True humility—­the basis of the Christian system—­is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.—­Burke.

By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life.  —­Proverbs 22:4.

“If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth?  I answer humility,” saith St. Austin.  “If you ask, what is the second?  I say humility.  If you ask, what is the third?  I answer the same—­humility.”  Is it not as the steps of degree in the Temple, whereby we descend to the knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God?  Would we attain mercy? humility will help us.—­C.  Sutton.

Blessed are the meek:  for they shall inherit the earth.—­Matthew 5:5.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.—­Beecher.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the “vilest of mankind,” and he retorted with proud humility, “It would be a glorious world if I were.”—­Bovee.

Humility is the Christian’s greatest honor; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven.—­BURDER.

The grace which makes every other grace amiable.—­Alfred Mercier.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God’s music, and the silence of humility is God’s rhetoric.  Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason.—­Quarles.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.  —­Bishop Reynolds.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.  —­Leighton.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.—­Franklin.

Hurry.—­No two things differ more than hurry and despatch.  Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, despatch of a strong one.  A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and in constant motion without getting on a jot; like a turnstile, he is in everybody’s way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees into nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.—­Colton.

Hypocrisy.—­If the world despises hypocrites, what must be the estimate of them in heaven?—­Madame Roland.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature.  The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.—­Addison.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart:  his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.  —­Psalm 55:21.