it confirms our hope; and when
evil men are punished, it excites our fear.--BISHOP WILSON.

PITY.--Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a
short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory
assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the
hand can be put into the pocket.--GOLDSMITH.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
--ROUSSEAU.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.--SHAKESPEARE.

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and
excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the
gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every
person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be
owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is
an unjust person.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the
peace of God is there.--WHITTIER.

The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering,
there would have been less kindness.--THACKERAY.

Pity melts the mind to love.--DRYDEN.

PLEASURE.--Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of
pleasures, take this rule:--Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the
tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes
off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the
strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin
to you, however innocent it may be in itself.--SOUTHEY.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to
such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.--SENECA.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of
all.--HAWTHORNE.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches
sublimity.--LAVATER.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the
fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the
continuance.--JEREMY COLLIER.

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.--FULLER.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they
give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when
possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.--MADAME DE
LAMBERT.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just
computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the
repentance that i