His joy is not that he has got the crown
But that the power to win the crown is his."

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.

SHAKESPEARS.

CHAPTER XIV.

GREATER THAN WEALTH.

They call thee rich, I call thee poor,
Since, if thou darest not use thy store,
But savest it only for thine heirs,
The treasure is not thine but theirs.

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COWPER.

When life is ruined for the sake of money's preciousness, the ruined life cares naught for the money. -JAPANESE PROVERB.

"Better a cheap coffin and a plain funeral after a useful, unselfish life, than a grand mausoleum after a loveless, selfish life."

Can wealth give happiness? Look round and see what gay distress, what splendid misery.-YOUNG.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and serve them one's self?-EMERSON.

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

SOCRATES.

LOWE'L

"AND who is king to-day?" Greuze, the pater, would ask his daughter each morning during the first great revolution in France. Then he would add: "Homer and Raphael will live longer than these temporary kings."

"You are a plebeian," said a patrician to Cicero. "I am a plebeian," replied the great Roman orator; "the hobility of my family begins with me, that of yours will end with you." No man deserves to be crowned with honor whose life is a failure, and he who lives only to eat and drink and accumulate money is surely not successful. The world is no better for his living in it. He never wiped a tear from a sad face, never kin dled a fire upon a frozen hearth. There is no flesh in his heart; he worships no god but gold.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

"My country is the world; my countrymen are all mankind." "A crown is his that seldom kings enjoy."

If Adam were alive to-day, supposing him to have lived four thousand years ago, and had deposited fifty dollars in the bank every day of his life, without inter est, he would have less money than Jay Gould had at the time of his death. Yet Gould's life was not a suc cess, nor should his career be quoted to young men.

"What is the best thing to possess?" asked an ancient philosopher of his pupils. One answered, "Nothing is better than a good eye, "— a figurative ex、 pression for a liberal and contented disposition. Another said, "A good companion is the best thing in the world; " a third chose a good neighbor; and a fourth, a wise friend. But Eleazar said: "A good heart is better than them all." "True," said the master; "thou hast comprehended in two words all that the rest have said, for he that hath a good heart will be contented, a good companion, a good neighbor, and will easily see what is fit to be done by him."

Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark wrote on the window of her prison, with her diamond ring: "Oh, keep me innocent; make others great."

"Oh, if I could only go!" thought Pierre, the French boy, as he saw a man putting up a great bill with yellow letters, announcing that Madame Malibran would sing that night. But there was no bread in the house and he had not tasted food all day. How nice a sweet orange would seem to his poor sick mother, but he had not a penny in the world. From a little box he took some old, stained paper, glanced at his sleeping mother, and ran out into the streets of London.

"Who did you say is waiting for me?" asked Malibran of her servant; "I am already worn out with company." "He is only a very pretty little boy with yel low curls, who said if he can just see you he is sure you will not be sorry, and he will not keep you a moment." "Oh, well, let him come," smiled the great singer; "I can never refuse children.”