Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.—­Rochester.

Eternity.—­He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.—­Colton.

Let us be adventurers for another world.  It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions.  If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations, we are eternally happy.—­Burnet.

Eternity has no gray hairs!  The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.—­Bishop Heber.

The vaulted void of purple sky
That everywhere extends,
That stretches from the dazzled eye,
In space that never ends;
A morning whose uprisen sun
No setting e’er shall see;
A day that comes without a noon,
Such is eternity. 
—­Clare.

“What is eternity?” was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given by one of the pupils, “The lifetime of the Almighty.”—­John Bate.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.  —­Tillotson.

Evil.—­The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.—­Coleridge.

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones. 
—­Shakespeare.

Evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart. 
—­Hood.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.—­Mohammed.

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.—­DESMAHIS.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.  As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.—­Emerson.

If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.  —­Franklin.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.—­Southey.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.  —­Chapin.

Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.—­Channing.

Example.—­Example is more forcible than precept.  People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.—­Rev.  R. Cecil.