the mass of each community, to a greater or less extent, and are insisted on under penalty of social disgrace and This is the Social or the Popular

excommunication.

Sanction.*

-DR. ALEXANDER BAIN.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

-COLTON.

Of all species of foolhardiness, that is perhaps one of the most foolish that says, "I do not care what people think of me." We ought not to be indifferent to the opinion that others form of us. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." It is our duty to seek to be respected, and if we act, as we ought to do, we may constrain even our very enemies, if we have any, to respect us.

"DOMESTIC LIFE."

From Mental and Moral Science.

106. OPPORTUNITY.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take
That subtle power, the never-halting time,
Lest a mere moment's putting off should make
Mischance almost as heavy as a crime.

-WORDSWORTH.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Fortune is like market, where many times if you wait the price will fall.

Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if seized by the forelock you may hold her, but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.

Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable.

He who lets slip his opportunity,

And turns not the occasion to account,
Though he may strive to execute his work,
Finds not again the fitting time for action.
-"MAHABHARATA."

Things past may be repented but not recalled.

Neglect no opportunity of doing good.

• From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams,

-ATTERBURY.

or lose

We must take the current when it serves

our ventures.

-SHAKESPEARE.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,
The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;
But if once you let the ripe moment go,
You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

-W. BLAKE.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,

And this same flower, that smiles to-day,

To-morrow will be dying.

-ROBERT HERRICK.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves, will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.

-SMILES.

Those who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them and what we achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess, than on the use we make of our time.

--JOHN STUART MILL.

Don't wait for something to turn up, but turn it up

for yourselves.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

--BACON.

I will find a way or make one.

-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S MOTTO.

Of all the friends man ever had
In city and community
To aid him in his daily toil,
The best is opportunity.

And yet we seldom treat this friend
With kindness and urbanity,
But go alone our several ways,
Puffed up with mortal vanity.

But by and bye we chance to see-
If death but grant immunity-
Our great mistake, and go in search
Of this lost opportunity.

Ah, fruitless journey, hopeless race-
That friend we ne'er shall overtake,
He is gone to join his mighty tribe
Of kindred, sleeping, ne'er to wake.

But if we watch as well as wait,
And but preserve life's unity,
We'll find attendant on our steps
Another opportunity.

Then let us grasp it ere it flies

With hopeful assiduity;

Perhaps 'twill save us many hours

Of thought and ingenuity.

107. PASSIONS.

It must be acknowledged that our passions are powerful misleaders, and their power consists in the immediate gratifications they afford: it is experience only that makes us know the price that we must pay for them.*

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

-SPENSER.

We carry our greatest enemies within us.

Who trusts the passions finds them base deceivers :
Acting like friends, they are his bitterest foes;
Causing delight, they do him great unkindness;
Hard to be shaken off, they yet desert him.f

Most wretched man

That to affections does the bridle lend.

-BHARAVI.

-SPENSER.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

"BIBLE-PSALM 32."

The enemies which rise within the body,
Hard to be overcome--thy evil passions-

* From William Danby's Ideas and Realities.
† From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams,