A

DICTIONARY OF THOUGHTS

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H Cyclopedia of Xacontc Quotations

FROM THE BEST AUTHORS OF THE WORLD, BOTH ANCIENT

AND MODERN

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TRTON EDWARDS, D.D.

ALPHABBTIOALLY ARRANGED BY SUBJECTS*

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e-"s.-s* PREFACE.

E have Dictionaries of Words. Why not

have a Dictionary of Thoughts? Why

not a gathering of the* condensed and

striking thoughts of the worlds best

thinkers on important and interesting

subjects,arranged, as in verbal dictionaries,in alphabeti-
cal
order of topics,for ready reference and familiar use ?

Of the brief and strikingsayings of wise and good men

Tillotson says : "They are of great value, like the dust of

gold or the sparks of diamonds." And Johnson counts

"him a benefactor of mankind who condenses the great

thoughts and rules of life into short sentences that are

easily impressed on the memory and recur promptly to

the mind." Such laconic thoughts Swift compares to

''burningglasses,as they collect the diffused rays of wit

and learning in authors, and make them point with

warmth and quicknesson the reader's imagination." And

of such thoughts it is that Coleridge says: "Let every
book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he

discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration that does his

heart good, hasten to give it to others."

A collection of such thoughts was begun by the writer

more than fiftyyears ago, as a matter of personal interest

and for personal use and reference, with no thought of
publicatioa But their number and variety so increased
as to suggest the plan, many years ago, of a book which

might be a treasury of the best and most striking

thoughts of the world's best authors.
II PREFACE

During all these years the plan has been kept in mind,

and constant additions have been made from a wide range

of personal study and miscellaneous reading, of
gems

wisdom, and beauty, and common sense, being taken

from and every mine of authorship from which they

any

might be gathered. A broad and rich field for selection

has also been found in such valuable collections as

"Lacon," "Laconia," "The Laconic Manual," "Burning

Words of Brilliant Writers," "Many Thoughts of Many
Minds," "Classical and Foreign Quotations," "Great

Thoughts from Greek Authors," "Aphorisms of the

"World's Literature," "Living Thoughts of Living

Thinkers," "The Treasury of Thought," "Great Truths

b; Great Authors," "Thoughts and Apothegms," "Day's

Collocon," "Stars from the Poets and Thinkers' Heaven

of all Ages," "Wit and Wisdom of Bulwer," "Life

Thoughts," "Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations," "Bits

of Burnished Gold," "Beautiful Thoughts," "Seed

Grain," German, French, Spanish, and Italian collections,

and many other interesting and valuable works, edness
indebt-

to which is freJj and gratefully acknowledged.

From these and many other and similar sources the

choicest thoughts have been culled, forming a work

which, it is hoped, may be of permanent value as in

advance of manual of the kind thus far ever given

any

to the public. No merit is claimed for the gathering

except that which belongs to a diligent compiler. The

labor of preparing the work has been its own reward.

It is hoped that the work itself may be a source of ure

pleas-
and profit to others.

TRYON EDWARDS.
 INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Abdalrahman. Alleine, Joseph. Austen, Jane.

Abd-el-Kadbr. Allston, Washington. Austin, William.
Abbott, F. E. Almeron. Azai, Rabbi Ben.
Abbott, Jacob. Alroy. Azarias, Father.

Abbott, J. S. C. Ambrose.

Abbott, Lyman. Ames, Fisher. Backus, Azel.

a.bbbnethy, john. Amiel, H. F. Bacon, Francis.
Abrantes, Duchesse db. Anacharbis. Bacon, Leonard.
Ackers, Elizabeth. Anacreon. Bacon, W. T.

Adam, H. G. J. Anderson. J. Bailey, G. S.

Adam, Thomas. Andre, Father. Bailey, P. J.

Adams, H. G. Andrews, John. Baillte, Joanna.

Adams, John. Angelo, Michael. Balfour, F. M.

Adams, John Q. Ann of Austria. Balguy, John.

Adams, M. Anselm. Ballou, Hosea.

Adams. Nehemiah. Anthony, Saint. Ballou, M. M.

Addison, Joseph. Antigonus. Balzac, H. De.

Adrian. Antipater. Bancroft, George,

Adventurer. Antisthines. Barbauld, A. L.
iEsCHINES. Antoninus, M. Barker, John.
^Eschtlus. Arbuthnot, John. Barnes, Albert.

Aoassiz, L. J. R. Aristippus. Barnum, P. T.

AOAPET. Aristotle. Barr, Amelia E.
AOATHON. Aristophanes. Barrett, E. S.
Agesilaub. Armstrong, John. Barrington, D.

Aiken. John. Arnim, B. Von. Barrington, J.

Aiken, Lucy. Arnold, Edwin. Barrow, Isaac.
Aikman, William. Arnold, Matthew. Bartholini, A

Akenside, Mark. Arnold. Thomas. Bartol, C. A.

Alcott, A.B. Arnot, Neil. Barton, Bernard.

Albert. Arnot, W. D. Basil, Saint.

Aldrich, T. B. Arrowsmith, John. Bate, Julius.

Alembert, J. L. R. DE. Arthur, T. 8. Baxter, Richard.
Alembert, Marchioness Ascham, Roger. Bayard, Jab. A.

DE. Atkinson, Edward. Bayle, Pierre.

Aleyn. Charles. Atterbury, Francis. Bayley, J. R.
Alexander. Archibald. At well, George. Bayne, Peter.

Alexander, James W. Auchester, C. Beadle, E. R.

Alexander, Mrs. Auerbach, Berthold. Beattie, James.

Alfieri, V. Auffenberg, Joseph. Beaumelle, L. A. D.
Alford, Augusta. Aughey, D. H. Beaumont, Francis.

Alford, Henry. Augustine, Saint. Beaumont, I. L. M. de.

Alger, W. R. Aurel. Beaumont, John.

Alison, Archibald. Ausonius, D. M. Beccaria, C. B.

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.1 INDEX OP AUTHOR8.

Bkckwith, W. Bo wen, Francis. Buntan, John.

Bedell, G. T. Bowes, G. S. Burbridge, Thomas
Bedford. Earl of. Bowles, Caroline. Burger, C. A.
Beecher, H. W. Bowring, John. Burgh, Jambs.
Bbechbr, Lyman. Boyd, H.
A. K. Burke, Edmund.
Beethoven, L. V. Boybe, J. F. Burkitt, William.
Bellamy, Edward. Boyse, Samuel. Burleigh, Cblia.
Bellamy, Joseph. Bouflers, S. Burleigh, Lord.
Bbllers, John. Braddon, M. E. Burleigh, W. H.
Bellows, H. W, Brainard, David. Burnap, J.
Benjamin, Park. Bralnard, J. G. C. Burnet, Gilbert.
Bennett, G. T. Brai8Lin. Burns, Robert.
Bbnserade, Isaac. Bratterton. Burr, Aaron.
Bbntham, Jeremy. Bray, Ann E Burr, E. F.
Bentham, Thomas. Bremer, Fredbrika. Burritt, Elihu.
Bentley, Richard. Brent, Nathaniel. Burton, N. J.
Berkeley, Bp. George. Brent, Richard. Burton, R. E.
Bernard, Saint. Brewster, Sir D. Bury, R. de.
Bbrners, J. B. Bridgeman. Butler, Fannie K.
Bern i, Francesco. Bridges, C. Butler, Joseph.
Berridoe, John. Bribsot, J. P. Butler, Samuel.
Berridoe. W. Bristed, C. A. Buxton, Sib T. F.
Bersier, J. Broadhurst. Byron, Lord.
Bettoni, Antoine. Broadus, J. A.
Bias. Brodie, B. C. Caballero, F.
BlCKERSTAFF, ISAAC. Brodie, J. F. Cesar.
Biqelow, John. Brooke, S. D. Caird, John.
Bingham, Hiram. Brooks, J. G. Calderon, de la B.
Binney, Horace. Brooks, Phillips. Calhoun, John C.
Binney, Thomas. Brooks, T. Calvin, John.
Bion. Bronte. Charlotte. Campbell, George.
Bismarck, K. O. Broome, William. Campbell, Hope.
Blackie, J. S. Brougham. Lord. Campbell, Thomas.
Blackstone, Sir W. Brown, D. P. Canning, C. J.
Blair, Hugh. Brown, I. B. Canning, George.
Blessington, Lady. Brown, John, of dington. Capell,
Had- Edward.
Blount, T. B. Carew, Thomas.
Boardman, G. D. Browne, Robert W. Carleton, William.
Boerhave, Herman. Browne, Sir Thomas. Carlisle, Lord.
Boilbau. Nicolas. Browning, Mrs. E. B. Carltle, Thomas.
Boistb, P. C. B. Browning, Robert. Carnrades.
BoLINGBROKE, LORD. Bruyere. J. de L. Carnegie, A.
Bolton, Robert. Bryant, J. H. Carpenter, W. B.
Bonald, L. G. A. Bryant, W. C. Cary, Alice.
Bonaparte, Joseph Brydges, Sir E. Cary, Phojbr.
BoNArARTE, NAPOLEON. Brydgb8, Samuel E. Cass, Lewis.
bonar, horatiu8. Buck, Charles. Catterwood, Mary H
Bonaventdra, Saint. Buckingham, Duke of. Cato.
Bonnell. Jambs, Buckminster, J. S. Catullus.
bonstetten, c. v. dr. Buddha. Causbin, N.
bossuet, j. b. de. Buddhist Scripture. Cawdrby, D.
Boston, Thomas. Budgell, Eustace. Cecil, Richard.
Bouchard, P. Buffon. G. L. L. Cervantes, S. M. de.
Bouhours. Dominique. Bulwer, E. G. Chadbournr, P. A
Bovee, C. N. Bulwbr, F. Chadwick, Edwin.
Bowdler. John. Bun sen. C. K. J. Chalmers, Thomas.
 INDEX OP AUTHORS.

Chambers, T. W. Colton, C. C. De Buby, R.

Champort, 3. R. N. Combe, Charles. Decker, Thomas.
Changing, T. W. Combe, George. De Finod.
Channeng, W. ". Confucius, Defoe, Daniel.
Chapin, E. H. congregationalist. Degerando, J. M.
Chaplin, Jeremiah. Congrkve, William. De Hales.
Chapman, George. Conway, M. D. Delany, Patrick.
Charles V. Corneille, Pierre. Deloreine.
Charnock, Stephen. Coningsby. Delsarte, Francois.
Charron, R. dk. Cornwall, Barry. Deluzy, Madam.
Chasles, V. E. P. Cottle, Joseph. Demades.
Chateaubriand, F. A. Cotton, Nathaniel. Democritus.
Cbatpield, Paul. Cowley, Abraham. Demophilus.
Chatham, Lord. Cowper, William. Demosthenes.
Chester, O. B. Cowbin, Victor. De Moy.
Cherbulhcz, Victor. Cox, 8amubl H. Denham. Sir John.
Chesterfield, Lord. Crabbe, George. Db Quincy, Thomas.
Child, Mrs. L. M. Cranch, Christopher. Derby, Earl.
Chillingworth, Wm. Crashaw, Richard. Derossi, G. G.
Chilo. Crates. Desmahib, j. j"\ E.
Choate, Rufus. Crawford, F. M. Dk Vigny, A. V.
Chribtlieb, Theodore. Croly, George. Dewey, Orville.
Christiana,. Queen. Cromwell, Oliver. Dexter, H. M.
Chrysostom, Saint. Crosby, Howard, Dexter, Timothy.
Churchill, Charles. Crew, Nathaniel. Dick, Thomas.
Cibbkr, Collet. Crowell, Robert. Dickens, Charles.
Cicero, M. T. Crowns, John. Dickinson, John.
Clarendon, Lord. Crowquill, Alfred. Diderot, Dennis.
Clare, Alexander. Cudworth, Ralph. Dillon, Wentworth.
Clarke, Adam. Culyerwell, Nathan'l. Dilwyn, L. W.
Clarke, James F. Cumberland, Richard. Diogenes.
Clarke, Macdonald. Cumming, John. DlONYBIUS, OF HaLICAB-
Claudian. Curran, J. P. NASSUS.

Clay. Henry. Curry, J Disraeli. Benjamin.

Cleanthbs. Curtiss. G. W. Disraeli, Isaac.
Clement, 8aint. Cuba, N. Dobell, Sidney.
Cleveland, Grover, Cutler, T. L. Doddridge, Philip.
Clinton, Db Witt. Cyrus. Dodbley, Robert.
Clulow, W. B. Dollinger, J. J. I.
COBBE, FRANCE8 P. Dacier, Anne L, Donne, John.
CoBBETT, William. Daggett, Davdd. Doran, John.
Cobden, William. Dale, R. W. Dorner, Isaac A.
Cobden, Richard. Dana, James W. Douglas, Frederick.
Cockton, Henry. Danby, Cecil. Dow, John.
Cogan, Thomas. Daniel, Samuel. Dow, Lorenzo.
Coke, 8ir Edward. Dante. Dow, Neal.
Colbert, J. B. Darley, George. Dowden, Edward.
Coleman, G. Darwin, C. R. Drayton, Michael.
Coleridge, Bishop. Davenant, 8ir W. Drennan, William.
Coleridge, Hartley. Davidson, Thain. Drew, Samuel.
Coleridge, 8. T. Davocs, 8AMUEL. Drummond, William.
Coleridge, Sara. Davis, W. H. Dryden, John.
Collet, 8. Davy, Sir H. Dubois, Abbe.
Collier, Jeremy. Dawson, George. Dubois, Jean A.
Collins, Wilku. Day, Jeremiah. Ducis Jean F.
Oollter, Robert. Db Aubigne, J. N. Duclos, C. D.
vi INDEX OP AUTHORS.

Dudevant, Madam. Falconer, William. Gale, T.

Dudley, T. U. Falkland, M. L, C. Galen.
Duganne, A. G. H. Fane, Sir F. Gallus, C. C.
Dulles, J. W. Farindon, A. Garfield, J. A.
Dumas, Alexander. Farquhar, George. Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Duncan, William. Farrar, F. W. Garret, Edward.
Dupay, Alexander. Fauchet, Claude. Garrick. David.
Dupin, F. C. P. Fee, Madam. Gasparin, Madam.
Duplessib, P. A. G. Feltham, Owen. Gatty, Margaret
Duriyaoe, F. A. Felton, C. C. Gay, John.
Dwioht, John 8. Fenelon, Francis de S. Gehles, T. S.
Dwight, Timothy. Fergus, Henry. Geikie, C.
Feuerbach, P. J. A. v. Genlis, Madam de
Earle, J. B. Feuillet, Octave. Gentz, Frederick
Ebers, Emil. Fichtb, I. H. George HI.
ecclesiasticus. Fielding, Henry. Gibbon, Edward.
Edgeworth, Maria. Finch, Ann. Gibson, John B.
Edwards, Eugene. Finlayson, George. Gibson, J. M.
Edwards, Frances P. Fino, Alemanis. Gifford, William.
Edwards, Jonathan. Fisk, Wilbur. Gilbert, N. J. L.
Edwards, Tryon. Fiske, John. Giles, Henry.
Eggleston, Edward. Flavel, John. Gillet, E. H.
Eldon, John S. Fletcher, Andrew. Gilpin, Bernard.
Eliot, George. Fletcher, John. Girardin, Madam de.

Eliot, John. Fletcher, Samuel. Gladden, Washington

Elizabeth, Queen. Flint, Timothy. Gladstone, W. E.
Elliot, Ebenezer, Fontaine, Charles. Glynn, Robert.
Ellis, Sarah S. Fontenellr, B. leB. de. Godet, F. L.
Ellison, Adolph. Foote, A. L. R. Godwin, Parke.
Ely, Richard T. Foots, Samuel. Goethe, J. W. v.

Embury, E. C. Ford, John. Goffe, William.

Emerson, G. B. Fordyce, George. Golcondi.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Forney, J. W. Golden Rule.
Emmons, Nathaniel. Forster, W. E. Goldoni, Carlo.
Empedocles. Fobs. C. D. Goldsmith, Oliver.
Enclos, Nina de. Foster. John. Good, J. M.
English, T. D. Fowler, O. 8. Goodrich, Albert.
Epictetus. Fox, C. I. Goodrich, S. G.
Epicurus. Francis, Philip. Gordon, A. J.
Erasmus. Franklin, Benjamin. Gorlan, Leon.
Erskine, Lord. Franklin, Thomas. Gosner, J.
Essex, Lord. Frappard, F. G. Gotthold, J. E. I*
Euripides. Frederick the Great. Gough, John B.
Evans, Augusta. Freeman, E. A. Goulburn, E. M.
Evans, J. H. Fresnel, A. J. Grant, Ulysses S.
Evarts, W. M. Frothingham, N. L. Grattan, Henry.
Evelyn, John. Froude, James A. Graves, Richard.
Everett, Edward. Froude, Philip. Gray, Asa.
Everton, John. Fry. Elizabeth. Gray, Thomas.
Everts, W. W. Fuerbach. Grayson Letters.
Evremond, Charles. Fuller, Margaret. Greeley. Horace.
Ewald, G. H. A. Fuller, Thomas. Green, Mary A. E.
Fuller, Richard. Gregory the Great.
Faber, F. W. Fulton, R. H. Gresley, Prof.
Fairfax, Edward. Fuseli, Henry. Greville, Lord.
 INDEX OF AUTHORS. "il

Grey, Ladt Jane. Hazlitt, William. Hopkins, Mark.

Grier, M. B. Heath, James. Hoppin, J. M.
Grimm, F. M. Heath, John. Horace.
Griswold, R. W. Heber, Reginald. Horne, Bishop.
Grout, H. W. Hecker, I. T. Horneck, Anthony.
Guardian. Hedge, F. H. Howard, John.
Guerin, E. D. Hegesippus. Howe, John.
Guerin, M. O. Heine, H. Howe, Julia W.
Guesses at Truth. Heinzelmann. Howe, Nathaniel.
Guicciardini, F. Helps, Arthur. Howell, J. B.
Guizot, F. P. G. Helvetius. Howells, W D.
Guizot, Madam. Hemans, Felicia. Howitt, Mary.
G urn all, William. Henshaw, J. P. R. Howitt, William.
Gurney, John J. Henry, Patrick. Hudson, H. N.
Guthrie, Thomas. Henry, Philip. Hufeland, C. W.
Henry, Matthew. Hughes. John.
Habington, William. Heraclitus. Hughes, Thomas.
Hale, Sir Matthew. Herbert, Edward. Hugo, Victor.
Hale, Sarah J. Herbert, George. Humboldt, Alexander,
Haliburton, Thomas C. Herbert, William. Humboldt, Wilhelm.
Halifax, C. M. Herder, J. G. Von. Hume, David.
Hall, Basil. Herodotus. Humphrey, E. P.
Hall, John. Herrick, Robert. Hunt. J. H. Leigh.
Hall, Joseph. Herschel, Sir J. Hunter, John.
Hall, Robert. Hervey, Lady E. L. Huntington, F. D.
Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hesiod. Hutton, William.
Hall, William. Heywood, Thomas. Huxley, T. H.
Hallam, A. H. Hibernian Letters.
Hallam, John. Hierocles. Iffland, A. W.
Halleck, Fitzoreen. Higginson, T. W. Inchbald, Mrs. Eliz.
Haller, Albert. Hill, Aaron. Independent, The.
Hamerton, P. G. Hill, Rowland. Ingelow, Jean.
Hamilton, Alexander. Hillard, G. S. Inglesant, John,
Hamilton, Gail. Hillhouse, J. A. Interior, The.
Hamilton, James. Hitchcock, R. D. Irving, Edward.
Hamilton, R. W. Hoadley, Benjamin. Irving, Isaac.
Hamilton, Sir W. Hobbes, TnOMAS. Irving, Washington,
Hanway, Jonas. Hodge, A. A. iselin, i8aac.
Hardy, A. S. Hodge, Charles. isocrates.
Hardy, T. Hodkin, T. isomachus.
Hare, A. W. Hogarth, William.
Hare, J. C. Hogg, James. Jack, A. L.
Harley, G. D. Holland, J. G. Jacobi, F. K.
Harrington, Sir J Holmes, O. W. Jacox, F.
Harrison, W. H. Home, Henry. James, J. A.
Harvard, W. Homer. Jameson, Anna.
Haupf, W. Hood, E. P. Janes, E. S.
Haven, Joseph. Hooke, T. E. Jay, John.
Havbrgal, F. R. Hooker, Herman. Jay, William.
Haweis, H. R. Hooker, Richard. Jebb, John.
Ha wes, Joel. Hooker, Thomas. Jefferson, Thomas,
Hawkesworth, John. Hoole, John. Jeffrey, Francis.
Hawthorne, N. Hopfner, J. G. C. Jen kin, William.
Hayoood, A. Hopkins, A. A. Jerdan, William.
Hazard, Samuel. Hopkins, Bishop. Jerome, Saint.
nil INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Jerrold, Douglas. Lafontaine. Lord, John R.

Jewish Spy. Lamartine, A. db. Louis XL
Jewsbury, Maria J. Lamb, Charles. Louis XIV.
Johnson, Herrick. Lambert, Madam de. Louis XVI.
Johnson, Samuel. Lambnnais, H. F. R. de. Love, C.
Jones, J. Lanahan, J. Lover, Samuel.
Jones, Thomas R. Landon, L. ". L. Lubbock, Sir Johh.
Jones, William, op Nat- Landor, W. S. Lucan.
land. Lang, Andrew. Lucas, Samuel.
Jones, Sir William. Langdale, Lord. Lucretius.
Jonson, Ben. Langford, J. W. Ludlow, J. M.
Jortin, John. Langhorne, John. luthardt.
Joubert, Joseph. Lansdowne, H. P. F. Luther.
Jowett, Benjamin. Lan8downe, George. Lyon, Mary.
Joy, George, Laplace, P. 8. Lyttleton, Lord.
judson, aooniram. Larcom, Lucy. Lytton, E. B.
Junius. La Salle, H. C.
Just, Saint. Latena. Macaulay, T. B.
Justinian. Latimer, Hugh. Macchiavelli, N.
Juvenal. Lavater, J. C. Macdonald, George.
Lavington, George. Macduff, John.
Kames, Lord. Lawrence, George. Mackay, Charles.
Kant, Immanuel. Lee, Anna. Mackintosh, Sir J.
"ARR, J. A.. Lee, D. K. Maclaurin, A.
K a van ah, Julia. Lee, Nathaniel. Macklin, Sir C
Keats, John. Ledru-Rollin, A. A. Macvickar, John*
Kbtt. Henry. L'Estrange, Roger. McArthur, R. S.
Keith, Alexander, Legouvb, E. W. McCosh, Jambs.
Keller, H. Leibnitz, G. W. von. McCulloch, John.
Kemble, Frances A. Leighton, Archbishop. McCunb, W.
Kempis, Thomas 1. Lemesle, C. McLeod, Alexander.
Kent, James. Lemierre, A. M. McLeod, Norman.
Kerr, Bishop. Lessing, G. ". McPherson, James.
Kieffbr, J. S. Letourneux, N. McWhorter, Alex.
Kinosley, Charles. Levis, F. G. de. Madden, A. S.
Kirk, ". N. Lewes, G. H. Magoon, E. L.
Kirkland, Mrs. C. M. Lewis, Dio. Mahomet.
KlTCHELL, H. D. Liddon, H. P. Maintbnon, Madame db

Kitto, John. Libber, Francis. Malebranche, N.

Klopstock, F. G. Liebig, Francis. Malbsherbes, C. W. L.
Knebel, K. H. V. Lillo, George. Malet, L.
Knighton, Sir W. Lilly, William. Mallet, David.
Knowles, J. S. Limayrac, P. Mallet, P. H.
Knowles, Thomas. Lincoln, Abraham. Mancroix.
Koran. Lincoln, John L. Manilius.
Kossuth. Livingston, Brockholbt. Mann, Horace.
Kreshner, J. Livingstone, David. Mansfield, Lord.
Krummacher, F. W. Lrw. Mant, Richard.
Lloyd, W. Manvaux.
Laberiub. Locke, John. March, Daniel.
Laboulaye, ". R. L. Lockhart. J. G. Margaret of Navarre.
Lacordairr, J. F. Lockdxr, E. H. Marlowe, Christopher.
Lacretblle, J. C. D. Lockibr, Francis. Marry at. Frederick.
Lactantius. Logan, J. M. marten8en, han8 l.
Ladd, William. Longfellow, H. W. Martial.
Lafayette, Madam. Longinus. Martin, Henri.
 INDEX OP AUTHORS. tz

Martin, L. A. Mole, Thomas. Newton, Sir Isaac.

Martinbau, Harriet. Molibre, J. B. P. Newton, Richard.
Martinbau, Jambs. Molinos, Miguel. Nichol, John.
Martyn, Henbt. Monday Club. Njchol, J. P.
Martyn, John. Monod, Adolphe. Niccole. G. H.
Marvell, Andrew. Montague, Mary W. Nicole. Claude.
Mason, Ebskine. Montague. S. Niebuhr, B. G.
Mason, John. Montaigne, M. E. Nisbet, Charles.
Mason, John M. MONTALEMBERT. C. F. None, F. db la.

