Industry.

THERE is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Carlyle.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.

Sir J. Reynolds.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Hazlitt.

I would not waste my spring of youth
In idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds
To blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit
When I am old.
J. A. Hillhouse.

No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work,
And tools to work withal,. for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

J. R. Lowell.

Self-ease is pain; thy only rest
Is labor for a worthy end,
A toil that gains with what it yields,
And scatters to its own increase,

And hears, while sowing outward fields,
The harvest-song of inward peace.

Whittier.

Infidelity.

THERE is one single fact, which one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.

Hannah More.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster ? Jeremy Taylor.

They that deny a God, destroy a man's nobility; for, certainly, man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Bacon.

To destroy the idea of immortality of the soul, is to add death to death. Madame de Souza.

Infidels are poor, sad creatures; they carry about with them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.

Chalmers.

When a man is opposed to Christianity, it is because Christianity is opposed to him.

Bishop Hall.

I pity the unbeliever; one who can gaze upon the grandeur, and glory, and beauty of the natural universe and behold not the touches of His finger who is over, and with, and above all; from my very heart I do commiserate his condition. The unbeliever! One whose intellect the light of revelation never penetrated; who can gaze upon the sun, and moon, and stars, and upon the unfading and imperishable sky, spread out so magnificently above him and say, "All this is the work of chance"!

Chalmers.

Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,

By fearing to attempt.

Our infidels are Satan's hypocrites;

Shakespeare.

Pretend the worst, and at the bottom fail.

When visited by thought-thought will intrudeLike him they serve, they tremble, and believe.

Young.

Influence.

WHAT We do, is transacted on a stage of which all the universe are spectators. What we say, is transmitted in echoes that never cease. What we are, is influencing and acting on the rest of mankind. Neutral we can not be. Living we act, and dead we speak; and the whole universe is the mighty company for ever looking, for ever listening, and all nature the tablets for ever recording the words, the deeds, the thoughts, the passions of mankind. John Cumming.

No man leaves the world in all things as he found it. The habits which he was instrumental in forming may go on from century to century, an heirloom for good or for evil, doing their work of misery or of happiness, blasting or blessing the country that has now lost all record of his memory.

William R. Williams.

Talk not of talents; what hast thou to do?
Thy duty, be thy portion five or two.

Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
Thou hadst sufficient, were they ten or one.

We scatter seeds with careless hand,

Montgomery.

And dream we ne'er shall see them more;

But for a thousand years

Their fruit appears,

In weeds that mar the land,

Or healthful store.

Anon.

.. No stream from its source

Flows seaward, how lonely soever its course,

But what some land gladdened. No star ever rose And set without influence somewhere. Who knows What earth needs from earth's lowest creature?

No life

Can be pure in its purposes and strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

Owen Meredith.

Intemperance.

Он, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! Shakespeare.

The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?" Thomas Jefferson.

In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendomintemperance? Horace Mann.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Walter Scott.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals, or manners.

Franklin.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance and an irregular life do as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown themselves.

Sherlock.