the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the
feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises
above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.
--CHENEVIX.

There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the
blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the
clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's
disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and
smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
--CHAPIN.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a
state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to
virtue.--SCHILLER.


AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of
many a comparatively wise man.

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as
by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.