Riches come better after poverty, than poverty after riches.
Who aims at excellence will be above medirocity; who aims at medirocity will fall short of it.
No remedies can revive old age and faded flowers.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
A wise man forgets old grudges.
Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.—Bishop Hall.
Truth enters into the heart of man when it is empty, and clean and still; but when the mind is shaken with passion as with a storm, you can never hear the voice of the charmer, though he charm never so wisely.
COMFORT AND SOBRIETY.
Let me here give you a few maxims to commit to memory:——
Avoid and shun the sources of misery.
Be sure not to indulge your appetite.
Strong drink excites a person to do wrong.
Remember you are never out of temptation.
A life of virtue and temperence will secure to you money and time; will give you health, and prosperity, peace, character, respect, and usefulness.
PLEDGE.
Our hands and our hearts we give To the temperance pledge, declaring That long as on earth we live, All its bountiful blessings sharing,
We will taste not and touch not the bowl That burns with intoxication, And will lend our assistance to roll The temperance ball through the nation.
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