No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.--RICHTER.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly
observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no
motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries,
no crusades, no martyrs.--MACAULAY.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts,
they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.--SOUTH.

INGRATITUDE.--If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty
train of human vices, it is ingratitude.--H. BROOKE.

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.--DE BOUFFLERS.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude.
--SHAKESPEARE.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets
his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.--BUNYAN.

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is,
nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also
insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a
kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains,
barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody;
they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all
the world.--SOUTH.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that
clever men have been ungrateful.--GOETHE.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.--PLAUTUS.

And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought! He that is ungrateful
has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
--YOUNG.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
--AUSONIUS.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It
is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.--NAPOLEON.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
--SHAKESPEARE.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
--PUBLIUS SYRUS.

INNOCENCE.--We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and
Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.--CHAPIN.

True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin;
He's arm'd without that's innocent within.
--HORACE.

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not
again, though watered with tears.--HOOPER.

To be innoce