'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

VIRTUE.

Mortals that would follow me,

Love Virtue: she alone is free.

SHAKESPEARE.

MILTON.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of

virtue.

WALTON.

Whatever farce the boastful hero plays,
Virtue alone has majesty in death.

WISDOM.

They whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed.

Wise men ne'er sit and bewail their loss,

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

YOUNG.

COWPER.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

HAZLITT.

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his

life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage.

SYDNEY SMITH,

WOMAN.

Woman's empire, holier, more refined,

Moulds, moves and sways the fallen yet God-breathed mind, Lifting the earth-crushed heart to hope and heaven.

O woman, whose form and whose soul

S. J. HALE.

Are the spell and the light of each path we pursue!
Whether sunn'd in the tropics or chill'd at the pole,
If woman be there, there is happiness too.

What will not woman-gentle woman-dare
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?

MOORE.

WORK.

SOUTHEY.

All true work is sacred: in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness.

CARLYLE.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

CHESTERFIELD.

BISHOP HORNE.

No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him; there is always work.
And tools to work withal, for those who will,
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Thine to work as well as pray,

LOWELI

Clearing thorny wrongs away,

Plucking up the weeds of sin,

Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

WHITTIER.

YOUTH.

Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

BYRON.

The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity,

of imagery and harmony.

CARLYLE.

Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows,

While, proudly rising o'er the azure realm,

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,

Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm.

GRAY.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! They turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.

JEAN INGELOW.

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end,

Each maid a heroine and each man a friend.

LONGFELLOW.

Youth is not rich in time: it may be poor;
Part with it as with money, sparing; pay
No moment but in purchase of its worth;
And what it's worth ask death-beds: they can tell.

Κουπα.

POPULAR ALBUM SENTIMENTS.

OUR grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

CARLYLE.

Think that day lost whose low, descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

Dare to do right! dare to be true!
You have a work no other can do;
Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well,
Angels will hasten the story to tell.

BOBART.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

GEORGE ELIOT.

SHAKESPEARE.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave,
God's messenger sent down to thee.

AUBREY DE VERE

As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

An album is a garden-not for show

BACON.

Planted, but use-where wholesome herbs should grow.

Sleep in peace and wake in joy;

Good angels guard thee!

LAMB.

SHAKESPEARE.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Goodness is beauty in its best estate.

PROV. 16: 32.

MARLOWE.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

EMERSON.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.

EMERSON

God's benisons go with you, and with those
That would make good of bad and friends of foes!

May many, many more years be added to your sum,

And, late at last, in tenderest love, the beckoning angel come!

WHITTIER.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be

strong to live as well as to think.

...

EMERSON.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

Who knows nothing base

Fears nothing known.

GEORGE ELIOT.

OWEN MEREDITH.