September 26

I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.—Ps. xxxix, 1.

" If you your lips Would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how and when and where.

" If you your ears Would save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid: Myself and I, And mine and my, And how 'I' do or did."

To rule one's self is in reality the greatest triumph. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.

The peculiarity of ill-temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill-temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.

HENRY DRUMMOND.