The home may be regarded as the most influential school of civilization. The mother, far more than the father, influences the action and conduct of the child, for her good example is of much greater importance in the house.

SAMUEL SMILES.

Nor is a true soul ever born for naught, Wherever any such hath lived and died, There hath been something, fortune, freedom,

wrought,

Some bulwark leveled on the evil side.

INGRATITUDE.

J. R. LOWELL.

I hate ingratitude in a man, more

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice.

SHAKESPEARE.

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

DR. YOUNG.

"Ingratitude is the Aaron's rod which swallows up and comprises in itself all the lesser vices."

JUSTICE.

Justice while she winks at crimes
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

BUTLER.

Just men are only free, the rest are slaves.

CHAPMAN.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

LONGFELLOW.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted, Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

SHAKESPEARE.

"Justice is the foundation, or mainstay of kingdoms, the rock on which kingdoms are founded."

"Faith, fidelity, truth, honesty, is the groundwork of Justice."

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men: decency, in giving them no offense."

"Unsullied faith, of soul sincere,
Of justice pure the sister fair."

"To think kindly one of another is good, to speak kindly one of another is better, and to act kindly one to another is best of all."

"How many acts of kindness
A little child may do,
Although it has so little strength

And little wisdom, too!
It wants a loving spirit

Much more than strength, to prove
How many things a child may do
For others, by its love."

KNOWLEDGE.

Knowledge is that which next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. ADDISON.

He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.

There is a knowledge which is very proper to man, and lies level to human understandingthe knowledge of our Creator and of the duty we owe to him.

TILLOTSON.

KNOWLEDGE.

Knowledge is a rude, unprofitable mass

The mere material with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,

Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so

much;

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

COWPER.

What we acquire is knowledge; what we develop is culture. J. G. HOLLAND.

The Lord is God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Bible.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

STERNE.

One never knows that he knows anything till he finds himself able to tell others of it.

BRAINERD Kellogg.

Knowledge and wisdom far from being one,
Have oft times no connection.

Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

COWPER.

LAWS-
-LESSONS.

"Strict laws are like steel bodice, good for growing limbs ;

But when the joints are knit, they are not helps but burdens."

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror. SHAKESPEARE.

All law that man is obliged by, is reducible to the law of nature, the positive law of God in his word, and the law of man enacted by the civil power.

SOUTH.

Law is the science in which the greatest powers of the understanding are applied to the greatest number of facts. DR. JOHNSON.

LESSONS.

One of the lessons a woman most rarely learns, is never to talk to an angry or a drunken man.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. MADAME SWETCHINE.