The strongest, by dispensing
his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually
falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent
rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace
behind.--_Carlyle._

Oh for a forty parson power.--_Byron._

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the
aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is
known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most
formidable when most courteous.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Praise.~--Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Honors
bestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for
the living pity the dead; and pity and envy, like oil and vinegar,
assimilate not.--_Colton._

Praise is the best diet for us after all.--_Sydney Smith._

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality
in the one without the other.--_Washington Allston._

Damn with faint praise.--_Pope._

Counsel is not so sacred a thing as praise, since the former is only
useful among men, but the latter is for the most part reserved for the
gods.--_Pythagoras._

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.--_Broadhurst._

One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon
that. Our praises are our wages.--_Shakespeare._

~Prayer.~--The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and
morals.--_Wellington._

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.--_Shakespeare._

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; 'tis only God may be had for the
asking.--_Lowell._

Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and
evening. Let our days begin and end with God.--_Channing._

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.--_Cowper._

Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.--_Dryden._

What are men better than sheep or goats, that nourish a blind life
within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer both
for themselves and those who call them friends!--_Tennyson._

Prayer ardent opens heaven.--_Young._

Solicitude is the audience-chamber of God.--_Landor._

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that
man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so
spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and
methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.--_Chapin._

He prayeth best who loveth best.--_Coleridge._