444 When a man dies, they who survive him, ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man, asks what good deeds he has sent before him. 445 Happy is, or ought to be, the man who owes nothing. 446 If you would avoid paying debts, avoid incurring them. 447 But wealth and power have no immortal day, For all things ripen only to decay. 448 DECISION. Lose this day loitering,--'t will be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory; The indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute, What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated,-- Begin, And then the work Will be completed. --_J. W. Von Goethe._ 449 Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it. 450 NOBLE DEEDS. He built a house, time laid it in the dust; He wrote a book, its title now forgot; He ruled a city, but his name is not On any tablet graven, or where rust Can gather from disuse, or marble bust. He took a child from out a wretched cot, Who on the state dishonor might have brought, And reared him to the Christian's hope and trust. The boy to manhood grown, became a light To many souls, preached for human need The wondrous love of the Omnipotent. The work has multiplied like stars at night When darkness deepens; every noble deed Lasts longer, than a granite monument. --_Sarah H. Bolton._ 451 "He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it. --_Plautus._ 452 _Deformed._--Mock not at those who are misshapen by nature. He that despiseth them despiseth God that made them. --_Dr. Fuller._ 453 Away with delay! it always injures those that are prepared. --_Lucan._ 454 Do not delay: the golden moments fly! --_Longfellow._ 455 True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. 456 Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so. --_Rochefoucauld._ 457 Remember that your dependents have seldom a full power of replying to you; and let the recollection of that make you especially considerate in your dealings with them. --_Sir Arthur Helps._ 458 Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their fathers.