66. I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Gæthe. 67. Great men should drink with harness on their throats. Shakespeare.

68. When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. G. D. Prentice.

CHAPTER XXIV.

TRUTH AND SINCERITY.

The real nobility of birth
To age, maturity, or youth,
The very crown of creature-worth,
Is easy, guileless, open truth.

Tupper.

1. Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

G. Macdonald.

2. Truth will be uppermost, one time or the other, like cork, though kept down in the water. Sir W. Temple.

3. You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it. But let all you tell be truth. Horace Mann.

4. He who seeks truth should be of no country. Voltaire. 5. While you live, tell truth and shame the devil. Shakespeare. 6. Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their

hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together. A. W. Hare.

7. Truth makes the face of that person shine who speaks and owns it.

Robert South.

8. Sincerity is like travelling in a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

Archbishop Tillotson.

9. When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole. way to hell. Penn. 10. Above all things, always speak the truth; your word may be your bond through life. T. C. Haliburton. II. "Honesty is the best policy;" but he who acts on that principle, is not an honest Archbishop Whately.

man.

12. Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when those are broken, the fabric falls and crushes all to pieces. Owen Feltham.

13. Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but that is an evidence that we are ill.

J. Metz.

14. He that conceals a useful truth, is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. St. Augustine.

15. The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.

Italian Proverb.

16. Let the tongue speak the language of the heart. Elizabeth Rowe. 17. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.

Isaac Casaubon.

18. Sincerity is to speak as we think; believe as we perform; act as we profess; perform as we promise, and really be what we would seem and appear to be.

Archbishop Tillotson. 19. Truth may be expressed without art or affectation; but a lie stands in need of both. N. Grew. 20. Sincerity and truth form the basis of every virtue. Hugh Blair. 21. Plain truth must have plain words; she is innocent, and accounts it no shame to

be seen naked; whereas the hypocrite or double-dealer, shelters and hides himself in ambiguities and reserves. Bonaparte.

22. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one needs a great many more of the same kind to make it good. Archbishop Tillotson. 23. One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. Bulwer.

24. It is not enough that we swallow truth. We must feed upon it, as insects do on the leaf, till the whole heart be colored by its qualities, and show its food in every fibre. Coleridge.

25. It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest. Sir W. Raleigh.

26. He that finds truth, without loving her, is like a bat, which, though it have eyes to discern that there is a sun, yet hath