" "When then?" "Never."
"Never!" said the fool, "and what provision hast thou made for thy
entertainment there, whither thou goest?" "None at all." "No!" said the
fool, "none at all! Here then, take my staff; for with all my folly, I
am not guilty of any such folly as this."

443

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without
his command.

--_Cicero._

444

When a man dies, they who survive him, ask what property he has left
behind. The angel who bends over the dying man, asks what good deeds he
has sent before him.

445

Happy is, or ought to be, the man who owes nothing.

446

If you would avoid paying debts, avoid incurring them.

447

But wealth and power have no immortal day,
For all things ripen only to decay.

448

DECISION.

Lose this day loitering,--'t will be the same story
To-morrow, and the next more dilatory;
The indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute,
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated,--
Begin,
And then the work
Will be completed.

--_J. W. Von Goethe._

449

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath
received it disclose it.

450

NOBLE DEEDS.

He built a house, time laid it in the dust;
He wrote a book, its title now forgot;
He ruled a city, but his name is not
On any tablet graven, or where rust
Can gather from disuse, or marble bust.
He took a child from out a wretched cot,
Who on the state dishonor might have brought,
And reared him to the Christian's hope and trust.
The boy to manhood grown, became a light
To many souls, preached for human need
The wondrous love of the Omnipotent.
The work has multiplied like stars at night
When darkness deepens; every noble deed
Lasts longer, than a granite monument.

--_Sarah H. Bolton._

451

"He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it.

--_Plautus._

452

_Deformed._--Mock not at those who are misshapen