that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a
tempest.--_Pythagoras._

All bow to virtue and then walk away.--_De Finod._

Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to
show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the
other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the
ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness,--ready to forge
cannon-balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vessel
or a missionary ship.--_Horace Mann._

~Vulgarity.~--The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get
accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning,
human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any
comfort.--_Carlyle._

Dirty work wants little talent and no conscience.--_George Eliot._

W.

~Waiting.~--It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero
will then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides
with him who waiteth wisely.--_Thoreau._

~Want.~--Nothing makes men sharper than want.--_Addison._

Hundreds would never have known _want_ if they had not first known
_waste_.--_Spurgeon._

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are
chiefly derived.--_Fielding._

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer
that it was in some place where there was no other just man.--_St.
Clement._

~War.~--Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would
pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing
again.--_Wellington._

Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other,
or on both. There have been wars which were little more than trials of
strength between friendly nations, and in which the injustice was not to
each other, but to the God who gave them life. But in a malignant war
there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must
be stemmed for both their sakes.--_Ruskin._

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.--_Lamartine._

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at
night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.--_Napoleon._

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own
flesh, and make way to the living spirit.--_Spenser._

Providence for war is the best prevention of it.--_Bacon._

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews
of war.--_Sir W. Raleigh._