~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.--_Fénelon._

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.--_Méry._

~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 Cæsar 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.--_Béranger._

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.--_Molière._

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.--_Molière._

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.--_Théophile 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.--_Bovée._

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.--_Bovée._

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.--_George Herbert._

Strange designs lurk under a gift. "Give the horse to his Holiness,"
said the cardinal. "I cannot serve you!"--_Zimmermann._

~Glory.~--To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When
the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.--_Napoleon._

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actæon, 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 Cæsar, 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.--_Bruyère._

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.--_Abbé 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.--_Arsène 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 Neæra'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.--_Théophile 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.--_Arsène Houssaye._

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone,
impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so;
happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, 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 Staël._

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 Sévigné._

~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.--_Bruyère._

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.--_Molière._

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.--_Bovée._

~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.--_Aimé 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 Scudéry._

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 à 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.--_Æschylus._

God's mill grinds slow but sure.--_George Herbert._

Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, "It is there?"
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, 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.--_Béranger._

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
Staël._

~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 preëxisted, 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.--_Bovée._

~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.--_Théophile 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.--_Bruyère._

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 à 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.--_Arsène 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._