--THE TALMUD.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.--SHAKESPEARE.
MERIT.--There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Distinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustre
from reproach. The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and
follow him in his course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a
magnificent theatre for his reception, and to invest with variegated
tints and with a softened effulgence the luminary which they cannot
hide.--ROBERT HALL.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.--GEORGE COLMAN.
The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins
esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit.--LA BRUYERE.
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it
constrained to praise.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
METHOD.--Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to
be got through with satisfaction. "Method," said Cecil (afterward Lord
Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in
half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's despatch of business was
extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is
to do only one thing at once."--SAMUEL SMILES.
MIND.--Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to
carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run
quietly.--ELIHU BURRITT.
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes
of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he
cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh
at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head
broke.
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