reasury, and beheld how
people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich
cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she
threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto
him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you,
that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which
have cast into the treasury: For all _they_ did cast in of
their abundance, but she of her want did cast all that she
had, even all her living." (Mark, xii. 41-44.)

"To curb the tongue and moderate the speech, is held to be the hardest
of all tasks. The words of him who talk too volubly have neither
substance nor variety." (Ibid.)

"But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison." (James, iii. 8.)

"Even to foes who visit us as guests due hospitality should be
displayed; the tree screens with its leaves, the man who fells it."
(Ibid.)

"Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst,
give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire
on his head." (Rom. xii. 20.)

"In granting or refusing a request, a man obtains a proper rule of
action by looking on his neighbor as himself." (Ibid.)

"Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matt. xxii. 39.)

"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them
likewise." (Luke vi. 31.)

"Before infirmities creep o'er thy flesh; before decay impairs thy
strength and mars the beauty of thy limbs; before the Ender, whose
charioteer is sickness, hastes towards thee, breaks up thy fragile frame
and ends thy life, lay up the only treasure: Do good deeds; practice
sobriety and self-control; amass that wealth which thieves cannot
abstract, nor tyrants seize, which follows thee at death, which never
wastes away, nor is corrupted." (Ibid.)

"Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the
evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt
say: I have no pleasure in them." (Ecc. xii. 1.)

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through and steal." (Matt. vi. 19-20.)

"This is the sum of all true righteousness--Treat others as thou wouldst
thyself be trea