63. Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand. 64. She neglects her heart who studies the glass. Lavater. 65. He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Quarles. 66. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. Anon. 67. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. C. N. Bovee. 68. A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning. Old Proverb. 69. The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age. H. Hody. 70. To live long it is necessary to live slowly. Cicero. 71. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson. 72. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, more fools than wise men for attendants. Longfellow. 73. Amusements are to virtue, like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. David Thomas. 74. Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasure at the cheapest rate. Henry Fielding. CHAPTER XXII. SELF-CONTROL. Who here with life would sport, A slave shall be forever. Gæthe. I. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, selfcontrol, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. Tennyson. 2. The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. H. W. Beecher. 3. Learn to say "No!" It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Spurgeon. 4. No man is free who is not a master of himself. Epictetus. 5. The mind by passion driven from its firm hold, becomes a feather to each wind that blows. Shakespeare. 6. The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. Diogenes. 7. Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break Horace Mann. it. 8. This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfection. St. Augustine. 9. Our chief wisdom consists in knowing. our follies and faults, that we may correct them. L. J. M. Columella. 10. Before we passionately desire anything which another enjoys, we should examine into the happiness of its possessor. La Rochefoucauld. II. When vice knocks at your door, be able to say: "No room for your ladyship— pass on." Bulwer Lytton. 12. He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero. 13. He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Sir S. E. Brydges. 14. A man must stand erect, not to be Marcus Aurelius. kept up by others. 15. Which is the best government? That which teaches self-government. Gæthe. 16. All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. Gæthe. 17. He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. Publius Syrus. 18. The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in your being able to bridle him, or, what is better, in his being able to bridle himself. Ruskin. 19. Great passions are incurable diseases; the very remedies make them worse. Gæthe. 20. He who overlooks one crime, invites the commission of another. Publius Syrus. 21. It is far better to be innocent than penitent; to prevent the malady than invent the remedy. Archbishop Secker. 22. When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion-or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong-farewell cool reason and fair Lawrence Sterne. 23. If you have conquered your inclina discretion. |