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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pearls of Thought, by Maturin M. Ballou
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+Title: Pearls of Thought
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+Author: Maturin M. Ballou
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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.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     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's
+habit of transferring and classifying significant passages from known
+authors. No special course of reading has been pursued, the thoughts
+being culled from foreign and native tongues--from the moss-grown tomes
+of ancient literature and the verdant fields of to-day. The terse
+periods of others, appropriately quoted, become in a degree our own; and
+a just estimation is very nearly allied to originality, or, as the
+author of _Vanity Fair_ tells us, "Next to excellence is the
+appreciation of it." Without indorsing the idea of a modern authority
+that the multiplicity of facts and writings is becoming so great that
+every available book must soon be composed of extracts only, still it is
+believed that such a volume as "Pearls of Thought" will serve the
+interest of general literature, and especially stimulate the mind of the
+thoughtful reader to further research. The pleasant duty of the
+compiler has been to follow the expressive idea of Colton, and he has
+made the same use of books as a bee does of flowers,--she steals the
+sweets 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 connection
+and classification, but doubtless such excerpts will be found in the
+"Treasury of Thought," a much more extended work by the same author, to
+which this volume is properly a supplement. Of course care has been
+taken 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 every
+kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the
+want of natural abilities.--_Schopenhaufer._
+
+Words must be fitted to a man's mouth,--'twas well said of the fellow
+that was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor, when he desired to take
+measure 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 deadly
+banishment.--_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 better
+die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no
+virtue, 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 married
+life love is not diminished by distance. A man, like a burning-glass,
+should be placed at a certain distance from the object he wishes to
+dissolve, in order that the proper focus may be obtained.--_Richter._
+
+~Abstinence.~--Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a hand of easiness to
+the next abstinence; the next more easy; for use almost can change the
+stamp of nature, and either curb the devil, or throw him out with
+wondrous potency.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Abuse.~--Abuse is not so dangerous when there is no vehicle of wit or
+delicacy, no subtle conveyance. The difference between coarse and
+refined abuse is as the difference between being bruised by a club and
+wounded by a poisoned arrow.--_Johnson._
+
+~Accident.~--What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously
+together, the wind of accident collects in one brief
+moment.--_Schiller._
+
+What men call accident is God's own part.--_P. J. Bailey._
+
+~Acquirements.~--Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks: he
+who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the
+other.--_Metastasio._
+
+~Action.~--Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds. It may augment
+noise, but it never can enforce argument. If you speak to a dog, you use
+action; you hold up your hand thus, because he is a brute; and in
+proportion as men are removed from brutes, action will have the less
+influence 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, what
+the second, and what the third? he answered, "Action." The same may I
+say. If any should ask me what is the first, the second, the third part
+of a Christian, I must answer, "Action."--_T. Brooks._
+
+Our best conjectures, as to the true spring of actions, are very
+uncertain; the actions themselves are all we must pretend to know from
+history. That Caesar was murdered by twenty-four conspirators, I doubt
+not; but I very much doubt whether their love of liberty was the sole
+cause.--_Chesterfield._
+
+Action is generally defective, and proves an abortion without previous
+contemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates.--_Owen
+Feltham._
+
+Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; you
+have not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement is
+not energy.--_E. B. Hall._
+
+Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or
+glorious.--_Colton._
+
+Outward actions can never give a just estimate of us, since there are
+many perfections of a man which are not capable of appearing in
+actions.--_Addison._
+
+Mark this well, ye proud men of action! Ye are, after all, nothing but
+unconscious instruments of the men of thought.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+~Actors.~--Players, sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set
+upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like
+dancing dogs. But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than
+others? Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others.--_Johnson._
+
+Each under his borrowed guise the actor belongs to himself. He has put
+on a mask, beneath it his real face still exists; he has thrown himself
+into a foreign individuality, which in some sense forms a shelter to the
+integrity of his own character; he may indeed wear festive attire, but
+his mourning is beneath it; he may smile, divert, act, his soul is still
+his own; his inner life is undisturbed; no indiscreet question will lift
+the veil, no coarse hand will burst open the gates of the
+sanctuary.--_Countess de Gasparin._
+
+Oh, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and
+that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent
+of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, or man, have so
+strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen
+had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so
+abominably!--_Shakespeare._
+
+An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. For an actor
+to represent a Greek hero it is imperative he should have thoroughly
+studied those antique statues which have lasted to our day, and mastered
+the particular grace they exhibited in their postures, whether sitting,
+standing, or walking. Nor should he make attitude his only study. He
+should highly develop his mind by an assiduous study of the best
+writers, ancient and modern, which will enable him not only to
+understand his parts, but to communicate a nobler coloring to his
+manners and mien.--_Goethe._
+
+~Admiration.~--Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with
+champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.--_Johnson._
+
+Season your admiration for awhile.--_Shakespeare._
+
+I wonder whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come to
+measuring the force there would be in one beautiful woman whose mind was
+as noble as her face was beautiful--who made a man's passion for her
+rush in one current with all the great aims of his life.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+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 gratification
+of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than
+love.--_Arthur Helps._
+
+Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (envious
+and ignorant as they are) they must be taken unawares.--_James
+Northcote._
+
+~Adversity.~--If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath
+killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred. The
+one deceives, the other instructs; the one miserably happy, the other
+happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily
+sought adversity and so much commend it in their precepts.--_Burton._
+
+Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.--_Bishop
+Horne._
+
+Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter
+rain,--cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that
+season 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 we
+should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have
+recourse to human consolation.--_Thomas a Kempis._
+
+Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the
+summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.--_Arrowsmith._
+
+Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with
+those of Guilt!--_Blair._
+
+~Advice.~--People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind of a surprise than
+by downright admonition.--_L'Estrange._
+
+Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.--_Massillon._
+
+~Affectation.~--All affectation proceeds from the supposition of
+possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody
+is vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is the
+precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody
+possesses.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+Affectation is certain deformity.--_Blair._
+
+~Affection.~--None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and
+bewitch, but love and envy.--_Bacon._
+
+None are so desolate but something dear, dearer than self, possesses or
+possess'd.--_Byron._
+
+Those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who
+has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll,
+creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her own
+love.--_George Eliot._
+
+God give us leisure for these rights of love.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Afflictions.~--Before an affliction is digested, consolation comes too
+soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a mark
+between these two, as fine, almost, as a hair, for a comforter to take
+aim at.--_Sterne._
+
+Stars shine brightest in the darkest night; torches are better for
+beating; 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 you
+tread it, the more you spread it. Such is the condition of all God's
+children: they are then most triumphant when most tempted; most glorious
+when most afflicted.--_Bogatzky._
+
+That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt
+understand in the day of thy visitation. For many secrets of religion
+are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of
+a great calamity.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+Nothing so much increases one's reverence for others as a great sorrow
+to one's self. It teaches one the depths of human nature. In happiness
+we are shallow, and deem others so.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.--_Bovee._
+
+Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble-minded
+but confirm the obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that hardens clay
+liquefies gold; and in the strong manifestations of divine power Pharoah
+found his punishment, but David his pardon.--_Colton._
+
+Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for
+us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our
+cure.--_Tillotson._
+
+To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest (or meanest), a
+cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind,
+into life, and, still more, into ourselves, suffering is
+requisite.--_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 the
+withered tree.--_George Eliot._
+
+Autumnal green.--_Dryden._
+
+Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it as
+pleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since time
+knows 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 their
+birth.--_Homer._
+
+The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the
+unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be
+found much greater.--_South._
+
+Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for
+things a long way off.--_George Eliot._
+
+Serene, and safe from passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into
+the port of age!--_Shenstone._
+
+Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may
+disengage from the world by degrees.--_Jeremy Collier._
+
+Age oppresses by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits not
+that our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retain
+the vigor of our youth.--_Dryden._
+
+Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the
+contempt inspired by vice, for age whitens only the hair.--_J. Petit
+Senn._
+
+Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age
+she has only forty winters.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old
+books, 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, in
+proportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion.
+Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later
+present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the
+recesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to their
+beauty.--_Chateaubriand._
+
+~Agitation.~--Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation to
+mould its laws.--_Sir R. Peel._
+
+Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the
+ballot-box.--_Wendell Phillips._
+
+Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress.
+Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of
+animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.--_Wendell Phillips._
+
+~Agriculture.~--Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the
+productions of nature are the materials of art.--_Gibbon._
+
+Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she
+can call her own.--_Johnson._
+
+Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his calling, for they who
+labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.--_Thomas Jefferson._
+
+~Allegory.~--Allegories and spiritual significations, when applied to
+faith, and that seldom, are laudable; but when they are drawn from the
+life and conversation, they are dangerous, and, when men make too many
+of 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 a
+snake, 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 of
+Lodi that the idea entered my mind that I might become a decisive actor
+in the political arena. Then arose for the first time the spark of great
+ambition.--_Napoleon._
+
+Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride of
+no person in a flourishing condition is more justly to be dreaded than
+that of him who is mean and cringing under a doubtful and unprosperous
+fortune.--_Burke._
+
+If there is ever a time to be ambitious, it is not when ambition is
+easy, 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 the
+person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most
+incurable and inflexible of all human passions.--_Hume._
+
+An ardent thirst of honor; a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, and
+an 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 of
+patriotism.--_Washington._
+
+In America we see a country of which it has been truly said that in no
+other are there so few men of great learning and so few men of great
+ignorance.--_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 a
+loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loop-hole is larger than
+the dungeon itself.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Ere long, thine every stream shall find a tongue, land of the many
+waters.--_Hoffman._
+
+America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but
+cartilages.--_Fisher Ames._
+
+~Amusement.~--Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs
+thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed,
+it loses its distinctive character, and becomes the task-master of
+idleness.--_Willmott._
+
+~Analogy.~--Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope
+of the mind by which it is marvelously assisted in the discovery of both
+physical 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 and
+baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable
+three-half-pence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal
+souls.--_Carlyle._
+
+~Ancestry.~--We take rank by descent. Such of us as have the longest
+pedigree, and are therefore the furthest removed from the first who made
+the fortune and founded the family, we are the noblest. The nearer to
+the fountain the fouler the stream: and that first ancestor who has
+soiled 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 neither
+their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.--_Sallust._
+
+Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of
+mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but
+it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.--_Colton._
+
+Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to
+be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their
+fathers, for nobility is the virtue of a family.--_Aristotle._
+
+A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage; but
+if he any way degenerate from his line, the least spot is visible on
+ermine.--_Dryden._
+
+The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it
+should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about
+it.--_Whately._
+
+~Ancients.~--In tragedy and satire I maintain, against some critics, that
+this age and the last have excelled the ancients; and I would instance
+in Shakespeare of the former, in Dorset of the latter.--_Dryden._
+
+Though the knowledge they have left us be worth our study, yet they
+exhausted not all its treasures; they left a great deal for the industry
+and sagacity of after-ages.--_Locke._
+
+~Angels.~--In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand
+and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged
+angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a
+hand is put in theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and
+bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a
+little child's.--_George Eliot._
+
+Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake
+and when we sleep.--_Milton._
+
+~Anger.~--If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall
+not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to
+think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals
+are.--_Beecher._
+
+Temperate anger well becomes the wise.--_Philemon._
+
+When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it
+stumbles in its way.--_Savage._
+
+Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel
+bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+Above all, gentlemen, no heat.--_Talleyrand._
+
+Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed
+often 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 I
+can write, pray, and preach well; for then my whole temperament is
+quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and
+temptations depart.--_Luther._
+
+When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can
+be.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Angling.~--I give up fly-fishing; it is a light, volatile, dissipated
+pursuit. But ground-bait with a good steady float that never bobs
+without a bite is an occupation for a bishop, and in no way interferes
+with sermon-making.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+He that reads Plutarch shall find that angling was not contemptible in
+the 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 greedily
+devour the treacherous bait.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Anticipation.~--It has been well said that no man ever sank under the
+burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden
+of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.--_George
+MacDonald._
+
+The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit
+itself.--_Herder._
+
+The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than
+those crowned with fruition. In the first instance, we cook the dish to
+our own appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it for us.--_Goldsmith._
+
+We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive
+while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations,
+not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may
+be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to
+disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place, project, or
+reversion 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 all
+other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all
+other people think it proper to remember.--_Colton._
+
+The earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Antithesis.~--Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis,
+and employ it.--_Bruyere._
+
+Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at
+maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root.--_Colton._
+
+~Apology.~--An apology in the original sense was a pleading off from some
+charge 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, but
+also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which
+cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.--_Bacon._
+
+Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion
+of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men
+is but an aphorism.--_Coleridge._
+
+Proverbs are potted wisdom.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Appeal.~--Seeing all men are not [OE]dipuses to read the riddle of
+another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a
+man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We
+guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see it
+wears.--_Feltham._
+
+~Appearances.~--It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pause
+not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of
+Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst into
+broken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of his
+son!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to
+dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not
+describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways--in
+the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not
+dare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the
+pity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocent
+families who are so often involved in their ruin.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go
+astray more and more.--_Carlyle._
+
+What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; for
+proud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearing
+fine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is the
+better part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but a
+modest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no one
+could 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 the
+devil in.--_Pollok._
+
+I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what
+they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that
+gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+~Appetite.~--Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending
+not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I
+look upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anything
+else.--_Johnson._
+
+Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant
+of meat or mirth.--_Shakespeare._
+
+This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
+men.--_Izaak Walton._
+
+And do as adversaries do in law,--strive mightily, but eat and drink as
+friends.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first
+hour.--_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 we
+enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the
+value.--_Shakespeare._
+
+A man is known to his dog by the smell--to the tailor by the coat--to
+his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how
+much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and
+indeed characteristic of man is known only to God.--_Ruskin._
+
+He who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than he
+seems.--_Goethe._
+
+Light is above us, and color surrounds us; but if we have not light and
+color 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 great
+thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire
+it.--_Joubert._
+
+No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read
+it are no longer the same interpreters.--_George Eliot._
+
+Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty
+the 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 the
+edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may
+contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.--_Ruskin._
+
+~Argument.~--There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses
+fire he knocks you down with the butt end of it.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are
+most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more
+difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a
+sword.--_Bishop Whately._
+
+Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which
+he is not entitled. The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning,
+and are impressed by character; so that if you allow your adversary a
+respectable character, they will think that, though you differ from him,
+you may be in the wrong. Treating your adversary with respect is
+striking soft in a battle.--_Johnson._
+
+The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head
+than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall
+with equal velocity in a vacuum.--_Colton._
+
+An ill argument introduced with deference will procure more credit than
+the profoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy
+management.--_Locke._
+
+One may say, generally, that no deeply rooted tendency was ever
+extirpated by adverse argument. Not having originally been founded on
+argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.--_G. H. Lewes._
+
+A reason is often good, not because it is conclusive, but because it is
+dramatic,--because it has the stamp of him who urges it, and is drawn
+from 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 special
+pleaders, to-day I might be argued into an atheist, and to-morrow into a
+pickpocket.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Aristocracy.~--And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.--_De
+Foe._
+
+What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it
+runs back to a successful soldier?--_Walter Scott._
+
+If in an aristocracy the people be virtuous, they will enjoy very nearly
+the same happiness as in a popular government, and the state will become
+powerful.--_Montesquieu._
+
+An aristocracy is the true, the only support of a monarchy. Without it
+the State is a vessel without a rudder--a balloon in the air. A true
+aristocracy, however, must be ancient. Therein consists its real
+force,--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 bridled
+to 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 our
+hearts should be as good.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Art.~--Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if
+passion carries them, it will be well done: passion knows more than
+art.--_Baron._
+
+It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and
+industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for
+beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a
+few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of
+the 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 solemn
+page either of history or prophecy; and when, as always in Dante and
+occasionally 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, the
+former has made us men.--_Schiller._
+
+Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of
+nature--takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own
+intention, 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 is
+luxury.--_Schopenhaufer._
+
+He who seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius, as he
+must needs paint for other minds and not for his own.--_Washington
+Allston._
+
+In art, form is everything; matter, nothing.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Strange thing art, especially music. Out of an art a man may be so
+trivial 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 he
+enters into a heaven of which he has become a denizen, and, unlocking
+the gates with his golden key, admits you to follow, an humble, reverent
+visitor.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Art does not imitate, but interpret.--_Mazzini._
+
+The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears
+was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child
+the harder to make him shed more pearls.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in
+nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect
+taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an
+imperfect taste.--_Bruyere._
+
+Never judge a work of art by its defects.--_Washington Allston._
+
+~Asceticism.~--I recommend no sour ascetic life. I believe not only in the
+thorns on the rosebush, but in the roses which the thorns defend.
+Asceticism is the child of sensuality and superstition. She is the
+secret mother of many a secret sin. God, when he made man's body, did
+not give us a fibre too much, nor a passion too many. I would steal no
+violet from the young maiden's bosom; rather would I fill her arms with
+more fragrant roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of
+pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life, not worth the living;
+always unsatisfactory in its course, always miserable in its
+end.--_Theodore Parker._
+
+In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.--_Byron._
+
+Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world. Religious
+asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake--as
+supposed--of religion; seen chiefly in the Middle Ages. Military
+asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of
+power; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome. And monetary
+asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the
+sake of money; seen in the present days of London and
+Manchester.--_Ruskin._
+
+~Aspiration.~--The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not
+laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and
+would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has
+bedaubed him.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that--to love what is
+great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.--_George Eliot._
+
+The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not
+sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient
+for it.--_Quarles._
+
+There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to
+his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage.
+There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning
+for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!--_Chapin._
+
+Oh for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of
+invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold
+the 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 are
+thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and
+good, and we _must_ hunger after them.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Associates.~--Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man
+maketh his train longer, he makes his wings shorter.--_Bacon._
+
+Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of
+thine equals thou shall enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy
+superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is
+the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst
+there.--_Quarles._
+
+A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too
+near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.--_Diogenes._
+
+As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract
+all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what
+is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight
+acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a
+more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe.--_Landor._
+
+Those who are unacquainted with the world take pleasure in the intimacy
+of great men; those who are wiser dread the consequences.--_Horace._
+
+~Atheism.~--By burning an atheist, you have lent importance to that which
+was absurd, interest to that which was forbidding, light to that which
+was the essence of darkness. For atheism is a system which can
+communicate neither warmth nor illumination except from those fagots
+which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.--_Colton._
+
+One of the most daring beings in creation, a contemner of God, who
+explodes his laws by denying his existence.--_John Foster._
+
+~Authority.~--Reasons of things are rather to be taken by weight than
+tale.--_Jeremy Collier._
+
+The world is ruled by the subordinates, not by their chiefs.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+~Authors.~--Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed
+stars: the first have a momentary effect. The second have a much longer
+duration. But the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and
+work for all time.--_Schopenhaufer._
+
+Satire lies about men of letters during their lives, and eulogy after
+their death.--_Voltaire._
+
+It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his
+public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of
+Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read
+him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. It is
+for the same reason that La Fontaine is held in such high esteem among
+the French. It is not for his worth as a poet, but for the greatness of
+his 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 the
+body,--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, nor
+intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them
+down.--_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 writers
+as 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 necessitously
+poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.--_Thomas
+Paine._
+
+Avarice is more unlovely than mischievous.--_Landor._
+
+The German poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine
+symbol of knowledge, to others but the milch cow, only regarded for the
+pounds of butter she will yield. O tendency of our age, to look on Isis
+as the milch cow!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world
+than any mortal drug.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first
+part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to
+ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his
+age with the milder business of saving it.--_Johnson._
+
+
+B.
+
+~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 sets
+her father and mother and all at defiance, and can't be managed by
+anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child will
+strike the rock and set all her affections flowing.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Bargain.~--What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good
+bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering
+over the morals of shopping.--_Beecher._
+
+A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a
+reflection upon the buyer's judgment.--_Pliny._
+
+~Bashfulness.~--Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom
+opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.--_Johnson._
+
+Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his
+sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 'tis therefore
+good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of
+the better sort.--_Bacon._
+
+~Beauty.~--The beautiful is always severe.--_Segur._
+
+For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's
+commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it
+is ever pleading for respect and liking, and, by the eyes of others is
+ever sending to their hearts for love. Yet even this hath this
+inconvenience in it--that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing
+of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind
+is ill.--_Feltham._
+
+Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the
+caprices of the world.--_X. Doudan._
+
+No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and
+humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty
+without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.--_John
+Ray._
+
+An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to
+beauty.--_Burke._
+
+I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is
+something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and
+expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the
+ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the
+imagination.--_Cicero._
+
+A lovely girl is above all rank.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it
+awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is
+perhaps one element of its might.--_Tuckerman._
+
+Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes
+away.--_Mere._
+
+In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and
+life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on
+every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth
+the 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 the
+pretensions of a whole life.--_Bignicout._
+
+If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.--_Alphonse
+Karr._
+
+Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed
+the laws of aesthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the real
+truthfulness of all works of imagination--sculpture, painting, written
+fiction--is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to
+represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a
+truth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+An outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has
+been refused.--_Gibbon._
+
+It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly apprehend
+itself.--_Goethe._
+
+~Bed.~--The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet
+we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it
+early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it
+late.--_Colton._
+
+What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to
+me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the
+world.--_Napoleon._
+
+~Beggars.~--He is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind
+it. 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 study
+appearances.--_Lamb._
+
+Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Benevolence.~--There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a
+human being, replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he
+might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good
+to his creatures.--_Fielding._
+
+Genuine benevolence is not stationary but peripatetic. It _goeth_ about
+doing good.--_Nevins._
+
+It is an argument of a candid, ingenuous mind to delight in the good
+name and commendations of others; to pass by their defects and take
+notice 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 fraternal
+love.--_Confucius._
+
+True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice, and
+kindness with kindness.--_Confucius._
+
+It is in contemplating man at a distance that we become
+benevolent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Bible.~--As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grapes
+are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives
+them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines
+best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures and
+are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.--_Bacon._
+
+They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those
+discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against
+any evidence whatever; even that of a messenger sent express from the
+other world.--_Atterbury._
+
+But what is meant, after all, by _uneducated_, in a time when books have
+come into the world--come to be household furniture in every habitation
+of the civilized world? In the poorest cottage are books--is one book,
+wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light
+and nourishment and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in
+him.--_Carlyle._
+
+A stream where alike the elephant may swim and the lamb may
+wade.--_Gregory the Great._
+
+All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming
+more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred
+writings.--_Herschel._
+
+I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to say
+nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius
+and taste than any other volume in existence.--_Landor._
+
+~Bigotry.~--A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive
+even 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 which
+Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they
+freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the
+sufferer.--_Colton._
+
+A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes
+there 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 a
+beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we
+do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark
+them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other
+destroy the likeness of the picture.--_Plutarch._
+
+Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructive
+and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best
+are almost equivalent to gospels--teaching high living, high thinking,
+and energetic action for their own and the world's good.--_Samuel
+Smiles._
+
+It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his
+life with any genuine exactness and discrimination; and few people, who
+have lived with a man, know what to remark about him.--_Johnson._
+
+History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives
+can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day
+less, and in a short time is lost forever.--_Johnson._
+
+Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its
+comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skillful
+hand to construct the skeleton.--_Willmott._
+
+To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is
+to continue in a state of childhood all our days.--_Plutarch._
+
+~Birth.~--Noble in appearance, but this is mere outside; many noble born
+are base.--_Euripides._
+
+~Blessings.~--The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come
+to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to
+the tail of it.--_Charles Lamb._
+
+Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our
+having only regular desires.--_St. Augustine._
+
+We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own
+industry.--_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 as
+benefits 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 on
+your 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; a
+thousand innocent shames, in angel whiteness, bear away those
+blushes.--_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 the
+field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great
+cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and
+are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the
+only inhabitants of the field--that, of course, they are many in
+number,--or, that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled,
+meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the
+hour.--_Burke._
+
+There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what is
+loud and senseless talking any other than a way of
+braying.--_L'Estrange._
+
+Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help
+them.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Boasting.~--Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The
+deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet
+empty themselves with less noise.--_W. Secker._
+
+With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his
+weapon in his mouth.--_Madden._
+
+Every braggart shall be found an ass.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man
+more sharply as ill-bred.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Boldness.~--Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.--_Smollett._
+
+Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still
+more.--_Lemesles._
+
+~Bondage.~--The iron chain and the silken cord, both equally are
+bonds.--_Schiller._
+
+~Books.~--If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's
+private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how
+many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the
+reader!--_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 your
+habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the
+latter.--_Paxton Hood._
+
+Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the
+reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high
+art.--_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 to
+other pleasures. It silently serves the soul without recompense, not
+even for the hire of love. And yet more noble,--it seems to pass from
+itself, and to enter the memory, and to hover in a silvery
+transfiguration there, until the outward book is but a body, and its
+soul and spirit are flown to you, and possess your memory like a
+spirit.--_Beecher._
+
+If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in
+exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them
+all.--_Fenelon._
+
+We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the
+pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding
+either, but approving the latter most.--_Plutarch._
+
+To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is
+much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because
+made by some famous tailor.--_Pope._
+
+The medicine of the mind.--_Diodorus._
+
+Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his
+roof.--_Channing._
+
+Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Bores.~--I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. A carpenter's
+hammer, in a warm summer's noon, will fret me into more than midsummer
+madness. But those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured
+malice of music.--_Lamb._
+
+These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid
+men.--_Dryden._
+
+If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set
+open our gates to the invaders of most of our time; we expose our life
+to a quotidian ague of frigid impertinences which would make a wise man
+tremble to think of.--_Cowley._
+
+The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like
+those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril!--_Madame
+Swetchine._
+
+~Borrowing.~--You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but
+few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they
+are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really
+are.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+According to the security you offer to her, Fortune makes her loans easy
+or ruinous.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Bravery.~--True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what one
+might 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 show
+on 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 by
+its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's
+Progress?--_Johnson._
+
+A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love
+not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can
+fathom.--_Feltham._
+
+I saw one excellency was within my reach--it was brevity, and I
+determined to obtain it.--_Jay._
+
+Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are
+condensed, 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 be
+kept doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy.
+Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should
+be 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, but
+because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above
+it.--_Tacitus._
+
+
+C.
+
+~Calumny.~--Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and
+you give it the appearance of truth.--_Tacitus._
+
+Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with
+greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a
+poisoned arrow.--_Colton._
+
+~Cant.~--The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply
+cant 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 his
+utterance at every turn. When we observe this, we call it a cant word or
+a cant phrase.--_Paley._
+
+~Caution.~--Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss
+for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for
+too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a
+security.--_Burke._
+
+~Censure.~--Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.--_Juvenal._
+
+We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an
+opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their
+virtues.--_Hazlitt._
+
+Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest
+mountains.--_Balthasar Gracian._
+
+~Chance.~--There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we mean
+that events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit of
+events which are designed.--_Paley._
+
+Chance generally favors the prudent.--_Joubert._
+
+It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there
+is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these
+words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an
+agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance
+of the real and immediate cause.--_Adam Clarke._
+
+What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of
+heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not
+able to make an oyster!--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the
+safety which results from labor. To find what you seek in the road of
+life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone
+unturned."--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Change.~--The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of
+change.--_Tennyson._
+
+A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.--_Byron._
+
+In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes
+is lost.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+~Character.~--As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there
+some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be
+conquered, but in this life never destroyed.--_Coleridge._
+
+Character is not cut in marble--it is not something solid and
+unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become
+diseased as our bodies do.--_George Eliot._
+
+Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism
+materialized,--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 to
+see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying
+in 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 embodied
+in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of
+society, but in every well-governed state they are its best motive
+power; for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the
+world.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+He whose life seems fair, if all his errors and follies were articled
+against him would seem vicious and miserable.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the
+major part of their character: he is to be called a wise man who has but
+few follies.--_Watts._
+
+Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his
+manner 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-will
+to 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 the
+uncharitable.--_Buckminster._
+
+The charities that soothe, and heat, and bless, lie scattered at the
+feet of men like flowers.--_Wordsworth._
+
+Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his
+palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.--_Koran._
+
+Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, we who could no way
+foresee the effect,--when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down
+every 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 from
+ourselves: what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as
+our nearest relations.--_Atterbury._
+
+Goodness answers to the theological virtue of charity, and admits no
+excess but error; the desire of power in excess caused the angels to
+fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in
+charity there is no excess: neither can angel or man come into danger by
+it.--_Bacon._
+
+Poplicola's doors were opened on the outside, to save the people even
+the common civility of asking entrance; where misfortune was a powerful
+recommendation, and where want itself was a powerful
+mediator.--_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 charity
+remains.--_Prior._
+
+The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.--_Professor
+Vinet._
+
+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 heaven
+for those who choose to have their money placed to account
+there.--_Mackenzie._
+
+~Chastity.~--Chastity enables the soul to breathe a pure air in the
+foulest places; continence makes her strong, no matter in what condition
+the body may be; her sway over the senses makes her queenly; her light
+and peace render her beautiful.--_Joubert._
+
+~Cheerfulness.~--Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has
+been called the bright weather of the heart.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with
+cheerishness,--which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may
+yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.--_Milton._
+
+Such a man, truly wise, creams of nature, leaving the sour and the dregs
+for philosophy and reason to lap up.--_Swift._
+
+Be thou like the bird perched upon some frail thing, although he feels
+the branch bending beneath him, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that
+he has wings.--_Mme. de Gasparin._
+
+~Children.~--With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they must
+not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. If
+we never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty of
+heartaches when they grow up. Be obeyed at all costs. If you yield up
+your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again.--_Spurgeon._
+
+The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are
+nearest 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 of
+outlived sorrow.--_George Eliot._
+
+Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real
+friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact they are. What
+is childhood but a series of happy delusions?--_Sydney Smith._
+
+The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle
+foot.--_Richter._
+
+A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a
+child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three
+weeks.--_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 mysteries
+which it hides from the skepticism of the elders, and works up into
+small 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 early
+commencement 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 of
+memory that can be touched to gentle issues.--_George Eliot._
+
+The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not
+made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can
+make up for that.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Christ.~--Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid stoic
+who had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense of
+pain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a man
+like ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffering, and yet
+patiently endured the greatest.--_Tillotson._
+
+However consonant to reason his precepts appeared, nothing could have
+tempted men to acknowledge him as their God and Saviour but their being
+firmly persuaded of the miracles he wrought.--_Addison._
+
+Imitate Jesus Christ.--_Franklin._
+
+The history of Christ is as surely poetry as it is history, and in
+general, only that history is history which might also be
+fable.--_Novalis._
+
+~Christianity.~--Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with
+reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first
+remembered tones of her blessed voice.--_Coleridge._
+
+There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness
+as the Christian religion doth.--_Bacon._
+
+No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so
+much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes
+right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And
+therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it
+had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever
+imposed on mankind for their good.--_Lord Bolingbroke._
+
+Far beyond all other political powers of Christianity is the demiurgic
+power of this religion over the kingdoms of human opinion.--_De
+Quincey._
+
+Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts,--the
+cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims.--_De
+Tocqueville._
+
+Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant
+for its benefit and use. If nature gives to us capacities to believe
+that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct
+proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of
+kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the
+endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and
+use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a
+lie.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it
+than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's
+mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.--_Chapin._
+
+There was never found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or
+sect or religion, or law or discipline, which did so highly exalt the
+good of communion, and depress good private and particular, as the holy
+Christian faith: hence it clearly appears that it was one and the same
+God that gave the Christian law to men who gave those laws of nature to
+the creatures.--_Bacon._
+
+Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than
+her common sense.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. It opened the palaces
+of Constantinople to the barbarians, but it opened the doors of cottages
+to 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, the
+element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal
+happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness,--to love him in
+others' 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 unspeakable
+splendors.--_Hawthorne._
+
+Christians are like the several flowers in a garden, that have each of
+them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall
+at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become
+nourishers of each other.--_Bunyan._
+
+~Church.~--The Church is a union of men arising from the fellowship of
+religious 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 New
+Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a
+broken 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 allowed
+to 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 of
+quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it
+live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you
+may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny
+weather.--_Thoreau._
+
+~Circumstances.~--Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but
+the instruments of the wise.--_Samuel Lover._
+
+What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the
+impossible.--_Balzac._
+
+~Civilization.~--Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are
+trampled 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 various
+fortunes. First men were in chains which went back to an iron hand. Then
+he saw them led by threads from the brain, which went upward to an
+unseen hand. The first was despotism, iron and ruling by force. The last
+was civilization, ruling by ideas.--_Wendell Phillips._
+
+Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot
+die.--_Mazzini._
+
+~Clergymen.~--The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have
+always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he
+is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands
+than the cure of souls. I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy
+life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.--_Johnson._
+
+Clergymen consider this world only as a diligence in which they can
+travel to another.--_Napoleon._
+
+The clergy are as like as peas.--_Emerson._
+
+~Commander.~--The right of commanding is no longer an advantage
+transmitted 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 all
+emergencies, she looks to agriculture both for defense and for
+supply.--_Colton._
+
+Commerce defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every
+zone.--_Bancroft._
+
+~Common Sense.~--If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun it has
+the fixity of the stars.--_Fernan Caballero._
+
+~Communists.~--One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal
+earnings. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and
+pocket your shilling.--_Ebenezer Elliott._
+
+Your leaders wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot
+bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people under
+them; why not then have some people above them.--_Johnson._
+
+Communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its
+elements 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 lies
+much in comparison.--_Locke._
+
+~Compassion.~--The dew of compassion is a tear.--_Byron._
+
+~Compensation.~--Cloud and rainbow appear together. There is wisdom in the
+saying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord,
+and that vicissitude maintains the world. Many evils bring many
+blessings. Manna drops in the wilderness--corn grows in
+Canaan.--_Willmott._
+
+It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great
+lessons.--_Bovee._
+
+~Complaining.~--We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure. Human
+nature is more sensible of smart in suffering than of pleasure in
+rejoicing, and the present endurances easily take up our thoughts. We
+cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of
+contentment.--_Feltham._
+
+Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst.
+Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to
+importune 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 fool
+than of him.--_Bible._
+
+Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own
+making.--_Addison._
+
+Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything
+within persuades him that he is everything.--_X. Doudan._
+
+Apes look down on men as degenerate specimens of their own race, just as
+Hollanders regard the German language as a corruption of the
+Dutch.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most
+comfortable quality. But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing
+to vanity, that a man's great idea of himself gets washed out of him by
+the time he is forty.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very
+unpleasant to find depreciated.--_George Eliot._
+
+The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under the
+pretense 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 matter
+of glorious trial.--_Milton._
+
+Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's
+integrity.--_South._
+
+~Conscience.~--Conscience is not law; no, God and reason made the law, and
+have placed conscience within you to determine.--_Sterne._
+
+There are moments when the pale and modest star, kindled by God in
+simple hearts, which men call conscience, illumines our path with truer
+light than the flaming comet of genius on its magnificent
+course.--_Mazzini._
+
+No thralls like them that inward bondage have.--_Sir P. Sidney._
+
+Some people have no perspective in their conscience. Their moral
+convictions are the same on all subjects. They are like a reader who
+speaks every word with equal emphasis.--_Beecher._
+
+Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment and
+induction, but intuitively and in advance of experiment; so, in addition
+to the experimental way whereby we learn justice from the facts of human
+history, we have a transcendental way, and learn it from the facts of
+human nature, and from immediate consciousness.--_Theodore Parker._
+
+A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal; and he should care no more
+for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he
+cross the churchyard at dark.--_Lytton._
+
+Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to
+prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.--_Goldsmith._
+
+To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism: had we
+never sinned we should have had no conscience.--_Carlyle._
+
+The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the
+court 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 a
+single stitch drops; one single sin indulged in makes a hole you could
+put your head through.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+A still small voice.--_Bible._
+
+~Constancy.~--A good man it is not mine to see; could I see a man
+possessed 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 proneness
+to contempt, which is a mixture of pride and ill-nature. Nor is there
+any which more certainly denotes a bad mind; for in a good and benign
+temper there can be no room for this sensation.--_Fielding._
+
+~Contentment.~--That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we
+can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
+Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with
+what we possess. He who wants little always has enough.--_Zimmermann._
+
+It is both the curse and blessing of our American life that we are never
+quite content. We all expect to go somewhere before we die, and have a
+better time when we get there than we can have at home. The bane of our
+life is discontent. We say we will work so long, and then we will enjoy
+ourselves. But we find it just as Thackeray has expressed it. "When I
+was a boy," he said, "I wanted some taffy--it was a shilling--I hadn't
+one. When I was a man, I had a shilling, but I didn't want any
+taffy."--_Robert Collyer._
+
+Submission is the only reasoning between a creature and its Maker; and
+contentment in his will is the best remedy we can apply to
+misfortunes.--_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 to
+the owl to hoot, and the frog to croak, and the fault-finder to
+complain.--_De Witt Talmage._
+
+~Contrast.~--The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of
+darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades. The
+highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is
+that of rest after fatigue.--_Johnson._
+
+~Controversy.~--He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and
+sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.--_Burke._
+
+What Tully says of war may be applied to disputing,--it should be always
+so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace: but
+generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight
+is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the
+sportsman for the hare.--_Pope._
+
+I am yet apt to think that men find their simple ideas agree, though in
+discourse they confound one another with different names.--_Locke._
+
+A man takes contradiction much more easily than people think, only he
+will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well-founded.
+Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly-falling dew, but shut
+up in the violent down-pour of rain.--_Richter._
+
+~Conversation.~--They who have the true taste of conversation enjoy
+themselves in a communication of each other's excellences, and not in a
+triumph over their imperfections.--_Addison._
+
+It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of
+others.--_Montaigne._
+
+Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without
+scurrility, 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 very
+bad.--_Francis Lockier._
+
+Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is
+continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken,
+and which would never have occurred in the duller intercourse of
+epistolary correspondence.--_Franklin._
+
+~Coquetry.~--The most effective coquetry is innocence.--_Lamartine._
+
+God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool.--_Victor
+Hugo._
+
+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 prodigal
+of the most precious things.--_Colton._
+
+Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes the man when he has
+occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a
+uniform 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 the
+morning courage_. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on
+an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen
+events, 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 is
+a higher virtue, but because the demand for it is more constant.
+Physical courage is a virtue which is almost always put away in the
+lumber room. Moral courage is wanted day by day.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+It is only in little matters that men are cowards.--_William Henry
+Herbert._
+
+Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the
+man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.--_George Eliot._
+
+He who would arrive at fairy land must face the
+phantoms.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Courtier.~--The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is
+made up of very hard and very polished people.--_La Bruyere._
+
+With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their withered
+life, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls.--_Richter._
+
+~Covetousness.~--Desire of having is the sin of
+covetousness.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more
+through some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable
+things, 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 in
+the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and
+steel 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 the
+intellect.--_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 previous
+contemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates.--_Feltham._
+
+~Crime.~--If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father
+of them.--_Bruyere._
+
+Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers are
+capable of being incendiaries.--_Burke._
+
+~Criticism.~--Solomon says rightly: "The wounds made by a friend are worth
+more than the caresses of a flatterer." Nevertheless, it is better that
+the friend wound not at all.--_Joseph de Maistre._
+
+The rule in carving holds good as to criticism,--never cut with a knife
+what 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 in
+that which is innocuous; and are more tolerant of the severity which
+breaks hearts and ruins fortunes, than of that which falls impotently on
+the grave.--_Ruskin._
+
+Certain critics resemble closely those people who when they would laugh
+show ugly teeth.--_Joubert._
+
+Every one is eagle-eyed to see another's faults and his
+deformity.--_Dryden._
+
+For I am nothing if not critical.--_Shakespeare._
+
+He who stabs you in the dark with a pen would do the same with a
+penknife, were he equally safe from detection and the
+law.--_Quintilian._
+
+Silence is the severest criticism.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must be
+long courted, and at last are not always gained; but criticism is a
+goddess easy of access and forward of advance, she will meet the slow
+and 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 is
+not.--_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 to
+that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity
+can rescue it.--_Bovee._
+
+There are some critics who change everything that comes under their
+hands to gold, but to this privilege of Midas they join sometimes his
+ears!--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+~Cruelty.~--Cruelty, the sign of currish kind.--_Spenser._
+
+One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the by-standers
+cruel. How hard the English people grew in the time of Henry VIII. and
+Bloody Mary.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.--_Burns._
+
+Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it
+only requires opportunity.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Cultivation.~--Cultivation is the economy of force.--_Liebig._
+
+The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a
+perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our
+consciousness its own light and its own mirror. Hence there is the less
+reason to be surprised at our inability to enter fully into the feelings
+and characters of others. No one who has not a complete knowledge of
+himself will ever have a true understanding of another.--_Novalis._
+
+Neither the naked hand, nor the understanding, left to itself, can do
+much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps of which the
+need is not less for the understanding than the hand.--_Bacon._
+
+... Without art, a nation is a soulless body; without science, a
+straying wanderer. Without warmth and light, nature cannot thrive, nor
+humanity increase: the light and warmth of humanity is "art and
+science."--_Kozlay._
+
+~Cunning.~--Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than
+from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no
+extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.--_Johnson._
+
+Cleverness and cunning are incompatible. I never saw them united. The
+latter is the resource of the weak, and is only natural to them;
+children and fools are always cunning, but clever people
+never.--_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 associated
+with small and dull conceit, and with an absolute want of sympathy or
+affection. It is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and
+utter.--_Ruskin._
+
+~Curiosity.~--A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the
+crowd, 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 than
+confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by
+instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.--_Johnson._
+
+~Custom.~--The despotism of custom is on the wane; we are not content to
+know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.--_John Stuart
+Mill._
+
+Immemorial custom is transcendent law.--_Menu._
+
+In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would
+find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross
+sense.--_Emerson._
+
+Custom doth make dotards of us all.--_Carlyle._
+
+~Cynics.~--It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually
+at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least
+pleasant samples.--_Dickens._
+
+Cynicism is old at twenty.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+
+D.
+
+~Dandy.~--A dandy is a clothes-wearing man,--a man whose trade, office,
+and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his
+soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one
+object,--the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress
+to live, he lives to dress.--_Carlyle._
+
+A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat
+still.--_Rivarol._
+
+~Danger.~--It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on
+a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters
+a 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 forget
+ourselves and all the passing phenomena of the day, as we forget the
+phantoms of a fleeting dream; to form, as in a dream, new connections
+with God's world; to enter into a more exalted sphere, and to make a new
+step 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 something
+wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with
+black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black
+heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow,
+which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful
+gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet
+grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to
+tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the
+epitaph.--_Ruskin._
+
+There are remedies for all things but death.--_Carlyle._
+
+We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one
+whom we love.--_Mme. de Stael._
+
+Too early fitted for a better state.--_Dryden._
+
+Death, the dry pedant, spares neither the rose nor the thistle, nor does
+he forget the solitary blade of grass in the distant waste. He destroys
+thoroughly and unceasingly. Everywhere we may see how he crushes to dust
+plants and beasts, men and their works. Even the Egyptian pyramids, that
+would 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 vacant
+chair!--_Longfellow._
+
+And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, there's a lean fellow
+beats all conquerors.--_Thomas Dekker._
+
+Death is a commingling of eternity with time.--_Goethe._
+
+To the Christian, whose life has been dark with brooding cares that
+would not lift themselves, and on whom chilling rains of sorrow have
+fallen at intervals through all his years, death is but the clearing-up
+shower; and just behind it are the songs of angels, and the serenity and
+glory 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 those
+whom 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 stirred
+in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our
+first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its
+course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old
+fashion--Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion
+yet--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 shall
+return unto God who gave it.--_Bible._
+
+Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by
+the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die
+as 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 death
+everywhere.--_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 in
+darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have
+seen the first of the dawn, will know it,--the day rises out of the
+night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into
+life.--_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 smoky
+house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of
+our life.--_Spurgeon._
+
+The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almost
+involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following
+debt as lie follows lie. Haydon, the painter, dated his decline from the
+day on which he first borrowed money.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you
+will find it a calamity.--_Johnson._
+
+That swamp [of debt] which tempts men towards it with such a pretty
+covering of flowers and verdure. It is wonderful how soon a man gets up
+to his chin there,--in a condition in which, spite of himself, he is
+forced to think chiefly of release, though he had a scheme of the
+universe in his soul.--_George Eliot._
+
+Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as
+furies.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Deceit.~--No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
+himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered
+as 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 which
+perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are
+cheats.--_Chapin._
+
+Like unto golden hooks that from the foolish fish their baits do
+hide.--_Spenser._
+
+Libertines are hideous spiders that often catch pretty
+butterflies.--_Diderot._
+
+~Decency.~--As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the
+eye, and that pleasure consists in that we observe all the parts with a
+certain elegance are proportioned to each other; so does decency of
+behavior which appears in our lives obtain the approbation of all with
+whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of our
+words and actions.--_Steele._
+
+Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to
+separate 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, loose
+style, where the periods are long and obvious; where the same thought is
+often exhibited in several points of view.--_Goldsmith._
+
+The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that
+speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to
+read.--_Colton._
+
+~Deeds.~--A word that has been said may be unsaid: it is but air. But when
+a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to
+all the mischiefs that may follow.--_Longfellow._
+
+How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill
+done!--_Shakespeare._
+
+Legal deeds were invented to remind men of their promises, or to convict
+them of having broken them,--a stigma on the human race.--_Bruyere._
+
+Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own
+deeds.--_Cervantes._
+
+We should believe only in works; words are sold for nothing
+everywhere.--_Rojas._
+
+~Delay.~--We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that
+thrills us, but shut our doors behind us, and ramble with prepared
+minds, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root
+or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward, which
+is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upwards to the
+light.--_Thoreau._
+
+Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which
+ought to be performed! and is delayed in the execution.--_Veeshnoo
+Sarma._
+
+~Democracy.~--Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal
+change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and
+by.--_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-flowers
+need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it
+embraces.--_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's
+stairs.--_Dante._
+
+How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so
+must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is
+not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must
+live in all and by all. Who will not work, neither shall he eat. So God
+has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love
+each other and bear each other's burdens.--_G. A. Sala._
+
+We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare
+not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do
+not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden
+rudder.--_Emerson._
+
+~Desire.~--It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all
+that follow it.--_Franklin._
+
+Lack of desire is the greatest riches.--_Seneca._
+
+Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied
+with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive
+artificial 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 rarely
+other 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 be
+taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute
+despair.--_Fielding._
+
+Leaden-eyed despair.--_Keats._
+
+In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to
+one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most
+unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.--_De Witt Talmage._
+
+He that despairs limits infinite power to finite
+apprehensions.--_South._
+
+It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper
+is omnipotent.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted
+model.--_South._
+
+Juliet was a fool to kill herself, for in three months she'd have
+married again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed
+hope.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Despotism.~--It is difficult for power to avoid despotism. The possessors
+of rude health; the individualities cut out by a few strokes, solid for
+the very reason that they are all of a piece; the complete characters
+whose fibres have never been strained by a doubt; the minds that no
+questions disturb and no aspirations put out of breath,--these, the
+strong, are also the tyrants.--_Countess de Gasparin._
+
+There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than
+lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignation
+of the whole civilized world.--_Daniel Webster._
+
+~Destiny.~--The scape-goat which we make responsible for all our crimes
+and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have
+no wish to strive against it.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Detention.~--Never hold any one by the button or the hand, in order to be
+heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold
+your tongue than them.--_Chesterfield._
+
+~Detraction.~--Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put
+them to mending.--_Shakespeare._
+
+In some unlucky dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that
+they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for
+excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either
+seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they
+will stab him with a _but_ of detraction; as if there were something yet
+so foul as did obnubilate even his brightest glory. When their tongue
+cannot justly condemn him, they will leave him suspected by their
+silence.--_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 own
+physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature: but more
+especially we should learn to suffer, grow old, and die. Some things are
+salutary, and others hurtful. Eat with moderation what you know by
+experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body
+but 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 a
+guinea.--_Washington Irving._
+
+~Difficulties.~--The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking
+for them.--_Goethe._
+
+The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Hope
+is born in the long night of watching and tears. Faith visits us in
+defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty and
+the crumbling tombstones of mortality.--_Chapin._
+
+How strangely easy difficult things are!--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Diffidence.~--Nothing sinks a young man into low company, both of women
+and men, so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself. If he thinks
+that he shall not, he may depend upon it he will not, please. But with
+proper endeavors to please, and a degree of persuasion that he shall, it
+is almost certain that he will.--_Chesterfield._
+
+No congress, nor mob, nor guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can
+avail, to cut out, burn, or destroy the offense of superiority in
+persons. The superiority in him is inferiority in me.--_Emerson._
+
+~Dignity.~--It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the
+coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. Most of the men of
+dignity, who awe or bore their more genial brethren, are simply men who
+possess the art of passing off their insensibility for wisdom, their
+dullness for depth, and of concealing imbecility of intellect under
+haughtiness 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.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold.--_Lamb._
+
+~Disappointment.~--Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the
+debris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of existence are
+strewn with them.--_Mme. de Stael._
+
+O world! how many hopes thou dost engulf!--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+Thirsting for the golden fountain of the fable, from how many streams
+have we turned away, weary and in disgust!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between
+breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale
+about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride
+helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our
+own hurts--not to hurt others.--_George Eliot._
+
+Ah! what seeds for a paradise I bore in my heart, of which birds of prey
+have 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 to
+others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought,
+from contempt of others, from jealousy.--_La Bruyere._
+
+~Discovery.~--Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops
+out of the darkness, and falls as a golden link in the great chain of
+order.--_Chapin._
+
+~Discretion.~--Be discreet in all things, and go render it unnecessary to
+be mysterious about any.--_Wellington._
+
+Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be
+of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent
+in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he
+pleases in his particular station of life.--_Addison._
+
+~Dishonesty.~--So grasping is dishonesty that it is no respecter of
+persons: 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 to
+create. Ask me for whatever you please except _time_: that is the only
+thing which is beyond my power.--_Napoleon._
+
+True dispatch is a rich thing; for time is the measure of business, as
+money is of wares, and business is bought at a dear hand where there is
+small dispatch.--_Bacon._
+
+~Disposition.~--A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which
+inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is
+even 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 seldom
+receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.--_Fielding._
+
+A good disposition is more valuable than gold; for the latter is the
+gift 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 but
+through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant
+distrust.--_Wendell Phillips._
+
+What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?--_George Eliot._
+
+When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and
+prudence folly.--_Johnson._
+
+~Doubt.~--Remember Talleyrand's advice, "If you are in doubt whether to
+write a letter or not--don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in life
+besides 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 profession
+of faith of people under a worldly yoke.--_X. Doudan._
+
+There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the
+creeds.--_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 of
+the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the litigation of
+sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not
+match 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 to
+give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in
+the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present
+artists.--_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 with
+us at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It
+is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only
+leaves us when we leave the light of life.--_Gladstone._
+
+Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his
+commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.--_Bible._
+
+The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond
+the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of
+a 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 eating
+their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself
+on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform
+would.--_George MacDonald._
+
+To what gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties
+leads!--_Byron._
+
+The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he
+is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and
+consists 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 done
+by.--_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 a
+secondary consideration,--is not this the way to exalt
+virtue?--_Confucius._
+
+The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is
+remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in
+what is difficult.--_Mencius._
+
+Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering
+everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to
+suffer.--_Dr. Vinet._
+
+He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will
+find 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, like
+flowers.--_Wordsworth._
+
+Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their
+birthplace, or their father and mother.--_George Eliot._
+
+
+E.
