have the least of selfishness, have best materials for being happy.-Sigourney.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE.-The highest and most profitable learning, is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evi dence of wisdom. Therefore, though thou seest another openly offend and commit sin, take thence no occasion to value thyself for superior goodness, since thou canst not tell how long thou wilt be able to persevere in the narrow path of virtue. All men are frail, but thou shouldest reckon none so frail as thyself.—Thomas à Kempis.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE.-The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.— Cicero.

Self-knowledge.-A mind, by knowing itself, and its own proper powers and virtues, becomes free and independent. It sees its hinderances and obstructions, and finds they are wholly from itself, and from opinions wrong conceived. The more it conquers in this respect (be it in the least particular), the more it is its own master, feels its own natural liberty, and congratulates with itself on its own advancement and prosperity.-Shaftesbury.

SELE-LOVE-Nothing is more unmanly than to reflect on any man's profession, or natural infirmity. He who stirs up against himself another's self-love, provokes the strongest passion in human nature.-Burgh.

SELF-REFORMATION.-He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.-Lavater.

SELF-RELIANCE, THE WANT OF.-Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.-R. W. Emerson.

SELF-REPROACH.-There is no bitterness like self-reproach.

-Landon.

SELF-REPROACH.-Nothing is a stronger instance of the goodness of the Creator, than that delicate inward feeling, so strongly impressed on every reasonable creature. This internal sense of duty attended to, and diligently cherished and kept alive, would check the sinner in his career, and make him look back with horror on his crimes. One of the ancients is commended for wishing that he had a window in his breast, that every one might see into it. But it is certainly of more consequence to keep ourselves free from the reproach of our own hearts, than from the evil opinions of others; we should therefore consider conscience as a mirror in which every one may see himself reflected, and in which every action is represented in its proper colors.-The Connoisseur.

SELF-RULE. The most precious of all possessions, is power over ourselves; power to withstand trial, to bear suffering, to front danger; power over pleasure and pain; power to follow our convictions, however resisted by menace and scorn; the power of calm reliance in scenes of darkness and

storms.

SELF-RULE. He that has not a mastery over his inclinations; he that knows not how to resist the importunity of present pleasure or pain, for the sake of what reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true principle of virtue and industry, and is in danger of never being good for anything. -Locke.

SELF-RULE. A man must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family: and his family, ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.-Sir W. Raleigh.

SELF-WILL-Self-will is so ardent and active, that it will break a world to pieces, to make a stool to sit on.- -Cecil

SENSATION AND sentiment.—The line that divides the regions of sensation and sentiment, is a very important one. Is not dignity all on that side of it, which is the region of sentiment?-John Foster.

SENSE, GOOD. I have long thought, that the different abilities of men, which we call wisdom or prudence for the conduct of public affairs or private life, grow directly out of that little grain of intellect or good sense which they bring with them into the world; and that the defect of it in men comes from some want in their conception or birth.-Sir W. Temple.

SENSIBILITY.-Fine sensibilities are like woodbines, delightful luxuries of beauty to twine round a solid, upright stem of understanding; but very poor things, if, unsustained by strength, they are left to creep along the ground.—John Foster.

SENSUALITY. If sensuality be our only happiness, we ought to envy the brutes; for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.- Colton.

SENSUALITY.-Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and therefore, by the senses it commonly works, and these are the doors and the windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.-Baxter.

SENSUALITY.-What if a body might have all the pleasures in the world for the asking? Who would so unman himself, as by accepting of them to desert his soul, and become a perpetual slave to his senses?-Seneca.

SENTIMENT, POPULAR. -"Let me make the ballads of a nation," said Fletcher of Saltoun, "and I care not who makes its laws." The influence of such ballads, however, is not so great as the remark would imply; for while it is true that

they greatly influence the character of a people, it is equally true that they must express some already existing principle or sentiment, or they will not be popular. Popular songs are both a cause, and an effect of general morals: they ex press the mind of a people, and they react to form and di

rect it.

SERENITY OF TEMPER.- --"Our happiness," says a fine writer, "is a sacred deposit, for which we must give account." A serene and amiable temper, is among its most efficient preservatives. Sigourney.

SERVANTS.-If the master takes no account of his servants, they will make small account of him, and care not what they spend, who are never brought to an audit.--Fuller.

SHAME. Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished from the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.-Burke.

SHAME. Shame is a great restraint upon sinners at first; but that soon falls off: and when men have once lost their innocence, their modesty is not like to be long troublesome to them. For impudence comes on with vice, and grows up with it. Lesser vices do not banish all shame and modesty; but great and abominable crimes harden men's foreheads, and make them shameless. When men have the heart to do a very bad thing, they seldom want the face to bear it out.Tillotson.

SICKNESS.

Sickness and disease are in weak minds the sources of melancholy; but that which is painful to the body, may be profitable to the soul. Sickness, the mother of modesty, puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us by the ear, and brings us to a proper sense of our duty.-Burton.

SILENCE.—He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.

SILENCE. Of all virtues, Zeno made choice of silence; for by it, said he, I hear other men's imperfections, and conceal my own.-Rule of Life.

SILENCE.-True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.-Penn.

SILENCE.-Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.-Plutarch.

SIMPLICITY, AFFECTED.-Affected simplicity is refined imposture.-Rochefoucault.

SIN. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the further on we go, the more we have to come back.-Barrow.

SIN.-Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you; and though it kill your bodies, it shall not be able to kill your souls; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall not be able to keep you there. If the thoughts of death and the grave, and rottenness be not pleasant to you, hearken to every temptation to sin, as you would hearken to a temptation to self-murder, and as you would do if the devil brought you a knife, and tempted you to cut your throat with it: so do when he offereth you the bait of sin. You love not death; love not the cause of death.-Baxter.