--ST. AUGUSTINE.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth.--PROVERBS 27:1.
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the
origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening
in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.--CHAPIN.
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all
prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any
merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me
enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.--ADDISON.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill!
it is only the thought of the future that makes them great.--RICHTER.
If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.--RICHTER.
GAMBLING.--There is nothing that wears out a fine face like the vigils
of the card-table, and those cutting passions which naturally attend
them. Hollow eyes, haggard looks and pale complexions are the natural
indications.--STEELE.
Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping
country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.
--CUMBERLAND.
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of
another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.--WHATELY.
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them
away.--CHATFIELD.
I look upon every man as a suicide from the moment he takes the
dice-box desperately in his hand; and all that follows in his fatal
career from that time is only sharpening the dagger before he strikes
it to his heart.
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