Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.—­Hebrews 12:6.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.  —­Chapin.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.—­Schiller.

Affectation.—­Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.—­From the French.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.  —­St. EVREMOND.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—­Lavater.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.  —­Horace Mann.

Affection.—­A loving heart is the truest wisdom.—­Dickens.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  —­Colossians 3:2.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree.  If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.—­Hawthorne.

     A solitary blessing few can find,
     Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
     And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
     The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
     Smooths not another’s rugged path alone,
     But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.—­Beecher.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—­Willis.

Affliction.—­God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.  —­T.L.  Cuyler.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.—­Phillips brooks.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.—­Richter.

Affliction is but the shadow of God’s wing.—­George MACDONALD.

Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance where they grow;
But crushed and trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around. 

          
                          —­Goldsmith.