THE most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm than all the gloss of art.

LOVE strong as death-nay, stronger,

Love mightier than the grave,
Broad as the earth, and longer

Than ocean's widest wave;
This is the love that sought us,
This is the love that bought us,

This is the love that brought us

To gladdest day from saddest night,
From deepest shame to glory bright,

Segur.

Goldsmith

From depths of death to life's fair height;
This is the love that leadeth

Us to his table here,

This is the love that spreadeth

For us the royal cheer.

You who keep account

Of crisis and transition in this life,

Set down the first time Nature says plain 'no'
To some 'yes' in you, and walks over you

In gorgeous sweeps of scorn.

By singing with the birds, and

We all begin

running fast

With June days hand in hand; but, once for all,
The birds must sing against us, and the sun
Strike down upon us like a friend's sword, caught
By an enemy to slay us, while we read

The dear name on the blade which bites at us.

Elizabeth B. Browning.

XXIX

SUMMER DRIFTWOOD.

ADVERSITY is the trial of principle.

LIFE is a short day; but it is a working day.

Fielding

Hannah More.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

Socrates.

JUST in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Horace Mann.

REST not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.

TALK not of talents; what hast tho to do?

Thy duty, be thy portion five or two.

Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
Thou hadst sufficient, were they ten or one.

Goethe.

Montgomery.

THERE is transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Madame Swetchine.

UNTIL reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts.

Quarles.

We can do more good by being good than in any other way. Rowland Hill.

EXAMPLE is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh. Cecil.

THOSE who give not till they die, show that they would not then, if they could keep it any longer.

Ir happiness has not her seat

And center in the breast,

Bishop Hall.

We may be wise, or rich, or great,
But never can be blest.

Burns.

CAST forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, everworking universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyangrove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock-forest after a thousand years.

Carlyle.

GENUINE witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them.

Joubert.

KNOWLEDGE is proud that he knows so much; Wisdom

is humble that he knows no more.

Cowper.

Too many people mistake impudence for independence.

LABOR to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Washington.

JUSTICE is truth in action.

FIDELITY is the sister of Justice.

Horace.

Nor only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

George A. Sala.

JUDGE not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.

Adelaide A. Procter.

I HAVE no respect for that self-boasting charity, which neglects all objects of commiseration near and round it, but goes to the end of the earth in search of misery, for the purpose of talking about it.

George Mason.

THE charities that soothe, and heal and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.

Wordsworth.

I NEVER knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.

Theo. L. Cuyler.

LET thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate open for thee, or both may come too late.

Herbert.

REAL glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Thomson.

NOTHING is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence.

Ruffini.

He sat among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor
Away unalmsed; and 'midst abundance died-
Sorest of evils-died of utter want.

I COUNT this thing to be grandly true:
That a noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view.

Pollock.

Holland.

How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Shakespeare.

NOTHING, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Blair.

It is not money, nor is it mere intellect that governs the world; it is moral character; it is intellect associated with moral excellence.

Ex-President Woolsey.

To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

THESE are the great of earth

Great, not by kingly birth,

Great in their well-proved worth

Firm hearts and true.

Franklin.

Pierpont.