atute, but no virtue is or
can be created by a law, any more than by a battering ram a temple or
obelisk can be reared.--_Bartol._

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from
all fermented liquors.--_Sydney Smith._

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man
happy.--_Voltaire._

He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals,
and drink water.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Temptation.~--No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been
well tempted.--~George Eliot.~

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible
series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose
melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden,
sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to
instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest
tension.--_Horace Mann._

Most confidence has still most cause to doubt.--_Dryden._

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some
secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is
liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for the
thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we
can never stand at ease, or lie down in the field of life, without
sentinels of watchfulness and camp-fires of prayer.--_Chapin._

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defense of
her virtue.--_La Fontaine._

When devils will their blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first
with heavenly shows.--_Shakespeare._

The devil tempts us not: it is we tempt him, beckoning his skill with
opportunity.--_George Eliot._

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.--_Dryden._

There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the
devil with a net.--_Madame Swetchine._

~Tenderness.~--When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our
tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.--_George Eliot._

~Theatre.~--A man who enters the theatre is immediately struck with the
view of so great a multitude, participating of one common amusement; and
experiences, from their very aspect, a superior sensibility or
disposition of being affected with every sentiment which he shares with
his fellow-creatures.--_Hume._

The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not
to quarrel. How much it is to be wished that the cel