learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.Jeremy Taylor.

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty-Bruyère.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.-Shake

speare.

Modesty in a man is never to be allowed as a good quality, but a weakness, if it suppresses his virtue, and hides it from the world, when he has at the same time a mind to exert himself.Tatler.

As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, so modest ease in beauty shines most bright; unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, and she who means no mischief does it all. -A. Hill.

Modesty, when she goes, is gone forever.-Landor.

That modest grace subdued my soul; that chastity of look, which seems to hang a veil of purest light o'er all her beauties. Young.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, that will not bear too familiar approaches. Shenstone.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. A man is hated sometimes for pride, when it was an excess of humility gave the occasion.j Shenstone.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. -Guizot.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. -Goldsmith.

Modesty is the color of virtue.Diogenes.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.-G. Coleman.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue-Addison.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.-Bruyère.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor. Shenstone.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.-Napoleon.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. y. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too. Jeremy Collier.

Modesty is the appendage of sobriety, and is to chastity, to temperance, and to humility as the fringes are to a garment. -Jeremy Taylor.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. -E. H. Chapin.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. -Addison.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. -Whitecote.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty and virtue. Demades.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. - Seneca.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out. - Baxter.

True modesty is a discerning grace, and only blushes in the proper place, but counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, where 'tis shame to be ashamed to appear; humility the parent of the first; the last by vanity produced and nursed. Cowper.

a

The crimson glow of modesty o'erspread her cheek, and gave new luster to her charms. -T. Franklin.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose, for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy-Rivarol.

MONEY.-Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. Horace.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. O. W. Holmes.

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.-D. Bouhours.

A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart. -Swift.

Make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Fielding.

All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially.

-South.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community, than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.-Emerson.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.-Bacon.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." - Franklin.

By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.-J. Rutledge.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.-J. Wesley.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.-R. D. Hitchcock.

When money represents so many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a weak moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice

it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy, that is real virtue. Senan

cour.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep. Henry Taylor.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.Shakespeare.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.-Johnson.

Covetous men need money least, yet most affect and seek it; prodigals who need it most, do least regard it. Theodore Parker.

No man needs money so much as he who despises it.-Richter.

To possess money is very well; it may be a most valuable servant; to be possessed by it, is to be possessed by a devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils. Tryon Edwards.

It is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money-the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap, or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. Hawthorne.

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.-Kozlay.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Thoreau.

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.Ben Jonson.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. -G. Macdonald.

To despise money is to dethrone a king. -Chamfort.

Remember that money is of a prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six; turned again it is seven; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces at every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Franklin. the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several way.-Fielding.

There is a vast difference in one's respect for the man who has made himself, and the man who has only made his money. Mulock.

Get money to live; then live and use it, else it is not true that thou hast gotten. Surely use alone makes money not contemptible.-Herbert.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures. Shenstone.

All our money has a moral stamp. It is coined over again in an inward mint. The uses we put it to, the spirit in which we spend it, give it a character which is plainly perceptible to the eye of God.-T. Starr King.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.-F. Saunders.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. Johnson.

Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -Shakespeare.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Franklin.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.Byron. Money is the life blood of the nation. -Swift.

Money does all things; for it gives and it takes away, it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so on to the end of the chapter.-L'Estrange.

The avaricious love of gain, which is so feelingly deplored, appears to us a principle which, in able hands, might be guided to the most salutary purposes. The object is to encourage the love of labor, which is best encouraged by the love of money. Sydney Smith.

Wealth is a very dangerous inherit

ance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.-C. Simmons.

Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others.L. Stanford.

Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.South.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.-Feltham.

Money does all things for reward.Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party. Seneca.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. Franklin.

Money was made not to command our will, but all our lawful pleasures to fulfill; shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey-the horse doth with the horseman run away. -Cowley.

Alexander being asked why he did not gather and lay up money, said, "For fear, lest being the keeper thereof, I should be infected and corrupted."Venning.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. Colton.

on

sharper

No blister draws sharper than interest money. It works day and night; in fair weather and foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.It binds industry with its film, as a fly is bound with a spider's web.-Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang on the fatal mesh, till the long-legged interest devours him. One had better make his bed of Canada thistles, than attempt to lie at ease upon interest.-H. W. Beecher.