Mason, William. Montesquieu, C. De S. Norris, John.

ill AHfUBK, A., Monfort, F. C. North, Christopher.
Masset, Gerald. Montgomery, u ames. Northcote, James.
Massillon, J. B. Montgomery, Robert, Norton, Mrs. C. S. S.
Massinger, Philip. montlosibr, f. d. Nott, Eliphalet.
Mather, Cotton. Moody, D. L. NOTTIDeE, J. I.
Matilda, Queen. Moore, Thomas. Nova lis.

Maturin, C. R. Mordaunt, Charles.

Maund, B. More, Hannah. O'Connell, Daniel.
Maunder, Samuel. More, Sir Thomas. Oerlenschlager, A. G
Maury, M. F. Morell, Sir Charles. Oerter, J.
Maurice, J. F. D. Morgan, Lady S. O'Hara, Kane.
Maximus, Ttrius. Morlet, George. Oliphant, Mrs. M.
Maxwell J. C. Morning Star. Olbhausen, Herman.
Mat, Thomas E. Moser, Justus. O'Rell, Max.
Mazzini, Guibeppr. MosquERA. O'Reilly, J. B.
Melanchthon, Philip. Motley, John L. Orfila, M. J. B.
Mellen, Grrnyille. Motherwell, William. Origen.
Mklmoth, William. Mottevillb,Madame db. Orrery, Earl of.

Melville, Henry. Motto, Gebman. Obborn, Francis.

Mbnandbr. Mountford, William. Osborne, Sir Thomas.
Mbncius. Mowatt, Anna C. Osgood, Frances S.
Mendelssohn, Moses. Moy, Db. Osgood, Samuel.
Mere, G B Mulock, Dinah M. Ossoli, S. M. F.
Meredith, George. Muller, George, Otis, James.
Meredith, Owen. muller, j. yon. Otway, Thomas.
Merry, Robert. Muller, Max. Ouida.
Messer, A. Munger, T. T. OvERBURY, Thomas.
Metastasis, P. B. Murphy, Arthur. Owbn, John.
Metternich, C. W. Murray. Nicholas. Owen, J. J.
MeYRICK, 8AMUBL. Murray, William. Owen, Prof.
Michelet, Jules. Mussbt, Alfred de. Ovid.
Middleton, Conyers. Mutchmore, S. A. Oxrnsttern, Axel.
Middlbton, Thomas.
Mildmay, Charles. Nabb, Thomas. Paget, Eusebiub.
Miller, Hugh. Napoleon I. Paley, William.
Miller, John. Napoleon III. Palmer, Ray.
Mills, J. S. Nation, The. Palmer, Thomas W.
Milman, H. H. Nbal, John. Palmerston, Lord.
Milnbr, James. Necker, Madame. Panin, N. I.
Milnbs, R. M. Nelson, Lord. Park, E. A.
Milton, John. Nepos, Cornelius. Park, Sir Allan.
Mirabeau, H. G. R. Nerval, G. de. Parker, Joseph.
Mitchell, D. G. Nevius, William. Parker, Theodore.
Mitford, Mary R. Newman, F. W. Parkhurst, C. H.
Mitford, William. Newman, J. H. Parr, Samuel.
Moir, D. M. Newton, John. Parton, James.
 INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Pascal, Blaise. Power, Tyrone. Ricard, Dominique.

Patrick, Simon. Powers, Hiram. Riccoboni, Madam.
Patton, F. L. Prentice, George D. Rice, E. W.
Paulding, J. K. Prescott, W. H. Richmond, Legh.
Paulet, Amyas. Pressense, E. de. Richter, Henri.
Paxton, J. R. Priestley, Joseph. Richter, Jean Paul.
Paxton, W. M. Prime, S. I. Richelieu, A. J. du Pe
Payne, J. H. Princeton Review. Ridgeway, J.
Payson, Edward. Prior, Matthew. Rieux. Madam.
Peabody, George. Proverbs, Rivarol.
Pearson, John. ""
Arabian. Robertson, F. W.
Peel, Sir Robert. ""
Chinese. Robinson, C. S.
Pelham, Bishop. ""
Eastern. Robinson, H. C.
Pellico, Silvio. ""
French. Robinson, John.
Penn, William. ""
Hindoo. Rochebrun.
Percival, J. G. a
Malabar. Rochefoucauld, F.
Percival, Margaret. a
Persian. Rochester, Earl of.
Perry, James. Procter, B. W. Roe, Edward P.
Persius. Procter, Adelaide A. Rogers, Henry.
Pestalozzi, J. H. Publius, Syrus. Rogers, Samuel.
Petrarch. pulsford, j. Rojas, Fernando.
Phelps, Austin. pun8hon, w. m. R0JA8, Francisco.
Phelps, E. S. Pusey, E. B. Roland, Madam.
Philemon. Pusieux, Madame de. Romaine, William.
Philip II. Pythagoras. Roscommon, Earl of.

Philip, Robert. Rosetti, Constantine.

Phillips, Catharine. Quarles, Francis, Rothschild. Mayer A*
Phillips, Wendell. quesnel, pasquier. Rousseau, J. J.
PHiEDRUS. quincy, josiah. Rowe, Nicholas.
Pierre, Saint. quintilian. Roydon, Matthew.
Pdirrepont, Edwards. Quiver, The. Ruckert, Frederic.
Pierrepont, John. Ruffini, G.
Pickard, L. B. Rabelais, F. Rule of Life, The.
Pinckard, George. Racine, J. Rumbold, Richard.
PlNCKNEY, C. C. Radcliffe, Wallace. Rumford, Benjamin.
Pinckney, William. Rahel, I. Rush, Richard.
Pindar. Raleigh, Sir W. Russell, Lord John,
Plato. Rambler, The. Russell, Rachael.
Plautub. Ramsay, A. M. Russell, Thomas.
Pliny, the Elder. Rance, W. Rutter, J.
Pliny, the Younger. Randolph, John. Rutherford, Samuel.
Plumer, W. S. Rapin, Rene. Rutledge, John.
Plutarch. Raunci, Abbe de. Ryland, John.
Poe, Edgar A. Ray, John.
Poincelot, A. Raynal, Abbe. Saadi.
Pollok, Robert. Read, T. B. St. John, J. A. B.
Polybius. Reade, Charles. Saint Pierre, J. H. B
Pope, Alexander. Recamier, Madam de. Saint Simon.
Pope, Walter. Rees, G. E. Sala, G. A.
Porter, Anna M. Reid, Thomas. Sales, Saint F. de.

Porter, Jane. Rembrandt, G. Sallust.

Porter, Noah. Ren an, Ernest. Sample, R. F.
porteus, beilby. Retz, Cardinal de. Sand, George.
Potter. W. J. Reynolds, Bishop. Sanford, Bishop.
Powell, T. Reynolds. Sir Joshua. Sannazarro, J.
Powell, Sir John. Rhodes, Alexander. Sargent, Epes.
 INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Saunders, Frederick. 8idney, Henry. Stanley, A. P.

Savage. M. J. Sidney, Sir Philip. Stanley, Lord.
Savage, Richard. Sieves, Abbe. 8teele, Richard.
Savarln, Brillat. SlGOURNEY, LYDIA H. Stendhal, M. H.
S a vile. Sir H. Simmons, Charles. Stephen, Sir J.
Saville, J. F. Simmb, W. G. Sterling, John.
scaroill, w. p. Simon, J. F. S. Sterne, Lawrence.
Schefer. Leopold. Simonides. Stevens, Thaddeus.
Schaff, PmLIP. Simpson, Matthew. Stevenson, R. L.
SCHELLENG, F. W. J. VON. Sinclair, George. Stewart, Alexander.
Schiller, J. C. F. Sinclair, Sir John. Stewart, Dugald.
SCHLEGEL, W. VON. Sismondi, J. C. S. Stillingfleet, Bishop.
Schleiermacher, F. E.D. Skelton, Philip. Stirling, Earl of.
Schopenhauer. Arthur. Smart, Christopher. Stoddard, C. A.
Schubert, C. F. D. Smiles, Samuel. Storrs, E. A.
Scd?io, Apricanus. Smith, Adam. Storrs, R. S.
Scott, J. W. Smith, Albert. Story, Joseph.
Scott, Thomas. Smith, Alexander. Stoughton, John.
8cott, Sir Walter. Smith, Gerrit. Stoughton, William.
Scuderi, Madam. Smith, J. P. Stowe, Mrs. H. B.
Becker, Thomas. Smith, Horace. Stowell, W. S
Sedgwick, C. M. Smith, Elizabeth O. Strahan, William.
Seed, Jeremiah. Smith, Robert P. Strauss, D. F.
Seeley, J. R. Smith, Sydney. Street, A. B.
See ley, S. Smollett, Tobias. Stretch.
8 EEL YE, J. H. Socrates. Strickland, Agnes,
Selden, John. Solon. Suard, J. B. A.
Senancour, E. P. de. somerville, mary, Suckling. Sir John.
Seneca. somerville, thomas, Sue, Eugene.
Senn, J. P. somerville, wllliam. Sumner, Charles.
Seume, J. G. sophocle8. Sumner, John G.
Sbvignes, Madam de. South, Robert. Sumner, W. G.
Seward, W. H. Southern. Thomas. Swartz, J.
Sewell, George. Southey, Robert. Swartz, Olof.
Shaftesbury, Earl of. Southwell, Robert. swedenborg, emanuel.
Shakespeare, William. Spadara, Marchioness Swetchine, Madam.
Sharp, Archbishop. de. Swift, Dean.
Shaw, J. B. Spalding, William. Swinnock, George.
Shaw, H. W. Spanheim, Frederick. Swinburne, A. C.
Shedd, W. G. T. Spectator.
Siiee, M. A. Spencer, Herbert. Tacitus.
Sheffield, John. Spencer, I. S. Taine, H. A.
Shelley, P. B. Spenser, Edmund. Talfourd, T. N.
Shenstone, William. Spring, Gardiner. Talleyrand, P. A. A. db-

Shepard, E. Spring, Samuel. Talmage, T. D,

Shepard, Thomas. Sprague, Charles. Talmud.
Sherlock, Bishop. Sprague, W. B. Tancred.
Sheridan, R. B. Sprat, Thomas. TA880.
Shields, C. W. Sproat, E. Tate, Nahum.
Shipley, W. D. Spurgeon, C. H. Tattler.
Shirley, G. E Spurstowe, William. Taylor, Bayard.
Shirley, James. Spurzheim, J. G. Taylor, H.
Shulz, J. Stael, Madam de. Taylor, Isaac.
Shuttleworth, P. N. Stahl, J. P. DE. Taylor, Jeremy.
Sibbs, Richard. Stanford, C. Taylor, W. M.
Sidney, Algernon. Stanislaus, L. Temple, Sir W.
III INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Tennent, E. Usher, Archbishop. Wells, W. V.

Tennyson, Alfred. Wesley, John.
Terence. Valentine. Wessbnberg, I. H. K.
Thackeray, W. M. Valera. West, Benjamin.
Thales. Van Brugh, John. Whately, Archbishop.
Thatcher, B. B. Van Dyke, H. J. Whelpley, Samuel.
Thayer, W. M. Varnhagen, Von E. Whewell, William.
Theocritus, Varro, Marcus T. Whipple, E. P.
Theophrastus. Vaughan, Henry. White, H. K.
Theophile. Vauyenargues, L. O. de. White, R. G.
Tholuck, F. A. G. Vaux, W. S. W. Whichcote, Benjamin.
Thomas, David. Venning, Ralph. Whitbfield. George.
Thomas of M almesbury. Verb, Sir A. de. Whitehead. Paul.
Thompson, C. L. Vigeb, L. J. B. Whitehead, William.
Thompson, J. P. Vigne, Alfred de. Whittier, J. G.
Thomson, Bishop. Villefre. Wieland, C. M.
Thomson, James. Villiers, Bishop. WlGGLESWORTII, EDWARD
Thoreau, Henrt. Villdxrs, George.* WlLBERFORCE, WlLLIAM.
Thornton, W. L. Vincent, H. Wilcox, Carlos.
Thou, F. A. de. Vincent, Bishop. Wilkins, John.
Thrall, Esther L. S. Vinet. Alexander R. Wilkinson, J. B.
Thucydides. Virgil. Williams, Thomas.
Tiberius. volnby, constantine f. Williams, W. R.
Tieck, Ludwig. Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Willis, N. P.
Tighe, Mary B. Von Knobbl. Willitts, A. A.
Tillotson, Archbishop, WlLLMOTT, R. A.
tooquevillb, a. c. h.de. Walker, J. B. Wilson, Alexander.
Todd, John. Wall, William. Wilson, Daniel.
Tollens, H. Wallace, Lew. Wilson, John.
Toplady, Augustus. Waller, Sir W. Wilson, S. J.
Trapford, F. G. Walpole, Horace. WmsLow, Hubbard.
Train, G. F. Walton, Izaax. Winthrop, R. C.
Trapp, Joseph. Wal8ingham, Francis. Wirt, William.
Trench, R. C. Warburton, Bishop. Wiseman, Nicholas.
Trevanion, H. Ward, John. WiTHERSPooN, John.
Trublet, N. C. J. Wardlaw, Ralph. Wolcott, John.
Trumbull, H. C. Ware, Henrt. Wolfe, Chari.es.
Trusler, John. Warren, 8amuel. Women of England.
Tucker. Josiah. Warton, Joseph. Woodbridoe, J. E.
tuckerman, h. f. Warwick, Arthur. Woolbey, T. D.
Tupper, M. F. Washington, George. Wordsworth, William,
Turcot, A. R. J. Wabson, D. A. Wotton, Henry.
Turnbull, R. J. Waterland, Daniel. Wrother, Miss.
Turner, C. T. Watson, Thomas. Wycherlt, William*
Turner, Sir E. Watts, Isaac.
Turner, Sharon. Wayland, Francis.
Francdiu. Wayland, Heman. Xenophon.
Turretin,
Tusseb, Thomas. Wayland, H. L.
Twain, Mark. Webster, Daniel.
Talden, Thomas.
Tyndale, William. Webster, John.
Young, Edward.
Tyndall, JonN. Webster. Noah.
Tyng. Dudley A. Weeks, R. K.
Tynman. Weiss, John. Zbno.
Tyriub, Maxim us. Welby, A. B. Ziegler, F. W.
Welch, John. Zimmermanh, J. G,
Upham, Thomas C. Wellington, Duke of. Zoroaster.
I

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST

Aouegbbau. Chancellor. Dyer, William. Lobstein, J. F

Aknaud, M. A. LOMBEZ.
Empson, William. Lorain.
Beaufort, Loura. Esbk. Lucas, W. J.
Bbrangkr, P. T.
Fitzosburne.
Bingham, C. McCheyne, R. M.
Porbter, George.
Blaik, Robert. McLean, J.
Freeholder.
Bretonne, N. E. Mackenzie, Henry
Brothkrton, J. Qaborieau, E. Marbton, John. -

Buchanan, Claudius. Gandr, H. D. Marten, A.

Gertrude, St. Maud.

Calcott. Gesnrr, Conrad. May, S. T.
Carlile, Alexander. Gifford, O. P. Menu.
Carrinoton, N. T. Gilbert, John. Metcalf.
Cabaubon, Isaac. Mills, S. J.
'

Goodman, Godfrey.
Cayour. Momerib.
Grahams, James.
Chandler, J. Gregg, Bishop. Monroe, E.
Chbvbnix, Richard. Morgridge, G.
Claudius, M. Hargraye, Francis. Mobs, L.
Clayton, Robert. Harvey, Stephen.
Cole, Thomas. Hawkins, 8ir John. Neele, Henry.
Cotta, J. P. Haydon, B. R.
OVBRLUNG.
Coubtenat, John. Herford, Brookb.
Crron.
Pack, R.
Cbousaz, J. P. Hewitt, M. E. Periander.
Cyprian, St. Higgons, Thomas. Peterborough, Lord.
Hoffman, C. F. Pitman.
Dall,C. H. Hogb, P. H. Pittacus.
Davis, Noah. Horslet, Bp. Samuel. Power, P. B.
Day, B. P. Pratt, Charles.
Dklille, Abbe. Ischomachub.
Prince, J. C.
De Maibtbb, J. M.
Jukes, Andrew. Propertius, 8. A
DeThou, J. A. Proverb, Old.
De Vers, Aubrey. Justin.
Punch.
Desbarollbb.
Karr, J. B. A.
Deshoyers, L. C J.
Kelly, Hugh. Randolph, Thomas.
Doahr, W. C. Kblty, M. A. Ray's Proverbs.
Doluhorr, W. H.
Kbnsidb, A. Rbany, Mrs.
Domergob,F. U. Kitchen, J. Rider, William.
DOUDAN. Roe, A. 8,
Knight, E.
Dubay, 8. Kozlof, L L Robs, Alexandra.
DUGNBT.
DUNNING, A. " Lbdyard, John. Salter, Samubl.
Duput, A. Iaverpool, Lord. Scovbl, 8. F.
mi
XIV SUPPLEMENTARY LIST.

SCRIVENEB. Tobin, John. Waugh, John.

Segur, J. A. Tolson. Wendt, John.

Smith, J. E. Touroee. Wessenberg, Babon.

Smith, M. R. TOWNSON. Vbtherell, Elizabeth.

Spabks, J abed. Trenchild, C. *Whtte, H. L.

SWEETMAN. Tuke, Samuel. Wilson, James.

Woolman, John.
Ure, Andrew.
Teal, J. W. Wylie, Andrew.

Thompson, R Jfi. Varle.

Thornton, B. Von Enbe, V. EOCHLER.

TiaeoT, a A. Ton Webber. ZflCHOKKE, J. H. D.

1
 K

A DICTIONARY OP THOUGHTS

" (Sgclopedta of gaumix istttxrtatimxs*

ABILITY. "
Ability Is a poor man's your shoulders are uuoorered. -Sir W.
wealth." Jf. ITren. Temple.
Ability involves responsibility; power, to An able man shows his spirit by gentle
Its last particle,is duly." A. Maclaren. words and resolute actions." He is neither
/ What we do upon some great occasion hot nor timid." Chesterfield.
x
V will probably depend on what we already No man's abilities are so remarkably
are and what we are will be the result of shining as not to stand in need of a
; proper
previous years of self-discipline."H. P. opportunity, a patron, and even the praises
Liddon. or a friend to recommend them to the
notice of the world." Pliny.
Natural abilities can almost compensate
for the want of every kind of cultivation, Some of weak i^derstanding are
persons
\ but no cultivation of the mind can make up so sensible of that weakness, as to be able
for the want of natural abilities." Schopen- to make a good use of it. "
Rochefoucauld.
hauer. We often able because think
are we we

Ability doth hit the mark wherepresump-

tion are able." Jl Howe*.
over-shooteth and diffidence falleth The winds and waves are always on the
short. Cusa. side of the ablest
"

navigators." Qibbon.
All may do what has by man been done."
ABSENCE. Absence from those we
Young. "

love is self from self" a deadly ment.

banish-
The height of ability consists in a ough
thor-
of things,
"Shakespeare.
knowledge of the real value
Short absence quickens love; long absence
and of the genius of the age in which we

live kills it." Mirabeau.

.
" Rochefoucauld.
Who does the best his circumstance si- Love reckons hours for months, and days
could for years; and every little absence is an
lows, does well, acts nobly, angels no

more. "
Young. age." Dryden.
The force of his merit makes his Absence in love Is like water upon fire; a
own
little quickens, but much extinguishes it."
way " a gift that heaven gives for him. "

Hannah More.
Shakespeare.
of able The absent are like children, helpless to
The art being to make a good use
moderate abilities wins defend themselves. Charles Reads.
ot esteem, and often "

"

confers more reputation than greater real Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
merit." Rochefoucauld. Bailey.
Hen are often capable of greater things Absence lessens moderate passions and
than they perform. "They are sent into the increases great ones; as the wind extin-
world with bills of credit, and seldom draw the taper, but
kindles the burning
to their full extent." Walpole.
Snishes
welling."Rochefoucauld.
As we advance in life,we learn the limit Distance of time and place generally cure
of our abilities." Froude. what they seem to aggravate ; and taking
The abilities of man must fall short on
leave of our friends resembles taking leave
one side the other, like too scanty a
of the world, of which it has been said,
or
that it is not death, but dying, which is ter-
rible."
blanket when you are abed." If you pull it
upon shoulders, your feet are left .ReWin^
your
hire; if you thrust it down to your feet, Absence, like death, sets a seal on 0*
 1

ABSTINENCE. 3 ACCIDENT.

Image of those we love : we cannot realize be fools ourselves than to have others so, "

the intervening changes which time may Pope.

have effected." Goldsmith.
The absent without
ABUSE." Abuse is often of service.
are never fault,nor There is
the present without excuse. "Franklin. nothing so dangerous
author to an
as silence.His name, like the shuttlecock,
joy of meeting
The pays the pangs of must be beat backward and forward,or it
absence; else who could bear it f"Rowe. falls to the ground." Johnson.
As the presence of those we love is as a It is the wit and policy of sin to hate
double life,so absenoe,in its anxious ing
long- those we have abused." DavenanL
and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste
I never vet heard man or woman much
of death." Mrs. Jameson,
abused that I was not inclined to think the
better of them, and to transfer the sus-
picion
AB3TINENCE.-(8ee "Temfebakox.")
or dislike to the one who found
The whole duty of man is embraced in
pleasurein pointingout the defects of an- other."
tne two principlesof abstinence and tience
pa- Jane Porter.
: temperance in prosperity,and
Abuse of any one generallyshows that he
patientcourage in adversity." Seneca.
has marked traits of character. The stupid
Always rise from the table with an
petite,
ap- and indifferent are passed by in silence."
and you will never sit down out
with-
Tryon Edwards.
oue. " Penti.
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts,
Against diseases the strongestfence is the but the view that we take of it as insulting;
defensive virtue,abstinence." Berrkk. that when it is your
so one
provokesyou
Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a own opinion which is provoking." Epic-
hand of easiness to the next abstinence; tetus.
the next more easy; for use can almost
When oertain persons abuse us let us ask
change the stamp of nature, and either curb what kind of characters it is they admire.
the devil,or throw him out with wondrous We shall often find this a most consolatory
potency." Shakespeare, question. GoUon. "

The stomach begs and olamors,and listens Abuso me as much as you will;it is often
to no
precepts.And vet it is not an durate
ob- benefit rather than
with
a an injury. But for
creditor ; for it is dismissed heaven's sake don't make me ridiculous."
small payment if yon only give it what you B.NoiL
owe, and not as much as you can." Seneca.
Thodifference between coarse and fined
re-
If thou wouldst make the best advantage
abuse is the difference between being
of the muses, either by reading to benefit bruised by a club and wounded by a poi-
thyself, or bv writing to benefit others, sonod arrow." Johnson.
keep a peaceful soul in a temperate body.
A full bellymakes a dull brain, and a tur-
bulent Cato, being sourrilously treated by a low
and vicious fellow,quietlysaid to mm, "
A
spirita distracted judgment. .The
contest between us is very unequal, for
muses starve in a cook's shop and a lawyer's
thou canst bear ill language with ease, and
study." Quartet.
return it with pleasure;but to me it is un
To set the mind above the appetites is the
usual to hear,and disagreeable to speak it.""
end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is
the groundwork of a virtue. Johnson. Thero aro nono more abusive to others
"

than they that lio most open to it them-

selves;
It is continued temperance whioh tains
sus-
but the humor goes round, and he
the body for the longest period of
and which it
that laughs at me to-daywill have some-
body
time, most surely preserves to laugh at him to-morrow." Seneca.
free from sickness. W. HurnboldL "

ACCENT," Accent is the soul of guage

lan-
AB8URDITIE8.-There is nothing so
; it gives to it both feeling and
absurd or ridiculous that has not at some trutn." Rousseau.
time been said by some philosopher. Fon-
tenelle says he would undertaketo persuade ACCIDENT." Nothing is or oan be cidental
ac-
with
Qod."LongfeUoto.
the whole republicof readers to believe that
the sun was neither the cause of lightor No accidents are so unlucky but that th*
heat, if he could only get six philosophers wise may draw some advantage from them;
on his side. Goldsmith.
" nor are there any so lucky nut that the
To those absurdities in ourselves foolish may turn them to their own judice.
pre-
pardon
which we condemn in others, is neither "
Rochefoucauld.
better nor worse than to be more willingto Whs/ reason, like the careful ant, drawt
 ACCURACY. ACTION.

laboriously together, the wind of accident but there is no happiness without action."
sometimes collect* in njnoment." Schiller. Disraeli.

