Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And ev'ry grin so merry draws one out. -PETER PINDAR. There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?—HALI

BURTON.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. -IZAAK WALTON.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, -all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.-BEECHER.

Misfortune.-The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.-F. A. DURIVAGE.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself.
-ADDISON.

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant.-SATAKA.

Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. -MALLET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.—WASHINGTON IRVING.

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. -FROM THE FRENCH.

When one is past, another care we have;
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
-HERRICK.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.-BIAS.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.— STANISLAUS.

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.-ALCOTT.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.-Orville DewEY.

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.— ADDISON.

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. -MELMOTH.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.COLTON.

Mob. The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain. -GOETHE.

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, -ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.—TACITUS.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.-DRYDEN.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.JANE PORTER.

Inconstant, blind, Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand. THOMSON.

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.

-HORACE MANN.

Moderation.-Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.-GOETHE.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. -THOMAS PAINE.

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.—FELTHAM.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. -BISHOP HALL.

The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.-CONFUCIUS.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not unwilling to eat more, but are afraid of doing ourselves harm.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within it.-PASCAL.

Modesty.-A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.-STEELE.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.-GOLDSMITH.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. -ADDISON.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.— BAXTER.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.-SENECA.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated. -STEELE.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without.-ADDI

SON.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.-ADDISON.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a fow business tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.-EMERSON.

God intended for women two preventatives against sin, modesty and remorse; în confession to a mortal priest the former is removed by his absolution, the latter is taken away.-MIRANDA OF PIEDMONT.

Money. The love of money is the root of all evil.- -I TIMOTHY 6: 10.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air, and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up, and it cankers and breeds worms.-GEORGE MACDONALD.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.-WESLEY.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, goodnatured old creature we find her!-THACKERAY.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."-FRANKLIN.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.-SWIFT.