Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity
remains.--_Prior._
The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.--_Professor
Vinet._
People do not care to give alms without some security for their money;
and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draftment upon heaven
for those who choose to have their money placed to account
there.--_Mackenzie._
~Chastity.~--Chastity enables the soul to breathe a pure air in the
foulest places; continence makes her strong, no matter in what condition
the body may be; her sway over the senses makes her queenly; her light
and peace render her beautiful.--_Joubert._
~Cheerfulness.~--Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has
been called the bright weather of the heart.--_Samuel Smiles._
There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with
cheerishness,--which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may
yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.--_Milton._
Such a man, truly wise, creams of nature, leaving the sour and the dregs
for philosophy and reason to lap up.--_Swift._
Be thou like the bird perched upon some frail thing, although he feels
the branch bending beneath him, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that
he has wings.--_Mme. de Gasparin._
~Children.~--With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they must
not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. If
we never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty of
heartaches when they grow up. Be obeyed at all costs. If you yield up
your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again.--_Spurgeon._
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are
nearest the sun.--_Richter._
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears,
such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.--_Thackeray._
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of
outlived sorrow.--_George Eliot._
Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real
friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact they are. What
is childhood but a series of happy delusions?--_Sydney Smith._
The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle
foot.--_Richter._
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a
child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three
weeks.--_Southey._