--_Theognis, Greek._ _Translated by Frere._ 1356 Life will always be, to a large extent, what we ourselves make it. Each mind makes its own little world. The cheerful mind makes it pleasant, and the discontented mind makes it miserable. "My mind to me a kingdom is" applies alike to the peasant as to the monarch. 1357 The face is the index of the mind. --_Crabbe._ 1358 It is not position, but mind, that I want, said a lady to her father, when rejecting a suitor. 1359 Those who visit foreign countries, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home, with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds. 1360 Youthful minds, like the pliant wax, are susceptible of the most lasting impressions, and the good or evil bias they then receive is seldom if ever eradicated. 1361 Little minds are hurt by little things; great minds rise above them. 1362 Noblest minds are easiest bent. --_Homer._ 1363 DUTY OF MINISTERS. My friends, the chief duty of the ministers of God, is, that they should help their brethren to the best of their fallible knowledge and feeble power. When there is a spirit of repentance; when men truly seek the means of grace; when they have ceased to be insolent and defiant in sin; when they do intend--were it but ever so faintly--to lead a new life--then Our commission is to heal, not harm; We come not to condemn, but reconcile; We come not to compel, but call again; We come not to destroy, but edify; Nor yet to question things already done; These are forgiven; matters of the past; And range with jetsam, and with offal, thrown Into the blind sea of forgetfulness. --_F. W. Farrar, D. D._ 1364 One ounce of mirth is worth more than ten thousand weight of gloominess. 1365 Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns. --_Balzac._ 1366 Most just it is that he who breweth mischief should have the first draught of it himself. --_Jemmat._ 1367 CONSTANTINE AND THE MISER. Constantine the Great, born 274 A. D., in order to reclaim a miser, took a lance and marked out a space of ground the size of a human body and said to him: "Add heap to heap, accumulate riches upon riches, extend the bounds of your possessions, conquer the whole world, and in a few days, such a spot as this, will be all that you will have." 1368 A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. --_Shenstone._ 1369