intimidate. For, under G.o.d, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die freemen.--JOSIAH QUINCY.

Who then is free?--the wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself, who on himself relies; Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force.

--HORACE.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.--CHANNING.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

--POLLOCK.

FRIENDSHIP.--Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.--CICERO.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.

--COWPER.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.--PLAUTUS.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.--PROVERBS 27:10.

To G.o.d, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.--LYTTON.

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

--ADDISON.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it.--GEORGE WASHINGTON.

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.--LAVATER.

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love.--FULLER.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.--HENRY HOME.

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.--CHESTERFIELD.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends.

--GAY.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

--DR. JOHNSON.

An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than grat.i.tude.--COLTON.

That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.

--QUARLES.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm and constant.--SOCRATES.

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love.--PELOUBET.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

--BOVEE.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.--FRANKLIN.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.--THEOPHRASTUS.

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.--MLLE. DE SCUDeRI.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.

--GAY.

Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.--WARWICK.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

--COWPER.

True happiness consists not in the mult.i.tude of friends, but in the worth and choice.--DR. JOHNSON.

FRUGALITY.--Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.--BURKE.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.--DR. JOHNSON.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.--CICERO.

FUTURITY.--It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.--J.F. BOYES.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Trust no future howe'er pleasant; Let the dead past bury its dead; Act,--act in the living present, Heart within and G.o.d o'erhead!

--LONGFELLOW.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.--SENECA.

G.o.d will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and, understanding of his adversity, he would be senseless.--ST. AUGUSTINE.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.--PROVERBS 27:1.