y man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all
prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any
merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me
enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.--ADDISON.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill!
it is only the thought of the future that makes them great.--RICHTER.

If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.--RICHTER.

GAMBLING.--There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigils
of the card-table, and those cutting passions which naturally attend
them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks and pale complexions are the natural
indications.--STEELE.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping
country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.
--CUMBERLAND.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of
another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.--WHATELY.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them
away.--CHATFIELD.

I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes the
dice-box desperately in his hand; and all that follows in his fatal
career from that time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes
it to his heart.--CUMBERLAND.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of
mischief.--WASHINGTON.

GENEROSITY.--All my experience of the world teaches me that in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of
a question is the generous side and the merciful side.--MRS. JAMESON.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without
generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.--HENRY
TAYLOR.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.--BISHOP KEN.

The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe.
--DRYDEN.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must
be by what he gives.--SOUTH.

Some are unwisely liberal; and more delight to give presents than to
pay debts.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you
deny yourself something in order that you may give.--HENRY TAYLOR.

The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous,
may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.--LAVATER.

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others
share their happin