by nature. He that
despiseth them despiseth God that made them.

--_Dr. Fuller._

453

Away with delay! it always injures those that are prepared.

--_Lucan._

454

Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

--_Longfellow._

455

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits
itself most significantly in little things.

456

Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

--_Rochefoucauld._

457

Remember that your dependents have seldom a full power of replying to
you; and let the recollection of that make you especially considerate in
your dealings with them.

--_Sir Arthur Helps._

458

Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to
be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their
fathers.

--_Aristotle._

459

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

--_Sir J. Denham._

460

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

--_Dr. Johnson._

461

DESTINY.

Ships that pass at night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

--_Longfellow._

462

INSCRIPTION FOR A SUN-DIAL.

The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it sleeps the unborn hour
In darkness, and beyond thy power:
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands--
The Now on which the shadow stands.

--_Henry Van Dyke._

463

RISE ABOVE YOUR DIFFICULTIES.

Not till after the death of a member of Parliament, a prominent county
magistrate, the owner of large estates, and an active, public-spirited
man in all local and national matters, was it known by those who had not
seen him, that it was but the misshapen block of a man t