Nature has written a letter of credit on some men's faces which is honored wherever it is presented. --_Thackeray._ 555 The surest way not to fail, is to determine to succeed. --_Sheridan._ 556 THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER. In Ross-shire, Scotland, there is an immense mountain gorge. The rocks have been rent in twain, and set apart twenty feet, forming two perpendicular walls two hundred feet in height. On either side of these natural walls, in crevices where earth has collected, grow wild flowers of rare quality and beauty. A company of tourists visiting that part of the country were desirous to possess themselves of specimens of these beautiful mountain flowers; but how to obtain them they knew not. At length they thought they might be gathered by suspending a person over the cliff by a rope. They offered a Highland boy, who was near by, a handsome sum of money to undertake the difficult and dangerous task. The boy looked down into the awful abyss that yawned below, and shrunk from the undertaking; but the money was tempting. Could he confide in the strangers? Could he venture his life in their hands? He felt that he could not; but he thought of his father, and, looking once more at the cliff, and then at the proffered reward, his eyes brightened, and he exclaimed: "I'll go if my father holds the rope." Beautiful illustration of the nature of faith. 557 Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. --_Dr. Young._ 558 To be trusted is perhaps a greater compliment than to be loved. 559 He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. --_Auerbach._ 560 Trust not him that hath once broken faith. --_Shakespeare._ 561 It goes a great way toward making a man faithful, to let him understand that you think him so. --_Seneca._ 562 All that a man gets by being untruthful is, that he is not believed when he speaks the truth. 563 Telling an untruth is like leaving the highway and going into a tangled forest. You know not how long it will take you to get back, or how much you will suffer from the thorns and briers in the wild woods. 564 There is no greater mistake in social life than indulging in over-familiarity. Intercourse, even between intimate friends, should have some dignity about it. 565 A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great world without. --_J. A. James._ 566 Where can one be happier than in the bosom of his family? --_Young._ 567 FAMILY REUNION.