+
+~Ear.~--A side intelligencer.--_Lamb._
+
+Eyes and ears, two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and
+judgment.--_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 same
+number of our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not only
+enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, but
+increases also the measure.--_Colton._
+
+The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding
+him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an
+empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will be emperor, he
+is 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 same
+hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a
+man's life.--_Doddridge._
+
+Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most
+invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in
+bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy
+and profit by them.--_Southey._
+
+~Economy.~--Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn
+money 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; borrowing
+only lingers and lingers it out; but the disease is
+incurable.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The back-door robs the house.--_George Herbert._
+
+The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance. Yet a
+slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand, strength.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Education.~--Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of
+illustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images, and illustrations;
+it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without
+being 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 will
+efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we
+work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the
+just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets
+something which will brighten to all eternity.--_Daniel Webster._
+
+The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the
+frivolous.--_Mme. de Stael._
+
+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 the
+great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a
+proper education might have disinterred and brought to
+light.--_Addison._
+
+Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own
+teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his
+master.--_Ben Jonson._
+
+I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure
+good. I would let him at first read _any_ English book which happens to
+engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have
+brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books
+afterwards.--_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 he
+does not.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university
+without its education.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that is
+under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike
+education so much is that it makes all people alike, until you have
+examined into them; and it is sometimes so long before you get to see
+under the varnish!--_Lady Hester Stanhope._
+
+~Eloquence.~--The poetry of speech.--_Byron._
+
+This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing
+down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies
+into astonishment, admiration, and awe; that is described by the
+torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible
+impetuosity.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Eminence.~--I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power
+from an obscure condition ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too
+much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to
+pass through some sort of probation. The Temple of Honor ought to be
+seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be
+remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and
+some struggle.--_Burke._
+
+~Emotions.~--All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in
+the tempestuous atmosphere of life.--_Richter._
+
+Emotion has no value in the Christian system save as it stands connected
+with right conduct as the cause of it. Emotion is the bud, not the
+flower, and never is it of value until it expands into a flower. Every
+religious sentiment; every act of devotion which does not produce a
+corresponding elevation of life, is worse than useless; it is absolutely
+pernicious, because it ministers to self-deception and tends to lower
+the line of personal morals.--_W. H. H. Murray._
+
+There are three orders of emotions: those of pleasure, which refer to
+the senses; those of harmony, which refer to the mind; and those of
+happiness, which are the natural result of a union between harmony and
+pleasure.--_Chapone._
+
+Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow; whether raised at a
+puppet-show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers. The
+man who would be always superior should be always
+apathetic.--_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 they
+have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main
+pursuit.--_Blair._
+
+~Emulation.~--Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the
+living.--_Fuseli._
+
+~Enemies.~--It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most
+dangerous.--_Rojas._
+
+~Energy.~--The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that
+which makes the difference between one man and another--between the weak
+and powerful, the great and insignificant--is energy, invincible
+determination; a purpose once formed, and then death or victory. This
+quality will do anything that is to be done in the world; and no
+two-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 is
+frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed
+to 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.--_Sydney
+Smith._
+
+This world belongs to the energetic.--_Emerson._
+
+~Enjoyment.~--Whatever advantage we snatch beyond the certain portion
+allotted us by nature is like money spent before it is due, which at the
+time of regular payment will be missed and regretted.--_Johnson._
+
+~Ennui.~--I have also seen the world, and after long experience have
+discovered that ennui is our greatest enemy, and remunerative labor our
+most lasting friend.--_Moeser._
+
+I am wrapped in dismal thinking.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Enthusiasm.~--Enthusiasts soon understand each other.--_Washington
+Irving._
+
+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.--_Robert
+Hall._
+
+Enthusiasm is that temper of mind in which the imagination has got the
+better of the judgment.--_Warburton._
+
+Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It
+is the inspiration of everything great. Without it, no man is to be
+feared, and with it none despised.--_Bovee._
+
+Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity.--_Thoreau._
+
+A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty
+hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way
+not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints,
+invisibly helping.--_George Eliot._
+
+The insufficient passions of a soul expanding to celestial
+limits.--_Sydney Dobell._
+
+~Envy.~--A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in
+others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon
+others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other.--_Lord
+Bacon._
+
+Pining and sickening at another's joy.--_Ovid._
+
+Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising
+in the esteem of mankind.--_Addison._
+
+He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those
+below.--_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 when
+I pass to the Competitive Examination yonder! On the other side of the
+grave a Raffael's occupation may be gone as well as a
+plowman's.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate
+to man, or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in
+heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist
+hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.--_Thomas
+Paine._
+
+By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are
+brothers, and are equals.--_Mazzini._
+
+The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they
+are 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 absolute
+fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or
+dwarfs.--_Hazlitt._
+
+~Equanimity.~--A thing often lost, but seldom found.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+~Error.~--If those alone who "sowed the wind did reap the whirlwind," it
+would be well. But the mischief is that the blindness of bigotry, the
+madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their
+victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The
+cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or
+the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is
+generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which
+originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the
+vale.--_Colton._
+
+There is a brotherhood of error as close as the brotherhood of
+truth.--_Argyll._
+
+Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they are
+taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may
+naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.--_George Eliot._
+
+Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our
+perfection.--_Richter._
+
+But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same
+opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill
+conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know
+whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to
+examine it by its apparent consequences.--_Burke._
+
+Error in itself is always invisible; its nature is the absence of
+light.--_Jacobi._
+
+There is no place where weeds do not grow, and there is no heart where
+errors are not to be found.--_J. S. Knowles._
+
+Our understandings are always liable to error; nature and certainty is
+very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and
+pretense.--_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 our
+older heads, and become inflexible.--_Sir Thomas Browne._
+
+~Erudition.~--'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that men
+of 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 nobler
+line,--by deeds, not years.--_Sheridan._
+
+To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of
+the effect his death would produce.--_Leves._
+
+~Eternity.~--Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed
+eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction,
+wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to
+stir the opposite balance.--_Addison._
+
+Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. It supposes in
+that to which it is applied a present existence; and is the negation of
+a beginning or of an end of that existence.--_Paley._
+
+~Etiquette.~--Whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer
+than the listener is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury that he
+cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give.--_Johnson._
+
+The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, are to
+be observed in social or official life.--_Prescott._
+
+Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little
+things, and is not hurt by them.--_Fenelon._
+
+The law of the table is beauty, a respect to the common soul of the
+guests. Everything is unreasonable which is private to two or three, or
+any 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 a
+tariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk
+shop" before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and haters from
+insults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends.--_Emerson._
+
+~Events.~--Man reconciles himself to almost any event however trying, if
+it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary
+alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this
+feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice
+of 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 mere
+contingencies 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 discern
+rays of light and hope; and gradually come to see in suffering and
+temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom
+and 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 it
+lies much in comparison.--_Locke._
+
+Not one false man but does uncountable evil.--_Carlyle._
+
+This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it
+brings forth evil.--_Coleridge._
+
+The truly virtuous do not easily credit evil that is told them of their
+neighbors; for if others may do amiss, then may these also speak amiss:
+man is frail, and prone to evil, and therefore may soon fail in
+words.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.--_Rousseau._
+
+"One soweth, and another reapeth," is a verity that applies to evil as
+well 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 involuntarily
+the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those
+among whom we live.--_Joubert._
+
+How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
+naughty 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 the
+things which I do."--_Jacobi._
+
+~Excellence.~--Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellence
+as the power of producing what is good with ease and rapidity.--_Aikin._
+
+~Excelsior.~--Man's life is in the impulse of elevation to something
+higher.--_Jacobi._
+
+~Excess.~--Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great
+a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able
+to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a
+subject; 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 opposite
+direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in
+governments.--_Plato._
+
+~Excitement.~--There is always something interesting and beautiful about a
+universal popular excitement of a generous character, let the object of
+it be what it may. The great desiring heart of man, surging with one
+strong, sympathetic swell, even though it be to break on the beach of
+life and fall backwards, leaving the sands as barren as before, has yet
+a meaning and a power in its restlessness with which I must deeply
+sympathize.--_Mrs. Stowe._
+
+Violent excitement exhausts the mind, and leaves it withered and
+sterile.--_Fenelon._
+
+The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You must
+be calm before you can utter oracles.--_Thoreau._
+
+This is so engraven on our nature that it may be regarded as an
+appetite. Like all other appetites, it is not sinful, unless indulged
+unlawfully, or to excess.--_Dr. Guthrie._
+
+~Excuse.~--Of vain things, excuses are the vainest.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Expectation.~--'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not
+heaven, if we knew what it were.--_Suckling._
+
+It may be proper for all to remember that they ought not to raise
+expectations which it is not in their power to satisfy; and that it is
+more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking
+into smoke.--_Johnson._
+
+~Expediency.~--When private virtue is hazarded upon the perilous cast of
+expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their
+stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.--_Chapin._
+
+Men in responsible situations cannot, like those in private life, be
+governed solely by the dictates of their own inclinations, or by such
+motives as can only affect themselves.--_Washington._
+
+~Experience.~--Life consists in the alternate process of learning and
+unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to
+learn.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Experience, the shroud of illusions.--_De Finod._
+
+To have a true idea of man, or of life, one must have stood himself on
+the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least
+once.--_Taine._
+
+What we learn with pleasure we never forget.--_Alfred Mercier._
+
+Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at
+the end?--_Mme. de Maintenon._
+
+Experience is the extract of suffering.--_Arthur Helps._
+
+Every generous illusion adds a wrinkle in vanishing. Experience is the
+successive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enriched
+by the spoils of the heart.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+~Extravagance.~--Expenses are not rectilinear, but circular. Every inch
+you add to the diameter adds three to the circumference.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+~Extremes.~--Extremes are dangerous; a middle estate is safest; as a
+middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is
+most 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 regard
+to 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. Telescopes
+and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of
+themselves.--_Paxton Hood._
+
+Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence.--_Milton._
+
+Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's
+eye?--_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._
+
+
+F.
+
+~Face.~--A February face, so full of frost, of storms, and
+cloudiness.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Demons in act, but gods at least in face.--_Byron._
+
+A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved
+her with its sympathetic youth, as easily as primitive people imagined
+the humors of the gods in fair weather: what is she to believe in, if
+not 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 airy
+fabric, 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 is
+accurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed through
+the mind of a third person it becomes, so far as regards the impression
+that it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood;
+and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person in
+existence.--_Hawthorne._
+
+~Faction.~--A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressive
+one.--_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 not
+fail!--_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 every
+discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is
+true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we
+shall afterward carefully eschew.--_Keats._
+
+Every failure is a step to success; every detection of what is false
+directs us toward what is true; every trial exhausts some tempting form
+of 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 from
+truth.--_Whewell._
+
+~Faith.~--In affairs of this world men are saved not by faith but by the
+want of it.--_Fielding._
+
+All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one
+single word,--_faith_.--_Napoleon._
+
+O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girt
+with golden wings!--_Milton._
+
+Life grows dark as we go on, till only one clear light is left shining
+on it, and that is faith.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I
+believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a
+thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of
+hope to the equilibrium of reason.--_Rousseau._
+
+Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy
+neighbor; and think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor, if thou
+wantest faith to God: where they are not both together, they are both
+wanting; they are both dead if once divided.--_Quarles._
+
+We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely
+and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a
+faith at all, or it is nothing.--_Froude._
+
+The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to
+condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so
+that conduct may really be the consequence of belief.--_G. H. Lewes._
+
+~Falsehood.~--Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to
+be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of
+truth, as a perspective is of the reality.--_Colton._
+
+Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and
+another as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside: they
+may be light and accidental, but they are ugly soot from the smoke of
+the pit, for all that: and it is better that our hearts should be swept
+clean of them, without one care as to which is largest or
+blackest.--_Ruskin._
+
+It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intentional
+lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.--_Johnson._
+
+Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, the product of all
+climes.--_Addison._
+
+Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood
+is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the
+better, but it embaseth it.--_Lord Bacon._
+
+To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood is
+worse in king than beggar.--_Shakespeare._
+
+A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a
+lie faces God, and shrinks from man.--_Montaigne._
+
+The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's
+itself a lie.--_Pope._
+
+No falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper but returns of force
+to its own likeness.--_Milton._
+
+Figures themselves, in their symmetrical and inexorable order, have
+their mistakes like words and speeches. An hour of pleasure and an hour
+of pain are alike only on the dial in their numerical arrangement.
+Outside the dial they lie sixty times.--_Mery._
+
+~Fame.~--Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest
+afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the
+world.--_Davenant._
+
+Grant me honest fame, or grant me none.--_Pope._
+
+Much of reputation depends on the period in which it rises. The Italians
+proverbially observe that one half of fame depends on that cause. In
+dark periods, when talents appear they shine like the sun through a
+small hole in the window-shutter. The strong beam dazzles amid the
+surrounding gloom. Open the shutter, and the general diffusion of light
+attracts no notice.--_Walpole._
+
+Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she
+issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the
+recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a
+tallow-chandler.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+One Caesar lives,--a thousand are forgot!--_Young._
+
+Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so while
+they were living. Posterity could not be supposed to rake into the
+records of past times for the illustrious obscure, and only ratify or
+annul the lists of great names handed down to them by the voice of
+common fame. Few people recover from the neglect or obloquy of their
+contemporaries. The public will hardly be at the pains to try the same
+cause twice over, or does not like to reverse its own sentence, at least
+when 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 the
+breath 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 hate
+in silence.--_Washington Allston._
+
+Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when
+dead.--_Beranger._
+
+I hope the day will never arrive when I shall neither be the object of
+calumny nor ridicule, for then I shall be neglected and
+forgotten.--_Johnson._
+
+A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance
+of winning it from posterity. True there are some half dozen exceptions
+to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of
+common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a
+lottery.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Fame is the thirst of youth.--_Byron._
+
+Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with
+him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of
+some 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 always
+served not only to render them more brutalized but more
+wicked.--_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 of
+intolerance and of persecution.--_J. Fletcher._
+
+~Fashion.~--Fashion is the great governor of this world. It presides not
+only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics,
+religion, and all other things of the gravest kind. Indeed, the wisest
+of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms
+in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at
+other times universally rejected, than that they were in or out of
+fashion.--_Fielding._
+
+Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense.--_Young._
+
+A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished
+exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the
+real value of what is contained therein.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the
+beautiful, but the willful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the
+superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all
+concretes,--the vulgar.--_Leigh Hunt._
+
+~Faults.~--To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to
+discover them to one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to
+preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is
+pride.--_Confucius._
+
+The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the
+offspring of guilt.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Fear.~--It is no ways congruous that God should be frightening men into
+truth who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence and gentle
+methods of persuasion.--_Atterbury._
+
+Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.--_Sir
+P. Sidney._
+
+Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.--_George Sewell._
+
+Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known
+ones.--_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 an
+ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and
+misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed
+felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the
+skies.--_Burton._
+
+~Fickleness.~--Everything by starts, and nothing long.--_Dryden._
+
+It will be found that they are the weakest-minded and the
+hardest-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 which
+taught 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 than
+real history.--_Rev. John Foster._
+
+Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting: there is a
+resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not
+real, 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 this
+province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty
+engine.--_Channing._
+
+The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of
+caricature; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those
+in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is
+judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained
+in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic
+features are imprinted on the mind forever.--_Macaulay._
+
+Those who delight in the study of human nature may improve in the
+knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of that knowledge, by
+the perusal of such fictions as those before us [Jane Austen's
+Novels].--_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 of
+the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may
+annoy.--_Moliere._
+
+He does me double wrong that wounds me with the flatteries of his
+tongue.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where, although both
+parties intend deception, neither are deceived, since words that cost
+little are exchanged for hopes that cost less.--_Colton._
+
+The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about
+us.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a great
+difference in the fruit.--_Socrates._
+
+The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only
+benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructed
+what we ought to be.--_Swift._
+
+Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is
+his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome
+the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of
+the flatterer within.--_Plutarch._
+
+Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous
+impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his fancy, and
+drives him to a doting upon his own person.--_Jeremy Collier._
+
+Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition
+of other men's praises is most perilous.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
+
+Out of the pulpit, I trust none can accuse me of too much plainness of
+speech; but there, madame [Queen Mary], I am not my own master, but must
+speak that which I am commanded by the King of kings, and dare not, on
+my 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 kept
+a 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. Even
+Milton, cold, serene, and stately as he is, breaks forth into exquisite
+gushes of tenderness and fancy when he marshals the flowers.--_Mrs.
+Stowe._
+
+Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of
+light.--_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 thinking
+about.--_George Eliot._
+
+What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a
+face without a smile,--a feast without a welcome! Are not flowers the
+stars 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 whispering
+violet, a murmuring honeysuckle,--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle
+would these be!--_Beecher._
+
+The bright mosaic, that with storied beauty, the floor of nature's
+temple tessellate.--_Horace Smith._
+
+~Fools.~--You pity a man who is lame or blind, but you never pity him for
+being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.--_Moliere._
+
+Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time and
+temper.--_Goethe._
+
+Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.--_Churchill._
+
+It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him
+that he had none.--_Babinet._
+
+There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise
+the knaves could not exist.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+There are more fools than sages, and among sages there is more folly
+than 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 and
+always 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 own
+making.--_Addison._
+
+~Forbearance.~--The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look
+upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the
+history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to
+myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief
+pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the
+pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the
+erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it
+came.--_Longfellow._
+
+~Forethought.~--Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a
+choice 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 near
+at hand.--_Confucius._
+
+Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth: we
+are saved by making the future present to ourselves.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Forgetfulness.~--There is nothing, no, nothing, innocent or good that
+dies and is forgotten: let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a
+prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better
+thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the
+redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes, or
+drowned in the deep sea. Forgotten! Oh, if the deeds of human creatures
+could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear!
+for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to
+have 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 continued
+by our fears which commenced in our resentment. He that has gone so far
+as to cut the claws of the lion will not feel himself quite secure until
+he 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 wrong
+that has been done us? That we may forgive it.--_Dickens._
+
+'Tis easier for the generous to forgive than for offense to ask
+it.--_Thomson._
+
+Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to
+forgive.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+It is easy enough to forgive your enemies, if you have not the means to
+harm them.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into
+their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by
+the thaw.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Fortitude.~--White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral
+tortures that red men do to physical torments.--_Theophile Gautier._
+
+There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the
+most 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.--_Ben
+Jonson._
+
+It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like
+the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an
+additional lace upon his liveries.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is
+enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.--_Bovee._
+
+The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to
+be of our own producing.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this
+score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be
+adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who certainly
+cannot help themselves.--_Colton._
+
+Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to
+one if they hang long together.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot
+attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of
+them shorter.--_Cowley._
+
+Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our
+presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made them
+fortunate.--_Montaigne._
+
+See'st thou not what various fortunes the Divinity makes man to pass
+through, 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 in
+security; for Fortune, like a man distempered in his senses, leaps now
+this way, now that, and no man is always fortunate.--_Euripides._
+
+They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good
+woman, and gives to those who merit.--_George Eliot._
+
+If Fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life
+consists in being sat upon. But to be coddled on Fortune's knee, and
+then have his ears boxed, that is aggravating.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Fraud.~--The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and
+the more greedily will it be swallowed; since folly will always find
+faith 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 like
+Truth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple being
+fills 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 rule
+through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than
+yourself.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, who
+can have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the seal
+of death is the only seal of friendship.--_Byron._
+
+What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor
+among rogues.--_Thoreau._
+
+So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I fancy every
+blessing both from gods and men ready to descend spontaneously upon him
+who is loved.--_Xenophon._
+
+Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
+distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--_Thoreau._
+
+The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It is
+a Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, no
+co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a
+son.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is
+most strongly united by the fiercest flame.--_Colton._
+
+Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better than
+thyself.--_Confucius._
+
+There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are
+injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and
+friendship with the man of much information,--these are advantageous.
+Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the
+insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued,--these are
+injurious.--_Confucius._
+
+Friendship survives death better than absence.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary
+effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half: for there is
+no 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 the
+less.--_Bacon._
+
+Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the
+declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.--_Washington
+Irving._
+
+It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past
+forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close
+intimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there must
+be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.--_Whately._
+
+An old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a
+confidant of.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Fun.~--There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and I
+do like it in others. Oh, we need it,--we need all the counter-weights
+we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny
+spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from
+them?--_Haliburton._
+
+~Futurity.~--The best preparation for the future is the present well seen
+to, the last duty done.--_George MacDonald._
+
+We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no
+abiding moment.--_Jacobi._
+
+Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise
+than a threat.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this
+corporeal clod.--_Milton._
+
+
+G.
+
+~Gambling.~--Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged
+therein do, in general, exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes,
+and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at
+present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.--_Blackstone._
+
+A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate
+good.--_Johnson._
+
+~Gems.~--How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeply
+colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason
+why 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 else
+in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes
+brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything
+else.--_Spurgeon._
+
+Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are
+its 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 the
+tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.--_George Eliot._
+
+If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its
+chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved them
+for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be
+discouraged.--_Lamartine._
+
+~Genius.~--Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as
+the 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 should
+be as though they were; that the imaginations of one mind should become
+the personal recollections of another.--_Macaulay._
+
+The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than that
+of ambition.--_Voltaire._
+
+One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses is that their very friends are
+more 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. Fatten
+them, and they are done for.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Genius has no brother.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Genius never grows old; young to-day, mature yesterday, vigorous
+to-morrow: always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and
+is the divine gift to woman no less than to man.--_Juan Lewis._
+
+~Gentleman.~--A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of
+structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate
+sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the
+most delicate sympathies; one may say, simply, "fineness of nature."
