_Obedience._--The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.

--_Horace._

1839

STORY OF A STANZA.

Many years ago Dr. Valpy, a well known English scholar, wrote a little
verse of four lines as the longing of his heart and the confession of
his faith. This was the simple stanza:--

"In peace let me resign my breath,
And Thy salvation see;
My sins deserve eternal death,
But Jesus died for me."

Some time afterwards he gave this verse to his friend Dr. Marsh, and it
became a great blessing to him. Dr. Marsh read the lines to his friend
Lord Roden, who was so impressed with them that he got the doctor to
write them out, and then fastened the paper over the mantlepiece in his
study, and there, yellow with age, they hung for many years.

--_By Canon Dyson Hague, in London Record._

1840

_Stars._--Those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air.

--_Shakespeare._

1841

MAN'S LITTLENESS IN PRESENCE OF THE STARS.

Thou, proud man, look upon yon starry vault,
Survey the countless gems which richly stud
The night's imperial chariot;--Telescopes
Will show the myriads more, innumerous
As the sea-sand:--each of those little lamps
Is the great source of light, the central sun
Round which some other mighty sisterhood
Of planets travel,--every planet stocked
With living beings impotent, as thee.
Now, proud man--now, where is thy greatness fled?
What art thou in the scale of universe?
Less, less than nothing!

--_Henry Kirke White._

1842

The stars govern men, but God governs the stars.

1843

No man can be expected to be wise on an empty stomach.

1844

The more violent the storm, the sooner it is over.

--_Seneca._

1845

If a man be gracious unto strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the
world, and his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a
continent that joins them.

1846

Be willing to pity the misery of the stranger! Thou givest to-day thy
bread to the poor; to-morrow the poor may give it to thee.

--_Michaelis._

1847

THE PASSING STRANGER.

He passed me on the street,
And never guessed
The strength he gav