True, conscious honor, is to feel no sin;
He’s arm’d without that’s innocent within. 
—­Horace.

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears.—­Hooper.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.—­William Penn.

How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid!  Serenity and cheerfulness are his portion.  Hope is continually pouring its balm into his soul.  His heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded and tortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances and risings up of principles which they cannot forget; perpetually teased by returning temptations, perpetually lamenting defeated resolutions.  —­Paley.

Oh, keep me innocent; make others great!—­Caroline of Denmark.

There are some reasoners who frequently confound innocence with the mere incapacity of guilt; but he that never saw, or heard, or thought of strong liquors, cannot be proposed as a pattern of sobriety.  —­Dr. Johnson.

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.—­Madame SWETCHINE.

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause.—­Southern.

Inspiration.—­Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?—­George Eliot.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.—­Ovid.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration.—­Cicero.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.  —­GREVILLE.

Intellect.—­If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.—­Franklin.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.—­Samuel smiles.

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.—­Rev.  Thomas Scott.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds.  The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—­Colton.

Character is higher than intellect.  A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.—­Emerson.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.—­Bacon.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.—­Channing.