ses; nothing in the
animate or inanimate world is more dependent than man.

Wealth is to be used only as an instrument of action, not as the
representative of civil honors and moral excellence.--_Jane Porter_.

There is nothing purer, nothing warmer than our first friendship, our
first love, our first striving after truth, our first feeling for
nature.--_Jean Paul Richter_.

Shakespeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors as he is
out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise; the others
conceivably.--_Representative Men_.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. Neither do uninterrupted
prosperity and success qualify a man for usefulness and happiness. The
storms of adversity, like the storms of the ocean, arouse the faculties
and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager.

It is not work that hurts men. It is the corrosion of uncertainty; it
is the anticipation of trouble; it is living in a state of painful
apprehension. Therefore we should endeavor to rise out of the
atmosphere of gloomy forebodings. The man who is lifted above fear and
its whole brood of mischief can go through twice as much trouble as a
man who is subject to its influence.

He that looks out upon life from a sour or severe disposition, with
hard and stringent notions, is ill prepared to meet the experiences of
the world; but he who has the sweetness of hope, he who has an
imagination lit up with cheerfulness, he who has the sense of humor
which softens all things--he who has this atmosphere of the mind--has
made himself superior to accident. As the angel described by Milton,
who was smitten by the sword, and whose wounds healed as soon as the
sword was withdrawn, so ought man to be; and when he receives a spear
thrust in life, no sooner should the spear be withdrawn than his flesh
ought to "close and be itself again."

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his
situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits
are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect
kept alive by finding that, although all abroad is darkness and
humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he
is monarch.

HUSBAND AND FATHER

Miss Frances Power Cobb is right, and she is wrong, when she says: "It
is a woman, and only a woman--a woman all by herself, if she likes, and
without any man to help her--who can turn a house into a h