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 PEARLS OF THOUGHT. 

 BY

 MATURIN M. BALLOU, AUTHOR OF THE "TREASURY OF THOUGHT, " "HISTORY OF CUBA, " "BIOGRAPHY OF HOSEA BALLOU, " ETC. , ETC. 

 _Infinite riches in a little room. _--MARLOWE. 

 BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1881. 

 COPYRIGHT, 1880, By MATURIN M. BALLOU. 

 _All rights reserved. _

 _The Riverside Press, Cambridge:_ Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. 

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 To

 MY WIFE, THE PATIENT AND CHEERFUL ASSOCIATE OF MY STUDIES, AFTER MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OF

 HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP, This Volume

 IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

 BY

 THE COMPILER. 

 Writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give Truth a lustre, and make Wisdom smile. 

 COWPER. 

 General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room. 

 LOCKE. 

 Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private recordes, and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. 

 BACON. 

 I would fain coin wisdom, --mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. 

 JOUBERT. 

PREFACE. 

 A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. 

 GEORGE HERBERT. 

The volume herewith presented is the natural result of the compiler'shabit of transferring and classifying significant passages from knownauthors. No special course of reading has been pursued, the thoughtsbeing culled from foreign and native tongues--from the moss-grown tomesof ancient literature and the verdant fields of to-day. The terseperiods of others, appropriately quoted, become in a degree our own; anda just estimation is very nearly allied to originality, or, as theauthor of _Vanity Fair_ tells us, "Next to excellence is theappreciation of it. " Without indorsing the idea of a modern authoritythat the multiplicity of facts and writings is becoming so great thatevery available book must soon be composed of extracts only, still it isbelieved that such a volume as "Pearls of Thought" will serve theinterest of general literature, and especially stimulate the mind of thethoughtful reader to further research. The pleasant duty of thecompiler has been to follow the expressive idea of Colton, and he hasmade the same use of books as a bee does of flowers, --she steals thesweets from them, but does not injure them. 

To the observant reader many familiar quotations will naturally occur, the absence of which may seem a singular omission in such a connectionand classification, but doubtless such excerpts will be found in the"Treasury of Thought, " a much more extended work by the same author, towhich this volume is properly a supplement. Of course care has beentaken not to repeat any portion of the previous collection. 

 M. M. B. 

PEARLS OF THOUGHT. 

A. 

~Ability. ~--Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of everykind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for thewant of natural abilities. --_Schopenhaufer. _

Words must be fitted to a man's mouth, --'twas well said of the fellowthat was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor, when he desired to takemeasure of his lordship's mouth. --_Selden. _

~Absence. ~--Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. --_Hannah More. _

Absence from those we love is self from self! A deadlybanishment. --_Shakespeare. _

Short retirement urges sweet return. --_Milton. _

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had betterdie at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is novirtue, but a fact. --_Tuckerman. _

Frozen by distance. --_Wordsworth. _

Short absence quickens love, long absence kills it. --_Mirabeau. _

We often wish most for our friends when they are absent. Even in marriedlife love is not diminished by distance. A man, like a burning-glass, should be placed at a certain distance from the object he wishes todissolve, in order that the proper focus may be obtained. --_Richter. _

~Abstinence. ~--Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a hand of easiness tothe next abstinence; the next more easy; for use almost can change thestamp of nature, and either curb the devil, or throw him out withwondrous potency. --_Shakespeare. _

~Abuse. ~--Abuse is not so dangerous when there is no vehicle of wit ordelicacy, no subtle conveyance. The difference between coarse andrefined abuse is as the difference between being bruised by a club andwounded by a poisoned arrow. --_Johnson. _

~Accident. ~--What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriouslytogether, the wind of accident collects in one briefmoment. --_Schiller. _

What men call accident is God's own part. --_P. J. Bailey. _

~Acquirements. ~--Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks: hewho fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain theother. --_Metastasio. _

~Action. ~--Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds. It may augmentnoise, but it never can enforce argument. If you speak to a dog, you useaction; you hold up your hand thus, because he is a brute; and inproportion as men are removed from brutes, action will have the lessinfluence upon them. --_Johnson. _

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not act. --_Sophocles. _

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of an orator, whatthe second, and what the third? he answered, "Action. " The same may Isay. If any should ask me what is the first, the second, the third partof a Christian, I must answer, "Action. "--_T. Brooks. _

Our best conjectures, as to the true spring of actions, are veryuncertain; the actions themselves are all we must pretend to know fromhistory. That Cæsar was murdered by twenty-four conspirators, I doubtnot; but I very much doubt whether their love of liberty was the solecause. --_Chesterfield. _

Action is generally defective, and proves an abortion without previouscontemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates. --_OwenFeltham. _

Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; youhave not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement isnot energy. --_E. B. Hall. _

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome orglorious. --_Colton. _

Outward actions can never give a just estimate of us, since there aremany perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing inactions. --_Addison. _

Mark this well, ye proud men of action! Ye are, after all, nothing butunconscious instruments of the men of thought. --_Heinrich Heine. _

~Actors. ~--Players, sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures setupon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, likedancing dogs. But, sir, you will allow that some players are better thanothers? Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others. --_Johnson. _

Each under his borrowed guise the actor belongs to himself. He has puton a mask, beneath it his real face still exists; he has thrown himselfinto a foreign individuality, which in some sense forms a shelter to theintegrity of his own character; he may indeed wear festive attire, buthis mourning is beneath it; he may smile, divert, act, his soul is stillhis own; his inner life is undisturbed; no indiscreet question will liftthe veil, no coarse hand will burst open the gates of thesanctuary. --_Countess de Gasparin. _

Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, andthat highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accentof Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, or man, have sostrutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymenhad made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity soabominably!--_Shakespeare. _

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. For an actorto represent a Greek hero it is imperative he should have thoroughlystudied those antique statues which have lasted to our day, and masteredthe particular grace they exhibited in their postures, whether sitting, standing, or walking. Nor should he make attitude his only study. Heshould highly develop his mind by an assiduous study of the bestwriters, ancient and modern, which will enable him not only tounderstand his parts, but to communicate a nobler coloring to hismanners and mien. --_Goethe. _

~Admiration. ~--Admiration and love are like being intoxicated withchampagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened. --_Johnson. _

Season your admiration for awhile. --_Shakespeare. _

I wonder whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come tomeasuring the force there would be in one beautiful woman whose mind wasas noble as her face was beautiful--who made a man's passion for herrush in one current with all the great aims of his life. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Admiration is the base of ignorance. --_Balthasar Gracian. _

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratificationof vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant thanlove. --_Arthur Helps. _

Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (enviousand ignorant as they are) they must be taken unawares. --_JamesNorthcote. _

~Adversity. ~--If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hathkilled his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. Theone deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the otherhappily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarilysought adversity and so much commend it in their precepts. --_Burton. _

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. --_BishopHorne. _

Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latterrain, --cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from thatseason have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate. --_Walter Scott. _

Two powerful destroyers: Time and Adversity. --_A. De Musset. _

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that weshould never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to haverecourse to human consolation. --_Thomas à Kempis. _

Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which thesummer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish. --_Arrowsmith. _

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison withthose of Guilt!--_Blair. _

~Advice. ~--People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind of a surprise thanby downright admonition. --_L'Estrange. _

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. --_Massillon. _

~Affectation. ~--All affectation proceeds from the supposition ofpossessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobodyis vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is theprecise quantity of either sort of limb which everybodypossesses. --_Sydney Smith. _

Affectation is certain deformity. --_Blair. _

~Affection. ~--None of the affections have been noted to fascinate andbewitch, but love and envy. --_Bacon. _

None are so desolate but something dear, dearer than self, possesses orpossess'd. --_Byron. _

Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, whohas begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll, creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her ownlove. --_George Eliot. _

God give us leisure for these rights of love. --_Shakespeare. _

~Afflictions. ~--Before an affliction is digested, consolation comes toosoon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a markbetween these two, as fine, almost, as a hair, for a comforter to takeaim at. --_Sterne. _

Stars shine brightest in the darkest night; torches are better forbeating; grapes come not to the proof till they come to the press;spices smell best when bruised; young trees root the faster for shaking;gold looks brighter for scouring; juniper smells sweetest in the fire;the palm-tree proves the better for pressing; chamomile, the more youtread it, the more you spread it. Such is the condition of all God'schildren: they are then most triumphant when most tempted; most gloriouswhen most afflicted. --_Bogatzky. _

That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shaltunderstand in the day of thy visitation. For many secrets of religionare not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day ofa great calamity. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Nothing so much increases one's reverence for others as a great sorrowto one's self. It teaches one the depths of human nature. In happinesswe are shallow, and deem others so. --_Charles Buxton. _

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. --_Bovée. _

Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble-mindedbut confirm the obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that hardens clayliquefies gold; and in the strong manifestations of divine power Pharoahfound his punishment, but David his pardon. --_Colton. _

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good forus, because they discover to us our disease and tend to ourcure. --_Tillotson. _

To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest (or meanest), acheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and, still more, into ourselves, suffering isrequisite. --_Richter. _

Count up man's calamities and who would seem happy? But in truth, calamity leaves fully half of your life untouched. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Age. ~--Wrinkles are the tomb of love. --_Sarros in. _

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o'working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on thewithered tree. --_George Eliot. _

Autumnal green. --_Dryden. _

Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it aspleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since timeknows not how to preserve our hopes, but, attentive to its own concerns, flies away. --_Euripides. _

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not theirbirth. --_Homer. _

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is theunfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will befound much greater. --_South. _

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest forthings a long way off. --_George Eliot. _

Serene, and safe from passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide intothe port of age!--_Shenstone. _

Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we maydisengage from the world by degrees. --_Jeremy Collier. _

Age oppresses by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits notthat our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retainthe vigor of our youth. --_Dryden. _

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from thecontempt inspired by vice, for age whitens only the hair. --_J. PetitSenn. _

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that ageshe has only forty winters. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, oldbooks, old wine. --_Goldsmith. _

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. --_J. Petit Senn. _

There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man, inproportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion. Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or laterpresent themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in therecesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to theirbeauty. --_Chateaubriand. _

~Agitation. ~--Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation tomould its laws. --_Sir R. Peel. _

Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of theballot-box. --_Wendell Phillips. _

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons ofanimals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. --_Wendell Phillips. _

~Agriculture. ~--Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since theproductions of nature are the materials of art. --_Gibbon. _

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches shecan call her own. --_Johnson. _

Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his calling, for they wholabor in the earth are the chosen people of God. --_Thomas Jefferson. _

~Allegory. ~--Allegories and spiritual significations, when applied tofaith, and that seldom, are laudable; but when they are drawn from thelife and conversation, they are dangerous, and, when men make too manyof them, pervert the doctrine of faith. Allegories are fine ornaments, but not of proof. --_Luther. _

The allegory of a sophist is always screwed; it crouches and bows like asnake, which is never straight, whether she go, creep, or lie still;only when she is dead, she is straight enough. --_Luther. _

~Ambition. ~--It was not till after the terrible passage of the bridge ofLodi that the idea entered my mind that I might become a decisive actorin the political arena. Then arose for the first time the spark of greatambition. --_Napoleon. _

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride ofno person in a flourishing condition is more justly to be dreaded thanthat of him who is mean and cringing under a doubtful and unprosperousfortune. --_Burke. _

If there is ever a time to be ambitious, it is not when ambition iseasy, but when it is hard. Fight in darkness; fight when you are down;die hard, and you won't die at all. --_Beecher. _

By that sin angels fell. --_Shakespeare. _

Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises, even to theperson himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the mostincurable and inflexible of all human passions. --_Hume. _

An ardent thirst of honor; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, andan unextinguished desire of doing more. --_Dryden. _

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. --_George MacDonald. _

Think not ambition wise, because 'tis brave. --_Sir W. Davenant. _

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. --_Massinger. _

~America. ~--Child of the earth's old age. --_L. E. Langdon. _

The name--American, must always exalt the pride ofpatriotism. --_Washington. _

In America we see a country of which it has been truly said that in noother are there so few men of great learning and so few men of greatignorance. --_Buckle. _

America is as yet in the youth and gristle of her strength. --_Burke. _

If all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present aloop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loop-hole is larger thanthe dungeon itself. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Ere long, thine every stream shall find a tongue, land of the manywaters. --_Hoffman. _

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet butcartilages. --_Fisher Ames. _

~Amusement. ~--Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbsthought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character, and becomes the task-master ofidleness. --_Willmott. _

~Analogy. ~--Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescopeof the mind by which it is marvelously assisted in the discovery of bothphysical and moral truth. --_Colton. _

~Anarchy. ~--The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule;the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity andbaseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainablethree-half-pence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortalsouls. --_Carlyle. _

~Ancestry. ~--We take rank by descent. Such of us as have the longestpedigree, and are therefore the furthest removed from the first who madethe fortune and founded the family, we are the noblest. The nearer tothe fountain the fouler the stream: and that first ancestor who hassoiled his fingers by labor is no better than a parvenu. --_Froude. _

Breed is stronger than pasture. --_George Eliot. _

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neithertheir good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. --_Sallust. _

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility ofmind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; butit sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur. --_Colton. _

Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is tobe expected that the children of men of worth will be like theirfathers, for nobility is the virtue of a family. --_Aristotle. _

A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage; butif he any way degenerate from his line, the least spot is visible onermine. --_Dryden. _

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that itshould be such as to give him but little occasion to think much aboutit. --_Whately. _

~Ancients. ~--In tragedy and satire I maintain, against some critics, thatthis age and the last have excelled the ancients; and I would instancein Shakespeare of the former, in Dorset of the latter. --_Dryden. _

Though the knowledge they have left us be worth our study, yet theyexhausted not all its treasures; they left a great deal for the industryand sagacity of after-ages. --_Locke. _

~Angels. ~--In old days there were angels who came and took men by the handand led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-wingedangels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: ahand is put in theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm andbright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be alittle child's. --_George Eliot. _

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wakeand when we sleep. --_Milton. _

~Anger. ~--If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shallnot be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time tothink upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coalsare. --_Beecher. _

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. --_Philemon. _

When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, itstumbles in its way. --_Savage. _

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feelbitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. --_CharlesBuxton. _

Above all, gentlemen, no heat. --_Talleyrand. _

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealedoften hardens into revenge. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Keep cool and you command everybody. --_St. Just. _

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry Ican write, pray, and preach well; for then my whole temperament isquickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations andtemptations depart. --_Luther. _

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one canbe. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Angling. ~--I give up fly-fishing; it is a light, volatile, dissipatedpursuit. But ground-bait with a good steady float that never bobswithout a bite is an occupation for a bishop, and in no way interfereswith sermon-making. --_Sydney Smith. _

He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible inthe days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. --_Izaak Walton. _

Idle time not idly spent. --_Sir Henry Wotton. _

To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream and greedilydevour the treacherous bait. --_Shakespeare. _

~Anticipation. ~--It has been well said that no man ever sank under theburden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burdenof to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear. --_GeorgeMacDonald. _

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruititself. --_Herder. _

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing thanthose crowned with fruition. In the first instance, we cook the dish toour own appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it for us. --_Goldsmith. _

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensivewhile we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we maybe, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting todisburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place, project, orreversion that we have in view. --_Addison. _

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. --_George Eliot. _

~Antiquarian. ~--A thorough-paced antiquarian not only remembers what allother people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what allother people think it proper to remember. --_Colton. _

The earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Antithesis. ~--Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. --_Bruyère. _

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive atmaturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. --_Colton. _

~Apology. ~--An apology in the original sense was a pleading off from somecharge or imputation, by explaining or defending principles or conduct. It therefore amounted to a vindication. --_Crabbe. _

Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. --_Gay. _

~Apothegms. ~--Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, butalso for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, whichcut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. --_Bacon. _

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portionof our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of menis but an aphorism. --_Coleridge. _

Proverbs are potted wisdom. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Appeal. ~--Seeing all men are not [OE]dipuses to read the riddle ofanother man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves aman to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. Weguess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see itwears. --_Feltham. _

~Appearances. ~--It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pausenot to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor ofAthens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst intobroken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of hisson!--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition todazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need notdescribe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways--inthe rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do notdare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which thepity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocentfamilies who are so often involved in their ruin. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and goastray more and more. --_Carlyle. _

What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; forproud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearingfine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is thebetter part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but amodest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no onecould comment upon, is the right and most desirable thing. --_Spurgeon. _

He was a man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve thedevil in. --_Pollok. _

I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from whatthey say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face thatgives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow. --_CharlesBuxton. _

~Appetite. ~--Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretendingnot to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for Ilook upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anythingelse. --_Johnson. _

Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scantof meat or mirth. --_Shakespeare. _

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honestmen. --_Izaak Walton. _

And do as adversaries do in law, --strive mightily, but eat and drink asfriends. --_Shakespeare. _

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the firsthour. --_Brillat Savarin. _

~Appreciation. ~--Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit;but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. --_Colton. _

It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while weenjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack thevalue. --_Shakespeare. _

A man is known to his dog by the smell--to the tailor by the coat--tohis friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or howmuch depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly andindeed characteristic of man is known only to God. --_Ruskin. _

He who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than heseems. --_Goethe. _

Light is above us, and color surrounds us; but if we have not light andcolor in our eyes, we shall not perceive them outside us. --_Goethe. _

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a greatthought, another is born who is able to understand and admireit. --_Joubert. _

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who readit are no longer the same interpreters. --_George Eliot. _

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beautythe power of appreciating beauty. --_Margaret Fuller. _

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. --_Joubert. _

~Architecture. ~--Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns theedifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them maycontribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. --_Ruskin. _

~Argument. ~--There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol missesfire he knocks you down with the butt end of it. --_Goldsmith. _

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they aremost unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a moredifficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with asword. --_Bishop Whately. _

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to whichhe is not entitled. The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning, and are impressed by character; so that if you allow your adversary arespectable character, they will think that, though you differ from him, you may be in the wrong. Treating your adversary with respect isstriking soft in a battle. --_Johnson. _

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty headthan the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fallwith equal velocity in a vacuum. --_Colton. _

An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit thanthe profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisymanagement. --_Locke. _

One may say, generally, that no deeply rooted tendency was everextirpated by adverse argument. Not having originally been founded onargument, it cannot be destroyed by logic. --_G. H. Lewes. _

A reason is often good, not because it is conclusive, but because it isdramatic, --because it has the stamp of him who urges it, and is drawnfrom his own resources. For there are arguments _ex homine_ as well as_ad hominem_. --_Joubert. _

If I were to deliver up my whole self to the arbitrament of specialpleaders, to-day I might be argued into an atheist, and to-morrow into apickpocket. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Aristocracy. ~--And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. --_DeFoe. _

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that itruns back to a successful soldier?--_Walter Scott. _

If in an aristocracy the people be virtuous, they will enjoy very nearlythe same happiness as in a popular government, and the state will becomepowerful. --_Montesquieu. _

An aristocracy is the true, the only support of a monarchy. Without itthe State is a vessel without a rudder--a balloon in the air. A truearistocracy, however, must be ancient. Therein consists its realforce, --its talismanic charm. --_Napoleon. _

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridledto be ridden. --_Richard Rumbold. _

~Armor. ~--The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. --_Lord Bacon. _

Our armor all is strong, our cause the best; then reason wills ourhearts should be as good. --_Shakespeare. _

~Art. ~--Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but ifpassion carries them, it will be well done: passion knows more thanart. --_Baron. _

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art andindustry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either forbeauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give afew strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand ofthe master. --_Hume. _

The mission of art is to represent nature; not to imitate her. --_W. M. Hunt. _

True art is not the caprice of this or that individual, it is a solemnpage either of history or prophecy; and when, as always in Dante andoccasionally in Byron, it combines and harmonizes this double mission, it reaches the highest summit of power. --_Mazzini. _

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, theformer has made us men. --_Schiller. _

Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study ofnature--takes from nature the selections which best accord with its ownintention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, namely, the mind and the soul of man. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts isluxury. --_Schopenhaufer. _

He who seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius, as hemust needs paint for other minds and not for his own. --_WashingtonAllston. _

In art, form is everything; matter, nothing. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Strange thing art, especially music. Out of an art a man may be sotrivial you would mistake him for an imbecile, at best a grown infant. Put him into his art, and how high he soars above you! How quietly heenters into a heaven of which he has become a denizen, and, unlockingthe gates with his golden key, admits you to follow, an humble, reverentvisitor. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Art does not imitate, but interpret. --_Mazzini. _

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tearswas a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor childthe harder to make him shed more pearls. --_Heinrich Heine. _

In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity innature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfecttaste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has animperfect taste. --_Bruyère. _

Never judge a work of art by its defects. --_Washington Allston. _

~Asceticism. ~--I recommend no sour ascetic life. I believe not only in thethorns on the rosebush, but in the roses which the thorns defend. Asceticism is the child of sensuality and superstition. She is thesecret mother of many a secret sin. God, when he made man's body, didnot give us a fibre too much, nor a passion too many. I would steal noviolet from the young maiden's bosom; rather would I fill her arms withmore fragrant roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or chiefly ofpleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the living;always unsatisfactory in its course, always miserable in itsend. --_Theodore Parker. _

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. --_Byron. _

Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world. Religiousasceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake--assupposed--of religion; seen chiefly in the Middle Ages. Militaryasceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake ofpower; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome. And monetaryasceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for thesake of money; seen in the present days of London andManchester. --_Ruskin. _

~Aspiration. ~--The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do notlaugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, andwould like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate hasbedaubed him. --_Heinrich Heine. _

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that--to love what isgreat, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. --_George Eliot. _

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is notsufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficientfor it. --_Quarles. _

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining tohis highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaningfor the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!--_Chapin. _

Oh for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven ofinvention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to beholdthe swelling scene. --_Shakespeare. _

The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. --_Thoreau. _

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we arethoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful andgood, and we _must_ hunger after them. --_George Eliot. _

~Associates. ~--Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a manmaketh his train longer, he makes his wings shorter. --_Bacon. _

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society ofthine equals thou shall enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thysuperiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company isthe way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worstthere. --_Quarles. _

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not toonear, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. --_Diogenes. _

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extractall that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit whatis unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slightacquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; amore intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. --_Landor. _

Those who are unacquainted with the world take pleasure in the intimacyof great men; those who are wiser dread the consequences. --_Horace. _

~Atheism. ~--By burning an atheist, you have lent importance to that whichwas absurd, interest to that which was forbidding, light to that whichwas the essence of darkness. For atheism is a system which cancommunicate neither warmth nor illumination except from those fagotswhich your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. --_Colton. _

One of the most daring beings in creation, a contemner of God, whoexplodes his laws by denying his existence. --_John Foster. _

~Authority. ~--Reasons of things are rather to be taken by weight thantale. --_Jeremy Collier. _

The world is ruled by the subordinates, not by their chiefs. --_CharlesBuxton. _

~Authors. ~--Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixedstars: the first have a momentary effect. The second have a much longerduration. But the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, andwork for all time. --_Schopenhaufer. _

Satire lies about men of letters during their lives, and eulogy aftertheir death. --_Voltaire. _

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him hispublic significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said ofCorneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not readhim. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. It isfor the same reason that La Fontaine is held in such high esteem amongthe French. It is not for his worth as a poet, but for the greatness ofhis character which obtrudes in his writings. --_Goethe. _

Choose an author as you choose a friend. --_Roscommon. _

Herder and Schiller both in their youth intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of thebody, --heal the deeper!" and they wrote. --_Richter. _

A woman who writes commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. --_Alphonse Karr. _

Thanks and honor to the glorious masters of the pen. --_Hood. _

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living:they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, norintrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take themdown. --_Colton. _

Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are, the turbid looks most profound. --_Landor. _

When we look back upon human records, how the eye settles upon writersas the main landmarks of the past. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Autumn. ~--Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. --_Keats. _

The Sabbath of the year. --_Logan. _

~Avarice. ~--Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitouslypoor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. --_ThomasPaine. _

Avarice is more unlovely than mischievous. --_Landor. _

The German poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divinesymbol of knowledge, to others but the milch cow, only regarded for thepounds of butter she will yield. O tendency of our age, to look on Isisas the milch cow!--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome worldthan any mortal drug. --_Shakespeare. _

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the firstpart has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted toambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls hisage with the milder business of saving it. --_Johnson. _

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~Babblers. ~--Who think too little, and who talk too much. --_Dryden. _

They always talk who never think. --_Prior. _

Talkers are no good doers. --_Shakespeare. _

~Babe. ~--It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who setsher father and mother and all at defiance, and can't be managed byanybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child willstrike the rock and set all her affections flowing. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Bargain. ~--What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in goodbargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by ponderingover the morals of shopping. --_Beecher. _

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is areflection upon the buyer's judgment. --_Pliny. _

~Bashfulness. ~--Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldomopens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. --_Johnson. _

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering hissentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 'tis thereforegood to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company ofthe better sort. --_Bacon. _

~Beauty. ~--The beautiful is always severe. --_Ségur. _

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind'scommending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that itis ever pleading for respect and liking, and, by the eyes of others isever sending to their hearts for love. Yet even this hath thisinconvenience in it--that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishingof the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mindis ill. --_Feltham. _

Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence thecaprices of the world. --_X. Doudan. _

No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty andhumility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beautywithout the signature of these graces in the very countenance. --_JohnRay. _

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential tobeauty. --_Burke. _

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there issomething still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image andexpression, --a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, theears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in theimagination. --_Cicero. _

A lovely girl is above all rank. --_Charles Buxton. _

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight itawakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which isperhaps one element of its might. --_Tuckerman. _

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takesaway. --_Méré. _

In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source andlife of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light onevery side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forththe poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing. --_Mazzini. _

Beauty is God's handwriting, a wayside sacrament. --_Milton. _

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power thepretensions of a whole life. --_Bignicout. _

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty. --_AlphonseKarr. _

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzedthe laws of æsthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the realtruthfulness of all works of imagination--sculpture, painting, writtenfiction--is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks torepresent the positive truth, but the idealized image of atruth. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

An outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it hasbeen refused. --_Gibbon. _

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly apprehenditself. --_Goethe. _

~Bed. ~--The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yetwe quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave itearly, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep itlate. --_Colton. _

What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury tome! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in theworld. --_Napoleon. _

~Beggars. ~--He is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behindit. He is not required to put on court mourning. He weareth all colors, fearing none. His costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's. He is the only man in the universe who is not obliged to studyappearances. --_Lamb. _

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. --_Goldsmith. _

~Benevolence. ~--There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than ahuman being, replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner hemight render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most goodto his creatures. --_Fielding. _

Genuine benevolence is not stationary but peripatetic. It _goeth_ aboutdoing good. --_Nevins. _

It is an argument of a candid, ingenuous mind to delight in the goodname and commendations of others; to pass by their defects and takenotice of their virtues; and to speak or hear willingly of the latter;for in this indeed you may be little less guilty than the evil speaker, in taking pleasure in evil, though you speak it not. --_Leighton. _

The root of all benevolent actions is filial piety and fraternallove. --_Confucius. _

True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice, andkindness with kindness. --_Confucius. _

It is in contemplating man at a distance that we becomebenevolent. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Bible. ~--As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grapesare sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which givesthem the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrinesbest and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures andare not wrung into controversies and commonplaces. --_Bacon. _

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by thosediscoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out againstany evidence whatever; even that of a messenger sent express from theother world. --_Atterbury. _

But what is meant, after all, by _uneducated_, in a time when books havecome into the world--come to be household furniture in every habitationof the civilized world? In the poorest cottage are books--is one book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found lightand nourishment and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest inhim. --_Carlyle. _

A stream where alike the elephant may swim and the lamb maywade. --_Gregory the Great. _

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirmingmore strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacredwritings. --_Herschel. _

I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to saynothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of geniusand taste than any other volume in existence. --_Landor. _

~Bigotry. ~--A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceiveeven God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. --_Boileau. _

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses whichLenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy theyfreeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn thesufferer. --_Colton. _

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believesthere is no virtue but on his own side. --_Addison. _

The worst of mad men is a saint run mad. --_Pope. _

~Biography. ~--As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us abeautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, wedo not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to markthem too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the otherdestroy the likeness of the picture. --_Plutarch. _

Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructiveand useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the bestare almost equivalent to gospels--teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic action for their own and the world's good. --_SamuelSmiles. _

It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write hislife with any genuine exactness and discrimination; and few people, whohave lived with a man, know what to remark about him. --_Johnson. _

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but livescan only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every dayless, and in a short time is lost forever. --_Johnson. _

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has itscomparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skillfulhand to construct the skeleton. --_Willmott. _

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity isto continue in a state of childhood all our days. --_Plutarch. _

~Birth. ~--Noble in appearance, but this is mere outside; many noble bornare base. --_Euripides. _

~Blessings. ~--The good things of life are not to be had singly, but cometo us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed tothe tail of it. --_Charles Lamb. _

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in ourhaving only regular desires. --_St. Augustine. _

We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our ownindustry. --_L'Estrange. _

Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust as they do asbenefits to the just. --_Plato. _

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!--_Young. _

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many: not onyour past misfortunes, of which all men have some. --_Charles Dickens. _

~Blush. ~--The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

I have mark'd a thousand blushing apparitions to start into her face; athousand innocent shames, in angel whiteness, bear away thoseblushes. --_Shakespeare. _

The glow of the angel in woman. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Such blushes as adorn the ruddy welkin or the purple morn. --_Ovid. _

Luminous escapes of thought. --_Moore. _

~Blustering. ~--Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make thefield ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of greatcattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud andare silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are theonly inhabitants of the field--that, of course, they are many innumber, --or, that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of thehour. --_Burke. _

There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what isloud and senseless talking any other than a way ofbraying. --_L'Estrange. _

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to helpthem. --_George Eliot. _

~Boasting. ~--Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. Thedeep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yetempty themselves with less noise. --_W. Secker. _

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears hisweapon in his mouth. --_Madden. _

Every braggart shall be found an ass. --_Shakespeare. _

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a manmore sharply as ill-bred. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Boldness. ~--Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. --_Smollett. _

Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men stillmore. --_Lemesles. _

~Bondage. ~--The iron chain and the silken cord, both equally arebonds. --_Schiller. _

~Books. ~--If a secret history of books could be written, and the author'sprivate thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, howmany insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite thereader!--_Thackeray. _

When a new book comes out I read an old one. --_Rogers. _

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for yourhabits and character will be as much influenced by the former as thelatter. --_Paxton Hood. _

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if thereader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very highart. --_Thoreau. _

A book _is_ good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. It is not offended at your absent-mindedness, nor jealous if you turn toother pleasures. It silently serves the soul without recompense, noteven for the hire of love. And yet more noble, --it seems to pass fromitself, and to enter the memory, and to hover in a silverytransfiguration there, until the outward book is but a body, and itssoul and spirit are flown to you, and possess your memory like aspirit. --_Beecher. _

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet inexchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn themall. --_Fénelon. _

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at thepleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbiddingeither, but approving the latter most. --_Plutarch. _

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, ismuch as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only becausemade by some famous tailor. --_Pope. _

The medicine of the mind. --_Diodorus. _

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under hisroof. --_Channing. _

Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Bores. ~--I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenter'shammer, in a warm summer's noon, will fret me into more than midsummermadness. But those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measuredmalice of music. --_Lamb. _

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solidmen. --_Dryden. _

If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we setopen our gates to the invaders of most of our time; we expose our lifeto a quotidian ague of frigid impertinences which would make a wise mantremble to think of. --_Cowley. _

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are likethose minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril!--_MadameSwetchine. _

~Borrowing. ~--You should only attempt to borrow from those who have butfew of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and theyare, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they reallyare. --_Heinrich Heine. _

According to the security you offer to her, Fortune makes her loans easyor ruinous. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Bravery. ~--True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what onemight be capable of doing before all the world. --_Rochefoucauld. _

'Tis late before the brave despair. --_Thompson. _

The bravest men are subject most to chance. --_Dryden. _

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes. --_Byron. _

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might showon behalf of their nearest neighbors. --_George Eliot. _

~Brevity. ~--To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. --_Charles Buxton. _

Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer byits readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim'sProgress?--_Johnson. _

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I lovenot those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man canfathom. --_Feltham. _

I saw one excellency was within my reach--it was brevity, and Idetermined to obtain it. --_Jay. _

Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they arecondensed, the deeper they burn. --_Southey. _

Concentration alone conquers. --_Charles Buxton. _

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression:the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. --_Alfred Bougeart. _

Oratory, like the Drama, abhors lengthiness; like the Drama, it must bekept doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which shouldbe produced on the audience, become blemishes. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The fewer words the better prayer. --_Luther. _

