Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.—Bartol.
Character is perfectly educated will.-Novalis.

153 The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.-Talleyrand.

He who acts wickedly in private life, can never be expected to show himself noble in public conduct. He that is base at home will not acquit himself with honor abroad; for it is not the man, but only the place that is changed.-Eschines.

153 As they, who for every slight infirmity take physic to repair their health, do rather impair it; so they, who for every trifle are eager to vindicate their character, do rather weaken it.-J. Mason.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.-Disraeli.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.-Geike.

Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous action; acts of virtue ripen into virtuous habits; and the goodly and permanent result is, the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.-Chalmers.

Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done consolidates itself in the character, and will project itself onward continually.-H. Giles.

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce

Of that 177 serene companion, a good name,
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,

With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse.-Wordsworth.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket.-Johnson.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is, in reality, so much power. Tillotson.

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and to the next age.-Bacon.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation : 184 to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.-Colton.

Reputation is sometimes as wide as the horizon, when character is but the point of a needle. Character is what one really is; reputation what others believe him to be.-H. W. Beecher.

161 Truthfulness is the corner-stone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a161 weak spot in the foundation.-J. Davis.

190If you would create something, you must be something.-Goethe.

All the little vexations of life have their use as a part of our moral discipline. They afford the best trial of character. Many a man who could bow with resignation, if told that he was to die, is thrown off his guard and out of temper by the slightest opposition to his opinions or his projects. Anonymous.

153 Character is like stock in trade; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for making additions to it. Character is poweris influence; it makes friends; creates funds; draws patronage and support; and opens a pure and easy way to wealth, honor and happiness.-Hawes.

Experience serves to prove, that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement.-Smiles.

Wherever you find patience, fidelity, honor, kindness, truth, there you find respectability, however obscure and lonely men may be.-Beecher.

All that makes men true, pure and godly, goes with them everywhere. All that makes them false, impure, wicked, abides with them. Every man goes to his own place.-Golden Rule.

A tree will not only lie as it falls, but it will fall as it leans. And the great question every one should bring home to himself is this: "What is the inclination of my soul? Does it, with all its affections, lean toward God or away from him?”—J. J. Gurney.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.-G. H. Lewes.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.-Socrates.

The best part of human character is tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please others 187—minutiæ of the social virtues.-Emerson.

Nothing is so uncertain as general reputation.238 A man injures me from humor, passion or interest; hates me because he has injured me; speaks ill of me because he hates me.-Home.

He that tears away a man's good name, tears the flesh from his bones, and by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part and surviving himself.South.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.-Shakespeare.

Some men's reputation seems 153 like seed wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.-Whately.

No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.-Monk.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.-Hazlitt.

Associate with men of good quality, .if you esteem your own reputation; it is better to be alone than in bad company.-Washington.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the177 spot where the crack was.Anonymous.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn out on every nail, and giasses that are once cracked are soon broken. Such is man's good name when once tainted with reproach.-Bishop Hall.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation;196 but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!Stanislaus.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not attained or for what they no longer possessed.-Evremond.

The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the177 tinkering.-Jerrold.

There is a broad distinction between character and reputation, for one may be destroyed by slander, while the other can never be harmed, save by its possessor. Reputation is in no man's keeping. You and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us.-J. G. Holland.

He who tries to injure another, injures himself more. No man can be permanently injured, except by his own acts.-Hialmer D. Gould. Do what you know, and perception is converted into character.Emerson.

A man may be outwardly successful all his life long and die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and he may be extremely defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him. A man's true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position, or external relations, but in his own essential character.-Henry Ward Beecher.

Character must stand behind and back up everything.-the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.-J. G. Holland.

To judge human character rightly a man may sometimes have184 very small experience provided he has a very large heart.-Bulwer.

Make but few explanations. The character that cannot defend itself is not worth vindicating.-F. W. Robertson.

No more fatal error can be cherished than that any character can be complete without the religious element. The essential factors in character building are religion, morality, and knowledge.-J. L. Pickard.

Character is higher than intellect.—Emerson.

Should one tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.-Mahomet.

Nothing can work me damage, except myself. The harm that I sustain, I carry about me, and am never a real sufferer but by my own fault.-St. Bernard.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.-Tillotson,

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, as in what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

To be worth anything, character must be capable of176 standing firm upon its own feet in the world of daily work, temptation and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.-S. Smiles.

190 If I do take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.-D. L. Moody.

O! reputation,196 dearer far than life, thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, not all thy owner's care, nor the repenting toil of the rude spiller, ever can collect to its first purity and native sweetness.-Sir Walter Raleigh.

Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the161 conScience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power, for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.-S. Smiles.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must 177 hammer and forge one for yourself.-Froude.

The best tendencies are made by vigorous and persistent resistance to evil tendencies; whose amiability has been built upon the ruins of illtemper, and whose generosity springs from an over-mastered and transformed selfishness. Such a character, built up in the presence of enemies has far more attraction than one which is natively pleasing.-Dexter.

184 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and 184 loving favor rather than silver and gold.-Solomon.

As there is nothing in the world great but man, there is nothing truly great in man but character.-W. M. Evarts.

You may esteem it great to be a leader in one phase of life or another; to be rich or to be learned; to advocate a certain cause, to champion a new philosophy, or to promulgate a particular faith, but remember,86 it is greatest to be a man.-Hialmer D. Gould.

HAVE THE ANIMALS SOULS.

For that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?-Ecclesiastes, iii, 19-21.

The surface of the earth, the air as high as we can study it, the depths of the sea, swarm with animal life.

The earth rolls around the sun, bathed in its warm light. Tens of millions of creatures die with every revolution of the little planet which is their home. And man " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it" rules the little animals and the big ones and calls himself sole heir of immortality. He says: For me this earth was made and balanced in its wonderful journey; for me alone the marvels of future life are reserved."

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He digs up the strange creatures from the slimy depths of the ocean, studies and labels them. He dissects one animal to study his own diseases. He skins another to cover his feet with leather. He eats one ox and hitches He uses nature's explosive

its brother to the plough. forces to bring down the bird on the wing. He sweeps the rivers with his nets.

The stomach of the well fed man is the graveyard of the animal kingdom. When his dinner is finished, the man well fed strokes his stomach contentedly and says to himself: "All is well. For I have a soul and they have none. They nave died to feed me. I am happy and they should be satisfied."

What is the nature of the spirit that directs our humble animal brothers and sisters? They cover the earth so long as we let them, give place to us as the human race increases