What men call accident is the doing of Remember have not a sinew whose /
you "

God's providence." Bailey, law of strength is not action ; not a faculty *

of body, mind, or soul, whose law of provement

im-
ACCURACY. Accuracy is the twin is not E. B. llalL
"

energy. "

brother of honesty : inaccuracy, of honesty.

dis-
Our
grand business is not to see what
"
C. Simmons.
liesdimly at a distance, but to do what lies
Accuracy of statement is one of the first clearly at hand." Carlyle.
elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin
Only actions give to life its strength,
to falsehood." Tryon Edwards.
as only moderation gives it its charm. "

does Bichter.
ACQU AINTANCE.-If a man not
make new acquaintances as he advances Every noble activity makes room for
through life,he will soon find himself left itself. "
Emerson.
alone; one should keep his friendships in Mark this of action !
well, ye proud men
constant repair." Johnson. after all. but unconscious
ye are, nothing
It is good discretion not to make too instruments of the men of thought. Heine. "

much of any man at the first; because one The actions of like the index
men are of,
cannot hold out that proportion. Bacon, re-'
"

a book; they point out what is most

It is expedient to have acquaintance with markable in them
those who have looked into the world, who
Happiness is in actiou, and every power
know men, understand business, ana can is intended for action; human happiness, ",

give you good intelligence and good advice therefore, can only be complete as all the
when they are wanted." Bp. Home. their full and
powers have legitimate play."
I love the acquaintance of young people; Thomas.
because, in the first place. I don't like to which dazzles
Great actions, the lustre of
think myself growing old. In the next
us, are represented by politicians as the
place, young acquaintances must last effects of deep design; whereas they are
longest, if they do last; and then young commonly the effects of caprice and sion.
pas-
men have more virtue than old men; they Thus the between and
war Augustus
have more generous sentiments in every be owing their
Antony, supposed to to bition
am-

respect. "
Johnson. to master to the world, arose
give a

Three days of uninterrupted in probably from jealousy. Rochefoucauld.

company "

a vehicle will make you better acquainted A right act strikes chord that extends
a
with another, than one hour's tion
conversa- the whole touches all
through universe,
with him day for three
every years. "
moral intelligence, visits every world, vi- brates
hanaUr. whole and
along its extent, conveys
Never know a man till you have its vibrations to the very bosom of God !
say you "

divided an inheritance with him. Lavater.

"
T. Binney.
If a man is worth knowing at all{he is Good thoughts, though God accept them,
worth knowing well. "
Alexander Smith. yet toward men are little better than good
dreams exoept they be put in action."
ACQUIREMENT.-That which we quire
ac-
Bacon.
with most difficulty we retain the
Doing is the great thing. For if, reso-
longest; as those who have earned a tune
for- ,

lately,people do what is right, in time they l7

are commonly more careful of it
come to like doing it." Ruskin.
than those by whom it may have been herited.
in-
" Cotton. Activity is God's medicine ;
the highest
noble genius is willingness andability to do hard .

Every acquisition is attended with

work. Any other conception of genius V
Its risks : he who fears to encounter the
makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous session."
pos-
one must not expect to obtain the other. "

H. S. Mac Arthur.
Metastatic.
That action is not warrantable which
An unjnst acquisition is like a barbed
either fears to ask the divine blessing on its
arrow, which must be drawn backward with
horrible else will be performance, or having succeeded, does not
anguish, or your struction."
de-
come with thanksgiving to God for its cess."
suc-
Jeremy Taylor.
Quarks.
ACT ION Heaven never helps the man the inward ness
holi-
"" A holy act strengthens
who will not Act." Sophocles. It is a seed of life growing into more

Action may not always bring happiness; life." F. W. Robertson.

 If you hare no friend* to dure or rejoice Unselfish and noble ai
Id your success in life if you cannot look
" radiant pages in the bii
back to those to whom yon owe gratitude,
or forward (o those to whom jot) ought to It i* vain to expect s
afford protection,itillit 1b no leu incum-
bent our professionof the t
ou tod to move steadilyin the path of sincerelyJust and honw
duty: for your active exertion* ire due not
ouly to society,but in humble gratitude to
We should not he so tal
the Being wbo made you a member of it,
for truth,a* to neglect
with pow"
powers to serve yonraslfand other*. -

of active lift;forltUot
Walter "
a true value and comme:
b the beat preter!
inter-
of their thoughts. " Locke.
*ell at the moment, and yon have
irformed
perform' a good at n for all eternity. "

We must be doing
In activitywa mnat
And oar joy as well happy. Action" is no 1*
as glory; and tabor,like everything else than thought" Hatlitt.
that good, ii ii ita own reward." S. P.
Active natures are :
Whipple.
To
do an evil act is baas.
"Activity and sadness i
To do a good
one without Incurring danger, in common
In all exigenciesor ml
enough. Bat it ii the part of a good man
to do great and noble deeda though he risks
becomes foola,and aoti
P. Sidney.
everythingin doing them." Plutarch.
All oar action* take their hoe from the Nothing, saya Ooethi
complexion of the heart, aa landscape*do activitywithout insight
their varietyfrom light."W. T. Bacon, leap ic a maxim for i

Life not given for indolent contem-

Whipple.
was plation
and study of self, for brooding Action* are ours; tbel
nor
over emotion* of piety: actions and actions long to heaven. -iHr P.

only determine the worth. Fictile. "

The flighty purpose n

A lea* the deed 30 with It-

good action is never lost;it 1* a treas-
ure
laid nn and guarded for the door's The end of man Is
need. " Calaeron. thought, though it be
Deliberate with caution, but act with de-
cision Carlyle.
; and yield with gracionsneas,or The fire-fly
only shines
oppose with firmness." Cotton. so it iawith the mind;
Existence was given n* for action. Our darken. "
Bailey.
worth i* determined by the good deed* we Thought and theory
do, rather than by the One emotion* we salutaryaction ; yetactk
feel. S. L. Magoon.
" than either thought 01
I have never heard anything about the Mrtfc.
resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal What man know* shonl
about their acta" HI Mann. what he don*." The chie
Think that day loet whose slow descending knowledge ia that it lead
"nn views from thy hand no noble action manhood. Boner. "

done. J. Bobart.
"
Life, in all rank* an.

The outward occupation, an

,
more we do,the more we oan do; the
J work." W. Humboldt.
more busy we are the more leisure we
have." Hatlitt. Every action of our liv
To will and
not to do when there is op- chord that will vibrate 1
portunity,
lain reaUtv not to will; and to
love what ia good and not to do it,when it Nothing ever happen!
I* possible, is in realitynot to love it." world. What I do now
.

Steedenborg. II is over and gone, witl

Life though a is a short, solemn meaning." Car [j
working day."
Activity may lead to evil ; bnt inactivity Only the actions of th
OMiUOt be led to good."Hannah Jtort, and blossom in the dost,
 ADVERSITY. 6 ADVERSITY.

There is a wide difference between miration

ad- The good things of prosperity are to be
and love. The sublime, which is wished; but the good things that belong to
the cause of the former, always dwells on adversity are to be admired. " Seneca.
great objects and terrible; the latter on
Adversity, sage useful guest, severe structor,
in-
small ones and pleasing; we submit to what
but the best; it is from thee alone
we admire, but we love what submits to us:
we know justly to value things below. "

in one case we are forced, in the other we

Somermlle.
are flattered, into compliance." Burke.
Prosperity has this property: It puffs up
ADVER8ITY.-(8ee "Affliction.") narrow souls,makes them imagine selves
them-

Adversity is the trial of principle. "

With- high and mighty, and leads them to

whether he look down upon the world with contempt;

out it a man hardly knows is
but a truly noble spirit appears in
honest or not." Fielding. greatest
distress; and then becomes more bright and
Adversity is the first path to truth."
conspicuous. "
Plutarch.
Byron.
In the adversity of our best friends we
No man is more unhappy than the one
often find something that does not displease
who is never in adversity; the greatest us. "
Rochefoucauld.
affliction of life is never to be afflicted. "

Anon. Prosperity is too

apt to prevent us from
examining our conduct; but adversity leads
Adversity is like the period of the former
us to think properly of our state, and so is
and of the latter rain, " cold, comfortless, most beneficial to us." Johnson.
unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from
that season have their birth the flower and Sweet are the uses of adversity, which,
the like toad, though ugly and
fruit, the date, the rose, and the granate."
pome-
a venomous,
Walter Scott, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. "

been
Shakespeare.
Adversity has ever considered the
in which The truly great and good, in affliction,
state a man most easily becomes
with bear countenance princely than they
acquainted himself, then, especially, a more

being free from flatterers. "

Johnson. are wont ; for it is the temper of the highest
hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most
Prosperity is no just scale ; adversity is the
upwards when it is most burdened." Sir P.
only balance to weigh friends." Plutarch.
Sidney.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never
In this wild world, the fondest and the
knew himself, or his own virtue. "
Mallet.
best are the most tried, most troubled, and
Stars may be seen from the bottom of a distrest. "
Orabbe.
deep well, when they cannot be discerned
from the
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old
top of a mountain. So are many Testament
learned in adversity which the ; adversity of the New, which
things perous
pros- carrieth the greater benediction and the
man dreams not or. "
Spurgeon. clearer revelation of God's favor. Pros-
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven is not without fears and
polishes its jewels with. "Leighion. Serity
is tastes; adversity not
many
without forts
com-
many
I never met with a single instance of versity
ad- and hopes. " Bacon.
which I have not in the end seen The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows
was for my good." I have never heard of a from our own impatience. Bp. Borne. "

Christian on his death bed complaining of

The brightest crowns that are worn in
his afflictions. " A. ProudJU.
heaven have been tried, and smelted, and
We ought as much to pray for a blessing polished, and glorified through the furnace
upon our daily rod as upon our daily of tribulation." J?. H. Chapin.
bread. "
John Owen.
He that
heroically endure
can adversity
Heaven often smites in niercv, even when
will bear with equal greatness of
prosperity
the blow is severest. Joanna BaUlie.
"

soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected

Adversity has the effect of elicitingtalents by the former is not likelyto be transported
which in circumstances would with the latter." Fielding.
prosperous
have lain aorniaut." Horace.
He that has no cross will have no crown. "

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is Quarles.

a greater. Possession the mind;
pampers Adversity is a severe instructor, set over
trains and strengthens it. Haz-
I"rivation
itt.
"

us by one who knows us better than we do

ourselves, as he loves us better too. He
The flower that follows the sun does so that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves
even in cloudy days. "
Leighion. and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is
 ADVERSITY. ADVICE.

oar helper. This conflict with difficulty So your fiery trial is still unextinguished.
makes us acquainted with onr object, and But what if it be
but His beacon light on
compels us to consider it in all its relations. upward path ?" F. R. Havergcu.
your
It will not suffer us to be superficial. "

It is not the so-called blessiugs of life,

Burke.
its sunshine and calm and pleasant riences
expe-
Genuine
morality is preserved only in the that its nigged make but
men,
school of
adversity: a state of continuous experiences, tempests its
and storms and
prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to trials. Early adversity is often a blessing
virtue. " Schiller. in disguise. W. Mathews. "

Those who have suffered much are like Wherever souls are being tried and
those who know languages; they have ripened, in whatever and
many commonplace
learned to understand and be understood homely ways, there God is hewing out the
by alL"Mad. Swetchine. pillars for His Phillips Brooks.
temple. "

Though losses and crosses be lessons The Gods bounty work in storms
up
right severe, there's wit there ye'llget there, about
ust thatgive mankind occasion to
yell find no other where. "
Burns. exert their hidden strength, and throw out

A smooth sea never made a skilful ner,

mari- into practice virtues that shun the day, and
neither do lie concealed in the smooth the
uninterrupted prosperity seasons ana

and calms of life." Addison.

success qualify for usefulness ana piness.
hap-
The storms of adversity, like those How blunt are all the arrows of adversity
of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite in comparison with those of guilt ! Blair. "

the invention, prudence, sLill,and fortitude

ADVICE*" Let no man presume to pive
of the Tho martyrs of ancient
voyager. advice to others who has not first given
times, in bracing their minds to outward
good counsel to himself. "
Seneca.
calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose
and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of The greatest trust between man and mac

softness and security." Anon. is the trust of giving counsel. " Bacon.

A noble heart, like the showeth its When a man seeks your advice he rally
gene-
sun,
greatest countenance in its lowest estate. "
wants your praise. " Chesterfield.
Sir P. Sidney. Advice is a superfluity. Ninety-nine
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects ards,
cow-
times out of a hundred people don't take it.
draws out the faculties of the wise The hundredth they do take it, but with a

and industrious, puts the modest to the reservation." Then of course it turns out

necessity of trying their skill, awes the badly, and they think you an idiot, and
forgive you. L. Malet.
opulent,and makes the idle industrious. "
never "

Anon. Agreeable advice is seldom useful vice.

ad-

Adversity, like winter weather, is of use

"
Massilon.
to kill those vermin which the summer of He that gives pood advice, builds with
prosperity is apt to produce and nourish. " one hand ; be that gives good counsel
Arrowsmith. and example, builds with both ; but he that

He that has known gives good admonition and bad example,

never adversity, is
but half with builds with one hand and pulls down with
acquainted others, or with
himself. Constant shows but the other." Bacon.
success us

one side of the world; for as it surrounds A thousand times listen to the counsel
us with friends, who tell us only our merits, of your friend, but seek it only once. " A. S.
so it silences those enemies from whom only Hardy.
we can learn our defects." Cotton. There is nothing of which men are more
God kills thy comforts to kill thy corrup-
tions; liberal than their good advice, be their
wants are ordained to kill ness;
wanton- stock of it ever so small; because it seems

poverty to kill pride; reproaches to to carry in it an intimation of their own

destroy ambition." Flavel. influence, importance 01 worth. "

Young.
God lays his cross upon those whom he When a man has been guiltyof any vice
loves, and those who bear it patiently gain or folly, the best atonement he can make
much wisdom. "
Luther. for it is to warn others not to fall into the

It is like. Addison.
good for man to suffer the adversity "

of this earthly life: for it brings him back It is a good divine that follows his own

to the sacred retirement of the heart, where instructions. I can easier teach twenty
only he finds he is an exile from his native what were good to be done, than be one

home, and ought not toplace his trust in any of twenty to follow mine own teaching."
worldly enjoyment. "
Thomas d Kempis. Shakespeare.
 ADVICE. 8 AFFECTATION.

He who calls in the aid of an equal derstanding

un- It takes nearly as much ability to know
doubles his own; aim he who how to profit by good advice as to know how
by superior understanding raises to act for one's sejf." Rochefoucauld.
Erofits
is to
a

a level with the height of the

powers How possible to expect
is it mankind to
superior understanding he unites with. "
take advice they will not
when so much as
Burke.
take warning ? SwifL "

It is easy when we are in prosperity to friends the

Do not give to your most
give advice to the afflicted." jBschylus. agreeable counsels, but the most advantage*
The best ous." Tuckerman.
worst men often give the advice;
our thoughts are better sometimes than Harsh counsels have no effect : they are
our deeds." Bailey. like hammers which are always repulsed by
the anvil." ifefoetfu*.
We ask advice; we mean approbation. "

Cotton. The advice of friends must be received

Advice is like the softer it falls,

with a judicious reserve: we must not give
snow ;
the longer it dwells and the deeper
ourselves up to it and follow it blindly,
upon,
it sinks into the mind."
whether right or wrong. Charron.
Coleridge.
"

Advice and reprehension require the ut-

most
Let no man value at a little price a tuous
vir-
delicacy ; painful truths should be
woman's counsel." 0. Chapman. delivered in the softest terms, and expressed
Men give away nothing so liberally as no farther than is necessary to produce
their advice." Rochefoucauld. their due effect. A courteous man will mix
what is conciliating with what is offensive;
To accept good advice is but to increase
praise with censure; deference and respect
one's own ability. Ooeihe.
"

with the authority of admonition, so far as

Good counsels observed are chains of can be done in consistence with probity
grace. "
Fuller. and honor. against ail
The mind revolts

when
censorian displays pride or
power which
Wait for the season to cast good
speare.
Shake- pleasure in finding fault ; but advice, di- vested
counsels upon subsiding passion."
of the harshness, and yet retaining
the honest warmth of truth, is like honey
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of of vessel full of
put round the brim a wood.
worm-

asking and giving advice. He who asks is sometimes

"
Even this, however,
seems to have deferenoe for the opinion of insufficient to conceal the bitterness of the
his friend, while he only aims to get ap-
proval PercivaL
draught."
of his own and make his friend
Give every man thine ear, but few thy
responsible for his action. And he who
voice; take each man's censure, but reserve
gives repays the confidence supposed to be
thy judgment." Shakespeare,
placed in him by a seemingly disinterested
zeal, while he seldom means anything by Giving advice is sometimes only showing
his advice but his interest wisdom at the expense of another.
own or reputa-
tion our "

."Rochefoucauld. Shaftesbury.
No is foolish but he times
some-
man so may AFFECT ATION.-Affectation in any
give another good counsel, and no
part of carriage is but the lighting up
our

wise that he not easily err if of a candle to show

man so may our defects, and never
he takes other counsel than his own.
no "
fails to make us taken notice of, either as
He that is taught only by himself has a fool Locke.
wanting in sense or sincerity. "

for a master." Ben Jonson.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who rich. Lavater.
attempt of poverty to appear "

need it most, like it least." Johnson.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face
Every however wise, needs the vice
ad- St. Evremond.
man, than the small-pox. "

of some sagacious friend in the affairs

All affectation proceeds from the tion
supposi-
of life." Plautus.
of possessing something better than
Those who school others, oft should is
the rest of the world possesses. Nobody
school themselves." Shakespeare. vain of possessing two legs and two arms,
We give advice by the bucket, but take it because that is the precise quantity of
W. R. Alger. either sort of limb which everybody pos-
by the grain." sesses.
Sydney Smith.
They that will not be counselled, not
can-
"

be helped. If you do not hear reason Among the numerous stratagems by

she will rap you on the knuckles." Frank- which pride endeavors to recommend folly
tin. to regard, scarcely one meets with less suo-
 AFFECTION. 9 AFFECTION.

cess than affectation, which is a perpetual make up so much of life,that anything to

disguise of the real character by false pearances.love
ap- or reverence becomes, as it were, a bath
sab-
"
Johnson. to the soul. " Bulwer.

Great vices are the objects of oar How often a new affection makes
proper a new

detestation, and smaller faults of our pity, man. The sordid becomes liberal the
;
bnt affectation appears to be the
only true cowering, heroic ; the frivolous girllthe
source of the ridiculous." Fielding. steadfast martyr of patience and ministra-
tion,

We never so ridiculous by the qualities transfigured by deathless love. E. H. "

are

those affect Chopin.

we have, as by we to nave. "

Rochefoucauld. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does

not easily express itself. Its voice is low.
Affectation is certain deformity." By
It is modest and retiring, it lays in ambush
forming themselves on fantastic models the
and waits. Such is tne mature fruit.
young with being ridiculous, and
Dejpn Sometimes life
Blair,
a glides away, and finds it
often end in being vicious. "

still ripening in the shade. The light in-

clinations
Affectation differs from hypocrisy in
of very young people are as dust
being the art of counterfeiting qualities to rocks. Dickens.
compared "

which we might with

innocence and safety
Our affections are our life. We live by
Hypocrisy is the neces-
"

be known to want. " sary

burden of villainy; affectation, a part them; they supply our warmth. " Channing.
of the chosen trappings of folly. Johnson. "
The affections are like lightning :
you
cannot tell where they will strike till they
Affectation proceeds either from vanity
have fallen." Lacordaire.
.or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on

affecting false characters to gam applause, How sacred and beautiful is the feeling
.

so hvpocrisy sets us on the endeavor to of affection in the pure and guileless soul 1
avoid censures by concealing our vices The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable
under the of their opposite call it a fable, the selfish and dissipated
appearance
virtues." Fielding. affect to despiseit, but the holv passion is
surely from neaven, aud is made evil only
Avoid all singularity and affectation. "

according is while by the corruptions of those it was sent to

What is to nature best,
preserve and mess. Mordauni.
what is contrary to it is always distasteful. "

Nothing is graceful that is not our own. "

Of all earthly music that which reaches
Collier. farthest into heaven is the beating of a

Hearts be attracted by assumed truly loving heart." H. W. Beecher.

may
the but affections only be
Snalities.
xed retainedana by those that
can

are real.
If there is'
any thing that keeps the mind
"

open to angel visits, and repels the try

minis-
DeMoy. of evil, it is a pure human love. "
N. P.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those Willis.
excellencies which are farthest from our Our sweetest experiencesof affection are
attainment, because knowing our defects to to that realm which is the
meant point us
we eagerly endeavor to supply them with real and endless home of the heart. " H. W.
artificial excellence. " Johnson. Beecher.

Paltry affectation and strained allusions The affections, like conscience, rather
are
are easily attained by those who choose to to be led than driven. "
Those who
marry
wear them; but they are but the badges of where they do not love, will be likelyto love
ignorance or stupidity when it would deavor
en- where they do not marry. Fuller. "

to please." Goldsmith.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies
All false practices and affectations of
trifles but
magnifying
;
of the one
the is
knowledge are more odious than any want
like looking through a telescope at heavenly
defect of knowledge can be. Sprat.
objects ; that of the other, like enlarging
or "

Be yourself. Ape no greatness. Be ing

will- monsters with a microscope. "
Leigh Hunt.
to pass for what you are. good
A
The heart will commonly govern the
farthing is better than a bad sovereign.
head ; and anv strong passion, set the
Affect no oddness ; but dare to be right,
wrong way, will soon infatuate even the
though you have to be singular. " 8. Coley.
wisest of men ; therefore the first part of
Affectation lights a candle to our defects, wisdom is to watch the affections. Water-
"

and though it may gratify ourselves, it dis-

gusts land.
all others." Lavater.
There is in life no blessing like affection:
AFFECTION" There is so little to deem
re- it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and
the dry mass of follies and errors that bringeth down to earth its native heaven s
 AFFLICTION. 10 AFFLICTION.

life has nought else that may supply its leaves, but in winter they are seen among
place." L. E. London. the naked branches." " J. W. Alexander,
I'd rather than that crowds should sigh Sanctified afflictions are like so many
for me, that from some kindred eve the artificers working on a pious man's crown

trickling tear should steal." IT. K. White. to make it more bright and massive. " Cud-
worth.
AFFLICTION.-(8ee Advebsity.)
Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects and oft the cloud that the
wraps present
levity, and interrupts the coulidence of sin-
ning. hour but all
serves to brighten our future
"A Uerbury. days. "
J. Brown.
As threshing separates the wheat from If you would not have affliction visit you
the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue." twice, listen at once to what it teaches. "

Burton.
Burgh.
Though all afflictions are evils in selves,
them- Affliction is in vain the
not sent from
yet they are good for us, because God who chastens those that he
they discover to us our disease and tend to {joodSotUhey.
oves. "

our cure. "

TiUotson.
Nothing occur
can beyond the strength
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; of faith the
to sustain, or transcending
prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; as of religion to relieve. T. Binney.
resources "

night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. "

As in nature, as in
art, so in grace ; it is
Young.
rough treatment that gives souls, as well as
Many secrets of religion are not perceived their lustre. The the mond
dia-
stones, more
till they be felt, and are not felt but in the is cut the brighter it sparkles : and in
day of a great calamity." Jeremy Taylor. what seems hard dealing, there God has no

The lord gets his best soldiers out of the end iu view but to perfect his people. "

highlands of affliction." Spurgeon. Ouihrie.

That which thou dost not understand It is not from the tall,crowded workhouse
when thou
readest, thou shalt understand of prosperity that men first or clearest see

in the day of thy visitation for the eternal stars of heaven. " Theodore
; many
secrets of religion are not perceivedtill they Parker.
be felt, and are not felt out in the day of Ah ! if you only knew the peace there is
calamity. Jeremy Taylor.
"
in an accepted sorrow. "
Mde. Guion.

It has done me good to be somewhat It is not until we have passed through

parched by the heat and drenched by the the furnace that we are made to know how
rain of life." Longfellow. much dross there is in our composition. "

is the wholesome soil of Colton.

Affliction virtue,
where patience,honor, sweet humility, and It is a great thing, when the cup of bit-
terness
calm fortitude, take root and strongly is pressed to our lips,to feel that it
flourish." Mallei. is not fate or necessity, but divine love

God sometimes washes the of his working upon us for good ends. E. H. "

eyes
children with tears that they may read Chapin.
aright his providence and his ments.
command- Afflictions sent by providence melt the
"
T. L. Cuyler. constancy of the noble minded, but confirm

If your too bitter, if your den

bur- the obduracy of the vile, as the same nace
fur-
cup seems

seems too heavy, be sure that it is the that liquefies the gold, hardens the

wounded hand that is holding the and clay. "

Colton.
cup,
that it is He who carries the cross tnat is The soul that suffers is stronger than the
carrying the burden. " 8. 1. Prime. soul that rejoices. "
E. Shepard.
I have learned more of experimental There is such a difference between com*
religion since my little boy died than in all ing out of sorrow merely thankful for relief i

my life before." Horace Bushnell. and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy
with, and trust in. Him who has released
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means
not only to make good, but to
us make us
us. Phillips Brooks.
"

also happy, by sickness, disaster and appointment. Tears

dis- are often the telescopeby which
" C. A. BarioL men see far into heaven. "
H. W. Beecher.

