*Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations, that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. George Eliot.

*Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. Luther.

*How divinely full of glory and pleasure shall that hour be when all the millions of mankind that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet together and stand around Him, with every tongue and every heart full of joy and praise! How astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that day when all the saints shall join together in one common song of gratitude and love, and of everlasting thankfulness to this Redeemer! With that unknown delight, and inexpressible satisfaction, shall all that are saved from the ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was slain, and rejoice in His presence! Isaac Watts.

*Modesty and dew love the shade. Lamartine.

*Love prefers twilight to daylight. O.W. Holmes.

*Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. Lory Lyttleton.

*That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart. Mme. Necker.

*Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.

*Virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and calm of life. Addison.

*No noise, no care, no vanity, no strife: men, woods, and fields, all breathe untroubled life. Thomson.

*How miserable a thing is a great man; Take noisy vexing greatness they that please,/Give me obscure, and safe, and silent ease. Crown.

*How much they err who, to their interest blind, slight the calm peace which from retirement flows! Mrs. Tighe.

*The fall of waters and the song of birds,/And hills that echo to the distant herds,/Are luxuries excelling all the glare/The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. Cowper.

*He who wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray. Hazlitt.

*Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe. St. Chrysostom.

*He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. Bulwer-Lytton.

*God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week or month or year; but I charge you, remember that He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.

*The malevolent have hidden teeth. Publius Syrus.

*To revenge is no valor, but to bear. Shakespeare.

*Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. Milton.

*A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. Sheridan.

*He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. Bacon.

*The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. Marcus Antoninus.

*In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. Bacon.

*There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. H.W. Shaw.

*The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Lord Kames.

*Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. Massinger.

*While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit. Malherbe.

*I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Colton.

*Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. Shakespeare.

*Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last. William Penn.

*The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. Jane Porter.

*He that thinks he shows boldness or height of mind by a scurrilous reply to a scurrilous provocation measures himself by a false standard, and acts not the spirit of a man, but the spleen of a wasp. South.

*We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Cicero.

*If you are affronted, it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defendants. Newton.

*Religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge. Bulwer-Lytton.

*He is a miserable person whose good is the evil of his neighbor; and he that revenges in many cases does worse than he that did the injury; in all cases as bad. Jeremy Taylor.

*Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle sea-shore of the mind. Longfellow.

*In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. Tacitus.

*A great fortune is a great slavery. Seneca.

*The heart contracts as the pocket expands. Bovee.

*It is better to live rich than to die rich. Johnson.

*Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. Beecher.

*The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing. Juvenal.

*Riches either serve or govern the possessor. Horace.

*A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. Mohammed.

*Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Swift.

*How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! Thomas Brooks.

*He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. Sir Thomas Browne.

*In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Beecher.

*Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Franklin.

*That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Thoreau.

*Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. Dryden.

*It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. Izaak Walton.

*Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. Fielding.

*It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. Cobbett.

*If I have but enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. George Herbert.

*Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. Burton.

*May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ. Plato.

*He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income. Bruyere.

*The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making them happy. Colton.

*Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. Johnson.

*No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Beecher.

*When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? Mme. Swetchine. Wow!

*There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. Matthew Henry.

*Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. Beecher.

*What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient prove? Not any. Goldsmith.

*I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, impedimenta; for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue...Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. Bacon.

*Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions--money, gems, plate, noble mansions and dominion--should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor. Erasmus.

*I take him to be the only rich man that lives upon what he has, owes nothing, and is contented; for there is no determinate sum of money, nor quantity of estate, that can denote a man rich, since so much as perfectly satiates his desire of having more; for the desire of more is want, and want is poverty. Howe.

*We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than our own. Man can in nothing fix and conform himself to his mere necessity. Of pleasure, wealth and power he grasps at more than he can hold; his greediness is incapable of moderation. Montaigne.

*'Tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something. Antoninus.

*A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. J. Stuart Mill.

*To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. Goethe.

*Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. Addison.

*Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest. Rochefoucauld.

*I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue. Fontenelle.

*Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. Henry Home.

*It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind. Johnson.

*Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through. Beecher.

*The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the gratification of little minds and ungenerous tempers. A young man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement. Addison.

*The habit of sarcasm is dangerous; although this quality makes those laugh whom it does not wound, it, nevertheless, never procures esteem. Oxenstiern.

*Not to offend is the first step towards pleasing. To give pain is as much an offence against humanity as against good-breeding, and surely it is as well to abstain from an action because it is sinful, as because it is impolite. Blair.