--CLARE.

"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb
Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given
by one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty."--JOHN BATE.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and
real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
--TILLOTSON.

EVIL.--The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.--COLERIDGE.

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
--HOOD.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is
evil.--MOHAMMED.

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.--DESMAHIS.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich
Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills
passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we
resist.--EMERSON.

If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
--FRANKLIN.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary
evil.--SOUTHEY.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when
evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
--CHAPIN.

Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we
discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering
and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of
wisdom and love.--CHANNING.

EXAMPLE.--Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six
days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.--REV. R. CECIL.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
copy after.--GOLDSMITH.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own
advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or
excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.--THOMAS A KEMPIS.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.--FRANKLIN.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a
good example.--HOSEA BALLOU.

I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what
we see.--HERODOTUS.

Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.--H.W. SHAW.

If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's
vices; th