Nothing sits so gracefully upon children as habitual respect and dutiful deportment towards their parents.

One of the hardest tasks ever set a man is to forget the good deeds he has done and to chide himself for the evil.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam- into every cottage window, so comes a sunbeam of God's care and pity for every separate soul.

It is a very serious question whether if you were to follow the old adage and give the devil his due, the donation does not include yourself.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confessslon, but a steady mind acts for itself, nor asks the body's counsel.

The clerk who is ambitious to excel, and realizes that promotion is the reward of labor and duty well performed, is on the ultimate road to fortune.

• Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals and carries them to the grave. • That is such a good, brimful word, hearten! It gives you the reason why. Nobody can be low in their mind until they have first got low in their heart.

• Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity, When we look upon the dead form,so composed and still, the kindness and love that are in us all come forth. • Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin, and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive arti-ficfal appetites.