~Business. ~--Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, butbecause he had a capacity on a level for business and not aboveit. --_Tacitus. _

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~Calumny. ~--Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, andyou give it the appearance of truth. --_Tacitus. _

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts withgreater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon apoisoned arrow. --_Colton. _

~Cant. ~--The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiplycant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. --_Swift. _

There is such a thing as a peculiar word or phrase cleaving, as it were, to the memory of the writer or speaker, and presenting itself to hisutterance at every turn. When we observe this, we call it a cant word ora cant phrase. --_Paley. _

~Caution. ~--Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amissfor the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised fortoo anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident asecurity. --_Burke. _

~Censure. ~--Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves. --_Juvenal. _

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us anopportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to theirvirtues. --_Hazlitt. _

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highestmountains. --_Balthasar Gracian. _

~Chance. ~--There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we meanthat events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit ofevents which are designed. --_Paley. _

Chance generally favors the prudent. --_Joubert. _

It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that thereis no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that thesewords do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly anagent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignoranceof the real and immediate cause. --_Adam Clarke. _

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric ofheaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is notable to make an oyster!--_Jeremy Taylor. _

He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect thesafety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road oflife, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stoneunturned. "--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Change. ~--The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves ofchange. --_Tennyson. _

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. --_Byron. _

In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goesis lost. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Character. ~--As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is theresome angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may beconquered, but in this life never destroyed. --_Coleridge. _

Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid andunalterable. It is something living and changing, and may becomediseased as our bodies do. --_George Eliot. _

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroismmaterialized, --spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man. --_Whipple. _

Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me tosee some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lyingin the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. --_George Eliot. _

Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone--_Bartol. _

Character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodiedin the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience ofsociety, but in every well-governed state they are its best motivepower; for it is moral qualities in the main which rule theworld. --_Samuel Smiles. _

He whose life seems fair, if all his errors and follies were articledagainst him would seem vicious and miserable. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to themajor part of their character: he is to be called a wise man who has butfew follies. --_Watts. _

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in hismanner of portraying another. --_Richter. _

We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. --_Thoreau. _

~Charity. ~--Charity is a principle of prevailing love to God and good-willto men, which effectually inclines one endued with it to glorify God, and to do good to others. --_Cruden. _

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards theuncharitable. --_Buckminster. _

The charities that soothe, and heat, and bless, lie scattered at thefeet of men like flowers. --_Wordsworth. _

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of hispalace, and alms-giving procures us admission. --_Koran. _

Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, we who could no wayforesee the effect, --when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers downevery day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?--_Atterbury. _

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. --_Victor Hugo. _

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away fromourselves: what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, asour nearest relations. --_Atterbury. _

Goodness answers to the theological virtue of charity, and admits noexcess but error; the desire of power in excess caused the angels tofall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but incharity there is no excess: neither can angel or man come into danger byit. --_Bacon. _

Poplicola's doors were opened on the outside, to save the people eventhe common civility of asking entrance; where misfortune was a powerfulrecommendation, and where want itself was a powerfulmediator. --_Dryden. _

When thy brother has lost all that he ever had, and lies languishing, and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, dost thou think to lick him whole again only with thy tongue?--_South. _

What we frankly give, forever is our own. --_Granville. _

Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charityremains. --_Prior. _

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere. --_ProfessorVinet. _

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money;and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draftment upon heavenfor those who choose to have their money placed to accountthere. --_Mackenzie. _

~Chastity. ~--Chastity enables the soul to breathe a pure air in thefoulest places; continence makes her strong, no matter in what conditionthe body may be; her sway over the senses makes her queenly; her lightand peace render her beautiful. --_Joubert. _

~Cheerfulness. ~--Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It hasbeen called the bright weather of the heart. --_Samuel Smiles. _

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off withcheerishness, --which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses mayyet be done well, as in this vale of tears. --_Milton. _

Such a man, truly wise, creams of nature, leaving the sour and the dregsfor philosophy and reason to lap up. --_Swift. _

Be thou like the bird perched upon some frail thing, although he feelsthe branch bending beneath him, yet loudly sings, knowing full well thathe has wings. --_Mme. De Gasparin. _

~Children. ~--With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they mustnot always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. Ifwe never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty ofheartaches when they grow up. Be obeyed at all costs. If you yield upyour authority once, you will hardly ever get it again. --_Spurgeon. _

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets arenearest the sun. --_Richter. _

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. --_Thackeray. _

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories ofoutlived sorrow. --_George Eliot. _

Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their realfriends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact they are. Whatis childhood but a series of happy delusions?--_Sydney Smith. _

The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradlefoot. --_Richter. _

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is achild in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising threeweeks. --_Southey. _

Children have more need of models than of critics. --_Joubert. _

The bearing and training of a child is woman's wisdom. --_Tennyson. _

One of the greatest pleasures of childhood is found in the mysterieswhich it hides from the skepticism of the elders, and works up intosmall mythologies of its own. --_Holmes. _

Do not shorten the beautiful veil of mist covering childhood's futurity, by too hastily drawing away; but permit that joy to be of earlycommencement and of long duration, which lights up life so beautifully. The longer the morning dew remains hanging in the blossoms of flowers, the more beautiful the day. --_Richter. _

Where children are there is the golden age. --_Novalis. _

In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre ofmemory that can be touched to gentle issues. --_George Eliot. _

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have notmade them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get canmake up for that. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Christ. ~--Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid stoicwho had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense ofpain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a manlike ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffering, and yetpatiently endured the greatest. --_Tillotson. _

However consonant to reason his precepts appeared, nothing could havetempted men to acknowledge him as their God and Saviour but their beingfirmly persuaded of the miracles he wrought. --_Addison. _

Imitate Jesus Christ. --_Franklin. _

The history of Christ is as surely poetry as it is history, and ingeneral, only that history is history which might also befable. --_Novalis. _

~Christianity. ~--Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted withreason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the firstremembered tones of her blessed voice. --_Coleridge. _

There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodnessas the Christian religion doth. --_Bacon. _

No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was somuch directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makesright reason a law in every possible definition of the word. Andtherefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, ithad been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was everimposed on mankind for their good. --_Lord Bolingbroke. _

Far beyond all other political powers of Christianity is the demiurgicpower of this religion over the kingdoms of human opinion. --_DeQuincey. _

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, --thecradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims. --_DeTocqueville. _

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meantfor its benefit and use. If nature gives to us capacities to believethat we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no directproof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know ofkindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because theendowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit anduse; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were alie. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering itthan he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon'smouth, and encountering the enemy in the field. --_Chapin. _

There was never found in any age of the world, either philosophy, orsect or religion, or law or discipline, which did so highly exalt thegood of communion, and depress good private and particular, as the holyChristian faith: hence it clearly appears that it was one and the sameGod that gave the Christian law to men who gave those laws of nature tothe creatures. --_Bacon. _

Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking thanher common sense. --_Charles Buxton. _

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. It opened the palacesof Constantinople to the barbarians, but it opened the doors of cottagesto the consoling angels of the Saviour. --_Alfred de Musset. _

Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet, and poetic? It is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teaching, and uplifting men. Christianity taught the capacity, theelement, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personalhappiness. It taught that to love him was happiness, --to love him inothers' virtues. --_Emerson. _

Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory nor can possibly imagine any;standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakablesplendors. --_Hawthorne. _

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden, that have each ofthem the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fallat each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and becomenourishers of each other. --_Bunyan. _

~Church. ~--The Church is a union of men arising from the fellowship ofreligious life; a union essentially independent of, and differing from, all other forms of human association. --_Rev. Dr. Neander. _

A place where misdevotion frames a thousand prayers to saints. --_Donne. _

She may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveler from NewZealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on abroken arch of London bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. --_Macaulay. _

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowedto the dissensions and animosities of mankind. --_Burke. _

God never had a house of prayer but Satan had a chapel there. --_De Foe. _

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full ofquackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into itlive like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where youmay see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunnyweather. --_Thoreau. _

~Circumstances. ~--Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are butthe instruments of the wise. --_Samuel Lover. _

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, theimpossible. --_Balzac. _

~Civilization. ~--Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions aretrampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

The old Hindoo saw, in his dream, the human race led out to its variousfortunes. First men were in chains which went back to an iron hand. Thenhe saw them led by threads from the brain, which went upward to anunseen hand. The first was despotism, iron and ruling by force. The lastwas civilization, ruling by ideas. --_Wendell Phillips. _

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannotdie. --_Mazzini. _

~Clergymen. ~--The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I havealways considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than heis able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my handsthan the cure of souls. I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easylife, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. --_Johnson. _

Clergymen consider this world only as a diligence in which they cantravel to another. --_Napoleon. _

The clergy are as like as peas. --_Emerson. _

~Commander. ~--The right of commanding is no longer an advantagetransmitted by nature like an inheritance; it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage. --_Voltaire. _

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. --_Antoine Lemierre. _

He who rules must humor full as much as he commands. --_George Eliot. _

~Commerce. ~--She may well be termed the younger sister, for, in allemergencies, she looks to agriculture both for defense and forsupply. --_Colton. _

Commerce defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades everyzone. --_Bancroft. _

~Common Sense. ~--If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun it hasthe fixity of the stars. --_Fernan Caballero. _

~Communists. ~--One who has yearnings for equal division of unequalearnings. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny andpocket your shilling. --_Ebenezer Elliott. _

Your leaders wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannotbear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people underthem; why not then have some people above them. --_Johnson. _

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Itselements are hunger, envy, death. --_Heinrich Heine. _

~Comparison. ~--All comparisons are odious. --_Cervantes. _

If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it liesmuch in comparison. --_Locke. _

~Compassion. ~--The dew of compassion is a tear. --_Byron. _

~Compensation. ~--Cloud and rainbow appear together. There is wisdom in thesaying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord, and that vicissitude maintains the world. Many evils bring manyblessings. Manna drops in the wilderness--corn grows inCanaan. --_Willmott. _

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce greatlessons. --_Bovée. _

~Complaining. ~--We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure. Humannature is more sensible of smart in suffering than of pleasure inrejoicing, and the present endurances easily take up our thoughts. Wecry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal ofcontentment. --_Feltham. _

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue toimportune him. --_Fontaine. _

~Conceit. ~--Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. --_Socrates. _

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a foolthan of him. --_Bible. _

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's ownmaking. --_Addison. _

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everythingwithin persuades him that he is everything. --_X. Doudan. _

Apes look down on men as degenerate specimens of their own race, just asHollanders regard the German language as a corruption of theDutch. --_Heinrich Heine. _

If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a mostcomfortable quality. But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointingto vanity, that a man's great idea of himself gets washed out of him bythe time he is forty. --_Charles Buxton. _

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is veryunpleasant to find depreciated. --_George Eliot. _

The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under thepretense of worshiping those of God. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Confidence. ~--Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger, or to find matterof glorious trial. --_Milton. _

Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another'sintegrity. --_South. _

~Conscience. ~--Conscience is not law; no, God and reason made the law, andhave placed conscience within you to determine. --_Sterne. _

There are moments when the pale and modest star, kindled by God insimple hearts, which men call conscience, illumines our path with truerlight than the flaming comet of genius on its magnificentcourse. --_Mazzini. _

No thralls like them that inward bondage have. --_Sir P. Sidney. _

Some people have no perspective in their conscience. Their moralconvictions are the same on all subjects. They are like a reader whospeaks every word with equal emphasis. --_Beecher. _

Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment andinduction, but intuitively and in advance of experiment; so, in additionto the experimental way whereby we learn justice from the facts of humanhistory, we have a transcendental way, and learn it from the facts ofhuman nature, and from immediate consciousness. --_Theodore Parker. _

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal; and he should care no morefor that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if hecross the churchyard at dark. --_Lytton. _

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough toprevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. --_Goldsmith. _

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism: had wenever sinned we should have had no conscience. --_Carlyle. _

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in thecourt of his own conscience. --_Beecher. _

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. --_J. Petit Senn. _

It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if asingle stitch drops; one single sin indulged in makes a hole you couldput your head through. --_Charles Buxton. _

A still small voice. --_Bible. _

~Constancy. ~--A good man it is not mine to see; could I see a manpossessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. --_Confucius. _

Constancy is the chimera of love. --_Vauvenargues. _

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues. --_Mazzini. _

~Contempt. ~--No sacred fane requires us to submit to contempt. --_Goethe. _

There is not in human nature a more odious disposition than a pronenessto contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Nor is thereany which more certainly denotes a bad mind; for in a good and benigntemper there can be no room for this sensation. --_Fielding. _

~Contentment. ~--That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which wecan say, "I have enough, " is the highest attainment of philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content withwhat we possess. He who wants little always has enough. --_Zimmermann. _

It is both the curse and blessing of our American life that we are neverquite content. We all expect to go somewhere before we die, and have abetter time when we get there than we can have at home. The bane of ourlife is discontent. We say we will work so long, and then we will enjoyourselves. But we find it just as Thackeray has expressed it. "When Iwas a boy, " he said, "I wanted some taffy--it was a shilling--I hadn'tone. When I was a man, I had a shilling, but I didn't want anytaffy. "--_Robert Collyer. _

Submission is the only reasoning between a creature and its Maker; andcontentment in his will is the best remedy we can apply tomisfortunes. --_Sir W. Temple. _

Where God hath put exquisite tinge upon the shell washed in the surf, and planted a paradise of bloom in a child's cheek, let us leave it tothe owl to hoot, and the frog to croak, and the fault-finder tocomplain. --_De Witt Talmage. _

~Contrast. ~--The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition ofdarker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades. Thehighest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception isthat of rest after fatigue. --_Johnson. _

~Controversy. ~--He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves andsharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. --_Burke. _

What Tully says of war may be applied to disputing, --it should be alwaysso managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace: butgenerally true disputants are like true sportsmen, --their whole delightis in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than thesportsman for the hare. --_Pope. _

I am yet apt to think that men find their simple ideas agree, though indiscourse they confound one another with different names. --_Locke. _

A man takes contradiction much more easily than people think, only hewill not bear it when violently given, even though it be well-founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly-falling dew, but shutup in the violent down-pour of rain. --_Richter. _

~Conversation. ~--They who have the true taste of conversation enjoythemselves in a communication of each other's excellences, and not in atriumph over their imperfections. --_Addison. _

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that ofothers. --_Montaigne. _

Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant withoutscurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. --_Shakespeare. _

No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things;to please one must say many things indifferent, and many verybad. --_Francis Lockier. _

Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and iscontinually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken, and which would never have occurred in the duller intercourse ofepistolary correspondence. --_Franklin. _

~Coquetry. ~--The most effective coquetry is innocence. --_Lamartine. _

God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. --_VictorHugo. _

Affecting to seem unaffected. --_Congreve. _

Though 'tis pleasant weaving nets, 'tis wiser to make cages. --_Moore. _

Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!--_Shakespeare. _

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break. --_Dryden. _

~Courage. ~--God holds with the strong. --_Mazzini. _

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigalof the most precious things. --_Colton. _

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes the man when he hasoccasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in auniform manner. --_Addison. _

Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows. --_Dryden. _

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with _the two o'clock in themorning courage_. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary onan unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseenevents, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision. --_Napoleon. _

Courage our greatest failings does supply. --_Waller. _

To bear is to conquer our fate. --_Campbell. _

Moral courage is more worth having than physical; not only because it isa higher virtue, but because the demand for it is more constant. Physical courage is a virtue which is almost always put away in thelumber room. Moral courage is wanted day by day. --_Charles Buxton. _

It is only in little matters that men are cowards. --_William HenryHerbert. _

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me theman who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. --_George Eliot. _

He who would arrive at fairy land must face thephantoms. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Courtier. ~--The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it ismade up of very hard and very polished people. --_La Bruyère. _

With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their witheredlife, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls. --_Richter. _

~Covetousness. ~--Desire of having is the sin ofcovetousness. --_Shakespeare. _

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires morethrough some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderablethings, than in expenses of any consequence. --_Pope. _

The world itself is too small for the covetous. --_Seneca. _

~Cowardice. ~--At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears inthe world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder andsteel because they cannot face public opinion. --_Chapin. _

~Credulity. ~--Quick believers need broad shoulders. --_George Herbert. _

Let us believe what we can and hope for the rest. --_De Finod. _

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to theintellect. --_Joubert. _

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. --_George Eliot. _

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults. --_Antishenes. _

Action is generally defective, and proves an abortion without previouscontemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates. --_Feltham. _

~Crime. ~--If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the fatherof them. --_Bruyère. _

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers arecapable of being incendiaries. --_Burke. _

~Criticism. ~--Solomon says rightly: "The wounds made by a friend are worthmore than the caresses of a flatterer. " Nevertheless, it is better thatthe friend wound not at all. --_Joseph de Maistre. _

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism, --never cut with a knifewhat you can cut with a spoon. --_Charles Buxton. _

The critic eye, that microscope of wit. --_Pope. _

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts, than inthat which is innocuous; and are more tolerant of the severity whichbreaks hearts and ruins fortunes, than of that which falls impotently onthe grave. --_Ruskin. _

Certain critics resemble closely those people who when they would laughshow ugly teeth. --_Joubert. _

Every one is eagle-eyed to see another's faults and hisdeformity. --_Dryden. _

For I am nothing if not critical. --_Shakespeare. _

He who stabs you in the dark with a pen would do the same with apenknife, were he equally safe from detection and thelaw. --_Quintilian. _

Silence is the severest criticism. --_Charles Buxton. _

All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must belong courted, and at last are not always gained; but criticism is agoddess easy of access and forward of advance, she will meet the slowand encourage the timorous. The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity. --_Johnson. _

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing isnot. --_Rufus Griswold. _

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may be safely left tothat final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularitycan rescue it. --_Bovée. _

There are some critics who change everything that comes under theirhands to gold, but to this privilege of Midas they join sometimes hisears!--_J. Petit Senn. _

~Cruelty. ~--Cruelty, the sign of currish kind. --_Spenser. _

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the by-standerscruel. How hard the English people grew in the time of Henry VIII. AndBloody Mary. --_Charles Buxton. _

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. --_Burns. _

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; itonly requires opportunity. --_George Eliot. _

~Cultivation. ~--Cultivation is the economy of force. --_Liebig. _

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man aperfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render ourconsciousness its own light and its own mirror. Hence there is the lessreason to be surprised at our inability to enter fully into the feelingsand characters of others. No one who has not a complete knowledge ofhimself will ever have a true understanding of another. --_Novalis. _

Neither the naked hand, nor the understanding, left to itself, can domuch; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps of which theneed is not less for the understanding than the hand. --_Bacon. _

. .. Without art, a nation is a soulless body; without science, astraying wanderer. Without warmth and light, nature cannot thrive, norhumanity increase: the light and warmth of humanity is "art andscience. "--_Kozlay. _

~Cunning. ~--Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather thanfrom the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires noextraordinary talents to lie and deceive. --_Johnson. _

Cleverness and cunning are incompatible. I never saw them united. Thelatter is the resource of the weak, and is only natural to them;children and fools are always cunning, but clever peoplenever. --_Byron. _

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom. --_Locke. _

Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of overreaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority. It is associatedwith small and dull conceit, and with an absolute want of sympathy oraffection. It is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute andutter. --_Ruskin. _

~Curiosity. ~--A person who is too nice an observer of the business of thecrowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. --_Pope. _

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness thanconfers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted byinstruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. --_Johnson. _

~Custom. ~--The despotism of custom is on the wane; we are not content toknow that things are; we ask whether they ought to be. --_John StuartMill. _

Immemorial custom is transcendent law. --_Menu. _

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis wouldfind very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and grosssense. --_Emerson. _

Custom doth make dotards of us all. --_Carlyle. _

~Cynics. ~--It will be very generally found that those who sneer habituallyat human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and leastpleasant samples. --_Dickens. _

Cynicism is old at twenty. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

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~Dandy. ~--A dandy is a clothes-wearing man, --a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of hissoul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this oneobject, --the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dressto live, he lives to dress. --_Carlyle. _

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coatstill. --_Rivarol. _

~Danger. ~--It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is ona lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encountersa storm to avoid a shipwreck. --_Colton. _

~Death. ~--It is not death, it is dying, that alarms me. --_Montaigne. _

What is death? To go out like a light, and in a sweet trance to forgetourselves and all the passing phenomena of the day, as we forget thephantoms of a fleeting dream; to form, as in a dream, new connectionswith God's world; to enter into a more exalted sphere, and to make a newstep up man's graduated ascent of creation. --_Zschokke. _

Heaven gives its favorites early death. --_Byron. _

Our respect for the dead, when they are _just_ dead, is somethingwonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it withblack feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and blackheraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightfulgratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quietgrass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves totell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in theepitaph. --_Ruskin. _

There are remedies for all things but death. --_Carlyle. _

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon onewhom we love. --_Mme. De Staël. _

Too early fitted for a better state. --_Dryden. _

Death, the dry pedant, spares neither the rose nor the thistle, nor doeshe forget the solitary blade of grass in the distant waste. He destroysthoroughly and unceasingly. Everywhere we may see how he crushes to dustplants and beasts, men and their works. Even the Egyptian pyramids, thatwould seem to defy him, are trophies of his power, --monuments of decay, graves of primeval kings. --_Heinrich Heine. _

There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, but has one vacantchair!--_Longfellow. _

And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, there's a lean fellowbeats all conquerors. --_Thomas Dekker. _

Death is a commingling of eternity with time. --_Goethe. _

To the Christian, whose life has been dark with brooding cares thatwould not lift themselves, and on whom chilling rains of sorrow havefallen at intervals through all his years, death is but the clearing-upshower; and just behind it are the songs of angels, and the serenity andglory of heaven. --_Beecher. _

That golden key that opes the palace of eternity. --_Milton. _

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all thosewhom we have loved. --_Madame Necker. _

Man makes a death which nature never made. --_Young. _

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirredin the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with ourfirst garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run itscourse, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, oldfashion--Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashionyet--of Immortality!--_Dickens. _

God's finger touched him, and he slept. --_Tennyson. _

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shallreturn unto God who gave it. --_Bible. _

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other bythe instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall dieas usual. --_Fontenelle. _

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. --_Shakespeare. _

Flesh is but the glass which holds the dust that measures all our time, which also shall be crumbled into dust. --_George Herbert. _

Death expecteth thee everywhere; be wise, therefore, and expect deatheverywhere. --_Quarles. _

The world. Oh, the world is so sweet to the dying!--_Schiller. _

The world is full of resurrections. Every night that folds us up indarkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and haveseen the first of the dawn, will know it, --the day rises out of thenight like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped intolife. --_George MacDonald. _

The dissolution of forms is no loss in the mass of matter. --_Pliny. _

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. --_Young. _

~Debt. ~--He that dies pays all debts. --_Shakespeare. _

Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smokyhouse and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils ofour life. --_Spurgeon. _

The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almostinvolving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt followingdebt as lie follows lie. Haydon, the painter, dated his decline from theday on which he first borrowed money. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; youwill find it a calamity. --_Johnson. _

That swamp [of debt] which tempts men towards it with such a prettycovering of flowers and verdure. It is wonderful how soon a man gets upto his chin there, --in a condition in which, spite of himself, he isforced to think chiefly of release, though he had a scheme of theuniverse in his soul. --_George Eliot. _

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts asfuries. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Deceit. ~--No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face tohimself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewilderedas to which may be true. --_Hawthorne. _

Idiots only may be cozened twice. --_Dryden. _

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. --_Fontaine. _

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom whichperceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind arecheats. --_Chapin. _

Like unto golden hooks that from the foolish fish their baits dohide. --_Spenser. _

Libertines are hideous spiders that often catch prettybutterflies. --_Diderot. _

~Decency. ~--As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases theeye, and that pleasure consists in that we observe all the parts with acertain elegance are proportioned to each other; so does decency ofbehavior which appears in our lives obtain the approbation of all withwhom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of ourwords and actions. --_Steele. _

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult toseparate them from each other but in our imagination. --_Tully. _

~Declamation. ~--Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions, or musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loosestyle, where the periods are long and obvious; where the same thought isoften exhibited in several points of view. --_Goldsmith. _

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment thatspeakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough toread. --_Colton. _

~Deeds. ~--A word that has been said may be unsaid: it is but air. But whena deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out toall the mischiefs that may follow. --_Longfellow. _

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds illdone!--_Shakespeare. _

Legal deeds were invented to remind men of their promises, or to convictthem of having broken them, --a stigma on the human race. --_Bruyère. _

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our owndeeds. --_Cervantes. _

We should believe only in works; words are sold for nothingeverywhere. --_Rojas. _

~Delay. ~--We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose thatthrills us, but shut our doors behind us, and ramble with preparedminds, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking rootor hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward, whichis fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upwards to thelight. --_Thoreau. _

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, whichought to be performed! and is delayed in the execution. --_VeeshnooSarma. _

~Democracy. ~--Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universalchange from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by andby. --_Carlyle. _

The love of democracy is that of equality. --_Montesquieu. _

~Dependence. ~--The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowersneed rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which itembraces. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another'sstairs. --_Dante. _

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, somust every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest isnot to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each mustlive in all and by all. Who will not work, neither shall he eat. So Godhas ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to loveeach other and bear each other's burdens. --_G. A. Sala. _

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and darenot hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we donot. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a woodenrudder. --_Emerson. _

~Desire. ~--It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy allthat follow it. --_Franklin. _

Lack of desire is the greatest riches. --_Seneca. _

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we suppliedwith everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contriveartificial appetites. --_Johnson. _

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied. --_Cicero. _

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarelyother than for the desire of the man. --_Coleridge. _

Desires are the pulse of the soul. --_Manton. _

~Despair. ~--Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should betaught that no human condition should inspire men with absolutedespair. --_Fielding. _

Leaden-eyed despair. --_Keats. _

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and toone misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the mostunprofitable feeling a man can indulge in. --_De Witt Talmage. _

He that despairs limits infinite power to finiteapprehensions. --_South. _

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helperis omnipotent. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contractedmodel. --_South. _

Juliet was a fool to kill herself, for in three months she'd havemarried again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo. --_Charles Buxton. _

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfedhope. --_George Eliot. _

~Despotism. ~--It is difficult for power to avoid despotism. The possessorsof rude health; the individualities cut out by a few strokes, solid forthe very reason that they are all of a piece; the complete characterswhose fibres have never been strained by a doubt; the minds that noquestions disturb and no aspirations put out of breath, --these, thestrong, are also the tyrants. --_Countess de Gasparin. _

There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power thanlightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignationof the whole civilized world. --_Daniel Webster. _

~Destiny. ~--The scape-goat which we make responsible for all our crimesand follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we haveno wish to strive against it. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Detention. ~--Never hold any one by the button or the hand, in order to beheard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better holdyour tongue than them. --_Chesterfield. _

~Detraction. ~--Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can putthem to mending. --_Shakespeare. _

In some unlucky dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride thatthey cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth forexcellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will eitherseek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, theywill stab him with a _but_ of detraction; as if there were something yetso foul as did obnubilate even his brightest glory. When their tonguecannot justly condemn him, they will leave him suspected by theirsilence. --_Feltham. _

~Dew. ~--That same dew, which sometimes withers buds, was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flow'rets'eyes, like tears, that did their own disgrace bewail. --_Shakespeare. _

Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of air. --_P. J. Bailey. _

~Diet. ~--Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his ownphysician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature: but moreespecially we should learn to suffer, grow old, and die. Some things aresalutary, and others hurtful. Eat with moderation what you know byexperience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the bodybut what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils?Patience. --_Voltaire. _

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of aguinea. --_Washington Irving. _

~Difficulties. ~--The greatest difficulties lie where we are not lookingfor them. --_Goethe. _

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Hopeis born in the long night of watching and tears. Faith visits us indefeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty andthe crumbling tombstones of mortality. --_Chapin. _

How strangely easy difficult things are!--_Charles Buxton. _

~Diffidence. ~--Nothing sinks a young man into low company, both of womenand men, so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself. If he thinksthat he shall not, he may depend upon it he will not, please. But withproper endeavors to please, and a degree of persuasion that he shall, itis almost certain that he will. --_Chesterfield. _

No congress, nor mob, nor guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, canavail, to cut out, burn, or destroy the offense of superiority inpersons. The superiority in him is inferiority in me. --_Emerson. _

~Dignity. ~--It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all thecoverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. Most of the men ofdignity, who awe or bore their more genial brethren, are simply men whopossess the art of passing off their insensibility for wisdom, theirdullness for depth, and of concealing imbecility of intellect underhaughtiness of manner. --_Whipple. _

~Dirt. ~--"Ignorance, " says Ajax, "is a painless evil;" so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold. --_Lamb. _

~Disappointment. ~--Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which thedébris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of existence arestrewn with them. --_Mme. De Staël. _

O world! how many hopes thou dost engulf!--_Alfred de Musset. _

Thirsting for the golden fountain of the fable, from how many streamshave we turned away, weary and in disgust!--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment betweenbreakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little paleabout the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pridehelps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide ourown hurts--not to hurt others. --_George Eliot. _

Ah! what seeds for a paradise I bore in my heart, of which birds of preyhave robbed me. --_Richter. _

~Discourtesy. ~--Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several, --from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due toothers, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. --_La Bruyère. _

~Discovery. ~--Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly dropsout of the darkness, and falls as a golden link in the great chain oforder. --_Chapin. _

~Discretion. ~--Be discreet in all things, and go render it unnecessary tobe mysterious about any. --_Wellington. _

Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will beof no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talentin perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what hepleases in his particular station of life. --_Addison. _

~Dishonesty. ~--So grasping is dishonesty that it is no respecter ofpersons: it will cheat friends as well as foes; and, were it possible, even God himself!--_Bancroft. _

~Dispatch. ~--Use dispatch. Remember that the world only took six days tocreate. Ask me for whatever you please except _time_: that is the onlything which is beyond my power. --_Napoleon. _

True dispatch is a rich thing; for time is the measure of business, asmoney is of wares, and business is bought at a dear hand where there issmall dispatch. --_Bacon. _

~Disposition. ~--A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, whichinclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which iseven for its own sake incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and, though it seldomreceives much honor, is worthy of the highest. --_Fielding. _

A good disposition is more valuable than gold; for the latter is thegift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. --_Addison. _

~Distrust. ~--As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it butthrough toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constantdistrust. --_Wendell Phillips. _

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?--_George Eliot. _

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, andprudence folly. --_Johnson. _

~Doubt. ~--Remember Talleyrand's advice, "If you are in doubt whether towrite a letter or not--don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in lifebesides that of letter writing. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Doubt is hell in the human soul. --_Gasparin. _

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. --_Shakespeare. _

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the professionof faith of people under a worldly yoke. --_X. Doudan. _

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half thecreeds. --_Tennyson. _

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. --_Victor Hugo. _

~Dreams. ~--Children of night, of indigestion bred. --_Churchill. _

A world of the dead in the hues of life. --_Mrs. Hemans. _

The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. --_Milton. _

Dreams always go by contraries, my dear. --_Samuel Lover. _

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber ofthe body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the litigation ofsense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do notmatch the fancies of our sleeps. --_Sir T. Browne. _

The mockery of unquiet slumbers. --_Shakespeare. _

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --_Tennyson. _

~Dress. ~--It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much togive to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable inthe Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our presentartists. --_Rousseau. _

~Duty. ~--Stern daughter of the voice of God. --_Wordsworth. _

Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning and goes to rest withus at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. Itis the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which onlyleaves us when we leave the light of life. --_Gladstone. _

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep hiscommandments; for this is the whole duty of man. --_Bible. _

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyondthe mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition ofa great central ganglion is to animal life. --_George Eliot. _

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. --_Goethe. _

Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eatingtheir dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himselfon not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reformwould. --_George MacDonald. _

To what gulfs a single deviation from the track of human dutiesleads!--_Byron. _

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which heis to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, andconsists but of two points: his duty to God, which every man must feel;and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be doneby. --_Thomas Paine. _

There is not a moment without some duty. --_Cicero. _

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business, and success asecondary consideration, --is not this the way to exaltvirtue?--_Confucius. _

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what isremote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it inwhat is difficult. --_Mencius. _

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in sufferingeverything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not tosuffer. --_Dr. Vinet. _

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and willfind the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. --_Beecher. _

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; the charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, likeflowers. --_Wordsworth. _

Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose theirbirthplace, or their father and mother. --_George Eliot. _

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~Ear. ~--A side intelligencer. --_Lamb. _

Eyes and ears, two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will andjudgment. --_Shakespeare. _

The wicket of the soul. --_Sir J. Davies. _

The road to the heart. --_Voltaire. _

~Early-rising. ~--Early-rising not only gives us more life in the samenumber of our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not onlyenables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, butincreases also the measure. --_Colton. _

