ill. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.--RACINE.

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden
from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this
consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his
eyes.--CECIL.

Yes, thou art ever present, power supreme!
Not circumscribed by time, nor fixt to space,
Confined to altars, nor to temples bound.
In wealth, in want, in freedom or in chains,
In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee!
--HANNAH MORE.

We must follow, not force Providence.--SHAKESPEARE.

Go, mark the matchless working of the power
That shuts within the seed the future flower;
Bids these in elegance of form excel.
In color these, and those delight the smell;
Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies,
To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
--COWPER.

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
--PROVERBS 16:9.

PRUDENCE.--Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order
that they should see twice as much as they say.--COLTON.

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done
under the various circumstances of time and place.--MILTON.

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
--SIR J. DENHAM.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of
the best of hearts.--FIELDING.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which
they degenerate into folly and excess.--JEREMY COLLIER.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of
prudence.--JUVENAL.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and
moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them
all.--BURKE.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the
most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic
formula.--COLERIDGE.

PUNCTUALITY.--I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that
the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment, will
never be respected or successful in life.--REV. W. FISK.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has
made a man of me.--LORD NELSON.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear
dishonesty. Y