Any man may commit a mistake, but only a fool will continue in it.

CICERO

Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion, clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives surely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

'Tis no doubt pleasant

Ourselves with our own selves to occupy,
Were but the profit equal to the pleasure.
Inwardly no man can his inmost self

Discern; the gauge that from himself he takes
Measures him now too small and now too great.
Only in man man knows himself, and only
Life teaches man what each man is worth.

GOETHE

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have.

ROBERTSON

Hear sixty advisers, but be guided by your own

convictions.

THE TALMUD

First correct thyself, then correct others.

THE TALMUD

As a tree is known by its fruit, so man by his works.

THE TALMUD

Help the weak, if you are strong;
Love the old, if you are young;
Own a fault, if you are wrong;
If you're angry, hold your tongue.
In each duty

Lies a beauty

If your eyes you do not shut,

Just as surely

And securely

As a kernel in a nut.

ANONYMOUS

Let each man think himself an act of God;
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

BAILEY

He who sees his own faults is too much occupied to see the faults of others.

THE TALMUD

How may a man obtain greatness? By fidelity, truth, and lofty thoughts.

THE TALMUD

The most worthy crown is a good reputation.

THE TALMUD

I hold this thing to be grandly true,

That a noble deed is a step towards God—
Lifting the soul from the common clod

To a purer air and a broader view.

J. G. HOLLAND

No time is thine but the present. The time gone is no more; the time to come may find thee gone when it comes.

ANONYMOUS

The righteous need no monuments. Their deeds are their monuments.

THE TALMUD

The wiser the man, the more careful he should be of his conduct.

THE TALMUD

For blessings always wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Who is the honest man?

CONGREVE

He that doth still and strongly good pursue, To God, his neighbor, and himself most true; Whom neither force nor fawning can

Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

GEORGE HERBERT

Be always sincere in your yea and nay.

THE TALMUD

Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know."

THE TALMUD

Better no ear at all than one that listeneth to evil. THE TALMUD

Guard thy mouth from uttering an unseemly word.

THE TALMUD

He who does his best, however little, is always to be distinguished from the man who does nothing.

ANONYMOUS

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.

ANONYMOUS

He who shuts his eyes repining
When a shadow dims the day,
May not see the sunlight shining
When the cloud has passed away.
Only when the clouds are cloven
By the tempest passing by,
Is the rain with sunshine woven-
Then the rainbow spans the sky.

ANONYMOUS

Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise;

To-morrow's sun for thee may never rise.

CONGREVE

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to

talk of you as they please.

PYTHAGORAS

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

When the wise is angry, he is wise no longer.

THE TALMUD

E'en as a driver checks his restive steeds,
Do thou, if thou art wise, restrain thy passions.

CODE OF MANU

THE BIBLE

The Bible contains more sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.

SIR WILLIAM JONES

CHARITY

Withhold not a benefit from him who is deserving of it, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

PROVERBS III. 27