The hiding places of men are discovered Affliction comes to us all not to make us

by affliction. "
As one has aptly said, "Our sad, but sober ; not to make sorry, but us

refngeB are like the nests of birds; in mer

sum- wise ; not to make us despondent, but by
they are hidden away among the green its darkness to refresh us, aa the night
 AmtCTlON. 11 AGE.

refreshes the day ; not to impo venal), but side and on the left, until the gulf narrows

to enrich us, as the plough enriches the before our eyes, and we land safe on the

field; multiply onr

to joy, as the seed, by opposite shore." Miss Mulock.
planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold. "
We should always record our thoughts in
H. W. Beecher. affliction that
: set up way-marks, we may
Strength is born in the deep silence of teour to them in health; for then we are in
long-suffering hearts ; not amid joy. " Mrs. other circumstances, and can never recover

Hemans. our sick-bed views.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what The good are better made by ill,as odors
otherwise might have spoiled us. "
When he crushed are sweeter still." Rogers.
makes the world too hot for ns to hold, we What seem to us but dim funereal tapers,
let it go." Powell, be heaven's distant
may lamps. " low.
Longfel-
No Christian but has his Qethsemaue; but

every praying Christian will find there is no

It is from the remembrance of joys we
Oethsemane without its angel." 2\ Bintiey. have lost that the of affliction
arrows ara

With the wind of tribulation God sepa-

rates, pointed. " Mackenzie.
in the floor of the soul, the wheat from be without tion,
fric-
The gem cannot polished
the cnaff." Molinoa. trials.
nor man perfected without "

We to overlook the hand and Chinese Proverb.

are apt
heart of God in our and
afflictions, to sider
con- Never on earth calamity so great, as not
them as mere accidents, and able
unavoid- to leave to ns. if rightly weighed, what
evils." This view makes them absolute would console mid what we sorrow for."
and positive evils which admit of no remedy Shakespeare.
or relief." If we view our troubles and trials
The lessons we learn in sadness and from
aside from the divine design and agency in
loss are those that abide. "
Sorrow clarifies
them, we cannot be comforted. " Emmons.
the mind, steadies it, forces it to weigh
Amid list of blessings infinite, stands things correctly." The soil moist with tears
my
this the foremost, "that my heart has best feeds the seeds of truth." T. T. Mun-
bled."" Young. ger.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it Never was there a man of deep piety,who
be not pleasingto mankind, yet Almighty has not brought into extremities"
been who
God hatn often imposed it as a good, though has not been put into fire who has not "

bitter, physic, to those children whose souls been taught to say. " Though he slay me,
are dearest to him." Izcuik Walton. yet will I trust in him."" CecU.

The very afflictions of our earthly pil-

grimage As sure God children into the
nis
as
puts
are presages of our future glory, furnace of affliction, he will be with them
as shadows indicate the sun. "
Richter. in it. "
Spurgeon.
How fast we learn in a day of sorrow ! Heaven tries our virtue by affliction; as

Scripture shines out in a new effulgence ; oft the cloud that wraps the present hour,
every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, serves but to lighten all onr future days."
every promise stands out in illuminated J. Brown.
splendor ; things hard to be understood come
be- Come then, if my
affliction^ Father wills,
in a moment plain. H. Bonar. be friend. friend that
"
and my frowning A
The most vine, if not pruned, frowns is better than a smiling enemy. "

generous
runs ont into many superfluous stems and Anon.

grows at last weak and fruitless : so doth

ACE. "
It is not by the gray of the hair
the best man if he be not cnt short in his
that one knows the age of the heart. "

desires, and pruned with afflictions." Bp. Bulwer.

Hall.
A graceful and honorable old age is the
Extrordinary afflictions always
are not
childhood of immortality. " Pindar.
the punishment of extraordinary sins,
trial How beautiful can time with goodness
but sometimes the of extraordinary
make an old man look. JerroUL
graces. " Sanctified afflictions are spiritual "

promotions. " M. Henry. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue,
The affliction is to but it takes nothing from the contempt
only way to meet
pass
inspired by vice ; it
whitens only the hair.
through it solemnly, slowly, with humility "

J. P. 8enn.
and faith, as the Israelites passed through
the sea. Then its very waves of misery will Age does not depend but
upon years,
divide, and become to us a wall, on the light upon temperament and health. "
Some men
 AGE. id AGE.

"
Are born old, and some never grow bo. " Blessed are they that are home-sick, for
Tryon Edwards. they shall get home."
A person is always startled when he hears A comfortable old age is the reward of a
himself seriously called old for the first well-spent youth. Instead of " its bringing
time." O. W.Holmes. sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it

of old the should give us hopes of eternal youth in a

The vices age have stiffness of
better world. R. Palmer.
it too ; and as it is the unfittest time to "

learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn No snow falls lighter than the snow of
will be found much greater. " South. age; but none lies heavier, for it never melts.
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our It is a rare and difficult attainment to
own. " J. P. Senn. grow old gracefully and happily." L. M.
and manhood due Child.
youth
Our are to our

country, but our declining are due to Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the
years
ourselves." Pliny. pleasures of youth on pain of death. "

When we are we are slavishly ployed

em-
Rochefoucauld.
young,
in something whereby Old has deformities enough of its
procuring we age
old ; It should add to them the formity
de-
may live comfortably when grow we own." never

and when we are old, we perceive it is too of vice. "

Cato.
late to live we proposed. Pope. We should
as "
so provide for old age that it
Old men's are like old men's ries
memo- may have no urgent wants of this world to
eyes
for things absorb it from meditation the next." It
; they are strongest a long ou

Eliot. is awful to see the lean hands of dotage

way off." George
making a coffer of the grave." Bulwer.
No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

To resist the
frigidity of old age one
Swift.
must combine the body, the mind, and the
To be happy, we must be true to nature,
heart. And " to keep these in parallel vigor
and carry our age along with us. " Hazlitt.
one must exercise, study, aud love. Bon- "

Tears do not make sages ; they only make stettin.

old men." Mad. Swetchine.
When a noble life has prepared old age,
Every one desires to live long, but no one it is not decline that it reveals, but the first
would be old. "
Swift. days of immortality." Mad. de Stall.
'

Nothing is disgraceful than that The evening of life brings its

more an a well-spent
old shonld have nothing to show to Jovbert.
man
lamps with it. "

prove that he has lived long, except his

Age does not make us childish, as some
years." Seneca.
say ; it finds us true children. " Goethe.
How many fancy they have experience is but
because old.
Age rarelydespised when it is temptible.
con-
simply they have grown "

"Johnson.
Stanislaus.
As winter strips the leaves from around
Men of age object too much, consult too
us, so that we may see the distant regions
long, adventure too little, repent too soon,

and seldom drive home

they formerly concealed, so old age takes
business to the full
away our enjoyments only to enlarge the
but content themselves with
Siriod,
ocrity of success." Bacon.
a me*
prospect of the coming eternity." Richter.
He who would pass his declining years
A" we grow old we become both more with honor and comfort, should, when
foolish and more wise." Rochefoucauld.
young, consider that he may one day come
be-

Age that lessens the enjoyment of life, old, and remember when he is old,
increases our desire of living'. Goldsmith. "
that he has once been young. "
Addison.

Childhood itself is scarcely more That man never grows old who keeps a
lovely
than ekiild in his heart.
a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. "

L. M. Child. A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is

the happiest creature living. Steele.
When indifferent
"

one becomes to women,

to children, and to people, he may In old age life's shadows are meeting
young
know that he is superannuated, aud has eternity's day. " Clarke.
withdrawn from what is sweetest and purest The Grecian ladies counted their age
in human existence. A. B. Alcott. from their from their birth."
"
marriage, not

Old is a blessed time. It gives us Homer.

age
leisure to pnt off our earthly garments one The golden age is before us, not behind
by one, and dress ourselves for heaven. us." St. Simon,
 AGNOSTICISM. 14 AGRICULTURE.

i
These the effects of doting that with its head
are
age ; vain folly of the people says
doubts, and idle cares, and over caution. " that it does not know whether there is a
Dryden, God or not." Bismarck.

There are two things which grow stronger An aguostic is a man who doesn't know
in the breast of man, in proportion as he whether there is a God or not, doesn't know
advances in years : the love of country and whether he has a soul or not, doesn't know
religion. Let them be never so much gotten
for- whether there is a future life or not, doesn't
in youth, they sooner or later present believe that any one else knows any more

themselves to us arrayed in all their cnarir4 about these matters than he does, and
and excite in the recesses of our hearts an thinks it a waste of time to try to find
attachment justly due to their beauty. " out. " Dana.
Chateaubriand. is
The term "agnostic" only the Greek
Thirst of power and of riches now bear equivalent of the Latin and English "
ramus"
Igno-
sway, the passion and infirmity of age." " a name one would think scientists
Froude. would be slow to apply to themselves.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical,
of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit." and religionsdry-rot of the modern world."
Rochefoucauld, F. E. Abbot.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle

than old who will not forsake
AQRARIANISM.-The agrarian would
an man the
divide all the property in the community
world, which has already forsaken him. "

equally among its members." But if so

Tholuck.
divided to-day, industryon the one hand,
AGITATION" Agitation is the mar- and idleness on the other, would make it

shalliugof the conscience of a nation to unequal on the morrow. "

There is no rian
agra-
mould its laws." Sir R, Peel ism in the providence of God. " Tryon
Edwards.
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the
peace, and secures Every step The agrarian, like the communist, would
progress.
fthe gains is gained forever. Muskets are bring all above him down to his own level,
the of animals. the raise himself to theirs, but is not anxious
weapons Agitationis mosphere
at- or

of the brains." Wendell Phillips. to bring those below him up to himself."

Those who mistake the C. Simmons.

excitement and
agitation of reform for the source of danger,
AQRICULTURE.-Agriculture is the
must have overlooked all history.
foundation of manufactures, since the pro-
ductions
We believe in excitement when the theme
of nature are the materials of
is great : in agitation when huge evils are
art." Gibbon.
to be reformed. It is thus that a state or
Agriculture not only gives riches to a
nation clears itself of great moral wrongs,
nation, but the only riches she can call her
and effects important changes. Still waters
own. "Johnson.
gather to themselves poisonous ingredi-
ents,
and scatter epidemics and death. The Let the farmer for evermore be honored

noisy, tumbling brook, and the rolling and in his calling, for they who labor in the

roaring ocean, are pu re and healthful. The earth are the chosen people ot God. " Je/-
moral and political elements need the rock- ferson.
in gs and heavings of free discussion, for Agriculture for an honorable and high-
their own purification. The nation feels a best all
minded man, is the of occupations
healthier pulsation, and breathes more the of
a or arts by which men procure means
invigorating atmosphere, than if pulpit, living. " Xenophon.
platform, and press, were all silent as the
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a
tomb, leaving misrule and oppression un-
but its real strength and stamina
watched and unscathed." P. Cooke* country;
are to be looked for among the cultivators
Agitation, under pretence of reform, with of the land." Lord Chatham.
a view to overturn revealed trnth and order,
The farmers are the founders of tion
civiliza-
is the worst kind of mischief." C. Simmons.
and prosperity." Daniel Webster.
Agitation is the method that plants the He that would look with contempt on the
school by the side of the ballot-box. dell
Wen- "

pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the

Phillips.
name of a man.-E W. Beecher.

AGNOSTICISM." There is only one There seem to be but three ways for a

folly than that of the fool who nation to acquire wealth the first is by
greater
his heart
i there is no God, and that
says
is the war, as the Romans did, in plundering
:

their
 AIMS. 15 ALCHEMY.

conquered neighbors " this

robbery , theis Not failure, but low aim, is crime. " J. Jfc
second bj commerce, which
is generally Lowell.
cheating ;
the third by agriculture, the only Aim at perfection in everything, though
honest way, wherein man receives a real
in most things it is unattainable
; however,
increase of the seed thrown into
ground, the
they who it, and aimpersevere, at will
in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by come much nearer to it, than those whose
the hand of God in his favor, as a reward
laziness and despondency make them give
for his innocent life and his virtuous try."
indus-
it up as unattainable." Chesterfield.
Franklin.
Aim at the sun, and you not reach
In the of before the times of may
age acorns, it ; but will
your arrow fly far higher than
Ceres, a single barley -corn had been of more
if aimed at an object on a level with self."
your-
value to mankind than all the diamonds of
J. Howes.
the mines of India." if. Brooke.
Resolved to live with all might while I
The first three in the world a
my
men were do live,and as I shall wish I had done ten
gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier ; and thousand hence. "Jonathan Edwards.
ages
if
any object that the second of these was a
It is sad
murderer, I desire him to consider that as a thing to begin life with low
conceptions of it. It may not be possible
soon as he was so, he quitted our sion,
profes-
for a young man to measure life : but it is
and turned builder. " Cowley.
possibleto say, I am resolved to put life to
In a moral point of view, the life of the its noblest and best use." T. T. Munger.
agriculturist is the most and holy of
pure Dream
class of men because it is the manfully and nobly, and thy
any ; pure, dreams shall Bulwer.
vice find
be prophets.
most healthful, ana can hardly
"

contaminate it ; and In great attempts it is glorious

time to holy,because even to
it brings the Deity perpetually before his tsM."Longinus.
view, giving him thereby the most exalted We want aim that
an can never grow vile,
notions of supreme power, and the most and which cannot disappoint our hope.
endearing view of the divine benignity. "
There is but one such earth, and it is
on
Lord John Russell. that of being like God. He who strives
Command large fields,but cultivate small after union with perfectlove must grow out

ones. "
VirgiL of selfishness,ana his success is secured in
Whoever makes of the omnipotent holiness of God." 8. Brooke.
two ears corn, or two
blades of grass to grow where only one What are the aims which are at the same

grew before, deserves better of mankind, time duties?" they are the perfecting of
and does more essential service to his ourselves, and the happiness of others."
country than the whole race of politicians Kant.
put together. " Swift.
High aims and lofty purposes are the
The frost is God's plough which he drives wings of the soul aiding it to mount to
through every inch of ground in the world, heaven. In God's word we have a perfect
opening each clod, and pulverizing the standard both of duty and character, that
wnole." Fuller. by the influence of both, appealing to the
We talk best principlesof nature, be
may as we please of lilies,and our we may
lions and roused to the noblest snd best efforts."
rampant, spread eagles in fields
of d'or or d'argent, out if heraldry were 8. Spring.
guided by reason, a plough in the field Providence has nothing good or high in
arable would be the most noble and ancient store for one who does resolutely aim
not
arms." Cowley. at something high or good. A purpose "is
the eternal condition of success." T. T.
"
AIMS." (8ee Abpibation.")
Munger.
High aims form high characters, and great
objects bring out great minds. Tryon Ed-
wards. "
ALCHEMY*" Alchemy may be pared
com-

to the man who told his gold

sons of
Have a purpose in life, and having it buried somewhere in his vineyard, where
throw into work such strength of mind they by digging found no gold, bnt by turn-
ing
your
and muscle as God has given you. Car- " up the mould about the roots of their
lyle. vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the

The who search and endeavors to make gold have

man seeks one. and but one,
in life may bnt he brought many useful inventions and structive
in-
thing hope to achieve it ;
who seeks all things, wherever he only experiments to light. "
Bacon.
goes,
reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a vest
har- I have always looked alchemy in
upon
of barren regrets." Bulwer. naturfc! philosophy, to be like over en'thu*
 ALLEGORIES. lft AMBITION.

siasm in divinity, and to have troubled the and enmities to the measure of their inter*
world much to the same purpose. "
Sir W. est, and put on a good face where there is
Temple. no corresponding good mUL"Sallust.
Ambition is the avarice of power ; and
ALLEGORIES." Allegories, when well
herself
happiness is soon sacrificed to that
chosen, are like so many tracks of light in
very lust of dominion which was first en-
couraged
a discourse, that make everything about the
only as best means of obtain-
ing
them clear and beautiful. " Addison.
it." Collon.
The allegory of a sophist is always To be ambitious of true honor and of the
screwed ; it crouches and bows like a snake, real glory and perfection of our nature is
which is never straight, whether she go, the very principleand incentive, of virtue
creep, or lie still;only when she is dead, but to be ambitious of
;

Luther.
titles,place, monial
cere-
she is straight enough. "

respects,and civil pageantry, is as

A man conversing in earnest, if he watch vain and little as the things are which we
his intellectual process, will find that a court." Sir P. Sidney.
material image, more or less luminous,
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps it-
arises in his mind with every thought which
self." Shakespeare.
furnishes the vestment of the thought. "

discourse Say what we will, we may be sure that

Hence good writing and brilliant
ambition is an error. Its wear and tear of
are perpetual allegories. " Emerson.
heart are never recompensed ; it steals away
Allegories are fine ornaments and good the freshness of life ; it deadens our vivid
illustrations,but not proof. " Luther.
and social enjoyments it shuts our souls
;

AMBASSADOR." An ambassador is an
to our youth ; and we are old ere we member
re-

honest man sent to lie and intrigue abroad that we have made a fever and a

for the benefit of his Sir H. labor of our raciest Bulwer.

country. " years. "

Wotton. Ambition is but the evil shadow of ration.

aspi-
"
G. Macdonald.
AMBITION." Ambition is the germ
Ambition is idol whose
from which all growth of nobleness ceeds."
pro-
an on
wings great
T. D. minds carried extremes,
to to be limely
sub-
English. are

great, or to be nothing. " Southern.

Ambition is the spur that makes man

struggle with It is heaven's Ambition is not vice of little people.

destiny. own a "

incentive to make purpose great and Montaigne.

achievement greater." Donald G. Mitchell. Ambition is not a weakness unless it be
disproportioned to the capacity. To have
A noble man compares and estimates
more ambition than ability is to be at once
himself by an idea which is higher than
weak and unhappy. G. S. Hillard.
himself; and a mean man, by one lower "

than himself. "

The one produces tion
aspira- It is by attempting to reach the top at a

; the other ambition, which is the way single leap, that so mnch misery is caused
in which a vulgar man aspires. "
B. W. in the world." CobbeU.
Beecher. Ambition has heel nailed in
one well,
Fling away ambition. By that sin angels though she stretch her fingers to touch the
fell. How then can man, image of his tne heavens." Lilly.
Maker, hope to win by it ?" Shakespeare. Ambition thinks no face so beautiful, as

Ambition often puts uponmen doing the that which looks from under a crown. "
Sir
meanest offices : so climbing is performed P. Sidney.
in the same posture as creeping. "
Swift It is the constant fault and inseparable
As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage, evil quality of ambition, that it never looks
ambitions men still climb climb,
and with behind it." Seneca.

great labor and incessant anxiety, but never Ambition makes the same mistake cerning
con-
reach the top. "
Burton. that avarice makes ss to
power,
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, wealth. She by accumulating
begins it as

but grows more inflamed and madder by a means to happiness, and finishes by tinuing
con-

enjoyment. " Otway. to accumulate it as an end." Cotton.

The noblest spirit is most strongly tracted

at- High seats are never but uneasy, and

by the love of glory. "

Cicero. crowns are always stuffed with thorns. "

Brooks.
It is the nature of ambition to make men

liars and cheats who hide the truth in their The tallest trees are most in the power of
another the winds, and ambitious of the blasts
hearts, and like jugglers,show men

tbiiyr in their mouths ; to cut all friendships of fortune," Penn.

 AMERICA. 17 AMIABILITY.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of government of the people, by the people,
delays and rivals. " Denham. and for the people " a government of the

wonld principlesof eternal justice, the ing

unchang-
Most people succeed in small things
tions.
ambi- law of God. Theodore Parker.
if they were not troubled by great "

"Longfellow. America has proved that it is practicable

to elevate the mass of mankind the ing
labor-
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, "

or lower class to raise them to self-

must look down on the hate of those below. "

respect, to make them competent to act a

"Byron.
part in the great right and the great duty
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, of self-government ; and she has proved
even to the person himself, under the pearance that this
ap- education and the
may be done by
of principle, it is the most incur-
able
of She holds
and inflexible of passions. Hume.
diffusion knowledge. out an
"

example a thousand times more encouraging

The slave lias but one master, the tious
ambi- than ever was presented before to those
man has as as there are persons nine-tenths of the human who born
many race are

whose aid contribute to the ment

advance- without fortune hereditary
may hereditary or

of his fortunes." Bruyere. rank." Daniel Webster.

Ambition is so powerful a passionin the
desire of
AMIABILITY." The constant
human breast, that however nigh we reach
pleasing which is the peculiarqualityof
we are never satisfied. "
MachiaveUi.
some, may be called tne happiest of all
Nothing is too high for the daring of
desires in this, that it rarely fails of attain-
ing
mortals : we storm heaven itself in our
when
its end not disgraced by affecta-
tion."
tolly." Horace. -Fie Winy.
The very substance of the ambitious is
To be amiable is most certainly a duty,
merely the shadow of a dream. Shake*
"
but it is not to be exercised at the expense
speare. of any virtue. "
He who seeks to do the ami-
able
How like a mounting devil in the heart always, can at times be successful only
rules the unreined ambition. "
AT. P. Willis. by the sacrifice of his manhood. "
Simms.

Too often those who entertain ambition, How easy to be amiable in the midst of
expel remorse and nature. " Shakespeare. happiness and success. "
Mad. Swetchine.
Too low they build who build below the Amiable often
people,though subject to
skies." Young. impositionin their contact with the world,
Oreat souls, by nature half divine, soar yet radiate so much of sunshine that they
the and hold are reflected in all appreciative hearts."
to stars, a near acquaintance
with the gods." Botoe. Dehuy.

AMUSEMENTS.- It is doing some vice

ser-
AMERICA." America is another name

for Our whole

to hnmanity, to amuse innocently.
Opportunity. historyappears They know but little of society who think
like a last effort of divine Providence in
we can bear to be always employed, either in
behalf of the human nee." Emerson.
duties or meditation, without relaxation."
America is rising with a giant's strength. H. More.
Its bones are yet but cartilages." Fisher
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted,
Ames.
that it may return the better to thinking. "

America is a fortunate country ;

she
Phadrus.
grows by the follies of our European tions.
na-
Amusement is the waking sleepof labor.
"
Napoleon.
When it absorbs thought, patience, and
America half-brother of the world.
" "

strength that might have been seriously

Bailey. its distinctive character
employed, it loses
The home of the homeless all over the ana becomes the task-master of idleness. "

earth." Street WiUmott.

If all Europe were to become
a prison. Let the world have whatever sports and
America would still present loop-hole of a recreations please them best, provided they
escape ; and, God be praised ! that loop-
hole be followed with discretion. " Burton.
is larger than the dungeon itself. that is excessive and followed
"
Amusement
Heine. for its allures and deceives
only own sake,
The home of freedom, and the hope of the us, and leads us down imperceptibly in
down-trodden and oppressed among the thoughtlessness to the grave. " Pascal.
nations of the earth." Daniel Webster. The habit of dissipating every serions
Thin ia what I call the American idea, a thought by a succession of agreeable seusa*
I
 AMUSEMENTS. 18 ANCESTRY.

tions is as fatal to happinessas to virtue ; of society who think we can bear to be

for when amusement is uniformly tuted
substi- always employed, either in duties or tations,
medi-
for objects of moral and mental terest,
in- without any relaxation." Sir P.
we lose all that elevates our ments
enjoy- Sidney.
above the scale of childish pleasures. All amusements to which virtuous women
Anna Maria Porter,
"

are not admitted, are, rely upon it, dele-

terious
Amusements are religion like breezes
to in their nature. " Thaaceray.
of air to the flame, gentle ones will fan it,
"

Joining in of others
the is,
amusements
but strong ones will put it out. Thomas, "
in our social
state, the next thing to sym-pathy
Innocent amusements are such as excite in their distresses, and even 'the
moderately, and such as produce a cheerful slenderest bond that holds society together
frame of mind, not boisterous mirth ; such should rather be strengthened than snapt.
as refresh, instead of exhausting, the tem
sys- "Landor.
such as recur frequently, rather than
^ The church has been so fearful of ments
amuse-
continue long ; such as send us back to our
that the devil has had the charge
daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; of them the flowers has been
such of in the
; chaplet of
as we can partake presence snatched from the brow of Christ, and given
and society of respectable friends ;
such as
to Mammon." H, W. Beecher.
consist with and are favorable to a ful
grate-
piety ; such as are chastened by self- ANALOQY.-Analogy, although it is

respect, and are accompanied with the sciousness

con- not infallible, is vet that telescope of the
that life has a higher end than mind by which it is marvelouslv assisted in
to be amused. "
Channing. the discovery of both physical and moral
truth." Cotton.
If those who are the enemies of innocent
amusements had the direction of the world, Those who reason only by analogies,
they would take away the spring and youth, rarely reason by logic, and are generally
the former from the year, the latter from slaves to imagination." C, Simmons,
human life. "
BaUac.
ANARCHY." Anarchy is the choking,
It is a sober truth that people who live
sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no
only to amuse themselves, work harder at
rule the consecration of
the task than in
; cupidityand bray-
ing
most people do earning of folly and dim stupidity and baseness,
their daily bread." if. More.
in most of the affairs or men. Slop-shirts
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw attainable three half-pence cheaper by the
the sanction of religion from amusement. ruin of living bodies and immortal souls. "

If we feel that it is all injurious we should Carlyle.

strip the earth of its flowers and blot out "
Burke talked of that digest of anarchy
its pleasant sunshine." E. H. Chapin. called the Rights of Man."" Alison.
Dwell not too long upon sports : for as
Anarchy is hatred of human authority:
they refresh a man that is weary, so they atheism of divine authority" two sides of
weary a man that is refreshed. Puller.
"
the same whole. " Macpherson.
If you are animated by right principles,
and ANCESTR Y.-(8ee "Bibth," "d "Oek-
are fully awakened to the true dignity
of life, tiie subject of amusements be EAIXMY.")
may
left to settle itself." T. T. Munger. The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth

Christian is concerned, is that it should be such as to

discipleship does not involve
the abandonment of innocent give him but little occasion to think much
any ment.
enjoy-
diversion which about it." Whaiely.
Any or amusement
we can use so as to receive pleasure and I will not borrow merit from the dead,
enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to myself an undeserver. " Howe.
others, we are perfectly free to use and
; Every man is his own ancestor, and every
any that we cannot use without injury to
man is his own heir. He devises his own
ourselves or harm to others, we have no
future, and he inherits his own past." H,
right to use, whether we are Christians or
F. Hedge.
not." W. Gladden,
It is the highest of earthly honors to be
I am a great friend to public amusements, descended from the and good.
great They "

for they keep people from vice. Johnson.