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and findinghim stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern anempire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will be emperor, heis so early. "--_Caussin. _

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. --_Wellington. _

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the samehour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to aman's life. --_Doddridge. _

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the mostinvigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent inbed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoyand profit by them. --_Southey. _

~Economy. ~--Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earnmoney as to spend it well. --_Spurgeon. _

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. --_Franklin. _

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowingonly lingers and lingers it out; but the disease isincurable. --_Shakespeare. _

The back-door robs the house. --_George Herbert. _

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance. Yet aslack hand shows weakness, a tight hand, strength. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Education. ~--Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness ofillustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images, and illustrations;it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling withoutbeing undignified and absurd. --_Sydney Smith. _

Still I am learning. --_Motto of Michael Angelo. _

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time willefface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if wework upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with thejust fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tabletssomething which will brighten to all eternity. --_Daniel Webster. _

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves thefrivolous. --_Mme. De Staël. _

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, and the hero, --the wise, the good, and thegreat man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which aproper education might have disinterred and brought tolight. --_Addison. _

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their ownteaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to hismaster. --_Ben Jonson. _

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is suregood. I would let him at first read _any_ English book which happens toengage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you havebrought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better booksafterwards. --_Johnson. _

The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him;the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if hedoes not. --_Charles Buxton. _

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a universitywithout its education. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that isunder it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislikeeducation so much is that it makes all people alike, until you haveexamined into them; and it is sometimes so long before you get to seeunder the varnish!--_Lady Hester Stanhope. _

~Eloquence. ~--The poetry of speech. --_Byron. _

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearingdown every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assembliesinto astonishment, admiration, and awe; that is described by thetorrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistibleimpetuosity. --_Goldsmith. _

~Eminence. ~--I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and powerfrom an obscure condition ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing toomuch of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought topass through some sort of probation. The Temple of Honor ought to beseated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it beremembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty andsome struggle. --_Burke. _

~Emotions. ~--All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly inthe tempestuous atmosphere of life. --_Richter. _

Emotion has no value in the Christian system save as it stands connectedwith right conduct as the cause of it. Emotion is the bud, not theflower, and never is it of value until it expands into a flower. Everyreligious sentiment; every act of devotion which does not produce acorresponding elevation of life, is worse than useless; it is absolutelypernicious, because it ministers to self-deception and tends to lowerthe line of personal morals. --_W. H. H. Murray. _

There are three orders of emotions: those of pleasure, which refer tothe senses; those of harmony, which refer to the mind; and those ofhappiness, which are the natural result of a union between harmony andpleasure. --_Chapone. _

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow; whether raised at apuppet-show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers. Theman who would be always superior should be alwaysapathetic. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Employment. ~--The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading. --_Paley. _

Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if theyhave not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their mainpursuit. --_Blair. _

~Emulation. ~--Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts theliving. --_Fuseli. _

~Enemies. ~--It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the mostdangerous. --_Rojas. _

~Energy. ~--The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that thatwhich makes the difference between one man and another--between the weakand powerful, the great and insignificant--is energy, invincibledetermination; a purpose once formed, and then death or victory. Thisquality will do anything that is to be done in the world; and notwo-legged creature can become a man without it. --_Charles Buxton. _

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. --_Napoleon. _

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment isfrequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemedto have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Oh! for a forty parson power. --_Byron. _

Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers. --_SydneySmith. _

This world belongs to the energetic. --_Emerson. _

~Enjoyment. ~--Whatever advantage we snatch beyond the certain portionallotted us by nature is like money spent before it is due, which at thetime of regular payment will be missed and regretted. --_Johnson. _

~Ennui. ~--I have also seen the world, and after long experience havediscovered that ennui is our greatest enemy, and remunerative labor ourmost lasting friend. --_Möser. _

I am wrapped in dismal thinking. --_Shakespeare. _

~Enthusiasm. ~--Enthusiasts soon understand each other. --_WashingtonIrving. _

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm, that of individuals:the former grows inveterate by time, the latter is cured by it. --_RobertHall. _

Enthusiasm is that temper of mind in which the imagination has got thebetter of the judgment. --_Warburton. _

Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. Itis the inspiration of everything great. Without it, no man is to befeared, and with it none despised. --_Bovée. _

Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity. --_Thoreau. _

A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under pettyhostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their waynot without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. --_George Eliot. _

The insufficient passions of a soul expanding to celestiallimits. --_Sydney Dobell. _

~Envy. ~--A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue inothers; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or uponothers' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other. --_LordBacon. _

Pining and sickening at another's joy. --_Ovid. _

Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one risingin the esteem of mankind. --_Addison. _

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of thosebelow. --_Byron. _

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. --_Shakespeare. _

~Equality. ~--Whether I be the grandest genius on earth in a single thing, and that single thing earthy, or the poor peasant who, behind his plow, whistles for want of thought, I strongly suspect it will be all one whenI pass to the Competitive Examination yonder! On the other side of thegrave a Raffael's occupation may be gone as well as aplowman's. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relateto man, or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether inheaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to existhereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. --_ThomasPaine. _

By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, arebrothers, and are equals. --_Mazzini. _

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if theyare drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Liberty and equality, lovely and sacred words!--_Mazzini. _

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolutefools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants ordwarfs. --_Hazlitt. _

~Equanimity. ~--A thing often lost, but seldom found. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

~Error. ~--If those alone who "sowed the wind did reap the whirlwind, " itwould be well. But the mischief is that the blindness of bigotry, themadness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek theirvictims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. Thecottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, orthe camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and isgenerated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent whichoriginates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in thevale. --_Colton. _

There is a brotherhood of error as close as the brotherhood oftruth. --_Argyll. _

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they aretaking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune maynaturally indulge in a few delinquencies. --_George Eliot. _

Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of ourperfection. --_Richter. _

But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the sameopinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that illconclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to knowwhether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method toexamine it by its apparent consequences. --_Burke. _

Error in itself is always invisible; its nature is the absence oflight. --_Jacobi. _

There is no place where weeds do not grow, and there is no heart whereerrors are not to be found. --_J. S. Knowles. _

Our understandings are always liable to error; nature and certainty isvery hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity andpretense. --_Marcus Antoninus. _

Let error be an infirmity and not a crime. --_Castelar. _

Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in ourolder heads, and become inflexible. --_Sir Thomas Browne. _

~Erudition. ~--'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that menof business should know erudition is not like a lark, which flies high, and delights in nothing but singing; but that 't is rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey. --_Bacon. _

~Estimation. ~--A life spent worthily should be measured by a noblerline, --by deeds, not years. --_Sheridan. _

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think ofthe effect his death would produce. --_Léves. _

~Eternity. ~--Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribedeternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able tostir the opposite balance. --_Addison. _

Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. It supposes inthat to which it is applied a present existence; and is the negation ofa beginning or of an end of that existence. --_Paley. _

~Etiquette. ~--Whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longerthan the listener is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury that hecannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give. --_Johnson. _

The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, are tobe observed in social or official life. --_Prescott. _

Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as littlethings, and is not hurt by them. --_Fénelon. _

The law of the table is beauty, a respect to the common soul of theguests. Everything is unreasonable which is private to two or three, orany portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law;never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or atariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talkshop" before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and haters frominsults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends. --_Emerson. _

~Events. ~--Man reconciles himself to almost any event however trying, ifit happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinaryalone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with thisfeeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injusticeof Heaven. --_Humboldt. _

There can be no peace in human life without the contempt of all events. He that troubles his head with drawing consequences from merecontingencies shall never be at rest. --_L'Estrange. _

~Evil. ~--Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation. --_Zschokke. _

Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discernrays of light and hope; and gradually come to see in suffering andtemptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdomand love. --_Channing. _

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. --_Bible. _

If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find itlies much in comparison. --_Locke. _

Not one false man but does uncountable evil. --_Carlyle. _

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still, itbrings forth evil. --_Coleridge. _

The truly virtuous do not easily credit evil that is told them of theirneighbors; for if others may do amiss, then may these also speak amiss:man is frail, and prone to evil, and therefore may soon fail inwords. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us. --_Rousseau. _

"One soweth, and another reapeth, " is a verity that applies to evil aswell as good. --_George Eliot. _

If you believe in evil, you have done evil. --_A. De Musset. _

~Example. ~--We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarilythe virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of thoseamong whom we live. --_Joubert. _

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in anaughty world. --_Shakespeare. _

Every great example takes hold of us with the authority of a miracle, and says to us: "If ye had but faith, ye could also be able to do thethings which I do. "--_Jacobi. _

~Excellence. ~--Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellenceas the power of producing what is good with ease and rapidity. --_Aikin. _

~Excelsior. ~--Man's life is in the impulse of elevation to somethinghigher. --_Jacobi. _

~Excess. ~--Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too greata distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being ableto see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of asubject; too much of truth stuns us. --_Pascal. _

O fleeting joys of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes. --_Milton. _

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the oppositedirection, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or ingovernments. --_Plato. _

~Excitement. ~--There is always something interesting and beautiful about auniversal popular excitement of a generous character, let the object ofit be what it may. The great desiring heart of man, surging with onestrong, sympathetic swell, even though it be to break on the beach oflife and fall backwards, leaving the sands as barren as before, has yeta meaning and a power in its restlessness with which I must deeplysympathize. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

Violent excitement exhausts the mind, and leaves it withered andsterile. --_Fénelon. _

The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You mustbe calm before you can utter oracles. --_Thoreau. _

This is so engraven on our nature that it may be regarded as anappetite. Like all other appetites, it is not sinful, unless indulgedunlawfully, or to excess. --_Dr. Guthrie. _

~Excuse. ~--Of vain things, excuses are the vainest. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Expectation. ~--'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were notheaven, if we knew what it were. --_Suckling. _

It may be proper for all to remember that they ought not to raiseexpectations which it is not in their power to satisfy; and that it ismore pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinkinginto smoke. --_Johnson. _

~Expediency. ~--When private virtue is hazarded upon the perilous cast ofexpediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent theirstability, are infected with decay at the very centre. --_Chapin. _

Men in responsible situations cannot, like those in private life, begoverned solely by the dictates of their own inclinations, or by suchmotives as can only affect themselves. --_Washington. _

~Experience. ~--Life consists in the alternate process of learning andunlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than tolearn. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Experience, the shroud of illusions. --_De Finod. _

To have a true idea of man, or of life, one must have stood himself onthe brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at leastonce. --_Taine. _

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. --_Alfred Mercier. _

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it atthe end?--_Mme. De Maintenon. _

Experience is the extract of suffering. --_Arthur Helps. _

Every generous illusion adds a wrinkle in vanishing. Experience is thesuccessive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enrichedby the spoils of the heart. --_J. Petit Senn. _

~Extravagance. ~--Expenses are not rectilinear, but circular. Every inchyou add to the diameter adds three to the circumference. --_CharlesBuxton. _

~Extremes. ~--Extremes are dangerous; a middle estate is safest; as amiddle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, ismost helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. --_Swinnock. _

Superlatives are diminutives, and weaken. --_Emerson. _

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regardto them; they escape from us, or we from them. --_Pascal. _

~Eye. ~--Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. --_Shakespeare. _

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopesand microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see ofthemselves. --_Paxton Hood. _

Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence. --_Milton. _

Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman'seye?--_Shakespeare. _

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. --_Shakespeare. _

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --_Tennyson. _

The eyes have one language everywhere. --_George Herbert. _

Glances are the first billets-doux of love. --_Ninon de L'Enclos. _

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~Face. ~--A February face, so full of frost, of storms, andcloudiness. --_Shakespeare. _

Demons in act, but gods at least in face. --_Byron. _

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has movedher with its sympathetic youth, as easily as primitive people imaginedthe humors of the gods in fair weather: what is she to believe in, ifnot in this vision woven from within?--_George Eliot. _

The worst of faces still is a human face. --_Lavater. _

~Fact. ~--There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airyfabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver. --_Byron. _

Every day of my life makes me feel more and more how seldom a fact isaccurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed throughthe mind of a third person it becomes, so far as regards the impressionthat it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood;and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person inexistence. --_Hawthorne. _

~Faction. ~--A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressiveone. --_Fisher Ames. _

It is the demon of discord armed with the power to do endless mischief, and intent alone on destroying whatever opposes its progress. --_Crabbe. _

~Failure. ~--But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll notfail!--_Shakespeare. _

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as everydiscovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what istrue, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which weshall afterward carefully eschew. --_Keats. _

Every failure is a step to success; every detection of what is falsedirects us toward what is true; every trial exhausts some tempting formof error. Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure;scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false;no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived fromtruth. --_Whewell. _

~Faith. ~--In affairs of this world men are saved not by faith but by thewant of it. --_Fielding. _

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before onesingle word, --_faith_. --_Napoleon. _

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girtwith golden wings!--_Milton. _

Life grows dark as we go on, till only one clear light is left shiningon it, and that is faith. --_Madame Swetchine. _

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and Ibelieve in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, athousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight ofhope to the equilibrium of reason. --_Rousseau. _

Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thyneighbor; and think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor, if thouwantest faith to God: where they are not both together, they are bothwanting; they are both dead if once divided. --_Quarles. _

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravelyand die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be afaith at all, or it is nothing. --_Froude. _

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve tocondense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, sothat conduct may really be the consequence of belief. --_G. H. Lewes. _

~Falsehood. ~--Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear tobe examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation oftruth, as a perspective is of the reality. --_Colton. _

Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, andanother as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside: theymay be light and accidental, but they are ugly soot from the smoke ofthe pit, for all that: and it is better that our hearts should be sweptclean of them, without one care as to which is largest orblackest. --_Ruskin. _

It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intentionallying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. --_Johnson. _

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, the product of allclimes. --_Addison. _

Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehoodis like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work thebetter, but it embaseth it. --_Lord Bacon. _

To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood isworse in king than beggar. --_Shakespeare. _

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for alie faces God, and shrinks from man. --_Montaigne. _

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth'sitself a lie. --_Pope. _

No falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper but returns of forceto its own likeness. --_Milton. _

Figures themselves, in their symmetrical and inexorable order, havetheir mistakes like words and speeches. An hour of pleasure and an hourof pain are alike only on the dial in their numerical arrangement. Outside the dial they lie sixty times. --_Méry. _

~Fame. ~--Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadestafar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of theworld. --_Davenant. _

Grant me honest fame, or grant me none. --_Pope. _

Much of reputation depends on the period in which it rises. The Italiansproverbially observe that one half of fame depends on that cause. Indark periods, when talents appear they shine like the sun through asmall hole in the window-shutter. The strong beam dazzles amid thesurrounding gloom. Open the shutter, and the general diffusion of lightattracts no notice. --_Walpole. _

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as sheissues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether therecipient be the son of a Bourbon or of atallow-chandler. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

One Cæsar lives, --a thousand are forgot!--_Young. _

Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so whilethey were living. Posterity could not be supposed to rake into therecords of past times for the illustrious obscure, and only ratify orannul the lists of great names handed down to them by the voice ofcommon fame. Few people recover from the neglect or obloquy of theircontemporaries. The public will hardly be at the pains to try the samecause twice over, or does not like to reverse its own sentence, at leastwhen on the unfavorable side. --_Hazlitt. _

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives. --_Emile Souvestre. _

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without thebreath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it; feel it, and hatein silence. --_Washington Allston. _

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue whendead. --_Béranger. _

I hope the day will never arrive when I shall neither be the object ofcalumny nor ridicule, for then I shall be neglected andforgotten. --_Johnson. _

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chanceof winning it from posterity. True there are some half dozen exceptionsto this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man ofcommon sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising alottery. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Fame is the thirst of youth. --_Byron. _

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance withhim; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue ofsome notorious weaknesses and infirmities. --_Addison. _

Even the best things are not equal to their fame. --_Thoreau. _

~Fanaticism. ~--Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has alwaysserved not only to render them more brutalized but morewicked. --_Voltaire. _

Painful and corporeal punishments should never be applied to fanaticism;for, being founded on pride, it glories in persecution. --_Beccaria. _

The false fire of an overheated mind. --_Cowper. _

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father ofintolerance and of persecution. --_J. Fletcher. _

~Fashion. ~--Fashion is the great governor of this world. It presides notonly in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind. Indeed, the wisestof men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular formsin all these have been at certain times universally received, and atother times universally rejected, than that they were in or out offashion. --_Fielding. _

Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. --_Young. _

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polishedexterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of thereal value of what is contained therein. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not thebeautiful, but the willful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not thesuperior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of allconcretes, --the vulgar. --_Leigh Hunt. _

~Faults. ~--To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; todiscover them to one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence; but topreach them to all the world, if one does not take care, ispride. --_Confucius. _

The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other theoffspring of guilt. --_Goldsmith. _

~Fear. ~--It is no ways congruous that God should be frightening men intotruth who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence and gentlemethods of persuasion. --_Atterbury. _

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. --_SirP. Sidney. _

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. --_George Sewell. _

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult knownones. --_Chesterfield. _

~Felicity. ~--The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall;for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain; for every inch of mirth anell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery andmisfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyedfelicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are theskies. --_Burton. _

~Fickleness. ~--Everything by starts, and nothing long. --_Dryden. _

It will be found that they are the weakest-minded and thehardest-hearted men that most love change. --_Ruskin. _

~Fiction. ~--Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. --_Gray. _

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions whichtaught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. --_Sir J. Mackintosh. _

I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive thanreal history. --_Rev. John Foster. _

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting: there is aresemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are notreal, and in the other of a true story by fiction. --_Dryden. _

Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon thisprovince of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mightyengine. --_Channing. _

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture ofcaricature; and we are not aware that the best histories are not thosein which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative isjudiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gainedin effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristicfeatures are imprinted on the mind forever. --_Macaulay. _

Those who delight in the study of human nature may improve in theknowledge of it, and in the profitable application of that knowledge, bythe perusal of such fictions as those before us [Jane Austen'sNovels]. --_Archbishop Whately. _

~Firmness. ~--The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. --_Longfellow. _

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. --_St. Ignatius. _

~Flattery. ~--The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles ofthe great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which mayannoy. --_Molière. _

He does me double wrong that wounds me with the flatteries of histongue. --_Shakespeare. _

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where, although bothparties intend deception, neither are deceived, since words that costlittle are exchanged for hopes that cost less. --_Colton. _

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those aboutus. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a greatdifference in the fruit. --_Socrates. _

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the onlybenefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructedwhat we ought to be. --_Swift. _

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man ishis own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcomethe flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict ofthe flatterer within. --_Plutarch. _

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerousimpression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his fancy, anddrives him to a doting upon his own person. --_Jeremy Collier. _

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the additionof other men's praises is most perilous. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

Out of the pulpit, I trust none can accuse me of too much plainness ofspeech; but there, madame [Queen Mary], I am not my own master, but mustspeak that which I am commanded by the King of kings, and dare not, onmy soul, flatter any one on the face of all the earth--_John Knox. _

~Flowers. ~--Luther always kept a flower in a glass on his writing-table;and when he was waging his great public controversy with Eckius he kepta flower in his hand. Lord Bacon has a beautiful passage about flowers. As to Shakspeare, he is a perfect Alpine valley, --he is full of flowers;they spring, and blossom, and wave in every cleft of his mind. EvenMilton, cold, serene, and stately as he is, breaks forth into exquisitegushes of tenderness and fancy when he marshals the flowers. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children oflight. --_Moleschott. _

Ye pretty daughters of the Earth and Sun. --_Sir Walter Raleigh. _

I always think the flowers can see us and know what we are thinkingabout. --_George Eliot. _

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be aface without a smile, --a feast without a welcome! Are not flowers thestars of the earth? and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?--_Mrs. Balfour. _

What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whisperingviolet, a murmuring honeysuckle, --oh, what a rare and exquisite miraclewould these be!--_Beecher. _

The bright mosaic, that with storied beauty, the floor of nature'stemple tessellate. --_Horace Smith. _

~Fools. ~--You pity a man who is lame or blind, but you never pity him forbeing a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. --_Sydney Smith. _

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. --_Molière. _

Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time andtemper. --_Goethe. _

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. --_Churchill. _

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade himthat he had none. --_Babinet. _

There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwisethe knaves could not exist. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

There are more fools than sages, and among sages there is more follythan wisdom. --_Chamfort. _

~Foppery. ~--Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb andalways a coxcomb. --_Johnson. _

Foppery is the egotism of clothes. --_Victor Hugo. _

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's ownmaking. --_Addison. _

~Forbearance. ~--The little I have seen of the world teaches me to lookupon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take thehistory of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent tomyself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the briefpulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, thepressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave theerring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand itcame. --_Longfellow. _

~Forethought. ~--Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only achoice of evils. --_Colton. _

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. --_Schiller. _

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. --_Charles Buxton. _

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow nearat hand. --_Confucius. _

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth: weare saved by making the future present to ourselves. --_George Eliot. _

~Forgetfulness. ~--There is nothing, no, nothing, innocent or good thatdies and is forgotten: let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, aprattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the betterthoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in theredeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes, ordrowned in the deep sea. Forgotten! Oh, if the deeds of human creaturescould be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear!for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen tohave their growth in dusty graves!--_Dickens. _

~Forgiveness. ~--It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us, than the powerful whom we have injured. That conduct will be continuedby our fears which commenced in our resentment. He that has gone so faras to cut the claws of the lion will not feel himself quite secure untilhe has also drawn his teeth. --_Colton. _

They never pardon who commit the wrong. --_Dryden. _

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrongthat has been done us? That we may forgive it. --_Dickens. _

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive than for offense to askit. --_Thomson. _

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, toforgive. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

It is easy enough to forgive your enemies, if you have not the means toharm them. --_Heinrich Heine. _

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts intotheir waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled bythe thaw. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Fortitude. ~--White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moraltortures that red men do to physical torments. --_Théophile Gautier. _

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as themost daring feats of prowess. --_Tuckerman. _

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. --_Locke. _

~Fortune. ~--Fortune loves only the young. --_Charles V. _

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. --_BenJonson. _

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is likethe lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting anadditional lace upon his liveries. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little isenough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. --_Bovée. _

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last tobe of our own producing. --_Goldsmith. _

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on thisscore, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather beadduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who certainlycannot help themselves. --_Colton. _

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten toone if they hang long together. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannotattain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting ofthem shorter. --_Cowley. _

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate ourpresumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made themfortunate. --_Montaigne. _

See'st thou not what various fortunes the Divinity makes man to passthrough, changing and turning them from day to day?--_Euripides. _

Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity. --_Bentley. _

Foolish I deem him who, thinking that his state is blest, rejoices insecurity; for Fortune, like a man distempered in his senses, leaps nowthis way, now that, and no man is always fortunate. --_Euripides. _

They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a goodwoman, and gives to those who merit. --_George Eliot. _

If Fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that lifeconsists in being sat upon. But to be coddled on Fortune's knee, andthen have his ears boxed, that is aggravating. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Fraud. ~--The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, andthe more greedily will it be swallowed; since folly will always findfaith wherever impostors will find impudence. --_Colton. _

~Friendship. ~--Friendship has steps which lead up to the throne of God, though all spirits come to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and likeTruth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple beingfills the heart. --_Richter. _

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. --_Bible. _

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rulethrough life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer thanyourself. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, whocan have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the sealof death is the only seal of friendship. --_Byron. _

What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honoramong rogues. --_Thoreau. _

So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I fancy everyblessing both from gods and men ready to descend spontaneously upon himwho is loved. --_Xenophon. _

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at adistance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. --_Thoreau. _

The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It isa Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, noco-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or ason. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron ismost strongly united by the fiercest flame. --_Colton. _

Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better thanthyself. --_Confucius. _

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which areinjurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, andfriendship with the man of much information, --these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with theinsinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued, --these areinjurious. --_Confucius. _

Friendship survives death better than absence. --_J. Petit Senn. _

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contraryeffects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half: for there isno man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more;and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth theless. --_Bacon. _

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of thedeclining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. --_WashingtonIrving. _

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons pastforty before they were at all acquainted form together a very closeintimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there mustbe a wonderful congeniality between the trees. --_Whately. _

An old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make aconfidant of. --_George Eliot. _

~Fun. ~--There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and Ido like it in others. Oh, we need it, --we need all the counter-weightswe can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunnyspots in the heart; why should we exclude the light fromthem?--_Haliburton. _

~Futurity. ~--The best preparation for the future is the present well seento, the last duty done. --_George MacDonald. _

We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is noabiding moment. --_Jacobi. _

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promisethan a threat. --_J. Petit Senn. _

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with thiscorporeal clod. --_Milton. _

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~Gambling. ~--Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engagedtherein do, in general, exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall atpresent fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer. --_Blackstone. _

A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediategood. --_Johnson. _

~Gems. ~--How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeplycolors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reasonwhy gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven. --_George Eliot. _

~Generosity. ~--A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or elsein his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomesbrother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everythingelse. --_Spurgeon. _

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude areits attendants. --_Corneille. _

It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of thetallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself. --_George Eliot. _

If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has itschances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved themfor fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not bediscouraged. --_Lamartine. _

~Genius. ~--Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, asthe strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

All great men are in some degree inspired. --_Cicero. _

This is the highest miracle of genius: that things which are not shouldbe as though they were; that the imaginations of one mind should becomethe personal recollections of another. --_Macaulay. _

The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than thatof ambition. --_Voltaire. _

One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses is that their very friends aremore apt to admire than love them. --_Pope. _

Genius speaks only to genius. --_Stanislaus. _

A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fattenthem, and they are done for. --_Charles Buxton. _

Genius has no brother. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Genius never grows old; young to-day, mature yesterday, vigorousto-morrow: always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, andis the divine gift to woman no less than to man. --_Juan Lewis. _

~Gentleman. ~--A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness ofstructure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicatesensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of themost delicate sympathies; one may say, simply, "fineness of nature. "This is of course compatible with heroic bodily strength and mentalfirmness; in fact, heroic strength is not conceivable without suchdelicacy. --_Ruskin. _

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as arank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is adignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generousmind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage tothe gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, butupon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personalqualities. The Psalmist briefly describes him as one "that walkethuprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in hisheart. "--_Samuel Smiles. _

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than JosephAddison. --_Thackeray. _

~Gentleness. ~--Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminineattractions, born of modesty and love. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Gentleness is far more successful in all its enterprises than violence;indeed, violence generally frustrates its own purpose, while gentlenessscarcely ever fails. --_Locke. _

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims. --_Sidney. _

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twistedtogether, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will ornot. --_Cudworth. _

~Gifts. ~--One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!--_George Eliot. _

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God. --_Luther. _

And with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things morerich. --_Shakespeare. _

How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void?--_MadameSwetchine. _

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to afather, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud ofyou; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Examples are few of men ruined by giving. Men are heroes in spending, very cravens in what they give. --_Bovée. _

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. --_George Herbert. _

Strange designs lurk under a gift. "Give the horse to his Holiness, "said the cardinal. "I cannot serve you!"--_Zimmermann. _

~Glory. ~--To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. Whenthe heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. --_Napoleon. _

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actæon, mustpursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate, to leap and to creep; toconquer the earth like Cæsar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus;to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale; or, likeNelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, whileshe is hesitating where to bestow them. --_Colton. _

Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all trueglory. --_Burke. _

The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty, --such aswas the glory of Cato and Aristides; but it was harmful to them both, and is seldom beneficial to any man whilst he lives; what it is to himafter his death I cannot say, because I love not philosophy merelynotional and conjectural, and no man who has made the experiment hasbeen so kind as to come back to inform us. --_Cowley. _

Nothing is so expensive as glory. --_Sydney Smith. _

The love of glory can only create a hero, the contempt of it creates awise man. --_Talleyrand. _

~Gluttony. ~--Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in theirshame. --_Bible. _

The kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table theiraltar, and their belly their god. --_Buck. _

~God. ~--He that doth the ravens feed, yea, providentially caters for thesparrow, be comfort to my age!--_Shakespeare. _

To escape from evil, we must be made as far as possible like God; andthis resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise. --_Plato. _

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive him as a Being infinitelygreat and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine natureinspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written evena _miserere_ in _tempo allegro_. --_Haydn. _

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in himagain. --_Zoroaster. _

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion asis unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely;and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. --_Bacon. _

I have seen two miracles lately. I looked up, and saw the clouds aboveme in the noontide; and they looked like the sea that was hanging overme, and I could see no cord on which they were suspended, and yet theynever fell. And then when the noontide had gone, and the midnight came, I looked again, and there was the dome of heaven, and it was spangledwith stars, and I could see no pillars that held up the skies, and yetthey never fell. Now He that holds the stars up and moves the clouds intheir course can do all things, and I trust Him in the sight of thesemiracles. --_Luther. _

This avenging God, rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in a slowfire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer torecognize a man who made himself a god. --_Alfred de Musset. _

This is one of the names which we give to that eternal, infinite, andincomprehensible being, the Creator of all things, who preserves andgoverns everything by his almighty power and wisdom, and is the onlyobject of our worship. --_Cruden. _

~Gold. ~--Midas longed for gold. He got gold so that whatever he touchedbecame gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better forit. --_Carlyle. _

A mask of gold hides all deformities. --_Dekker. _

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and theother in the camp, --gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them bothmay indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something moreto keep it. --_Colton. _

Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, liketrembling needles!--_Byron. _

Judges and senates have been bought for gold. --_Pope. _

Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood ofthe brave. --_Joseph Napoleon. _

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. --_Spenser. _

There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reachit. --_Rojas. _

~Good. ~--When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there isreason for rejoicing. --_George Eliot. _

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among theweedy entanglements of evil!--_Carlyle. _

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. --_Milton. _

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is ajust criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, orany individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrelwith a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all thecourts of morality. --_Goldsmith. _

The true and good resemble gold. Gold seldom appears obvious and solid, but it pervades invisibly the bodies that contain it. --_Jacobi. _

He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, heis arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase ofhis sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is atits summit, --it is heroism complete. --_Bruyère. _

That is good which doth good. --_Venning. _

The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil infiniteand uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white; there isonly one to hit it. --_Montaigne. _

~Good-humor. ~--Honest good-humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes arerather small and the laughter abundant. --_Washington Irving. _

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bringback to its original signification of virtue, --I mean good-nature, --areof daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff oflife. --_Dryden. _

This portable quality of good-humor seasons all the parts andoccurrences we meet with, in such a manner that there are no momentslost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest ofloads (when it is a load), that of time, is never felt byus. --_Steele. _

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the oneoverpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revivesthem. --_Johnson. _

That inexhaustible good-nature, which is the most precious gift ofHeaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, andkeeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughestweather. --_Washington Irving. _

~Goodness. ~--Nothing rarer than real goodness. --_Rochefoucauld. _

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when noeyes except those of Heaven are upon it. --_Archdeacon Hare. _

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. --_Pope. _

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. --_Milton. _

~Gossip. ~--A long-tongued babbling gossip. --_Shakespeare. _

He sits at home until he has accumulated an insupportable load of ennui, and then he sallies forth to distribute it amongst hisacquaintance. --_Colton. _

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing aboutit. --_George Eliot. _

~Government. ~--The proper function of a government is to make it easy forpeople to do good and difficult for them to do evil. --_Gladstone. _

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetitebe placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more theremust be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of thingsthat men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge theirfetters. --_Burke. _

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for humanwants. --_Burke. _

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressingthe injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from oneanother. It is the sentinel who watches, in order that the commonlaborer be not disturbed. --_Abbé Raynal. _

But I say to you, and to our whole country, and to all the crowned headsand aristocratic powers and feudal systems that exist, that it is toself-government, the great principle of popular representation andadministration, the system that lets in all to participate in thecounsels that are to assign the good or evil to all, that we may owewhat we are and what we hope to be. --_Daniel Webster. _

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. --_Montesquieu. _

Of governments, that of the mob is the most sanguinary, that of soldiersthe most expensive, and that of civilians the most vexatious. --_Colton. _

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces ofkings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were theimpulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, manwould need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds itnecessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means forthe protection of the rest, and this he is induced to do by the sameprudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils tochoose the least. --_Thomas Paine. _

~Grace. ~--As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which onlylasts while the warmth continues; but virtue, wisdom, goodness, and realworth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the truegraces, which, as Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly unitedto each other. --_Burton. _

The king-becoming graces--devotion, patience, courage, fortitude. --_Shakespeare. _

Know you not, master, to some kind of men their graces serve them but asenemies? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, are sanctifiedand holy traitors to you. Oh, what a world is this, when what is comelyenvenoms him that bears it!--_Shakespeare. _

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn todance!--_Coleridge. _

That word, grace, in an ungracious mouth, is butprofane. --_Shakespeare. _

Grace comes as oft clad in the dusky robe of desolation as in whiteattire. --_Sir J. Beaumont. _

