is as highly raised above him. Her whole character, Psychical as well as Corporeal, is beautifully adapted to supply what is deficient in man, and to elevate and refine those powers which might otherwise be directed to low and selfish objects.-Dr. Carpenter.

612.

There is perhaps more of instinct in our feelings than we are aware of, even in our esteem of each other.-W. Danby.

613.

Either be a true friend, or a mere stranger. A true friend will delight to do good; a mere stranger will do no harm.-Dr. Whichcote.

614.

It is said that when desirous of selecting an object for our friendship, our first enquiry concerning him should be into his behaviour towards his parents during his youthful state; and if noted for contravention of their claims, he is not to be trusted or taken for a friend; for good can never come of him who requites the claims of his parents with disobedience. Next to that, the manner of his intercourse and behaviour with his intimates should be ascertained. Next to that, we must inform ourselves how he is affected towards his benefactors; if disposed to ingratitude, no advance should be desired in his acquaintance. For of all vile qualities, none is more culpable than ingratitude; as, among good ones, there is no virtue more laudable than thankfulness.— Akhlak-i-Jalaly.

615.

These three chief points are necessarily belonging to a counsellor-to be bold, plain and faithful.

616.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear cour

teously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to give judgment without partiality.—

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.-Lacon. 618.

If you would give a just sentence, mind neither parties nor pleaders, but the cause itself.Epictetus.

619.

Consult nothing so much, upon every occasion, as safety. Now it is safer to be silent than to speak; and omit speaking whatever is not accompanied with sense and reason.-Epictetus.

620.

There is a large fund of power in the world unappropriated and inactive, but a still larger portion misapplied and perverted. Were the mere waste talent and energy of mankind to be used aright, three-fourths of the ills that affect the species might be overcome.-W. B. Clulow.

621.

It is the character of the most mean-spirited and foolish men to suppose they shall be despised by others; unless, by every method, they hurt those who are first their enemies.-Epictetus.

622.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as well as in private life, than to do good.-Dr. Parr.

623.

If all would abstain from what they evidently can avoid, namely, injuring others in their persons, property, reputation, or feelings, nine-tenths of the unhappiness of life would vanish.-W. B. Clulow. 624.

Nothing awakens our sleeping virtues like the

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noble acts of our predecessors. They are standing beacons that fame and time have set on hills, to call us to a defence of virtue, whensoever vice invades the commonwealth of man.-Feltham.

625.

Every man, however humble his station or feeble his powers, exercises some influence on those who are about him for good or for evil; and those influences emanating again as from a fresh centre, are propagated onwards, and though diluted by new motives, and modified by new circumstances at each transmission, so as in common cases to be lost to the eye of man, they may still go on producing a silent effect to the remotest generations; and thus become, under Providence, a part of the appointed means by which a nation's glory is continued and its strength upheld.Professor Sedgwick.

626.

Great examples to virtue, or to vice, are not so productive of imitation as might at first sight be supposed. The fact is, there are hundreds that want energy for one that wants ambition, and sloth has prevented as many vices in some minds as virtues in others. Idleness is the grand pacific ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is, engendered in idleness, but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle, and cease to be idle.Lacon.

627.

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be prevailed upon to rise, but immediately shines forth, and is received with universal salutations; so, neither do you wait for applauses, and shouts, and praises, in order to do good; but

be a voluntary benefactor, and you will be beloved like the sun.-Epictetus.

628.

Nothing makes societies so fair and lasting as the mutual endearment of each other by good offices; and never any man did a good turn to his brother, but one time or another himself did eat the fruit of it.-Bp. Jeremy Taylor.

629.

Were we to consider the goods of life as temporary loans, which they are, rather than appropriate or permanent possessions, which they are not, we should be more likely to employ them in a manner profitable to ourselves and others.W. B. Clulow.

630.

He that receiveth a benefit should not only remember but requite the same liberally and fruitfully, according to the nature of the earth, which rendereth more fruit than it receiveth seed.—Quintilian.

631.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehensions of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.-Dr. Parr.

632.

Amidst all the imperfections of human language, the principles of gratitude have fixed and intelligible terms.-Dr. Parr.

633.

You may rest upon this as a proposition of an eternal unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud; nor, convertibly, any one proud, who was not equally ungrateful. Dr. South.

634.

Afflictions cannot be esteemed with wise and godly men any argument of sin in an innocent person, more than the impunity of wicked men is amongst good men any sure token of their innocency.-Charles I.

635.

In the hour of adversity be not without hope; for crystal rain falls from black clouds.-Nez

zoumee.

636.

Praise to the dead cannot be withholden without ingratitude; and surely it is paid with a greater propriety when it conveys most delicate exhortation, and the most powerful encouragement to those among the living, who are animated by the strong and generous impulses of virtuous emulation.-Dr. Parr.

637.

The maxim of " de mortuis nil nisi verum is far preferable to "nil nisi bonum," as it is more the example than the person which is to be followed or avoided, and the influence of that example subsists after death, when those who have made themselves conspicuous in the world will be remembered; and it is but doing justice to the memory of the good, to distinguish them from the bad.

If nothing but good were to be spoken of the dead, the living would want an inducement to deserve well of posterity. It is the example we leave behind us that is of most importance to future generations; for what is there else to record? W. Danby.

638.

I am convinced, from long observation, that unity in religious opinions is unattainable-that the attempt to produce it by artifice or force recoils upon its employers-that every truth, really