All mankind are crazy, said a man in the insane asylum, and I only am sane; but they are the majority, and out-voted me, and so put me here.

MONUMENTS. - Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.-Joubert.

No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.-Hawthorne.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.-Agesilaus.

They only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.-Hazlitt.

The monument of the greatest man should be only a bust and a name. If the name alone is insufficient to illus

trate the bust, let them both perish.

Landor.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one. Fuller.

Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; her monument shall last when Egypts fall. Young.

MORALITY. - All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.-Voltaire.

eye,

The morality which is divorced from godliness, however specious and captivagoam ting to the is superficial and deceptive. The only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. All else is, at best, but idolatry-the worship of something of man's own creation; and that imperfect and feeble, like himself, and wholly insufficient to give him support and strength.

Piety and morality are but the same pirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world. Tryon Edwards.

Some would divorce morality from religion; but religion is the root without which morality would die.-C. A. Bartol. They talk of morals, O, thou bleeding

lamb! the grand morality is love to thee!-Young.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead-reckoning an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by meas❘uring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Longfellow.

The Christian religion is the only one that puts morality on its proper, and the right basis, viz: the fear and love of God.-Johnson.

In the long run, morals without religion, will wither and die like seed sown upon stony ground, or among thorns.

The highest morality, if not inspired and vitalized by religion, is but as the marble statue, or the silent corpse, to the living and perfect man.-S. I. Prime.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin. Horace Bushnell.

The great mistake of my life has been that I tried to be moral without faith in Jesus; but I have learned that true morality can only keep pace with trust in Christ as my Saviour.-Gerrit Smith.

Morality is the vestibule of religion.E. H. Chapin.

Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it.-Bp. Wilson.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them. - Mark Hopkins.

Morality is religion in practice; religion is morality in principle. Wardlaw.

The only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. All else, at last, is but idolatry-the worship of something of man's own creation, and that, imperfect and feeble like himself, and wholly insufficient to give him support and strength. -John Sergeant.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.The morality that holds the great masses of sinewy people together must be very firmly rooted in an honest, downright personal faith and fear.-R. D. Hitchcock.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washing

ton.

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.Locke.

• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. -Luther.

The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effect is good; but with respect to me, the action is very wrong. -Johnson.

Where social improvements originate with the clergy, and where they bear a just share of the toil, the condition of morals and manners cannot be very much depressed.-J. Martineau.

They that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of my religion, my duty toward God, and my duty toward man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home. On the other side, morality must not be without religion; for if so, it may change, as I see convenience. Religion must govern it. He that has not religion to govern his morality, is no better than my mastiff dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, he will play with you as finely as may be; he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat. Selden.

Learn what a people glory in, and you may learn much of both the theory and practice of their morals.-J. Martineau.

I restrict myself within bounds in saying, that, so far as I have observed

in this life, ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from defect in intellect.-Horace Mann.

The health of a community, is an almost unfailing index of its morals.-J. Martincau.

Discourses on morality and reflection on human nature, are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds, gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance, and prejudice which naturally cleave to them.-Addison.

In matters of prudence last thoughts are best; in matters of morality, first thoughts. Robert Hall.

There is no religion without morality, and no morality without religion.-G. Spring.

Morality without religion is a tree without roots; a stream without any spring to feed it; a house built on the sand; a pleasant place to live in till the heavens grow dark, and the storm begins to beat.-J. B. Shaw.

The morality of the gospel is the noblest gift ever bestowed by God on man. Montesquieu.

ever

Nothing really immoral is permanently popular.-There does not exist in the literature of the world a single popular book that is immoral, two centuries after it is produced; for in the heart of nations the false does not live so long, and the true is ethical to the end of time. --Bulwer.

Heat water to the highest degree, you cannot make wine of it; it is water still; so, let morality be raised to the highest, it is nature still; it is old Adam put in a better dress.-T. Watson.

In Christianity there can be no divorce of religion from morality.Justification and sanctification are forever united. The heathen notion of religion as something apart from moral life, is forever thrust out of sight by the Gospel.-M. Valentine.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.-H. W. Beecher.

Morality, distinguished from and independent of Christian faith, is nothing; but Christian morality is of the very essence; it is the true fruit, the sure testimony, the faithful companion, the