of art is not
able to make an oyster!--_Jeremy Taylor._

He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the
safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of
life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone
unturned."--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Change.~--The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of
change.--_Tennyson._

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.--_Byron._

In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes
is lost.--_Madame Swetchine._

~Character.~--As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there
some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be
conquered, but in this life never destroyed.--_Coleridge._

Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and
unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become
diseased as our bodies do.--_George Eliot._

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism
materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,
so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.--_Whipple._

Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to
see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying
in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes,
and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones.--_George Eliot._

Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone--_Bartol._

Character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied
in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of
society, but in every well-governed state they are its best motive
power; for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the
world.--_Samuel Smiles._

He whose life seems fair, if all his errors and follies were articled
against him would seem vicious and miserable.--_Jeremy Taylor._

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the
major part of their character: he is to be called a wise man who has but
few follies.--_Watts._

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his
manner of portraying another.--_Richter._

We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,
but for that we are capable of being.--_Thoreau._

~Charity.~--Charity is a principle of prevailing love to God and good-will
to men, which effectually inclines one endued with it to glor