If I chance to fall below

Demosthenes or Cicero,

Don't view me with a critic's eye,

But pass my imperfections by.

DAVID EVERITT, 1769.

But rich or poor, or old or young, we shall ever be the same to each other, and in that our comfort lies. CHARLES DICKENS.

It shall be neither day nor night, but everlasting light, infinite brightness, stedfast peace, and secure

rest.

January 28.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

Though to few is given to bud or engraft the branches of the Tree of Knowledge, to none is it denied to cherish the hyssop on the wall.

Agathonia.

All those false alarms of strife

Between the husband and the wife,
And little quarrels, often prove

To be but new recruits of love.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

At peace at last, a weary journey overpast,
The thorny pathway safely trod,

That leads through sorrow home to God.

MARK LEMON.

January 28.

True joy is a serene and sober motion, and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet.

The tender charities,

The social fond affections which unite
In bonds of sweetest unity.

His great Creator drew his spirit,
As the sun his morning dew.

SENECA.

Dr. DODD.

Like a clock worn out with fleeting time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

DRYDEN. The vale of lamentation, happily and safely past. Latin Hymn.

January 30.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfil it; but He never took the bare deed instead of the will. BAXTER.

Let Love make home a gracious court;
There let the world's rude, hasty ways,

Be fashioned to a loftier part.

Angel in the House.

From life escaped, and safe on that calm shore
Where sin and pain and sorrow are no more.

MALLET.

January 30.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties; take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the Goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.

HORACE WALPOLE.

Happiest they the happiest of their kind—
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings, blend.
THOMSON.

Mourn for those who are left, mourn not for the one taken by God from earth, who has entered into eternal rest, while we are bound with sorrow.

Heaven's gate open for thee.

The Talmud.

GEORGE HERBERT.