"
alone cry out against a noble ancestry who
Amusement to an observing mind is have none of their own." Ben Jonson,
study." Disraeli,
Good blood" descent from the great and
It is doing some service to humanity to good, ishigh honor
a and privilege." He
amuse innocently ; and they know very little that lives worthily of it is deserving of the
 ANCESTRY. 19 ANCESTRY.

highest esteem ;
he that does not, of the The glory of ancestors sheds a light
deeper disgrace ."
Cotton. around posterity; it allows neither their

They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, good or bad qualitiesto remain in ity."
obscur-
Sallust.
produce their debt, instead of their charge,"
dis-
Young. Consider wheiher we ought not to be

take rank descent. Such of more in the habit of seeking honor from
We by us as

and fore
there- our descendants than from our ancestors ;
have the longest pedigree, are

the furthest removed from the first thinking it better to be nobly remembered
who made the fortune and founded the than nobly born ; and striving so to live,
the noblest. Froude. that our sons, and onr sons1 sons, for ages
family, we are "

.
to come, might still lead their children
Breed is stronger than pasture. "
George '

reverently to the doors out of which we had

Eliot.
the "
been carried to
$rave, saying, Look,
It is. indeed, when
blessing, the virtues this his this his chamber."
a was house, was "

of noble races are hereditary. " Nmbb. Buskin.

How all hereditary honors, those made
poor are Mere family never a man great. "

poor possessions from another's deeds,un-

less
Thought and deed, not pedigree, are thw
our own just virtues form our title,and passports to enduring fame. " Skobeleff.
give a sanction to our fond assumption."
It is fortunate to come of distinguished
Shirley. It is not less to be such that
ancestry. " so
It is a noble faculty of our nature which do to inquire whether
people not care you
enables us to connect our thoughts, sym-
pathies, are of high descent or not." Bruyere.
and happiness, with what is distant
Few people disparage a distinguished an*
in place or time ; and looking before and
cestry except those who have none of their
after, to hold communion at once with our
own. "
J. Hawes.
ancestors and our posterity. There is a

moral and for Title and

ancestry render a good man
philosophical
respect our cestors,
an-

which elevates the character and more illustrious, but an ill one more temptible.
con-

the heart. Next to the of "A daison.

improves sense

religions duty and feeling, I hardly

moral It is a shame for a man to desire hon#r
know what should bear with stronger obli-
gation only because of his noble progenitors, and
on a liberal and enlightened mind, not to deserve it by his own virtue."
than a consciousness of an alliance with Chrysoetom.
excellence which is departed ; and a sciousness,
con-
Philosophy does not regard pedigree. "

too, that in its acts and conduct, She did not receive Plato as a noble, but
and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it
made him bo." Seneca.
may be actively operating on the happiness A am no herald to inquire after men**
of those that come after it. " Daniel Webster.
pedigrees : it snffioeth me if I know of their
A grandfather is no longer a social tution."
insti- Sir P.
virtues." Sidney.
Men do not live in the past. " They
Nothing is more disgraceful than for a
merely look back. "
Forward is the universal
man who is nothing, to hold himself honored
cry. of his forefathers and
on account ; yet
What can we see in the longest kingly hereditary honors are a noble and splendid
line in Europet save that it runs back to a treasure to descendants. "
Plato.
successful soldier ?" Walter Scott.
Some only the
men by ancestry are

Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, shadow of a mighty name. "

Luoan.
some preference given to birth, is neither Pride in boasting of family antiquity,
unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic. Burke.
"

makes duration stand for merit." man.

Zimmer-
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, tions
na-

proud of the and individuals

are one, The man of the quality is not he
true
of the other ; but if they are nothing in who labels himself genealogical tables,
with
themselves, that which is their pride ought and lives on the reputation of his fathers,
to be their humiliation. " Cotton. but he in whose conversation and behavior

The the there are references and characteristics

origin of all mankind was same :

conscience that positively unaccountable except on the

it is only a clear and a good
hypothesis that his descent is pure and
makes a roan noble, for that is derived from
heaven itself. Seneca. illustrious." Theodore Parker.
"

It is of of what The inheritance of distinguished and

no consequence parents a

a man is born, so to be a man of merit." noble name is a proud inheritance to him

Morace. who lives worthily of it." Cotton,
 ANECDOTES. SO ANGER

Honorable descent is, in all nations, and yet I have often found that the dotes
anec-
esteemed. It is to be expected that interesting than the works."
?;re"tly
he children of men of worth will be like Disraeli.
are more

their progenitors ; for nobility is the virtue Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles
of a family." A ristotle. of truth, and if striking and appropriate
The glory of ancestors sheds a light are often more impressive ana powerful
around posterity ; it allows neither their than argument. "
Tryon Edwards.
good nor their bad qualities to remain in anecdote
Occasionallya single opens a
obscurity." Sallust. character biography has its comparative
;
It would be more honorable to oar tinguishedanatomy,
dis- and a saying or a sentiment ables
en-

ancestors to praise them in the skillful hand to construct the

words less, but in deeds to imitate them skeleton." WiUmoti.
more. H. Mann.
"

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable

They who depend on the merits of cestors,
an- defects : frequent repetition and being soon
search in the roots of the tree for exhausted ; so that whoever values this gift
the fruits which the branches ought to pro-
duce. in himself, has need of a good memory, and
"Barrow. ought frequently to shift his company."
The man has nothing
who to boast of but Swift
his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato" A NOELS." Millions of spiritualcrea-
tures
the best part under ground. Overbury. "
walk the earth unseen, both when we

Distinguished birth is like a cipher : it sleep and when we wake. "

Milton.
has no power in itself like wealth, or talent, We like angels till
are never our passion
or personal excellence, but it tells, with all dies." Decker.
the power of a cipher,when added to either
The guardian angels of life sometimes
of the others. "
Boyes.
fly so high as to be Deyond our sight, but
The pride of blood has a most important they are always looking down upon us."
and beneficial influence. "
It is much to feel
that the high and honorable belong to a
The angels may have wider
spheres of
name that is pledged to the present by the
action and nobler forms of
dnty than our-
selves,
recollections of the past." Z. E. London.
but truth and right to them and
When real nobleness accompanies the and the
to us are one same thing." J?. H.
imaginary one of birth, the imaginary Chapin.
mixes with the real and becomes real too. "

Oreville. ANQER." Anger begins in folly od

inherit but what ends in repentance. Pythagoras.
We nothing truly, our
"

actions make us worthy of." Chapman, The fire you kindle for your enemy o n

distinguished burns yourself more than him. Chit*.j*

He that can only boast of a "

lineage, boasts of that which does not long

be- xTovero.

to himself ; but he that lives worthily Anger is the most impotent of passions."
of it is always held in the highest honor. " It effects nothing it goes
about, and hurts
Junius. the one who is possessed by it more than

history shows
All the of blood over
the one against whom it is directed. "

power
shows the Clarendon.
circumstanoes, aa agriculture
power of the seeds over the soil." J?. P. He that would be angry and sin not, must
Whipple. not be angry with anything but sin."
Birth is nothing where virtue is not." OCCtCer.

Moliere. To be is to the faults of

angry revenge
birth does others ourselves. Pope.
Nobility of not slways insure on "

a corresponding nobility of mind ; if it did, Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."
it would always act as a stimulus to noble FuUer.
actions ; but it sometimes acts as a clog Never forget what a man has said to yon
rather than a spur." Colton. when he was angry. "
If he has charged
ANECDOTES* "
Anecdotes and maxims yon with anything, you had better look it
are rich treasures to the man of the world, up." H. W. Beecher.
for he knows how to introduce the former Temperate well becomes the wise."
anger
at fit places in conversation, and to recollect Philemon.
the latter on proper occasions." Goethe. When anger manes, unrestrained, to
Some people exclaim, "
Give me no dote*
anec- action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in ite
Of an author, but give me his works "; way." Sntage.
 ANTICIPATION. 22 ANXIETY.

in view are more pleasant than those when to-morrow's burden is added to the
crowned with fruition. In the lint case burden of to-daythat the weight is more
cook the dish to in than bear. G. MacaonaUL
we oar own
appetite; a man can "

the last it is cooked for us. "

Goldsmith.
ANTIQUITY." All the transactions of
We often tremble at an empty terror, jet
the past differ little from those of the
the false fancy brings a real misery. "
very
present "
M. Antoninus.
Schiller.
Those we call the ancients were really
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses
new in everything. " Pascal.
than the anticipation of suffering. " Quin~
tMan. The earliest and oldest and longesthas
still the mastery of iu." George Eliot.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the
thought of coming. ghosts All things held to be old
sorrow Airy now were once

that work no harm do terrify ns more than new. "

What to-day we hold up by example,
men in steel with bloody purposes. " T, B. will rank hereafter as precedent." Tacitus.
Aldrich. It is one proof of a good education, and
In all worldly things that a man
of a true refinement of feeling, to respect
pursues
with the greatest eagerness he finds not antiquity. " Mrs. Sigourney.
half the pleasure in the possessionthat he When ancient and rules of life
opinions
proposed to himself in tne expectation. "
are taken the loss cannot possibly be
away,
estimated. " From that moment we have no

The worst evils are those that never compass to govern us, nor can we know
arrive. distinctly to what port to steer. "
Burke.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard I do by no means advise you to throw

would be undertaken if we had not the away your time in ransacking, like a dull
of magnifying the advantages antiquarian, the minute and unimportant
power we
of remote and fabulous times. Let
expect from them. " Johnson,
Sarts
lockheads read, what blockheads wrote."
Be looking for
not evil. Often thou "

drainest the Chesterfield.

gall of fear while evil is passing
by thy dwelling. Tupper. " Antiquity !" I like its ruins better than
its reconstructions. " Joubeii.
To tremble before anticipated evils, is to
bemoan what thou hast never lost. "
Goethe. Time consecrates ; and
what is gray with

age becomes religion. " Schiller.

We part more easily with what we possess
by the
than with expectations of what
our we hope Antiquityis enjoyed not ancients
for : expectation always goes beyond ment."
enjoy- who lived infancy of things, but
in the by
Home. ns who live in their maturity. Colton. "

Our desires always disappoint us

; for What subsists to-day by violence, tinues
con-

though we meet with something that gives to-morrow by acquiescence, and is

us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly perpetuated by tradition, till at last the

answers our expectation." Rochefoucauld.' hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of auti-
ouity at us, and gives itself out aa the dom
wis-
Nothing is so good as it seems hand.
before-
of ages. "
Everett
"
George Eliot.
Those old ages arc like the landscape that
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to
anticipatemisfortunes. "
What madness is
shows best in the purple distance, all ver-
dant

and smooth, ana bathed iu mellow

it to be expecting evil before it cornea. "

Seneca. light." E. H. Chapin.

Why need a man forestall his date of

ANXIETY." Anxiety is the rust of life,
grief, and mn to meet that he would most
destroying its brightness and weakening
avoid? Milton.
its childlike and abiding trust
"

power." A
The joyswe expect are not sobright, nor in Providence is its best preventive and
the troubles so dark as we fancy they will remedy. " Tryon Edwards.
be. Charles Beads.
"

Do not anticipate trouble, or about

worry
It is expectation makes blessings dear. what never happen. Keep in the light.
sun-
"

may
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what "
Franklin.
it were. 8uckling.
"

Better be despised for too anxious prehensions,

ap-
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. " than ruined by too confident
Bruyere. security. " Burke.

It has been well said that no man ever How much have cost us the evils that
sank under the burden of tv" day. It is never happened !" Jefferson.
 ANXIETY. 28 APOTHEGMS.

Don*t be forecasting evil unless it is what blessed in disappointment, why this restlesc

70a fan guard against. Anxiety is good stir and commotion of mind ?" Can it alter
for nothing if we can't turn it into a fense."
de- the cause, or unravel the mystery of human
Meyrick. events V" Blair.

It is not the cares of to-day, but the cares Sufficient to each day are the duties to be
of to-morrow weigh a man down. that
For done and the trials to be endured. God
the needs of to-day we have corresponding never built a Christian strong enough to
strength given. For the morrow we are "
carry to-day's duties and to-morrow's ieties
anx-

told to trust." It is not ours yet. O. Mac- "

piled on the top of them." T. L. Guy-
donald. ler.

When we borrow trouble, and look ward

for-
APOLOGIES. " Apologies only account
into the future and see what storms
for the evil which they cannot alter. Dts- "

are coming, and distress ourselves before

raeli.
they come, as to how we shall avert them if
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
they ever ao come, we lose our proper fulness
trust- "

Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's

in God. When we torment ourselves
companion knows of his short-comings, is
with imaginary dangers, or trials,or verses,
re-

have with that from his apology." O. W. Holmes.

we already parted
perfect love whioh oasteth out fear." H. W. No sensible person ever made an ogy.
apol-
Beeoher. "
Emerson.

Anxiety is a word of unbelief or ing

unreason- "
APOTHEOMS.-(8ee Pbovebbs.")
dread. "
We have no right to allow it.
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past
Full faith in God puts it to rest." iforace
condensed for the instruction and guidance
Bushnell.
of the present." Tryon Edwards.
He is well along the road to perfect hood
man-

who does not allow the thousand little

The short sayingsof wise and good men
worries life embitter his
are of great value, like the dust of gold, or
of to temper, or
the sparks of diamonds." Tillotson.
disturb his equanimity.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the
An undivided heart which worships God
seeds from which spring vast fields of new
alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised
thought, that may be further cultivated,
above anxiety for earthly wants. "
OeUcie.
beautified, and enlarged." Ramsay.
One of the most useless of all things is to
Apothegms are in history, the same as
take a deal of trouble in providing against
pearlsin the sand, or gold in the mine."*
dangers that never come. How many toil
Erasmus.
to lay up riches which they never enjoy ; to
for that Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the tessential
quin-
exigencies happen
Srovide
prevent troubles that
never ;
extracts of thought and feeling."
" never come ; sacri-
ficing
R. W. Alger.
present comfort and enjoyment in
guarding against the wants of a period they He is a benefactor of mankind who tracts
con-

may never live to see. "

W. Jay. the great rules of life into short tences,
sen-

It is kills it is that may be easily impressed on the

not work that men ;
memory, and so recur habitually to the
worry." Work is healthy ; you can hardly
than he bear. But
mind. Johnson.
put more on a man can "
"

worry is rust upon the blade. "

It is not Nothing hits harder, or sticks longer in
movement that destroysthe machinery, but the memory, than an apothegm. " J. A.
friction. " H. W. Beeoher. Murray.
Worry not about the possible troubles of A maxim is the exact and noble
sion
expres-
the future ; for if they come, you are but of an important and indisputable
anticipating and adding to their weight ; truth." 8011 nd maxims are the germs of
and ii they do not come, is less
use- good ; strongly imprinted on the memory
your worry
; and in either case it is weak and in they fortify and strengthen the will. Jou%"

vain, and a distrust of God's providence. "

bert.
Tryon Edwards. The excellence of consists
aphorisms not
Let us be of good cheer, remembering so much in the expression of some rare of
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are abstruse sentiment, as in the sion
comprehen-
those which never come. " J. R. Lowell, of some useful truth in few words."

human Johnson.
Anxiety is the poison of life ; the
parent of many sins and of more miseries. "
Nor do apothegms only serve for ment
orna-

In a world where everything is doubtful, and delight,but also for action and
and where we may be disappointed, and be civil use, as being the edge tools of speech,
 APPEARANCES. 94 APPLAUSE.

which cut and penetrate the knots of ness

busi- honor in the world, is to be in reality what
and affairs. "
Bacon, we would appear to be. " Socrates.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the
APPETITE.-Beason should direct,
largest and worthiest portion of our knowl-
edge
and appetite obey. " Cicero.
consists of aphorisms, and the great-
est
and best of men is but an aphorism. "
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good
Coleridge. life. " Aristippus.
Under the veil of these curious sentences Choose rather to punish appetites
your
are hid those germs of morals which the than to be punished by them. "
Tyrius
masters of philosophy have afterwards veloped
de- Maximus.
into so many volumes. "Plutarch. Animals feed man eats. Only the man
; "

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclope of intellect and judgment knows how to
with one eye, and that in the back of his e"t."Savarin.
head." Coleridge. Let the fourth table
not thy pari exceed
but few of thy thy provision be solid, let
There are proverbial sayings revenue :

that are not true, for they are all drawn and not far fetched, fuller of substance
than art : be wisely frugal in thy prepara-
from experienceitself, which is the mother tion,
of all sciences." Cervantes. and freely cheerful in thy entertain-
ment
: if thy guests \"e right, it is enough ;
Sensible men show their sense by saying if not, it is too much : too much is a vanity ;
much in few words. "
If noble aotions are

the substance of life,good sayings are its enough is a feast. Quarles. "

ornament and guide. C. Simmons. "

There are so few that resist the ments
allure-
and luxuries of the table, that the
Few of the wise apothegms which
many usual civilities meal like
have been uttered from the time of the
at a are very being
that of politely assisted to the grave." JV. P. WxU
seven sages of Greece to
poor ard,
Rich-
have prevented a single foolish tion."
ac-

Macaulay. Now good digestion wait on appetite, and

health on both. Shakespeare.
"

APPEARANCES." There er
great- and labor the two best
are no
Temperance are
wretches in the world than of those physicians of ; labor sharpens the
manv man ap-
petite,
whom people in general take to be nappy." and temperance prevents from dulging
in-
Seneca. to excess. Rousseau. "

Do not judge from mere appearances ; A well governed appetite is a great part
for the light laughter that bubbles on the of liberty." Seneca.
lip often mantles over the depths of ness,
sad-
The lower your senses are kept, the better
and the serious look may be the sober
you may govern them. "
Appetite and reason
veil that covers a divine peace and joy. "

are like two buckets "

when one is up, the
The bosom can ache beneath diamond
other is down." Of the two, I would rather
brooches ; and many a blithe heart dances
have the reason-bucket uppermost. " Coh
under coarse wool. " E. H. Chapin.
lier.
Foolish men mistake transitory blances
sem-
For the sake of health, medicines are
for eternal fact, and go astray more
and
taken by weight and measure ; so ought
more. "
Carlyle.
food to be, or by some similar rule. " 8keU
Half the work that is done in this world
ton.
in to make things appear what they are

not." E. R. Beadle.
APPLAUSE." Applause is the spur of
How little do they see what is,who frame noble minds the end and aim of weak
;
their haHty judgments upon that which Cotton.
ones. "

seems. "
Southey .

Neither human applause nor human

A man of the world must seem to be be taken the of truth
censure is to as test ;
what he wishes to be thought. Bruyere. but either should
"
set us upon testing selves."
our-

Beware, so long as you live, of judging Whately.

men by their outward appearance. La
"
When the million applaud you, seriously
Fontaine. ask what harm have done when
you ; they
The world is governed more by censure you, what good 1"CoUon.
ances
appear-
than by realities, so that it is fully as The fickle
Applause waits on success. "

necessary to seem to know something as to like that floats

multitude, the light straw on
know it." Daniel Webster. and
the stream, glide with the current still,
The shortest and rarest way to live with follow fortune. "
Franklin.
 APPRECIATION. 25 ARCHITECTURE.

Praise from the common people is ally

gener- Next to invention is the power of preting
inter-
false, and rather follows the vain than invention ; next to beauty the
the virtuous. "
Bacon. power of appreciating beauty." Margarei
TuUer.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold per
tem-
or an envious spirit. H. More. " You will find poetry nowhere unless you
bring some with you. Joubert.
O popular applause ! What heart of "
"

man is proof against thy sweet, seducing It is with certain good qualities as with
charms \-Cowper. the senses ; those who have them not can

minds had rather deserve neither appreciate comprehend nor them in

Great poraneous
contem-
without others. Rochefoucauld.
applause obtaining it, "

than obtain without deserving it" If it fol-

low We never know a greater character unless
them it is well, but they will not ate
devi- there is in ourselves something congenial
to follow it." CoUon. to it."Channing.
Man's first care should be to avoid the He is incapable of a truly good action
reproaches of his own heart, and next to who finds not a pleasure in contemplating
the censures of the world. If the the good actions of others. Lavater.
escape " "

last interfere with the first it should be

In proportion as is enlarged our own mind
entirely neglected." But if not, there not
can-
we greater number
discover of men of a
be a greater satisfaction to an honest
originality. Commonplace people see "no
mind than to see its own approbation sec-
onded
difference between and another."
one man

by the applauses of the public" Pascal.

Addison.
Whatever are the benefits of fortune,
APPRECIATION.-"See "IirrLU- they yet require a palatefit to relish and
BircE.") taste them. "
Montaigne.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of is valued in Hhis world he
Every man as

it." Thackeray. shows by his conduct that he wishes to be

To love one that is great, is almost to be valued. Bruyere.
"

great one's self. "Mad. Neckar. In audience of

an rough people a generous
Ton may fail to shine in the opinion of sentiment always brings down the house."
others, both in your conversation and tions,
ac- In the tumult of war both sides applaud %
from being superior, as well as ferior, heroic
in- deed. "
T. W. Higginson.
to them. "
Oreville.
We are very much what others think of
We must undervalue The observations
never any person. "
us. "
reception our meet
The workman loves not to have his work with gives us courage to proceed, or damps
despised inpresence. his Now God is our efforts." Hazlitt.
resent everywhere, and every person is
Eis work. " Be Sales.
A work of real merit finds favor at last."
A. B. AlcoU.
Contemporaries appreciate the man

rather than the merit but will

To feel exquisitely is the lot of very
many*
; posterity
the merit rather than the
but to appreciate belongs to the few." Only
regard man. "

one or two, here there, have

and the blended
CoUon.
passion and understanding which, in its
We should allow other's excellences, to
essence, constitute worship. " C. Auchester.
preserve a modest opinion of our own."
BOTTOW.
ARCHITECTURE. Architecture is -

Appreciation, whether of nature, or the printing press of all ages, and gives a
books, or art, or men, depends very much history of the state of society in which the
on temperament. What is beauty or "
structure was erected, from the cromlachf
greatness to is far from
genius or

eing so to another.
one,
Tryon Edwards.
of
The
the Druids
Tower
to
and
the toyshops
Westminster
of bad taste."
"

Abbey are
One of the Godlike things of this world glorious pages in the history of time, and
is the veneration done to human worth by tell the story of an iron despotism, and of
the hearts of Carlyle. the cowardice of an unlimited
men. "
power."
When nation gives birth to a who Lady Morgan.
a man
is able to produce a great thought, another The architecture of a nation is great
is born who is able to understand and only when it is as universal and established
admire it. "
Jouberi. as its language, and when provincial ferences
dif-

No after lapse of are nothing more than bo many

story is the same to us a
dialects. "Buskin.
time; or rather we who read it are no

longer the same interpreters." QeoraeSUoL Architecture is f roses music." D* *mL

 ARGUMENT. 26 ARISTOCRACY.

