f body by intemperance
as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown
themselves.--_Sherlock._

He who, superior to the checks of nature, dares make his life the victim
of his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and takes a flight
at heaven.--_Young._

~Summer.~--Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes.--_Thomson._

Beneath the Winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.--_Whittier._

~Sun.~--The glorious sun stays in his course, and plays the alchemist,
turning with the splendor of his precious eyes the meagre, cloddy earth
to glittering gold.--_Shakespeare._

The downward sun looks out effulgent from amid the flash of broken
clouds.--_Thomson._

~Sunday.~--If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the
last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have
been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.--_Macaulay._

Oh, what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly
business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is
nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious
than in keeping the Sabbath-day holy. I can truly declare that to me the
Sabbath has been invaluable.--_W. Wilberforce._

~Superstition.~--A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional
superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a
camel.--_George Eliot._

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that
worship.--_Seneca._

Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly called
superstition.--_Jeremy Taylor._

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any
day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his
understanding.--_Watts._

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

It is of such stuff that superstitions are commonly made; an intense
feeling about ourselves which makes the evening star shine at us with a
threat, and the blessing of a beggar encourage us. And superstitions
carry consequences which often verify their hope or their
foreboding.--_George Eliot._

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the
record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a
man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his
imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject
them.--_Holmes._

~Surety.~--He who is surety i