Kind words and a sympathetic handclasp have done more to reclaim lost souls than all the tracts ever published. * * * * * A minute is a short duration of time, yet in that interval one may experience the whole gamut of human emotions. * * * * * If the world valued us as we value ourselves the heavens would not be sufficiently large whereon to inscribe our greatness. * * * * * What becomes of the characters who play an important part in fiction; the strong, brave, true fiction-people, whom we love as we read? Is there no place for them in the world peopled by shadows? * * * * * There are men who will accept any and every sacrifice from a woman and after making her a wreck, socially and morally, will say to her, "I fear that I am injuring you, so I will sacrifice myself and deny myself the pleasure of your society." Such men would sneak into heaven by a side entrance. * * * * * Fate, in a sportive mood, performs some wonderful acrobatic feats with human nature; gives love of oriental luxury to the woman with nothing a year; appreciation of all that is beautiful and artistic, to the ploughman; an epicurian taste to the starving mechanic; while to the woman rolling in wealth is given the manners and tastes of the fish-wife; to the multi-millionaire the habits of the canaille, and fate laughs with glee over the fantastic, incongruous muddle of the thing called Life. BOOK THE SECOND BY THAD. W.H. LEAVITT ODDS AND-ENDS Man's greatest enemy is himself. * * * * * Never chide fate while will sleeps. * * * * * The prophet must know the past. * * * * * Foul words kill the sweetest flowers. * * * * * Repentant tears are the soul's pearls. * * * * * Common customs are not nature's laws. * * * * * No man blesses the calm until after the storm. * * * * * Much study makes a full head and an empty stomach. * * * * * You cannot fan the ashes of a dead love into a flame. * * * * * Innocence, like a beautiful dying day, goes out with a purple blush. * * * * * To steer the true course, one must not only see the star but have a pilot. * * * * * It is easier to remove a mountain than to wash out a spot on a woman's reputation. * * * * * The marble heart has valves of flint. * * * * * Women covet satin, as men covet gold. * * * * * The garments of virtue are of spun gold. * * * * *