I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.— Michael de Montaigne.

APPENDIX.

Page 17.

We are eclectics in accepting the teaching of Scripture. We distinguish between its lower and its higher thought; between its teachings which are worthy of all acceptation and those which the rational mind is compelled to reject as unworthy and false. We endeavor to separate the chaff from the wheat, and garner carefully the treasure that remains. We find in the Bible sayings of the sublimest wisdom and of the highest and purest truth; and often, in juxtaposition with these, we have the utterances of human passion, hate, vindictiveness, partiality, and injustice, which it is impossible to accept as of divine warrant or authority. We find deeds recorded, said to be committed some at the express command of God, others with his sanction, which no ingenuity of defence can save from utter condemnation. It is preposterous to say we must accept the whole as of the same character and quality. That would be for our minds to abdicate the function of rational judgment. It would be to silence the divine voice within us, to extinguish the light of the inner eye, and grope in wilful blindness.- Charles F. Beard (London Inquirer).

You will never convince a man of ordinary sense by overbearing his understanding.—Samuel Maunder.

Page 19.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.... He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed... Because it is silly to believe everything, there are some so wondrous wise as to believe nothing.- Samuel Maunder.

Page 76.

When fortune comes smiling, she often designs the most mischief. When fortune caresses a man too much, she is apt to make a fool of him.- Samuel Maunder.

Page 88.

Fear ills, though not yet felt: when fortune smiles,
Be doubly cautious, lest destruction come.

Sophocles (Philoctetes).

He still remembered that he once was young,
His easy presence checked no decent joy.

John Armstrong.

It has been questioned whether there be recorded any instance of a sally of humorous pleasantry on the part of Jesus or Paul. It seems hardly safe to predicate much upon the meagre statement in Luke xiii., 32, as to the reply to the Pharisees, calling Antipas a fox. Paul's playful appeal to Philemon's magnanimity (Phil. 19) has been adduced as a model of nice humor. See The Bible for Learners, vol. iii., p. 638.

Page 89.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. Sometimes, a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever.- Plutarch.

Page 90.

But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,
And roam along, the world's tired denizen,
With none to bless us, none whom we can bless;
Minions of splendor shrinking from distress!
None that with kindred consciousness endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all that flattered, followed, sought, and sued;
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude.

Byron (Childe Harold).

But if there be "none to bless us, none whom we can bless," we may generally charge the misfortune to our own misspent life. Poor Byron! Alas! few can assume to hurl at him a preachment upon his deferring, until so nigh the Missolonghi scene, to ask himself:

Page 91.

Wouldst thou from sorrow find a sweet relief?...
Rouse to some work of high and holy love,
And thou an angel's happiness shalt prove.

Carlos Wilcox.

We never

The greatest of all faults is to believe we have none. . . . yet knew a man disposed to scorn the humble, who was not himself a fair object of scorn to the humblest.—Samuel Maunder.

Page 119.

The first step to virtue is to love virtue in another.- Samue Maunder.

Page 133.

Remember me, I pray, but not

In Flora's gay and blooming hour,
When every brake hath found its note,
And sunshine smiles in every flower;
But when the falling leaf is sere,
And withers sadly from the tree,
And o'er the ruins of the year

Cold autumn weeps, remember me.

Edward Everett.

Page 134.

Inward turn

Each thought and every sense,
For sorrow lingers from without,
Thou canst not charm it thence,
But all attuned the soul may be
Unto a deathless melody.

Elizabeth O. Smith.

Sophocles being asked what harm he would wish to his. enemy, answered, "That he may love where he is not fancied."

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.- Samuel Maunder.

Page 136.

If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restores it.-John G. Whittier.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.- Henry W. Beecher.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.- Alphonse de Lamartine.

Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy, the salt of his life.-Jules Michelet.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet; taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope, and eloquence in all whom she approaches. -Ralph W. Emerson.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.- Anna C. Mowatt.

True liberty has no enemy so formidable as licentiousness. The. licentious never love.... They that marry where they do not love are likely to love where they do not marry. . . . He who triumphs over a woman would over a man -if he durst; hence, he is both fool and coward. . . "Throw not a stone into the well from which thou drinkest."- Samuel Maunder.

Page 137.

Despise trifling affronts, and they will vanish. A little water will put out a fire, which blown up would burn a city.— Samuel Maunder.

Page 138.

Make method your slave, but be not a slave to method. Hasty conclusions are the mark of a fool.. Precipitation is the ruin of the young; delay, the ruin of the old.... The young are slaves to novelty; the old to custom.- Samuel Maunder.

I am not old, ...

For in my heart a fountain flows,
And round it pleasant thoughts repose,
And sympathies and feelings high
Spring like the stars on evening sky.

Park Benjamin..

Page 140.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts
Are ills because we hoard them.

Bryan W. Proctor (Mirandola).

Every Homer has his Zoilus; and every Zoilus is remembered only to be despised.- Samuel Maunder.

Page 141.

As the baggage is to the army, so is riches to virtue: it cannot well be spared nor left behind, but it hinders the march.- Samuel Maunder.

Page 142.

Dive not too deep in pleasure; for there is a sediment at the bottom that renders it noxious and impure.- Samuel Maunder.

Nor need we power or splendor,
Wide hall or lordly dome:
The good, the true, the tender,-
These form the wealth of home.

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Page 161.

Sarah J. Hale.

Let all that now divides us remove and pass away,
Like shadows of the morning before the blaze of day.
Let all that now unites us more sweet and lasting prove,
A closer bond of union in a blest land of love.

Page 171.

The blue sky is the temple's arch;
Its transept, earth and air;
The music of its starry march,
The chorus of a prayer.

So Nature keeps the reverent frame
With which her years began;

And all her signs and voices shame
The prayerless heart of man.

The healing of his seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;

We touch him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.

Jane Borthwick.

John Pierpont.

John G. Whittier.

A non.