--HOSEA BALLOU.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.--PHILLIPS
BROOKS.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.--BAILEY.

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that
enter there must go upon their knees.--DANIEL WEBSTER.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the
only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.--BISHOP
HORNE.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest,
health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal
good.--HANNAH MORE.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of
which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most
glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer
court.--REV. DR. GUTHRIE.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than
heaven to earth.--HARE.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The
kingdom of God is within you."--BEECHER.

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this
his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus,
calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master,
the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the
pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world;
but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.--THOS. A
KEMPIS.

HEROES.--Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole
world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great
deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about
them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.--HAWTHORNE.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.--ADDISON.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be
a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect
for some person of his own stamp.--GOETHE.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.--SENECA.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our
lives.--JAMES ELLIS.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person
whatever he says has an enhanced value.--EMERSON.

HISTORY.--History maketh a young man to be old, without either
wrinkles or gray hairs,--privileging him with the experience of age,
without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.--THOMAS
FULLER.

History teaches everything, even the f