A good name is better than precious ointment.— ECCLESIASTES 7: I.

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe-that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.-LA PLACE.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.-WASHINGTON.

"When I was young, I was sure of many things; there are only two things of which I am sure now; one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Jesus Christ is an all sufficient Saviour." He is well taught who gets these two lessons.-JOHN NEWTON.

If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness.—H. G. J. Adam.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.—BEECHER.

Remembrance.-Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.RICHTER.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.-THACKERAY.

I cannot but remember such things were
That were most precious to me.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Remorse.-Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.—JOUBERT.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made,
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

COWPER.

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there.-CHATEAUBRIAND.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. -TILLOTSON.

Repentance.-Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak.-DILWYN.

Repentance is but another name for aspiration.— BEECHER.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.-EPICTETUS.

Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred.-JULIAN.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.-COLTON.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.-DR. JOHN

SON.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.— DEWEY.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.—GOLDSMITH.
I will to-morrow, that I will,
I will be sure to do it;

To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes,
And still thou art to do it.
Thus still repentance is deferred,
From one day to another:

Until the day of death is come,
And judgment is the other.

-DREXELIUS.

As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend: I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.-ARTHUR WARWICK.

Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.--SHAKESPEARE.

Repose.-Power rests in tranquillity.-CECIL. Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.-MONTAIGNE.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.' BOVEE.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.—LAVATER.

Reproof.-If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.-HALI

BURTON.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.-HOSEA BALLOU.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.-LYTTON.

Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered. it will do harm instead of good.-HORACE MANN.

He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.—ATTERBURY.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.-SOLON.

Reputation.-The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.-SOCRATES.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made !-HOLMES. O, reputation! dearer far than life,

Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect

To its first purity and native sweetness.

-SEWELL.

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.— LATÉNA.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.THOMAS PAINE.

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.— TILLOTSON.

Resignation.-Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.-PROFESSOR VINET.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.-QUARLES.

"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done, turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.-PRESSENSÉ.

With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the human soul and of its discipline.—GLADSTONE.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.-JOB I: 21.

Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thou wilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothing that pleases Thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thou choosest."-EPICTETUS.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.-BISHOP HORNE.