+This is of course compatible with heroic bodily strength and mental
+firmness; in fact, heroic strength is not conceivable without such
+delicacy.--_Ruskin._
+
+It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a
+rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a
+dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous
+mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to
+the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but
+upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal
+qualities. The Psalmist briefly describes him as one "that walketh
+uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his
+heart."--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph
+Addison.--_Thackeray._
+
+~Gentleness.~--Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminine
+attractions, 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 gentleness
+scarcely ever fails.--_Locke._
+
+Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.--_Sidney._
+
+The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted
+together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or
+not.--_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 more
+rich.--_Shakespeare._
+
+How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void?--_Madame
+Swetchine._
+
+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 a
+father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of
+you; 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.--_Bovee._
+
+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. When
+the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.--_Napoleon._
+
+Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must
+pursue 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; to
+conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus;
+to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale; or, like
+Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while
+she is hesitating where to bestow them.--_Colton._
+
+Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true
+glory.--_Burke._
+
+The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty,--such as
+was 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 him
+after his death I cannot say, because I love not philosophy merely
+notional and conjectural, and no man who has made the experiment has
+been 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 a
+wise man.--_Talleyrand._
+
+~Gluttony.~--Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their
+shame.--_Bible._
+
+The kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their
+altar, and their belly their god.--_Buck._
+
+~God.~--He that doth the ravens feed, yea, providentially caters for the
+sparrow, be comfort to my age!--_Shakespeare._
+
+To escape from evil, we must be made as far as possible like God; and
+this resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.--_Plato._
+
+Whenever I think of God I can only conceive him as a Being infinitely
+great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature
+inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even
+a _miserere_ in _tempo allegro_.--_Haydn._
+
+All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in him
+again.--_Zoroaster._
+
+It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as
+is 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 above
+me in the noontide; and they looked like the sea that was hanging over
+me, and I could see no cord on which they were suspended, and yet they
+never 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 spangled
+with stars, and I could see no pillars that held up the skies, and yet
+they never fell. Now He that holds the stars up and moves the clouds in
+their course can do all things, and I trust Him in the sight of these
+miracles.--_Luther._
+
+This avenging God, rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in a slow
+fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to
+recognize a man who made himself a god.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+This is one of the names which we give to that eternal, infinite, and
+incomprehensible being, the Creator of all things, who preserves and
+governs everything by his almighty power and wisdom, and is the only
+object of our worship.--_Cruden._
+
+~Gold.~--Midas longed for gold. He got gold so that whatever he touched
+became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for
+it.--_Carlyle._
+
+A mask of gold hides all deformities.--_Dekker._
+
+There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the
+other in the camp,--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both
+may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more
+to keep it.--_Colton._
+
+Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like
+trembling 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 of
+the 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 reach
+it.--_Rojas._
+
+~Good.~--When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is
+reason for rejoicing.--_George Eliot._
+
+How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the
+weedy entanglements of evil!--_Carlyle._
+
+Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.--_Milton._
+
+Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a
+just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or
+any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel
+with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the
+courts 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, he
+is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of
+his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at
+its summit,--it is heroism complete.--_Bruyere._
+
+That is good which doth good.--_Venning._
+
+The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil infinite
+and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white; there is
+only 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 are
+rather small and the laughter abundant.--_Washington Irving._
+
+Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring
+back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are
+of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of
+life.--_Dryden._
+
+This portable quality of good-humor seasons all the parts and
+occurrences we meet with, in such a manner that there are no moments
+lost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest of
+loads (when it is a load), that of time, is never felt by
+us.--_Steele._
+
+Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one
+overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives
+them.--_Johnson._
+
+That inexhaustible good-nature, which is the most precious gift of
+Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and
+keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest
+weather.--_Washington Irving._
+
+~Goodness.~--Nothing rarer than real goodness.--_Rochefoucauld._
+
+True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no
+eyes 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 his
+acquaintance.--_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 about
+it.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Government.~--The proper function of a government is to make it easy for
+people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.--_Gladstone._
+
+Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite
+be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there
+must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things
+that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their
+fetters.--_Burke._
+
+Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human
+wants.--_Burke._
+
+Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing
+the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one
+another. It is the sentinel who watches, in order that the common
+laborer be not disturbed.--_Abbe Raynal._
+
+But I say to you, and to our whole country, and to all the crowned heads
+and aristocratic powers and feudal systems that exist, that it is to
+self-government, the great principle of popular representation and
+administration, the system that lets in all to participate in the
+counsels that are to assign the good or evil to all, that we may owe
+what 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 soldiers
+the most expensive, and that of civilians the most vexatious.--_Colton._
+
+Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of
+kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the
+impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man
+would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it
+necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for
+the protection of the rest, and this he is induced to do by the same
+prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to
+choose the least.--_Thomas Paine._
+
+~Grace.~--As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only
+lasts while the warmth continues; but virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real
+worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the true
+graces, which, as Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand,
+because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united
+to 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 as
+enemies? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, are sanctified
+and holy traitors to you. Oh, what a world is this, when what is comely
+envenoms him that bears it!--_Shakespeare._
+
+How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to
+dance!--_Coleridge._
+
+That word, grace, in an ungracious mouth, is but
+profane.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Grace comes as oft clad in the dusky robe of desolation as in white
+attire.--_Sir J. Beaumont._
+
+~Gratitude.~--Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find
+it among gross people.--_Johnson._
+
+God is pleased with no music below so much as the thanksgiving songs of
+relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and
+thankful persons.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the
+grateful.--_Colton._
+
+Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most
+humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love
+without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by
+benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some
+measure forfeited our freedom.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Gratitude is the virtue most deified and most deserted. It is the
+ornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life.--_J. W. Forney._
+
+~Grave.~--Since the silent shore awaits at last even those who longest
+miss the old Archer's arrow, perhaps the early grave which men weep over
+may be meant to save.--_Byron._
+
+The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead
+flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily
+abhors; and that equality the grave will perpetuate to the end of
+time.--_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, who
+ambitiously 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 console
+us.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+~Gravity.~--The very essence of gravity is design, and consequently
+deceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world for more sense and
+knowledge than a man is worth.--_Sterne._
+
+Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservative
+rind.--_Joubert._
+
+Gravity must be natural and simple. There must be urbanity and
+tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who
+formalizes on everything is a fool, and a grave fool is perhaps more
+injurious than a light fool.--_Cecil._
+
+~Greatness.~--There is but one method, and that is hard labor; and a man
+who will not pay that price for greatness had better at once dedicate
+himself to the pursuit of the fox, or sport with the tangles of Neaera's
+hair, 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 of
+humanity; 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 they
+have 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 its
+quantity, nor lower its price; and nearly the best thing that men can
+generally do is--to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the
+discovery of this; learning to know gold, when we see it, from
+iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more
+profitable employment than trying to make diamonds out of our own
+charcoal.--_Ruskin._
+
+Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or
+state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no
+freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their
+times. It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and to lose
+power over a man's self.--_Bacon._
+
+The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as
+the superstitious crowd supposes. But the same feelings which in ancient
+Rome produced the apotheosis of a popular emperor, and in modern times
+the canonization of a devout prelate, lead men to cherish an illusion
+which furnishes them with something to adore.--_Macaulay._
+
+Great men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, they
+feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know
+their own deficiencies.--_Rousseau._
+
+He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no
+more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred
+buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they
+stood.--_Seneca._
+
+Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of
+strength.--_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 may
+never come at all, or you may never live to see it? for every
+substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your
+own making.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one.--_Shakespeare._
+
+While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must
+wait till grief be _digested_. And then amusement will dissipate the
+remains 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 a
+single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with
+nothingness at all points.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+Grief has been compared to a hydra, for every one that dies two are
+born.--_Calderon._
+
+Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out
+its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her
+energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to
+new 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 little
+hand.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to
+agitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past,
+terrors of the future,--these are the domestic Furies that are ever
+present 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 guilt
+increases.--_Schiller._
+
+There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to
+hide.--_George Sand._
+
+~Gunpowder.~--If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous
+discovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and
+the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or
+weep at the folly of mankind.--_Gibbon._
+
+A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at
+cross-grained purposes.--_Marryatt._
+
+Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and
+barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report is
+heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of
+triumph.--_Fuller._
+
+
+H.
+
+~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 the
+individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.--_Cicero._
+
+Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to contract
+none.--_Zimmerman._
+
+The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you
+reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and
+you 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 the
+life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.--_Bacon._
+
+That beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live
+respectably and unhappy men to live calmly.--_George Eliot._
+
+Habits are the daughters of action, but they nurse their mothers, and
+give birth to daughters after her image, more lovely and
+prosperous.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+~Hair.~--The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used
+to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.--_Luther._
+
+Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a
+simple knot was tied above; sweet negligence, unheeded bait of
+love!--_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 speak
+themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we
+threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our
+doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we
+mark number and time.--_Quintilian._
+
+The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their
+hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform
+the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a
+religious ceremony, declined with Paganism; but was continued as a
+salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem
+among friends. At present it is only practiced as a mark of obedience
+from the subject to the sovereign, and by lovers, who are solicitous to
+preserve this ancient usage in its full power.--_Disraeli._
+
+~Handsome.~--They are as heaven made them, handsome enough if they be good
+enough; for handsome is that handsome does.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Happiness.~--The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue
+of woman; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in the
+integrity 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 a
+softened kind. Our recollections are unfortunately mingled with much
+that we deplore, and with many actions that we bitterly repent; still,
+in the most checkered life, I firmly think there are so many little rays
+of sunshine to look back upon that I do not believe any mortal would
+deliberately drain a goblet of the waters of Lethe if he had it in his
+power.--_Dickens._
+
+That man is never happy for the present is so true that all his relief
+from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is
+a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to
+enjoyment.--_Johnson._
+
+It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning. The best happiness will be to
+escape the worst misery.--_George Eliot._
+
+That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a
+philosopher may be equally _satisfied_, but not equally _happy_.
+Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A
+peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a
+philosopher.--_Johnson._
+
+Happiness doats on her work, and is prodigal to her favorite. As one
+drop of water hath an attraction for another, so do felicities run into
+felicities.--_Landor._
+
+Sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the
+heart.--_Wordsworth._
+
+Great happiness is the fire ordeal of mankind, great misfortune only the
+trial by water; for the former opens a large extent of futurity, whereas
+the latter circumscribes or closes it.--_Richter._
+
+Prospective happiness is perhaps the only real happiness in the
+world.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+Nature and individuals are generally best when they are happiest, and
+deserve heaven most when they have learnt rightly to enjoy it. Tears of
+sorrow are only pearls of inferior value, but tears of joy are pearls or
+diamonds of the first water.--_Richter._
+
+How many people I have seen who would have plucked cannon-balls out of
+the muzzles of guns with their bare hands, and yet had not courage
+enough to be happy.--_Theophile Gautier._
+
+All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make them
+happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of
+it.--_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 my
+subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and
+honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly
+blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation,
+I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which
+have fallen to my lot: they amount to _fourteen_. O man, place not thy
+confidence in this present world!--_The Caliph Abdalrahman._
+
+If I may speak of myself (the only person of whom I can speak with
+certainty), _my_ happy hours have far exceeded, and far exceed, the
+scanty numbers of the caliph of Spain; and I shall not scruple to add
+that many of them are due to the pleasing labor of the present
+composition.--_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; and
+who that has a soul or mind can do this? No one; and this proves that
+those who have either know no happiness on this earth. Memory precludes
+happiness, whatever Rogers may say or write to the contrary, for it
+borrows from the past to embitter the present, bringing back to us all
+the grief that has most wounded, or the happiness that has most charmed
+us.--_Byron._
+
+The happiness you wot of is not a hundredth part of what you
+enjoy.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they would
+open if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in. I
+always told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed the
+world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or
+a tenth part of the wickedness there is.--_Mrs. L. M. Child._
+
+Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy, and can make them
+wretched.--_Feltham._
+
+Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds
+whereof we know not.--_Locke._
+
+There comes forever something between us and what we deem our
+happiness.--_Byron._
+
+Philosophical happiness is to want little; civil or vulgar happiness is
+to want much, and to enjoy much.--_Burke._
+
+How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce
+beyond an hour.--_Young._
+
+Plenteous joys, wanton in fullness.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we
+set foot on it.--_Arsene 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, which
+separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with
+art form a graceful design.--_Mme. de Girardin._
+
+The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.--_Quarles._
+
+The use we make of happiness gives us an eternal sentiment of
+satisfaction or repentance.--_Rousseau._
+
+Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.--_J. Petit
+Senn._
+
+In regard to the affairs of mortals, there is nothing happy
+throughout.--_Euripides._
+
+~Hardship.~--The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter
+food,--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else
+to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go
+on.--_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; but
+neither 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 will
+not know them because we hate them.--_Colton._
+
+Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should
+say, his capacity to hate.--_Beecher._
+
+Love is rarely a hypocrite. But hate! how detect, and how guard against
+it. It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you
+can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties whilst
+it favors its disguise; for civilization increases the number of
+contending interests, and refinement renders more susceptible to the
+least irritation the cuticle of self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Health.~--Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon
+his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious
+supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and
+adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished, that it cannot
+fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous
+system.--_Thackeray._
+
+Those hypochondriacs, who, like Herodius, give up their whole time and
+thoughts to the care of their health, sacrifice unto life every noble
+purpose of living; striving to support a frail and feverish being here,
+they neglect an hereafter; they continue to patch up and repair their
+mouldering tenement of clay, regardless of the immortal tenant that must
+survive it; agitated by greater fears than the Apostle, and supported by
+none of his hopes, they "die daily."--_Colton._
+
+Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to
+yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on
+principle 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 every
+sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some
+evils admit of consolations: there are no comforters for dyspepsia and
+the toothache.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Heart.~--The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man
+only 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 beyond
+death 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 small
+experience, 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 are
+only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals
+the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest
+casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some
+train of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but
+which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when
+the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view.--_Dickens._
+
+A willing heart adds feathers to the heel, and makes the clown a winged
+Mercury.--_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 looks
+much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it
+shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so
+great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations
+as above the storms and clouds of earth.--_Rev. Dr. Guthrie._
+
+When at eve at the bounding of the landscape the heavens appear to
+recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon
+an asylum of hope,--a native land of love; and nature seems silently to
+repeat that man is immortal.--_Madame de Stael._
+
+Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while
+to live above the allurements of sense.--_Atterbury._
+
+Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring
+thought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains in
+eternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay,
+will forever feast on the banquet of rich and glorious
+thought.--_Beecher._
+
+~Heroes.~--A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have
+often 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 separate
+altogether the share of Fortune from their own.--_Hallam._
+
+Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great
+victors when their victory is on the right side.--_George Eliot._
+
+No one is a hero to his valet.--_Madame de Sevigne._
+
+~History.~--The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern
+history a chronicle.--_Chauteaubriand._
+
+If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But
+passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives
+is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind
+us!--_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 were
+fought we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the
+philosophy of history, is conjecture.--_Johnson._
+
+History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well
+attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.--_Joubert._
+
+To be entirely just in our estimate of other ages is not only
+difficult,--it is impossible. Even what is passing in our presence we
+see but through a glass darkly. The mind as well as the eye adds
+something of its own before an image, even of the clearest object, can
+be painted upon it; and in historical inquiries the most instructed
+thinkers have but a limited advantage over the most illiterate. Those
+who know the most approach least to agreement.--_Froude._
+
+The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror which merely
+reflects objects, but of the judge who sees, listens, and
+decides.--_Lamartine._
+
+In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good and
+evil: a little exaggeration, a little suppression, a judicious use of
+epithets, a watchful and searching skepticism with respect to the
+evidence on one side, a convenient credulity with respect to every
+report or tradition on the other, may easily make a saint of Laud, or a
+tyrant of Henry the Fourth.--_Macaulay._
+
+History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and
+miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.--_Washington Irving._
+
+History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in
+the management of its perspective that one artist differs from another.
+Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; the
+great majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a general
+idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight
+touches.--_Macaulay._
+
+Violent natures make history. The instruments they use almost always
+kill. Religion and philosophy have their vestments covered with innocent
+blood.--_X. Doudan._
+
+Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past,
+and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with
+immortality.--_Bancroft._
+
+What history is not richer, does not contain far more, than they by whom
+it is enacted, the present witnesses! What mortal understandeth his
+way?--_Jacobi._
+
+He alone reads history aright, who, observing how powerfully
+circumstances influence the feelings and opinions of men, how often
+vices pass into virtues, and paradoxes into axioms, learns to
+distinguish what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what
+is 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, and
+pleasure felt at home.--_Young._
+
+To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early
+years, and I'm not sure but they have the best of it. The image is never
+marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are
+always 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 scruple
+freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a
+sight 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 between
+virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our
+spoons.--_Johnson._
+
+Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale
+in goodness.--_Sir T. Browne._
+
+Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will be
+so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as
+easily 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. Genuine
+simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.--_Burke._
+
+Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good
+conscience 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 his
+grave on half pay and a wooden leg, would not change with
+Achilles.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Hope.~--Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in
+action.--_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 the
+prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated; but
+entertaineth 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, if
+one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which may
+spoil all.--_George Eliot._
+
+Hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little
+scruple of reveling to-day on the profits of to-morrow.--_Johnson._
+
+It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope
+itself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less
+dreadful than its extinction.--_Johnson._
+
+Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.--_Victor
+Hugo._
+
+~Humanity.~--A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds: therefore let
+him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.--_Bacon._
+
+I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which
+will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you
+please.--_Burke._
+
+Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting
+goodness in others, though we ourselves want it. This is the reason why
+we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children, and even the
+expressions of pleasure or uneasiness in some parts of the brute
+creation. They are without artifice or malice; and we love truth too
+well to resist the charms of sincerity.--_Steele._
+
+I do not know what comfort other people find in considering the weakness
+of great men, but 'tis always a mortification to me to observe that
+there is no perfection in humanity.--_Montagu._
+
+The true proof of the inherent nobleness of our common nature is in the
+sympathy it betrays with what is noble wherever crowds are collected.
+Never believe the world is base; if it were so, no society could hold
+together for a day.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Humility.~--It is from out the depths of our humility that the height of
+our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am
+nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul, God comes in, and
+is 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 day
+of his public triumph, the next day went drooping and hanging down his
+head; 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 themselves
+so meekly if they but possessed tigers' claws.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give no
+shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly
+shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their
+summits, the lowlier droop their bows.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low
+in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.--_Archbishop
+Leighton._
+
+~Humor.~--The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, without
+being at all acute: hence there is so much humor and so little wit in
+their literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is acute,
+profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be
+humorous is merely witty.--_Coleridge._
+
+The oil and wine of merry meeting.--_Washington Irving._
+
+These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain themselves the reputation of wits
+and humorists, by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for
+bedlam; not considering that humor should always lie under the check of
+reason, and that it requires the direction of the nicest judgment, by so
+much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless
+freedoms.--_Addison._
+
+~Hyperbole.~--Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless
+imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable,
+cannot rest satisfied with hyperbole.--_Bruyere._
+
+Let us have done with reproaching; for we may throw out so many
+reproachful words on one another that a ship of a hundred oars would not
+be able to carry the load.--_Homer._
+
+~Hypocrisy.~--Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting
+to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy.--_Jeremy
+Taylor._
+
+Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass
+for virtue.--_Moliere._
+
+Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wears
+the 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 by
+counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is
+above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but
+its counterfeit.--_Cecil._
+
+Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God
+alone.--_Milton._
+
+Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, and no man's hatred ever wronged her
+yet, may claim this merit still: that she admits the worth of what she
+mimics with such care.--_Cowper._
+
+I hate hypocrites, who put on their virtues with their white
+gloves.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his
+neighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week
+without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the
+milk for his customers.--_George Mac Donald._
+
+The fatal fact in the case of a hypocrite is that he is a
+hypocrite.--_Chapin._
+
+'Tis a cowardly and servile humor to hide and disguise a man's self
+under a vizor, and not to dare to show himself what he is. By that our
+followers are train'd up to treachery. Being brought up to speak what is
+not true, they make no conscience of a lie.--_Montaigne._
+
+
+I.
+
+~Ideas.~--After all has been said that can be said about the widening
+influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such
+strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great
+world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the
+struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and
+hope.--_George Eliot._
+
+Our ideas are transformed sensations.--_Condillac._
+
+In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our
+fortresses.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the
+one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence
+becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a
+mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by
+falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one
+mind 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 ideas
+are lacking.--_Joubert._
+
+Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow
+up.--_Voltaire._
+
+Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of
+the box which imprisons the roots.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Idleness.~--If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly
+produces 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 active
+cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks
+have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but
+that idle men tempt the devil.--_Colton._
+
+The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to
+lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to
+be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to
+do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of
+tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.--_Dickens._
+
+Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of
+fools.--_Chesterfield._
+
+So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of
+wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but
+little room for temptation.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become
+broken and his torch extinguished.--_Ovid._
+
+~Ignorance.~--Have the _courage_ to be ignorant of a great number of
+things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of
+everything.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+There is no calamity like ignorance.--_Richter._
+
+'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be
+the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much
+exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as
+ignorance!--_Montaigne._
+
+Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a
+capital offense.--_Joubert._
+
+There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice
+which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either
+to 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.--_Lady
+Morgan._
+
+Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it
+may 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 a
+vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of
+attraction.--_Johnson._
+
+~Illusion.~--In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer
+years, 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, for
+images are the brood of desire.--_George Eliot._
+
+A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can
+get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to
+bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may
+follow no one knows.--_Spurgeon._
+
+He who has imagination without learning has wings and no
+feet.--_Joubert._
+
+No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes
+tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober
+probability.--_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 to
+me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee."--_Lessing._
+
+~Immortality.~--When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so
+great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into
+the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a
+multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly
+persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself
+cannot be mortal.--_Cicero._
+
+Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates,
+is something celestial, divine, and consequently
+imperishable.--_Aristotle._
+
+The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this
+corporeal clod.--_Milton._
+
+All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are
+immortal and divine.--_Socrates._
+
+What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things
+fly 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 the
+plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and
+sorrow 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 latter
+desires impossibilities.--_Democritus._
+
+~Improvement.~--Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is
+advancing. Advance with it.--_Mazzini._
+
+People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
+copy after.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Improvidence.~--How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on
+Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence.--_Bovee._
+
+~Income.~--Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and
+pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to
+trip.--_Colton._
+
+~Inconsistency.~--Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if
+they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than
+words of course.--_L'Estrange._
+
+People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's
+caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are
+transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all
+the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Inconstancy.~--The catching court disease.--_Otway._
+
+Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and
+little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.--_Addison._
+
+~Indifference.~--Nothing for preserving the body like having no
+heart.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.--_Ouida._
+
+~Indigestion.~--Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard
+salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce
+correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness
+is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.--_Sydney
+Smith._
+
+~Individuality.~--There are men of convictions whose very faces will light
+up an era, and there are believing women in whose eyes you may almost
+read the whole plan of salvation.--_T. Fields._
+
+Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of
+everything good.--_Richter._
+
+The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers
+to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon
+the earth he treads.--_Mazzini._
+
+~Indolence.~--I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is
+effectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may
+survive.--_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 a
+Capua! 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; the
+gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the
+purchaser.--_Addison._
+
+Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the
+harvest we must sow the seed.--_Bailey._
+
+~Infidelity.~--There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal
+barrenness, inability to do or to be,--insincerity, unbelief. He who
+believes no _thing_, who believes only the shows of things, is not in
+relation with nature and fact at all.--_Carlyle._
+
+I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied
+to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast
+expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.--_Richter._
+
+If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on the
+other, and that the difficulties are more pressing on that side which is
+destitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matter
+as 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 would
+once convince profligates by topics drawn from the view of their own
+quiet, reputation, and health, their infidelity would soon drop
+off.--_Swift._
+
+Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then,
+is it worth? Everything valuable has a compensating power. Not a blade
+of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and
+die, but reproduces something.--_Dr. Chalmers._
+
+~Infirmities.~--Never mind what a man's virtues are; waste no time in
+learning them. Fasten at once on his infirmities.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Influence.~--He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to
+insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but let
+him consecrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not
+demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and
+partake of the purest pleasures.--_Goethe._
+
+If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or
+woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.--_George MacDonald._
+
+The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of
+life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious
+suggestion.--_Chapin._
+
+It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great
+minds 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, which
+controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion
+as crowned.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Ingratitude.~--The great bulk of mankind resemble the swine, which in
+harvest gather and fatten upon the acorns beneath the oak, but show to
+the tree which bore them no other thanks than rubbing off its bark, and
+tearing up the sod around it.--_Scriver._
+
+One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is
+the very extensiveness of his bounty.--_Paley._
+
+~Injustice.~--The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often
+his 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 too
+few to wash her clean again!--_Shakespeare._
+
+My ways are as broad as the king's high road, and my means lie in an
+inkstand.--_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 and
+actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his
+life.--_Montaigne._
+
+~Innovation.~--The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases
+the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my
+blood!--_Schiller._
+
+Dislike of innovation proceeds sometimes from the disgust excited by
+false humanity, canting hypocrisy, and silly enthusiasm.--_Sydney
+Smith._
+
+~Insanity.~--Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary
+life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our
+nature.--_Taine._
+
+~Inspiration.~--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble
+impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the
+mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best
+deeds are all given to us.--_George Eliot._
+
+Contagious enthusiasm.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+~Instinct.~--The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of
+nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living
+agent.--_Newton._
+
+Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals as religion does the
+interior of men.--_Jacobi._
+
+All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens
+and kills them.--_Aime Martin._
+
+An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of
+instruction.--_Paley._
+
+~Insult.~--It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves
+insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society do you think
+it is taken as an insult?--_Lady Hester Stanhope._
+
+I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the
+man who has forgiven an insult.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Insurrection.~--Insurrection unusually gains little; usually wastes how
+much! One of its worst kind of wastes, to say nothing of the rest, is
+that of irritating and exasperating men against each other by violence
+done; which is always sure to be injustice done, for violence does even
+justice unjustly.--_Carlyle._
+
+~Intellect.~--The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small
+retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant
+trades, he links the four quarters of the globe.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Intelligence.~--The higher feelings, when acting in harmonious
+combination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless
+scope for gratification; their least indulgence is delightful, and their
+highest activity is bliss.--_Combe._
+
+Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their
+closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated
+courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far
+removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober
+light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which
+incessantly 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 a
+torch or a fire-brand according to the use one makes of it.--_Fernan
+Caballero._
+
+~Intemperance.~--The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday,
+weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that
+particle of the divine spirit.--_Horace._
+
+Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.--_Junius._
+
+~Intolerance.~--Nothing dies so hard, and rallies so often, as
+intolerance.--_Beecher._
+
+Intolerance is the curse of every age and state.--_Dr. Davies._
+
+~Invective.~--Invective may be a sharp weapon, but over-use blunts its
+edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true, it is an error of art
+to indulge in it too long.--_Tyndall._
+
+~Invention.~--Invention is a kind of muse, which, being possessed of the
+other advantages common to her sisters, and being warmed by the fire of
+Apollo, is raised higher than the rest.--_Dryden._
+
+Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of
+those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the
+memory. Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials
+can 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 say
+it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can
+invent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Irresolution.~--Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that
+shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all
+can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like
+an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once
+in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so
+hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.--_Feltham._
+
+Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our
+choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all
+our unhappiness.--_Addison._
+
+Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the
+mouth.--_Cervantes._
+
+~Irritability.~--Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon as
+sloth 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 at
+last.--_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 it
+draws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old rough
+stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an
+abundance of conceits about fidelity, friendship, and woman's love,
+which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It
+might also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered,
+which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreading
+its green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature.--_Mrs.
+Stowe._
+
+
+J.
+
+~Jealousy.~--What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes.--_Gay._
+
+Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little
+things 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 them
+when a man they do love is not jealous.--_Ninon de L'Enclos._
+
+A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.--_Mlle. de Scudery._
+
+Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of
+angels.--_Boufflers._
+
+~Jesting.~--Jests--Brain fleas that jump about among the slumbering
+ideas.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+The jest loses its point when the wit is the first to
+laugh.--_Schiller._
+
+And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and
+bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh
+others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of other's
+memory.--_Bacon._
+
+~Jewelry.~--Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were
+invented only to make her the more mischievous.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+~Jews.~--Talk what you will of the Jews; that they are cursed: they thrive
+wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country
+by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for
+their being hated, why Christians hate one another as much.--_Selden._
+
+They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge
+is 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 and
+sweet 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 of
+moments.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Joy is the best of wine.--_George Eliot._
+
+Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which in the morning only appears
+in the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of day
+casts 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 wishes
+are concerned.--_Wellington._
+
+Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Noah was a
+sailor.--_Shakespeare._
+
+A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them,
+scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have
+renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.--_Goethe._
+
+In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily
+sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth
+fruitfully.--_Thomas a Kempis._
+
+I have seen, when after execution judgment hath repented o'er his
+doom.--_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 an
+evil 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 falling
+on one side, topples over on the other.--_Mazzini._
+
+The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity
+never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of
+the future is incorrupt.--_Gladstone._
+
+Upon any given point, contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the man who
+has mastered the laws of evidence, but he knows little of the laws of
+evidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; and
+without this last knowledge a man of action will not attain to the
+practical, nor will a poet achieve the ideal.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that
+which seems.--_Southey._
+
+~Justice.~--It is the pleasure of the gods--that what is in conformity
+with 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 from
+its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to be
+shed.--_Corneille._
+
+Justice is truth in action.--_Joubert._
+
+At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of
+justice in man. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and nobler
+ideas of it; but while we are in this life we can only speak from the
+volume 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 saw
+to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.--_Wendell
+Phillips._
+
+But Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving with
+averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont
+to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped
+with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.--_AEschylus._
+
+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, it
+is within us as a great yearning.--_George Eliot._
+
+Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and
+decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual,
+polity to the community.--_Goethe._
+
+
+K.
