The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not "" is their characteristic formula.-COLERIDGE.

Punctuality.-I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or successful in life.-REV. W. FISK.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.-LORD NELSON.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.-HORACE MANN.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.-LA FONTAINE.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.—EMMONS.

Purity. Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.-HOSEA BALLOU.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.-MATTHEW 5: 8.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.-J. G. HOLLAND.

While our hearts are pure,

Our lives are happy and our peace is sure.
-WILLIAM WINTER.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.-COLTON.

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.-SOCRATES.

Quarrels.-Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.--MADAME NECKER.

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I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.-BISHOP HALL.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.-FRANKLIN.

Those who in quarrel interpose,

Must often wipe a bloody nose.

-GAY.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -SHAKESPEARE.

Reading.-Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.-HORACE MANN.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.-ZIMMERMANN.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand-LA BRUYÈRE.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application. of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.-COLTON.

We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books. -SYDNEY SMITH.

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.-SIR JOHN HERSCHEL.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.-BACON.

Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.-Dugald STEWART.

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk."-MRS. PIOZZI.

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering

eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.-LYTTON. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

-COLLECT.

Much reading is like much eating,-wholly useless without digestion.-SOUTH.

Reason.-Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world.DR. WATTS.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily. -CONFUCIUS.

Though reason is not to be relied upon as universally sufficient to direct us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed where it tells us what we are not to do.-SOUTH.

He that will not reason is a bigot, he that cannot reason is a fool, and he that dares not reason is a slave.-SIR W. DRUMMOND.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.-CICERO.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. -WALTER SCOTT.

One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, is only our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needs light,—to see clearly and far, it needs the light of Heaven.

The language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness, will often fail of making an impression; it has no effect on the understanding, because it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unassociated with reason, will frequently be unable to persuade; because, though it may gain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to convince the judgment. But let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to resist.-GISborne.

Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. -SHAKESPEARE.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.-EPES SARGENT.

Rebuke. In all reprehensions, observe to express rather thy love than thy anger; and strive rather to convince than exasperate: but if the matter do require any special indignation, let it appear to be the zeal of a displeased friend, rather than the passion of a provoked enemy.-FULLER.

Reconciliation.-Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners!— JUSTIN MARTYR.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlasting forgetfulness.-BEECHER.

As thro' the land at eve we went,
And pluck'd the ripen'd ears,

We fell out, my wife and I,
We fell out I know not why,

And kiss'd again with tears.

And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,

When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!

For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years,

There above the little grave,
Oh, there above the little grave,
We kiss'd again with tears.

-TENNYSON.