"He who is content with the least, for contentment is nature's riches." "Do you know, sir," said a devotee of Mammon to John Bright, "that I am worth a million sterling ?" "Yes," said the irritated but calm-spirited respondent, "I do; and I know that it is all you are worth." A bankrupt merchant, returning home one night, said to his noble wife, "My dear, I am ruined; everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff." After a few moments of silence the wife looked into his face and asked, "Will the sheriff sell you ?" "Oh, no." "Will the sheriff sell me ?" "Oh, no." "Then do not say we have lost everything.

All that is most valuable remains to us--manhood, womanhood, childhood.

We have lost but the results of our skill and industry.

We can make another fortune if our hearts and hands are left us." "We say a man is 'made'," said Beecher.

"What do we mean?
That he has got the control of his lower instincts, so that they are only fuel to his higher feelings, giving force to his nature?
That his affections are like vines, sending out on all sides blossoms and clustering fruits?
That his tastes are so cultivated that all beautiful things speak to him, and bring him their delights?
That his understanding is opened, so that he walks through every hall of knowledge, and gathers its treasures?
That his moral feelings are so developed and quickened that he holds sweet commerce with Heaven?
O, no--none of these things.