OUR PARENTS

God, your father, and your mother,—
They have each a share in you;
If you pay to both your parents
That respect which is their due,
Then together with your parents
God considers He doth dwell,
And by honoring your parents,
You do honor God as well.

THE TALMUD

Even though wronged, treat not with disrespect Thy father, mother, teacher, elder brother.

CODE OF MANU

[Hindu, about 1280 B. C. E.]

Think constantly, O son, how thou mayst please
The father, mother, teacher-these obey.

By deep devotion seek thy debt to pay.
This is thy highest duty and religion.

CODE OF MANU

Where the children honor their parents, there God dwells, there He is honored.

THE TALMUD

The honor and reverence due to parents are equal

to the honor and reverence due to God.

THE TALMUD

"Respect your parents as you respect Me," says

God.

THE TALMUD

OUR NEIGHBORS

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

LEVITICUS XIX. 18

Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother.

ZECHARIAH VII. 9.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

For though thou gatherest coals of fire upon his head, yet will the Lord repay it unto you.

PROVERBS XXV. 21-22

Praise your neighbor behind his back, not before his face.

THE TALMUD

What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy neighbor. This is the whole Law; the rest is but commentary.

HILLEL

Wound not another, though by him provoked; Do no one injury by word or deed;

Utter no word to pain thy fellow-creatures.

CODE OF MANU

This is the sum of true righteousness

Treat others as thou wouldst thyself be treated. Do nothing to thy neighbor which hereafter Thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do to thee. In causing pleasure or in giving pain,

In doing good or injury to others,

In granting or refusing a request,
A man obtains a proper rule of action
By looking on his neighbor as himself.

THE MAHA-BHARATA [Hindu, about 500 B. C. E.]

Be slow in choosing a friend, and slower to change him; courteous to all; intimate with few; slight no man for his poverty, nor esteem any man for his wealth.

ANONYMOUS

He who raises a hand against a fellow-man, even if he injure him not, is called wicked.

THE TALMUD

Judge not thy neighbor till thou hast been placed in his position.

THE TALMUD

Judge charitably every man and justify him all

you can.

THE TALMUD

Man sees the mote in his neighbor's eye, but sees not the beam in his own.

THE TALMUD

He's true to God who's true to man;

Wherever wrong is done

To the humblest and the weakest

'Neath the all-beholding sun,

That wrong is also done to us,

And they are slaves most base,
Whose love of right is for themselves,

And not for all their race.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

This is the word:

OURSELVES

"Someone hath need of thee."

Someone, or who or where, I do not know; Knowest thou not? Then seek; make no delay! And thou shalt find, in land of sun or snow, Who waits thee, little child or pilgrim grey; For, since God keeps thee in His world below, Someone hath need of thee, somewhere, to-day.

DOWD

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

PSALM XC. 12

We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there were to be no end of time.

SENECA

Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the bow of the evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.

Live with men as if God saw you.

CHALMERS

SENECA

Any man may commit a mistake, but only a fool will continue in it.

CICERO

Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion, clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives surely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.

HENRY VAN DYKE

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

'Tis no doubt pleasant

Ourselves with our own selves to occupy,
Were but the profit equal to the pleasure.
Inwardly no man can his inmost self

Discern; the gauge that from himself he takes
Measures him now too small and now too great.
Only in man man knows himself, and only
Life teaches man what each man is worth.

GOETHE

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have.

ROBERTSON