The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.