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.—­Richter.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime.—­Bovee.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.  —­Hazlitt.

There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life:  they enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man’s meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man’s table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.—­Sherlock.

Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
Because its virtues are not understood;
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been by need to full perfection brought. 
The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. 

          
                          —­Dryden.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy.  The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.—­Hosea Ballou.