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HUMBLE THE JURYMAN, AND MISS HUMBLE-MIND THE SERVANT-MAID.
'Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.'-- _Our Lord_.
'Be clothed with humility.'-- _Peter_.
'God's chiefest saints are the least in their own eyes.'-- _A Kempis_.
'Without humility all our other virtues are but vices.'-- _Pascal_.
'Humility does not consist in having a worse opinion of ourselves than we deserve.'-- _Law_.
'Humility lies close upon the heart, and its tests are exceedingly delicate and subtle.'-- _Newman_.
Our familiar English word 'humility' comes down to us from the Latin root _humus_, which means the earth or the ground.

Humility, therefore, is that in the mind and in the heart of a man which is low down even to the very earth.

A humble-minded man may not have learning enough to know the etymology of the name which best describes his character, but the divine nature which is in him teaches him to look down, to walk meekly and softly, and to speak seldom, and always in love.

For humility, while it takes its lowly name from earth, all the time has its true nature from heaven.