nkind word to his fellow-creatures is master
of the whole world.

1271

Those who think must govern those who toil.

1272

The wise man shapes himself according to his environments, as water to
the shape of the vessel into which it is poured.

--_Japanese._

1273

At the working-man's house hunger may look in, but dare not enter.

1274

I am almost frozen by the distance you are from me.

1275

Manners carry the world for the moment; character, for all time.

--_Alcott._

1276

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.

--_Goethe._

1277

MANNERS.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm,
imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits, from
the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in
quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money in quiet; while others
cannot take up either a spoon, or an affront, without making such an
amazing noise about it.

--_Bulwer-Lytton._

1278

Manners are the shadows of virtue.

--_Sydney Smith._

1279

Vulgar people can't be still.

--_O. W. Holmes._

1280

In society want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

--_Lavater._

1281

The wealthy and the noble when they expend large sums in decorating
their houses with the rare and costly efforts of genius, with busts, and
with cartoons from the pencil of a Raphael, are to be commended, if they
do not stand still _here_, but go on to bestow some pains and cost, that
the master himself be not inferior to the mansion, and that the owner be
not the only thing that is _little_, amidst everything else that is
_great_. The house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that
can detain them.

1282

Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.

--_Byron._

1283

A MAIDEN'S TRUST IN MARRIAGE.

There is no one thing more lovely in this life, more full of the divine
courage, than when a young maiden, from her past life, from her happy
childhood, when she rambled over every field and moor aroun