~Gratitude. ~--Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not findit among gross people. --_Johnson. _

God is pleased with no music below so much as the thanksgiving songs ofrelieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, andthankful persons. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as thegrateful. --_Colton. _

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the mosthumiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we lovewithout exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him bybenefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in somemeasure forfeited our freedom. --_Goldsmith. _

Gratitude is the virtue most deified and most deserted. It is theornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life. --_J. W. Forney. _

~Grave. ~--Since the silent shore awaits at last even those who longestmiss the old Archer's arrow, perhaps the early grave which men weep overmay be meant to save. --_Byron. _

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that deadflat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartilyabhors; and that equality the grave will perpetuate to the end oftime. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The reconciling grave. --_Southern. _

The grave where even the great find rest. --_Pope. _

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, whoambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!--_Philip, King of Macedon. _

The cradle of transformation. --_Mazzini. _

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and consoleus. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

~Gravity. ~--The very essence of gravity is design, and consequentlydeceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world for more sense andknowledge than a man is worth. --_Sterne. _

Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservativerind. --_Joubert. _

Gravity must be natural and simple. There must be urbanity andtenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He whoformalizes on everything is a fool, and a grave fool is perhaps moreinjurious than a light fool. --_Cecil. _

~Greatness. ~--There is but one method, and that is hard labor; and a manwho will not pay that price for greatness had better at once dedicatehimself to the pursuit of the fox, or sport with the tangles of Neæra'shair, or talk of bullocks, and glory in the goad!--_Sidney Smith. _

A really great man is known by three signs, --generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. --_Bismarck. _

The great men of the earth are but the marking stones on the road ofhumanity; they are the priests of its religion. --_Mazzini. _

A multitude of eyes will narrowly inspect every part of an eminent man, consider him nicely in all views, and not be a little pleased when theyhave taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous lights. --_Addison. _

What you can manufacture, or communicate, you can lower the price of, but this mental supremacy is incommunicable; you will never multiply itsquantity, nor lower its price; and nearly the best thing that men cangenerally do is--to set themselves, not to the attainment, but thediscovery of this; learning to know gold, when we see it, fromiron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a moreprofitable employment than trying to make diamonds out of our owncharcoal. --_Ruskin. _

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign orstate, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have nofreedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in theirtimes. It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and to losepower over a man's self. --_Bacon. _

The difference between one man and another is by no means so great asthe superstitious crowd supposes. But the same feelings which in ancientRome produced the apotheosis of a popular emperor, and in modern timesthe canonization of a devout prelate, lead men to cherish an illusionwhich furnishes them with something to adore. --_Macaulay. _

Great men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, theyfeel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they knowtheir own deficiencies. --_Rousseau. _

He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is nomore an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacredbuildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if theystood. --_Seneca. _

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using ofstrength. --_Beecher. _

Greatness seems in her [Madame de Maintenon] to take its noblest form, that of simplicity. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Grief. ~--Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which maynever come at all, or you may never live to see it? for everysubstantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of yourown making. --_Sydney Smith. _

Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one. --_Shakespeare. _

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You mustwait till grief be _digested_. And then amusement will dissipate theremains of it. --_Johnson. _

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. --_P. J. Bailey. _

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness, while asingle grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it withnothingness at all points. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Grief has been compared to a hydra, for every one that dies two areborn. --_Calderon. _

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting outits feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses herenergies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy tonew pleasures. --_Dr. Pulsford. _

What's gone, and what's past help, should be past grief. --_Shakespeare. _

~Guilt. ~--All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this littlehand. --_Shakespeare. _

Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies toagitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past, terrors of the future, --these are the domestic Furies that are everpresent to the mind of the impious. --_Cicero. _

Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use. --_Shakespeare. _

Despair alone makes guilty men be bold. --_Coleridge. _

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guiltincreases. --_Schiller. _

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret tohide. --_George Sand. _

~Gunpowder. ~--If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievousdiscovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, andthe arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh orweep at the folly of mankind. --_Gibbon. _

A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing atcross-grained purposes. --_Marryatt. _

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, andbarketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report isheard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but oftriumph. --_Fuller. _

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~Habits. ~--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. --_Cowper. _

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform theindividual who practices them into an incarnate demon. --_Cicero. _

Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to contractnone. --_Zimmerman. _

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and youreap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character andyou reap a destiny. --_George D. Boardman. _

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature, as the common saying is; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed, it will be as it were the ape of nature, which imitates nothing to thelife, but only clumsily and awkwardly. --_Bacon. _

That beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to liverespectably and unhappy men to live calmly. --_George Eliot. _

Habits are the daughters of action, but they nurse their mothers, andgive birth to daughters after her image, more lovely andprosperous. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

~Hair. ~--The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins usedto wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. --_Luther. _

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in asimple knot was tied above; sweet negligence, unheeded bait oflove!--_Dryden. _

The robe which curious nature weaves to hang upon the head. --_Dekker. _

Robed in the long night of her deep hair. --_Tennyson. _

~Hand. ~--Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speakthemselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, wethreaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, ourdoubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; wemark number and time. --_Quintilian. _

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing theirhands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not performthe same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as areligious ceremony, declined with Paganism; but was continued as asalutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteemamong friends. At present it is only practiced as a mark of obediencefrom the subject to the sovereign, and by lovers, who are solicitous topreserve this ancient usage in its full power. --_Disraeli. _

~Handsome. ~--They are as heaven made them, handsome enough if they be goodenough; for handsome is that handsome does. --_Goldsmith. _

~Happiness. ~--The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtueof woman; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in theintegrity of man; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, is reliance on the goodness of God. --_Landor. _

To remember happiness which cannot be restored is pain, but of asoftened kind. Our recollections are unfortunately mingled with muchthat we deplore, and with many actions that we bitterly repent; still, in the most checkered life, I firmly think there are so many little raysof sunshine to look back upon that I do not believe any mortal woulddeliberately drain a goblet of the waters of Lethe if he had it in hispower. --_Dickens. _

That man is never happy for the present is so true that all his relieffrom unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life isa progress from want to want, not from enjoyment toenjoyment. --_Johnson. _

It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning. The best happiness will be toescape the worst misery. --_George Eliot. _

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and aphilosopher may be equally _satisfied_, but not equally _happy_. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. Apeasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with aphilosopher. --_Johnson. _

Happiness doats on her work, and is prodigal to her favorite. As onedrop of water hath an attraction for another, so do felicities run intofelicities. --_Landor. _

Sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along theheart. --_Wordsworth. _

Great happiness is the fire ordeal of mankind, great misfortune only thetrial by water; for the former opens a large extent of futurity, whereasthe latter circumscribes or closes it. --_Richter. _

Prospective happiness is perhaps the only real happiness in theworld. --_Alfred de Musset. _

Nature and individuals are generally best when they are happiest, anddeserve heaven most when they have learnt rightly to enjoy it. Tears ofsorrow are only pearls of inferior value, but tears of joy are pearls ordiamonds of the first water. --_Richter. _

How many people I have seen who would have plucked cannon-balls out ofthe muzzles of guns with their bare hands, and yet had not courageenough to be happy. --_Théophile Gautier. _

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make themhappy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory ofit. --_Sydney Smith. _

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. --_Lamotte. _

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by mysubjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches andhonors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthlyblessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness whichhave fallen to my lot: they amount to _fourteen_. O man, place not thyconfidence in this present world!--_The Caliph Abdalrahman. _

If I may speak of myself (the only person of whom I can speak withcertainty), _my_ happy hours have far exceeded, and far exceed, thescanty numbers of the caliph of Spain; and I shall not scruple to addthat many of them are due to the pleasing labor of the presentcomposition. --_Gibbon. _

For which we bear to live, or dare to die. --_Pope. _

We buy wisdom with happiness, and who would purchase it at such a price?To be happy we must forget the past, and think not of the future; andwho that has a soul or mind can do this? No one; and this proves thatthose who have either know no happiness on this earth. Memory precludeshappiness, whatever Rogers may say or write to the contrary, for itborrows from the past to embitter the present, bringing back to us allthe grief that has most wounded, or the happiness that has most charmedus. --_Byron. _

The happiness you wot of is not a hundredth part of what youenjoy. --_Charles Buxton. _

Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they wouldopen if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in. Ialways told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed theworld. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, ora tenth part of the wickedness there is. --_Mrs. L. M. Child. _

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy, and can make themwretched. --_Feltham. _

Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost boundswhereof we know not. --_Locke. _

There comes forever something between us and what we deem ourhappiness. --_Byron. _

Philosophical happiness is to want little; civil or vulgar happiness isto want much, and to enjoy much. --_Burke. _

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can piercebeyond an hour. --_Young. _

Plenteous joys, wanton in fullness. --_Shakespeare. _

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when weset foot on it. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so;happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, whichseparately and of themselves have little value, but which united withart form a graceful design. --_Mme. De Girardin. _

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. --_GeorgeEliot. _

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down. --_Quarles. _

The use we make of happiness gives us an eternal sentiment ofsatisfaction or repentance. --_Rousseau. _

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. --_J. PetitSenn. _

In regard to the affairs of mortals, there is nothing happythroughout. --_Euripides. _

~Hardship. ~--The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitterfood, --it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing elseto satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to goon. --_George Eliot. _

~Haste. ~--Let your haste commend your duty. --_Shakespeare. _

The more haste ever the worst speed. --_Churchill. _

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill; butneither of them ever learn their master's trade. --_Colton. _

All haste implies weakness. --_George MacDonald. _

~Hatred. ~--We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we willnot know them because we hate them. --_Colton. _

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I shouldsay, his capacity to hate. --_Beecher. _

Love is rarely a hypocrite. But hate! how detect, and how guard againstit. It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that youcan the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties whilstit favors its disguise; for civilization increases the number ofcontending interests, and refinement renders more susceptible to theleast irritation the cuticle of self-love. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Health. ~--Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than uponhis meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copioussupply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated andadulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished, that it cannotfully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervoussystem. --_Thackeray. _

Those hypochondriacs, who, like Herodius, give up their whole time andthoughts to the care of their health, sacrifice unto life every noblepurpose of living; striving to support a frail and feverish being here, they neglect an hereafter; they continue to patch up and repair theirmouldering tenement of clay, regardless of the immortal tenant that mustsurvive it; agitated by greater fears than the Apostle, and supported bynone of his hopes, they "die daily. "--_Colton. _

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it toyourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist onprinciple at the onset. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures, of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. --_Johnson. _

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at everysacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Someevils admit of consolations: there are no comforters for dyspepsia andthe toothache. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Heart. ~--The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of manonly when the iron has pierced it. --_Chauteaubriand. _

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. --_Calderon. _

There are treasures laid up in the heart, --treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyonddeath when he leaves this world. --_Buddhist Scriptures. _

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!--_Byron. _

The hearts of pretty women are like bonbons, wrapped up in enigmas. --_J. Petit Senn. _

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. --_Dickens. _

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very smallexperience, provided he has a very large heart. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. --_Bossuet. _

There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings, which areonly struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appealsthe most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightestcasual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is sometrain of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, butwhich will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and whenthe discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. --_Dickens. _

A willing heart adds feathers to the heel, and makes the clown a wingedMercury. --_Joanna Baillie. _

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear'em rattle as they walk. --_Douglas_ _Jerrold. _

~Heaven. ~--The love of heaven makes one heavenly. --_Shakespeare. _

Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looksmuch like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, itshines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by sogreat a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigationsas above the storms and clouds of earth. --_Rev. Dr. Guthrie. _

When at eve at the bounding of the landscape the heavens appear torecline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizonan asylum of hope, --a native land of love; and nature seems silently torepeat that man is immortal. --_Madame de Staël. _

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their whileto live above the allurements of sense. --_Atterbury. _

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiringthought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains ineternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay, will forever feast on the banquet of rich and gloriousthought. --_Beecher. _

~Heroes. ~--A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning haveoften made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward. --_Chesterfield. _

In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separatealtogether the share of Fortune from their own. --_Hallam. _

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of greatvictors when their victory is on the right side. --_George Eliot. _

No one is a hero to his valet. --_Madame de Sévigné. _

~History. ~--The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modernhistory a chronicle. --_Chauteaubriand. _

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! Butpassion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience givesis a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behindus!--_Coleridge. _

History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. --_Gibbon. _

We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles werefought we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all thephilosophy of history, is conjecture. --_Johnson. _

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too wellattested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. --_Joubert. _

To be entirely just in our estimate of other ages is not onlydifficult, --it is impossible. Even what is passing in our presence wesee but through a glass darkly. The mind as well as the eye addssomething of its own before an image, even of the clearest object, canbe painted upon it; and in historical inquiries the most instructedthinkers have but a limited advantage over the most illiterate. Thosewho know the most approach least to agreement. --_Froude. _

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror which merelyreflects objects, but of the judge who sees, listens, anddecides. --_Lamartine. _

In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good andevil: a little exaggeration, a little suppression, a judicious use ofepithets, a watchful and searching skepticism with respect to theevidence on one side, a convenient credulity with respect to everyreport or tradition on the other, may easily make a saint of Laud, or atyrant of Henry the Fourth. --_Macaulay. _

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes andmiseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. --_Washington Irving. _

History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally inthe management of its perspective that one artist differs from another. Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; thegreat majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a generalidea of their joint effect will be given by a few slighttouches. --_Macaulay. _

Violent natures make history. The instruments they use almost alwayskill. Religion and philosophy have their vestments covered with innocentblood. --_X. Doudan. _

Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant withimmortality. --_Bancroft. _

What history is not richer, does not contain far more, than they by whomit is enacted, the present witnesses! What mortal understandeth hisway?--_Jacobi. _

He alone reads history aright, who, observing how powerfullycircumstances influence the feelings and opinions of men, how oftenvices pass into virtues, and paradoxes into axioms, learns todistinguish what is accidental and transitory in human nature from whatis essential and immutable. --_Macaulay. _

~Home. ~--Home is the grandest of all institutions. --_Spurgeon. _

The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, andpleasure felt at home. --_Young. _

To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their earlyyears, and I'm not sure but they have the best of it. The image is nevermarred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations arealways on the good side. --_George Eliot. _

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. --_Payne. _

Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruplefreedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are asight day by day, and make life blither. --_Charles Buxton. _

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. --_Chapin. _

~Honesty. ~--If he does really think that there is no distinction betweenvirtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count ourspoons. --_Johnson. _

Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but palein goodness. --_Sir T. Browne. _

Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will beso, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is aseasily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuinesimplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. --_Burke. _

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a goodconscience never costs as much as it is worth. --_J. Petit Senn. _

The honest man is a rare variety of the human species. --_Chamfort. _

~Honor. ~--Keep unscathed the good name, keep out of peril the honor, without which even your battered old soldier, who is hobbling into hisgrave on half pay and a wooden leg, would not change withAchilles. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Hope. ~--Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy inaction. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

"I have a fine lot of hopes here in my basket, " remarked the New Year;"they are a sweet-smelling flower--a species of roses. "--_Hawthorne. _

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to theprolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated; butentertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good. --_Bacon. _

The mighty hopes that make us men. --_Tennyson. _

Thou captive's freedom, and thou sick man's health. --_Cowley. _

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, ifone can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which mayspoil all. --_George Eliot. _

Hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make littlescruple of reveling to-day on the profits of to-morrow. --_Johnson. _

It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hopeitself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet lessdreadful than its extinction. --_Johnson. _

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. --_VictorHugo. _

~Humanity. ~--A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds: therefore lethim seasonably water the one and destroy the other. --_Bacon. _

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature whichwill cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation youplease. --_Burke. _

Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respectinggoodness in others, though we ourselves want it. This is the reason whywe are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children, and even theexpressions of pleasure or uneasiness in some parts of the brutecreation. They are without artifice or malice; and we love truth toowell to resist the charms of sincerity. --_Steele. _

I do not know what comfort other people find in considering the weaknessof great men, but 'tis always a mortification to me to observe thatthere is no perfection in humanity. --_Montagu. _

The true proof of the inherent nobleness of our common nature is in thesympathy it betrays with what is noble wherever crowds are collected. Never believe the world is base; if it were so, no society could holdtogether for a day. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Humility. ~--It is from out the depths of our humility that the height ofour destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I amnothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul, God comes in, andis everything in me. --_Mountford. _

Should any ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I would reply, The first, second, and third thing therein, nay all, is humility. --_St. Augustine. _

Epaminondas, that heathen captain, finding himself lifted up in the dayof his public triumph, the next day went drooping and hanging down hishead; but being asked what was the reason of his so great dejection, made answer: "Yesterday I felt myself transported with vainglory, therefore I chastise myself for it to-day. "--_Plutarch. _

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. --_Franklin. _

Believe me, the much-praised lambs of humility would not bear themselvesso meekly if they but possessed tigers' claws. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give noshade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovinglyshelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar theirsummits, the lowlier droop their bows. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very lowin thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much. --_ArchbishopLeighton. _

~Humor. ~--The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, withoutbeing at all acute: hence there is so much humor and so little wit intheir literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to behumorous is merely witty. --_Coleridge. _

The oil and wine of merry meeting. --_Washington Irving. _

These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain themselves the reputation of witsand humorists, by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them forbedlam; not considering that humor should always lie under the check ofreason, and that it requires the direction of the nicest judgment, by somuch the more as it indulges itself in the most boundlessfreedoms. --_Addison. _

~Hyperbole. ~--Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundlessimagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied with hyperbole. --_Bruyère. _

Let us have done with reproaching; for we may throw out so manyreproachful words on one another that a ship of a hundred oars would notbe able to carry the load. --_Homer. _

~Hypocrisy. ~--Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presentingto him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy. --_JeremyTaylor. _

Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices passfor virtue. --_Molière. _

Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wearsthe livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal. --_Swift. _

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy. --_Mme. De Maintenon. _

As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon bycounterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which isabove price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is butits counterfeit. --_Cecil. _

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to Godalone. --_Milton. _

Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, and no man's hatred ever wronged heryet, may claim this merit still: that she admits the worth of what shemimics with such care. --_Cowper. _

I hate hypocrites, who put on their virtues with their whitegloves. --_Alfred de Musset. _

Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at hisneighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the weekwithout a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters themilk for his customers. --_George Mac Donald. _

The fatal fact in the case of a hypocrite is that he is ahypocrite. --_Chapin. _

'Tis a cowardly and servile humor to hide and disguise a man's selfunder a vizor, and not to dare to show himself what he is. By that ourfollowers are train'd up to treachery. Being brought up to speak what isnot true, they make no conscience of a lie. --_Montaigne. _

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~Ideas. ~--After all has been said that can be said about the wideninginfluence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be suchstrong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The greatworld-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in thestruggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love andhope. --_George Eliot. _

Our ideas are transformed sensations. --_Condillac. _

In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are ourfortresses. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in theone where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligencebecomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to amere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous byfalling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in onemind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other. --_Holmes. _

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. --_Taine. _

Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones caprices. --_X. Doudan. _

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideasare lacking. --_Joubert. _

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they growup. --_Voltaire. _

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size ofthe box which imprisons the roots. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Idleness. ~--If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonlyproduces melancholy. --_Sydney Smith. _

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. --_Spurgeon. _

In idleness there is perpetual despair. --_Carlyle. _

Doing nothing with a deal of skill. --_Cowper. _

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most activecause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turkshave a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, butthat idle men tempt the devil. --_Colton. _

The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency tolurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; tobe going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; todo nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number oftangible duties to-morrow or the day after. --_Dickens. _

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday offools. --_Chesterfield. _

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins ofwantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is butlittle room for temptation. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will becomebroken and his torch extinguished. --_Ovid. _

~Ignorance. ~--Have the _courage_ to be ignorant of a great number ofthings, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant ofeverything. --_Sydney Smith. _

There is no calamity like ignorance. --_Richter. _

'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must bethe multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so muchexceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common asignorance!--_Montaigne. _

Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, acapital offense. --_Joubert. _

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choicewhich Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is eitherto fall _by_ the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or_with_ them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. --_Coleridge. _

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. --_Alcott. _

The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance. --_LadyMorgan. _

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills itmay happen to do more harm. --_George Eliot. _

The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. --_George Herbert. _

Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is avacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want ofattraction. --_Johnson. _

~Illusion. ~--In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in matureryears, for every one we lose. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. --_Voltaire. _

~Imagination. ~--We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, forimages are the brood of desire. --_George Eliot. _

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and canget in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as tobring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what mayfollow no one knows. --_Spurgeon. _

He who has imagination without learning has wings and nofeet. --_Joubert. _

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimestyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of soberprobability. --_Johnson. _

~Imitation. ~--Imitators are a servile race. --_Fontaine. _

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones;it therefore makes slaves. --_Dr. Vinet. _

"Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate!"So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name tome an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee. "--_Lessing. _

~Immortality. ~--When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, sogreat a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating intothe future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such amultitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmlypersuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itselfcannot be mortal. --_Cicero. _

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequentlyimperishable. --_Aristotle. _

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with thiscorporeal clod. --_Milton. _

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous areimmortal and divine. --_Socrates. _

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born thingsfly to their native seat. --_Marcus Antoninus. _

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. --_George MacDonald. _

~Impatience. ~--Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to theplague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, andsorrow to amazement. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

~Impossibility. ~--One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latterdesires impossibilities. --_Democritus. _

~Improvement. ~--Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world isadvancing. Advance with it. --_Mazzini. _

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves tocopy after. --_Goldsmith. _

~Improvidence. ~--How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, onProvidence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence. --_Bovée. _

~Income. ~--Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall andpinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and totrip. --_Colton. _

~Inconsistency. ~--Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as ifthey thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more thanwords of course. --_L'Estrange. _

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool'scaps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's aretransparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when allthe world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Inconstancy. ~--The catching court disease. --_Otway. _

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible andlittle in the eyes of the world as inconstancy. --_Addison. _

~Indifference. ~--Nothing for preserving the body like having noheart. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Indifference is the invincible giant of the world. --_Ouida. _

~Indigestion. ~--Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hardsalted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body producecorrespondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchednessis sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food. --_SydneySmith. _

~Individuality. ~--There are men of convictions whose very faces will lightup an era, and there are believing women in whose eyes you may almostread the whole plan of salvation. --_T. Fields. _

Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root ofeverything good. --_Richter. _

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformersto initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent uponthe earth he treads. --_Mazzini. _

~Indolence. ~--I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man iseffectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute maysurvive. --_Chesterfield. _

Lives spent in indolence, and therefore sad. --_Cowper. _

Days of respite are golden days. --_South. _

So long as he must fight his way, the man of genius pushes forward, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome by aCapua! Ease and fame bring sloth and slumber. --_Charles Buxton. _

Nothing ages like laziness. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Indulgence. ~--One wishes to be happy before becoming wise. --_Mme. Necker. _

~Industry. ~--Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; thegods set up their favors at a price, and industry is thepurchaser. --_Addison. _

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have theharvest we must sow the seed. --_Bailey. _

~Infidelity. ~--There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternalbarrenness, inability to do or to be, --insincerity, unbelief. He whobelieves no _thing_, who believes only the shows of things, is not inrelation with nature and fact at all. --_Carlyle. _

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefiedto nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breastexpires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. --_Richter. _

If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on theother, and that the difficulties are more pressing on that side which isdestitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matteras satisfactory to a wise man as a demonstration. --_Tillotson. _

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. --_Cecil. _

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers; but if you wouldonce convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their ownquiet, reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon dropoff. --_Swift. _

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable has a compensating power. Not a bladeof grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot anddie, but reproduces something. --_Dr. Chalmers. _

~Infirmities. ~--Never mind what a man's virtues are; waste no time inlearning them. Fasten at once on his infirmities. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Influence. ~--He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful toinsult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but lethim consecrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must notdemolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come andpartake of the purest pleasures. --_Goethe. _

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man orwoman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. --_George MacDonald. _

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem oflife. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religioussuggestion. --_Chapin. _

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Greatminds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received. --_Macaulay. _

In families well ordered there is always one firm, sweet temper, whichcontrols without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasionas crowned. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Ingratitude. ~--The great bulk of mankind resemble the swine, which inharvest gather and fatten upon the acorns beneath the oak, but show tothe tree which bore them no other thanks than rubbing off its bark, andtearing up the sod around it. --_Scriver. _

One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator isthe very extensiveness of his bounty. --_Paley. _

~Injustice. ~--The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and oftenhis mercy. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Ink. ~--A drop of ink may make a million think. --_Byron. _

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. --_Shakespeare. _

The colored slave that waits upon thought. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

Oh, she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops toofew to wash her clean again!--_Shakespeare. _

My ways are as broad as the king's high road, and my means lie in aninkstand. --_Southey. _

~Innocence. ~--He's armed without that's innocent within. --_Pope. _

There is no courage but in innocence. --_Southern. _

There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts andactions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in hislife. --_Montaigne. _

~Innovation. ~--The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increasesthe weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire myblood!--_Schiller. _

Dislike of innovation proceeds sometimes from the disgust excited byfalse humanity, canting hypocrisy, and silly enthusiasm. --_SydneySmith. _

~Insanity. ~--Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinarylife borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of ournature. --_Taine. _

~Inspiration. ~--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and nobleimpulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of themental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our bestdeeds are all given to us. --_George Eliot. _

Contagious enthusiasm. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

~Instinct. ~--The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect ofnothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-livingagent. --_Newton. _

Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals as religion does theinterior of men. --_Jacobi. _

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakensand kills them. --_Aimé Martin. _

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent ofinstruction. --_Paley. _

~Insult. ~--It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselvesinsulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society do you thinkit is taken as an insult?--_Lady Hester Stanhope. _

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet theman who has forgiven an insult. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Insurrection. ~--Insurrection unusually gains little; usually wastes howmuch! One of its worst kind of wastes, to say nothing of the rest, isthat of irritating and exasperating men against each other by violencedone; which is always sure to be injustice done, for violence does evenjustice unjustly. --_Carlyle. _

~Intellect. ~--The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The smallretail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchanttrades, he links the four quarters of the globe. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Intelligence. ~--The higher feelings, when acting in harmoniouscombination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundlessscope for gratification; their least indulgence is delightful, and theirhighest activity is bliss. --_Combe. _

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from theircloset or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitatedcourts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though farremoved from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and soberlight, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings whichincessantly disturb that restless world of waters. --_Colton. _

Light has spread, and even bayonets think. --_Kossuth. _

Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes useless, sometimes fatal. It is atorch or a fire-brand according to the use one makes of it. --_FernanCaballero. _

~Intemperance. ~--The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth thatparticle of the divine spirit. --_Horace. _

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty. --_Junius. _

~Intolerance. ~--Nothing dies so hard, and rallies so often, asintolerance. --_Beecher. _

Intolerance is the curse of every age and state. --_Dr. Davies. _

~Invective. ~--Invective may be a sharp weapon, but over-use blunts itsedge. Even when the denunciation is just and true, it is an error of artto indulge in it too long. --_Tyndall. _

~Invention. ~--Invention is a kind of muse, which, being possessed of theother advantages common to her sisters, and being warmed by the fire ofApollo, is raised higher than the rest. --_Dryden. _

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination ofthose images which have been previously gathered and deposited in thememory. Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materialscan produce no combinations. --_Sir J. Reynolds. _

~Irony. ~--Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar;and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not sayit point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he caninvent. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Irresolution. ~--Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He thatshoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at allcan never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; likean ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at oncein a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; sohatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. --_Feltham. _

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to ourchoice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of allour unhappiness. --_Addison. _

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and themouth. --_Cervantes. _

~Irritability. ~--Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon assloth does too late. --_Cecil. _

An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles. --_Hood. _

~Ivy. ~--The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food atlast. --_Dickens. _

The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces, as every twig is furnished with innumerable little fingers, by which itdraws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old roughstone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to anabundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. Itmight also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered, which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreadingits green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

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~Jealousy. ~--What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. --_Gay. _

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make littlethings large, of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths. --_Cervantes. _

'Tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself. --_Shakespeare. _

Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers themwhen a man they do love is not jealous. --_Ninon de L'Enclos. _

A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. --_Mlle. De Scudéry. _

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother ofangels. --_Boufflers. _

~Jesting. ~--Jests--Brain fleas that jump about among the slumberingideas. --_Heinrich Heine. _

The jest loses its point when the wit is the first tolaugh. --_Schiller. _

And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness andbitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he makethothers afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of other'smemory. --_Bacon. _

~Jewelry. ~--Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels wereinvented only to make her the more mischievous. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

~Jews. ~--Talk what you will of the Jews; that they are cursed: they thrivewherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their countryby lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as fortheir being hated, why Christians hate one another as much. --_Selden. _

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehengeis in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids. --_Lamb. _

~Joy. ~--The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. --_Pope. _

Worldly joy is like the songs which peasants sing, full of melodies andsweet airs. --_Beecher. _

Redundant joy, like a poor miser, beggar'd by his store. --_Young. _

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture ofmoments. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Joy is the best of wine. --_George Eliot. _

Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which in the morning only appearsin the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of daycasts its triumphal arch over the east, or morning sky. --_Richter. _

~Judgment. ~--The more one judges, the less one loves. --_Balzac. _

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishesare concerned. --_Wellington. _

Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Noah was asailor. --_Shakespeare. _

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to haverenounced the right of thinking meanly of others. --_Goethe. _

In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easilysinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laborethfruitfully. --_Thomas à Kempis. _

I have seen, when after execution judgment hath repented o'er hisdoom. --_Shakespeare. _

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for anevil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!--_Carlyle. _

Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from fallingon one side, topples over on the other. --_Mazzini. _

The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posteritynever. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that ofthe future is incorrupt. --_Gladstone. _

Upon any given point, contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the man whohas mastered the laws of evidence, but he knows little of the laws ofevidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; andwithout this last knowledge a man of action will not attain to thepractical, nor will a poet achieve the ideal. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon thatwhich seems. --_Southey. _

~Justice. ~--It is the pleasure of the gods--that what is in conformitywith justice shall also be in conformity to the laws. --_Socrates. _

Justice delayed is justice denied. --_Gladstone. _

Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes fromits slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to beshed. --_Corneille. _

Justice is truth in action. --_Joubert. _

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know ofjustice in man. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and noblerideas of it; but while we are in this life we can only speak from thevolume that is laid open before us. --_Pope. _

Strike if you will, but hear. --_Themistocles. _

When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He sawto it that justice should be always the highest expediency. --_WendellPhillips. _

But Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving withaverted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wontto draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stampedwith praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom. --_Æschylus. _

God's mill grinds slow but sure. --_George Herbert. _

Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, "It is there?"Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, itis within us as a great yearning. --_George Eliot. _

Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs anddecides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community. --_Goethe. _

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~Kindness. ~--Yes! you may find people ready enough to do the Samaritanwithout the oil and twopence. --_Sydney Smith. _

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. --_Béranger. _

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful imageit is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him outof his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kindwords in such abundance as they ought to be used. --_Pascal. _

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business oflife. --_Johnson. _

To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than areproach. --_Demosthenes. _

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry ofwhite hair. --_O. Feuillet. _

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. --_Mme. DeStaël. _

~Kings. ~--Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told thattheir best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true;but unhappily it is laughed at in court. --_Rousseau. _

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kingsresort. --_Patrick Henry. _

A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself;under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honoredtomb. --_Alfieri. _

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right inkings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not sofrequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of alion. --_Thomas Paine. _

He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bearsit. --_Corneille. _

Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellowsinto right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the nextto true succession. --_Dryden. _

~Kisses. ~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh asever. It preëxisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend uponit, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent init. --_Haliburton. _

Dear as remembered kisses after death. --_Tennyson. _

Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine. --_BenJonson. _

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate--hewas lost upon the coral reefs. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

Eden revives in the first kiss of love. --_Byron. _

You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out afoot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Notso. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds. --_Charles Buxton. _

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of lovewhich becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. --_George Eliot. _

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. --_Leigh Hunt. _

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, --these arelove's pretty ingredients for a kiss. --_Bovée. _

~Knavery. ~--Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as theinvention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they alwayskeep them in hope. --_Burke. _

After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew arogue who was not unhappy. --_Junius. _

By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knavefinds a gull. --_Zimmerman. _

~Knowledge. ~--The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, notin ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at booklearning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, isthe demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting nationaldegeneracy and ruin. --_G. W. Curtis. _

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced, " in order to beknown. --_Whipple. _

The pleasure and delight of knowledge far surpasseth all other innature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety; and after theybe used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well that they be butdeceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the noveltywhich pleased, not the quality; and therefore we see that voluptuous menturn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledgethere is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetuallyinterchangeable. --_Bacon. _

What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, andloved because it is known?--_George Eliot. _