Greek architecture is the flowering of Never at the dinner

argue table, for the
geometry." Emerson. who is not
one hungry always gets the best
Architecture is a handmaid of devotion. of the argument.
A beautiful church is a sermon in stone, Weak often thrust
arguments are before
and its spire a finger pointing to heaven. path but although they most
"
my ; are substantial,
un-
Schaff. it is not easy to destroy them.
A Gothic church is a petrified religion. "
There is not a more difficult feat known
Coleridge. than to cut through a cushion with a

sword." Whately.
If cities were built by the sound of music,
then some edifices would to be The soundest argument will produce no
appear structed
con-

by solemn tones, and others more conviction in an empty head than the
grave,
to have danced forth to light fantastic most superficial declamation ; a feather
airs "
Hawthorne. and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a
.

vacuum." Cotton.
Architecture is the art which so disposes
and adorns the edifices raised by man, that An ill argument introduced with ence
defer-
the sight of them contribute to his will procure more credit than the
may tal
men-

health, power, and pleasure. "

Buskin. profoundest with science a rough, insolent,
and noisy management. " Locke.
Houses are built to live in, more than to
look on therefore let nse be preferred fore
be- Heat and and animosity,
conflict, contest
;
uniformity, except where both may be may sharpen the wits, although they rarely
bad. "
Bacon. do ; they never strengthen the standing,
under-
clear the perspicacity, guide the
ARGUMENT." Argument, aa usually judgmeut, or improve the heart." Landor.
managed, is the worst sort of conversation, Be calm in arguing : for fierceness makes
as in books it is generally the worst sort of
error fault, and truth discourtesy
a ; ness
calm-
reading. "Swift. is a great advantage. Herbert "

fie calm in arguing ;

for fierceness makes
There is no good in arguing with the
error a fault, and truth discourtesy." bert.
Her-
inevitable. The only argument available
with an east wiud is to put on your coat."/.
great-
In argument similes are like songs in B. Lowell.
love they describe much, but thing."
no-
; prove The first duty of a wise advocate is to
Prior.
convince his opponents that he understands
Wise fools decide their and
men argue causes ; arguments, sympathiseswith their
them. "
Anacharsis. just feelings. " Coleridge.
He who establishes his argument by noise There is managed without
no dispute
and command, shows that his reason is passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute
weak. " Montaigne. worth a passion. " Sherlock,
Nothing is more certain than that much Testimony is like an arrow shot from a
of the force as well as grace of arguments, long-bow; its force depends the
on strength
as well as of instructions, depends on their of the hand that draws it." But argument
conciseness. "Pope. is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which
When a man for victory and not has equal force if drawn by a child or a
argues
for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is mm." Boyle.
the devil. "
Not the defeat of the intellect,
but the acceptance of the heart is the only ARISTOCRACY.- And lords, whose
true object in fighting with the sword of the
parents were the Lord knows who. "
Be Foe.
spirit." G. Macdonald.
Some will always be above others." stroy
De-
Men's arguments often prove nothing but
the inequality to-day, and it will
their wishes. Colton.
"

appear again to-morrow. "

Emerson.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by ment
argu- A social life that worships money or

;
not being founded in reason they makes social distinction its aim, is,in spirit,
cannot be destroyed by logic" Tryon Ed-
an attempted aristocracy.
ward*.
Among the masses, even in revolutions,
Clear statement is argument." W. O. T.
Shedd.
aristocracy must ever exist. "
Destroy it in
the nobility, and it becomes centred in the
If I were to deliver up my whole self to rich and powerful Houses of Commons. "

the arbitrament special pleaders, to-day

of Pull them down, and it still survives in the
I might be argued into an atheist, and morrow
to- master and foreman of the workshop."
into a pickpocket. Bulwer. " Gvuot.
 ARMY. f? ART.

I never could believe that Providence had by appearance the illusion of a highei
tent a few men into world, ready booted
the reality. Qoelhe. "

and spurred to ride, and millions ready Bad- The true work of art is but a shadow of
died and bridled to be ridden. Richard
"
the divine perfection. "
Michael Angela.
Bumbold.
All that is good in art is the expressionof
Aristocracy has three successive ages : the
one soul talking to another, and is precious
age of superiorities,that of privileges, and according to the greatness of the soul that
that of vanities. Having " passed out of the utters it. "
Buskin.
first, it degenerates in the second, and dies
in the third." Chateaubriand, Art, as far as it has the ability,follows
away
nature, as a pnpil imitates his master, so

ARMY. "
The army is a school where that art must be, as it were, a descendant
obedience is taught, and discipline is forced
en- of God." Dante.
where bravery becomes a habit
; The perfectionof art is to conceal art."
and morals too often are neglected ; where Quintihan.
chivalry is exalted, and religion valued
under-
Never judge a work of art by its defects."
: where virtue is rather understood
Washington Albion.
in the classic sense of fortitude and courage,
than in the modern and Christian sense of There is no more potent antidote to low
true moral excellence. " Ladd. sensuality than admiration of the ful."
beauti-

the
All the higher arts of design are
Armies, though always supporters
and tools of absolute for the time essentially chaste, without respect to the ject"They
ob-
power
being, are always its destroyers too, by fre-quently purify the thoughts,as tragedy
purifies the passions. Their accidental fects
ef-
changing the hands in which they
"

think to lodge it. Chesterfield. are not worth consideration ; for there
proper "

are souls to whom even a vestal is not

The army is a good book in which to study holy." SchlegeL
human life." One learns there to put his
The artist is the child in
popular the
hand to everything. "
The most delicate and
fable, every one of whose tears a pearl. was
rich are forced to see poverty and live with
it ; to understand distress and to know
Ah 1 the world, that cruel stepmother, beats
;
the poor child the harder to make him shed
how rapid and great are the revolutions and
more pearls." Heine.
changes of life." De Vlgny.
The best is to of
The highest triumph of art, is the truest
armor keep out shot.
gun-
presentation of nature." N. P. Willis.
" Bacon.
The great painters are
names oflike pass-
ing
ARROGANCE. "
When men are most bells."Velasquez yon In hear sounded
sure and arrogant they are commonly most the fall of Spain ; in Titian, that of Venice ;
mistaken, giving views to passion without in Leonardo, that of Milan ;
in Raphael,
that deliberation which alone that of Rome. And there is profound
proper can "
tice
Jus-
secure them from the grossest ties.
absurdi- in this for in proportion to the noble-
ness
;
" Hume. of power is the guilt of its use for

is hateful purposes vain or vile and hitherto the

Nothing more to a poor man ;

than the purse-proud arrogance of the greater the art the more surely has it been
rich. But the become rich used, and used solely,for the decoration of
" let poor man

and he runs at once into the vice against pride, or the provoking of sensuality. "

Jiuskin.
which he so feelingly declaimed. "
There
are strange contradictions in human acter.
char- The mission of art is to represent nature;
"
Cumberland. not to imitate her. "
W. M. Hunt.

The arrogant man does but blast the real truthfulness of all works of
The ination,"
imag-
blessings of life and his own written
swagger away sculpture, painting, and
enjoyments. To nothing the folly of
sav "
fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that
and injustice of sucn behavior, it is always the artist never seeks to represent positive
the sign of a little and unbenevolent temper, truth, but the idealized image of a truth. "

having no more greatness in it than the Bulwer.

swelling of the dropsy. Collier. "

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot

ART. "
True art is reverent imitation of be the object of the arts. "
Illusion on a
God." Try on Edwards. ground of truth, that is the secret of the

All great art is the of man's fine arts." Joubert.

expression
delight in God's work, not his own." kin.
Bus- founds
Art does not imitate nature, but
itself on the study of nature " takes from
The highest problem of any art is to cause nature the selections which best accord with
 ART. 28 ASKING.

Its intention, and then bestows them The highest is always the most
art
own on
ious,
relig-
that which nature does not possess, viz.: and the greatest artist is always a
the mind and sonl of man. " Bulwer. devout man. A scoffing Raphael, or
"
an

The objoct of art is to crystallize emotion irreverent Michael Angelo, is not able."
conceiv-
into and then fix it IHaifcte.
thought, iu form. "

JJeUarte. Artists are nearest God. Into their souls

The learned understand the reason of he breathes his life, and from their hands
art the unlearned feel the pleasure. it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless
; "

Quintilian. the world."/. G. Holland.

The highest problem of every art is. by Since I have known God in a saving man*

means of appearances, to produce the illu-

sion ner, painting, poetry, and music have had
of a loftier reality." Goethe. charms unknown to me before. "
I have

The either received what I suppose is a taste for

mother of the useful art, is necessity;
that of the fine arts, is luxury." The former them, or religion has refined my mind, and

for made it susceptible of new impressionsfrom

have intellect their father ; the latter,
which itself is kind the sublime and beautiful." O, how religion
genius, a of luxury."
secures the heightened enjoyment of those
Schopenhauer.
which keep from God
The painter is, as to the execution of his Eleasures
their being a source
so
many
of pride I" Henry
y
work, a mechanic ; but as to his conception
Martyn.
and spirit aud design he is hardly below
even tne poet. /Schiller, The
"

ARTIFICE." ordinary ment

employ-
In the art of design, color is to form what of artifice, is the mark of a petty
verse is to
prose, a more harmonious and mind ; and it almost always happens that
luminous vehicle of thought." Mrs, son.
Jame- he who uses it to cover himself in one place,
uncovers himself in another. " Bochefou-
sacred is the vocation of the artist, cauld.
Very
who has to directly with
do the works of To know how to dissemble is the edge
knowl-
God, and interpret the teLching of creation of kings." Richelieu.
to mankind. All honor to the man who
Artifice is weak ; it is the work of mere
treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's
man, in the imbecility and self distrust of
presence, the thoughts of God which are
his mimic understanding." Hare.
expressed to him ;
and makes all things
according to the pattern which he is forms of asceti-
cism
ever
ASCETICISM." Three
ready to show to earnest aud reverent have existed in this weak world. "

genius on the mount. Brown.

"

Religious asceticism, being the refusal of

Art method
employs for the symmetrical pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as
formation of
beauty, as science employs it supposed, of religion ; seen chiefly in the
for the logical exposition of truth ; but the middle ages." Military asceticism, being
mechanical process is. in the last, ever kept the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for
visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes the sake of power ; seen chiefly in the early
from sight amid the shows of color and the days of Sparta and Rome. And monetary "

shapes of grace. "

Bulwer. asceticism; consisting in the refusal of

could pleasure and knowledge for the sake of

Would that we at once paint with
the !" In the long from the money ; seen in the present days of Lon- don
eyes way eye
the and Manchester." Buskin.
through the arm to pencil, how much is
lost !" Leasing. I recommend no sour ascetic life. I
believe not only in the thorns on the bush,
rose-
The artist ought never to perpetuate a
but in the roses which the thorns
temporary expression.
defend. Asceticism is the child of ality
sensu-
In sculpture did any one ever call the
and superstition. She is the secret
Apollo a fancy piece : or say of the Laocodn mother of a secret sin. God, when
how it might be made different ?" A master-
piece
many
he made man's body, did not give us a fibre
of art has, to the mind, a fixed place too much, nor a passion too many. "
dore
Theo-
in the chain of being, as much as a plant or Parkier.
a crystal." Emerson.
Art does not lie in copying nature. " ASKING." lam prejudiced in favor of
Nature furnishes the material by means of him who. without impudence, can ask
which to express a beauty still unexpressed boldly." He has faith in humanity, and
in nature." The artist beholds in nature faith in himself. " No one who is not tomed
accus-

more than she herself is conscious of. "

to give grandly can s"k n bly and
B James, with boldness." Lavater.
 ASSOCIATION. 80 ATHEISM.

he does with his fire : not too near, lest he patriotism would not gain force on the
burn ; nor too far off, lest he freeze. Di-
ogenes. "
plain of Marathon, or whose piety would
not grow warmer amid the ruius of Iona,"

villainous hath been Johnson.

Company, company
the ruiu of me." Shakespeare. He whose heart is not excited on the

It is best be spot which a martyr has sanctified by his

to with those in time, that
be with sufferings, or at the grave of one who haa
we hope to in eternity." Fuller.
greatly benefited mankind, must be more
It is certain that either wise bearing or
inferior to the multitude in his moral, than
ignorant carriage is caught, as men take
them his lectual
intel-
he possibly can be above in
J diseases, one of another ; therefore let men
nature. " Southey.
take heed of their company. " Shakespeare.
intercourse and ASTRONOMY." Astronomy is one of
Frequent intimate nection
con-

between two make them the sublimes t fields of human tion.

investiga-
persons, and
that their The mind that grasps its facts
so alike, not only dispositions
moulded like each principles receives something of the ment
enlarge-
are other, but their very
and grandeur belonging to the science
faces and tones of voice contract a larity.
simi-
Lavater. itself. " It is a quickener of devotion. " H.
"

Mann.
It is no small happiness to attend those
from whom we may receive precepts and No one can contemplatethe great facta of
astronomy without feeling his own ness
little-
examples of virtue. " Bp. HaJL
and the wonderful sweep of the power
When we live habitually with the wicked, and of God. Edwards,
providence "
Tryon
we become necessarily their victims or their
the when An andevout astronomer is mad. Young.
disciples ; on contrary, we ate
associ- "

with the virtuous we form ourselves in The contemplation of celestial things will
imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, make a man both speak and think more

every day, something of our faults. "

Ago- sublimelyand magnificentlywhen he cornea

pet. down to human affairs. "

Cicero,

In all societies it is advisable to associate

ATHEISM." great apostles of The three
if possible with the highest ; not that they out
with-
practical atheism that make converts
are always the best, but because, if dis-
gusted
retain them without
persecuting, and
there, we can always descend ; but
preaching, are health, wealth, and power."
if we begin with the lowest to ascend is
Colton.
impossible." Collon.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the
It is only when men associate with the
heart of man. " Bacon.
wicked with the desire and purpose of doing
them rely upon To be an atheist requires an infinitely
good, that they can the
greater measure of faith than to receive
protection of God to preserve them from
all the great truths which atheism would
contamination. "
C. Hodge.
deny." Addison.
It is meet that noble minds keep ever
with their likes for who firm that Atheism, exists, is the result of igno-
if it rance
; so not
can-
of strong sense
and pride,aud feeble
be seduced." Shakespeare.
reason, of good eating and ill living. It is "

People will in a great degree, and not

the plague of society, the corrupter of
without reason, form their opinion of you morals, and the underuiiner of property."
by that have
they of your friends, as, says
Jeren\y Collier.
the Spanish proverb, ''Tell me with whom If of sober habits, moderate,
a man
you live and I will tell you who you are."
chaste, and just in all his dealings should
Those unacquainted with the world take
assert there is no God. he would at least
pleasure in intimacy with great men ; those
speak without interested motives ; but such
who are wiser fear the consequences. "

a man is not to be found. " Bruyere.

Horace.
No one is so thoronghly superstitious aa

ASSOCIATION.-I have only to take the godless man. Life and death to him

np this or that to flood my soul with ries.

memo- are nan n ted grounds, filled with goblin
" Madame Deluzy. forms of vague and shadowy dread. "
Mrs.

There is who has not esting

inter- Stowe.
no man some

associations with particular scenes, Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide
or airs, or books, and who does not feel of the soul.
their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him The footprintof the savage In the sand is
by such connections. Alison. "
sufficient to prove the presence of man to
'

That man is little to be envied whose the atheist who will not recognise God
 ATHEISM. 31 ATTENTION.

though his hand is impressed on the entire What can be more foolish than to think
universe. "
Hugh Miller. that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism,

could come by chance, when all the skill of
art is not able to make an oyster? To see
that a pressing danger will not compel them
to the acknowledgment of a divine rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, out
with-
power. "

Plato. a mover ; circle, without

a a centre ; a
time, without aneternity ; a second, with-
out
A little philosophy inelineth men's minds
a first : these are things so against
to atheism ; but depth in philosophy philosophy and natural reason, that he
bringeth men's minds to religion ; for while beast in
must be a understanding who can
the mind of man looketh upon second
believe in fhem. The thing formed, says
causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in
that nothing formed it ; and that which is
them, and go no further. Bnt "
when it
made, is, while that which made it is not 1
beboldeth the chain of them, confederate
This folly is infinite." Jeremy Taylor.
and linked together, it mnst needs fly to
A traveller amid the scenery of the Alps,
Providence and Deity. " Bacon.
surrounded by the sublimest tions
demonstra-
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, of God's had the hardihood to
make atheists of mankind. power,
" Dryden. hie in album
write against name, an kept
Atheism is the follyof the metaphysician, for visitors, "An atheist." Another who
not the folly of human nature." George followed, shocked and indignant at the scription,
in-
Bancroft. wrote beneath it, *(If an atheist,
In nature is ist.
athe- fool if not, a liar 1 "" G. B. Cheever.
agony or danger, no a ;

"
The mind that knows not what to fly Atheists put on a false courage in the
to, fliefi to God. " H. More. midst of their darkness and sions,
misapprehen-
The atheist is who fain would like children who when they fear to
one pull
in the dark, will sing whistle to keep
God from his throne, and in the place of go or

heaven's eternal king set up the phantom up their courage." Pope.

chance. Glynn.
"
Whoever considers the study of anatomy'
Plato was right in calling atheism a ease."
dis- can never be an atheist." Lord Herbert.
The human intellect in its healthy
ATTENTION." The power of applying
action, holds it for certain that there is a
attention, steady and undissipatea, to a
Great Being overus, invisible, infinite,
single object, is the sure mark of a superior
ineffable, but of real, solid personality, who
made and who made and gemuB." Chesterfield.
governs us, ana

governs all things." R. J). Hitchcock. Few things are impracticable in selves
them-
and it is for want of
irreligious man,
An a speculative or a
: application,
rather than of means, that men rail of cess.
suc-
practical atheist, is as a sovereign, who
off his
"Rochefoucauld.
voluntarily takes crown and declares
himself Blackie. Attention makes the genius all learning,
unworthy to reign. "
;
fancy, science, and skill depend upon it. "

Atheism is never the error of society, in Newton traced: his great discoveries to it. "

any stage or circumstance whatever." In buflds heals

It bridges,opens new worlds,
the belief of a Deity savage and sage have
diseases, carries on the business of the
alike agreed." The great error has been, world." Without it taste is useless, and the
not the denial of one God, but the belief of beauties of literature unobserved. " Will'
many ; but polytheism has been a popular moH.
and poetical, rather than a philosophical
If I have made any improvement in the
error." Henry Fergus.
sciences, it is owing more to patient tion
atten-
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it
than to anything beside." Sir I. New-
ton.
becomes an error of the understanding."
Plato.
If there be anything that can be called
God never wrought miracles to convince
genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give
atheism, because His ordinary works
it." Bacon.
vince
con- that attention to a subject
which keeps i
steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed
There are innumerable souls that would it accurately on all sides.- Reid.
resent the charge of the fool's atheism, yet It is attention, more than any difference
daily deny God in very deed. in native that makes the wide ence
differ-
powers
The atheist is one of the most daring between minds and men. " In this is
beings in creation" a contemner of God the source of
poetic genius, and of the
who explodes his laws by denying his tence."
exis- genius of discovery in science. It " was this
John FoeUr. that led Newton to the invention of fluxions.
 AUTHORITY. 32 AUTUMN.

And the discovery of gravitation, and vey

Har- because tbey advance what is new, but be*
to find ont the circulation of the blood, cause tbey put what they have to say as if
and Davy to those views which laid *he it had never been said before." Goethe.
foundation of modern chemistry. Brodie.
"

The chief glory of a country, says John-

son,
arises from its authors. But this is
AUTHORITY.-(8ee "Office.") "

Nothing is only when they are oracles of wisdom.

more gratifying to the mind "

of man thau dominion. Addison* Unless they teach virtue they are more
power or "

worthy of a halter than of the laurel." Jane

Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head
Porter.
than opinion of authority ; like too strong
things that deserve to be
liquor for a frail glass." Sir P. Sidney. Next to doing
written, nothing gets a man more credit,
Nothing more impairs authority than a
to write
loo
or gives him more pleasure than
frequent or indiscreet use of it. If
be read. field.
Chester-
thunder itself be
thiugs that deserve to "

was to continual, it would

excite no more terror than the noise of a

milL There are three difficulties in ship

author-

:" to write anything worth publishing

Man, proud man ! dressed in a little brief
"
to find honest men to publish it "
and to
authority, plays such fantastic tricks before
get sensible men to read it. "
Cotton.
high heaven as make the angels weep. "

Talent alone cannot make writer there

Shakespeare. a ;
must be a man behind the book." Emerson.
They that govern make least noise, as

they that row the barge do work and puff Every author in some degree portrays
and himself in his works, if it be against
sweat, while he that governs sits quietly even

at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir. "

his will." Goethe.
Selden. Writers are the main landmarks of the
He who is firmly seated in authority soon past." Buhoer.
learns to think and
security, not A writer is the friend and factor
bene-
progress, great
the highest lesson of statecraft."*/. JR. of his readers." M acaulay.
Lowell
Satire lies about men of letters during
their lives,and eulogy after their death."
AUTHORSHIP.-Anthorship, accord-
lug to the spirit in which it is pursued, is Voltaire.

an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, It is doubtful whether mankind are most

an art, a science, or a virtue. SchlegeL " indebted to those who like Bacon and ler
But-

The two of gold from

dig the the mine of literature,
most engaging powers an

author, are, to make new things familiar, or to those who, like Paley. purify it,stamp
and familiar things new." Johnson. it, fix its real value, and give it currency

It is make
and utility." Colton.
quite as much of a trade to a

Authorship is royal priesthood; but

book, as to make a clock. " It
requires more a

than mere genius to be an author. Bruyere. "

woe to him who rashly lays unhallowed
No author
hands on the ark or altar, professing a zeal
is so poor that be cannot be
for the welfare of the race, only to secure
of some service, if only as a witness of his
Fcniehet.
his own selfish ends." Horace Greeley.
time."
To write well is to think well, to feel well, AUTUMN." The melancholy days are
and to render well it is to possess at once
;
come, the saddest of the year. " Bryant
intellect,soul, and taste." Bitfon.
A moral character is attached to autumnal
He who purposes to be an author, should scenes." The flowers fading like our hopes,
first be a student. Dryden. the clouds
"
the falling like our
leaves years,
Never write on a subject without first fleeting like our illusions, the light dimin-
ishing
having read yourself full on it ; and never like onr intelligence, the sun ing
grow-
read on a subject till yon have thought colder like our affections, the rivers
yourself hungry on it." Richter. becoming frozen like our lives" all bear

Clear secret relations to our destinies. Chateau-

writers, like clear fountains, do not "

briand.
aeem so deep as they are : the turbid seem

the most profound." Landor. Season of mist and mellow fruitfulnesa."

No fathers mothers think their Keats.
or own
children ugly ; and this self-deceit is yet The Sabbath of the year." Logan.
stronger with respect to the offspring of like
Magnificent autumn ! He comes not
the mind. Cervantes.
"

a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds ; not like "

The moat original authors are not to hermit, clad in gray ; but like a warric*
 AVARICE. 33 AVARICE.

with the stain of blood on his brazen mail. murders in this loathsome world than
"
any
His crimson scarf ia rent ; his scarlet ner
ban- mortal drug. " Shakespeare.
dripping with gore ; his step like a flail
Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what
on the threshing floor. " Longfellow. sensuality is to the morals. " Mrs. Jameson*
The leaves in autumn do change color
not
The lust of gold, unfeeling and less,
remorse-
from the blighting touch of frost, but from the last corruption of degenerate man.
the process of natural decay. They fall " *

" Johnson.
when the fruit is ripened, and their work is
Avarice is generally the last passion of
done. " And their splendid coloring is but
those lives of which the first part has been
their graoefnl and beautiful surrender of
life when they have finished their summer
squandered in pleasure,and the second
devoted to ambition. He that sinks under
offering of service to God and man. And
the the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age
one of the great lessons fall of the leaf
with the milder business of saving it.
teaches, is this : Do your work well, and "

then be when God shall Johnson.

ready to depart
call." Tryon Edwards. Study rather to fill your mind than your
flower coffers knowing that gold and
; silver were
The tints of autumn " a mighty
garden, blossomiug tinder the spellof the originallymingled with dirt, until avarice
or ambition parted them." Seneca.
enchanter, frost. "
Whittier.
The avaricious man is like the barren
Who at this season does not feel pressed
im-
with a sentiment of melancholy ? "
sandy ground of the desert which sucks in

who able the all the rain and dew with greediness, but
Or is to resist current of
the yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the
thought, which, from appearances of
benefit of others. Zeno.
decay, so naturally leads to the solemn "

imagination of that inevitable fate which is All the good things of the world are no

to bring on alike the decay of life, of pire,

em- further good to us than as they are of UBe ;
and of nature itself? " A. AHson, and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as
much as we can use, and no more. "
De
AVARICE*" Avarice is the vice of clining
de- Foe.
years. " Bancroft.
0 cursed lust of gold ! when for thy sake
The lust of avarice hat so totally seized the fool throws his interest in both
up
upon mankind that their wealth seems first
worlds, starved in this, then damned
rather to. possess them, than they to possess in that to come. " Blair.
their wealth. Pliny, "

Avarice, in old age, is foolish ; for what

We are but stewards of what we falsely be absurd than to increase
can more our
call our own yet avarice is so insatiable
; provisions for the road the nearer we ap*
that it is not in the power of abundance to
proacb to our journey's end ? " Cicero.
.content it. " Seneca.
" .
How vilely has he lost himself who has
How quickly nature falls into revolt when become slave to his and exalts
a servant,
gold becomes her object. Shakespeare. him the
"
to dignityof his Maker ! Gold is
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, the friend, the wife, the god of the money-
avarice all things. " Cowley. monger of the world. " Penn.

It is of the effects of Avarice reigns in those who have most

one worst prosperity
that it makes a man a vortex instead of a bnt few good qualities to commend them :

fountain, so that instead of throwing out, it is a weed that will grow only in a barren
be learns only to draw in." IT. W. Beecher. soil. " Hughes.
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did Some men are thought sagacious merely
children, and like Priam survives them all. on account of their avarice ; whereas a child
"It starves its keeper to surfeit those who can clench its fist the moment it is born. "

wish him dead, and makes him submit to Shenstone.

more mortifications to lose heaven than the The avarice of the miser is the grand
martyr undergoes to gain it. " Colton.
sepulchre of all hid other passions as they
As objects close to the eye shut out larger successively decay ; bnt unlike other tombs
objects on the horizon, so man sometimes it is enlarged by reflection and strengthened
covers up the entire disc of eternity with a by age. Colton. "

dollar, and quenches transcendent glories Avarice is always but by its

poor, poor
with a little shining dust." J?. H. Chapin. fault." Johnson.
own

Avarice increases with the increasing pile Because believe

' "--
men not in providence,
of gold." Juvenal. therefore do
they so greedily scrape and
.
Wqne poison to. men's souls,doing more hoard." They do not believe in any reward
m
 AWKWARDNESS. 34 BARGAIN.

for charity, and therefore they will part importance as would make us able
insupport-
with nothing. "
Barrow, through life." Happy the child whose
mother is tired of talking nonsense to him
AWKWARDNE8S.-Awkwardness is a before he is old to know the
enough sense
more real disadvantage than it is generally Hare,
of it."
thonght to be : it often occasions ridicule,
and always lessens dignity. Chesterfield. "
BACHELOR." I have no wife or dren,
chil-

awkward does good or bad, to provide for a mere

An man never justiceto ;
himself ; to his intelligence, to his tions,
inten- spectator of other men's fortune's and ventures,
ad-

to his actual merit. A fine and how thev play their parts :
or "
per-
son,
or a beauteous face are in vain without which, methinks, are diversely presented
the of Churchill, unto me, as from a common theatre or
grace deportment."
scene. "
Burton.

