nt.--BOVEE.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope
your guardian genius.--ADDISON.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making
the same one the second time.--H.W. SHAW.

SUICIDE.--Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.--YOUNG.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without
treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are
demanded.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that
is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
--ARISTOTLE.

Our time is fix'd; and all our days are number'd;
How long, how short, we know not: this we know,
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.
Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,
And wait th' appointed hour, till they're relieved,
Those only are the brave who keep their ground,
And keep it to the last.
--BLAIR.

Suicide is not a remedy.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
--COWPER.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.--DR. GEORGE SEWELL.

SUPERSTITION.--I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition,
which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine
religion, which is the support of it.--ROUSSEAU.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that
is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been
the most credulous.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning
the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping
draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away.
The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the
stars are there and will reappear.--CARLYLE.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.--SENECA.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable.
--JOUBERT.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind;
the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.--LAVATER.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any
day of the week lucky, hat