I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, “It is all barren.”—­Sterne.

Guilt.—­Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it.  Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,—­these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.—­Robert Hall.

Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.—­Junius.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.—­Sir Walter Scott.

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around him, and much more of all above him.—­Wirt.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.—­Shakespeare.

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt.—­Schiller.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.—­Southey.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.  —­Seneca.

Habit.—­Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.—­Cowper.

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow.  Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.—­G.D.  Boardman.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink drop soileth the pure white page.—­Hosea Ballou.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man’s brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.—­H.W.  Shaw.

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.—­Paley.

Habit is ten times nature.—­Wellington.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.—­Goethe.

I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other; for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?—­Seneca.