The truth is, that most men want knowledge, not for itself, but for thesuperiority which knowledge confers; and the means they employ to securethis superiority are as wrong as the ultimate object, for no man canever end with being superior who will not begin with beinginferior. --_Sydney Smith. _

He who knows much has much to care for. --_Lessing. _

Properly, there is no other knowledge but that which is got by working:the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued ofin schools; a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till we try and fix it. --_Carlyle. _

He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. --_Bible. _

To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what isintrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed ofwithout regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence hehad it. --_Montaigne. _

He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, hemay be a teacher of others. --_Confucius. _

A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and isthe only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the fullextent of its capacity. --_Locke. _

Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, overprejudice, and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fastlearning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not implynecessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The wholeworld is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy ofmind, genius, power, wheresoever it exists, may speak out in any tongue, and the world will hear it. --_Daniel Webster. _

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediateboundaries. --_Tyndall. _

The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is tounlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them. --_Bolingbroke. _

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'erthe fatal truth; the tree of knowledge is not that of life. --_Byron. _

The seeds of knowledge maybe planted in solitude, but must be cultivatedin public. --_Johnson. _

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, inminds attentive to their own. --_Cowper. _

It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what itgains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple ofits own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments helps tonew conquests. --_Daniel Webster. _

The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against theinfirm excitement of passions and vices. --_Beecher. _

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not ratherknow it than not. --_Johnson. _

We always know everything when it serves no purpose, and when the sealof the irreparable has been set upon events. --_Théophile Gautier. _

All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions ofhumanity. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

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~Labor. ~--Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertionand suicide. --_Mazzini. _

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-givenforce, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by AlmightyGod!--_Carlyle. _

The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to befetched. --_Charles Buxton. _

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them. --_Joubert. _

As steady application to work is the healthiest training for everyindividual, so is it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industryalways travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress isaltogether impossible without it. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Nature is just towards men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; itrenders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches thegreatest rewards. --_Montesquieu. _

Virtue's guard is Labor, ease her sleep. --_Tasso. _

Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into slothand luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, anda most royal thing to labor. --_Barrow. _

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if theycould have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what reallyproduced a master like Raphael. --_Goethe. _

He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor forgets theearly rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --_Locke. _

The pain of life but sweetens death; the hardest labor brings thesoundest sleep. --_Albert Smith. _

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The true epic of our times is not "arms and the man, " but "tools and theman, " an infinitely wider kind of epic. --_Carlyle. _

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it withoutbecoming proportionably brutified!--_Hawthorne. _

~Land. ~--There is a distinct joy in owning land, unlike that which youhave in money, in houses, in books, pictures, or anything else which menhave devised. Personal property brings you into society with men. Butland is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel ofground is deeded to you, and you walk over it, and call it your own, itseems as if you had come into partnership with the original Proprietorof the earth. --_Beecher. _

~Language. ~--The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, butfew are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is noforeign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather anative language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the greatmother. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The key to the sciences. --_Bruyère. _

A countryman is as warm in fustian as a king in velvet, and a truth isas comfortable in homely language as in fine speech. As to the way ofdishing up the meat, hungry men leave that to the cook, only let themeat be sweet and substantial. --_Spurgeon. _

The machine of the poet. --_Macaulay. _

Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poetsthat preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learna language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in atranslation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in anylanguage except that in which it was originally written, we learn thelanguage. --_Johnson. _

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee: it springs out ofthe most retired and inmost part of us. --_Ben Jonson. _

If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, itwill be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being thesame. If it is high flown and bombastic, a character for nationalsimplicity and thankfulness cannot long be maintained. --_Dean Alford. _

~Laughter. ~--Conversation never sits easier than when we now and thendischarge ourselves in a symphony of laughter; which may not improperlybe called the chorus of conversation. --_Steele. _

The laughers are a majority. --_Pope. _

Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the perilsof ridicule: you can no more exercise your reason, if you live in theconstant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are inthe constant terror of death. --_Sydney Smith. _

How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher thewhole man!--_Carlyle. _

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for aslaughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enablesorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becomingdespair and madness. --_Leigh Hunt. _

How inevitably does an immoderate laughter end in a sigh!--_South. _

Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a stingin the tail, though they carry beauty on the face. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Laughter means sympathy. --_Carlyle. _

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shootsit off. --_De Witt Talmage. _

I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has everheard me laugh. --_Chesterfield. _

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shower atthe same time pearls and the soul. --_Victor Hugo. _

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helpsto digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent amongour forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, wasfounded on true medical principles. --_Dr. Hufeland. _

~Law. ~--With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutesare waste paper, lacking all executive force. --_Wendell Phillips. _

Of all the parts of a law, the most effectual is the _vindicatory_; forit is but lost labor to say, "Do this, or avoid that, " unless we alsodeclare, "This shall be the consequence of your non-compliance. " Themain strength and force of a law consists in the penalty annexed toit. --_Blackstone. _

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed byevery utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom ofthe visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law. --_Ruskin. _

It would be very singular if this great shad-net of the law did notenable men to catch at something, balking for the time the eternalflood-tide of justice. --_Chapin. _

True law is right reason conformably to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrainus from evil. --_Cicero. _

Aristotle himself has said, speaking of the laws of his own country, that jurisprudence, or the knowledge of those laws, is the principal andmost perfect branch of ethics. --_Blackstone. _

In effect, to follow, not to force, the public inclination, to give adirection, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to thegeneral sense of the community, is the true end oflegislation. --_Burke. _

In the habits of legal men every accusation appears insufficient if theydo not exaggerate it even to calumny. It is thus that justice itselfloses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. --_Lamartine. _

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use itcruelly. --_Shakespeare. _

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to makethem effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men asvirtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequentlythe greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to thecause of virtue. --_Bolingbroke. _

A mouse-trap; easy to enter but not easy to get out of. --_Mrs Balfour. _

What can idle laws do with morals?--_Horace. _

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if itdoes not strike the guilty it hits some one else. As every crime createsa law, so in turn every law creates a crime. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Learning. ~--It adds a precious seeing to the eye. --_Shakespeare. _

You are to consider that learning is of great use to society; and thoughit may not add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to transmit it toothers. Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not thefountain-heads. --_James Northcote. _

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. --_Young. _

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standingfor wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament toriches. --_Cicero. _

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt butlittle at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by shortflights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science areformed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. --_Johnson. _

No man can ever want this mortification of his vanity, that what heknows is but a very little, in comparison of what he still continuesignorant of. Consider this, and, instead of boasting thy knowledge of afew things, confess and be out of countenance for the many more whichthou dost not understand. --_Thomas à Kempis. _

Suppose we put a tax upon learning? Learning, it is true, is a uselesscommodity, but I think we had better lay it on ignorance; for learningbeing the property but of a very few, and those poor ones too, I amafraid we can get little among them; whereas ignorance will take in mostof the great fortunes in the kingdom. --_Fielding. _

For ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, ifthey be accompanied by a bad training is a much greatermisfortune. --_Plato. _

No power can exterminate the seeds of liberty when it has germinated inthe blood of brave men. Our religion of to-day is still that ofmartyrdom; to-morrow it will be the religion of victory. --_Mazzini. _

~Leisure. ~--"Never less idle than when idle, " was the motto which theadmirable Vittoria Colonna wrought upon her husband's dressing-gown. Andmay we not justly regard our appreciation of leisure as a test ofimproved character and growing resources?--_Tuckerman. _

Leisure is gone; gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and thepack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers who brought bargainsto the door on sunny afternoons. --_George Eliot. _

~Libels. ~--Undoubtedly the good fame of every man ought to be under theprotection of the laws, as well as his life and liberty and property. Good fame is an outwork that defends them all and renders them allvaluable. The law forbids you to revenge; when it ties up the hands ofsome, it ought to restrain the tongues of others. --_Burke. _

If it was a new thing, it may be I should not be displeased with thesuppression of the first libel that should abuse me; but, since thereare enough of them to make a small library, I am secretly pleased to seethe number increased, and take delight in raising a heap of stones thatenvy has cast at me without doing me any harm. --_Balzac. _

~Liberty. ~--Liberty is the right to do what the laws allow; and if acitizen could do what they forbid, it would be no longer liberty, because others would have the same powers. --_Montesquieu. _

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it willburn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountainsmay press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heaveboth the ocean and the land, and at some time or another, in some placeor another, the volcano will break out and flame to heaven. --_DanielWebster. _

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of theheart. --_Washington. _

~Library. ~--A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct thelearner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than towander at random over many. --_Seneca. _

He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the fourwalls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one. --_Longfellow. _

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all thesouls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to theseBodleians were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. Ido not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. Icould as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amidtheir foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings isfragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amidthe happy orchard. --_Lamb. _

~Life. ~--Life is a quaint puzzle. Bits the most incongruous join into eachother, and the scheme thus gradually becomes symmetrical and clear;when, lo! as the infant clasps his hands, and cries, "See, see! thepuzzle is made out, " all the pieces are swept back into the box--blackbox with the gilded nails!--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

We never live, but we ever hope to live. --_Pascal. _

Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side brightflowers, and beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which wescarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to anopening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees aswe advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, thefruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desertwaste. --_G. A. Sala. _

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth weare looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we arelooking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although weappear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet eventhat is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy onsome future day when we have time. --_Colton. _

The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if by reason ofstrength they be four-score years, yet is their strength labor andsorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. --_Bible. _

When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I havedone, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry andbustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what haspassed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by nomeans wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitiveillusion. --_Chesterfield. _

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much, but I like toplay my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. --_George Eliot. _

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and hewhose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. --_James Martineau. _

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to bedefeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descentof thistledown. --_George Eliot. _

When we embark in the dangerous ship called Life, we must not, likeUlysses, be tied to the mast; we must know how to listen to the songs ofthe sirens and to brave their blandishments. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to passquickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greateris their power to harm us. --_Voltaire. _

The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction oflife. --_Theodore Parker. _

I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembersall the incidents of his past existence, who would accept it again; weare certainly here to punish precedent sins. --_Campbell. _

The childhood of immortality. --_Goethe. _

So our lives glide on; the river ends we don't know where, and the seabegins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. --_George Eliot. _

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance mindsus of it at the wrong end. --_L'Estrange. _

This tide of man's life after it once turneth and declineth ever runnethwith a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never floweth again. --_SirW. Raleigh. _

If the first death be the mistress of mortals, and the mistress of theuniverse, reflect then on the brevity of life. "I have been, and that isall, " said Saladin the Great, who was conqueror of the East. The longestliver had but a handful of days, and life itself is but a circle, alwaysbeginning where it ends. --_Henry Mayhew. _

Why all this toil for the triumphs of an hour?--_Young. _

The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh. --_Prior. _

Life's short summer--man is but a flower. --_Johnson. _

Man lives only to shiver and perspire. --_Sydney Smith. _

O frail estate of human things!--_Dryden. _

Many think themselves to be truly God-fearing when they call this worlda valley of tears. But I believe they would be more so, if they calledit a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everythingright in the world, than with those who think nothing right. With somany thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world aplace of sorrow and torment?--_Richter. _

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment toenjoyment. --_Johnson. _

We never live: we are always in the expectation of living. --_Voltaire. _

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and sogrow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. --_AugustaEvans. _

~Light. ~--Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating theapartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless comparedwith the light which the sun sends into our windows, which he poursfreely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily theeastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason andconscience and love are of more worth and dignity than the rareendowments which give celebrity to a few. --_Dr. Channing. _

More light!--_Goethe's last words. _

Light! Nature's resplendent robe; without whose vesting beauty all werewrapt in gloom. --_Thomson. _

Hail! holy light, offspring of heaven, first born!--_Milton. _

We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like acloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as atorch, by which we might behold his works. --_Caussin. _

~Likeness. ~--Like, but oh, how different!--_Wordsworth. _

~Lips. ~--Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow. --_Bailey. _

He kissed me hard, as though he'd pluck up kisses by the roots that grewupon my lips. --_Shakespeare. _

The lips of a fool swallow up himself. --_Bible. _

~Literature. ~--Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wagesare not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. --_Froude. _

The literature of a people must spring from the sense of itsnationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, andself-respect is impossible without liberty. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain ofthe hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied bywit, genius, and sense, than by humor. --_Coleridge. _

When literature is the sole business of life, it becomes a drudgery. When we are able to resort to it only at certain hours, it is a charmingrelaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be atthe desk everyday from ten till five o'clock; and I shall never forgetthe delight with which, on returning home, I used to read and writeduring the evening. --_Rogers. _

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whomthey love, or to whom they are related. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Whatever the skill of any country be in sciences, it is from excellencein polite learning alone that it must expect a character fromposterity. --_Goldsmith. _

~Logic. ~--Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the oneclose, the other at large. --_Bacon. _

Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show themthe fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involveddiscourses. --_Locke. _

Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth. --_Bruyère. _

~Love. ~--Fie, fie! how wayward is this foolish love, that, like a testybabe, will scratch the nurse, and presently, all humbled, will kiss therod!--_Shakespeare. _

Love is the cross and passion of the heart; its end, its errand. --_P. L. Bailey. _

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousnessthat encroach by little and little on the dominion of grief, and itmakes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Love while 't is day; night cometh soon, wherein no man or maidenmay. --_Joaquin Miller. _

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays atsolitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all thewhile disbelieves. --_George Eliot. _

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of lovewith words. --_Shakespeare. _

Loves change sure as man or moon, and wane like warm full days ofJune. --_Joaquin Miller. _

Take of love as a sober man takes wine; do not get drunk. --_Alfred deMusset. _

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of thebeloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of theiraction. The qualities of the sexes correspond. The man's courage isloved by the woman, whose fortitude again is coveted by the man. Hisvigorous intellect is answered by her infallible tact. Can it be true, what is so constantly affirmed, that there is no sex in souls? I doubtit--I doubt it exceedingly. --_Coleridge. _

As love increases prudence diminishes. --_Rochefoucauld. _

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. --_Emerson. _

The desire to be beloved is ever restless and unsatisfied; but the lovethat flows out upon others is a perpetual well-spring from on high. --_L. M. Child. _

Love is love's reward. --_Dryden. _

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate. When itis durable, it is serene and equable. Even its famous pains begin onlywith the ebb of love, for few are indeed lovers, though all would fainbe. --_Thoreau. _

Love makes all things possible. --_Shakespeare. _

Economy in love is peace to nature, much like economy in worldlymatters; we should be prudent, never love too fast; profusion will not, cannot, always last. --_Peter Pindar. _ (_John W. Wolcott. _)

There is no fear in love, for perfect love casteth out fear. --_Bible. _

O love! thy essence is thy purity! Breathe one unhallowed breath uponthy flame and it is gone for ever, and but leaves a sullied vase, --itspure light lost in shame. --_Landor. _

The pale complexion of true love. --_Shakespeare. _

Love has no middle term; it either saves or destroys. --_Victor Hugo. _

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but stillonly light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heartis as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. --_Beecher. _

In love's war, he who flies is conqueror. --_Mrs. Osgood. _

Where there is room in the heart there is always room in thehouse. --_Moore. _

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late inlife. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

Only they conquer love who run away. --_Carew. _

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye. --_L. E. Landon. _

Love, well thou know'st, no partnership allows; cupid averse rejectsdivided vows. --_Prior. _

Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. --_Milton. _

Those who yield their souls captive to the brief intoxication of love, if no higher and holier feeling mingle with and consecrate their dreamof bliss, will shrink trembling from the pangs that attend theirwaking. --_Schlegel. _

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. --_Antoine Bret. _

I have enjoyed the happiness of this world, I have lived and haveloved. --_Richter. _

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. --_Victor Hugo. _

Love is a severe critic. Hate can pardon more than love. --_Thoreau. _

Young love-making, that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--thethings whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcelyperceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays fromblue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek andlip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs andindefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions ofcompleteness, indefinite trust. --_George Eliot. _

Love is the loadstone of love. --_Mrs. Osgood. _

Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. --_Feltham. _

The best part of woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to besent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall ready to soothe the wearied feet. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Love is an Oriental despot. --_Madame Swetchine. _

We must love as looking one day to hate. --_George Herbert. _

Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than itwarms them. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Love is lowliness; on the wedding ring sparkles no jewel. --_Richter. _

Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to fail, it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potency of itsrays. --_George MacDonald. _

To speak of love is to make love. --_Balzac. _

A man may be a miser of his wealth; he may tie up his talent in anapkin; he may hug himself in his reputation; but he is always generousin his love. Love cannot stay at home; a man cannot keep it to himself. Like light, it is constantly traveling. A man must spend it, must giveit away. --_Macleod. _

Repining love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring as inthe other, shun sunlight. --_Richter. _

Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. --_Ségur. _

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions:it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some oneelse. --_Alphonse Karr. _

A woman whom we truly love is a religion. --_Emile de Girardin. _

Childhood is only a wearisome prologue: the first act of the humancomedy opens only at the moment when love makes a breach in ourhearts. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

The religion of humanity is love. --_Mazzini. _

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of thenight, but he who is intoxicated by the cup-bearer will not recover hissenses until the day of judgment. --_Saadi. _

Love reasons without reason. --_Shakespeare. _

It seems to me that the coming of love is like the coming of spring--thedate is not to be reckoned by the calendar. It may be slow and gradual;it may be quick and sudden. But in the morning, when we wake andrecognize a change in the world without, verdure on the trees, blossomson the sward, warmth in the sunshine, music in the air, we say springhas come. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Love and a cough cannot be hid. --_George Herbert. _

Love is the most dunder-headed of all the passions; it never will listento reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. "Love has nowherefore, " says one of the Latin poets. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, andnot, as it too often is, the end. --_Alphonse Karr. _

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and tobe loved is an insupportable death. --_Voltaire. _

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does notremain a little corner for flattery and love. --_Mauvaux. _

Love is always blind and tears his hands whenever he tries to gatherroses. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered byimagination. --_Voltaire. _

Oh! I was mad to intoxicate myself with the wine of love, and to extendmy hand to the crown of poets. Pleasure! Poetry! you are perfidiousfriends. Pain follows you closely. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it fromwits. --_Alphonse Karr. _

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who nevercomes until after the disorder is cured. --_Mme. De la Tour. _

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. --_Alphonse Karr. _

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. --_Margueritede Valois. _

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is notto be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, shemust often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, andwatch through darkness. --_George Eliot. _

To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, tobe the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it isstealing fire from heaven and deserves death. --_Madame de Girardin. _

But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set acandle in the sun. --_Burton. _

There are as many kinds of love as there are races. A great tall German, learned, virtuous, phlegmatic, said one day: "Souls are sisters, fallenfrom heaven, who all at once recognize and run to meet each other. " Alittle dry Frenchman, hot-blooded, witty, lively, replied to him: "Youare right; you can always find shoes to fit. "--_Taine. _

Love supreme defies all sophistry. --_George Eliot. _

It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. --_Thoreau. _

The love of man to woman is a thing common, and of course, and at firstpartakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but truefriendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. --_Plato. _

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the faceof our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our ownyearnings. --_George Eliot. _

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moralworld would be palsied. --_Southey. _

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childishcompanionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes tounite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Nothing quickens the perceptions like genuine love. From the humblestprofessional attachment to the most chivalric devotion, what keenness ofobservation is born under the influence of that feeling which drivesaway the obscuring clouds of selfishness, as the sun consumes the vaporof the morning. --_Tuckerman. _

~Luck. ~--Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will beso prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that all shallow observers willcall you lucky. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Luxury. ~--Whenever vanity and gayety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, andelegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments ofmen and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into whatevils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us. --_John Adams. _

He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. --_Quarles. _

O brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, yourchants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and yourbands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments ofreligious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more tobe stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truthas it is in Jesus. --_Spurgeon. _

O Luxury! Thou curst of heaven's decree. --_Goldsmith. _

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency liveslonger. --_Shakespeare. _

~Lying. ~--Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. --_Southern. _

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. --_Pascal. _

Every brave man shuns more than death the shame of lying. --_Corneille. _

It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having providedking's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as avane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is setthe other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fearunder a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger, when all above iscalm. --_Washington Allston. _

Lies exist only to be extinguished. --_Carlyle. _

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. --_Tennyson. _

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~Madness. ~--Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through lifewithout having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a personof supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had themadness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime everto pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved. --_Johnson. _

~Man. ~--It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he isto the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time hisgreatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness withouthis meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either;but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both. --_Pascal. _

Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal. --_Molière. _

He is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. Mean and pettyhis wants and his desires; yet they serve a soul exalted with grand, glorious aims, --with immortal longings, --with thoughts which sweep theheavens, and wander through eternity. A pigmy standing on the outwardcrest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward tothe infinite, and there alone finds rest. --_Carlyle. _

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in muchobscurity. --_Victor Hugo. _

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite infaculty! in form and movement, how express and admirable! in action, howlike an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world!the paragon of animals!--_Shakespeare. _

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. It seems asif heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. Andhere they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervalsthe words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns, and theymope and wallow like dogs!--_Emerson. _

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my ageI think I should write an apology for them. --_Walpole. _

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. --_AlexanderHamilton. _

I considered how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! He islord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything. He isgiven a freedom of his will; but wherefore? Was it but to torment andperplex him the more? How little avails this freedom, if the objects heis to act upon be not as much disposed to obey as he is tocommand!--_Burke. _

Men's natures are neither white nor black, but brown. --_Charles Buxton. _

He is compounded of two very different ingredients, spirit and matter;but how such unallied and disproportioned substances should act uponeach other, no man's learning yet could tell him. --_Jeremy Collier. _

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer findsnothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. Thegreatest star is at the small end of the telescope, the star that islooking, not looked after nor looked at. --_Theodore Parker. _

Men are but children of a larger growth; our appetites are apt to changeas theirs, and full as craving, too, and full as vain. --_Dryden. _

Little things are great to little men. --_Goldsmith. _

Man himself is the crowning wonder of creation; the study of his naturethe noblest study the world affords. --_Gladstone. _

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. --_Lamartine. _

~Manners. ~--A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange treewould if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume fromevery little censer it holds up to the air. --_Beecher. _

All manners take a tincture from our own. --_Pope. _

I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty, that give the like exhilaration and refine us like that; and inmemorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and makethat superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show control; youshall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; andevery gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. They must beinspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, orform, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, aroundus. --_Emerson. _

We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made up ofartificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful andsimple: without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicityawkwardness. --_George Eliot. _

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speakobligingly. --_Voltaire. _

Nature is the best posture-master. --_Emerson. _

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. --_Johnson. _

Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness besettled. --_Feltham. _

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converseswith heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if youwill hide the want of measure. --_Emerson. _

We are to carry it from the hand to the heart, to improve a ceremonialnicety into a substantial duty, and the modes of civility into therealities of religion. --_South. _

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill-bred. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid ofbeing natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. --_Jeffrey. _

Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance tocapitulate, hid behind its shield of bronze. --_Balzac. _

Comport thyself in life as at a banquet. If a plate is offered thee, extend thy hand and take it moderately; if it be withdrawn, do notdetain it. If it come not to thy side, make not thy desire loudly known, but wait patiently till it be offered thee. --_Epictetus. _

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and firmallies. --_Bartol. _

The "over-formal" often impede, and sometimes frustrate, business by adilatory, tedious, circuitous, and (what in colloquial language iscalled) fussy way of conducting the simplest transactions. They havebeen compared to a dog which cannot lie down till he has made threecircuits round the spot. --_Whately. _

~Martyrs. ~--Even in this world they will have their judgment-day, andtheir names, which went down in the dust like a gallant banner troddenin the mire, shall rise again all glorious in the sight ofnations. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

It is not the death that makes the martyr, but the cause. --_Canon Dale. _

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die thedupe of one's ambition. --_Lamartine. _

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames andtortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions whichthey had never the opportunity of performing. --_Addison. _

~Matrimony. ~--When a man and woman are married their romance ceases andtheir history commences. --_Rochebrune. _

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated;often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one whocomes between them. --_S. Smith. _

Married in haste, we repent at leisure. --_Congreve. _

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, ifthey were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration ofthe characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choicein the matter. --_Johnson. _

Hanging and wiving go by destiny. --_Shakespeare. _

The married man is like the bee that fixes his hive, augments the world, benefits the republic, and by a daily diligence, without wronging any, profits all; but he who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wanders anoffence to the world, lives upon spoil and rapine, disturbs peace, steals sweets that are none of his own, and, by robbing the hives ofothers, meets misery as his due reward. --_Feltham. _

One can, with dignity, be wife and widow but once. --_Joubert. _

Few natures can preserve through years the poetry of the firstpassionate illusion. That can alone render wedlock the seal thatconfirms affection, and not the mocking ceremonial that consecrates itsgrave. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

It's hard to wive and thrive both in a year. --_Tennyson. _

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they wanteverything. --_Shakespeare. _

Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the secondglass. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which itclings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancientedifice into a ruin. --_Johnson. _

He that marries is like the Doge who was wedded to the Adriatic. Heknows not what there is in that which he marries: mayhap treasures andpearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him. --_Heinrich Heine. _

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. --_Molière. _

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of mostmarriages. --_Thoreau. _

The love of some men for their wives is like that of Alfieri for hishorse. "My attachment for him, " said he, "went so far as to destroy mypeace every time that he had the least ailment; but my love for him didnot prevent me from fretting and chafing him whenever he did not wish togo my way. "--_Bovée. _

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on theconjugal sea. --_Balzac. _

Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb ofpre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?--_George Eliot. _

~Mediocrity. ~--Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocrepeople. --_Joubert. _

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet;but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensiblyabove it are the very rarest exceptions. --_Gladstone. _

~Meditation. ~--Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. --_Shakespeare. _

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what reportthey bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcomenews. --_Young. _

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a knowntruth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upontill all vicious parts be extracted. --_Bishop Horne. _

~Meekness. ~--The flower of meekness grows on a stem of grace. --_J. Montgomery. _

A boy was once asked what meekness was. He thought for a moment andsaid, "Meekness gives smooth answers to rough questions. "--_Mrs. Balfour. _

~Melancholy. ~--Melancholy is a fearful gift; what is it but the telescopeof truth?--_Byron. _

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. --_Dryden. _

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy. --_Milton. _

The noontide sun is dark, and music discord, when the heart islow. --_Young. _

~Memory. ~--Memory is what makes us young or old. --_Alfred de Musset. _

No canvas absorbs color like memory. --_Willmott. _

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. --_Colton. _

Joy's recollection is no longer joy; but sorrow's memory is sorrowstill. --_Byron. _

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble. --_L. E. Landon. _

And fondly mourn the dear delusions gone. --_Prior. _

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, asound, awake them?--_Lessing. _

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention; it is thelife-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins areempty. --_Willmott. _

Memory is the scribe of the soul. --_Aristotle. _

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery likea diorama. --_George Eliot. _

We must always have old memories and young hopes. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

They teach us to remember; why do not they teach us to forget? There isnot a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted thatmemory was as much of a curse as a blessing. --_F. A. Durivage. _

~Mercy. ~--Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath whichmen call justice!--_Longfellow. _

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. --_Shakespeare. _

'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch betterthan his crown. --_Shakespeare. _

Give money, but never lend it. Giving it only makes a man ungrateful;lending it makes him an enemy. --_Dumas. _

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars, --not sosparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallowsthe whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when thestorm is past. It is the light that hovers above thejudgment-seat. --_Chapin. _

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shineswith even more brilliancy than justice. --_Cervantes. _

~Milton. ~--His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery. Nooksand dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged andgigantic elevations. The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the vergeof the avalanche. --_Macaulay. _

~Mind. ~--It is with diseases of the mind as with diseases of the body, weare half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when wedo. --_Colton. _

The end which at present calls forth our efforts will be found when itis once gained to be only one of the means to some remoter end. Thenatural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, butfrom hope to hope. --_Johnson. _

Minds filled with vivid, imaginative thoughts, are the most indolent inreproducing. Clear, cold, hard minds are productive. They have toretrace a very simple design. --_X. Doudan. _

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul. --_Joubert. _

What is this little, agile, precious fire, this fluttering motion whichwe call the mind?--_Prior. _

Just as a particular soil wants some one element to fertilize it, justas the body in some conditions has a kind of famine for one specialfood, so the mind has its wants, which do not always call for what isbest, but which know themselves and are as peremptory as the salt sicksailor's call for a lemon or raw potato. --_Holmes. _

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind is by showing itsfaults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convincesus of the transparency of the water. --_Pope. _

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half anhour. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Mischief. ~--The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times aday, and that of doing good once a year. --_Voltaire. _

~Miser. ~--The miser swimming in gold seems to me like a thirsty fish. --_J. Petit Senn. _

In all meanness there is a deficit of intellect as well as of heart, andeven the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning ofimbecility. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Misery. ~--There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot helpsmiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and notdimples. --_Holmes. _

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so muchso, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that whichhas pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoicedus. --_Richter. _

~Misfortune. ~--If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a publicstock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, thosewho now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share theyare already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such adivision. --_Socrates. _

Depend upon it, that if a man _talks_ of his misfortunes there issomething in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there isnothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention ofit. --_Johnson. _

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches thee be as fragrant as asweet-smelling flower. --_Richter. _

Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, butmisadventure. --_Alcott. _

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, andpeople are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Men shut their doors against the setting sun. --_Shakespeare. _

He that is down needs fear no fall. --_Bunyan. _

~Moderation. ~--Till men have been some time free, they know not how to usetheir freedom. The natives of wine countries are generally sober. Inclimates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds. A newly liberatedpeople may be compared to a Northern army encamped on the Rhine or theXeres. It is said that, when soldiers in such a situation first findthemselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare andexpensive luxury, nothing is to be seen but intoxication. Soon, however, plenty teaches discretion; and after wine has been for a few monthstheir daily fare, they become more temperate than they had ever been intheir own country. In the same manner, the final and permanent fruits ofliberty are wisdom, moderation, and mercy. --_Macaulay. _

The superior man wishes to be slow in his words, and earnest in hisconduct. --_Confucius. _

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be butthe paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry orconfusion; as if the short spring days were an eternity. --_Thoreau. _

It is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything alongits course. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Modesty. ~--False modesty is the last refinement of vanity. It is alie. --_Bruyère. _

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banishModesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue thatis in it. --_Addison. _

He of his port was meek as is a maid. --_Chaucer. _

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of thedeficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justlyundervalued by others. --_Hazlitt. _

Modesty, who, when she goes, is gone forever. --_Landor. _

Modesty is the conscience of the body. --_Balzac. _

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the Englishwoman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety. --_Taine. _

Virtue which shuns the day. --_Addison. _

Modesty and the dew love the shade. Each shine in the open day only tobe exhaled to heaven. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Modesty is still a provocation. --_Poincelot. _

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. --_E. DeGirardin. _

~Money. ~--Wisdom, knowledge, power--all combined. --_Byron. _

Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in threehundred pounds a year!--_Shakespeare. _

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under adung-heap, or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile ofmoney. --_Hawthorne. _

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for hethat goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. --_Franklin. _

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. --_Wesley. _

The avaricious love of gain, which is so feelingly deplored, appears tous a principle which, in able hands, might be guided to the mostsalutary purposes. The object is to encourage the love of labor, whichis best encouraged by the love of money. --_Sydney Smith. _

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. --_Byron. _

Money does all things; for it gives and it takes away, it makes honestmen and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, _mutatismutandis_, to the end of the chapter. --_L'Estrange. _

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world. --_Fred. Saunders. _

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendshipin the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plentyof air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers andbreeds worms. --_George MacDonald. _

Money, the life-blood of the nation. --_Swift. _

~Moon. ~--The silver empress of the night. --_Tickell. _

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. --_Shakespeare. _

Mysterious veil of brightness made. --_Butler. _

Cynthia, fair regent of the night. --_Gay. _

The maiden moon in her mantle of blue. --_Joaquin Miller. _

~Morals. ~--Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples toavow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeedinggenerations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of theirhats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under theirpatronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors. --_Macaulay. _

We like the expression of Raphael's faces without an edict to enforceit. I do not see why there should not be a taste in morals formed on thesame principle. --_Hazlitt. _

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aimabove morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. --_Thoreau. _

~Morning. ~--Vanished night, shot through with orient beams. --_Milton. _

The dewy morn, with breath all incense, and with cheek allbloom. --_Byron. _

Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top. --_Shakespeare. _

When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtainedtents of night. --_Emma C. Embury. _

The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, doth with his lofty andshrill-sounding throat awake the god of day. --_Shakespeare. _

Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of theloves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. --_Calderon. _

Temperate as the morn. --_Shakespeare. _

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning daycomes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. Theyouth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happychild. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Mother. ~--Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, noticethe feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by thatgentle hand! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious ofall good gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of thoseeyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain. In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never willyou have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon youwhich none but a mother bestows. --_Macaulay. _