+
+~Kindness.~--Yes! you may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan
+without the oil and twopence.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+Paradise is open to all kind hearts.--_Beranger._
+
+Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image
+it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out
+of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind
+words in such abundance as they ought to be used.--_Pascal._
+
+To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of
+life.--_Johnson._
+
+To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a
+reproach.--_Demosthenes._
+
+Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of
+white hair.--_O. Feuillet._
+
+Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.--_Mme. de
+Stael._
+
+~Kings.~--Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that
+their 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 kings
+resort.--_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 honored
+tomb.--_Alfieri._
+
+One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in
+kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so
+frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a
+lion.--_Thomas Paine._
+
+He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears
+it.--_Corneille._
+
+Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows
+into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next
+to true succession.--_Dryden._
+
+~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as
+ever. It preexisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon
+it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues,
+and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in
+it.--_Haliburton._
+
+Dear as remembered kisses after death.--_Tennyson._
+
+Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.--_Ben
+Jonson._
+
+He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate--he
+was 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 a
+foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not
+so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love
+which 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 are
+love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.--_Bovee._
+
+~Knavery.~--Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the
+invention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they always
+keep them in hope.--_Burke._
+
+After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a
+rogue who was not unhappy.--_Junius._
+
+By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave
+finds a gull.--_Zimmerman._
+
+~Knowledge.~--The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not
+in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book
+learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is
+the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national
+degeneracy and ruin.--_G. W. Curtis._
+
+Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced," in order to be
+known.--_Whipple._
+
+The pleasure and delight of knowledge far surpasseth all other in
+nature. We see in all other pleasures there is satiety; and after they
+be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well that they be but
+deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty
+which pleased, not the quality; and therefore we see that voluptuous men
+turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge
+there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually
+interchangeable.--_Bacon._
+
+What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and
+loved because it is known?--_George Eliot._
+
+The truth is, that most men want knowledge, not for itself, but for the
+superiority which knowledge confers; and the means they employ to secure
+this superiority are as wrong as the ultimate object, for no man can
+ever end with being superior who will not begin with being
+inferior.--_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 of
+in 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 is
+intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of
+without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he
+had it.--_Montaigne._
+
+He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, he
+may be a teacher of others.--_Confucius._
+
+A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is
+the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full
+extent of its capacity.--_Locke._
+
+Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over
+prejudice, and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fast
+learning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not imply
+necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole
+world is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy of
+mind, 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 immediate
+boundaries.--_Tyndall._
+
+The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to
+unlearn 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'er
+the fatal truth; the tree of knowledge is not that of life.--_Byron._
+
+The seeds of knowledge maybe planted in solitude, but must be cultivated
+in public.--_Johnson._
+
+Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in
+minds attentive to their own.--_Cowper._
+
+It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it
+gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of
+its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments helps to
+new conquests.--_Daniel Webster._
+
+The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the
+infirm excitement of passions and vices.--_Beecher._
+
+There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather
+know it than not.--_Johnson._
+
+We always know everything when it serves no purpose, and when the seal
+of the irreparable has been set upon events.--_Theophile Gautier._
+
+All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive,
+but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of
+humanity.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+
+L.
+
+~Labor.~--Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion
+and suicide.--_Mazzini._
+
+Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given
+force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty
+God!--_Carlyle._
+
+The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to be
+fetched.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.--_Joubert._
+
+As steady application to work is the healthiest training for every
+individual, so is it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industry
+always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is
+altogether impossible without it.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Nature is just towards men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; it
+renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the
+greatest rewards.--_Montesquieu._
+
+Virtue's guard is Labor, ease her sleep.--_Tasso._
+
+Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth
+and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and
+a most royal thing to labor.--_Barrow._
+
+Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they
+could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really
+produced a master like Raphael.--_Goethe._
+
+He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor forgets the
+early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.--_Locke._
+
+The pain of life but sweetens death; the hardest labor brings the
+soundest 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 the
+man," an infinitely wider kind of epic.--_Carlyle._
+
+Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without
+becoming proportionably brutified!--_Hawthorne._
+
+~Land.~--There is a distinct joy in owning land, unlike that which you
+have in money, in houses, in books, pictures, or anything else which men
+have devised. Personal property brings you into society with men. But
+land is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel of
+ground is deeded to you, and you walk over it, and call it your own, it
+seems as if you had come into partnership with the original Proprietor
+of the earth.--_Beecher._
+
+~Language.~--The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but
+few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no
+foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a
+native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great
+mother.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+The key to the sciences.--_Bruyere._
+
+A countryman is as warm in fustian as a king in velvet, and a truth is
+as comfortable in homely language as in fine speech. As to the way of
+dishing up the meat, hungry men leave that to the cook, only let the
+meat be sweet and substantial.--_Spurgeon._
+
+The machine of the poet.--_Macaulay._
+
+Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets
+that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn
+a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a
+translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any
+language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the
+language.--_Johnson._
+
+Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee: it springs out of
+the most retired and inmost part of us.--_Ben Jonson._
+
+If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, it
+will be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being the
+same. If it is high flown and bombastic, a character for national
+simplicity and thankfulness cannot long be maintained.--_Dean Alford._
+
+~Laughter.~--Conversation never sits easier than when we now and then
+discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter; which may not improperly
+be called the chorus of conversation.--_Steele._
+
+The laughers are a majority.--_Pope._
+
+Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the perils
+of ridicule: you can no more exercise your reason, if you live in the
+constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in
+the constant terror of death.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the
+whole man!--_Carlyle._
+
+God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as
+laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable
+sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming
+despair 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 sting
+in 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 shoots
+it off.--_De Witt Talmage._
+
+I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever
+heard me laugh.--_Chesterfield._
+
+I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shower at
+the same time pearls and the soul.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps
+to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among
+our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was
+founded 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 statutes
+are waste paper, lacking all executive force.--_Wendell Phillips._
+
+Of all the parts of a law, the most effectual is the _vindicatory_; for
+it is but lost labor to say, "Do this, or avoid that," unless we also
+declare, "This shall be the consequence of your non-compliance." The
+main strength and force of a law consists in the penalty annexed to
+it.--_Blackstone._
+
+If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by
+every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of
+the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.--_Ruskin._
+
+It would be very singular if this great shad-net of the law did not
+enable men to catch at something, balking for the time the eternal
+flood-tide of justice.--_Chapin._
+
+True law is right reason conformably to nature, universal, unchangeable,
+eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain
+us 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 and
+most perfect branch of ethics.--_Blackstone._
+
+In effect, to follow, not to force, the public inclination, to give a
+direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the
+general sense of the community, is the true end of
+legislation.--_Burke._
+
+In the habits of legal men every accusation appears insufficient if they
+do not exaggerate it even to calumny. It is thus that justice itself
+loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.--_Lamartine._
+
+Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it
+cruelly.--_Shakespeare._
+
+It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make
+them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as
+virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently
+the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the
+cause 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 it
+does not strike the guilty it hits some one else. As every crime creates
+a 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 though
+it may not add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to transmit it to
+others. Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the
+fountain-heads.--_James Northcote._
+
+Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--_Young._
+
+Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing
+for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to
+riches.--_Cicero._
+
+The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but
+little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short
+flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are
+formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.--_Johnson._
+
+No man can ever want this mortification of his vanity, that what he
+knows is but a very little, in comparison of what he still continues
+ignorant of. Consider this, and, instead of boasting thy knowledge of a
+few things, confess and be out of countenance for the many more which
+thou dost not understand.--_Thomas a Kempis._
+
+Suppose we put a tax upon learning? Learning, it is true, is a useless
+commodity, but I think we had better lay it on ignorance; for learning
+being the property but of a very few, and those poor ones too, I am
+afraid we can get little among them; whereas ignorance will take in most
+of 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, if
+they be accompanied by a bad training is a much greater
+misfortune.--_Plato._
+
+No power can exterminate the seeds of liberty when it has germinated in
+the blood of brave men. Our religion of to-day is still that of
+martyrdom; to-morrow it will be the religion of victory.--_Mazzini._
+
+~Leisure.~--"Never less idle than when idle," was the motto which the
+admirable Vittoria Colonna wrought upon her husband's dressing-gown. And
+may we not justly regard our appreciation of leisure as a test of
+improved character and growing resources?--_Tuckerman._
+
+Leisure is gone; gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the
+pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers who brought bargains
+to the door on sunny afternoons.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Libels.~--Undoubtedly the good fame of every man ought to be under the
+protection of the laws, as well as his life and liberty and property.
+Good fame is an outwork that defends them all and renders them all
+valuable. The law forbids you to revenge; when it ties up the hands of
+some, it ought to restrain the tongues of others.--_Burke._
+
+If it was a new thing, it may be I should not be displeased with the
+suppression of the first libel that should abuse me; but, since there
+are enough of them to make a small library, I am secretly pleased to see
+the number increased, and take delight in raising a heap of stones that
+envy has cast at me without doing me any harm.--_Balzac._
+
+~Liberty.~--Liberty is the right to do what the laws allow; and if a
+citizen 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 will
+burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire,
+it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains
+may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave
+both the ocean and the land, and at some time or another, in some place
+or another, the volcano will break out and flame to heaven.--_Daniel
+Webster._
+
+Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the
+heart.--_Washington._
+
+~Library.~--A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the
+learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to
+wander at random over many.--_Seneca._
+
+He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four
+walls 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 the
+souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these
+Bodleians were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I
+do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I
+could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid
+their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is
+fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid
+the happy orchard.--_Lamb._
+
+~Life.~--Life is a quaint puzzle. Bits the most incongruous join into each
+other, and the scheme thus gradually becomes symmetrical and clear;
+when, lo! as the infant clasps his hands, and cries, "See, see! the
+puzzle is made out," all the pieces are swept back into the box--black
+box 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 bright
+flowers, and beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we
+scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an
+opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees as
+we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the
+fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert
+waste.--_G. A. Sala._
+
+How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we
+are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are
+looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we
+appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even
+that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on
+some future day when we have time.--_Colton._
+
+The days of our years are three-score years and ten; and if by reason of
+strength they be four-score years, yet is their strength labor and
+sorrow; 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 have
+done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and
+bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has
+passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no
+means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive
+illusion.--_Chesterfield._
+
+Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to
+play 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 he
+whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.--_James Martineau._
+
+Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be
+defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent
+of thistledown.--_George Eliot._
+
+When we embark in the dangerous ship called Life, we must not, like
+Ulysses, be tied to the mast; we must know how to listen to the songs of
+the sirens and to brave their blandishments.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass
+quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater
+is their power to harm us.--_Voltaire._
+
+The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of
+life.--_Theodore Parker._
+
+I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers
+all the incidents of his past existence, who would accept it again; we
+are 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 sea
+begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.--_George Eliot._
+
+We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds
+us of it at the wrong end.--_L'Estrange._
+
+This tide of man's life after it once turneth and declineth ever runneth
+with a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never floweth again.--_Sir
+W. Raleigh._
+
+If the first death be the mistress of mortals, and the mistress of the
+universe, reflect then on the brevity of life. "I have been, and that is
+all," said Saladin the Great, who was conqueror of the East. The longest
+liver had but a handful of days, and life itself is but a circle, always
+beginning 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 world
+a valley of tears. But I believe they would be more so, if they called
+it a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everything
+right in the world, than with those who think nothing right. With so
+many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a
+place of sorrow and torment?--_Richter._
+
+Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to
+enjoyment.--_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 so
+grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.--_Augusta
+Evans._
+
+~Light.~--Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the
+apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared
+with the light which the sun sends into our windows, which he pours
+freely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily the
+eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason and
+conscience and love are of more worth and dignity than the rare
+endowments which give celebrity to a few.--_Dr. Channing._
+
+More light!--_Goethe's last words._
+
+Light! Nature's resplendent robe; without whose vesting beauty all were
+wrapt 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 a
+cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a
+torch, 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 grew
+upon my lips.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The lips of a fool swallow up himself.--_Bible._
+
+~Literature.~--Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages
+are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.--_Froude._
+
+The literature of a people must spring from the sense of its
+nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and
+self-respect is impossible without liberty.--_Mrs. Stowe._
+
+Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of
+the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by
+wit, 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 charming
+relaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be at
+the desk everyday from ten till five o'clock; and I shall never forget
+the delight with which, on returning home, I used to read and write
+during the evening.--_Rogers._
+
+Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom
+they love, or to whom they are related.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Whatever the skill of any country be in sciences, it is from excellence
+in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from
+posterity.--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Logic.~--Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one
+close, the other at large.--_Bacon._
+
+Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them
+the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved
+discourses.--_Locke._
+
+Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.--_Bruyere._
+
+~Love.~--Fie, fie! how wayward is this foolish love, that, like a testy
+babe, will scratch the nurse, and presently, all humbled, will kiss the
+rod!--_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 callousness
+that encroach by little and little on the dominion of grief, and it
+makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Love while 't is day; night cometh soon, wherein no man or maiden
+may.--_Joaquin Miller._
+
+Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at
+solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the
+while disbelieves.--_George Eliot._
+
+As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love
+with words.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Loves change sure as man or moon, and wane like warm full days of
+June.--_Joaquin Miller._
+
+Take of love as a sober man takes wine; do not get drunk.--_Alfred de
+Musset._
+
+Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the
+beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their
+action. The qualities of the sexes correspond. The man's courage is
+loved by the woman, whose fortitude again is coveted by the man. His
+vigorous intellect is answered by her infallible tact. Can it be true,
+what is so constantly affirmed, that there is no sex in souls? I doubt
+it--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 love
+that 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 it
+is durable, it is serene and equable. Even its famous pains begin only
+with the ebb of love, for few are indeed lovers, though all would fain
+be.--_Thoreau._
+
+Love makes all things possible.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Economy in love is peace to nature, much like economy in worldly
+matters; 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 upon
+thy flame and it is gone for ever, and but leaves a sullied vase,--its
+pure 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 still
+only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart
+is 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 the
+house.--_Moore._
+
+Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in
+life.--_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 rejects
+divided 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 dream
+of bliss, will shrink trembling from the pangs that attend their
+waking.--_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 have
+loved.--_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--the
+things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely
+perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from
+blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and
+lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and
+indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of
+completeness, 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 be
+sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses,
+too, that were let fall ready to soothe the wearied feet.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+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 it
+warms 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 its
+rays.--_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 a
+napkin; he may hug himself in his reputation; but he is always generous
+in 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 give
+it away.--_Macleod._
+
+Repining love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring as in
+the other, shun sunlight.--_Richter._
+
+Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.--_Segur._
+
+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 one
+else.--_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 human
+comedy opens only at the moment when love makes a breach in our
+hearts.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+The religion of humanity is love.--_Mazzini._
+
+He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the
+night, but he who is intoxicated by the cup-bearer will not recover his
+senses 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--the
+date 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 and
+recognize a change in the world without, verdure on the trees, blossoms
+on the sward, warmth in the sunshine, music in the air, we say spring
+has 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 listen
+to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. "Love has no
+wherefore," says one of the Latin poets.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and
+not, as it too often is, the end.--_Alphonse Karr._
+
+One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to
+be loved is an insupportable death.--_Voltaire._
+
+The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not
+remain a little corner for flattery and love.--_Mauvaux._
+
+Love is always blind and tears his hands whenever he tries to gather
+roses.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by
+imagination.--_Voltaire._
+
+Oh! I was mad to intoxicate myself with the wine of love, and to extend
+my hand to the crown of poets. Pleasure! Poetry! you are perfidious
+friends. Pain follows you closely.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from
+wits.--_Alphonse Karr._
+
+In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never
+comes 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.--_Marguerite
+de 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 not
+to be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, she
+must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and
+watch through darkness.--_George Eliot._
+
+To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, to
+be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is
+stealing fire from heaven and deserves death.--_Madame de Girardin._
+
+But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set a
+candle 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, fallen
+from heaven, who all at once recognize and run to meet each other." A
+little dry Frenchman, hot-blooded, witty, lively, replied to him: "You
+are 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 first
+partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true
+friendship 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 face
+of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own
+yearnings.--_George Eliot._
+
+Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral
+world would be palsied.--_Southey._
+
+Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish
+companionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes to
+unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Nothing quickens the perceptions like genuine love. From the humblest
+professional attachment to the most chivalric devotion, what keenness of
+observation is born under the influence of that feeling which drives
+away the obscuring clouds of selfishness, as the sun consumes the vapor
+of the morning.--_Tuckerman._
+
+~Luck.~--Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be
+so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that all shallow observers will
+call you lucky.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Luxury.~--Whenever vanity and gayety, a love of pomp and dress,
+furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and
+elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of
+men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what
+evils, 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, your
+chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your
+bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of
+religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to
+be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth
+as it is in Jesus.--_Spurgeon._
+
+O Luxury! Thou curst of heaven's decree.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives
+longer.--_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 provided
+king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a
+vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set
+the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear
+under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger, when all above is
+calm.--_Washington Allston._
+
+Lies exist only to be extinguished.--_Carlyle._
+
+A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.--_Tennyson._
+
+
+M.
+
+~Madness.~--Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life
+without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person
+of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the
+madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever
+to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.--_Johnson._
+
+~Man.~--It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is
+to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his
+greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without
+his 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.--_Moliere._
+
+He is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. Mean and petty
+his wants and his desires; yet they serve a soul exalted with grand,
+glorious aims,--with immortal longings,--with thoughts which sweep the
+heavens, and wander through eternity. A pigmy standing on the outward
+crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to
+the infinite, and there alone finds rest.--_Carlyle._
+
+Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much
+obscurity.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in
+faculty! in form and movement, how express and admirable! in action, how
+like 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 as
+if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. And
+here they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervals
+the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns, and they
+mope and wallow like dogs!--_Emerson._
+
+In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age
+I think I should write an apology for them.--_Walpole._
+
+Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.--_Alexander
+Hamilton._
+
+I considered how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! He is
+lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything. He is
+given a freedom of his will; but wherefore? Was it but to torment and
+perplex him the more? How little avails this freedom, if the objects he
+is to act upon be not as much disposed to obey as he is to
+command!--_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 upon
+each other, no man's learning yet could tell him.--_Jeremy Collier._
+
+Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds
+nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The
+greatest star is at the small end of the telescope, the star that is
+looking, not looked after nor looked at.--_Theodore Parker._
+
+Men are but children of a larger growth; our appetites are apt to change
+as 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 nature
+the 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 tree
+would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from
+every 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 in
+memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make
+that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception,
+the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show control; you
+shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and
+every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. They must be
+inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or
+form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around
+us.--_Emerson._
+
+We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanor is made up of
+artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and
+simple: without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicity
+awkwardness.--_George Eliot._
+
+We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak
+obligingly.--_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 be
+settled.--_Feltham._
+
+The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses
+with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved,
+love measure. You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you
+will hide the want of measure.--_Emerson._
+
+We are to carry it from the hand to the heart, to improve a ceremonial
+nicety into a substantial duty, and the modes of civility into the
+realities 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 of
+being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.--_Jeffrey._
+
+Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to
+capitulate, 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 not
+detain 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 firm
+allies.--_Bartol._
+
+The "over-formal" often impede, and sometimes frustrate, business by a
+dilatory, tedious, circuitous, and (what in colloquial language is
+called) fussy way of conducting the simplest transactions. They have
+been compared to a dog which cannot lie down till he has made three
+circuits round the spot.--_Whately._
+
+~Martyrs.~--Even in this world they will have their judgment-day, and
+their names, which went down in the dust like a gallant banner trodden
+in the mire, shall rise again all glorious in the sight of
+nations.--_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 the
+dupe of one's ambition.--_Lamartine._
+
+God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and
+tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which
+they had never the opportunity of performing.--_Addison._
+
+~Matrimony.~--When a man and woman are married their romance ceases and
+their 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 who
+comes 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, if
+they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of
+the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice
+in 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 an
+offence to the world, lives upon spoil and rapine, disturbs peace,
+steals sweets that are none of his own, and, by robbing the hives of
+others, 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 first
+passionate illusion. That can alone render wedlock the seal that
+confirms affection, and not the mocking ceremonial that consecrates its
+grave.--_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 want
+everything.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second
+glass.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it
+clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient
+edifice into a ruin.--_Johnson._
+
+He that marries is like the Doge who was wedded to the Adriatic. He
+knows not what there is in that which he marries: mayhap treasures and
+pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.--_Moliere._
+
+There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most
+marriages.--_Thoreau._
+
+The love of some men for their wives is like that of Alfieri for his
+horse. "My attachment for him," said he, "went so far as to destroy my
+peace every time that he had the least ailment; but my love for him did
+not prevent me from fretting and chafing him whenever he did not wish to
+go my way."--_Bovee._
+
+No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the
+conjugal sea.--_Balzac._
+
+Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of
+pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?--_George Eliot._
+
+~Mediocrity.~--Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre
+people.--_Joubert._
+
+Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet;
+but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly
+above 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 report
+they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome
+news.--_Young._
+
+Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known
+truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon
+till 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 and
+said, "Meekness gives smooth answers to rough questions."--_Mrs.
+Balfour._
+
+~Melancholy.~--Melancholy is a fearful gift; what is it but the telescope
+of 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 is
+low.--_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 sorrow
+still.--_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, a
+sound, awake them?--_Lessing._
+
+In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention; it is the
+life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are
+empty.--_Willmott._
+
+Memory is the scribe of the soul.--_Aristotle._
+
+The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like
+a diorama.--_George Eliot._
+
+We must always have old memories and young hopes.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+They teach us to remember; why do not they teach us to forget? There is
+not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that
+memory was as much of a curse as a blessing.--_F. A. Durivage._
+
+~Mercy.~--Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which
+men call justice!--_Longfellow._
+
+Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.--_Shakespeare._
+
+'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better
+than 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 so
+sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows
+the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the
+storm is past. It is the light that hovers above the
+judgment-seat.--_Chapin._
+
+We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines
+with even more brilliancy than justice.--_Cervantes._
+
+~Milton.~--His poetry reminds us of the miracles of Alpine scenery. Nooks
+and dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and
+gigantic elevations. The roses and myrtles bloom unchilled on the verge
+of the avalanche.--_Macaulay._
+
+~Mind.~--It is with diseases of the mind as with diseases of the body, we
+are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we
+do.--_Colton._
+
+The end which at present calls forth our efforts will be found when it
+is once gained to be only one of the means to some remoter end. The
+natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but
+from hope to hope.--_Johnson._
+
+Minds filled with vivid, imaginative thoughts, are the most indolent in
+reproducing. Clear, cold, hard minds are productive. They have to
+retrace 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 which
+we call the mind?--_Prior._
+
+Just as a particular soil wants some one element to fertilize it, just
+as the body in some conditions has a kind of famine for one special
+food, so the mind has its wants, which do not always call for what is
+best, but which know themselves and are as peremptory as the salt sick
+sailor's call for a lemon or raw potato.--_Holmes._
+
+The best way to prove the clearness of our mind is by showing its
+faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces
+us of the transparency of the water.--_Pope._
+
+A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an
+hour.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Mischief.~--The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a
+day, 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, and
+even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of
+imbecility.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Misery.~--There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help
+smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not
+dimples.--_Holmes._
+
+Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much
+so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which
+has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced
+us.--_Richter._
+
+~Misfortune.~--If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public
+stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those
+who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they
+are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a
+division.--_Socrates._
+
+Depend upon it, that if a man _talks_ of his misfortunes there is
+something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is
+nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of
+it.--_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 a
+sweet-smelling flower.--_Richter._
+
+Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but
+misadventure.--_Alcott._
+
+There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and
+people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+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 use
+their freedom. The natives of wine countries are generally sober. In
+climates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds. A newly liberated
+people may be compared to a Northern army encamped on the Rhine or the
+Xeres. It is said that, when soldiers in such a situation first find
+themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and
+expensive luxury, nothing is to be seen but intoxication. Soon, however,
+plenty teaches discretion; and after wine has been for a few months
+their daily fare, they become more temperate than they had ever been in
+their own country. In the same manner, the final and permanent fruits of
+liberty are wisdom, moderation, and mercy.--_Macaulay._
+
+The superior man wishes to be slow in his words, and earnest in his
+conduct.--_Confucius._
+
+Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but
+the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or
+confusion; as if the short spring days were an eternity.--_Thoreau._
+
+It is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything along
+its course.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+~Modesty.~--False modesty is the last refinement of vanity. It is a
+lie.--_Bruyere._
+
+The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish
+Modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that
+is 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 the
+deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly
+undervalued 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 English
+woman 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 to
+be exhaled to heaven.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+Modesty is still a provocation.--_Poincelot._
+
+Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.--_E. de
+Girardin._
+
+~Money.~--Wisdom, knowledge, power--all combined.--_Byron._
+
+Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in three
+hundred pounds a year!--_Shakespeare._
+
+It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a
+dung-heap, or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of
+money.--_Hawthorne._
+
+If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he
+that 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 to
+us a principle which, in able hands, might be guided to the most
+salutary purposes. The object is to encourage the love of labor, which
+is 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 honest
+men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, _mutatis
+mutandis_, 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 friendship
+in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty
+of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and
+breeds 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 to
+avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding
+generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their
+hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their
+patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.--_Macaulay._
+
+We like the expression of Raphael's faces without an edict to enforce
+it. I do not see why there should not be a taste in morals formed on the
+same principle.--_Hazlitt._
+
+Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim
+above 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 all
+bloom.--_Byron._
+
+Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top.--_Shakespeare._
+
+When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained
+tents of night.--_Emma C. Embury._
+
+The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, doth with his lofty and
+shrill-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 the
+loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds.--_Calderon._
+
+Temperate as the morn.--_Shakespeare._
+
+I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day
+comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The
+youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy
+child.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Mother.~--Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice
+the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that
+gentle hand! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of
+all good gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of those
+eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain.