Because I will not do the wrong to mis)

trust any, I will do myself the right to trus%
live a bachelor." Shakespeare.
BABBLERS.-(8ee "Gomip.") none ; I will

They always talk who never think. "

A
man unattached, and without a wife, if

Prior. he have any genius at all, may raise himself

Fire and sword but slow of

above his original position, may mingle with
are engines hold himself
the world of fashion, and on a
destruction iu comparison with the bler."
bab-
level with the highest ; but this is less easy
Steele,
for him who is engaged. It seems as if "

Talkers are no good doers, be assured.

put the whole world in their
"

marriage
We go to use our hands and not our rank." Bruyere.
proper
tongues. "Shakespeare,
A bachelor's life is a splendid breakfast ;

BABE." Of ail the joys that tolerably flat dinner; and a most miserable
lighten a

suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a supper.

new-born child ?" Jtfrs. Morton,
BALLAD8." Ballads are the vocal traits
por-
A babe in the house is a well-springof of the national mind. Lamb,
"

pleasure, messenger a of peace ana love, a

Ballads the children of
are gipsy sons,
resting place for innocence on earth, a link
born under hedge-rows, in the leafy
green
between angels and men. " Tupper.
lanes and by-paths of literature, in the
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh genial time.
summer " Longfellow.
fallen from God's own home, to flower on
Let me write the ballads of a nation, and
earth." Massey.
I care not who may make its laws." Fletcher
Some wonder that children should be of Saltoun.
given to young mothers. "But what tion
instruc-
A well composed song or ballad strikes
does the babe
bring to the mother ! "

the mind, and softens the feelings, and duces

pro-
She learns patience, self-control, endur-
ance
a greater effect than a moral work,
; her very arm grows strong so that
which convinces our reason but does not
she holds the dear burden longer than the
warm our feelings or effect the slightest
father can." T. W. Higginson. alteration of our habits. " Napoleon.
Living jewels, dropped unstained from
Ballads and popular both the
heaven ."
Pollok, songs are
cause and effect of general morals ;
thev
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet first formed, and then re-act. In both
are "

folded." Byron, of view index of

points they are an public
The coarsest father gains a new impulse morals;" H. Marhneau.
to labor from the moment of his babv's
birth." BARGAIN.- 1 will give thrice so much
Every stroke he strikes is for his
etuld." New land to any well-deserving friend but in
social aims, and new moral ;
motives T. the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil
come vaguely up to him. " W.
on the ninth part of a hair." Shakespeare.
Higginson.
Good Christian here is for A dear bargain is always disagreeable,
people, yon an

inestimable Take particularly

as it is a reflection on the buyer's
loan." all heed thereof,
and in all carefulness employ it. "
With judgment.
high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, Whenever you buy or sell, let or hire,
will it one day be required back. early le. " make a definite bargain, and never trust to

Could we understand half what mothers the flattering lie, ' We '
shan't disagree about
and when should trifles."
say do to us infants, we

be filled with such conceit of our own There are many things in which one gains
 BASENESS. 35 BEAUTY.

and the other loses ; but if it is essential to Beard was never the true standard of
transaction that only one side shall brains. Futler.
any "

gain, the thing is not of God. " O. Mac-

donald. BEAUT Ys" Socrates called beauty a

short-lived tyranny ; Plato, a privilegeof

BA8ENE88." Every base occupation nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat ; Theo-
critus,
makes one sharp in its practice,and dull in a delightful prejudice ; Carneades, a

every other." Sir P. tfidney. solitary kingdom Aristotle, that it was

;
There is a law of forces which hinders better than all the letters of tion
recommenda-
bodies from in the world Homer, that it
sinking beyond a certain depth ; was a

in the sea ; but in the ocean of baseness the glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, that it
favor bestowed by the gods.
deeper we get the easier the sinking."/. R. was a

Lowell. The fountain of the heart, and

beauty is
Baseness of character or conduct not onlv every generous thought illustrates the walls

sears the conscience, but deranges the lect."

intel- of your chamber.
Right conduct is connected with right If virtue accompanies beauty it is ths
views of truth." Cotton. heart's if vice be associate with
paradise;
it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise "

BASHFULNESS.-There are two kinds man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. "

of bath fulness : one, the awkwardness of Quartes.

the booby, which steps into the world
a few is that which
The best part of beauty no
will convert into the
pertness of a coxcomb; Bacon.
picture can express. "

the other, a consciousness, which the most

Beauty hath so charms one knows
delicate feelings produce, and the most tensive
ex- many
not how to speak against it ; and when a
knowledge cannot always remove."
of a virtuous
graceful figure is the habitation
Mackenzie.
soul" when the beauty of the face speaks
Bashfulness is frequently connected
more out the modesty humility of the mind,
and
with good sense than with over-assurance the
; it raises our thoughts up to great
and impudence, on the other hand, is often Creator but after all, beauty, like truth,
;
the effect of downright stupidity." Shen- the
is never so glorious as when it goes
stone. Sterne.
plainest. "

Bashfulness is great hindrance to a in him who

a The beauty seen, is partly
man, both in uttering his sentiments and it. Bovee.
sees "

in understanding what is proposed to him ;

After all, it is the divinity within that
it is therefore good press to forward with
makes the divinity without ; and I have
discretion, both in discourse and oompany
been more fascinated by a woman of talent
of the better sort. "
Bacon.
and intelligence, though deficient in per-
sonal
Conceit not so high an opinion of any one I have been by the most
charms, than
to be bashful and impotent in their ence.
as pres- regular beauty." Washington Irving.
" Fuller,
There is no more potent antidote to low
Bashfulness is ornament to youth, but
an sensuality than the adoration of beauty."
a reproach to old age. Aristotle. arts of design
"
All the are higher
tially
essen-

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude They purify the thoughts, as

chaste."

pleasure, but seldom

opens any avenue to tragedy, according to Aristotle, purifies the
sorrow or remorse. "
Johnson. passions. Schlegel. "

We do
accept genuine
not the person as There is no beantifier of complexion, or

form, behavior, like the wish to scatter

not characterized by this blushing bashful-
ness. or

joy and not pain around

this youthfulness of heart, this sen- us.

sibihty to the sentiment of suavity and Even virtue is more fair when it appears
self-respect. Modesty is bred of self -rever-
ence." in beautiful Virgil.
a person*"
Fine manners are the mantle of fair
Beauty is but the sensible image of the
minds." None are truly great without this
Infinite." Like truth and justice it lives
ornament. A. B. AlcotL
"

and the moral law it

within us ; like virtue
We must prune it with care, so as only to is a companion of the soul. " Bancroft.
remove the redundant branches, and not
is and beautiful is
That which striking
injure the stem, which has its root in a erous
gen- that which is good is
Plutarch.
not always good ; but
sensitiveness to shame. "

always beautiful." Ninon de rEnclos.

that hath beard is If either would realize the

BEARD. He a "
more man or woman

it must be by
than a youth, and he that hath none is lens full power of personal beauty,
tfcan a m*n."8hate9peQrt, cherishingnoble thoughts and hopes ap4
 BEAUTY. 36 BEAUTY.

purposes ; by having something to do and the signatures of these graces in the

out
something to live for that
worthy of is very countenance." Bay.
humanity, and which, by expanding the
The common foible of women who have
capacities of the soul, gives expansion aud been handsome is to forget that they are no
symmetry to the body which contains it."
louger so." Rochefoucauld.
Upham.
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences,
Every trait of beauty may be referred to
how many good offices and civilities, are
some virtue, as to innocence, candor, gen-
erosity,
required among friends to accomplish in
modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre. what fine hand
lovely face
"

some years a or a

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful;

is does in a minute !" Bruyere.
one of the most effectual ways of cultivating
Beauty is as f m its, which
summer are
an appreciation of the divine goodness. "

easy to corrupt and cannot last ; aud for

Bovee.
the most part it makes a dissolute youth,
No receives the full culture of
man a man and an age a little out of countenance ; but
in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is if it light well, it makes virtues shine aud
not cherished : aud there is no condition of vice blush. "
Bacon.
life from which it should be excluded." Of
is seldom
Beauty is an outward gift which
all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the
despised, except by those to whom it has
most at hand, and most important to those
been refused." Gibbon.
conditions where coarse labor tends to give
A woman who could always love would
grossnes8 to the mind. "
Charming.
never grow old ; and the love of mother and
To give pain is the tyranny ; to make wife would
. often give or preserve many
happy, the true empire of beauty." Sfeefe. charms if it were not too often jcombiued
*
-
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little with parental and conjugal anger.
'

There
shorter, it would have changed the history remains in the faces of women who are

of the world." Pascal. naturallyserene and peaceful, and of those

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at

rendered so by religion, an after-spring,
and later an after-summer, the reflex of
a distance, or a sharp sword beyond reach.
their most beautiful bloom. Richter.
" The one does not burn, or the other wound "

those that come not too near them. " vantes.

Cer- Beauty is the first present nature gives to
women and the first it takes away." M eri.

Beauty is often worse than wine ; intoxi-

cating If you tell a woman she is beautiful,
both the holder and beholder." merman.
Zim- whisper it softly ; for if the devil hears it
he will echo it many times. "
Durivage.
The most natural beauty in the world is An appearance of delicacy, and even of
honesty and moral truth." For all
beauty fragility, is almost essential to beauty."
is truth. "
True features make the beauty of Burke.
the face true proportions, the beauty of and doubtful
; Beauty is but a vain good';
architecture ; time beauty the of fadeth
measures, a shining gloss that suddenly ; a
harmony and muric." Shaftesbury. flower that dies when it begins to bud ; a
How goodness heightens beauty !" nah
Han- doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
More. lost, faded, broken, dead within au hour. "

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue." Shakespeare.

Every natural action is graceful ; every
What tender force, what dignity divine,
heroic act is also decent, and causes the what virtue consecrating every feature ;

place and the bystanders to shine. "

son.
Emer- around that neck what dross are gold aud
pearl !" Young.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a

associates with truth. flower without perfume." From the French.

reason, ever beauty "

Tuckerman. Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign

No be handsome the force ornameut, but is, when unadorned, adorned
woman can by
of features alone, more than she can be the most. "
Thomson.
any
witty by only the help of speech." Hughes. I pray thee, O God, that I may be ful
beauti-

is like if it last within. Socrates.

Beauty an almanack : a
"

year it is well. " T. Adams. All beauty does not inspire love ; some
There better cosmetics than beauties please the sight without ing
captivat-
are no a

and the affections. Cervantes.

severe temperance aud purity, modesty "

humility, a gracious temper and calmness The criterion of true beauty is, that it
of spirit ; and there is no true beauty with- increases on examination ; if false, that it
 BIBLE. 40 BIBLE.

honesty, the best policy ; and temperance deep meditation, which has served me as

the beat physic ;" living for both worlds is the guide literary life." I
of my moral and
the wisest and best life. have found it a capital safely invested, and
richly productive of interest. Goethe. "

BIBLEt "
The Bible is the only source of
The longer you read the Bible, the more
all Christian truth ;" the only rule for the
you will like it ; it will grow sweeter and
Christian life ;"
the only book that on folds
sweeter : and the more you get into the
to ns the realities of eternity.
spiritof it, the more you will get into the
There is no book like the Bible for lent
excel-
spirit of Christ. "
Bommne.
wisdom and use. "
Sir M. Hale.
I have always said, I always will say, that
The philosophers, as Varro tells us, the studious of the sacred volume
perusal
counted three hundred and twenty
up will make better citizens, better fathers,
to question, "What
the is the and better husbands."
answers Jefferson.
supreme good?" How needful, then, is a Men cannot be well educated without the
divine revelation, to make plain what is the
Edwards.
Bible. It ought, therefore, to hold the
true end of our being. " Tryon
chief place in every seat of learning through-
out
There found, in any age of the
never was Christendom ; and I do not know or a

world, either religion or law that did so service that could be rendered to
higher
highly exalt the public good as the Bible. "
this republic than the bringing about this
Bacon, desirable result. "
E. Noil.
The Bible is a window in this prison of diffusion of the Bible is the
The general
hope, through which we look into nity.
eter- effectual civilize and humanize
most way to
" Dwight. mankind ; to purify and exalt the general
The is the
light of my understand-
Bible ing, system of public morals ; to give efficacy to

the joy of my heart, the fullness of my the just precepts of international and
hope, the clarifier of my affections, the municipal law ; to enforce the observance
mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my of prudence, temperance, justice and forti-
tude:
sorrows, the guide of my soul through this and to improve all the relations of
labyrinth of time, the telescope sent social and domestic life. Chancellor Kent.
?;loomy
heaven
rom to reveal to the eye of man the
"

Scholars may quote Plato in their studies,

amazing glories of the far distant world.
hearts will
but the of millions quote the
The Bible contains more true sublimity, Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength
more exquisite beauty, more
pure morality, from its inspiration, as the meadows draw
more important history, ana finer strains it from the brook. " Conway.
of poetry and eloquence, than can be col-
lected
The Bible equally to the cottage of
goes
from all other books, in whatever the peasant, and the palaceof the king. "

age or language they may have been ten.

writ-
It is woven into literature, and colors the
Sir Wm. Jones.
"

talk of the street." The bark of the chant

mer-

In what light soever we regard the Bible, cannot sail without it ; and no ship
whether with reference to revelation, to of war goes to the conflict but it is there."
history, or to morality, it is an invaluable It enters men's closets ; directs their duct,
con-

and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and and mingles in all the grief and fulness
cheer-
virtue." J. Q. Adams. of life. "
Theodore Parker.

Bad men or devils would not have written The Bible is one of the greatest blessings
the Bible, for it condemns them and their bestowed by God on the children of men. "

works, good men " or angels could not have It has God for its author ; salvation for its
written it, for in saying it was from God end, and truth without "ny mixture for its
when it was but their own invention, they matter. It is all pure, all sincere nothing
"

;
would have been guilty of falsehood, and too much ; nothing wanting." Jsocke.
thus could not have been good. The only The man of one book is always able
formid-
remaining being who could have written it,
; but when that book is the Bible he is
is God" its real author.
irresistible.- W. M. Taylor,
The Scriptures teach us the best way of
To say nothing of its holiness or ity,
author-
living, the noblest way of suffering, and
the Bible contains more specimens of
the most comfortable way of dying. Flavel.
"

genius and taste than any other volume in

There are no songs comparable to the existence. "
Landor.
of Zion ; no
orations ec}ual to those
songs So great is my veneration for the Bible,
of the prophets ; and no like
politics those the to read it
that earlier my children begin
which the 8criptures teach. Milton. the confident will be that
"
more
.
my hopes
Tt is a belief in the Bible, the fruit of they will prove useful citizens to their
 BENEVOLENCE. 39 BEST THINGS.

Moner spent on ourselves may be a stone

mill- Nothing multiplies bo much as kindness."
about the neck ; spent on others it Wray.
may give us wings like eagles. R. D. is
"
Genuine benevolence not stationary,
Hitchcock. but it about
peripatetic
; goes doing
You are so to give, and to sacrifice to good." W. Uemns.
give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced Do not wait for extraordinary stances
circum-
the "She hath done what she
on woman, to do good actions : try to use
could. n
Do it now. It is not safe to leave Richter.
" "

ordinary situations. "

a generous feeling to the cooling influences

The
best way to do good to ourselves, is
of a cold world." Guthrie.
to it to others
do ;
the right way to gather,
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a
is to scatter.
good action by stealth, and to have it found
This is the law of benefits between men ;
"mt by accident. "
Lamb.
the one ought to forget at onoe what he has
Beneficence is a duty ; and he, who quently
fre-
given, and the other ought never to forget
practises it,and sees his benevolent
what ne has received. " Seneca.
intentions realized comes, at, length, really
Never did any soul do good, but it came
to love him to whom he has done good."
readier to do the same again, with more joyment.
en-
Kant.
Never was love, or gratitude, or
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all
and increaseth fits
bene-
bounty practised, but with increasing toy,
things else, augments which the practiser still more
made in love
;
because a noble action of liberality
with the fair act." Shaftesbury.
doth grow continually by our generously
lais.
Rabe- The one who will be found in trial capable
thinking of it and remembering it."
of great acts of love is ever the one who is
always doing considerate small ones. "
F.
BENEVOLENCE.-(8ee "Kindness. ") W. Robertson.

To feel much others, andfor little for It is the glory of the true religion that it
ourselves ; to restrain our selfish, and exer-
cise inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevo-
lence.
our benevolent affections, constitutes "
It is a religion of charity, which
the perfection of human nature. " Adam none other ever was. "
Christ went about
Smith. doing good : he set the example to his ciples,
dis-

Benevolent ennobles the most and they abounded in it." Fuller.

feeling
trifling actions." Thackeray. Bare benevolence ! the minister of God. "

There cannot be a more glorious object Carlyle.

in creation than human being replete Fenelon's fire.
a When library was on

with benevolence, meditating in what that it is not

ner
man- "
God be praised,*'he said, "

he may render himself most acceptable the dwelling of some man."

poor
to the Creator by doing good to his tures.
crea-
The conqueror is regarded with awe ; the
"Fielding. commands but it is
wise man our respect;
Benevolence is allied to few vices ;
fishness
sel-
only the benevolent man that wins our
to fewer virtues. "
Home. affection.
In this world it is not what take to give of cold
we up, The disposition a cup
but what give up, that makes us rich." is far nobler property
we water to a disciple, a

H. W. Beecher. than the finest intellect." HoweUs.

He who will not give some portion of his who wishes to the good of
He secure

ease, his blood, his wealth, for others* "ood, others, has already secured his own." fucius.
Con-
is a poor frozen churl. "
Joanna Baillie.

He only does not live in vain, who ploys

em- in becomes
Just proportion as a man
his wealth, his thought, nis speech good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of
to advance the good of others." Hindoo the region of theorizing into the region of
Maxim. benevolent activities." It is good to think
I truly enjoy no of the world's good well well." H. Mann.
; it is divine act
more to

things than what I willingly distribute to man's lot to

It is no great part of a good
the needy." Seneca. enjoy himself." To be good and to do good
It is good for us to think that no grace or are his ends, and the glory is to be revealed
Messing is truly ours till we are aware that hereafter." 8. I, Prime.
God has blessed some one else with it
through us." Phillips Brooks. BEST THINGS." A firm iaith is the
They who scatter with one hand, gather best divinity ; a good life, the best ophy
philos-
with ahreyt- to coin, but kind. clear conscience, the best law
two, not in ; a ;
 BIBLE. 40 BIBLE.

honesty, the best policy ; and temperance deep meditation, which has served me as
the best physic ;" living for both worlds is the guide of my moral and literary life." I
the wisest and best life. have capital safely invested,
found it a and
richly productive of interest. Goethe. "

BIBLEt" The Bible is the only source of

The longer von read the Bible, the more
all Christian truth ;"
the only rule for the
yon will like it ; it will grow sweeter and
Christian life ; "
the only book that unfolds
sweeter : and the more you get into the
to us the realities of eternity.
spirit of it, the more you will get into the
There is no book like the Bible for lent
excel- Romaine.
spirit of Christ. "

wisdom and use." Sir M. Hale.

I have always said, I always will say, that
The philosophers, as Varro tells us, the studious of the sacred
perusal volume
counted three hundred and twenty
up will make better citizens, better fathers,
answers to the question, "What is the better husbands."
and Jefferson.
supreme good?" How needful, then, is a
Men cannot be well educated without the
divine revelation, to make plain what is the the
Bible. It ought, therefore, to hold
true end of our being. Tryon Edwards. "

chief placein every seat of learning through-

out
There never found, in any age of the
was Christendom know
; and I do not or a

world, either religion or law that did so

higher service that could be rendered to
highly exalt the public good as the Bible. the about this
"
this republic than bringing
Bacon. desirable result." J?. Noil.
The Bible is a window in this prison of The diffusion of the Bible is the
general
hope, through which we look into nity."
eter- effectual to civilize and humanize
most way
Dwight. mankind ; to purify and exalt the general
The Bible is the
light of my understand-
ing, system of public morals ; to give efficacy to
the joy of my heart, the fullness of my the just precepts of international and

hope, the clarifier of my affections, the municipal law ; to enforce the observance
mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my of prudence, temperance, justice and forti-
tude
sorrows, the guide of my soul through this ;
and to improve all the relations of
labyrinth of time, the telescope sent social and domestic life. Chancellor Kent
?;loomy
heaven reveal the
"

rom to to eye of man the

Scholars may quote Plato in their studies,
amazing glories of the far distant world.
hearts of millions will
but the quote the
The Bible contains more true sublimity, Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength
more exquisite beauty, more
pure morality, from its inspiration, as the meadows draw
more important history, ana finer strains it from the brook. " Conway.
of poetry and eloquence, than can be col-
lected
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of
from all other books, in whatever the peasant, and the palaceof the king."
age or language they may have been ten.
writ-
It is woven into literature, and colors the
Sir Wm. Jones.
"

talk of the street. " The bark of the chant

mer-

In what light soever we regard the Bible, cannot sail without it; and no ship
whether with reference to revelation, to of war goes to the conflict but it is there."
history, or to morality, it is an invaluable It enters men's closets ; directs their duct,
con-

and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and and mingles in all the grief and fulness
cheer-
virtue." J. Q. Adams. of life. "
Theodore Parker.

Bad men or devils would not have written The Bible is one of the greatest blessings
the Bible, for it condemns them and their bestowed by God on the children of men. "

works, good men " or angels could not have It has God for its author ; salvation for its
written it, for in saving it was from God end, and truth without any mixture for its
when it was but their own invention, they matter. "
It is all pure, all sincere ; nothing
would have been guilty of falsehood, and too much ; nothing wanting. "
Txycke.
thus could not have been good. The only The man of one book is always able
formid-
remaining being who could have written it,
; but when that book is the Bible he is
is God its real author.
"

irresistible." W. M. Taylor.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of
To say nothing of its holiness or ity,
author-
living, the noblest way of suffering, and the Bible contains more specimens of
the most comfortable way of dying. Flavel. "

genius and taste than any other volume in

There are no songs comparable to the existence. "
Landor.
of Zion ; no
orations equal to those for the
songs So great is my veneration Bible,
of the prophets ; and no like
politics those that the children read it
earlier my begin to
which the Scriptures teach. Milton.
"
the more confident will be. my hopes that
Tt is a belief in the Bible, the fruit of they will prove useful citizens to their
 BIBLE. 41 BIBLE.

oountry and respectable members of society. which touches human nature on so many
' '
Q. Adams. sides of experience, which relates so cially
espe-
The of the Bible to its duties and sorrows and tions,
tempta-
incongruity with the age
of its birth ; its freedom from earthly mix-
tures;
and yet which looks over the whole
field of life with such sympathy and fulness
cheer-
its original, unborrowed, solitary
the suddenness of spirit. The Mew Testament is a
greatness; with which it
"

broke forth the book of radiant joy. H. W. Beecher.

amidst general gloom :
"

these, to me, are strong indications of its When that illustrious man, Chief Justice
Divine descent I cannot reconcile tbem Jay, was dying he was asked if he had
: any
with a human origin. "
Channing. farewell address to leave his children. He
"
replied, "They have the Bible.
"
I believe that the Bible is to be stood
under-
and received in the plain and obvious In this little book New
([-the Testament),
meaning of
its passages for I cannot is contained all the wisdom of the world."
; per-
suade
Ewald.
myself that a book intended for the
instruction and conversion of the whole All the distinctive features and ority
superi-
world should cover its true meaning in any of institutions
our republican are
such mystery and doubt that but derived from the teachings of
none
Scripture. "

critics and philosophers can discover it." Everett.