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of Frenchinfidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of thetime when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking mylittle hands folded in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord'sPrayer. --_Thomas Randolph. _

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another lifewhich is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of thecherished child even in the base, degraded man. --_George Eliot. _

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. Hecalled her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style herwife, but simply mother, --mother of all living creatures. In thisconsists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman. --_Luther. _

There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. --_Hemans. _

~Motive. ~--The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which weact. If I fling half-a-crown to a beggar with intention to break hishead, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effectis good; but with respect to me, the action is very wrong. --_Johnson. _

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moralposition, is mightier than steam, or caloric, or lightning. --_Chapin. _

Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whosemotive for action is the hope of reward. --_Kreeshna. _

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to becomefeeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. Wemust keep the germinating grain away from the light. --_George Eliot. _

Every activity proposes to itself a passivity, every laborenjoyment. --_Jacobi. _

~Mourning. ~--Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of avoice that is still!--_Tennyson. _

The meek-ey'd morn appears, mother of dews. --_Thomson. _

~Music. ~--Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony, but organically I amincapable of a tune. --_Lamb. _

All musical people seem to be happy; it is the engrossing pursuit;almost the only innocent and unpunished passion. --_Sydney Smith. _

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highestmoral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. --_Mrs. Stowe. _

There is something marvelous in music. I might almost say that music is, in itself, a marvel. Its position is somewhere between the region ofthought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind andmatter, related to both and yet differing from either. Spiritual, andyet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space. --_HeinrichHeine. _

The hidden soul of harmony. --_Milton. _

Give me some music! music, moody food of us that trade inlove. --_Shakespeare. _

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the frontrank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite hisdevotion more certainly than a logical discourse. --_Tuckerman. _

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. --_Milton. _

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older itis, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater itseffect. --_Goethe. _

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tiredeyes. --_Tennyson. _

Melodies die out like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them andlisten for them. --_George Eliot. _

Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, withunsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secretart. --_Addison. _

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisibleworld; one note of the divine concord which the entire universe isdestined one day to sound. --_Mazzini. _

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~Naïveté. ~--Naïveté is the language of pure genius and of discerningsimplicity. It is the most simple picture of a refined and ingeniousidea; a masterpiece of art in him in whom it is notnatural. --_Mendelssohn. _

~Name. ~--A virtuous name is the precious only good for which queens andpeasants' wives must contest together. --_Schiller. _

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, andwhich one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fittinggarment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which onecannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. --_Goethe. _

~Napoleon. ~--Whose game was empires, and whose stakes werethrones. --_Byron. _

Napoleon I. Might have been the Washington of France; he preferred to beanother Attila, --a question of taste. --_F. A. Durivage. _

~Nature. ~--Nature has no mind; every man who addresses her is compelled toforce upon her for a moment the loan of his own mind. And if she answersa question which his own mind puts to her, it is only by such a reply ashis own mind teaches to her parrot-like lips. And as every man has adifferent mind, so every man gets a different answer. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Nature will be buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion ortemptation: like as it was with Æsop's damsel, turned from a cat to awoman, who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran beforeher. --_Bacon. _

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against thelaws of nature. --_De Finod. _

Nature, --a thing which science and art never appear to see with the sameeyes. If to an artist Nature has a soul, why, so has a steam-engine. Artgifts with soul all matter that it contemplates; science turns all thatis already gifted with soul into matter. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in_everywhere_. --_Emerson. _

Nature is poetic, but not mankind. When one aims at truth it is easierto find the poetic side of nature than of man. --_X. Doudan. _

All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed withinit a spiritual truth. --_Chapin. _

Nature is no sentimentalist, --does not cosset or pamper us. We must seethat the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or awoman, but swallows your ships like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezesa man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons. --_Emerson. _

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forthfruit: a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master, --the root, thebranch, the fruits, --the principles, the consequences. --_Pascal. _

A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows how toretain them. --_Goethe. _

Nature, the vicar of the almighty Lord. --_Chaucer. _

A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrowas to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, butwrite from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than thememory. --_Coleridge. _

We, by art, unteach what Nature taught. --_Dryden. _

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books andcolleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, ofmountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contactwith the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise androll. --_Alcott. _

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. She shows usonly surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. --_Emerson. _

Nature is an absolute and jealous divinity. Lovely, eloquent, andinstructive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face, and remains mute to those who, by attempting to re-fashion her, profaneher. --_Mazzini. _

~Necessity. ~--Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those whoreally deserve them. --_Fielding. _

It is observed in the golden verses of Pythagoras, that power is neverfar from necessity. The vigor of the human mind quickly appears whenthere is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, when diffidenceis absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistlesspassion. --_Johnson. _

When God would educate a man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. Hesends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that, by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternalconsolation. --_Celia Burleigh. _

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make itpraiseworthy. --_Joubert. _

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vastnecessity of heart and life. --_Tennyson. _

~Neglect. ~--He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far frombeing poor. --_Johnson. _

~News. ~--Give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let illtidings tell themselves when they be felt. --_Shakespeare. _

~Newspapers. ~--In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are ourfortresses. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Before this century shall run out journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light; instantlyconceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities ofthe earth; it will spread from Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with thefervor of soul which made it burst forth; it will be the reign of thehuman mind in all its plenitude; it will not have time to ripen, toaccumulate in the form of a book; the book will arrive too late; theonly book possible from day to day is a newspaper. --_Lamartine. _

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousandbayonets. --_Napoleon. _

They preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves;advising peace or war with an authority which only the first Reformersand a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moralcensure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in allways diligently "administering the discipline of the Church. " It may besaid, too, that in private disposition the new preachers somewhatresemble the mendicant Friars of old times; outwardly, full of holyzeal; inwardly, not without stratagem, and hunger for terrestrialthings. --_Carlyle. _

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes ofcommon life than more pompous and durable volumes. --_Johnson. _

~Night. ~--Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. --_Mrs. Barbauld. _

The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings ofnight. --_Longfellow. _

Sable-vested night, eldest of things. --_Milton. _

O mysterious night! Thou art not silent: many tongues hastthou. --_Joanna Baillie. _

Night, when deep sleep falleth on men. --_Bible. _

~No. ~--No is a surly, honest fellow, speaks his mind rough and round atonce. --_Walter Scott. _

Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able toread Latin. --_Spurgeon. _

The woman who really wishes to refuse contents herself with saying No. She who explains wants to be convinced. --_Alfred de Musset. _

~Nobility. ~--Virtue is the first title of nobility. --_Molière. _

~Nonsense. ~--Nonsense is to sense as shade to light--it heightenseffect. --_Fred. Saunders. _

~Nothing. ~--There is nothing useless to men of sense; clever people turneverything to account. --_Fontaine. _

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity ofsomething. --_Richter. _

~Novels. ~--Novels are sweet. All people with healthy literary appetiteslove them--almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headedmen, --Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, --are notorious novelreaders, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tendermothers. --_Thackeray. _

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as booksfor instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latteruseful, and the human mind requires both. The canon law and the codes ofJustinian shall have due honor and reign at the universities, but Homerand Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the oliveand the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and therose. --_Balzac. _

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exaltthe dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate intoeverything that is sordid, vicious, and low. --_Swift. _

~Novelty. ~--The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which itquickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment--is nothalf enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will becomemonotonous; and then we are reduced to that old despair, "If waterchokes, what will you drink after it?" The two points of practicalwisdom in the matter are, first, to be content with as little novelty aspossible at a time; and secondly, to preserve, as as much possible, thesources of novelty. --_Ruskin. _

Novelty is the great-parent of pleasure. --_South. _

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~Obedience. ~--To obey is better than sacrifice. --_Bible. _

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice, it is a river thatflows from the foot of the Invisible Throne, and flows by the path ofobedience. --_George Eliot. _

~Oblivion. ~--Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. --_GeorgeSand. _

The grave of human misery. --_Alfred de Musset. _

~Observation. ~--It is the close observation of little things which is thesecret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuitin life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made bysuccessive generations of men, --the little bits of knowledge andexperience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into amighty pyramid. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Observation made in the cloister, or in the desert, will generally be asobscure as the one, and as barren as the other; but he that would paintwith his pencil must study originals, and not be over fearful of alittle dust. --_Colton. _

Each one sees what he carries in his heart. --_Goethe. _

~Occupation. ~--The want of occupation is no less the plague of societythan of solitude. --_Rousseau. _

The busy have no time for tears. --_Byron. _

One of the principal occupations of man is to divinewoman. --_Lacretelle. _

~Ocean. ~--Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture. --_Milton. _

It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies, or like a cradled creaturelies. --_Barry Cornwall. _

The visitation of the winds, who take the ruffian billows by the top, curling their monstrous heads. --_Shakespeare. _

~Office. ~--The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of futurefavors. --_Walpole. _

~Opinion. ~--The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns haveonly opinions. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. --_Socrates. _

Our pet opinions are usually those which place us in a minority of aminority amongst our own party: very happily, else those poor opinions, born with no silver spoon in their mouths, how would they get nourishedand fed?--_George Eliot. _

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than theylove truth. --_Joubert. _

It has been shrewdly said that when men abuse us, we should suspectourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance ofvirtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rareto despise praise, which we do. But that integrity that lives only onopinion would starve without it. --_Colton. _

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairsor two grains. The most universal quality is diversity. --_Montaigne. _

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the historyof human errors. --_Voltaire. _

If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc. , beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, whata bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear atlast. --_Swift. _

One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is, to suppose thatother men's opinions are to make us happy. --_Burton. _

It is with true opinions which one has the courage to utter as withpawns first advanced on the chess-board; they may be beaten, but theyhave inaugurated a game which must be won. --_Goethe. _

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judgeit, the skillful direct it. --_Mme. Roland. _

~Opportunity. ~--The cleverest of all devils is opportunity. --_Vieland. _

Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more toourselves. --_Rochefoucauld. _

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. --_George Eliot. _

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but whenshe does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door andflies out at the window. --_Cardinal Imperiali. _

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we seenothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know themwhen they are gone. --_George Eliot. _

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. --_JeremyCollier. _

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win thelove of a woman, answered: "Opportunity. "--_Moore. _

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. --_LordStanley. _

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must makeit. --_Charles Buxton. _

~Opposition. ~--The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men whorise refreshed on hearing of a threat, --men to whom a crisis whichintimidates and paralyzes the majority--demanding, not the faculties ofprudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness ofsacrifice--comes graceful and beloved as a bride!--_Emerson. _

Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to preventit. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Oratory. ~--Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, asmen get on horseback when they cannot walk. --_Cicero. _

Metaphor is the figure most suitable for the orator, as men find apositive pleasure in catching resemblances forthemselves. --_Aristotle. _

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argumentand less wit, and who are most loud when they are least lucid, shouldtake a lesson from the great volume of Nature; she often gives us thelightning even without the thunder, but never the thunder without thelightning. --_Colton. _

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. --_Theophrastus. _

When the Roman people had listened to the diffuse and polisheddiscourses of Cicero, they departed, saying one to another, "What asplendid speech our orator has made!" But when the Athenians heardDemosthenes, he so filled them with the subject-matter of his oration, that they quite forgot the orator, and left him at the finish of hisharangue, breathing revenge, and exclaiming, "Let us go and fightagainst Philip!"--_Colton. _

Let not a day pass without exercising your powers of speech. There is nopower like that of oratory. Cæsar controlled men by exciting theirfears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying theirpassions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of theother continues to this day. --_Henry Clay. _

It was reckoned the fault of the orators at the decline of the Romanempire, when they had been long instructed by rhetoricians, that theirperiods were so harmonious as that they could be sung as well as spoken. What a ridiculous figure must one of these gentlemen cut, thus measuringsyllables and weighing words when he should plead the cause of hisclient!--_Goldsmith. _

~Originality. ~--Originality is nothing but judiciousimitation. --_Voltaire. _

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to thefact that everything has been said better than we can put itourselves. --_George Eliot. _

The most original writers borrowed one from another. Boiardo hasimitated Pulci, and Ariosto Boiardo. The instruction we find in books islike fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property ofall. --_Voltaire. _

All originality is estrangement. --_G. H. Lawes. _

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~Pain. ~--Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical, and if I hadmy choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose theformer. --_Heinrich Heine. _

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to newpains. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Pardon. ~--Pardon is the virtue of victory. --_Mazzini. _

The heart has always the pardoning power. --_Madame Swetchine. _

The offender never pardons. --_George Herbert. _

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops forpardon. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

These evils I deserve, yet despair not of his final pardon whose ear isever open, and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. --_Milton. _

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradisewithin. --_Dryden. _

~Parent. ~--The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: If you would beholy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform willbe imputed to you. --_Montesquieu. _

~Partiality. ~--Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlingsare in danger to be made fools, and the children that are least cockeredmake the best and wisest men. --_L'Estrange. _

As there is a partiality to opinions, which is apt to mislead theunderstanding, so there is also a partiality to studies, which isprejudicial to knowledge. --_Locke. _

Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to theinclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exacttruth of things, or the merits of the cause. --_South. _

~Parting. ~--In every parting there is an image of death. --_George Eliot. _

~Party. ~--He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts orreasoning, to convince a determined party-man. --_Lavater. _

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult toplease his friends than to perplex his foes. --_Colton. _

~Passions. ~--Passions makes us feel but never see clearly. --_Montesquieu. _

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, butthe deep are dumb. --_Sir Walter Raleigh. _

The passions are the voice of the body. --_Rousseau. _

The advice given by a great moralist to his friend was, that he shouldcompose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which wouldcertainly be the work of time. --_Addison. _

A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as agreat fire with great heat. --_Burke. _

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seemto stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, thatin one instant does the work of long premeditation. --_George Eliot. _

The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter andfuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and theirodor is deadly. --_Longfellow. _

"All the passions, " says an old writer, "are such near neighbors, thatif one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets. " Thuslove and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the sparkthat sets the other ablaze. But contempt is passionless; it does notcatch, it quenches fire. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the ideaof danger. --_Joubert. _

It is the excess and not the nature of our passions which is perishable. Like the trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passionsflourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that heightattained than they wither away. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Past. ~--Let the dead past bury its dead. --_Longfellow. _

Oh vanished times! splendors eclipsed for aye! Oh suns behind thehorizon that have set. --_Victor Hugo. _

It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our formerlife. --_Martial. _

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. --_GeorgeEliot. _

~Patience. ~--There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and whichcertainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that formit changes its name and we call it patience. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ills. --_Johnson. _

There's no music in a "rest, " that I know of, but there's the making ofmusic in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance, and courage, and fortitude; but patienceis the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too. --_Ruskin. _

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those ofbearing and forbearing. --_Epictetus. _

Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view ofit. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fallback upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth hercelestial fruits. --_G. MacDonald. _

'Tis all men's office to speak patience to those that wring under theload of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral whenhe shall endure the like himself. --_Shakespeare. _

He that hath patience hath fat thrushes for a farthing. --_GeorgeHerbert. _

Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot. --_Joubert. _

God is with the patient. --_Koran. _

Patience, the second bravery of man, is, perhaps, greater than thefirst. --_Antonio de Solis. _

Patience--the truest fortitude. --_Milton. _

~Patriotism. ~--In peace patriotism really consists only in this--thatevery one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, alsolearns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his ownhouse. --_Goethe. _

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always bein the right; but our country, right or wrong. --_Decatur. _

How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts. --_Voltaire. _

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but ourcountry. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become avast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admirationforever!--_Daniel Webster. _

There can be no affinity nearer than our country. --_Plato. _

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of aman's relations to his country, and his feelings concerningit. --_Gladstone. _

~Peace. ~--They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spearsinto pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. --_Bible. _

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. --_Shakespeare. _

Lovely concord and most sacred peace doth nourish virtue, and fastfriendship breed. --_Spenser. _

Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; warbrings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains. --_Menander. _

Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful birth. --_Shakespeare. _

A land rejoicing and a people blest. --_Pope. _

~Pedant. ~--As pedantry is an ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in whichthose who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in aparticular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they havethe good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars haveboth the vice and the name for it too. --_S. Smith. _

With loads of learned lumber in his head. --_Pope. _

It is not a circumscribed situation so much as a narrow vision thatcreates pedants; not having a pet study or science, but a narrow, vulgarsoul, which prevents a man from seeing all sides and hearing all things;in short, the intolerant man is the real pedant. --_Richter. _

~Perfection. ~--It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we mayalways advance towards it, though we know it can never bereached. --_Johnson. _

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of humanintelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind ofmadness. --_Alfred de Musset. _

That historian who would describe a favorite character as faultlessraises another at the expense of himself. Zeuxis made five virginscontribute their charms to his single picture of Helen; and it is asvain for the moralist to look for perfection in the mind, as for thepainter to expect to find it in the body. --_Colton. _

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. --_Michael Angelo. _

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw aperfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Eventhe sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faultsof some kind nestle in every bosom. --_Spurgeon. _

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; nomore. --_Tennyson. _

~Persecution. ~--Of all persecutions, that of calumny is the mostintolerable. Any other kind of persecution can affect our outwardcircumstances only, our properties, our lives; but this may affect ourcharacters forever. --_Hazlitt. _

~Perseverance. ~--Great effects come of industry and perseverance; foraudacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. --_Bacon. _

Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story, morning and evening, but for one twelve-month, and he will become our master. --_Burke. _

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, andmake a seeming impossibility give way. --_Jeremy Collier. _

Much rain wears the marble. --_Shakespeare. _

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The onlyfailure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose hesees to be best. --_George Eliot. _

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, growsunconsciously into genius. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Perseverance is not always an indication of great abilities. Anindifferent poet is invulnerable to a repulse, the want of sensibilityin him being what a noble self-confidence was in Milton. These excludedsuitors continue, nevertheless, to hang their garlands at the gate, toanoint the door-post, and even kiss the very threshold of her home, though the Muse beckons them not in. --_Wordsworth. _

~Perverseness. ~--The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a courseinversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires asgreat a mental force as the direct sequence. --_George Eliot. _

~Philosophy. ~--Philosophy is the art of living. --_Plutarch. _

Philosophy consists not in airy schemes, or idle speculations; the ruleand conduct of all social life is her great province. --_Thomson. _

The philosopher knows the universe and knows not himself. --_Fontaine. _

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. --_Lamartine. _

It is a maxim received among philosophers themselves from the days ofAristotle down to those of Sir William Hamilton, that philosophy ceaseswhere truth is acknowledged. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Physiognomy. ~--It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom youspeak with your eye, as the Jesuits give it in precept; for there bemany wise men that have secret hearts and transparentcountenances. --_Bacon. _

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; nolaconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds agreat deal in a little room. --_Jeremy Collier. _

The distinguishing characters of the face, and the lineaments of thebody, grow more plain and visible with time and age; but the peculiarphysiognomy of the mind is most discernible in children. --_Locke. _

What knowledge is there, of which man is capable, that is not founded onthe exterior; the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?--_Lavater. _

~Piety. ~--Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties one ofthe least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising theworld and vilifying human nature. --_G. H. Lewes. _

Piety softens all that courage bears. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us turn aside our thoughts, asmodesty makes us cast down our eyes in the presence of whatever isforbidden. --_Joubert. _

Piety is not an end, but a means of attaining the highest degree ofculture by perfect peace of mind. Hence it is to be observed that thosewho make piety an end and aim in itself for the most part becomehypocrites. --_Goethe. _

~Pity. ~--Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savagesare always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ofreason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature indistress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relievethem. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and, finding it late, bid the coachman make haste, if I happen to attend when he whips hishorses, I may feel unpleasantly that the animals are put to pain, but Ido not wish him to desist; no, sir, I wish him to drive on. --_Johnson. _

Pity is sworn servant unto love, and this be sure, wherever it begin tomake the way, it lets the master in. --_Daniel. _

Those many that need pity, and those infinities of people that refuse topity, are miserable upon a several charge, but yet they almost make upall mankind. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Of all the sisters of Love one of the most charming is Pity. --_Alfred deMusset. _

~Place. ~--In place there is a license to do good and evil, whereof thelatter is a curse; for in evil the best condition is not to will; thesecond, not to can. --_Lord Bacon. _

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It isnot the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only bydoing that which is great and noble. --_Petrarch. _

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. --_Bruyère. _

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slidesinto it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily asa star. --_Chapin. _

~Plagiarism. ~--Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There isno sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever helists--wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may evenappropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple hethus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, andso did Shakespeare before him. --_Heinrich Heine. _

~Pleasure. ~--Consider pleasures as they depart, not as theycome. --_Aristotle. _

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours some sweetness. --_Massinger. _

How many there are that take pleasure in toil: that can outrise the sun, outwatch the moon, and outrun the field's wild beasts! merely out offancy and delectation, they can find out mirth in vociferation, music inthe barking of dogs, and be content to be led about the earth, overhedges and through sloughs, by the windings and the shifts of pooraffrighted vermin; yet, after all, come off, as Messalina, tired, andnot satisfied with all that the brutes can do. But were a man enjoinedto this that did not like it, how tedious and how punishable to himwould it prove! since, in itself, it differs not from ridingpost. --_Feltham. _

Boys immature in knowledge pawn their experience to their presentpleasure. --_Shakespeare. _

'Tis a wrong way to proportion other men's pleasures to ourselves. 'Tislike a child's using a little bird--"Oh, poor bird, thou shalt sleepwith me"--so lays it in his bosom and stifles it with his hot breath. The bird had rather be in the cold air. And yet, too, 'tis the mostpleasing flattery to like what other men like. --_Selden. _

There is no pleasure but that some pain is nearly allied toit. --_Menander. _

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor;'tis like spending this year part of the next year's revenue. --_Swift. _

Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow. --_George Herbert. _

Look upon pleasures not upon that side that is next the sun, or wherethey look beauteously, that is, as they come towards you to be enjoyed, for then they paint and smile, and dress themselves up in tinsel, andglass gems, and counterfeit imagery. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, andin old age attend to thy salvation. --_Voltaire. _

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. --_Young. _

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazesof gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. --_Johnson. _

What would we not give to still have in store the first blissful momentwe ever enjoyed!--_Rochepèdre. _

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle. --_Montaigne. _

~Poetry. ~--Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. --_Madame de Staël. _

Poetry is the sister of sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is apoet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. --_Marc André. _

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. --_Shakespeare. _

Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers other virgins--namely, all theother sciences--make it their business to enrich, polish, and adorn; andto her it belongs to make use of them all, and on her part to give alustre to them all. --_Cervantes. _

Poetry is the overflowing of the soul. --_Tuckerman. _

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire, it is the angel of highthoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. --_Mazzini. _

Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music oflanguage. --_Chatfield. _

The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists inthought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, mustimagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the placeof another, and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his speciesmust become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination, and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon thecause. --_Shelley. _

Truth shines the brighter clad in verse. --_Pope. _

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined toliterary productions in rhyme and metre. The written poem is only poetry_talking_, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition arepoetry _acting_. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more trulypoets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deafBeethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains whichhe himself could never hope to hear. --_Ruskin. _

Thought in blossom. --_Bishop Ken. _

It is a ruinous misjudgment, too contemptible to be asserted, but nottoo contemptible to be acted upon, that the end of poetry ispublication. --_George MacDonald. _

Wisdom married to immortal verse. --_Wordsworth. _

By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as toproduce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means ofwords what the painter does by means of colors. --_Macaulay. _

Thoughts, that voluntary move harmonious numbers. --_Milton. _

The world is so grand and so inexhaustible that subjects for poemsshould never be wanted. But all poetry should be the poetry ofcircumstance; that is, it should be inspired by the Real. A particularsubject will take a poetic and general character precisely because it iscreated by a poet. All my poetry is the poetry of circumstance. Itwholly owes its birth to the realities of life. --_Goethe. _

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a wingedinstrument. --_Joubert. _

Perhaps there are no warmer lovers of the muse than those who are onlypermitted occasionally to gain her favors. The shrine is more reverentlyapproached by the pilgrim from afar than the familiar worshiper. Poetryis often more beloved by one whose daily vocation is amid the bustle ofthe world. We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin isinscribed, "Drink and away;" but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshmentdwells in the memory!--_Tuckerman. _

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. --_Izaak Walton. _

Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of commonsense is always: "What is it good for?" a question which would abolishthe rose and be triumphantly answered by the cabbage. --_Lowell. _

The poetry of earth is never dead. --_Keats. _

~Poets. ~--Poets, like race-horses, must be fed, not fattened. --_CharlesIX. _

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no oldage. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Modern poets mix much water with their ink. --_Goethe. _

There is nothing of which Nature has been more bountiful than poets. They swarm like the spawn of cod-fish, with a vicious fecundity, thatinvites and requires destruction. To publish verses is become a sort ofevidence that a man wants sense; which is repelled not by writing goodverses, but by writing excellent verses. --_Sydney Smith. _

There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poetsknow. --_Wordsworth. _

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and histribe, but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ thematerials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by hishandling. --_Holmes. _

A little shallowness might be useful to many a poet! What is depth, after all? Is the pit deeper than the shallow mirror which reflects itslowest recesses?--_Heinrich Heine. _

We praise the dramatic poet who possesses the art of drawing tears--atalent which he has in common with the meanest onion!--_Heinrich Heine. _

I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is thesurtout of it), to make it bear well: and this is a natural account ofthe usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all menliving, ought to be ill clad. I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposinghim either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals areever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of theearth. --_Swift. _

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them itsphosphorescence. --_Joubert. _

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrorsof the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon thepresent. --_Shelley. _

Poets are far rarer births than kings. --_Ben Jonson. _

One might discover schools of the poets as distinctly as schools of thepainters, by much converse in them, and a thorough taste of their mannerof writing. --_Pope. _

They learn in suffering what they teach in song. --_Shelley. _

~Policy. ~--He has mastered all points who has combined the useful with theagreeable. --_Horace. _

At court one becomes a sort of human ant-eater, and learns to catchone's prey by one's tongue. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Measures, not men, have always been my mark. --_Goldsmith. _

In a troubled state, we must do as in foul weather upon a river, notthink to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water;but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as weconveniently can. --_Seldon. _

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvetsheath. --_George Eliot. _

~Politeness. ~--Politeness is fictitious benevolence. It supplies the placeof it among those who see each other only in public, or but little. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce somethingdisagreeable to one or other. I have always applied to good breedingwhat Addison, in his "Cato, " says of honor: "Honor's a sacred tie: thelaw of kings; the noble mind's distinguishing perfection; that aids andstrengthens Virtue where it meets her, and imitates her actions whereshe is not. "--_Johnson. _

Self-command is the main elegance. --_Emerson. _

Politeness smooths wrinkles. --_Joubert. _

Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is toflowers. --_De Finod. _

~Politics. ~--It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous politicalcombinations, that with the purest motives of their more generousmembers are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercestpassions of mean confederates. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. --_DanielO'Connell. _

Those who think must govern those who toil. --_Goldsmith. _

The man who can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow onthe spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race ofpoliticians put together. --_Swift. _

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of awell-mixed state. --_Pope. _

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. --_Sir C. Sedley. _

The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the squeamishness of hisconscience, and read it another lecture. --_South. _

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in thedust. --_Byron. _

Extended empire, like extended gold, exchanges solid strength for feeblesplendor. --_Johnson. _

~Possessions. ~--It so falls out that what we have we prize not to theworth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why then we rackthe value; then we find the virtue that possession would not show uswhiles it was ours. --_Shakespeare. _

All comes from and will go to others. --_George Herbert. _

In life, as in chess, one's own pawns block one's way. A man's verywealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. --_Charles Buxton. _

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness andintention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in theactual possession of them as he proposed to himself in theexpectation. --_South. _

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs. --_Montaigne. _

Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. Themalicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may apply toevery other course of life, --that its two days of happiness are thefirst and the last. --_Johnson. _

~Posterity. ~--Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age, less portable valuablesdisappear. --_Lord Stanley. _

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may notalways be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid withcompound interest in the end. --_Colton. _

~Poverty. ~--Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a singlewant--the want of money. --_Zimmerman. _

Few save the poor feel for the poor. --_L. E. Landon. _

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another'sstairs. --_Dante. _

Riches endless is as poor as winter, to him that ever fears he shall bepoor. --_Shakespeare. _

A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not muchpraised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though themost wretched scraper alive, throws the audience intoraptures. --_Goldsmith. _

He is not poor that little hath, but he that much desires. --_Daniel. _

The wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man'scurse, the melancholy man's halter. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Power. ~--The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on asingle object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensinghis over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continuallyfalling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrentrushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no tracebehind. --_Carlyle. _

Oh for a forty parson power. --_Byron. _

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has theaspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who isknown to have at his command all the weapons of invective is mostformidable when most courteous. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Praise. ~--Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Honorsbestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; forthe living pity the dead; and pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not. --_Colton. _

Praise is the best diet for us after all. --_Sydney Smith. _

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no realityin the one without the other. --_Washington Allston. _

Damn with faint praise. --_Pope. _

Counsel is not so sacred a thing as praise, since the former is onlyuseful among men, but the latter is for the most part reserved for thegods. --_Pythagoras. _

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. --_Broadhurst. _

One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting uponthat. Our praises are our wages. --_Shakespeare. _

~Prayer. ~--The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion andmorals. --_Wellington. _

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. --_Shakespeare. _

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; 'tis only God may be had for theasking. --_Lowell. _

Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning andevening. Let our days begin and end with God. --_Channing. _

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. --_Cowper. _

Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. --_Dryden. _

What are men better than sheep or goats, that nourish a blind lifewithin the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer bothfor themselves and those who call them friends!--_Tennyson. _

Prayer ardent opens heaven. --_Young. _

Solicitude is the audience-chamber of God. --_Landor. _

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact thatman cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is sospontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects andmethods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence. --_Chapin. _

He prayeth best who loveth best. --_Coleridge. _

~Preaching. ~--Preachers say, do as I say, not as I do. But if a physicianhad the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do onething and he do quite another, could I believe him?--~Selden. ~

~Preface. ~--Your opening promises some great design. --_Horace. _

A preface, being the entrance of a book, should invite by its beauty. Anelegant porch announces the splendor of the interior. --_Disraeli. _

A good preface is as essential to put the reader into good humor, as agood prologue is to a play, or a fine symphony is to an opera, containing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feelits want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified. The Italians callthe preface--La salsa del libro--the sauce of the book; and, ifwell-seasoned, it creates an appetite in the reader to devour the bookitself. --_Disraeli. _

~Prejudice. ~--He who knows only his own side of the case knows little ofthat. --_J. Stuart Mill. _

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what isplain. --_Aubrey de Vere. _

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. --_Pope. _

Prejudice is the reason of fools. --_Voltaire. _

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. --_Diderot. _

~Present, The. ~--Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he isgone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he ispassing. --_Goethe. _

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-masteringpresent. --_Schiller. _

'Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. --_Bovée. _

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the futureones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantestprospect. --_Thoreau. _

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, itrushes on and carries us with it. --_Lamartine. _

~Presentiment. ~--We walk in the midst of secrets--we are encompassed withmysteries. We know not what takes place in the atmosphere thatsurrounds us--we know not what relations it has with our minds. But onething is sure, that, under certain conditions, our soul, through theexercise of mysterious functions, has a greater power than reason, andthat the power is given it to antedate the future, --ay, to see into thefuture. --_Goethe. _

We should not neglect a presentiment. Every man has within him a sparkof divine radiance which is often the torch which illumines the darknessof our future. --_Madame de Girardin. _

~Press. ~--The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from thepeople, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for thepeople. --_B. Disraeli. _

~Presumption. ~--Presumption is our natural and originaldisease. --_Montaigne. _

Presumption never stops in its first attempt. If Cæsar comes once topass the Rubicon, he will be sure to march further on, even till heenters the very bowels of Rome, and breaks open the Capitol itself. Hethat wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much hetrashes further. --_South. _

He that presumes steps into the throne of God. --_South. _

~Pretence. ~--As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anythingare the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for asaint is sure to be a sinner, and a man who boasts that he is a sinneris sure to have some feeble, maudlin, sniveling bit of saintship abouthim which is enough to make him a humbug. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Pretension. ~--Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words andmagisterial looks for current payment. --_L'Estrange. _

~Pride. ~--I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that in general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All theother passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in _its_word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable todo, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to doproudly. --_Ruskin. _

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood torear--they eat up everything, and are always lean when brought tomarket. --_Alexander Smith. _

When pride thaws look for floods. --_Bailey. _

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial insmall, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleasedwith himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. --_FrederickSaunders. _

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very meanadvantages. --_Johnson. _

~Principles. ~--Principle is a passion for truth. --_Hazlitt. _

Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and standfast. --_Richter. _

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another originthan that of induction and deduction from established data, isillegitimate. --_G. H. Lewes. _

