d where the beings that
pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.--LYTTON.

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
--ADDISON.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the
moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the
Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his
existence.--SOUTHEY.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the
immortal symphonies which invite me.--VICTOR HUGO.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are
immortal and divine.--SOCRATES.

Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and
peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth:
Thou livest forever!--BYRON.

INDEPENDENCE.--It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him
independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.--COBBETT.

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go
together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and
manly self-reliance.--WORDSWORTH.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will.
--CHURCHILL.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she
never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.--POPE.

INDUSTRY.--Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race
to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward.
--E.L. MAGOON.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before
kings.--PROVERBS 22:29.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate
abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied
to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
--SIR J. REYNOLDS.

If we are industrious, we