+In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never will
+you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you
+which 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 French
+infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the
+time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my
+little hands folded in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord's
+Prayer.--_Thomas Randolph._
+
+The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life
+which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the
+cherished 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. He
+called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her
+wife, but simply mother,--mother of all living creatures. In this
+consists 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 we
+act. If I fling half-a-crown to a beggar with intention to break his
+head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effect
+is good; but with respect to me, the action is very wrong.--_Johnson._
+
+Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral
+position, is mightier than steam, or caloric, or lightning.--_Chapin._
+
+Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose
+motive for action is the hope of reward.--_Kreeshna._
+
+We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become
+feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We
+must keep the germinating grain away from the light.--_George Eliot._
+
+Every activity proposes to itself a passivity, every labor
+enjoyment.--_Jacobi._
+
+~Mourning.~--Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a
+voice that is still!--_Tennyson._
+
+The meek-ey'd morn appears, mother of dews.--_Thomson._
+
+~Music.~--Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony, but organically I am
+incapable 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 highest
+moral 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 of
+thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and
+matter, related to both and yet differing from either. Spiritual, and
+yet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space.--_Heinrich
+Heine._
+
+The hidden soul of harmony.--_Milton._
+
+Give me some music! music, moody food of us that trade in
+love.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front
+rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his
+devotion 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 it
+is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its
+effect.--_Goethe._
+
+Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired
+eyes.--_Tennyson._
+
+Melodies die out like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and
+listen for them.--_George Eliot._
+
+Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with
+unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret
+art.--_Addison._
+
+Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible
+world; one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is
+destined one day to sound.--_Mazzini._
+
+
+N.
+
+~Naivete.~--Naivete is the language of pure genius and of discerning
+simplicity. It is the most simple picture of a refined and ingenious
+idea; a masterpiece of art in him in whom it is not
+natural.--_Mendelssohn._
+
+~Name.~--A virtuous name is the precious only good for which queens and
+peasants' wives must contest together.--_Schiller._
+
+A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and
+which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting
+garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one
+cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.--_Goethe._
+
+~Napoleon.~--Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were
+thrones.--_Byron._
+
+Napoleon I. might have been the Washington of France; he preferred to be
+another Attila,--a question of taste.--_F. A. Durivage._
+
+~Nature.~--Nature has no mind; every man who addresses her is compelled to
+force upon her for a moment the loan of his own mind. And if she answers
+a question which his own mind puts to her, it is only by such a reply as
+his own mind teaches to her parrot-like lips. And as every man has a
+different mind, so every man gets a different answer.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Nature will be buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion or
+temptation: like as it was with AEsop's damsel, turned from a cat to a
+woman, who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran before
+her.--_Bacon._
+
+Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the
+laws of nature.--_De Finod._
+
+Nature,--a thing which science and art never appear to see with the same
+eyes. If to an artist Nature has a soul, why, so has a steam-engine. Art
+gifts with soul all matter that it contemplates; science turns all that
+is 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 easier
+to find the poetic side of nature than of man.--_X. Doudan._
+
+All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within
+it a spiritual truth.--_Chapin._
+
+Nature is no sentimentalist,--does not cosset or pamper us. We must see
+that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a
+woman, but swallows your ships like a grain of dust. The cold,
+inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes
+a 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 forth
+fruit: a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.
+Everything is created and conducted by the same Master,--the root, the
+branch, the fruits,--the principles, the consequences.--_Pascal._
+
+A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows how to
+retain them.--_Goethe._
+
+Nature, the vicar of the almighty Lord.--_Chaucer._
+
+A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow
+as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but
+write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the
+memory.--_Coleridge._
+
+We, by art, unteach what Nature taught.--_Dryden._
+
+Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and
+colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of
+mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact
+with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and
+roll.--_Alcott._
+
+Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. She shows us
+only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.--_Emerson._
+
+Nature is an absolute and jealous divinity. Lovely, eloquent, and
+instructive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face,
+and remains mute to those who, by attempting to re-fashion her, profane
+her.--_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 who
+really deserve them.--_Fielding._
+
+It is observed in the golden verses of Pythagoras, that power is never
+far from necessity. The vigor of the human mind quickly appears when
+there is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence
+is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless
+passion.--_Johnson._
+
+When God would educate a man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He
+sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that,
+by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternal
+consolation.--_Celia Burleigh._
+
+Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it
+praiseworthy.--_Joubert._
+
+What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast
+necessity of heart and life.--_Tennyson._
+
+~Neglect.~--He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from
+being poor.--_Johnson._
+
+~News.~--Give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill
+tidings tell themselves when they be felt.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Newspapers.~--In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our
+fortresses.--_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; instantly
+conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of
+the earth; it will spread from Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with the
+fervor of soul which made it burst forth; it will be the reign of the
+human mind in all its plenitude; it will not have time to ripen, to
+accumulate in the form of a book; the book will arrive too late; the
+only book possible from day to day is a newspaper.--_Lamartine._
+
+Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand
+bayonets.--_Napoleon._
+
+They preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves;
+advising peace or war with an authority which only the first Reformers
+and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moral
+censure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in all
+ways diligently "administering the discipline of the Church." It may be
+said, too, that in private disposition the new preachers somewhat
+resemble the mendicant Friars of old times; outwardly, full of holy
+zeal; inwardly, not without stratagem, and hunger for terrestrial
+things.--_Carlyle._
+
+These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of
+common 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 of
+night.--_Longfellow._
+
+Sable-vested night, eldest of things.--_Milton._
+
+O mysterious night! Thou art not silent: many tongues hast
+thou.--_Joanna Baillie._
+
+Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.--_Bible._
+
+~No.~--No is a surly, honest fellow, speaks his mind rough and round at
+once.--_Walter Scott._
+
+Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to
+read 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.--_Moliere._
+
+~Nonsense.~--Nonsense is to sense as shade to light--it heightens
+effect.--_Fred. Saunders._
+
+~Nothing.~--There is nothing useless to men of sense; clever people turn
+everything to account.--_Fontaine._
+
+Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of
+something.--_Richter._
+
+~Novels.~--Novels are sweet. All people with healthy literary appetites
+love them--almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed
+men,--Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians,--are notorious novel
+readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender
+mothers.--_Thackeray._
+
+We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books
+for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter
+useful, and the human mind requires both. The canon law and the codes of
+Justinian shall have due honor and reign at the universities, but Homer
+and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive
+and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the
+rose.--_Balzac._
+
+A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt
+the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into
+everything that is sordid, vicious, and low.--_Swift._
+
+~Novelty.~--The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it
+quickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment--is not
+half 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 become
+monotonous; and then we are reduced to that old despair, "If water
+chokes, what will you drink after it?" The two points of practical
+wisdom in the matter are, first, to be content with as little novelty as
+possible at a time; and secondly, to preserve, as as much possible, the
+sources of novelty.--_Ruskin._
+
+Novelty is the great-parent of pleasure.--_South._
+
+
+O.
+
+~Obedience.~--To obey is better than sacrifice.--_Bible._
+
+How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice, it is a river that
+flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne, and flows by the path of
+obedience.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Oblivion.~--Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.--_George
+Sand._
+
+The grave of human misery.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+~Observation.~--It is the close observation of little things which is the
+secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit
+in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by
+successive generations of men,--the little bits of knowledge and
+experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a
+mighty pyramid.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Observation made in the cloister, or in the desert, will generally be as
+obscure as the one, and as barren as the other; but he that would paint
+with his pencil must study originals, and not be over fearful of a
+little dust.--_Colton._
+
+Each one sees what he carries in his heart.--_Goethe._
+
+~Occupation.~--The want of occupation is no less the plague of society
+than of solitude.--_Rousseau._
+
+The busy have no time for tears.--_Byron._
+
+One of the principal occupations of man is to divine
+woman.--_Lacretelle._
+
+~Ocean.~--Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture.--_Milton._
+
+It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies, or like a cradled creature
+lies.--_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 future
+favors.--_Walpole._
+
+~Opinion.~--The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have
+only opinions.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.--_Socrates._
+
+Our pet opinions are usually those which place us in a minority of a
+minority amongst our own party: very happily, else those poor opinions,
+born with no silver spoon in their mouths, how would they get nourished
+and fed?--_George Eliot._
+
+Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they
+love truth.--_Joubert._
+
+It has been shrewdly said that when men abuse us, we should suspect
+ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of
+virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rare
+to despise praise, which we do. But that integrity that lives only on
+opinion would starve without it.--_Colton._
+
+There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs
+or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.--_Montaigne._
+
+The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history
+of 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, what
+a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at
+last.--_Swift._
+
+One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is, to suppose that
+other men's opinions are to make us happy.--_Burton._
+
+It is with true opinions which one has the courage to utter as with
+pawns first advanced on the chess-board; they may be beaten, but they
+have inaugurated a game which must be won.--_Goethe._
+
+The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge
+it, 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 to
+ourselves.--_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 when
+she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and
+flies out at the window.--_Cardinal Imperiali._
+
+The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see
+nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them
+when they are gone.--_George Eliot._
+
+Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.--_Jeremy
+Collier._
+
+A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the
+love of a woman, answered: "Opportunity."--_Moore._
+
+Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.--_Lord
+Stanley._
+
+You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make
+it.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Opposition.~--The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who
+rise refreshed on hearing of a threat,--men to whom a crisis which
+intimidates and paralyzes the majority--demanding, not the faculties of
+prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of
+sacrifice--comes graceful and beloved as a bride!--_Emerson._
+
+Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent
+it.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Oratory.~--Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as
+men get on horseback when they cannot walk.--_Cicero._
+
+Metaphor is the figure most suitable for the orator, as men find a
+positive pleasure in catching resemblances for
+themselves.--_Aristotle._
+
+Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument
+and less wit, and who are most loud when they are least lucid, should
+take a lesson from the great volume of Nature; she often gives us the
+lightning even without the thunder, but never the thunder without the
+lightning.--_Colton._
+
+An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.--_Theophrastus._
+
+When the Roman people had listened to the diffuse and polished
+discourses of Cicero, they departed, saying one to another, "What a
+splendid speech our orator has made!" But when the Athenians heard
+Demosthenes, he so filled them with the subject-matter of his oration,
+that they quite forgot the orator, and left him at the finish of his
+harangue, breathing revenge, and exclaiming, "Let us go and fight
+against Philip!"--_Colton._
+
+Let not a day pass without exercising your powers of speech. There is no
+power like that of oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their
+fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their
+passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the
+other continues to this day.--_Henry Clay._
+
+It was reckoned the fault of the orators at the decline of the Roman
+empire, when they had been long instructed by rhetoricians, that their
+periods were so harmonious as that they could be sung as well as spoken.
+What a ridiculous figure must one of these gentlemen cut, thus measuring
+syllables and weighing words when he should plead the cause of his
+client!--_Goldsmith._
+
+~Originality.~--Originality is nothing but judicious
+imitation.--_Voltaire._
+
+One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the
+fact that everything has been said better than we can put it
+ourselves.--_George Eliot._
+
+The most original writers borrowed one from another. Boiardo has
+imitated Pulci, and Ariosto Boiardo. The instruction we find in books is
+like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home,
+communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of
+all.--_Voltaire._
+
+All originality is estrangement.--_G. H. Lawes._
+
+
+P.
+
+~Pain.~--Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical, and if I had
+my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the
+former.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new
+pains.--_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 for
+pardon.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+These evils I deserve, yet despair not of his final pardon whose ear is
+ever open, and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant.--_Milton._
+
+Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise
+within.--_Dryden._
+
+~Parent.~--The sacred books of the ancient Persians say: If you would be
+holy instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will
+be imputed to you.--_Montesquieu._
+
+~Partiality.~--Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlings
+are in danger to be made fools, and the children that are least cockered
+make the best and wisest men.--_L'Estrange._
+
+As there is a partiality to opinions, which is apt to mislead the
+understanding, so there is also a partiality to studies, which is
+prejudicial to knowledge.--_Locke._
+
+Partiality is properly the understanding's judging according to the
+inclination of the will and affections, and not according to the exact
+truth 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 or
+reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.--_Lavater._
+
+He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to
+please 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, but
+the 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 should
+compose his passions; and let that be the work of reason which would
+certainly be the work of time.--_Addison._
+
+A vigorous mind is as necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a
+great fire with great heat.--_Burke._
+
+There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem
+to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that
+in one instant does the work of long premeditation.--_George Eliot._
+
+The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and
+fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their
+odor is deadly.--_Longfellow._
+
+"All the passions," says an old writer, "are such near neighbors, that
+if one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets." Thus
+love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark
+that sets the other ablaze. But contempt is passionless; it does not
+catch, it quenches fire.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea
+of 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 passions
+flourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that height
+attained 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 the
+horizon that have set.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former
+life.--_Martial._
+
+I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+~Patience.~--There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which
+certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form
+it changes its name and we call it patience.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ills.--_Johnson._
+
+There's no music in a "rest," that I know of, but there's the making of
+music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody,
+always talking of perseverance, and courage, and fortitude; but patience
+is 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 of
+bearing and forbearing.--_Epictetus._
+
+Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view of
+it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall
+back upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her
+celestial fruits.--_G. MacDonald._
+
+'Tis all men's office to speak patience to those that wring under the
+load of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when
+he shall endure the like himself.--_Shakespeare._
+
+He that hath patience hath fat thrushes for a farthing.--_George
+Herbert._
+
+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 the
+first.--_Antonio de Solis._
+
+Patience--the truest fortitude.--_Milton._
+
+~Patriotism.~--In peace patriotism really consists only in this--that
+every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also
+learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own
+house.--_Goethe._
+
+Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be
+in 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 our
+country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a
+vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom,
+of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration
+forever!--_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 a
+man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning
+it.--_Gladstone._
+
+~Peace.~--They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
+into 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 fast
+friendship breed.--_Spenser._
+
+Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks; war
+brings 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 which
+those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers,
+sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a
+particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have
+the good fortune to have the vice only of pedantry, while scholars have
+both 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 that
+creates pedants; not having a pet study or science, but a narrow, vulgar
+soul, 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 may
+always advance towards it, though we know it can never be
+reached.--_Johnson._
+
+Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human
+intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of
+madness.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+That historian who would describe a favorite character as faultless
+raises another at the expense of himself. Zeuxis made five virgins
+contribute their charms to his single picture of Helen; and it is as
+vain for the moralist to look for perfection in the mind, as for the
+painter 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 a
+perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even
+the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults
+of some kind nestle in every bosom.--_Spurgeon._
+
+Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no
+more.--_Tennyson._
+
+~Persecution.~--Of all persecutions, that of calumny is the most
+intolerable. Any other kind of persecution can affect our outward
+circumstances only, our properties, our lives; but this may affect our
+characters forever.--_Hazlitt._
+
+~Perseverance.~--Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for
+audacity 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, and
+make 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 only
+failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he
+sees to be best.--_George Eliot._
+
+Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows
+unconsciously into genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Perseverance is not always an indication of great abilities. An
+indifferent poet is invulnerable to a repulse, the want of sensibility
+in him being what a noble self-confidence was in Milton. These excluded
+suitors continue, nevertheless, to hang their garlands at the gate, to
+anoint 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 course
+inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as
+great 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 rule
+and 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 of
+Aristotle down to those of Sir William Hamilton, that philosophy ceases
+where truth is acknowledged.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Physiognomy.~--It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you
+speak with your eye, as the Jesuits give it in precept; for there be
+many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent
+countenances.--_Bacon._
+
+As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no
+laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a
+great deal in a little room.--_Jeremy Collier._
+
+The distinguishing characters of the face, and the lineaments of the
+body, grow more plain and visible with time and age; but the peculiar
+physiognomy of the mind is most discernible in children.--_Locke._
+
+What knowledge is there, of which man is capable, that is not founded on
+the 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 of
+the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the
+world 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, as
+modesty makes us cast down our eyes in the presence of whatever is
+forbidden.--_Joubert._
+
+Piety is not an end, but a means of attaining the highest degree of
+culture by perfect peace of mind. Hence it is to be observed that those
+who make piety an end and aim in itself for the most part become
+hypocrites.--_Goethe._
+
+~Pity.~--Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages
+are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of
+reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in
+distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve
+them. 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 his
+horses, I may feel unpleasantly that the animals are put to pain, but I
+do 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 to
+make the way, it lets the master in.--_Daniel._
+
+Those many that need pity, and those infinities of people that refuse to
+pity, are miserable upon a several charge, but yet they almost make up
+all mankind.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+Of all the sisters of Love one of the most charming is Pity.--_Alfred de
+Musset._
+
+~Place.~--In place there is a license to do good and evil, whereof the
+latter is a curse; for in evil the best condition is not to will; the
+second, not to can.--_Lord Bacon._
+
+Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is
+not the place that ennobles you, but you the place; and this only by
+doing that which is great and noble.--_Petrarch._
+
+I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.--_Bruyere._
+
+A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides
+into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as
+a star.--_Chapin._
+
+~Plagiarism.~--Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is
+no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he
+lists--wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even
+appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he
+thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and
+so did Shakespeare before him.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+~Pleasure.~--Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they
+come.--_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 of
+fancy and delectation, they can find out mirth in vociferation, music in
+the barking of dogs, and be content to be led about the earth, over
+hedges and through sloughs, by the windings and the shifts of poor
+affrighted vermin; yet, after all, come off, as Messalina, tired, and
+not satisfied with all that the brutes can do. But were a man enjoined
+to this that did not like it, how tedious and how punishable to him
+would it prove! since, in itself, it differs not from riding
+post.--_Feltham._
+
+Boys immature in knowledge pawn their experience to their present
+pleasure.--_Shakespeare._
+
+'Tis a wrong way to proportion other men's pleasures to ourselves. 'Tis
+like a child's using a little bird--"Oh, poor bird, thou shalt sleep
+with 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 most
+pleasing flattery to like what other men like.--_Selden._
+
+There is no pleasure but that some pain is nearly allied to
+it.--_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 where
+they look beauteously, that is, as they come towards you to be enjoyed,
+for then they paint and smile, and dress themselves up in tinsel, and
+glass gems, and counterfeit imagery.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and
+in 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 blazes
+of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.--_Johnson._
+
+What would we not give to still have in store the first blissful moment
+we ever enjoyed!--_Rochepedre._
+
+Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.--_Montaigne._
+
+~Poetry.~--Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.--_Madame de Stael._
+
+Poetry is the sister of sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a
+poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.--_Marc Andre._
+
+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 the
+other sciences--make it their business to enrich, polish, and adorn; and
+to her it belongs to make use of them all, and on her part to give a
+lustre to them all.--_Cervantes._
+
+Poetry is the overflowing of the soul.--_Tuckerman._
+
+Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire, it is the angel of high
+thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.--_Mazzini._
+
+Poetry is the music of thought, conveyed to us in the music of
+language.--_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 in
+thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must
+imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place
+of another, and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species
+must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is imagination,
+and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the
+cause.--_Shelley._
+
+Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.--_Pope._
+
+It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to
+literary productions in rhyme and metre. The written poem is only poetry
+_talking_, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are
+poetry _acting_. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly
+poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf
+Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains which
+he himself could never hope to hear.--_Ruskin._
+
+Thought in blossom.--_Bishop Ken._
+
+It is a ruinous misjudgment, too contemptible to be asserted, but not
+too contemptible to be acted upon, that the end of poetry is
+publication.--_George MacDonald._
+
+Wisdom married to immortal verse.--_Wordsworth._
+
+By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to
+produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of
+words 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 poems
+should never be wanted. But all poetry should be the poetry of
+circumstance; that is, it should be inspired by the Real. A particular
+subject will take a poetic and general character precisely because it is
+created by a poet. All my poetry is the poetry of circumstance. It
+wholly owes its birth to the realities of life.--_Goethe._
+
+Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged
+instrument.--_Joubert._
+
+Perhaps there are no warmer lovers of the muse than those who are only
+permitted occasionally to gain her favors. The shrine is more reverently
+approached by the pilgrim from afar than the familiar worshiper. Poetry
+is often more beloved by one whose daily vocation is amid the bustle of
+the world. We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is
+inscribed, "Drink and away;" but how delicious is that hasty draught,
+and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment
+dwells in the memory!--_Tuckerman._
+
+Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.--_Izaak Walton._
+
+Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common
+sense is always: "What is it good for?" a question which would abolish
+the 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.--_Charles
+IX._
+
+True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old
+age.--_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, that
+invites and requires destruction. To publish verses is become a sort of
+evidence that a man wants sense; which is repelled not by writing good
+verses, but by writing excellent verses.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets
+know.--_Wordsworth._
+
+An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his
+tribe, but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the
+materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his
+handling.--_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 its
+lowest recesses?--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+We praise the dramatic poet who possesses the art of drawing tears--a
+talent 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 the
+surtout of it), to make it bear well: and this is a natural account of
+the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men
+living, ought to be ill clad. I have always a sacred veneration for any
+one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing
+him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are
+ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the
+earth.--_Swift._
+
+Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its
+phosphorescence.--_Joubert._
+
+Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors
+of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the
+present.--_Shelley._
+
+Poets are far rarer births than kings.--_Ben Jonson._
+
+One might discover schools of the poets as distinctly as schools of the
+painters, by much converse in them, and a thorough taste of their manner
+of writing.--_Pope._
+
+They learn in suffering what they teach in song.--_Shelley._
+
+~Policy.~--He has mastered all points who has combined the useful with the
+agreeable.--_Horace._
+
+At court one becomes a sort of human ant-eater, and learns to catch
+one'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, not
+think 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 we
+conveniently can.--_Seldon._
+
+To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet
+sheath.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Politeness.~--Politeness is fictitious benevolence. It supplies the place
+of it among those who see each other only in public, or but little.
+Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something
+disagreeable to one or other. I have always applied to good breeding
+what Addison, in his "Cato," says of honor: "Honor's a sacred tie: the
+law of kings; the noble mind's distinguishing perfection; that aids and
+strengthens Virtue where it meets her, and imitates her actions where
+she is not."--_Johnson._
+
+Self-command is the main elegance.--_Emerson._
+
+Politeness smooths wrinkles.--_Joubert._
+
+Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to
+flowers.--_De Finod._
+
+~Politics.~--It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political
+combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous
+members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest
+passions of mean confederates.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.--_Daniel
+O'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 on
+the spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind,
+and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race of
+politicians put together.--_Swift._
+
+Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a
+well-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 his
+conscience, and read it another lecture.--_South._
+
+A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the
+dust.--_Byron._
+
+Extended empire, like extended gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble
+splendor.--_Johnson._
+
+~Possessions.~--It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the
+worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why then we rack
+the value; then we find the virtue that possession would not show us
+whiles 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 very
+wealth, 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 and
+intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the
+actual possession of them as he proposed to himself in the
+expectation.--_South._
+
+As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.--_Montaigne._
+
+Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. The
+malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may apply to
+every other course of life,--that its two days of happiness are the
+first and the last.--_Johnson._
+
+~Posterity.~--Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass.
