of all great designs. Perhaps
more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by
discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.

A woman can keep one secret,--the secret of her age.--VOLTAIRE.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without
guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always
treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
--DR. JOHNSON.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is
folly.--HOLMES.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.--FRANKLIN.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
--DRYDEN.

SELF-CONTROL.--He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh
a city.--PROVERBS 16:32.

What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern
ourselves.--GOETHE.

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears,
is more than a king.--MILTON.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.--THOMSON.

He is a fool who cannot be angry: but he is a wise man who will
not.--ENGLISH PROVERB.

SELF-DENIAL.--Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set us
the example.--ARY SCHEFFER.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust
gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight
and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.--PHILLIPS
BROOKS.

Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not,
and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything.
--CONYBEARE.

The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God.
--HORACE.

The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best
which teaches everything else, and not that.--JOHN STERLING.

SELFISHNESS.--Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will
forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.--BEECHER.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who
desires to go thither alone.--FELTHAM.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more
happiness than we should know what to do with.--H.W. SHAW.

We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but
worship ourselves.--CECIL.

SILENCE.--Be silent, or say something better than silence.--PYTHAGORAS.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it