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; andthere is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest acure. --_Emerson. _

What is the essence and the life of character? Principle, integrity, independence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "that inbredloyalty unto virtue which can serve her without alivery. "--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

The change we personally experience from time to time we obstinatelydeny to our principles. --_Zimmerman. _

~Printing. ~--Things printed can never be stopped; they are like babiesbaptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever. --_GeorgeMeredith. _

~Prison. ~--Young Crime's finishing school. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outragedby an infamous life. --_Beecher. _

~Procrastination. ~--Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will cometo this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't doit. --_Charles Buxton. _

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. --_Hesiod. _

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and toolate. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Prodigality. ~--This is a vice too brave and costly to be kept andmaintained at any easy rate; it must have large pensions, and be fedwith both hands, though the man who feeds it starve for his pains. --_Dr. South. _

When I see a young profligate squandering his fortune in bagnios, or atthe gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his owndeath, and in a manner digging his own grave. --_Goldsmith. _

The gains of prodigals are like fig-trees growing on a precipice: forthese, none are better but kites and crows; for those, only harlots andflatterers. --_Socrates. _

~Progress. ~--All that is human must retrograde if it do notadvance. --_Gibbon. _

What matters it? say some, a little more knowledge for man, a littlemore liberty, a little more general development. Life is so short! He isa being so limited! But it is precisely because his days are few, and hecannot attain to all, that a little more culture is of importance tohim. The ignorance in which God leaves man is divine; the ignorance inwhich man leaves himself is a crime and a shame. --_X. Doudan. _

Revolutions never go backwards. --_Emerson. _

What pains and tears the slightest steps of man's progress have cost!Every hair-breadth forward has been in the agony of some soul, andhumanity has reached blessing after blessing of all its vast achievementof good with bleeding feet. --_Bartol. _

Progress is lame. --_St. Bueve. _

We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapesmay be disguised in helpless embryos. In fact, the world is full ofhopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs calledpossibilities. --_George Eliot. _

The pathway of progress will still, as of old, bear the traces ofmartyrdom, but the advance is inevitable. --_G. H. Lewes. _

Nations are educated through suffering, mankind is purified throughsorrow. The power of creating obstacles to progress is human andpartial. Omnipotence is with the ages. --_Mazzini. _

Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helpedforward. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree ofprogress in the world, but they bear fruit only after manyyears. --_Mazzini. _

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Eachsubsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters usedto hide themselves. --_Longfellow. _

The activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow. --_Emerson. _

The moral law of the universe is progress. Every generation that passesidly over the earth without adding to that progress by one degreeremains uninscribed upon the register of humanity, and the succeedinggeneration tramples its ashes as dust. --_Mazzini. _

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drainoff those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider itwhen it becomes to-day. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Promise. ~--Promises hold men faster than benefits: hope is a cable andgratitude a thread. --_J. Petit Senn. _

~Proof. ~--In the eyes of a wise judge proofs by reasoning are of morevalue than witnesses. --_Cicero. _

Give me the ocular proof; make me see't; or at the least, so prove it, that the probation bear no hinge, no loop, to hang a doubtupon. --_Shakespeare. _

~Prosperity. ~--Prosperity makes some friends and manyenemies. --_Vauvenargues. _

That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which hassurmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by notemptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to thetest, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned. --_Johnson. _

Alas for the fate of men! Even in the midst of the highest prosperity ashadow may overturn them; but if they be in adverse fortune a moistenedsponge can blot out the picture. --_Æschylus. _

Prosperity lets go the bridle. --_George Herbert. _

~Proverbs. ~--Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulaswhich, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists'shops, and which often save the framing of a distinctprescription. --_Bishop Whately. _

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than themost elaborate scheme of philosophy. --_Motherwell. _

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, andin the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully thana thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. --_Lavater. _

~Prudence. ~--There is no amount of praise which is not heaped on prudence;yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make ussure. --_Rochefoucauld. _

Too many, through want of prudence, are golden apprentices, silverjourneymen, and copper masters. --_Whitfield. _

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the bestsafeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemyextorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, thatcities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. Andthis lesson saves their children, their homes, and theirproperties. --_Aristophanes. _

~Punctuality. ~--The most indispensable qualification of a cook ispunctuality. The same must be said of guests. --_Brillat Savarin. _

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the gracefulcourtesy of princes. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Punishment. ~--One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime whichconfers a diadem upon another. --_Juvenal. _

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man becured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind ofmedicine. --_Plato. _

Punishment is lame, but it comes. --_George Herbert. _

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens theoffender. --_Locke. _

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God aloneinflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches just saved fromshipwreck: can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see afellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?--_George Eliot. _

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, butformidable. --_Goldsmith. _

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he whoreceives it. --_Cato. _

The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity toput the worst to death!--_Hawthorne. _

~Puns. ~--I have very little to say about puns; they are in very badrepute, and so they _ought_ to be. The wit of language is so miserablyinferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out ofgood company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearance which seemsfor a moment to redeem its species; but we must not be deceived by them:it is a radically bad race of wit. --_Sydney Smith. _

Conceits arising from the use of words that agree in sound but differ insense. --_Addison. _

~Purposes. ~--Man proposes, but God disposes. --_Thomas à Kempis. _

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth hissteps. --_Bible. _

It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject tohalf of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardlylistlessness for fear of what may happen. --_Herodotus. _

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run intodecay. --_Smiles. _

~Pursuit. ~--The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquishedgain. --_Longfellow. _

The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow forme. --_Lady Montagu. _

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~Quacks. ~--Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held fromtime immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to noalienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax--the folly and ignorance ofmankind. --_Colton. _

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this caseit becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for thecredulity of men. --_Thoreau. _

~Qualities. ~--Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a manbecomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. --_Goethe. _

~Quarrels. ~--Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; andin all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of itsdullness. --_George Eliot. _

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is morebeautiful when they have passed. --_Mme. Necker. _

~Questions. ~--There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitivemind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Whywas this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it notcreated sooner?--_Johnson. _

~Quotation. ~--In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read;others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not namethem. --_Selden. _

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up togetherdo not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet theywill sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, toemploy and hallow a fancy. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of ourNational Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless inthe proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. --_Burke. _

It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more thantheir appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular evenas a reading-book. --_Coleridge. _

Ruin half an author's graces by plucking bon-mots from theirplaces. --_Hannah More. _

I take memorandums of the schools. --_Swift. _

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which containthe germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. --_Mazzini. _

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing newones. --_Trublet. _

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country?Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better toknow them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is agood work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means toget more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome hediscovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heartgood, hasten to give it. --_Coleridge. _

A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages asa shell that survives a deluge. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of theirexpression, for thoughts are grains of sugar, or salt, that must bemelted in a drop of water. --_J. Petit Senn. _

As people read nothing in these days that is more than forty-eight hoursold, I am daily admonished that allusions, the most obvious, to anythingin the rear of our own times need explanation. --_De Quincey. _

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~Rain. ~--Clouds dissolved the thirsty ground supply. --_Roscommon. _

The kind refresher of the summer heats. --_Thomson. _

Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed invain. --_Waller. _

The spongy clouds are filled with gathering rain. --_Dryden. _

~Rainbow. ~--That smiling daughter of the storm. --_Colton. _

Born of the shower, and colored by the sun. --_J. C. Prince. _

God's glowing covenant. --_Hosea Ballou. _

~Rank. ~--If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority ofrank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. --_MadameSwetchine. _

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make themetal better. --_Wycherley. _

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made aman. --_Southerne. _

~Rashness. ~--Rashness and haste make all things insecure. --_Denham. _

We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose byoverrunning. --_Shakespeare. _

~Reading. ~--Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live uponinstruction; feast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take yournourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud ofunderstanding. --_Congreve. _

Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself. --_Milton. _

The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours oflife, which come to every one, for hours of delight. --_Montesquieu. _

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make hischoice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. Butthe war of Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind, and went tothe oars. --_Macaulay. _

Exceedingly well read and profited in strangeconcealments. --_Shakespeare. _

The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of theabsolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen achamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; wemust strain our sinews, as he has strained his; and make firm footing onthe smooth rock for ourselves, by the blood of toil from our ownfeet. --_Coleridge. _

~Reason. ~--Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. --_George Herbert. _

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason at all; andothers to persecute those who do reason. --_Voltaire. _

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reasonupon compulsion. --_Shakespeare. _

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but noton possibilities. --_Bolingbroke. _

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weightwhat is holy and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in theerrors it succeeds in discovering; that unfeeling and scornful reasonwhich insults credulity. --_Joubert. _

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I thinkhim so. --_Shakespeare. _

Reason 's progressive; instinct is complete: swift instinct leaps; slowreason feebly climbs. --_Young. _

Faith evermore looks upward and descries objects remote; but reason candiscover things only near, --sees nothing that's above her. --_Quarles. _

How can finite grasp infinity?--_Dryden. _

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of thefew. --_Goethe. _

Reason is, so to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, seeking onlyto preserve order. In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up ourfollies. Sometimes, alas! only the accountant in bankruptcy of a brokenheart. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before andafter, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in usunused. --_Shakespeare. _

Reason may cure illusions but not suffering. --_Alfred de Musset. _

~Reciprocity. ~--There is one word which may serve as a rule of practicefor all one's life, that word is _reciprocity_. What you do not wishdone to yourself, do not do to others. --_Confucius. _

~Reconciliation. ~--It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquerhim; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of hiswill. --_Owen Feltham. _

~Rectitude. ~--The great high-road of human welfare lies along the highwayof steadfast well-doing, and they who are the most persistent, and workin the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful. --_SamuelSmiles. _

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do notcare to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let themsee. --_Thoreau. _

No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder wefail?--_Charles Buxton. _

~Refinement. ~--Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is notGod's refinement. --_Beecher. _

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual, the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses oflife. --_Beecher. _

~Reflection. ~--We are told, "Let not the sun go down on your wrath. " This, of course, is best; but, as it generally does, I would add, never act orwrite till it has done so. This rule has saved me from many an act offolly. It is wonderful what a different view we take of the same eventfour-and-twenty hours after it has happened. --_Sydney Smith. _

~Reform. ~--We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter westand by the old--reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes forcomfort, reform for truth. --_Emerson. _

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. --_Milton. _

Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, to curb desire, to break thestubborn will, and work a second nature in the soul. --_Rowe. _

They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, becomemuch more the better for being a little bad!--_Shakespeare. _

~Regret. ~--Why is it that a blessing only when it is lost cuts as deepinto the heart as a sharp diamond? Why must we first weep before we canlove so deeply that our hearts ache?--_Richter. _

~Religion. ~--Natural religion supplies still all the facts which aredisguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion issteadily to its identity with morals. --_Emerson. _

I endeavor in vain to give my parishioners more cheerful ideas ofreligion; to teach them that God is not a jealous, childish, mercilesstyrant; that He is best served by a regular tenor of good actions, notby bad singing, ill-composed prayers, and eternal apprehensions. But theluxury of false religion is to be unhappy!--_Sydney Smith. _

Nowhere would there be consolation if religion were not. --_Jacobi. _

Monopolies are just as injurious to religion as to trade. Withcompetition religions preserve their strength, but they will never againflourish in their original glory until religious freedom, or, in otherwords, free trade among the gods, is introduced. --_Heinrich Heine. _

A religion giving dark views of God, and infusing superstitious fear ofinnocent enjoyment, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making menabject and sad, impair their moral force, and prepare them forintemperance as a refuge from depression or despair. --_Channing. _

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were reallymade the principle of it instead of faith. --_Shelley. _

The ship retains her anchorage yet drifts with a certain range, subjectto wind and tide. So we have for an anchorage the cardinal truths of thegospel. --_Gladstone. _

The best religion is the most tolerant. --_Emile de Girardin. _

~Remembrance. ~--The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which givesme the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the manybenefits and friendly offices I have done to others. --_Cato. _

Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lastingperfume. --_Boufflers. _

~Remorse. ~--Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soulchanged for the better. --_Joubert. _

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. --_Rousseau. _

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to theirdeaf pillows will discharge their secrets. --_Shakespeare. _

Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. --_Gray. _

~Repartee. ~--The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man ofwit. --_Molière. _

~Repentance. ~---Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in whichthe past is laid. --_Sterling. _

He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. --_Quarles. _

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell. --_Moore. _

Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is throwninto that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to hisown view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle againstthem, and put them away?--_Anna Cora Ritchie. _

Repentance is second innocence. --_De Bonald. _

~Repose. ~--Repose is agreeable to the human mind; and decision is repose. A man has made up his opinions; he does not choose to be disturbed; andhe is much more thankful to the man who confirms him in his errors, andleaves him alone, than he is to the man who refutes him, or whoinstructs him at the expense of his tranquillity. --_Sydney Smith. _

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. --_Plutarch. _

~Reproach. ~--Few love to hear the sins they love to act. --_Shakespeare. _

The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; itspeaks at once to the imagination. --_Mrs. Balfour. _

~Republic. ~--Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I amafraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried arepublic last century and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hatepolitical experiments. --_Walpole. _

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion, might beadduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of itsministers. "--_Heinrich Heine. _

At twenty, every one is republican. --_Lamartine. _

~Reputation. ~--Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: itis, as Mr. Burke calls it, "the cheap defence and ornament of nations, and the nurse of manly exertions;" it produces more labor and moretalent then twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is thecoin of genius; and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow itwith the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. --_SydneySmith. _

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. --_Tacitus. _

Reputation is but the synonym of popularity; dependent on suffrage, tobe increased or diminished at the will of the voters. --_WashingtonAllston. _

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreignnations, and to the next age. --_Bacon. _

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in thesocket. --_Johnson. _

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never betterthan his principles. --_Laténa. _

~Request. ~--No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of myfriends, and the supplications of those in want of myassistance. --_Cæsar. _

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than hechooses to appear to want. --_Lavater. _

~Resignation. ~--O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all untoThee. --_Fénelon. _

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it. --_Mountford. _

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards has ta'en with equalthanks. --_Shakespeare. _

Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shallcome to pass that your life at last shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as itpleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the mostancient heavens are not more sure than that. --_Robert Collyer. _

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirswithout repining. --_Thomson. _

"My will, not thine, be done, " turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done, " turned the desert into a paradise, and madeGethsemane the gate of heaven. --_Pressense. _

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. --_Dr. Vinet. _

~Responsibility. ~--Responsibility educates. --_Wendell Phillips. _

~Restlessness. ~--The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in themorning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity--a passivesagacity. Fools are never uneasy. --_Goethe. _

Always driven towards new shores, or carried hence without hope ofreturn, shall we never, on the ocean of age cast anchor for even aday?--_Lamartine. _

~Retribution. ~--Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like thegods; and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, shestretches out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty handis invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch. --_GeorgeEliot. _

"One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil aswell as good. --_George Eliot. _

~Revenge. ~--Revenge at first, though sweet, bitter ere long back on itselfrecoils. --_Milton. _

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honestand sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. --_Colton. _

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire ontheir heads. --_F. A. Durivage. _

~Revery. ~--In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts tothe mind. --_Wordsworth. _

~Revolution. ~--The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more;it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it maynot be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius ofhumanity blossoms. --_Herder. _

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the materialsphere. --_Mazzini. _

All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing theforms to which they are accustomed. --_Jefferson. _

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution hut what was ripe in theconscience of the masses. --_Ledru Rollin. _

Revolution is the larva of civilization. --_Victor Hugo. _

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the moreviolent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution wasnecessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportionedto the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity andignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression anddegradation under which they have been accustomed to live. --_Macaulay. _

Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will bevirtue. --_Ben Jonson. _

~Rhetoric. ~--In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together ingraceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of deliveringideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is thescience of oratory. --_Locke. _

Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but noroot; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they arecaught with a free expression, when they understand notreason. --_Selden. _

The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for loveand hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing theirobjects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, orless; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturallyare. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned intotruth. --_Dryden. _

All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothingelse but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and therebymislead the judgment. --_Locke. _

Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught; there's no medium inrhetoric. --_Selden. _

~Riches. ~--The shortest road to riches lies through contempt ofriches. --_Seneca. _

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich. --_Johnson. _

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we cancarry no more out of this world than out of a dream. --_Bonnell. _

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I shouldbecome a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As thesearch may not be successful, I will follow after that which Ilove. --_Confucius. _

I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy that he has no leisure tolaugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, more money, thathe may still get more. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says, "The diligent hand maketh rich. " And it is true, indeed; but heconsiders not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy;for it was wisely said by a man of great observation that "there be asmany miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. "--_Izaak Walton. _

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; heis much more noble who deserves a benefit, than he who bestowsone. --_Owen Feltham. _

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but ofambition. --_Joubert. _

~Ridicule. ~--Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofedbuildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off, nota stone goes through. --_Beecher. _

~Rogues. ~--Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf willact as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. --_La Fontaine. _

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. --_Hazlitt. _

~Ruin. ~--To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many peoplewould ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to beruined after one's own pattern. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

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~Sacrifice. ~--You cannot win without sacrifice. --_Charles Buxton. _

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse ofgood-nature. The good-nature goes, the sacrifice sticks. --_CharlesBuxton. _

~Sadness. ~--Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soulincapable of sadness. --_Countess de Gasparin. _

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. --_Thoreau. _

~Salary. ~--Other rules vary; this is the only one you will find withoutexception: That in this world the salary or reward is always in theinverse ratio of the duties performed. --_Sydney Smith. _

~Sarcasm. ~--A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick--it appears, at firstsight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of asudden, there leaps something out of it--sharp and deadly andincisive--which makes you tremble and recoil. --_Sydney Smith. _

~Satire. ~--To lash the vices of a guilty age. --_Churchill. _

Thou shining supplement of public laws!--_Young. _

By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not fromlaw. --_Byron. _

When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric. --_Swift. _

~Scandal. ~--Believe that story false that ought not to betrue. --_Sheridan. _

Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to themind. --_Byron. _

~School. ~--More is learned in a public than in a private school fromemulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation ofmany minds pointing to one centre--_Johnson. _

Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, --a person less imposing, --in the eyesof some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trustto him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full militaryarray. --_Brougham. _

The whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school. --_Shakespeare. _

~Science. ~--They may say what they like; everything is organized matter. The tree is the first link of the chain, man is the last. Men are young, the earth is old. Vegetable and animal chemistry are still in theirinfancy. Electricity, galvanism, --what discoveries in a fewyears!--_Napoleon. _

Human science is uncertain guess. --_Prior. _

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathizewith all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance andprejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joinedtogether; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-coloredrays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earthto heaven. --_Prof. Hitchcock. _

Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, ifhe has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plentyof good common sense, the more science he has the worse for hispatient. --_Holmes. _

~Scriptures. ~--The majesty of Scripture strikes me with admiration, as thepurity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works ofour philosophers; with all their pomp of diction, how mean, howcontemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possiblethat a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work ofman? The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers tothe morality contained in the Gospel, the marks of whose truths are sostriking and inimitable that the inventor would be a more astonishingcharacter than the hero. --_Rousseau. _

~Secrecy. ~--Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, bystriving to conceal it. --_Longfellow. _

Never confide your secrets to paper: it is like throwing a stone in theair, and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it mayfall. --_Calderon. _

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not sofor cause, but for secrecy's sake. --_Hazlitt. _

~Sect. ~--The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merelyby counting heads. --_Macaulay. _

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality iseverywhere the same, because it comes from God. --_Voltaire. _

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism. --_De Quincey. _

~Self-Abnegation. ~--'Tis much the doctrine of the times that men shouldnot please themselves, but deny themselves everything they take delightin; not look upon beauty, wear no good clothes, eat no good meat, etc. , which seems the greatest accusation that can be upon the Maker of allgood things. If they are not to be used why did God makethem?--_Selden. _

Self-abnegation, that rare virtue that good men preach and good womenpractice. --_Holmes. _

~Self-Examination. ~--We neither know nor judge ourselves, --others mayjudge, but cannot know us, --God alone judges, and knows too. --_WilkieCollins. _

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediatepower of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubtthe truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond itsown horizon. --_George Eliot. _

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, --one's selfand one's other self. --_Arsène Houssaye. _

~Selfishness. ~--Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our heartshalf as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor his infiniteperfections as much as our smallest wants. --_Hannah More. _

It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one butthemselves. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor littlescruples. --_George Eliot. _

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we arealmost equally sensitive, --the ill-breeding that comes from want ofconsideration for others. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Self-Love. ~--That household god, a man's own self. --_Flavel. _

The greatest of all flatterers is self-love. --_Rochefoucauld. _

Self-love exaggerates both our faults and our virtues. --_Goethe. _

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, therestill remain many unknown lands. --_Rochefoucauld. _

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an eviltrait. --_Ruffini. _

A prudent consideration for Number One. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature who has ordered all things inso even a method that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts, there she makes it up with a larger dose of self-love, which suppliesthe former deficits and makes all even. --_Erasmus. _

The most inhibited sin in the canon. --_Shakespeare. _

Ofttimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on just andright. --_Milton. _

Whose thoughts are centered on thyself alone. --_Dryden. _

~Self-reliance. ~--The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuinegrowth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, itconstitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help fromwithout is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from withininvariably invigorates. Whatever is done _for_ men or classes, to acertain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing forthemselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance andover-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparativelyhelpless. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. --_Bovée. _

A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resourcesvirtually has them. --_Livy. _

The supreme fall of falls is this, the first doubt of one'sself. --_Countess de Gasparin. _

It's right to trust in God; but if you don't stand to your halliards, your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of thebolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike. --_George MacDonald. _

The best lightning-rod for your protection is your ownspine. --_Emerson. _

~Sensibility. ~--The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of theheart. --_Halleck. _

Sensibility is the power of woman. --_Lavater. _

Feeling loves a subdued light. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Sensitiveness. ~--Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, thatas a sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness hearethinnuendoes. --_George Eliot. _

That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound. --_Burke. _

~Sentiment. ~--Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debaucherof sentiment?--_Emerson. _

~Separation. ~--Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, andreturn to one another, because they can do no better. --_MadameSwetchine. _

~Shakespeare. ~--There is only one writer in whom I find something thatreminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It isShakespeare. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Far from fearing, as an inferior artist would have done, thejuxtaposition of the familiar and the divine, the wildest and mostfantastic comedy with the loftiest and gravest tragedy, Shakespeare notonly made such apparently discordant elements mutually heighten andcomplete the general effect which he contemplated, but in so doingteaches us that, in human life, the sublime and ridiculous are alwaysside by side, and that the source of laughter is placed close by thefountain of tears. --_T. B. Shaw. _

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of theheart of man may be found in his plays. --_Goethe. _

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning isall inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the darkatmosphere. --_Coleridge. _

No man is too busy to read Shakespeare. --_Charles Buxton. _

Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from thehand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, thoughcomplex, is harmonious. --_Mazzini. _

Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child. --_Milton. _

And rival all but Shakespeare's name below. --_Campbell. _

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere. --_H. N. Hudson. _

His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand toembody any capricious thought that is uppermost in her mind. Theremotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered thingsare brought together by a subtle spiritual connection. --_Emerson. _

I think most readers of Shakespeare sometimes find themselves throwninto exalted mental conditions like those produced by music. --_O. W. Holmes. _

Whatever other learning he wanted he was master of two books unknown tomany profound readers, though books which the last conflagration canalone destroy. I mean the book of Nature and of Man. --_Young. _

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurryinghim along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along. --_Macaulay. _

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may besaid of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system ofcivil and economical prudence. --_Johnson. _

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university. --_Keats. _

Shame. --Nature's hasty conscience. --_Maria Edgeworth. _

Mortifications are often more painful than realcalamities. --_Goldsmith. _

~Ship. ~--A prison with the chance of being drowned. --_Johnson. _

Cradle of the rude imperious surge. --_Shakespeare. _

~Silence. ~--The main reason why silence is so efficacious an element ofrepute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbiallybelongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man'senvy, and wounds no man's self-love. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Give thy thoughts no tongue. --_Shakespeare. _

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongueis weak. --_Ben Jonson. _

I hear other men's imperfections, and conceal my own. --_Zeno. _

Silence in times of suffering is the best. --_Dryden. _

Silence! coeval with eternity. --_Pope. _

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. --_Balthasar Gracian. _

The unspoken word never does harm. --_Kossuth. _

Silence is the understanding of fools and one of the virtues of thewise. --_Bonnard. _

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood overa full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may allthe while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and when it takes tocackling, will have nothing to announce but that addleddelusion. --_George Eliot. _

Silence gives consent. --_Goldsmith. _

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arisesfrom impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. --_Zimmerman. _

~Simplicity. ~--Simplicity is doubtless a fine thing, but it often appealsonly to the simple. Art is the only passion of true artists. Palestrina's music resembles the music of Rossini, as the song of thesparrow is like the cavatina of the nightingale. Choose. --_Madame deGirardin. _

Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last of Art. --_P. J. Bailey. _

The world could not exist if it were not simple. This ground has beentilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a littlerain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. --_Goethe. _

The fairest lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodatethemselves to the common and human model, without miracle, withoutextravagance. --_Montaigne. _

There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness ofwit. --_Pope. _

~Sin. ~--Original sin is in us like the beard: we are shaved to-day, andlook clean, and have a smooth chin; to-morrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manneroriginal sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as longas we exist; Nevertheless, we are bound to resist it to our utmoststrength, and to cut it down unceasingly. --_Luther. _

Sin, in fancy, mothers many an ugly fact. --_Theodore Parker. _

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swiftand sure to one and all. --_Hosea Ballou. _

Every man has his devilish minutes. --_Lavater. _

Death from sin no power can separate. --_Milton. _

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day is in its glory, scarceappeared. Towards our evening how great and monstrous they are!--_Sir J. Suckling. _

'Tis the will that makes the action good or ill. --_Herrick. _

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer realhappiness. The evident consequences of our crimes long survive theircommission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt thesteps of the malefactor. --_Sir Walter Scott. _

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. --_Shakespeare. _

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness. --_Plato. _

Sin and her shadow death. --_Milton. _

If ye do well, to your own behoof will ye do it; and if ye do evil, against yourselves will ye do it. --_Koran. _

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the mostmonstrous. --_Boileau. _

There are sins of omission as well as those of commission. --_MadameDeluzy. _

~Sincerity. ~--Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend andprofess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be whatwe would seem and appear to be. --_Tillotson. _

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth nobleenergies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half hisbeing, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. --_Coleridge. _

~Skepticism. ~--Skepticism is slow suicide. --_Emerson. _

~Skill. ~--Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, exceptin one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall belowhimself. --_Charles Buxton. _

Whatever may be said about luck, it is skill that leads tofortune. --_Walter Scott. _

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablestnavigators. --_Gibbon. _

~Slander. ~--Done to death by slanderous tongues. --_Shakespeare. _

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over agood name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is theslime. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

Slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it getspossession. --_Shakespeare. _

When the absent are spoken of, some will speak gold of them, somesilver, some iron, some lead, and some always speak dirt, for they havea natural attraction towards what is evil, and think it showspenetration in them. As a cat watching for mice does not look up thoughan elephant goes by, so are they so busy mousing for defects, that theylet great excellences pass them unnoticed. I will not say it is notChristian to make beads of others' faults, and tell them over every day;I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the devil feels, you doknow if you are such an one. --_Beecher. _

If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as muchimportance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservationof fame as well as game, there are many would thank them for thebill. --_Sheridan. _

~Sleep. ~--When one asked Alexander how he could sleep so soundly andsecurely in the midst of danger, he told them that _Parmenio_ watched. Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbersnor sleeps! "I will, " said David, "lay me down and sleep, for thou, Lord, makest me to dwell in safety. "--_Venning. _

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. --_Shakespeare. _

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; whencourted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftlygone. --_Bowring. _

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands tosleep. --_Bible. _

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. --_Alcott. _

Night's sepulchre. --_Byron. _

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death, except to kill. --_Donne. _

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee afriend. --_Ebenezer Elliott. _

The soul shares not the body's rest. --_Maturin. _

Our foster nurse of nature is repose. --_Shakespeare. _

~Sloth. ~--Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered manyvirtues. --_Colton. _

~Smile. ~--A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy--the smile thataccepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights onthe first-born baby. --_Haliburton. _

Smiles are smiles only when the heart pulls the wire. --_Winthrop. _

Those happiest smiles that played on her ripe lips seemed not to knowwhat guests were in her eyes, which parted thence as pearls fromdiamonds dropped. --_Shakespeare. _

The smile that was childlike and bland. --_Bret Harte. _

A soul only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order toenter the palace of dreams. --_Victor Hugo. _

~Sneer. ~--The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer atothers. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising intheir own esteem but by lowering their neighbors. The severest criticsare always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed inoriginal composition. --_Hazlitt. _

~Society. ~--If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consentto be taught many things which you know already. --_Lavater. _

Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. --_Byron. _

Society undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change isnot amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized manhas built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet; he has a fineGeneva watch, but cannot tell the hour by the sun. --_Emerson. _

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other. --_Chamfort. _

Society is the union of men, and not men themselves; the citizen mayperish, and yet man may remain. --_Montesquieu. _

There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. --_Taine. _

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the onlyrational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant thatprevails on the subject of labor. --_Tuckerman. _

Intercourse is the soul of progress. --_Charles Buxton. _

One ought to love society if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a socialnature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one ismisanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get awayfrom hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness tohim. --_Zimmermann. _

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, andhappiness, the merchandise of authors, priests, and kings. --_MadameRoland. _

The more I see of men the better I think of animals. --_Tauler. _

~Soldier. ~--A soldier seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon'smouth. --_Shakespeare. _

Policy goes beyond strength, and contrivance before action; hence it isthat direction is left to the commander, execution to the soldier, whois not to ask Why? but to do what he is commanded. --_Xenophon. _

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warmhimself at no home-lit hearth. --_Schiller. _

Soldiers looked at as they ought to be: they are to the world as poppiesto corn fields. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

~Solitude. ~--Solitude is dangerous to reason without being favorable tovirtue. Pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as tothe corporal health, and those who resist gayety will be likely for themost part to fall a sacrifice to appetite, for the solicitations ofsense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person isa speedy and seducing relief. Remember that the solitary person iscertainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. The mindstagnates for want of employment, and is extinguished, like a candle infoul air. --_Johnson. _

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is theonly pleasing solitude. --_Addison. _

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school ofgenius. --_Gibbon. _

Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high anopinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded ofevery known or supposed defect we may have. --_Byron. _

Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not foranother. --_Rogers. _

Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort andoblivion. --_Méry. _

~Sophistry. ~--The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, inusing a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense inthe conclusion. --_Coleridge. _

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probabilityresembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contentionand jangling. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

~Sorrow. ~--Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddestthought. --_Shelley. _

If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; Ido as truly suffer as e'er I did commit. --_Shakespeare. _

And weep the more, because I weep in vain. --_Gray. _

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries asthough they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and nothing is soentirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. --_Seneca. _

Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self. --_Keats. _

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown bywithstanding. --_Sir P. Sidney. _

Never morning wore to evening, but some heart did break. --_Tennyson. _

Sorrow being the natural and direct offspring of sin, that which firstbrought sin into the world must, by necessary consequence, bring insorrow too. --_South. _

In extent sorrow is boundless. It pours from ten million sources, andfloods the world. But its depth is small. It drowns few. --_CharlesBuxton. _

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and anotherthat bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of thesedear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and ourpeace. --_Chapin. _

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure ourroad to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. --_Moore. _

Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours; makes the night morning, andthe noontide night. --_Shakespeare. _

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. --_Mazzini. _

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber. --_Schiller. _

He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in lovewith sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and choosesto sit down on his little handful of thorns. Such a person is fit tobear Nero company in his funeral sorrow for the loss of one of Poppea'shairs, or help to mourn for Lesbia's sparrow; and because he loves it, he deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort whilehe is encircled with blessings. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

~Soul. ~--Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than theoppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, thisalone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking adiscord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally lookfor a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with thislife; everything reassumes its order after death. --_Rousseau. _

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul?It is immaterial. --_Hood. _

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentimentsand contradictory opinions with much impartiality. --_George Eliot. _

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified withthe title of his own image and similitude. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

~Specialty. ~--No one can exist in society without some specialty. Eightyyears ago it was only necessary to be well dressed and amiable; to-day aman of this kind would be too much like the garçons at thecafés. --_Taine. _

~Speech. ~--Sheridan once said of some speech, in his acute, sarcastic way, that "it contained a great deal both of what was new and what was true:but that unfortunately what was new was not true, and what was true wasnot new. "--_Hazlitt. _

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to ourfriends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies. --_Heinrich Heine. _

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to ascarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master oflanguage and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking tohesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only oneset of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these arealways ready at the mouth: so people come faster out of a church when itis almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door. --_Dean Swift. _

Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby theimagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as inpacks. --_Plutarch. _

Never is the deep, strong voice of man, or the low, sweet voice ofwoman, finer than in the earnest but mellow tones of familiar speech, richer than the richest music, which are a delight while they are heard, which linger still upon the ear in softened echoes, and which, when theyhave ceased, come, long after, back to memory, like the murmurs of adistant hymn. --_Henry Giles. _

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress thespeech they know to be useless--nay, the speech they have resolved notto utter. --_George Eliot. _

~Sport. ~--Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man thatis weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. --_Fuller. _

~Spring. ~--Stately Spring! whose robe-folds are valleys, whosebreast-bouquet is gardens, and whose blush is a vernalevening. --_Richter. _

Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace. --_Thomson. _

The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, angry winter, change theirwonted liveries. --_Shakespeare. _

Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, hoar Winter's blooming child, delightful Spring. --_Mrs. Barbauld. _

Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, by the winds which tell ofthe violet's birth. --_Mrs. Hemans. _

~Stars. ~--These preachers of beauty, which light the world with theiradmonishing smile. --_Emerson. _

I am as constant as the northern star; of whose true, fixed, and restingquality there is no fellow in the firmament. --_Shakespeare. _

The stars are so far, --far away!--_L. E. Landon. _

Day hath put on his jacket, and around his burning bosom buttoned itwith stars. --_Holmes. _

The evening star, love's harbinger, appeared. --_Milton. _

~Statesman. ~--The great difference between the real statesman and thepretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regardsonly the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; theother acts on enduring principles and for immortality. --_Burke. _

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individualscomposing it. --_J. Stuart Mill. _

~Storms. ~--When splitting winds make flexible the knees of knottedoaks. --_Shakespeare. _

~Strength. ~--Oh! it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it istyrannous to use it like a giant. --_Shakespeare. _

~Study. ~--Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able tocontend. --_Bacon. _

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us bettermen and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort ofidleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind ofignorance, nothing more. --_Bolingbroke. _

There is no one study that is not capable of delighting us after alittle application to it. --_Pope. _

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What canbe got out of them is at best only material: a man must build his housefor himself. --_George MacDonald. _

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hourevery day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it ismastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of atwelvemonth. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Style. ~--The style is the man. --_Buffon. _

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlargeand veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no lesspraise when the argument doth ask it. --_Ben Jonson. _

Not poetry, but prose run mad. --_Pope. _

There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a princenever frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turnedperiods, but commands in sober natural expressions. --_South. _

In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but ourarchitecture is poor. --_Joubert. _

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so;and which effects that for knowledge which the lense effects for thesunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase itsforce. --_Colton. _

A temperate style is alone classical. --_Joubert. _

Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurityof expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the samewish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner ofa writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. --_Macaulay. _

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through theworld. --_Bancroft. _

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them gravereflections. --_Joubert. _

~Subordination. ~--The usual way that men adopt to appease the wrath ofthose whom they have offended, when they are at their mercy, is humblesubmission; whereas a bold front, a firm and resolute bearing, --meansthe very opposite, --have been at times equallysuccessful. --_Montaigne. _

Reverences stand in awe of yourself. --_Sydney Smith. _

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, ismore than a king. --_Milton. _

~Success. ~--It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success;they much oftener succeed through failure. --_Samuel Smiles. _

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation uponwhom it is bestowed. --_Atterbury. _

He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool, and his expectation low. --_Jeremy Collier. _

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Stepby step, little by little, bit by bit, --that is the way to wealth, thatis the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, notof pounds, but of pence. --_Charles Buxton. _

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well;and doing well whatever you do, without a thought offame. --_Longfellow. _

Nothing can seem foul to those that win. --_Shakespeare. _

All the proud virtue of this vaunting world fawns on success and power, however acquired. --_Thomson. _

A successful career has been full of blunders. --_Charles Buxton. _

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directshis powers. Thus, indeed, even genius itself is but fine observationstrengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly andresolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikesyour sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. --_Charles Buxton. _

Success at first doth many times undo men at last. --_Venning. _

~Suicide. ~--Suicide itself, that fearful abuse of the dominion of the soulover the body, is a strong proof of the distinction of their destinies. Can the power that kills be the same that is killed? Must it notnecessarily be something superior and surviving? The act of the soul, which in that fatal instant is in one sense so great an act of power, can it at the same time be the act of its own annihilation? The willkills the body, but who kills the will?--_Auguste_ _Nicolas. _

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperanceas manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drownthemselves. --_Sherlock. _

He who, superior to the checks of nature, dares make his life the victimof his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and takes a flightat heaven. --_Young. _

~Summer. ~--Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes. --_Thomson. _

Beneath the Winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers. --_Whittier. _

~Sun. ~--The glorious sun stays in his course, and plays the alchemist, turning with the splendor of his precious eyes the meagre, cloddy earthto glittering gold. --_Shakespeare. _

The downward sun looks out effulgent from amid the flash of brokenclouds. --_Thomson. _

~Sunday. ~--If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during thelast three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should havebeen at this moment a poorer people and less civilized. --_Macaulay. _

Oh, what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldlybusiness like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There isnothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientiousthan in keeping the Sabbath-day holy. I can truly declare that to me theSabbath has been invaluable. --_W. Wilberforce. _

~Superstition. ~--A peasant can no more help believing in a traditionalsuperstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees acamel. --_George Eliot. _

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes thatworship. --_Seneca. _

Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly calledsuperstition. --_Jeremy Taylor. _

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or anyday of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of hisunderstanding. --_Watts. _

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls arecapable. --_Joubert. _

It is of such stuff that superstitions are commonly made; an intensefeeling about ourselves which makes the evening star shine at us with athreat, and the blessing of a beggar encourage us. And superstitionscarry consequences which often verify their hope or theirforeboding. --_George Eliot. _

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; therecord may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate aman wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in hisimagination, no matter how utterly his reason may rejectthem. --_Holmes. _

~Surety. ~--He who is surety is never sure. Take advice, and never besecurity for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the wordsof the wise man. "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it;and he that hateth suretyship is sure. "--_Spurgeon. _

~Surfeit. ~--They are sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starvewith nothing. --_Shakespeare. _

Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety. --_Solon. _

~Suspicion. ~--To be suspicious is to invite treachery. --_Voltaire. _

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for oursuspicions by finding what we suspect. --_Thoreau. _

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Don't seem to be on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other peoplewatching. --_George Eliot. _

~Sympathy. ~--Surely, surely, the only true knowledge of our fellow-man isthat which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear forthe heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstanceand opinion. --_George Eliot. _

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the humanheart. --_Burke. _

Outward things don't give, they draw out. You find in them what youbring to them. A cathedral makes only the devotional feel devotional. Scenery refines only the fine-minded. --_Charles Buxton. _

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, thereis none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vauntedthan that of exquisite feeling or universalbenevolence. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whosegenerous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into hisauthor's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares notwherefore. --_Sterne. _

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~Tact. ~--A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact ofher sex surpasses the tact of ours. --_Macaulay. _

~Talent. ~--It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up withinferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. Thefoal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd that are destined for the collarand the yoke. --_Colton. _

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line oftalent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; beanything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse thannothing!--_Sydney Smith. _

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth thanto talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source ofpower than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. --_Colton. _

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence insome way unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. Theyfail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to callthem forth. --_Burke. _

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application andindustry, and it is a voluntary power, while genius isinvoluntary. --_Hazlitt. _

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, beingthe action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. --_Coleridge. _

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sortof talent, --almost like a carrier-pigeon. --_George Eliot. _

~Talking. ~--I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won'tgive an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her lastwords!--_Congreve. _

Talkers are no good doers. --_Shakespeare. _

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking atits best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine qualityof receptiveness, and where will you find this but in woman?--_Holmes. _

Who think too little and who talk too much. --_Dryden. _

They talk most who have the least to say. --_Prior. _

~Taste. ~--Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offeredfor the entertainment of the imagination. --_Goldsmith. _

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and ifthey take my advice they never will; for they can no more improve theirtaste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion bystudying a cookery-book. --_Southey. _

Those internal powers, active and strong, and feelingly alive to eachfine impulse. --_Akenside. _

All our tastes are but reminiscences. --_Lamartine. _

~Teaching. ~--Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educatefaithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do bytheir own. --_Luther. _

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, andinspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Tears. ~--The overflow of a softened heart. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in themorning. --_Bible. _

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear. --_Byron. _

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence. --_Moore. _

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible landwhere tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guidesthat show us the way through the great airy space where our loved oneswalked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and findour dear ones in heaven. --_Beecher. _

The kind oblation of a falling tear. --_Dryden. _

A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador, and never returns fromthe throne of grace unsatisfied. --_Spencer. _

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. --_Dryden. _

We praise the dramatic poet who possesses the art of drawing tears, apower which he has in common with the meanest onion. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Her tears her only eloquence. --_Rogers. _

Eye-offending brine. --_Shakespeare. _

The tears which flow, and the honors that are paid, when the founders ofthe republic die, give hope that the republic itself may beimmortal. --_Daniel Webster. _

All my mother came into mine eyes, and gave me up totears. --_Shakespeare. _

The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile. --_Cowper. _

Virtue is the daughter of Religion. Her sole treasure is hertears. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Nothing dries sooner than a tear. --_George Herbert. _

My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in dropsof sorrow. --_Shakespeare. _

Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. --_Dryden. _

Tears are sometimes the happiest smiles of love. --_Stendhal. _

~Tediousness. ~--The sin of excessive length. --_Shirley. _

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsyman. --_Shakespeare. _

~Teeth. ~--Teeth like falling snow for white. --~Cowley. ~

Such a pearly row of teeth that sovereignty would have pawned her jewelsfor them. --_Sterne. _

~Temperance. ~--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flourin the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment inthe house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body. --_Franklin. _

I consider the temperance cause the foundation of all social andpolitical reform. --_Cobden. _

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. --_Horace Mann. _

Temperance to be a virtue must be free and not forced. Virtue may bedefended, as vice may be withstood, by a statute, but no virtue is orcan be created by a law, any more than by a battering ram a temple orobelisk can be reared. --_Bartol. _

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain fromall fermented liquors. --_Sydney Smith. _

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders manhappy. --_Voltaire. _

He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Temptation. ~--No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has beenwell tempted. --~George Eliot. ~

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possibleseries of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whosemelancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us toinstantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highesttension. --_Horace Mann. _

Most confidence has still most cause to doubt. --_Dryden. _

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is somesecret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that isliable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for thethought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that wecan never stand at ease, or lie down in the field of life, withoutsentinels of watchfulness and camp-fires of prayer. --_Chapin. _

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defense ofher virtue. --_La Fontaine. _

When devils will their blackest sins put on, they do suggest at firstwith heavenly shows. --_Shakespeare. _

The devil tempts us not: it is we tempt him, beckoning his skill withopportunity. --_George Eliot. _

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. --_Dryden. _

There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and thedevil with a net. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Tenderness. ~--When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never ourtenderness that we repent of, but our severity. --_George Eliot. _

~Theatre. ~--A man who enters the theatre is immediately struck with theview of so great a multitude, participating of one common amusement; andexperiences, from their very aspect, a superior sensibility ordisposition of being affected with every sentiment which he shares withhis fellow-creatures. --_Hume. _

The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought notto quarrel. How much it is to be wished that the celebration of natureand of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds!--_Goethe. _

~Theories. ~--Most men take least notice of what is plain, as if that wereof no use; but puzzle their thoughts, and lose themselves in those vastdepths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom. --_Sherlock. _

Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but they can erect nothing. They canpull down a church, but they cannot build a hovel. --_Cecil. _

~Thought. ~--I have asked several men what passes in their minds when theyare thinking, and I could never find any man who could think for twominutes together. Everybody has seemed to admit that it was a perpetualdeviation from a particular path, and a perpetual return to it; which, imperfect as the operation is, is the only method in which we canoperate with our minds to carry on any process of thought. --_SydneySmith. _

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind. --_Rollin. _

Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may beerrors. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance ofknowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doinghis work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for himby another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture. --_Samuel Smiles. _

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil like bales unopened to thesun. --_Young. _

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, wellfed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweetsmell if laid up in the jar of memory. --_Spurgeon. _

Thought is invisible nature--nature is invisible thought. --_HeinrichHeine. _

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of thesteam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them, itonly creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. --_George Eliot. _

Wherever a great mind utters its thoughts, --there isGolgotha. --_Heinrich Heine. _

"Give me, " said Herder to his son, as he lay in the parched weariness ofhis last illness, "give me a great thought, that I may quicken myselfwith it. "--_Richter. _

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet oftext shall meander through a meadow of margin. --_Sheridan. _

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, asmuch time as to conceive it. --_Joubert. _

Many men's thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles. --_CharlesBuxton. _

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to thedepth of its source is the force of its projection. --_Emerson. _

~Threats. ~--Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest inthe execution of them. --_Colton. _

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man bebehind it or no. --_Emerson. _

~Time. ~--Time's abyss, the common grave of all. --_Dryden. _

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughestday. --_Shakespeare. _

Time makes more converts than reason. --_Thomas Paine. _

Time stoops to no man's lure. --_Swinburne. _

Time is the wisest councillor. --_Pericles. _

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to itsflow. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. --_Seneca. _

The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good. --_Tennyson. _

Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase ofits worth; and what its worth! ask death-beds, they can tell. --_Young. _

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club ofHercules. --_Balthaser Gracian. _

Time is the shower of Danæ; each drop is golden. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Title. ~--How impious is the title of "sacred majesty" applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust!--_ThomasPaine. _

The three highest titles that can be given a man are those of martyr, hero, saint. --_Gladstone. _

~Toleration. ~--The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who havethe wider vision. --_George Eliot. _

Error tolerates, truth condemns. --_Fernan Caballero. _

Toleration is the best religion. --_Victor Hugo. _

~Tongue~. --When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue ofman creates nearly all the mischief of the world. --_Paxton Hood. _

~Travel. ~--Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dullysluggardized at home wear out thy youth with shapelessidleness. --_Shakespeare. _

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins. --_N. P. Willis. _

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, insteadof thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. --_Johnson. _

To see the world is to judge the judges. --_Joubert. _

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded withhoney from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do thesame. --_Haliburton. _

~Treason. ~--Treason pleases, but not the traitor. --_Cervantes. _

The man was noble; but with his last attempt he wiped it out; betrayedhis country; and his name remains to the ensuing ageabhorred. --_Shakespeare. _

~Trifles. ~--A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. --_Shakespeare. _

We are not only pleased but turned by a feather. The history of a man isa calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, saidPascal, in his brilliant way, Antony might have kept theworld. --_Willmott. _

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt. --_Huxley. _

Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with proprietyand with grace requires a something that riches cannot give: eventrifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. The citizens ofMegara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offerexcited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquered the world;but he received this tribute of their respect with complacency on beinginformed that they had never offered it to any but to Hercules andhimself. --_Colton. _

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in everyparticle. --_Emerson. _

It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy areforever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at thedevastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears noharvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge. --_George Eliot. _

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on usleast. --_Madame Swetchine. _

Little things console us, because little things afflict us. --_Pascal. _

~Trouble. ~--Annoyance is man's leaven; the element of movement, withoutwhich we would grow mouldy. --_Feuchtersleben. _

~Truth. ~--Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have neverflourished beyond the walls. --_George Eliot. _

Nothing so beautiful as truth. --_Des Cartes. _

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow withbeauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. --_CharlesBuxton. _

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness isthe severest correction. --_Thoreau. _

Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met bya counter truth, and both equally true. --_Charles Buxton. _

Truth need not always be embodied; enough if it hovers around like aspiritual essence, which gives one peace, and fills the atmosphere witha solemn sweetness like harmonious music of bells. --_Goethe. _

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie. --_George Herbert. _

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to containa few grains of chaff; on the contrary, we may sometimes profitablyreceive a bushel of chaff for the few grains of truth it maycontain. --_Dean Stanley. _

The first great work is that yourself may to yourself betrue. --_Roscommon. _

In troubled water you can scarce see your face, or see it very little, till the water be quiet and stand still: so in troubled times you cansee little truth; when times are quiet and settled, then truthappears. --_Selden. _

Men are as cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. --_LaFontaine. _

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. Do you go home and searchfor it. --_Mencius. _

Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice; it isless a matter of will than of habit; and I doubt if any occasion can betrivial which permits the practice and formation of such ahabit. --_Ruskin. _

Forgetting that the only eternal part for man to act is man, and thatthe only immutable greatness is truth. --_Lamartine. _

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and roughin arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in lovingnatures. --_Joubert. _

Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. --_Gray. _

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lastingtreasure, truth. --_Cowper. _

Blunt truths make more mischief than nice falsehoods do. --_Pope. _

Truth has rough flavors if we bite through. --_George Eliot. _

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it inrather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us. --_Goethe. _

All truths are not to be repeated, still it is well to hear them. --_Mme. Du Deffaud. _

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity andfreedom. Falsehood always avenges itself. --_Auerbach. _

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truthalone is final. --_Charles Sumner. _

Verity is nudity. --_Alfred de Musset. _

~Twilight. ~--Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues witha new color as it gasps away, the last still loveliest, till 'tis gone, and all is gray. --_Byron. _

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon, like amagician, extended his golden wand o'er the landscape. --_Longfellow. _

Twilight gray hath in her sober livery all things clad. --_Milton. _

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathershis spent shafts, and puts them back into his goldenquiver!--_Longfellow. _

The weary sun hath made a golden set, and, by the bright track of hisfiery car, gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. --_Shakespeare. _

U. 

~Ugliness. ~--I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was always ugly, and with a woman, that is half the battle. --_Heinrich Heine. _

Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. --_Mme. DeGenlis. _

~Understanding. ~--The eye of the understanding is like the eye of thesense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptibleinstances. --_Bacon. _

In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power ofperceiving and conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility; the power ofdealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity: and in its most comprehensive meaning itincludes even simple apprehension. --_Coleridge. _

~Unselfishness. ~--The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let thethought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, likethe bloom from a soiled flower. --_Froude. _

~Uprightness. ~--To redeem a world sunk in dishonesty has not been giventhee. Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control. Himredeem, him make honest. --_Thomas Carlyle. _

~Urbanity. ~--Poor wine at the table of a rich host is an insult without anapology. Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives azest to the worst vintage. --_Zimmermann. _

~Usefulness. ~--Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It bindsyour fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to theimprovement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance insociety, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow. --_Sir B. C. Brodie. _

On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliott, "the Apostle ofthe Indians, " was found teaching an Indian child at his bed-side. "Whynot rest from your labors now?" asked a friend. "Because, " replied thevenerable man, "I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, andHe has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, He leavesme strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet. "--_Rev. J. Chaplin. _

There is but one virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self. --_George Sand. _

V. 

~Valentine. ~--Hail to thy returning festival, old Bishop Valentine! Greatis thy name in the rubric. Like unto thee, assuredly, there is no othermitred father in the calendar. --_Charles Lamb. _

The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It was avery odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds beginto couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending on this dayletters containing professions of love and affection. --_Noah Webster. _

~Valor. ~--Valor gives awe, and promises protection to those who want heartor strength to defend themselves. This makes the authority of men amongwomen, and that of a master buck in a numerous herd. --_Sir W. Temple. _

How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valorjointly go. --_Dryden. _

Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superiorto those which proceed from any other virtues have notconsidered. --_Dryden. _

~Vanity. ~--Verily every man at his best state is altogethervanity. --_Bible. _

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the sameconceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiæ of mental make inwhich one of us differs from another. --_George Eliot. _

One of the few things I have always most wondered at is, that thereshould be any such thing as human vanity. If I had any, I had enough tomortify it a few days ago; for I lost my mind for a whole day. --_Pope. _

Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity thanfrom the greater sins of avarice and ambition. --_Burke. _

It is vanity which makes the rake at twenty, the worldly man at forty, and the retired man at sixty. We are apt to think that best in generalfor which we find ourselves best fitted in particular. --_Pope. _

O frail estate of human things. --_Dryden. _

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till sheis loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating inreturn. --_George Eliot. _

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. --_George Sand. _

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight intelling what honors have been done them, what great company they havekept, and the like; by which they plainly confess that these honors weremore than their due and such as their friends would not believe if theyhad not been told. Whereas a man truly proud thinks the greatest honorsbelow his merits, and consequently scorns to boast. I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud manought to conceal his vanity. --_Swift. _

~Vexations. ~--Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they arevexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the mostpiercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallestaffairs disturb us most. --_Montaigne. _

~Vice. ~--As to the general design of providence, the two extremes of vicemay serve (like two opposite biases) to keep up the balance of things. When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against itsopposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue. --_Pope. _

This is the essential evil of vice; it debases a man. --_Chapin. _

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vicecan obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "Noroom for your ladyship: pass on. "--_Bulwer-Lytton. _

I ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudenceto gainsay what they did, than to perform it first. --_Shakespeare. _

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causesof evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which theyact, and the transitory modes in which they appear. --_Burke. _

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Vicissitudes. ~--We do not marvel at the sunrise of a joy, only at itssunset! Then, on the other hand, we are amazed at the commencement of asorrow-storm; but that it should go off in gentle showers we think quitenatural. --_Richter. _

Who ordered toil as the condition of life, ordered weariness, orderedsickness, ordered poverty, failure, success, --to this man a foremostplace, to the other a nameless struggle with the crowd; to that ashameful fall, or paralyzed limb, or sudden accident; to each some workupon the ground he stands on, until he is laid beneath it. --_Thackeray. _

~Victory. ~--Victory or Westminster Abbey. --_Nelson. _

Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of anation. --_Bolingbroke. _

Victory belongs to the most persevering. --_Napoleon. _

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle. --_WalterScott. _

~Villainy. ~--Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly addsimpudence to imposture. --_Goldsmith. _

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if sheslumber at her post. --_Colton. _

~Violence. ~--Nothing good comes of violence. --_Luther. _

Violence does even justice unjustly. --_Carlyle. _

Vehemence without feeling is rant. --_H. Lewes. _

~Virtue. ~--I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtuein a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoredcreature. --_Sir P. Sidney. _

This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues--they hold up a torch tohis vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would havepassed without observation in another. --_Colton. _

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by ourvirtues. --_Lamartine. _

It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a bettertranslation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. --_JohnStuart Mill. _

Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore. --_Milton. _

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutesperfect virtue: these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --_Confucius. _

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degradevirtue. --_Joubert. _

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whosevalue must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity isnever worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keepit. --_Colton. _

Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, thoughsun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. --_Milton. _

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. --_Plato. _

Virtue is a rough way but proves at night a bed of down. --_Wotton. _

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is athand. --_Confucius. _

Virtues that shun the day and lie concealed in the smooth seasons andthe calm of life. --_Addison. _

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth thesentinel. --_Goldsmith. _

Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary? Alexander is eminent for hiscourage; Ptolemy for his wisdom; Scipio for his continence; Trajan forhis love of truth; Constantius for his temperance. --_Zimmermann. _

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but byrowing against the stream. --_Feltham. _

Our virtues live upon our income, our vices consume our capital. --_J. Petit Senn. _

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the lawof God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by atempest. --_Pythagoras. _

All bow to virtue and then walk away. --_De Finod. _

Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge toshow her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on theother hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in theranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness, --ready to forgecannon-balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vesselor a missionary ship. --_Horace Mann. _

~Vulgarity. ~--The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to getaccustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy anycomfort. --_Carlyle. _

Dirty work wants little talent and no conscience. --_George Eliot. _

W. 

~Waiting. ~--It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The herowill then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abideswith him who waiteth wisely. --_Thoreau. _

~Want. ~--Nothing makes men sharper than want. --_Addison. _

Hundreds would never have known _want_ if they had not first known_waste_. --_Spurgeon. _

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants arechiefly derived. --_Fielding. _

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answerthat it was in some place where there was no other just man. --_St. Clement. _

~War. ~--Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you wouldpray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thingagain. --_Wellington. _

Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other, or on both. There have been wars which were little more than trials ofstrength between friendly nations, and in which the injustice was not toeach other, but to the God who gave them life. But in a malignant warthere is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which mustbe stemmed for both their sakes. --_Ruskin. _

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. --_Lamartine. _

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough atnight! There is but one step from triumph to ruin. --_Napoleon. _

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his ownflesh, and make way to the living spirit. --_Spenser. _

Providence for war is the best prevention of it. --_Bacon. _

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinewsof war. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

War is the matter which fills all history, and consequently the only oralmost the only view in which we can see the external of politicalsociety is in a hostile shape; and the only actions to which we havealways seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to thedestruction of one another. --_Burke. _

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause ontheir destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glorywill ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. --_Gibbon. _

The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, --of a thought: thehostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each otherand fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mentalflash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes theobject. --_Napoleon. _

The feast of vultures, and the waste of life. --_Byron. _

I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, asremedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils thatcan only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas. --_Mazzini. _

~Weakness. ~--Weakness is thy excuse, and I believe it; weakness to resistPhilistian gold: what murderer, what traitor, parricide, incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness. --_Milton. _

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live aPower that to the battle girdeth the weak. --_Joanna Baillie. _

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens?--_Joubert. _

Weakness is born vanquished. --_Madame Swetchine. _

~Wealth. ~--An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. Atfirst he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble andvery grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think himmore sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. --_Cecil. _

If Wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There istreachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lustof many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use himcautiously. --_Tupper. _

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them atease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes thosewho begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves itsslaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealthwithout independence. --_Colton. _

~Weeping. ~--What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows! Whatpoor, defenseless creatures they would be!--_Douglas Jerrold. _

~Welcome. ~--Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! ongolden hinges turning. --_Milton. _

~Wickedness. ~--The happiness of the wicked passes away like atorrent. --_Racine. _

The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibilityof finding any just grounds on which it can rest; and the veryconsciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the moreagainst him who is the object of it. --_Rousseau. _

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror and commotion, and remorse, and endlessperturbation. --_Plutarch. _

What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holdshis fierce career?--_Shakespeare. _

~Wife. ~--Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thouart the man in the moon. --_Congreve. _

A light wife doth make a heavy husband. --_Shakespeare. _

O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house willreturn, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him atsuch time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hastento meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which shouldwipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of otherhouses. --_Washington Irving. _

Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family. --_Rousseau. _

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. --_Shakespeare. _

The wife safest and seemliest by her husband stays. --_Milton. _

~Will. ~--In the schools of the wrestling master, when a boy falls he isbidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he hasacquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poorwretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along asby a torrent. You need but _will_, and it is done; but if you relax yourefforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both fromwithin. --_Epictetus. _

~Winter. ~--After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with hisnipping cold. --_Shakespeare. _

Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embraceconstringent. --_Thomson. _

~Wisdom. ~--Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, adepraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave ahouse some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, thatthrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; it is thewisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they woulddevour. --_Bacon. _

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world callswisdom. --_Coleridge. _

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it inrescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that arenaturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, inartificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviatethe sense of them. --_Montaigne. _

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consistsin the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the formerquality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, itis deceptive. --_Whately. _

You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was--that he knewnothing. --_Congreve. _

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength ofmind is only courage to see and speak the truth. --_Hazlitt. _

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. --_Tennyson. _

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere sheseizes thee. --_Young. _

Wisdom married to immortal verse. --_Wordsworth. _

No man can be wise on an empty stomach. --_George Eliot. _

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. --_Euripides. _

~Wishes. ~--The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishesand our means, between our hearts and this world, remains ariddle. --_Richter. _

~Wit. ~--I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit, andfailing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch, and tumblinginto it. --_Johnson. _

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharpsauce. --_Shakespeare. _

Wit must grow like fingers. If it be taken from others 'tis like plumsstuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come tonothing. --_Selden. _

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he whohas much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, whichmight otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to theground. --_Scriver. _

To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility. --_Madamede Maintenon. _

~Woe. ~--No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. --_WalterScott. _

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. --_Herrick. _

So many miseries have crazed my voice, that my woe-wearied tongue isstill. --_Shakespeare. _

~Woman. ~--Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy?--_Spenser. _

Pretty women without religion are like flowers withoutperfume. --_Heinrich Heine. _

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. --_GeorgeEliot. _

To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of hersex. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

They never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferencesfrom wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and theyalways poke the fire from the top. --_Bishop Whately. _

The woman must not belong to herself; she is bound to alien destinies. But she performs her part best who can take freely, of her own choice, the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity andlove. --_Richter. _

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works ofthis genius are always works of love. --_Lamartine. _

Women for the most part do not love us. They do not choose a man becausethey love him, but because it pleases them to be loved by him. They lovelove of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom theylove personally. --_Alphonse Karr. _

Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy; the saltof his life. --_Michelet. _

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire herwhom they most scorn. --_Charles Buxton. _

It goes far to reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I amthus in no danger of ever marrying one. --_Lady Montague. _

Men are women's playthings; woman is the devil's. --_Victor Hugo. _

Sing of the nature of woman, and the song shall be surely full ofvariety, --old crotchets and most sweet closes, --it shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, --one in all, and allin one!--_Beaumont. _

Her step is music and her voice is song. --_Bailey. _

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. --_Michelet. _

Woman, sister! there are some things which you do not execute as well asyour brother, man; no, nor ever will. Pardon me, if I doubt whether youwill ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or aPhidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a greatscholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on aninfinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power ofcombination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel ofthe resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into theunity of breathing life. If you can create yourselves into any of thesegrand creators, why have you not?--_De Quincey. _

There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshineof an April day, and woman's plighted faith. --_Southey. _

Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of theperson on whom she depends. --_Goethe. _

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom inresentment. --_Colton. _

Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparentto let the celestial origin shine through. --_Ruffini. _

There are female women, and there are male women. --_Charles Buxton. _

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, sothat to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to winher may be a discipline!--_George Eliot. _

Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, asheaven and hell. --_Tennyson. _

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, andthat they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. --_ArsèneHoussaye. _

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilatesthem. --_George Eliot. _

There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene andpeaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, andlater, an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautifulbloom. --_Richter. _

Women see without looking; their husbands often look withoutseeing. --_Louis Desnoyeas. _

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at that agewhen, if ever, angels be for God's good purposes enthroned in mortalforms, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so mild and gentle, so pure andbeautiful, that earth seemed not her element, nor its rough creaturesher fit companions. --_Dickens. _

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. --_Lamartine. _

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is aJesuitess. --_Eugene Sue. _

The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys andspies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be. --_Adrian Dupuy. _

~Words. ~--There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; thereare words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of awhole life. --_Fredrika Bremer. _

Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, moreimportant than even the hour-hands of action. --_Richter. _

"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husbandand wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for thepossession of a lighted bomb-shell. --_Douglas Jerrold. _

Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us tosee. --_Joubert. _

If we use common words on a great occasion they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like oldbanners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place. --_GeorgeEliot. _

Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currencyshould be strictly regulated by the capital which theyrepresent. --_Colton. _

~World. ~--The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those whofeel. --_Horace Walpole. _

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine. --_Goldsmith. _

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. --_Chamfort. _

Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword willopen. --_Shakespeare. _

~Worship. ~--Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is notengaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not. --_Confucius. _

~Writing. ~--Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter ofthought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man madelanguage and God the genius. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote. --_Théophile Vian. _

~Wrong. ~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear thepunishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil thatis in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended witheach other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily asdisease. --_George Eliot. _

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with whichearth is filled. --_Cowper. _

Y. 

~Youth. ~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before theirbuttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagiousblastments are most imminent. --_Shakespeare. _

Reckless youth makes rueful age. --_Moore. _

In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off acertain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself indespising what he has himself been a little time before. --_Goethe. _

Too young for woe, though not for tears. --_Washington Irving. _

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns ofvoluptuousness. --_Victor Hugo. _

O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, theheavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins ofthe universe. --_Jules Janin. _

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart. --_Washington Irving. _

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age arereached through the heart. --_Rétif de la Bretonne. _

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

Z. 

~Zeal. ~--I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. Anexcessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive tome, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how Ishould call it. --_Montaigne. _

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which theystart. --_Schiller. _

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. Thewinner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. --_CharlesBuxton. _

Tell zeal it lacks devotion. --_Sir W. Raleigh. _

Nothing to build and all things to destroy. --_Dryden. _

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of truezeal. --_Molière. _

People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief andviolence, though it is not the cause, but their interest, that inflamesthem. --_Montaigne. _

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. --_Bulwer-Lytton. _

~Zealot. ~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, aspecial reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, toyour one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson. _

What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reasonupon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caringif it be useful truth. --_Sydney Smith. _

I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in hishead or heart somewhere or other. --_Coleridge. _

They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, anddeem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is mostprecious. --_Hawthorne. _

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The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one dayend all. --_Shakespeare. _