Perhaps one of the most noteworthy characteristics of Methodists is the spirit of clannishness which runs through the whole body. Is any sick, the rest are eager to pray; is any merry, the rest are delighted to sing psalms; and they will not only pray and sing in sympathy, which is comparatively easy, but they are ready to spend, and to be spent, for the brethren to almost any extent. Men may know that they are Methodists from the love they have one to another. Through whatsoever ill betide For you I will be spent and spend: I'll stand forever by your side, And naught shall you and me divide, Because you are my friend. --_Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler._ 1345 Where might is right, right is not upright. --_From the German._ 1346 It is indicative of a weak mind to be much depressed by adversity or elated by prosperity. 1347 A well-governed mind learns in time, to find pleasure in nothing but the true and the just. --_Amiel._ 1348 Overtasking the mind is an unwise act; when nature is unwilling, the labour is vain. --_Seneca._ 1349 Who fills his mind with matters small For great things has no room at all. 1350 When the mind is in a state of uncertainty, the smallest impulse directs it to either side. --_Terence._ 1351 MIND. It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that application is the price to be paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it, as to hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed. --_Bailey._ 1352 Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy: we do not easily believe beyond what we see. --_La Rochefoucauld._ 1353 I am one, Who finds within me a nobility, That spurns the idle pratings of the great, And their mean boast of what their fathers were, While they themselves are fools effeminate, The scorn of all who know the worth of mind And virtue. 1354 All who know their mind do not know their heart. 1355 RESIGNATION. Entire and perfect happiness is never Vouchsafed to man; but nobler minds endeavor To keep their inward sorrows unrevealed. With meaner spirits nothing is concealed. Weak, and unable to conform to fortune, With rude rejoicing or complaint importune, They vent their exultation or distress. Whate'er betides us--grief or happiness-- The brave and wise will bear with steady mind, The allotment, unforeseen and undefined, Of good or evil, which the Gods bestow, Promiscuously dealt to man below.