--GOLDSMITH.
When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either to
pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over
it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.--CECIL.
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any
particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing,
or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those
with whom you converse.--FIELDING.
POPULARITY.--Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit.--WILLIAM PENN.
Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!--LUKE 6:26.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and
lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices,
but weigh them.--KANT.
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary
men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.--LORD
GREVILLE.
POVERTY.--Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few
would be poor.--DR. JOHNSON.
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His
responsibility to God is so much the less.--BOVEE.
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for
the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the
street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.--HORACE
GREELEY.
Poverty is the only burden which is not lightened by being shared with
others.
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