Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.—Bishop Heber.
The vaulted void of purple sky
That everywhere extends,
That stretches from the dazzled eye,
In space that never ends;
A morning whose uprisen sun
No setting e'er shall see;
A day that comes without a noon,
Such is eternity.
—Clare.
"What is eternity?" was a question once asked at the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Paris, and the beautiful and striking answer was given by one of the pupils, "The lifetime of the Almighty."—John Bate.
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.—Tillotson.
Evil.—The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.—Coleridge.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
—Shakespeare.
Evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
—Hood.
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.—Mohammed.
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.—Desmahis.
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.—Emerson.