REPUTATION.—Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of-for credit is like fire, when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again.-Easy Guide, &c.

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REPUTATION. When a man hath forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.-Steele.

REPUTATION.-If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world) if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.-Tillotson.

REPUTATION, ITS DECLINE. -Of the decline of reputation many causes may be assigned. It is commonly lost because it never was deserved; and was conferred at first, not by the suffrage of criticism, but by the fondness of friendship, or servility of flattery. The great and popular are very freely applauded; but all soon grow weary of echoing to each other a name which has no other claim to notice, but that many mouths are pronouncing it at once.-Johnson.

REPUTATION WITH THE PEOPLE.-Reputation with the people depends upon chance, unless they are guided by those above them. They are but the keepers, as it were, of the lottery which fortune sets up for renown; upon which Fame is bound to attend with her trumpet, and sound when men draw the prizes.-Dennis.

RESEARCH.-To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church: not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.-Milton.

RESERVE.-Some reserve is a debt to prudence, as freedom and simplicity of conversation is a debt to good-nature. -Shenstone.

RESERVE.-Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding, than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.-Shenstone.

RESERVE.-Persons extremely reserved, are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.--Walpole.

RESIGNATION.-How calmly do those glide through all, even the roughest events, who can but make a right estimate of the happiness, as well as the virtue of a governable will, resigned to God's. How does it enervate and enfeeble any calamity! nay, indeed, it triumphs over it, and by that conjunction with Him that ordains it, may be said to command even what it suffers. It was a philosophical maxim, that a wise moral man could not be injured, could not be miserable. But sure it is much more true of him who has that divine wisdom of Christian resignation, that twines and enwraps all his choices with God's; and is neither at the pains nor the hazards of his own election, but is secure unless omniscience can be deceived and omnipotence defeated, that he shall have what is really best for him.-Palmer.

RESIGNATION.-All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for

the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave shall see fit to take away.-Sir W. Temple.

RESOLUTION.-If we are but fixed and resolute-bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side, and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition, will but make us "like the fabled spectre-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.”—T. Edwards.

RESOLUTION.- "Resolution," says John Foster, "is omnipotent." He that resolves upon any great, and at the same time, good end, by that very resolution has scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find it removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness; and like the star in the East, to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to the sum of all perfection.-T. Edwards.

RESOLUTION AND PERSEVERANCE.-But little is accomplished, because but little is vigorously attempted; and but little is attempted, because difficulties are magnified. A timorously cautious spirit, so far from acting with resolution, will never think itself in possession of the preliminaries for acting at all. Perhaps perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character.-J. Foster.

RESTLESSNESS.-A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gath ers nothing but dirt and mire. Little or no good will cleave to it; and it is sure to leave peace and quietness behind it. -Balguy.

RETIREMENT. -To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world, to see its pleasures— and pains too, in their proper size and dimensions; this, no doubt, was the reason St. Paul, when he intended to convert Felix, began his discourse upon the day of judgment, on pur

pose to take the heart from off this world and its pleasures, which dishonor the understanding so as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.-Sterne.

RETIREMENT.—He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense.—Bul

wer.

RETIREMENT.-A man who can retire from the world to seek entertainment in his closet, has a thousand advantages which other people have no idea of. He is master of his own company and his own pleasures, and can command either the one or the other, according to his present circumstances or temper. All nature is ready for his view, and all ages of mankind appear at his call. He can transport himself to the most distant regions, and enjoy the best and politest company that ever the world afforded.—Hibernicus's Letters.

RETIREMENT. Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement. In order to which it is necessaay that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love for study.-Burgh.

RETIREMENT OR DEATH— -It was perhaps ordained by Providence, to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another, that no individual should be of so much importance as to cause by his retirement or death, any chasm in the world.-John

son.

RETRIBUTION. Retribution is one of the grand principles in the divine administration of human affairs; a requital is imperceptible only to the wilfully unobservant. There is everywhere the working of the everlasting law of requital: man always gets as he gives.-J. Foster.

RETROSPECTION.To look back to antiquity, is one thing; to go back to it another. If we look back to it, it should

be as those who are running a race, only to press forward the faster, and to leave the beaten still further behind.- Colton.

REVELATION AND NATURE.-Some things which could not otherwise be read in the book of nature, are legible enough when the lamp of revelation is held up to it.-Nevins.

REVENGE. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.-Lord Bacon.

REVENGE. It is a work of prudence to prevent injury, and of a great mind, when done, not to revenge it. He that hath revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the great man; it is for low and vulgar spirits to transport themselves with vengeance. Subdue your affections; to endure injuries with a brave mind is one half the conquest.—Human Prudence.

REVERIE-Do anything innocent rather than give yourself up to reverie. I can speak on this point from experience; for at one period of my life, I was a dreamer and castle-builder. Visions of the distant and future took the place of present duty and activity. I spent hours in reverie. The body suffered as much as the mind. The imagination threatened to inflame the passions, and I found, if I meant to be virtuous, I must dismiss my musings. The conflict was a hard one; but I resolved, prayed, resisted, sought refuge in occupation, and at length triumphed.-Memoir of W. E. Channing.

RHETORIC.-The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are, first, have something to say, and next, say it.—Emmons.

RICHES.-I cannot call riches by a better name than the "baggage" of virtue; the Roman word is better, "impediment." For as the baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared or left behind, and yet it hin