There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.

Judge Coleridge.

Of all vices, take heed of drunkenness: other vices are but fruits of disordered affections; this disorders, nay, banishes reason: other vices but impair the soul; this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will: other vices make their own way-this makes way for all vices: he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. Quarles.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject.

Saville.

Drunkenness places man as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.

Sir G. Sinclair.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

H. Fielding.

Beware the bowl! though rich and bright
Its rubies flash upon the sight,

An adder coils its depths beneath,

Whose lure is woe, whose sting is death.

Alfred B. Street.

There is one language, and but one alone,
Above all words, to tongue or pen unknown,

That can portray to man's discerning glance
The woes that spring from foul intemperance.
Behold it written in the tearless eye

That speaks in eloquence of agony !

Judgment.

C. Jewett.

THERE are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, who represent objects such as they receive them, but they never receive them as they are.

Joubert.

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their

own.

Terence.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.

Hazlitt.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of fore-taken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured or said by a wrong rule; like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appeareth yellow. Sir Philip Sidney.

Be not too ready to condemn
The wrong thy brothers may have done:
ye too harshly censure them

Ere

For human faults, ask, "Have I none?"

Eliza Cook.

But by all thy nature's weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,

Conscious of thine own.

Man is cruel, and doth smother
Tender mercy in his breast;

Whittier.

Lays fresh burdens on the oppressed;
Pities not an erring brother,

Pities not the stormy throes

Of the soul despair hath riven,
Nor the brain to madness driven.
No one but the sinner knows

What it means to be forgiven,

God of Love.

Mary Howitt.

Justice.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Addison.

Man is unjust, but God is just, and finally justice triumphs. Longfellow.

If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just; he that doth no injury, fears not to suffer injury; the unjust mind is always in labor; it either practices the evil it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil it hath de

served.

Quarles.

We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise with those who endeavor to injure us; and this, too, for fear lest, by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

Hierocles.

All are not just because they do no wrong, but he who will not wrong me when he may, he is the truly just.

Cumberland.

The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice, is by showing them, in pretty plain terms, the consequence of injustice. Sydney Smith.

Is not Thy hand stretched forth
Visibly in the heavens, to awe and smite?
Shall not the living God of all the earth,
And heaven above, do right?

Whittier.

Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind,
Nor cruelty, nor mercy, change her mind;
When some escape for that which others die,
Mercy to those, to these is cruelty.

Though with tardy step

Celestial Justice come, that step is sure.

Unerring is her bolt, and, where it falls,
Eternal will the ruin be.

Denham.

Hayes.

Kindness.

LIFE is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Sir Humphry Davy.

There are few occasions when ceremony may not be easily dispensed with, kindness never.

H. Ballou.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he can not but watch, forgetting thereby his many troubles. Arthur Helps.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Goethe.

That best portion of a good man's life-his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

The last, best friend which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unfortunate, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

J. P. F. Richter.