+Jewels are handed down from age to age, less portable valuables
+disappear.--_Lord Stanley._
+
+The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not
+always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with
+compound interest in the end.--_Colton._
+
+~Poverty.~--Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single
+want--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's
+stairs.--_Dante._
+
+Riches endless is as poor as winter, to him that ever fears he shall be
+poor.--_Shakespeare._
+
+A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much
+praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the
+most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into
+raptures.--_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's
+curse, the melancholy man's halter.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Power.~--The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a
+single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing
+his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually
+falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent
+rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace
+behind.--_Carlyle._
+
+Oh for a forty parson power.--_Byron._
+
+Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the
+aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is
+known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most
+formidable when most courteous.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Praise.~--Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Honors
+bestowed on the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for
+the 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 reality
+in 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 only
+useful among men, but the latter is for the most part reserved for the
+gods.--_Pythagoras._
+
+Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.--_Broadhurst._
+
+One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon
+that. Our praises are our wages.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Prayer.~--The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and
+morals.--_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 the
+asking.--_Lowell._
+
+Let our prayers, like the ancient sacrifices, ascend morning and
+evening. 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 life
+within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer both
+for 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 that
+man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so
+spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and
+methods 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 physician
+had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one
+thing 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. An
+elegant porch announces the splendor of the interior.--_Disraeli._
+
+A good preface is as essential to put the reader into good humor, as a
+good prologue is to a play, or a fine symphony is to an opera,
+containing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feel
+its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified. The Italians call
+the preface--La salsa del libro--the sauce of the book; and, if
+well-seasoned, it creates an appetite in the reader to devour the book
+itself.--_Disraeli._
+
+~Prejudice.~--He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of
+that.--_J. Stuart Mill._
+
+Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is
+plain.--_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 is
+gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is
+passing.--_Goethe._
+
+Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering
+present.--_Schiller._
+
+'Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.--_Bovee._
+
+The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future
+ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest
+prospect.--_Thoreau._
+
+Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, it
+rushes on and carries us with it.--_Lamartine._
+
+~Presentiment.~--We walk in the midst of secrets--we are encompassed with
+mysteries. We know not what takes place in the atmosphere that
+surrounds us--we know not what relations it has with our minds. But one
+thing is sure, that, under certain conditions, our soul, through the
+exercise of mysterious functions, has a greater power than reason, and
+that the power is given it to antedate the future,--ay, to see into the
+future.--_Goethe._
+
+We should not neglect a presentiment. Every man has within him a spark
+of divine radiance which is often the torch which illumines the darkness
+of 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 the
+people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the
+people.--_B. Disraeli._
+
+~Presumption.~--Presumption is our natural and original
+disease.--_Montaigne._
+
+Presumption never stops in its first attempt. If Caesar comes once to
+pass the Rubicon, he will be sure to march further on, even till he
+enters the very bowels of Rome, and breaks open the Capitol itself. He
+that wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much he
+trashes further.--_South._
+
+He that presumes steps into the throne of God.--_South._
+
+~Pretence.~--As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything
+are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a
+saint is sure to be a sinner, and a man who boasts that he is a sinner
+is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, sniveling bit of saintship about
+him which is enough to make him a humbug.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Pretension.~--Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and
+magisterial 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 the
+other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in _its_
+word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable to
+do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do
+proudly.--_Ruskin._
+
+Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to
+rear--they eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to
+market.--_Alexander Smith._
+
+When pride thaws look for floods.--_Bailey._
+
+Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in
+small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased
+with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.--_Frederick
+Saunders._
+
+Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean
+advantages.--_Johnson._
+
+~Principles.~--Principle is a passion for truth.--_Hazlitt._
+
+Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand
+fast.--_Richter._
+
+Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin
+than that of induction and deduction from established data, is
+illegitimate.--_G. H. Lewes._
+
+The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and
+there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a
+cure.--_Emerson._
+
+What is the essence and the life of character? Principle, integrity,
+independence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "that inbred
+loyalty unto virtue which can serve her without a
+livery."--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+The change we personally experience from time to time we obstinately
+deny to our principles.--_Zimmerman._
+
+~Printing.~--Things printed can never be stopped; they are like babies
+baptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever.--_George
+Meredith._
+
+~Prison.~--Young Crime's finishing school.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged
+by an infamous life.--_Beecher._
+
+~Procrastination.~--Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come
+to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do
+it.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.--_Hesiod._
+
+There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too
+late.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+~Prodigality.~--This is a vice too brave and costly to be kept and
+maintained at any easy rate; it must have large pensions, and be fed
+with 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 at
+the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own
+death, and in a manner digging his own grave.--_Goldsmith._
+
+The gains of prodigals are like fig-trees growing on a precipice: for
+these, none are better but kites and crows; for those, only harlots and
+flatterers.--_Socrates._
+
+~Progress.~--All that is human must retrograde if it do not
+advance.--_Gibbon._
+
+What matters it? say some, a little more knowledge for man, a little
+more liberty, a little more general development. Life is so short! He is
+a being so limited! But it is precisely because his days are few, and he
+cannot attain to all, that a little more culture is of importance to
+him. The ignorance in which God leaves man is divine; the ignorance in
+which 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, and
+humanity has reached blessing after blessing of all its vast achievement
+of good with bleeding feet.--_Bartol._
+
+Progress is lame.--_St. Bueve._
+
+We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes
+may be disguised in helpless embryos. In fact, the world is full of
+hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called
+possibilities.--_George Eliot._
+
+The pathway of progress will still, as of old, bear the traces of
+martyrdom, but the advance is inevitable.--_G. H. Lewes._
+
+Nations are educated through suffering, mankind is purified through
+sorrow. The power of creating obstacles to progress is human and
+partial. Omnipotence is with the ages.--_Mazzini._
+
+Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helped
+forward.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of
+progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many
+years.--_Mazzini._
+
+It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each
+subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used
+to 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 passes
+idly over the earth without adding to that progress by one degree
+remains uninscribed upon the register of humanity, and the succeeding
+generation tramples its ashes as dust.--_Mazzini._
+
+A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain
+off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it
+when it becomes to-day.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Promise.~--Promises hold men faster than benefits: hope is a cable and
+gratitude a thread.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+~Proof.~--In the eyes of a wise judge proofs by reasoning are of more
+value 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 doubt
+upon.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Prosperity.~--Prosperity makes some friends and many
+enemies.--_Vauvenargues._
+
+That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has
+surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no
+temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the
+test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.--_Johnson._
+
+Alas for the fate of men! Even in the midst of the highest prosperity a
+shadow may overturn them; but if they be in adverse fortune a moistened
+sponge can blot out the picture.--_AEschylus._
+
+Prosperity lets go the bridle.--_George Herbert._
+
+~Proverbs.~--Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas
+which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists'
+shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct
+prescription.--_Bishop Whately._
+
+The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the
+most elaborate scheme of philosophy.--_Motherwell._
+
+The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and
+in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than
+a 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 us
+sure.--_Rochefoucauld._
+
+Too many, through want of prudence, are golden apprentices, silver
+journeymen, and copper masters.--_Whitfield._
+
+Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best
+safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy
+extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that
+cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And
+this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their
+properties.--_Aristophanes._
+
+~Punctuality.~--The most indispensable qualification of a cook is
+punctuality. The same must be said of guests.--_Brillat Savarin._
+
+Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful
+courtesy of princes.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Punishment.~--One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which
+confers a diadem upon another.--_Juvenal._
+
+It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be
+cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of
+medicine.--_Plato._
+
+Punishment is lame, but it comes.--_George Herbert._
+
+If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the
+offender.--_Locke._
+
+Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone
+inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches just saved from
+shipwreck: can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a
+fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?--_George Eliot._
+
+The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but
+formidable.--_Goldsmith._
+
+The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who
+receives it.--_Cato._
+
+The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity to
+put the worst to death!--_Hawthorne._
+
+~Puns.~--I have very little to say about puns; they are in very bad
+repute, and so they _ought_ to be. The wit of language is so miserably
+inferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out of
+good company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearance which seems
+for 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 in
+sense.--_Addison._
+
+~Purposes.~--Man proposes, but God disposes.--_Thomas a Kempis._
+
+A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his
+steps.--_Bible._
+
+It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
+half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly
+listlessness for fear of what may happen.--_Herodotus._
+
+Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into
+decay.--_Smiles._
+
+~Pursuit.~--The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished
+gain.--_Longfellow._
+
+The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for
+me.--_Lady Montagu._
+
+
+Q.
+
+~Quacks.~--Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held from
+time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no
+alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax--the folly and ignorance of
+mankind.--_Colton._
+
+Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine.
+Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case
+it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the
+credulity of men.--_Thoreau._
+
+~Qualities.~--Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man
+becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.--_Goethe._
+
+~Quarrels.~--Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and
+in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its
+dullness.--_George Eliot._
+
+The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more
+beautiful when they have passed.--_Mme. Necker._
+
+~Questions.~--There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive
+mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why
+was this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it not
+created sooner?--_Johnson._
+
+~Quotation.~--In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read;
+others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name
+them.--_Selden._
+
+If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together
+do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they
+will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to
+employ and hallow a fancy.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of our
+National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in
+the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.--_Burke._
+
+It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than
+their appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular even
+as a reading-book.--_Coleridge._
+
+Ruin half an author's graces by plucking bon-mots from their
+places.--_Hannah More._
+
+I take memorandums of the schools.--_Swift._
+
+The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain
+the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.--_Mazzini._
+
+To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new
+ones.--_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 to
+know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a
+good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to
+get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he
+discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart
+good, hasten to give it.--_Coleridge._
+
+A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as
+a shell that survives a deluge.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their
+expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar, or salt, that must be
+melted in a drop of water.--_J. Petit Senn._
+
+As people read nothing in these days that is more than forty-eight hours
+old, I am daily admonished that allusions, the most obvious, to anything
+in the rear of our own times need explanation.--_De Quincey._
+
+
+R.
+
+~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 in
+vain.--_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 of
+rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.--_Madame
+Swetchine._
+
+I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the
+metal better.--_Wycherley._
+
+Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a
+man.--_Southerne._
+
+~Rashness.~--Rashness and haste make all things insecure.--_Denham._
+
+We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by
+overrunning.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Reading.~--Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon
+instruction; feast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take your
+nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of
+understanding.--_Congreve._
+
+Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself.--_Milton._
+
+The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of
+life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.--_Montesquieu._
+
+There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make his
+choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But
+the war of Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind, and went to
+the oars.--_Macaulay._
+
+Exceedingly well read and profited in strange
+concealments.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of the
+absolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen a
+chamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; we
+must strain our sinews, as he has strained his; and make firm footing on
+the smooth rock for ourselves, by the blood of toil from our own
+feet.--_Coleridge._
+
+~Reason.~--Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.--_George Herbert._
+
+Many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason at all; and
+others to persecute those who do reason.--_Voltaire._
+
+If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason
+upon compulsion.--_Shakespeare._
+
+We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not
+on possibilities.--_Bolingbroke._
+
+I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight
+what is holy and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in the
+errors it succeeds in discovering; that unfeeling and scornful reason
+which insults credulity.--_Joubert._
+
+I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think
+him so.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Reason 's progressive; instinct is complete: swift instinct leaps; slow
+reason feebly climbs.--_Young._
+
+Faith evermore looks upward and descries objects remote; but reason can
+discover 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 the
+few.--_Goethe._
+
+Reason is, so to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, seeking only
+to preserve order. In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our
+follies. Sometimes, alas! only the accountant in bankruptcy of a broken
+heart.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before and
+after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us
+unused.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Reason may cure illusions but not suffering.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+~Reciprocity.~--There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice
+for all one's life, that word is _reciprocity_. What you do not wish
+done to yourself, do not do to others.--_Confucius._
+
+~Reconciliation.~--It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer
+him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his
+will.--_Owen Feltham._
+
+~Rectitude.~--The great high-road of human welfare lies along the highway
+of steadfast well-doing, and they who are the most persistent, and work
+in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.--_Samuel
+Smiles._
+
+If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not
+care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them
+see.--_Thoreau._
+
+No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder we
+fail?--_Charles Buxton._
+
+~Refinement.~--Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not
+God'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 of
+life.--_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 or
+write till it has done so. This rule has saved me from many an act of
+folly. It is wonderful what a different view we take of the same event
+four-and-twenty hours after it has happened.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+~Reform.~--We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we
+stand by the old--reformers in the morning, conservatives at night.
+Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes for
+comfort, 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 the
+stubborn will, and work a second nature in the soul.--_Rowe._
+
+They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, become
+much more the better for being a little bad!--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Regret.~--Why is it that a blessing only when it is lost cuts as deep
+into the heart as a sharp diamond? Why must we first weep before we can
+love so deeply that our hearts ache?--_Richter._
+
+~Religion.~--Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are
+disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is
+steadily to its identity with morals.--_Emerson._
+
+I endeavor in vain to give my parishioners more cheerful ideas of
+religion; to teach them that God is not a jealous, childish, merciless
+tyrant; that He is best served by a regular tenor of good actions, not
+by bad singing, ill-composed prayers, and eternal apprehensions. But the
+luxury 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. With
+competition religions preserve their strength, but they will never again
+flourish in their original glory until religious freedom, or, in other
+words, free trade among the gods, is introduced.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+A religion giving dark views of God, and infusing superstitious fear of
+innocent enjoyment, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making men
+abject and sad, impair their moral force, and prepare them for
+intemperance 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 really
+made the principle of it instead of faith.--_Shelley._
+
+The ship retains her anchorage yet drifts with a certain range, subject
+to wind and tide. So we have for an anchorage the cardinal truths of the
+gospel.--_Gladstone._
+
+The best religion is the most tolerant.--_Emile de Girardin._
+
+~Remembrance.~--The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives
+me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many
+benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.--_Cato._
+
+Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting
+perfume.--_Boufflers._
+
+~Remorse.~--Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance its expiation.
+The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul
+changed for the better.--_Joubert._
+
+Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.--_Rousseau._
+
+Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their
+deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.--_Gray._
+
+~Repartee.~--The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of
+wit.--_Moliere._
+
+~Repentance.~---Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which
+the 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 thrown
+into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his
+own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against
+them, 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; and
+he is much more thankful to the man who confirms him in his errors, and
+leaves him alone, than he is to the man who refutes him, or who
+instructs 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; it
+speaks at once to the imagination.--_Mrs. Balfour._
+
+~Republic.~--Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am
+afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a
+republic last century and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate
+political experiments.--_Walpole._
+
+The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion, might be
+adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its
+ministers."--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+At twenty, every one is republican.--_Lamartine._
+
+~Reputation.~--Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it
+is, as Mr. Burke calls it, "the cheap defence and ornament of nations,
+and the nurse of manly exertions;" it produces more labor and more
+talent then twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the
+coin of genius; and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it
+with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.--_Sydney
+Smith._
+
+An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.--_Tacitus._
+
+Reputation is but the synonym of popularity; dependent on suffrage, to
+be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.--_Washington
+Allston._
+
+My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign
+nations, and to the next age.--_Bacon._
+
+The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the
+socket.--_Johnson._
+
+One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better
+than his principles.--_Latena._
+
+~Request.~--No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my
+friends, and the supplications of those in want of my
+assistance.--_Caesar._
+
+He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he
+chooses to appear to want.--_Lavater._
+
+~Resignation.~--O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto
+Thee.--_Fenelon._
+
+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 equal
+thanks.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shall
+come 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 it
+pleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the most
+ancient heavens are not more sure than that.--_Robert Collyer._
+
+Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs
+without 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 made
+Gethsemane 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 the
+morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity--a passive
+sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.--_Goethe._
+
+Always driven towards new shores, or carried hence without hope of
+return, shall we never, on the ocean of age cast anchor for even a
+day?--_Lamartine._
+
+~Retribution.~--Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the
+gods; and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, she
+stretches out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty hand
+is invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+"One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil as
+well as good.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Revenge.~--Revenge at first, though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself
+recoils.--_Milton._
+
+Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest
+and 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 on
+their heads.--_F. A. Durivage._
+
+~Revery.~--In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to
+the 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 may
+not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of
+humanity blossoms.--_Herder._
+
+Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets,
+and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material
+sphere.--_Mazzini._
+
+All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
+while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
+forms to which they are accustomed.--_Jefferson._
+
+Nothing has ever remained of any revolution hut what was ripe in the
+conscience of the masses.--_Ledru Rollin._
+
+Revolution is the larva of civilization.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more
+violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was
+necessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportioned
+to the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity and
+ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and
+degradation under which they have been accustomed to live.--_Macaulay._
+
+Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will be
+virtue.--_Ben Jonson._
+
+~Rhetoric.~--In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together in
+graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering
+ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the
+science of oratory.--_Locke._
+
+Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no
+root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are
+caught with a free expression, when they understand not
+reason.--_Selden._
+
+The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love
+and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their
+objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or
+less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally
+are. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned into
+truth.--_Dryden._
+
+All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing
+else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby
+mislead the judgment.--_Locke._
+
+Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught; there's no medium in
+rhetoric.--_Selden._
+
+~Riches.~--The shortest road to riches lies through contempt of
+riches.--_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 can
+carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.--_Bonnell._
+
+If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should
+become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the
+search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I
+love.--_Confucius._
+
+I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy that he has no leisure to
+laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, more money, that
+he may still get more. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says,
+"The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he
+considers 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 as
+many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them."--_Izaak Walton._
+
+Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he
+is much more noble who deserves a benefit, than he who bestows
+one.--_Owen Feltham._
+
+In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of
+ambition.--_Joubert._
+
+~Ridicule.~--Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed
+buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off, not
+a stone goes through.--_Beecher._
+
+~Rogues.~--Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will
+act 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 people
+would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be
+ruined after one's own pattern.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+
+S.
+
+~Sacrifice.~--You cannot win without sacrifice.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of
+good-nature. The good-nature goes, the sacrifice sticks.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+~Sadness.~--Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul
+incapable 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 without
+exception: That in this world the salary or reward is always in the
+inverse ratio of the duties performed.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+~Sarcasm.~--A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick--it appears, at first
+sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a
+sudden, there leaps something out of it--sharp and deadly and
+incisive--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 from
+law.--_Byron._
+
+When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.--_Swift._
+
+~Scandal.~--Believe that story false that ought not to be
+true.--_Sheridan._
+
+Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the
+mind.--_Byron._
+
+~School.~--More is learned in a public than in a private school from
+emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of
+many 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 eyes
+of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust
+to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military
+array.--_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 their
+infancy. Electricity, galvanism,--what discoveries in a few
+years!--_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 sympathize
+with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and
+prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined
+together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away,
+and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-colored
+rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth
+to heaven.--_Prof. Hitchcock._
+
+Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if
+he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty
+of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his
+patient.--_Holmes._
+
+~Scriptures.~--The majesty of Scripture strikes me with admiration, as the
+purity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of
+our philosophers; with all their pomp of diction, how mean, how
+contemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possible
+that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of
+man? The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to
+the morality contained in the Gospel, the marks of whose truths are so
+striking and inimitable that the inventor would be a more astonishing
+character than the hero.--_Rousseau._
+
+~Secrecy.~--Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by
+striving to conceal it.--_Longfellow._
+
+Never confide your secrets to paper: it is like throwing a stone in the
+air, and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may
+fall.--_Calderon._
+
+People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so
+for cause, but for secrecy's sake.--_Hazlitt._
+
+~Sect.~--The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely
+by counting heads.--_Macaulay._
+
+All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is
+everywhere 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 should
+not please themselves, but deny themselves everything they take delight
+in; 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 all
+good things. If they are not to be used why did God make
+them?--_Selden._
+
+Self-abnegation, that rare virtue that good men preach and good women
+practice.--_Holmes._
+
+~Self-Examination.~--We neither know nor judge ourselves,--others may
+judge, but cannot know us,--God alone judges, and knows too.--_Wilkie
+Collins._
+
+It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate
+power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt
+the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its
+own horizon.--_George Eliot._
+
+There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self
+and one's other self.--_Arsene Houssaye._
+
+~Selfishness.~--Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts
+half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor his infinite
+perfections as much as our smallest wants.--_Hannah More._
+
+It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but
+themselves.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged,
+it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little
+scruples.--_George Eliot._
+
+There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are
+almost equally sensitive,--the ill-breeding that comes from want of
+consideration 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, there
+still remain many unknown lands.--_Rochefoucauld._
+
+Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil
+trait.--_Ruffini._
+
+A prudent consideration for Number One.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Oh, the incomparable contrivance of Nature who has ordered all things in
+so 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 supplies
+the 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 and
+right.--_Milton._
+
+Whose thoughts are centered on thyself alone.--_Dryden._
+
+~Self-reliance.~--The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine
+growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it
+constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from
+without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within
+invariably invigorates. Whatever is done _for_ men or classes, to a
+certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for
+themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and
+over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively
+helpless.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.--_Bovee._
+
+A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources
+virtually has them.--_Livy._
+
+The supreme fall of falls is this, the first doubt of one's
+self.--_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 the
+bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.--_George MacDonald._
+
+The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own
+spine.--_Emerson._
+
+~Sensibility.~--The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the
+heart.--_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, that
+as a sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth
+innuendoes.--_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 debaucher
+of sentiment?--_Emerson._
+
+~Separation.~--Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and
+return to one another, because they can do no better.--_Madame
+Swetchine._
+
+~Shakespeare.~--There is only one writer in whom I find something that
+reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is
+Shakespeare.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+Far from fearing, as an inferior artist would have done, the
+juxtaposition of the familiar and the divine, the wildest and most
+fantastic comedy with the loftiest and gravest tragedy, Shakespeare not
+only made such apparently discordant elements mutually heighten and
+complete the general effect which he contemplated, but in so doing
+teaches us that, in human life, the sublime and ridiculous are always
+side by side, and that the source of laughter is placed close by the
+fountain of tears.--_T. B. Shaw._
+
+Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the
+heart of man may be found in his plays.--_Goethe._
+
+In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is
+all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark
+atmosphere.--_Coleridge._
+
+No man is too busy to read Shakespeare.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the
+hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though
+complex, 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 to
+embody any capricious thought that is uppermost in her mind. The
+remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things
+are brought together by a subtle spiritual connection.--_Emerson._
+
+I think most readers of Shakespeare sometimes find themselves thrown
+into exalted mental conditions like those produced by music.--_O. W.
+Holmes._
+
+Whatever other learning he wanted he was master of two books unknown to
+many profound readers, though books which the last conflagration can
+alone destroy. I mean the book of Nature and of Man.--_Young._
+
+If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying
+him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.--_Macaulay._
+
+It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be
+said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of
+civil 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 real
+calamities.--_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 of
+repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially
+belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man's
+envy, 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 tongue
+is 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 the
+wise.--_Bonnard._
+
+Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over
+a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all
+the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and when it takes to
+cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled
+delusion.--_George Eliot._
+
+Silence gives consent.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises
+from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.--_Zimmerman._
+
+~Simplicity.~--Simplicity is doubtless a fine thing, but it often appeals
+only to the simple. Art is the only passion of true artists.
+Palestrina's music resembles the music of Rossini, as the song of the
+sparrow is like the cavatina of the nightingale. Choose.--_Madame de
+Girardin._
+
+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 been
+tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little
+rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.--_Goethe._
+
+The fairest lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodate
+themselves to the common and human model, without miracle, without
+extravagance.--_Montaigne._
+
+There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness of
+wit.--_Pope._
+
+~Sin.~--Original sin is in us like the beard: we are shaved to-day, and
+look 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 manner
+original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long
+as we exist; Nevertheless, we are bound to resist it to our utmost
+strength, 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 swift
+and 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, scarce
+appeared. 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 real
+happiness. The evident consequences of our crimes long survive their
+commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the
+steps 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 most
+monstrous.--_Boileau._
+
+There are sins of omission as well as those of commission.--_Madame
+Deluzy._
+
+~Sincerity.~--Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and
+profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what
+we would seem and appear to be.--_Tillotson._
+
+The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble
+energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his
+being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.--_Coleridge._
+
+~Skepticism.~--Skepticism is slow suicide.--_Emerson._
+
+~Skill.~--Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except
+in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below
+himself.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Whatever may be said about luck, it is skill that leads to
+fortune.--_Walter Scott._
+
+The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
+navigators.--_Gibbon._
+
+~Slander.~--Done to death by slanderous tongues.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a
+good name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is the
+slime.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+Slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets
+possession.--_Shakespeare._
+
+When the absent are spoken of, some will speak gold of them, some
+silver, some iron, some lead, and some always speak dirt, for they have
+a natural attraction towards what is evil, and think it shows
+penetration in them. As a cat watching for mice does not look up though
+an elephant goes by, so are they so busy mousing for defects, that they
+let great excellences pass them unnoticed. I will not say it is not
+Christian 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 do
+know if you are such an one.--_Beecher._
+
+If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much
+importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation
+of fame as well as game, there are many would thank them for the
+bill.--_Sheridan._
+
+~Sleep.~--When one asked Alexander how he could sleep so soundly and
+securely in the midst of danger, he told them that _Parmenio_ watched.
+Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbers
+nor 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; when
+courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly
+gone.--_Bowring._
+
+Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
+sleep.--_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 a
+friend.--_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 many
+virtues.--_Colton._
+
+~Smile.~--A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy--the smile that
+accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on
+the 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 know
+what guests were in her eyes, which parted thence as pearls from
+diamonds 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 to
+enter the palace of dreams.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+~Sneer.~--The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at
+others. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in
+their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors. The severest critics
+are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in
+original composition.--_Hazlitt._
+
+~Society.~--If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent
+to 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 is
+not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.
+Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man
+has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet; he has a fine
+Geneva 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 may
+perish, 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 only
+rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that
+prevails 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 social
+nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is
+misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away
+from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to
+him.--_Zimmermann._
+
+The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and
+happiness, the merchandise of authors, priests, and kings.--_Madame
+Roland._
+
+The more I see of men the better I think of animals.--_Tauler._
+
+~Soldier.~--A soldier seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's
+mouth.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Policy goes beyond strength, and contrivance before action; hence it is
+that direction is left to the commander, execution to the soldier, who
+is not to ask Why? but to do what he is commanded.--_Xenophon._
+
+Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm
+himself at no home-lit hearth.--_Schiller._
+
+Soldiers looked at as they ought to be: they are to the world as poppies
+to corn fields.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+~Solitude.~--Solitude is dangerous to reason without being favorable to
+virtue. Pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to
+the corporal health, and those who resist gayety will be likely for the
+most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite, for the solicitations of
+sense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person is
+a speedy and seducing relief. Remember that the solitary person is
+certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. The mind
+stagnates for want of employment, and is extinguished, like a candle in
+foul air.--_Johnson._
+
+To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the
+only pleasing solitude.--_Addison._
+
+Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of
+genius.--_Gibbon._
+
+Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an
+opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of
+every known or supposed defect we may have.--_Byron._
+
+Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for
+another.--_Rogers._
+
+Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and
+oblivion.--_Mery._
+
+~Sophistry.~--The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in
+using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in
+the conclusion.--_Coleridge._
+
+There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability
+resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out,
+straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention
+and jangling.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
+
+~Sorrow.~--Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest
+thought.--_Shelley._
+
+If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I
+do 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 as
+though they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and nothing is so
+entirely 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 by
+withstanding.--_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 first
+brought sin into the world must, by necessary consequence, bring in
+sorrow too.--_South._
+
+In extent sorrow is boundless. It pours from ten million sources, and
+floods the world. But its depth is small. It drowns few.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another
+that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these
+dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our
+peace.--_Chapin._
+
+The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our
+road 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, and
+the 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 love
+with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses
+to sit down on his little handful of thorns. Such a person is fit to
+bear Nero company in his funeral sorrow for the loss of one of Poppea's
+hairs, 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 while
+he is encircled with blessings.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+~Soul.~--Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the
+oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this
+alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a
+discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look
+for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this
+life; 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 sentiments
+and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.--_George Eliot._
+
+Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with
+the title of his own image and similitude.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
+
+~Specialty.~--No one can exist in society without some specialty. Eighty
+years ago it was only necessary to be well dressed and amiable; to-day a
+man of this kind would be too much like the garcons at the
+cafes.--_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 was
+not new."--_Hazlitt._
+
+God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our
+friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a
+scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of
+language and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to
+hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one
+set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are
+always ready at the mouth: so people come faster out of a church when it
+is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.--_Dean Swift._
+
+Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the
+imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in
+packs.--_Plutarch._
+
+Never is the deep, strong voice of man, or the low, sweet voice of
+woman, 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 they
+have ceased, come, long after, back to memory, like the murmurs of a
+distant hymn.--_Henry Giles._
+
+Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the
+speech they know to be useless--nay, the speech they have resolved not
+to utter.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Sport.~--Dwell not too long upon sports; for as they refresh a man that
+is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.--_Fuller._
+
+~Spring.~--Stately Spring! whose robe-folds are valleys, whose
+breast-bouquet is gardens, and whose blush is a vernal
+evening.--_Richter._
+
+Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace.--_Thomson._
+
+The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, angry winter, change their
+wonted 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 of
+the violet's birth.--_Mrs. Hemans._
+
+~Stars.~--These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their
+admonishing smile.--_Emerson._
+
+I am as constant as the northern star; of whose true, fixed, and resting
+quality 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 it
+with stars.--_Holmes._
+
+The evening star, love's harbinger, appeared.--_Milton._
+
+~Statesman.~--The great difference between the real statesman and the
+pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards
+only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the
+other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.--_Burke._
+
+The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals
+composing it.--_J. Stuart Mill._
+
+~Storms.~--When splitting winds make flexible the knees of knotted
+oaks.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Strength.~--Oh! it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is
+tyrannous 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 to
+contend.--_Bacon._
+
+Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better
+men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of
+idleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of
+ignorance, nothing more.--_Bolingbroke._
+
+There is no one study that is not capable of delighting us after a
+little application to it.--_Pope._
+
+They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can
+be got out of them is at best only material: a man must build his house
+for himself.--_George MacDonald._
+
+The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour
+every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is
+mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a
+twelvemonth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Style.~--The style is the man.--_Buffon._
+
+As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge
+and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less
+praise 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 prince
+never frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned
+periods, but commands in sober natural expressions.--_South._
+
+In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our
+architecture 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 the
+sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its
+force.--_Colton._
+
+A temperate style is alone classical.--_Joubert._
+
+Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity
+of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same
+wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of
+a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning.--_Macaulay._
+
+Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the
+world.--_Bancroft._
+
+The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation.
+His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave
+reflections.--_Joubert._
+
+~Subordination.~--The usual way that men adopt to appease the wrath of
+those whom they have offended, when they are at their mercy, is humble
+submission; whereas a bold front, a firm and resolute bearing,--means
+the very opposite,--have been at times equally
+successful.--_Montaigne._
+
+Reverences stand in awe of yourself.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is
+more 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 upon
+whom 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. Step
+by step, little by little, bit by bit,--that is the way to wealth, that
+is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not
+of 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 of
+fame.--_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 directs
+his powers. Thus, indeed, even genius itself is but fine observation
+strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and
+resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes
+your 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 soul
+over 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 not
+necessarily 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 will
+kills the body, but who kills the will?--_Auguste_ _Nicolas._
+
+Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance
+as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown
+themselves.--_Sherlock._
+
+He who, superior to the checks of nature, dares make his life the victim
+of his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and takes a flight
+at 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 earth
+to glittering gold.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The downward sun looks out effulgent from amid the flash of broken
+clouds.--_Thomson._
+
+~Sunday.~--If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the
+last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have
+been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.--_Macaulay._
+
+Oh, what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly
+business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is
+nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious
+than in keeping the Sabbath-day holy. I can truly declare that to me the
+Sabbath has been invaluable.--_W. Wilberforce._
+
+~Superstition.~--A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional
+superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a
+camel.--_George Eliot._
+
+Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that
+worship.--_Seneca._
+
+Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly called
+superstition.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any
+day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his
+understanding.--_Watts._
+
+Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are
+capable.--_Joubert._
+
+It is of such stuff that superstitions are commonly made; an intense
+feeling about ourselves which makes the evening star shine at us with a
+threat, and the blessing of a beggar encourage us. And superstitions
+carry consequences which often verify their hope or their
+foreboding.--_George Eliot._
+
+We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the
+record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a
+man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his
+imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject
+them.--_Holmes._
+
+~Surety.~--He who is surety is never sure. Take advice, and never be
+security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the words
+of 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 starve
+with 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 our
+suspicions 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 people
+watching.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Sympathy.~--Surely, surely, the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is
+that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for
+the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance
+and opinion.--_George Eliot._
+
+Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human
+heart.--_Burke._
+
+Outward things don't give, they draw out. You find in them what you
+bring 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, there
+is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted
+than that of exquisite feeling or universal
+benevolence.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose
+generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his
+author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not
+wherefore.--_Sterne._
+
+
+T.
+
+~Tact.~--A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of
+her sex surpasses the tact of ours.--_Macaulay._
+
+~Talent.~--It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with
+inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The
+foal 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 collar
+and the yoke.--_Colton._
+
+Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of
+talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
+anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than
+nothing!--_Sydney Smith._
+
+Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than
+to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of
+power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.--_Colton._
+
+As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in
+some way unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. They
+fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call
+them forth.--_Burke._
+
+Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and
+industry, and it is a voluntary power, while genius is
+involuntary.--_Hazlitt._
+
+Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being
+the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.--_Coleridge._
+
+It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort
+of talent,--almost like a carrier-pigeon.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Talking.~--I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she won't
+give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue,
+that an echo must wait till she dies, before it can catch her last
+words!--_Congreve._
+
+Talkers are no good doers.--_Shakespeare._
+
+When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at
+its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality
+of 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 offered
+for the entertainment of the imagination.--_Goldsmith._
+
+There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if
+they take my advice they never will; for they can no more improve their
+taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by
+studying a cookery-book.--_Southey._
+
+Those internal powers, active and strong, and feelingly alive to each
+fine impulse.--_Akenside._
+
+All our tastes are but reminiscences.--_Lamartine._
+
+~Teaching.~--Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate
+faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by
+their own.--_Luther._
+
+The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and
+inspires 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 the
+morning.--_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 land
+where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides
+that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones
+walked; 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 find
+our dear ones in heaven.--_Beecher._
+
+The kind oblation of a falling tear.--_Dryden._
+
+A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador, and never returns from
+the 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, a
+power 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 of
+the republic die, give hope that the republic itself may be
+immortal.--_Daniel Webster._
+
+All my mother came into mine eyes, and gave me up to
+tears.--_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 her
+tears.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+Nothing dries sooner than a tear.--_George Herbert._
+
+My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops
+of 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 drowsy
+man.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Teeth.~--Teeth like falling snow for white.--~Cowley.~
+
+Such a pearly row of teeth that sovereignty would have pawned her jewels
+for them.--_Sterne._
+
+~Temperance.~--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour
+in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in
+the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.--_Franklin._
+
+I consider the temperance cause the foundation of all social and
+political 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 be
+defended, as vice may be withstood, by a statute, but no virtue is or
+can be created by a law, any more than by a battering ram a temple or
+obelisk can be reared.--_Bartol._
+
+If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from
+all fermented liquors.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man
+happy.--_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 been
+well tempted.--~George Eliot.~
+
+Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible
+series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose
+melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden,
+sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to
+instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest
+tension.--_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 some
+secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is
+liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for the
+thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we
+can never stand at ease, or lie down in the field of life, without
+sentinels of watchfulness and camp-fires of prayer.--_Chapin._
+
+Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defense of
+her virtue.--_La Fontaine._
+
+When devils will their blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first
+with heavenly shows.--_Shakespeare._
+
+The devil tempts us not: it is we tempt him, beckoning his skill with
+opportunity.--_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 the
+devil with a net.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+~Tenderness.~--When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our
+tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.--_George Eliot._
+
+~Theatre.~--A man who enters the theatre is immediately struck with the
+view of so great a multitude, participating of one common amusement; and
+experiences, from their very aspect, a superior sensibility or
+disposition of being affected with every sentiment which he shares with
+his fellow-creatures.--_Hume._
+
+The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not
+to quarrel. How much it is to be wished that the celebration of nature
+and 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 were
+of no use; but puzzle their thoughts, and lose themselves in those vast
+depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom.--_Sherlock._
+
+Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but they can erect nothing. They can
+pull down a church, but they cannot build a hovel.--_Cecil._
+
+~Thought.~--I have asked several men what passes in their minds when they
+are thinking, and I could never find any man who could think for two
+minutes together. Everybody has seemed to admit that it was a perpetual
+deviation from a particular path, and a perpetual return to it; which,
+imperfect as the operation is, is the only method in which we can
+operate with our minds to carry on any process of thought.--_Sydney
+Smith._
+
+A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.--_Rollin._
+
+Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be
+errors.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of
+knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing
+his work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him
+by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.--_Samuel Smiles._
+
+Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil like bales unopened to the
+sun.--_Young._
+
+Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well
+fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet
+smell if laid up in the jar of memory.--_Spurgeon._
+
+Thought is invisible nature--nature is invisible thought.--_Heinrich
+Heine._
+
+Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the
+steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them, it
+only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.--_George Eliot._
+
+Wherever a great mind utters its thoughts,--there is
+Golgotha.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+"Give me," said Herder to his son, as he lay in the parched weariness of
+his last illness, "give me a great thought, that I may quicken myself
+with it."--_Richter._
+
+You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of
+text shall meander through a meadow of margin.--_Sheridan._
+
+Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as
+much time as to conceive it.--_Joubert._
+
+Many men's thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the
+depth of its source is the force of its projection.--_Emerson._
+
+~Threats.~--Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in
+the execution of them.--_Colton._
+
+It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be
+behind 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 roughest
+day.--_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 its
+flow.--_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 of
+its worth; and what its worth! ask death-beds, they can tell.--_Young._
+
+The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of
+Hercules.--_Balthaser Gracian._
+
+Time is the shower of Danae; 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!--_Thomas
+Paine._
+
+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 have
+the 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 of
+man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.--_Paxton Hood._
+
+~Travel.~--Rather see the wonders of the world abroad, than, living dully
+sluggardized at home wear out thy youth with shapeless
+idleness.--_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, instead
+of 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 with
+honey from his rambles, and why should not other tourists do the
+same.--_Haliburton._
+
+~Treason.~--Treason pleases, but not the traitor.--_Cervantes._
+
+The man was noble; but with his last attempt he wiped it out; betrayed
+his country; and his name remains to the ensuing age
+abhorred.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Trifles.~--A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.--_Shakespeare._
+
+We are not only pleased but turned by a feather. The history of a man is
+a calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said
+Pascal, in his brilliant way, Antony might have kept the
+world.--_Willmott._
+
+A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt.--_Huxley._
+
+Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with propriety
+and with grace requires a something that riches cannot give: even
+trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. The citizens of
+Megara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offer
+excited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquered the world;
+but he received this tribute of their respect with complacency on being
+informed that they had never offered it to any but to Hercules and
+himself.--_Colton._
+
+There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every
+particle.--_Emerson._
+
+It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are
+forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the
+devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no
+harvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge.--_George Eliot._
+
+The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us
+least.--_Madame Swetchine._
+
+Little things console us, because little things afflict us.--_Pascal._
+
+~Trouble.~--Annoyance is man's leaven; the element of movement, without
+which we would grow mouldy.--_Feuchtersleben._
+
+~Truth.~--Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have never
+flourished beyond the walls.--_George Eliot._
+
+Nothing so beautiful as truth.--_Des Cartes._
+
+All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with
+beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is
+the severest correction.--_Thoreau._
+
+Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met by
+a counter truth, and both equally true.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+Truth need not always be embodied; enough if it hovers around like a
+spiritual essence, which gives one peace, and fills the atmosphere with
+a 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 contain
+a few grains of chaff; on the contrary, we may sometimes profitably
+receive a bushel of chaff for the few grains of truth it may
+contain.--_Dean Stanley._
+
+The first great work is that yourself may to yourself be
+true.--_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 can
+see little truth; when times are quiet and settled, then truth
+appears.--_Selden._
+
+Men are as cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.--_La
+Fontaine._
+
+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 search
+for it.--_Mencius._
+
+Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice; it is
+less a matter of will than of habit; and I doubt if any occasion can be
+trivial which permits the practice and formation of such a
+habit.--_Ruskin._
+
+Forgetting that the only eternal part for man to act is man, and that
+the only immutable greatness is truth.--_Lamartine._
+
+Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough
+in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving
+natures.--_Joubert._
+
+Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.--_Gray._
+
+The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting
+treasure, 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 in
+rather 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 and
+freedom. Falsehood always avenges itself.--_Auerbach._
+
+Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth
+alone is final.--_Charles Sumner._
+
+Verity is nudity.--_Alfred de Musset._
+
+~Twilight.~--Parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with
+a 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 a
+magician, 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 upgathers
+his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden
+quiver!--_Longfellow._
+
+The weary sun hath made a golden set, and, by the bright track of his
+fiery 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. de
+Genlis._
+
+~Understanding.~--The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the
+sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes,
+so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible
+instances.--_Bacon._
+
+In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of
+perceiving and conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility; the power of
+dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes,
+according to a law of unity: and in its most comprehensive meaning it
+includes even simple apprehension.--_Coleridge._
+
+~Unselfishness.~--The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the
+thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like
+the bloom from a soiled flower.--_Froude._
+
+~Uprightness.~--To redeem a world sunk in dishonesty has not been given
+thee. Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control. Him
+redeem, him make honest.--_Thomas Carlyle._
+
+~Urbanity.~--Poor wine at the table of a rich host is an insult without an
+apology. Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a
+zest to the worst vintage.--_Zimmermann._
+
+~Usefulness.~--Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds
+your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the
+improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in
+society, 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 of
+the Indians," was found teaching an Indian child at his bed-side. "Why
+not rest from your labors now?" asked a friend. "Because," replied the
+venerable man, "I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and
+He has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, He leaves
+me 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! Great
+is thy name in the rubric. Like unto thee, assuredly, there is no other
+mitred father in the calendar.--_Charles Lamb._
+
+The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It was a
+very odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin
+to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending on this day
+letters containing professions of love and affection.--_Noah Webster._
+
+~Valor.~--Valor gives awe, and promises protection to those who want heart
+or strength to defend themselves. This makes the authority of men among
+women, and that of a master buck in a numerous herd.--_Sir W. Temple._
+
+How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valor
+jointly go.--_Dryden._
+
+Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior
+to those which proceed from any other virtues have not
+considered.--_Dryden._
+
+~Vanity.~--Verily every man at his best state is altogether
+vanity.--_Bible._
+
+Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same
+conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in
+which one of us differs from another.--_George Eliot._
+
+One of the few things I have always most wondered at is, that there
+should be any such thing as human vanity. If I had any, I had enough to
+mortify it a few days ago; for I lost my mind for a whole day.--_Pope._
+
+Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than
+from 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 general
+for 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 she
+is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in
+return.--_George Eliot._
+
+Vanity is the quicksand of reason.--_George Sand._
+
+To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight in
+telling what honors have been done them, what great company they have
+kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess that these honors were
+more than their due and such as their friends would not believe if they
+had not been told. Whereas a man truly proud thinks the greatest honors
+below his merits, and consequently scorns to boast. I, therefore,
+deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man
+ought to conceal his vanity.--_Swift._
+
+~Vexations.~--Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are
+vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most
+piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest
+affairs disturb us most.--_Montaigne._
+
+~Vice.~--As to the general design of providence, the two extremes of vice
+may serve (like two opposite biases) to keep up the balance of things.
+When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its
+opposite; 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 Vice
+can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No
+room for your ladyship: pass on."--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+I ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudence
+to gainsay what they did, than to perform it first.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes
+of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they
+act, 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 its
+sunset! Then, on the other hand, we are amazed at the commencement of a
+sorrow-storm; but that it should go off in gentle showers we think quite
+natural.--_Richter._
+
+Who ordered toil as the condition of life, ordered weariness, ordered
+sickness, ordered poverty, failure, success,--to this man a foremost
+place, to the other a nameless struggle with the crowd; to that a
+shameful fall, or paralyzed limb, or sudden accident; to each some work
+upon 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 a
+nation.--_Bolingbroke._
+
+Victory belongs to the most persevering.--_Napoleon._
+
+It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.--_Walter
+Scott._
+
+~Villainy.~--Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds
+impudence to imposture.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she
+slumber 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 virtue
+in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored
+creature.--_Sir P. Sidney._
+
+This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues--they hold up a torch to
+his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have
+passed without observation in another.--_Colton._
+
+True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our
+virtues.--_Lamartine._
+
+It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better
+translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete,
+than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.--_John
+Stuart Mill._
+
+Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore.--_Milton._
+
+To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes
+perfect 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 degrade
+virtue.--_Joubert._
+
+No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose
+value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is
+never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep
+it.--_Colton._
+
+Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though
+sun 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 at
+hand.--_Confucius._
+
+Virtues that shun the day and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and
+the calm of life.--_Addison._
+
+That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the
+sentinel.--_Goldsmith._
+
+Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united,
+when one virtue makes a man extraordinary? Alexander is eminent for his
+courage; Ptolemy for his wisdom; Scipio for his continence; Trajan for
+his love of truth; Constantius for his temperance.--_Zimmermann._
+
+Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by
+rowing 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 law
+of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a
+tempest.--_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 to
+show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the
+other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the
+ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness,--ready to forge
+cannon-balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vessel
+or a missionary ship.--_Horace Mann._
+
+~Vulgarity.~--The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get
+accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning,
+human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any
+comfort.--_Carlyle._
+
+Dirty work wants little talent and no conscience.--_George Eliot._
+
+
+W.
+
+~Waiting.~--It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero
+will then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides
+with 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 are
+chiefly derived.--_Fielding._
+
+If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer
+that 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 would
+pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing
+again.--_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 of
+strength between friendly nations, and in which the injustice was not to
+each other, but to the God who gave them life. But in a malignant war
+there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must
+be 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 at
+night! 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 own
+flesh, 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 sinews
+of war.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
+
+War is the matter which fills all history, and consequently the only or
+almost the only view in which we can see the external of political
+society is in a hostile shape; and the only actions to which we have
+always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the
+destruction of one another.--_Burke._
+
+As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on
+their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory
+will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.--_Gibbon._
+
+The fate of a battle is the result of a moment,--of a thought: the
+hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other
+and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental
+flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the
+object.--_Napoleon._
+
+The feast of vultures, and the waste of life.--_Byron._
+
+I abhor bloodshed, and every species of terror erected into a system, as
+remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evils that
+can only be cured by the diffusion of liberal ideas.--_Mazzini._
+
+~Weakness.~--Weakness is thy excuse, and I believe it; weakness to resist
+Philistian 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 a
+Power 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. At
+first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and
+very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him
+more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.--_Cecil._
+
+If Wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is
+treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust
+of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him
+cautiously.--_Tupper._
+
+Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at
+ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those
+who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves its
+slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth
+without independence.--_Colton._
+
+~Weeping.~--What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows! What
+poor, defenseless creatures they would be!--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+~Welcome.~--Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! on
+golden hinges turning.--_Milton._
+
+~Wickedness.~--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a
+torrent.--_Racine._
+
+The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibility
+of finding any just grounds on which it can rest; and the very
+consciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the more
+against 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 endless
+perturbation.--_Plutarch._
+
+What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds
+his fierce career?--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Wife.~--Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
+art 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 will
+return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at
+such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement,
+find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten
+to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should
+wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other
+houses.--_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 is
+bidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he has
+acquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor
+wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as
+by a torrent. You need but _will_, and it is done; but if you relax your
+efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from
+within.--_Epictetus._
+
+~Winter.~--After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with his
+nipping cold.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace
+constringent.--_Thomson._
+
+~Wisdom.~--Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a
+depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a
+house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that
+thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; it is the
+wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would
+devour.--_Bacon._
+
+Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls
+wisdom.--_Coleridge._
+
+Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in
+rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are
+naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in
+artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate
+the sense of them.--_Montaigne._
+
+It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists
+in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former
+quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it
+is deceptive.--_Whately._
+
+You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was--that he knew
+nothing.--_Congreve._
+
+To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of
+mind 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 she
+seizes 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 wishes
+and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a
+riddle.--_Richter._
+
+~Wit.~--I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit, and
+failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch, and tumbling
+into it.--_Johnson._
+
+Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp
+sauce.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Wit must grow like fingers. If it be taken from others 'tis like plums
+stuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come to
+nothing.--_Selden._
+
+If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who
+has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which
+might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the
+ground.--_Scriver._
+
+To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.--_Madame
+de Maintenon._
+
+~Woe.~--No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.--_Walter
+Scott._
+
+Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.--_Herrick._
+
+So many miseries have crazed my voice, that my woe-wearied tongue is
+still.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Woman.~--Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy?--_Spenser._
+
+Pretty women without religion are like flowers without
+perfume.--_Heinrich Heine._
+
+The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her
+sex.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+They never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences
+from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they
+always 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 and
+love.--_Richter._
+
+God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of
+this genius are always works of love.--_Lamartine._
+
+Women for the most part do not love us. They do not choose a man because
+they love him, but because it pleases them to be loved by him. They love
+love of all things in the world, but there are very few men whom they
+love personally.--_Alphonse Karr._
+
+Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy; the salt
+of his life.--_Michelet._
+
+Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her
+whom they most scorn.--_Charles Buxton._
+
+It goes far to reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am
+thus 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 of
+variety,--old crotchets and most sweet closes,--it shall be humorous,
+grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly,--one in all, and all
+in 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 as
+your brother, man; no, nor ever will. Pardon me, if I doubt whether you
+will ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or a
+Phidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a great
+scholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on an
+infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of
+combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of
+the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the
+unity of breathing life. If you can create yourselves into any of these
+grand creators, why have you not?--_De Quincey._
+
+There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine
+of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.--_Southey._
+
+Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the
+person on whom she depends.--_Goethe._
+
+Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in
+resentment.--_Colton._
+
+Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent
+to 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, so
+that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win
+her may be a discipline!--_George Eliot._
+
+Men at most differ as heaven and earth; but women, worst and best, as
+heaven and hell.--_Tennyson._
+
+Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and
+that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.--_Arsene
+Houssaye._
+
+A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates
+them.--_George Eliot._
+
+There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene and
+peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and
+later, an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful
+bloom.--_Richter._
+
+Women see without looking; their husbands often look without
+seeing.--_Louis Desnoyeas._
+
+She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at that age
+when, if ever, angels be for God's good purposes enthroned in mortal
+forms, 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 and
+beautiful, that earth seemed not her element, nor its rough creatures
+her 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 a
+Jesuitess.--_Eugene Sue._
+
+The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and
+spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.--_Adrian Dupuy._
+
+~Words.~--There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there
+are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a
+whole life.--_Fredrika Bremer._
+
+Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more
+important than even the hour-hands of action.--_Richter._
+
+"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband
+and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the
+possession of a lighted bomb-shell.--_Douglas Jerrold._
+
+Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to
+see.--_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 old
+banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place.--_George
+Eliot._
+
+Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency
+should be strictly regulated by the capital which they
+represent.--_Colton._
+
+~World.~--The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who
+feel.--_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 will
+open.--_Shakespeare._
+
+~Worship.~--Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is not
+engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshiped not.--_Confucius._
+
+~Writing.~--Writing, after all, is a cold and coarse interpreter of
+thought. How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect,
+evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words! Man made
+language and God the genius.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote.--_Theophile Vian._
+
+~Wrong.~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the
+punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that
+is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with
+each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as
+disease.--_George Eliot._
+
+My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which
+earth is filled.--_Cowper._
+
+
+Y.
+
+~Youth.~--The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their
+buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious
+blastments are most imminent.--_Shakespeare._
+
+Reckless youth makes rueful age.--_Moore._
+
+In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a
+certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in
+despising 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 of
+voluptuousness.--_Victor Hugo._
+
+O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the
+heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of
+the 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 are
+reached through the heart.--_Retif de la Bretonne._
+
+Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+
+Z.
+
+~Zeal.~--I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An
+excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to
+me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I
+should call it.--_Montaigne._
+
+In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they
+start.--_Schiller._
+
+Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The
+winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.--_Charles
+Buxton._
+
+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 true
+zeal.--_Moliere._
+
+People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and
+violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest, that inflames
+them.--_Montaigne._
+
+The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
+
+~Zealot.~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, a
+special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to
+your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson._
+
+What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason
+upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring
+if it be useful truth.--_Sydney Smith._
+
+I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his
+head or heart somewhere or other.--_Coleridge._
+
+They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and
+deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most
+precious.--_Hawthorne._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day
+end all.--_Shakespeare._
+
+
+
+
+
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