is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it
with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.--_Sydney
Smith._

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.--_Tacitus._

Reputation is but the synonym of popularity; dependent on suffrage, to
be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.--_Washington
Allston._

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign
nations, and to the next age.--_Bacon._

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the
socket.--_Johnson._

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better
than his principles.--_Latena._

~Request.~--No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my
friends, and the supplications of those in want of my
assistance.--_Caesar._

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he
chooses to appear to want.--_Lavater._

~Resignation.~--O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto
Thee.--_Fenelon._

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be,
it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.--_Mountford._

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards has ta'en with equal
thanks.--_Shakespeare._

Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shall
come to pass that your life at last shall surpass even your longing.
Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as it
pleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the most
ancient heavens are not more sure than that.--_Robert Collyer._

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs
without repining.--_Thomson._

"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will,
not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made
Gethsemane the gate of heaven.--_Pressense._

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.--_Dr. Vinet._

~Responsibility.~--Responsibility educates.--_Wendell Phillips._

~Restlessness.~--The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the
morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity--a passive
sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.--_Goethe._

Always driven towards new shores, or carried hence without hope of
return, shall we never, on the ocean of age cast anchor for even a
day?--_Lamartine._

~Retribution.~--Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the
gods; and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, she
stretche