talisman that
renders him invulnerable; every one feels that such a one's life has a
higher value than that of others.

The great beauty of charity is privacy; there is a sweet force, even in
an anonymous penny.

Every heart has its secret sorrows, and oftentimes we call a man cold
when he was only sad.

A promise should be given with caution, and kept with care; it should
be made with the heart and kept with the head.

"The mind of a young creature," says Berkely, "can not remain empty; if
you do not put into it that which is good, it will be sure to use even
that which is bad."

We all see at sunset the beautiful colors streaming all over the
western sky, but no eyes can behold the hand that overturns the urns
whence these streams are poured.

We often live under a cloud, and it is well for us that we should do
so. Uninterrupted sunshine would parch our hearts. We want shade and
rain to cool and refresh them.

Poverty is very terrible to you, and kills the soul in you sometimes;
but it is the north wind that lashed men into vikings; it is the soft,
luscious south wind that lulls to lotus dreams.

There is nothing so valuable, and yet so cheap, as civility; you can
almost buy land with it.

It has been justly said nothing in man is so Godlike as doing good to
our fellows.--_Selected_.

Contentment swells a mite into a talent, and makes even the poor richer
than the Indies.--_Addison_.

Never was a sincere word utterly lost, never a magnanimity fell to the
ground; there is some heart always to greet and accept it unexpectedly.

There are people who often talk of the humbleness of their origin, when
they are really ashamed of it, though vain of the talent which enabled
them to emerge from it.

A witty old deacon put it thus: "Now, brethren, let us get up a supper
and eat ourselves rich. Buy your food, then give it to the church;
then go and buy it back again; then eat it up, and your church debt is
paid."

Self-sacrifice is the essential mark of the Christian, and the absence
of it is sufficient at once to condemn the man who calls himself by
that name and yet has it not, and to declare that he has no right to
it.--_Bolton_.

There are many comfortable people in the world, but to call any man
perfectly happy is an insult.

Women often make light of ruin. Give them but the beloved objects, and
poverty is but a trifling sorrow to bear.--_Thackeray_,

Independence is a name for what no man posses