In patience, then, possess thy soul,
Stand still! for, while the thunders roll,
Thy Saviour sees thee through the gloom,
And will to thy assistance come;

His love and mercy will be shown
To those who trust in him alone.

To be resigned when ills betide,
Patient when favors are denied,

William Allen.

And pleased with favors given;
Most surely this is wisdom's part,
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance breathes to heaven.

Angel of Patience! sent to calm
Our feverish brow with cooling balm;
To lay the storms of hope and fear,
And reconcile life's smile and tear;
And throbs of wounded pride to still,
And make our own our Father's will.

Cotton.

From the German, by Whittier.

Not yet, O friend! not yet;

The patient stars

Lean from their lattices content to wait;

All is illusion till the morning bars

Slip from the levels of the eastern gate.

Night is too young, O friend! day is too near; Wait for the day that maketh all things clearNot yet, O friend! not yet.

Not yet, O friend! not yet;

All is not true;

All is not ever as it seemeth now;

Soon shall the river take another blue,
Soon dies yon light upon the mountain brow.
What lieth dark, O love, bright day will fill;
Wait for thy morning, be it good or ill—
Not yet, O love! not yet.

Bret Harte.

Politeness.

"POLITENESS," says Witherspoon, "is real kindness kindly expressed "—an admirable definition, and so brief that all may easily remember it. This is the sum and substance of all true politeness. Put it in practice, and all will be charmed with your manners.

Mrs. Sigourney.

In all the affairs of human life, social as well as political, I have remarked that courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones that strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. Henry Clay.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Macaulay.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name, or supply the want of it. Bulwer Lytton.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. Chesterfield.

Do not press young children into book-learning; but teach them politeness, including the whole circle of charities which spring from the consciousness of what is due to their fellow-beings. Spurzheim.

Politeness is to goodness what words are to thought. It tells not only on the manners, but on the mind and heart; it renders the feelings, the opinions, the words, moderate and gentle.

Be affable and courteous in youth, that
You may be honored in age. Roses that

Joubert.

Lose their colors keep their savors, and, plucked
From the stalk, are put to the still. Cotonea,
Because it boweth when the sun riseth,

Is sweetest when it is oldest; and children,
Which in their tender years sow courtesy,
Shall in their declining states reap pity.

J. Lilly.

Poverty.

THAT man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no man is, properly speaking, poor but he.

Paley.

An avowal of poverty is a disgrace to no man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Thucydides.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Franklin.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor;
The rich know not how hard

It is to be of needful rest

And needful food debarred;
They know not of the scanty meal,
With small, pale faces round;
No fire upon the cold, damp hearth,
When snow is on the ground.

Have pity on them, for their life
Is full of grief and care;

Miss Landon.

You do not know one half the woes
The very poor must bear;

You do not see the silent tears

By many a mother shed,

As childhood offers up the prayer,

"Give us our daily bread."

Mrs. Worthington.

Speak gently, kindly, to the poor;
Let no harsh term be heard;

They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word.

David Bates.

Praise.

PRAISE, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Johnson.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Bovee.

Praise no man too liberally before his face, nor censure him too lavishly behind his back; the one savors of flattery, the other of malice—and both are reprehensible: the true way to advance another's virtue is to follow it; and the best means to cry down another's vice is to decline it. Quarles.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

Hannah More.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns, more or less, and glows in every heart:
The proud to gain it toils on toils endure,
The modest shun it but to make it sure. Young.