Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.—­Solon.

Reputation.—­The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.—­Socrates.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!—­Holmes.

O, reputation! dearer far than life,
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell,
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner’s care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. 

          
                          —­Sewell.

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.—­LATENA.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.—­Thomas Paine.

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.—­Tillotson.

Resignation.—­Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.  —­Professor Vinet.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him.  Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable.  Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable.  If it be light, slight it not.  If it be heavy, murmur not.  After the cross is the crown.—­Quarles.

“My will, not thine, be done,” turned Paradise into a desert.  “Thy will, not mine, be done,” turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.—­PRESSENSE.

With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the human soul and of its discipline.—­Gladstone.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.—­Job 1:21.

Dare to look up to God and say:  “Deal with me in the future as thou wilt.  I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine.  I refuse nothing that pleases Thee.  Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thou choosest.”—­Epictetus.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.—­Bishop Horne.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.—­Mountford.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own?  All we have is the Almighty’s; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?—­William Penn.