flower upon a dead man's heart. Motherwell.

Fame-a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.-Bovee.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.-Martial.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity

of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. Landor.

Suppose your candidate for fame pursues unremittingly the object of his love, through every difficulty and over every obstacle, till at last he overtakes her ladyship, and is permitted to kiss the hem of her garment on mount immortality, what will the dear-bought damsel boot him? If he take her to his bosom, she has no flesh and blood to warm it. If he taste of her lip, there is no more nectar in it than there are sunbeams in a cucumber. Every rascal who has been bold and fearless enough, Nimrod, Cataline, and Tom Paine, all have had a smack at her before him: They have all more or less become famous, and will be remembered much longer than better men. Daniel Webster.

our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves or fight desperately for food to be laid on our tombs after our death.-Масkenzie.

Common fame is the only liar that deserves to have some respect.-Though she tells many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaks ill of men.-Saville.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest: when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. -Schiller.

To get a name can happen but to few: it is one of the few things that cannot be bought.- It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly

bestowed.-Johnson.

than why they were. Colton.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark that kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.Jeremy Collier.

It is an indiscreet and troublesome ambition that cares SO much about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting to hear the echoes of our own voices.-Longfellow.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.-Bacon.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. -Simms.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. -Villiers.

Fame is a revenue payable only to

Time has a doomsday book, on whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one dis

nated characters never to be effaced.Longfellow.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Shirley. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.-Shakespeare.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Charles Sumner.

FAMILIARITY. All objects lose by too familiar a view. --Dryden.

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. Fuller. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.-Hazlitt.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.Goethe.

Vice is a monster of such frightful mien as to be hated, needs but to be seen; but seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.-Pope.

Be not too familiar with thy servants. -At first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt.-Fuller.

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juices intended for the germ of love. Landor.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.-Addison.

FAMILY. - The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

Civilization varies with the family, and the family with civilization. Its highest and most complete realization is found where enlightened Christianity prevails; where woman is exalted to her true and lofty place as equal with the man; where husband and wife are one in honor, influence, and affection, and where children are a common bond of care and love. - This is the idea of a perfect family.-W. Aikman.

Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission of love.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the wellbeing of the church and state. --Bacon.

If God has taught us all truth in teaching us to love, then he has given us an interpretation of our whole duty to our households. - We are not born as the partridge in the wood, or the ostrich of the desert, to be scattered everywhere; but we are to be grouped together, and brooded by love, and reared day by day in that first of churches, the family.-H. W. Beecher.

As are families, so is society. If well ordered, well instructed, and well governed, they are the springs from which go forth the streams of national greatness and prosperity of civil order and public happiness. Thayer.

The ties of family and of country were never intended to circumscribe the soul. -If allowed to become exclusive, engrossing, clannish, so as to shut out the general claims of the human race, the highest end of Providence is frustrated, and home, instead of being the nursery, becomes the grave of the heart. Channing.

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance. - Horace Bushnell.

"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines, and the husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell.Douglas Jerrold.

"A family without government," says Matthew Henry, "is like a house without a roof, exposed to every wind that blows." He might better have said, like a house in flames, a scene of confusion, and commonly too hot to live in.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.l Amiel.

FANATICISM. - Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution.Fletcher.

What is fanaticism to-day is the fashionable creed to-morrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. Wendell Phillips.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. Robert Hall.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.-E. H. Chapin.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.-Cowper.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured, and yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is regarded as a sign of hostility to religion.-E. P. Whipple.

The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues.j Grimm.

The weakness of human nature has always appeared in times of great revivals of religion, by a disposition to run into extremes, especially in these three things: enthusiasm, superstition,