*The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
Hazlitt.
*In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward Beecher.
*The dearest thing in nature is not comparable to the dearest thing of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor.
*As often as I came back to his door, his love met me on the threshold, and his noble serenity gave me comfort and peace.
William Winter.
*A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.
Addison.
*I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
W.
R.
Alger.
*We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
Thackeray.
*That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together.
George Ebers.
*I account that one of the greatest demonstrations of real friendship, that a friend can really endeavor to have his friend advanced in honor, in reputation, in the opinion of wit or learning, before himself.
Jeremy Taylor.
*What is more notorious than that wherever a pecuniary interest appears upon the scene, friendship retires? Whether you take money from me, or whether you give it, the transaction is alike fatal our old bond of amity.
William Smith.
*[Friends] write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are.
Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them.
M.
Hilburd.
*Let me take up your metaphor.
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state.
Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.
Landor.
*People young, and raw, and self-natured, think it an easy thing to gain love, and reckon their own friendship a sure price of man's; but when experience shall have shown them the hardness of most hearts, the hollowness of others, and the baseness and ingratitude of almost all, they will then find that a true friend is the gift of God, and that He only who made hearts can unite them.
South.
*Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.
John Flavel.
*Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.
Dr.
Johnson.
*Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it.
The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need.
The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn.
*Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is.
If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus.
*The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.
George MacDonald.
*Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
J.
Petit-Senn.
*The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and heaven, of futurity.
Coleridge.
*There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
N.
P.
Willis.
*How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
Richter.
*Whatever improvement we make in ourselves, we are thereby sure to meliorate our future condition.
Paley.
*May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
Ovid.
*Look not mournfully into the past,--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart.
Longfellow.
*A.
N.
hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe.
But how can they be happy if they must live with him? Auerbach.
(Something for us to think about!) *Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast? Madame de Stael.
*A gallant man is above ill words.
Selden.
*In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Beecher.
*If there be any truer measure of a man by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
South.
*Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Duncan.
*All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
Mrs.
Jameson.
*It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far.
It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
George Eliot.
*Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men--their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.
Samuel Smiles.
*With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way.
Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness.
The effect will be incalculably better.
Hosea Ballou.
*Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson Alcott.
*The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Luther.
*Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.
Pindar.
*Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.
Colton.
*Fear that man who fears not God.
Abdl-el-Kader.
*God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne.
*He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.
Pope.
*Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee.
Augustine.
*God is a shower to the burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
Joseph Roux.
*It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.
Thomas Guthrie.
*When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
Emerson.
*The Omnipotent has sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars, but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers.
Richter.
*Let us always remember that God has never promised to supply our wishes, but only our needs, and these only as they arise from day to day.
Alexander Dickson.
*As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of a God.
Jacobi.
*It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
Lavater.
*God's commandments are the iron door into Himself.
To keep them is to have it opened and His great heart of love revealed.
Samuel Willoughby Duffield.
*God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, neither can a kingdom rise without His aid.
Benjamin Franklin.
*Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of Divine existence.
John Wesley.
*He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him.
What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine? Phillips Brooks.
*They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certain man is like the beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he is an ignoble creature.
Bacon.
*God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
Fenelon.
*The Christian will sometimes be brought to walk in a solitary path.
God seems to cut away his props, that He may reduce him to Himself.
His religion is to be felt as a personal, particular, appropriate possession.
He is to feel that, as there is but one Jehovah to bless, so there seems to him as though there were but one penitent in the universe to be blessed by Him.
Richard Cecil.
*Day and night, every moment, there are voices about us.
All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.
Wm.
Mountford.
*God is not to be worshiped with sacrifices and blood; for what pleasure can He have in the slaughter of the innocent? but with a pure mind, a good and honest purpose.
Temples are not to be built for Him with stones piled on high; God is to be consecrated in the breast of each.
Seneca.
*Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way.
Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you.
Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way;God's eternal peace ready to give you peace.
Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.
Charles Kingsley.
*Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Montaigne.
*Poison is drunk out of golden cups.
Seneca.
*The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
Dr.
Johnson.
*You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold.
Ouida.
*Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Swift.
*Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good-nature, and a little self-denial, for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.
Chesterfield.
*Sin writes history, goodness is silent.
Goethe.
*There is a warp of evil woven in the woof of good.
Manilius.
*Do not be simply good; be good for something.
Thoreau.
*Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
Lavater.
*How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Shakespeare.
*He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
William Penn.
*No good book or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
Carlyle.
*How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
Carlyle.
*Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
J.
G.
Holland.
*A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
Bishop Hall.
*As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Dr.
Johnson.