--_Selected._ 989 HIS MOTHER'S INFLUENCE. It is reported that a young man being examined preparatory to joining the church was asked--"Under whose preaching?" The prompt reply--"I was converted under my mother's practising." Did any preacher ever utter so powerful a sermon as the young man embodied in those few words? 990 It is a common thing for men to hate the authors of their preferment, as the witnesses of their mean original. 991 At the first entrance into thy estate keep a low sail; thou mayest rise with honor; thou canst not decline without shame; he that begins as his father ended, will be apt to end as his father began. 992 Some grave their wrongs on marble; He more just, Stooped down serene, and wrote them on the dust; Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth, and blotted from His mind; There, secret in the grave, He bade them lie, And grieved they could not escape the Almighty's eye. 993 One is keen to suspect a quarter from which one has once received a hurt. "A burnt child dreads the fire." 994 The noblest remedy for injuries is oblivion. --_From the French._ 995 Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely revenged; Slight it, and the work is begun; Forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself who is not above an injury. 996 A man hurts himself by injuring me: what, then shall I therefore hurt myself by injuring him? 997 _Ink--Described_:--The colored slave that waits upon thought; a drop may make a million think. --_Byron._ 998 The innocent are gay. --_Cowper._ 999 There is no real courage in innocence. 1000 What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. --_Seneca._ 1001 Better confide and be deceiv'd A thousand times by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent Or let suspicion mar repose. 1002 It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult? 1003 I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. 1004 POLITICAL INTEGRITY.