PURITY.--Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.--HOSEA BALLOU.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.--MATTHEW 5:8.
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.--J.G. HOLLAND.
While our hearts are pure, Our lives are happy and our peace is sure. --WILLIAM WINTER.
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.--COLTON.
I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.--SOCRATES.
QUARRELS.--Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.--MADAME NECKER.
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.--BISHOP HALL.
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.--FRANKLIN.
Those who in quarrel interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. --GAY.
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. --SHAKESPEARE.
READING.--Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.--HORACE MANN.
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.--ZIMMERMANN.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.--LA BRUYÈRE.
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. --COLTON.
We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.--SYDNEY SMITH.
If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.--SIR JOHN HERSCHEL.