Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends.  Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,—­diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils.  Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God’s mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.—­Bishop Hall.

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.—­Richter.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world.  It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.—­Macaulay.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.—­South.

Ingratitude.—­If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude.—­H.  Brooke.

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.—­De BOUFFLERS.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude. 

          
                          —­Shakespeare.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.—­Bunyan.

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud.  In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world.—­South.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness.  I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.—­Goethe.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.—­Plautus.

And shall I prove ungrateful? shocking thought!  He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.  —­Young.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.  —­Ausonius.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune?  It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.—­Napoleon.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child. 
—­Shakespeare.

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.  —­Publius Syrus.

Innocence.—­We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God’s help and Christ’s example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.—­Chapin.