Daniel Webster.
Bead your Bible, making it the first ing
morn-
The Gospel is not merely a book" it is a business of life to understand
your
living power a book surpassing all others. of it clearly, and daily
"

some portion your

"I never omit to read it, and every day business obey it in all that you do under-
to stand.
with the same pleasure. Nowhere is to be To my early knowledge of the Bible
found such a series of beautiful ideas, and I owe the best part of my taste in literature,
admirable moral maxims, which before the
pass and the most precious,and on whole,
us like the battalions of a celestial army. the essential part of education."
one my
....
The soul can never go astray with Buskin.
this book for its guide." Napoleon on 8L
The majesty of Scripture strikes me with
Helena.
admiration, as the purity of the Gospel has
Turn from the oracles of man still dim its influence on heart. Peruse the works
"
my
iu their clearest to the of with all their of
even response "
our philosophers ; pomp
oracles of God, which are never dark. diction, bow how contemptible, are
mean,
Bury all your books when you feel the night they ? compared with the Scriptures ! Is it
of skepticism gathering around you ; bury possible that a book at once so simple and
them all, powerful though you have sublime should be merely the work of ?
may man

deemed their spells to illuminate the fathomable

un- The Jewish authors were incapable of the
; open your Bible, and all the diction, and strangers to the morality con-
tained

spiritualworld will be as bright as day."/. in the Gospel, the marks of whose

Wilson. truths are so striking and inimitable that
The Bible belongs to the world. "
It has the inventor would be a more astonishing
outlived all other books as a mighty factor character than the hero. "
Rousseau.
ir civilization, as radical in its unique and morality of the Bible
The is, after all,
peerless teachings, as identified with the the safety of society. The doctrine of the "

promotion of liberty, as the companion or golden rule, the interpretation of the law
pioneer of commerce, as the foundation of as love to God and man, and the specific
civil government, as the source and port
sup- directions in it to husbands and wives,
of learning, as both containing and parents and children, masters and vants,
ser-

fostering literature of the noblest order, as rulers and citizens, and the warnings
the promoter and purifierof art, and as against covetonsness and sin are the best
the book which claims to be, and is, from preventives and cure of all political dis-
eases.
God. " F. C. Monfort.
Never yet did there exist a fnll faith in I use the Scriptures not as an arsenal to
tlie divine word which did not expand the be only for arms
resorted and to
weapons,
intellect,while it purified the heart ; which but as a matchless temple, where I delight
did multiply and
not exalt the aims and to contemplate the beauty,the symmetry,
objects of the understanding, while it fixed and the magnificence of the structure, and
and simplifiedthose of the desires and ings."
feel- to increase awe and excite my devotion
my
8. T. Coleridge. to the Deity there preached and adored. "

There is not in the whole of Boyle.

compass
human literature a book like the Bible, That the truths of the Bible have the
which deals with such profound topics, power of awakening an intense moral feel-
 BIBLE. 42 BIBLE.

ing in every human being ; that they make richer and more abundant he finds the
bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful ore light continually beams
; new from this
feeling through all the domestic, civil, and source of heavenly knowledge, to direct the
social relations; that they teach men to love conduct, and illustrate the work of God and
right, and hate wrong, and seek each others the ways of men ; and he will at last leave
welfare as children of a common parent : the world confessing, that the more he
that they control the baleful passions of the studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction
heart, and thus make men proficient in self- he had of his own ignorance, and of their
government ; and finally that they teach inestimable value." Walter 800U.
man to aspire after conformity to a being Philosophical argument, especially that
of infinite holiness, and fill him with hones drawn from the of the
vastness universe, in
more purifying, exalted, and suited to nis
world has
comparison with the apparent insignificance
nature than any other nook the shaken
of this globe, has sometimes my
ever known "
these are facts as vertible
incontro- for the faith that is in but
reason me ; my
as the laws of philosophy, or the heart has always assured and reassured me
demonstrations of mathematics. F. Way- that the
"

gospel of Jesus Christ must be a

land. divine reality." Daniel Webster.
We account Scriptures of God the to be
Cities fall, empires come to nothing, king-
doms
the most sublime
philosophy. I find more
fade away as smoke. Where is Numa,
sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than
Minos, Lvcurgus ? Where are their books ?
in any profane history whatever. "
Isaac
and what has become of their laws? But
Newton.
that this book no tyrant should have been
Of the Bible, says Garibaldi, "
This is the able to consume, no tradition to choke, no

cannon that will make Italy free." heretic maliciously to corrupt; that it should
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the stand unto this day, amid the wreok of all
ocean,
and still man's obligations to God would be that was human, without the alteration of

unchanged. "
He would have the same path one sentence so as to change the doctrine
to tread, onlv his lamp and his guide would taught therein," surely there is a very gular
sin-
be gone ;" the same voyage to make, but providence,claiming our attention in
his chart and would be board."
over- a most remarkable manner. " Bp. Jewell.
compass
H. W. Beecher. A noble book ! All men's book ! It is our
I know inspired because
the Bible
it is first,oldest statement of the never-ending
finds me at greater depths of my being than problem, " man's destiny, and God's ways
other book. Coleridge. with him here on earth and all in such free-
any "
;

The flowing outlines," grand in its sincerity, in

highest earthly enjoyments are but a
shadow of the joy I find in reading God's its simplicity,and its epic melody." Carlyle.
word. " Lady Jane Grey. One monarch to obey, one creed to own :

They who are not induced to believe and that monarch God ; that creed bis word
live as they ought by those discoveries alone.
which God hath made in 8cripture, would
If there is any one fact or doctrine, or
stand out against any evidenoe whatever ;
command, or promise in the Bible which
even that of a
messenger sent express from
has produced no practical effect on your
the other world." AUerbury.
temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured
Do know book that you willing
you a are
you do not truly believe it." Pay son.
to put under your head for a pillow when
There is a Book worth all other books
you lie dying? That is the book you want
which were ever printed. "
Patrick Benry.
to study while are living. There is but
you
one such book in the world. " Joseph Cook. The Bible furnishes the only fitting vehi-
cle

Hold fast the to express the thoughts that overwhelm

to Bible as the sheet-anchor
of your liberties us when contemplating the stellar verse."
uni-
; write its precepts in your
0. M. MitcheO.
hearts, and practice them in your lives. To
the influence of this book we are indebted The grand old Book of God still stands,
for all the progress made in true tion,
civiliza- and this old earth, the more its leaves are
and to this we must look as our guide turned over and pondered, the more it will
in the future. *'
Righteousness exalteth sustain and illustrate the sacred Word. "

a nation ; but sin is a reproach to any Prof. Dana.

people."" CT. 8. Grant. In
my investigation of natural science, I
The most learned, acute, and diligent have always found that, whenever I can
student cannot, in the longest life, obtain meet with anything in the Bible on jects,
sub-
my
an entire knowledge of this one volume. it always affords me a firm platform
The more deeply he works the viine, the on which to stand. Lieutenant Maury. "
 BIBLE. 43 BIGOTRY.

It is impossible to mentally or socially that is made of them they are still not hausted."
ex-

enslave Bible-reading
a people. The ciples
prin- A. P. Stanley.
of the Bible are the groundwork of
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture ; the
hnman freedom. Horace Greeley.
"

book widens and deepens with our years. "

I speak as a man of the world to men of Spurgeon.

the world ; and I say to you, Search the
After reading the doctrines of Plato,
Scriptures ! The Bible is the book of all
Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the
others, to be read at all ages, and in all ditions
con- difference between their words and
of hnman life to be read
specific
; not once
Christ's is the difference between quiry
in-
an
or twice or thrice through, and then laid
and a revelation." Joseph Parker.
aside, but to be read in small portions of
When
one has given up the one fact of
one or two chapters every day, and never
to be intermitted, unless
the inspiration of the Scriptures,he has
by some overruling
given up the whole foundation of revealed
necessity." J. Q. Adam*.
religion." H. W. Beecher.
Give to the peoplewho toil and suffer, for
I have read the Bible through many
whom this world is hard and bad, the belief
that there is a better made for them. Scatter times, and now make it a practice to read
it through once every year. It is a book of
Gospels the villages,a Bible
"

among for every

all others for lawyers, as well as divines ;
cottage. "
Victor Hugo.
and Ipity the man who cannot find in it a
The word of God will stand a thousand
rich supply of thought and of rules for duct."
con-
readings ; and
he who has gone over it most
Daniel Webster,
frequently is the surest of finding new ders
won-
So far as I have observed God's dealings
there. " J. Hamilton.
with my soul, the flights of preachers some-
times
Holy Scripture is a stream of running entertained me, but it was Scripture
water, where alike the elephant may swim, expressions which did penetrate my heart,
and the lamb walk without losing its feet. "

and in a peculiar
way to themselves. "
John
Gregory the Great.
Brown of Haddington.
A Bible and a
newspaper in every house, A man may read the figures on the dial, but
a good school in every district all studied "

he cannot tell how the day goes unless the

and appreciated as they merit" are the prin-
cipal sun is shining on it ; so we may read the
support of virtue, morality, and civil
Bible but cannot learn to
over, we purpose
liberty."Franklin. till the spirit of God shine it and Into
upon
As the profoundest philosophyof ancient onr hearts." T. Watson.
Rome and Greece lighted her taper at rael's
Is-
There is no book which we can rest in
on
altar, so the sweetest strains of the Selden.
a dying moment but the Bible. "

pagan muse were swept from harps attuned

Wilmot, the infidel, when dying, laid his
on Zion's hill." Bp. Thomson.
trembling, emaciated hand on the Bible,
The whole hope of human is
progress and said solemnly and with unwonted
suspended on the ever growing influence of
energy, "The only objection against this
the Bible." William H. Seward.
book is a bad life ! "
The Bible is the only cement of nations,
The Bible is to us what the star was to the
and the only cement that can bind religions all time in
wise men ; but if we spend our
hearts together." Bunsen.
and
gazing upon it, observing its motions,
The Bible stands alone in human ture
litera- admiring its splendor, without being led to
in its elevated conceptionof manhood Christ by it, the use of it will be lost to us.
as to character and conduct. " It is the valuable
in- "
T. Adams.
training book of the world." H.
All human discoveries seem to be made
W. Beecher.
only for the purpose of confirming more
After all, the Bible must be its own argu-
ment and more strongly the truths that come

and defence. The power of it can from on high and are contained in the
never be proved unless it is felt. The thority
au- sacred writings." Herschfl.
of it can never be supported unless
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible
it is manifest. The light of it can never be
is the best preparation for a wise and able
profit-
demonstrated unless it shine*." AT. J. Van
study of the Bible itself. -H. C. bull.
Trum-
Dyke.
Ton never get to the end of Christ's
words. There is something in them always BIGOTRY" The mind of the bigot is
behind. They pass into proverbs, into laws, like the pupil of the eye ; the more light
into doctrines, into consolations ; but they pour upon it, the more it will contract.
yon
never pats away, and after all the use " O. W. Holmes.
 BIOGRAPHY. 44 BIRTH.

The bigot Dees religion, not as a sphere, Rich as we are in biography, a well ten
writ-
bat a line : and it is the lino in which he is life is almost as rare as a well-spent
moving. He is like an African buffalo " one ; are certainly many
and theremore

sees right forward, bnt nothing on the right men whose

history deserves to be recorded
or the left. He would not perceive a legion than persons able and willing to furnish
of angels or devils at the distance of ten the record. Carlyle. "

yards, on the one side or the other." John the lives the
To be ignorant of of most
Foster. celebrated men of antiquity is to continue
Bigotry has no head, and cannot think ;
in a state of childhood all our days. "
tarch.
Plu-
no heart, and cannot feel. When she
moves, it is in wrath when she pauses it A life that worth
; is writing at ail, is
is amidst ruin ; her prayers are curses" her worth writing minutely and truthfully."
God is a demon" her communion is death. "

Longfellow.
O'ConneU.
Biography, especially of the great and
There is no bigotry like that of "free who have their
good, risen by own exertions
thought" run to seed." Horace Greeley. to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools and ennobling study. Its direct "
tendency
with her ghost." CoUon. is to reproduce the excellence it records. "

H. Mann.
There is no tariff so injurious as that
with which sectarian bigotry guards its Of all studies, the most delightful and
commodities." It dwarfs the soul by ting
shut- useful is biography. "
The seeds of great
out t mths from other continents of events lie near the surface; historians
thought, and checks the circulation of its delve too deep for them. " No history was
own." E. H. Chapin. ever true ; but lives which I have read, if
they were not. had the appearance, the terest,
in-
When once a man is determined to believe,
the utilityof truth. Landor.
the very absurdity of the doctrine does but "

confirm him in his faith." Junius. Biography is the most universally ant
pleas-
and profitable of all reading. Car'
A man must be both stupid and table
unchari- "

who believes there is no virtue

lyle.
or

truth but on his own side. "

Addison. Those only who live with a man can write
his life with any genuine exactness and
The bigot for the most part clings to
discrimination, and few people who have
opinions adopted without investigation,
lived with a man know what to remark
and defended without argument, while he
about him. Johnson.
is intolerant of the opinions of others. "
"

Buck. Biographies of great, but especially of

good men, are most instructive and useful
BIOGRAPHY. -Biography is the sonal
per- incentives others.
as helps, guides, and to
and home aspect of nistory WilmoU.
." Some of the best are almost equivalent to
The best teachers of humanity are the gospels teaching " high living, hirii ing,
think-
lives of great men. "
Fowler. and energetic actions for theiir own

Great have often the shortest and the world's good. 8. Smiles.
men raphies."
biog- "

Their real life is in their books or History can be formed from permanent
deeds. monuments and records but lives can
;
There is properly no history, only raphy.
biog- only be written from personal knowledge,
"
Emerson. which is growing every day less, and in a
short time is lost forever." Johnson.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume
of My advice is, to consult the lives of other
biography. "
Channing.
men as we would a looking-glass, and from
The remains of great and good men.
thence fetch examples for our own tion.
imita-
like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered
Terence.
and
"

up preserved by tfieir survivors ; that

as their works follow them in the reward of
BIRTH." (See "
Ancestry," and
them, they may stay behind in their fit."
bene- "
Gknkalooy.")
Mi. Henry.
Our birth is nothing bnt our death begun,
Most biographies are of little worth."
as tapers waste the moment they take fire.
They are panegyrics, not lives. "
The object "
Young.
is, not to let down the hero ; and quently
conse-

what is most human, most Custom forms us all ; our thoughts, our
genuine,
inost characteristic in his history, is cluded.
ex-
morals, our most fixed belief, are quences
conse-

No of literature is of the place of our birth. Hill.

"
department so
"

liaise as biography." Channvng. What is birth to a man if it be a stain to

 BLUSTERING. 46 BODY.

The ambiguous livery worn alike by ings, when of ourselves we publish them."
modesty and shame. "
Balfour. Shakespeare.
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost Where boasting ends, there dignity gins.
be-
the most powerful charm of her beauty." " Young.
Gregory. Where there is much pretension, much
A blnsh is beautiful, but often incon- has been borrowed nature never
; tends.
pre-
venient. "
Qoldoni. "Lavater.

A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, 'Jhere is this benefit in brag, that the
to show where chastity and honor dwell." speaker is unconsciously expressing his own

Gotthold. ideal." Humor him by all means ; draw it

all out, and hold him to it. Emerson.
Better a blush on the face than a blot on
"

the heart." Cervatites. Who knows himself a braggart, let him

The that blushes is fear this for it will come to that

man not quite a ; pass
brute." every braggart shall be found an ass."
Young.
blush less their than for
Shakespeare.
Men for crimes,
their weaknesses and Men of real merit, whose noble and
vanity. "
Bruyere.
glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge
Blushing is the livery of virtue, though
are not yet to be endured when they vaunt
it may sometimes proceed from guilt"
their own actions." "*"teAtn*".
Bacon.
Usually the greatest boasters are the
It is better for a young man to blush,
smallest workers. The deep rivers a
than to turn pale. "
Cicero. pay
larger tribute to the sea than shallow
The blush is nature's alarm at the ap-
brooks, and yet empty themselves with less
roach of sin, and her testimony to the
"ignity of virtue. "
Fuller.
noise. "
W. Seeker.

With all his tumid boasts. he's like the

The troubled blood through his pale face
sword-fish, who only wears nis weapon in
was seen to come and go with tidings from
his mouth. "
Madden.
his heart, as it a running messenger had
been. Conceit, more rich in matter than in
Spenser.
"

the
words, brags of his substance : they are
The inconvenience, or beauty of the
but beggars who can count their worth.'"
blush, which is the greater?" Madame
Neckar.
Shakespeare.
A gentleman that loves to hear himself
Playful blushes, that seem but luminous
talk, and will speak more in a minute than
escapes of thought. "
Moore.
he will stand to in a month. " Shakespeare.
BLUSTERING.-A killing tongue, but
Self-laudation abounds the
among polished,
un-
a quiet sword. Shakespeare. but
"

nothing can stamp a man

A brave man is sometimes a desperado ; more sharply as ill-bred." Charles Buztott.
but a bully is always a coward. Hali-
"

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when

burton.
he boasting, "The less of
was you speak
It is with souled people as with
narrow
your greatness, the more shall I tnink of
narrow necked bottles ; the less they have It"
in them, the more noise they make in ing
pour- The empty vessel makes the greatest
it out." Pope.
sound." Shakespeare.
There are braying men in the world as

well asbraying asses ; for what is loud and

BODY. "
Our bodies are but dust, but
*c useless talking other than a way of bray-
ing." they can bring praiseto him that formed
V Estrange.
them. "
Dull ana tuneless in themselves,
They that loudest in their threats they become glorious which
are are can harps on
the weakest in the execution of them. It the music of
"

piety may be struck to

is probable that he who is killed by light-
ning heaven. "
Punshon.
hears no noise ; but the thunder-clap Can any honor exceed that which has
which follows, and which most alarms the
been conferred on the human body ?" Can
ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
any powers exceed the powers any " glory
"
CoUon.
exceed the glory with which it is invested ?"
Commonly they whose tongue is their
No wonder the apostleshould beseech men
weapon, use their feet for defense." Sir P. to present their bodies a living sacrifice to
Sidney. God." Pulsford.
BOASTING." We wound our modesty, Our body is a well set clock, which keeps
and make foul the clearness of our deserv- good time, but if it be too much or indis-
 B0LDNE8S. 47 BOOKS.

erectly tampered with, the alarum rani out look down on me from yonder shelves,
before the hour."Bp. Hail. waiting patiently to answer my questions
for and enrich me with their wisdom. A
It is shameful a man to rest in rance
igno- "
cious
pre-
of the structure of his book is a foretaste of immortality."
own body,
the mainly T. L. Cuyler.
especially when knowledge of it
conduces to his welfare, and directs his
Books are immortal sons deifying their
application of his own powers. Melancthon.
"
sires. "
Plato.
God made the human body, and it is the
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
most exquisite and wonderful tion
organiza- When I am not walking, I am reading. I
whicn has oome to us from the divine
cannot sit and think ;
books think for me.
hand. It is a study for one's whole life.
" "

"Charles Lamb.
If an undevout astronomer is mad. an
God be thanked for books : they are the
undevout physiologist is madder." H. W.
voices of the distant and the dead, and
Beecher.
make us heirs of the spiritual life of past
If there be anything common to us by
Channmg.
ages. "

nature, it is the members of our corporeal

If a book come from the heart it will trive
con-
frame ; yet
the apostle taught that these,
to reach other hearts. All art and
guided by the spiritas its instruments, and
"

authorcraft are of small account to that."

obeying a holy will, become transfigured,
so that, in his language, the body becomes Carlyle.
a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the meanest Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it

faculties,the lowest appetites,the humblest once falls,cannot be rekindled. " Memory,

organs are ennobled by the spiritmind once interrupted,is not to be recalled. "

which guides them." F. W. Robertson. But written learning is a fixed luminary,

which, after the cloud that had hidden it
BOLDNESS." We make way for the has passed away, is again bright in its
man who boldly pushes past m."Bovee. station." So books are faithful positories,
re-
proper
whichj may be awhile neglected
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not
or forgotten, but opened again, when will
dangers and inconveniences ; whence it is
again impart instruction." Johnson.
bad in council though good in execution. "

The right use of the hold, therefore, is. Books are the metempsychosis ;
the sym-
bol
that they never command in chief, but and presage of immortality. "
The dead
serve as seconds under the direction of are scattered, and none shall find them ;
others "
For in council it is good to see but behold they are here. "
H. W. Beecher.
dangers, and in execution not to see them counselors
Books are standing and
unless they be very great." Bacon.
hand, and always
preachers, always at
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." disinterested ; having
this advantage over
Pope. oral instructors, that they are ready to re-
peat

Who dares* their lesson as often as we please.

bravely must sometimes risk "

fall." SwoJfett. Chambers.

a

Books are masters who instruct us out

with-
Carried away by the irresistible influence
rods or ferules, without words or anger,
which is always exercised over men's minds
without bread or money. If you approach
by a bold resolution in critical stances.
circum-
"
Quiitot. them, they are not asleep; if you seek
them, they do not hide ;
if you blunder,
Fortune befriends the bold." Dry den. they do not scold ; if you are ignorant,
It is wonderful what strength of purpose they do not laugh at you." Richard de
and boldness and energy of will are roused Bury.
by the assurance that we are doing our others
Some books are to be tasted ;
duty." Scott.
swallowed and some few to be chewed
;
and digested. " Bacon.
BOOKS." A book is the only immor-
Except a living man there is nothing
tality."J?. Choale.
more wonderful than a book ! a message
Books are lighthouses erected in the
to us from the dead" from human souls we
great sea of time." if. P. Whipple. who lived, perhaps, thousands
never saw,
Books are embalmed minds." Bovee. of miles And yet these, in those
away.
book little sheet* of paper, speak to us, arouse
A good is the very essence of a good
"His virtues us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open
man survive in it. while the
foibles and faults of his their hearts to us as brothers." Charles
actual life are gotten."
for-
All the goodly company of the Kingsley.
excellent and great sit r*xmna my table, or Books are those faithful mirrors that re-
 BOOKS. 48 BOOKS.

fleet to mind the minds of and of the living, we may to the dead,
our sages repi"\r
heroes. "
Gibbon. who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or
design in their conversation. Jeremy CoU"
Books, like friends, should be few and "

should lier.
well chosen. Like friends, too; we
return to them again and again " for, like Books are but waste paper unless we "
/
true friends, they will never fail us " never spend in action the wisdom we get from
oease to instruct " never cloy "
thought. "
Bulwer.

Next acquiring good friends, the best

to The books we read should be chosen with
acquisition is that of good books. Colton. " great care, that they may be. as an Egyptian
is the king wrote over his library, " The medicines
A good book best of friends, the
of the soul/'
same to-day and forever. " Tapper.
Without Be as careful of the books
you read, aa of
books, God is silent, justice dor-
mant,
the for your habits and
natural science at a stand, philoso-
phy company you keep ;
character will be much
lame, letters dumb, and all things volved
in- as influenced by the
in darkness. "
BarthoHni. former as by the latter. "
Paxton Hood.

Books dead When I get a little

money, I buy books
are not absolutely things, ;
but do contain certain of life in
and if any is left,I buy food and clothes.
a potency "

Erasmus.
them, to be as active as the soul whose eny
prog-
they are : they preserve, as in a vial, The silent influence of books, is a mighty
the purest efficacy and extraction of the power in the world ; and there is a joy in
living intellect that bred them. "
Milton. reading them known only to those who read
them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent,'
My books kept me from the ring, the "

dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. "

The passive, and noiseless though they be, they
associate of and Addison, the yet set in action countless multitudes, and
Pope mind
the order of nations.
accustomed to the noble though silent course
dis- change Giles. "

of Shakespeare and Milton, will Books, like proverbs, receive their chief
hardly seek put up with
or low or evil pany
com- value from the stamp and esteem of the
and slaves. Thomas " Hood. ages through which they have passed. "

Sr W. Temple.
A book may be compared to your bor
neigh-
: if it be good, it cannot last too long ; It is books that teach us to refine our

if bad, cannot get rid of it too early. pleasures when young, and to recall them
you
" Brooke. with satisfaction when we are old. " Leigh
Hunt
Books are the legacies that genius leaves
to mankind, to be delivered down from Agood book is the precious life-blood of
generation to generation, as presents to a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured
those that are yet unborn. " Addison. up on purpose for a life beyond." Milton.

There is no book so that it would Books, to judicious compilers, useful;

poor are

not be a prodigy if wholly wrought out by to particular arts and professions, they are y
a single mind, without the aid of prior vestigators.
in- absolutely necessary; to men of real science,
" Johnson. they are tools: but more are tools to them. "

The lives Johnson.

past but in written words : a

thousand aces were blank if books had not Books are the true levellers. They give
"

evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale bodied

un- to all who faithfully use them, the
society,
shades to warn us from fleshless the spiritual presence of the greatest -and
lips. "
Bulwer. best of our race. Channing. "

There is book bad Books that to the fireside,

no so but something yon may carry
valuable be derived from it. Pliny. and hold readily in your hand, are the. most
may "

useful after all." -Johnson.

If all the crowns of Europe were placed
at There is no worse robber than a bad
my disposal on condition that I should
abandon and book. IlaLnn Proverb.
my books studies, I should "

spurn the crowns away and stand by the We are as liable to be corrupted by books,
books. "
Feneion. as by companions. " Fielding.
Books guide in youth, and an enter-
are tainment
a
Some books, like the City of London, fare
for
They support us under the better for being burned. Tom Brown. "

age.
.solitude, and Keep us from becoming a sufficiently sensible of the Im-
portance Few are

burden to ourselves. They help us to forget of that economy in reading which

tha crossness of men and things, compose selects, almost exclusively, the very first
our cares and our passions, and lay our dis-
appointments
order of books. Why, except for some

asleep. When we ate weary special reason, read an inferior book; i

 BOOKS. 4d BOOKS.

the verv time yon might be reading one of nothing but what is to be learned from
the highest order? "
John Foster. them." Johnson.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot If religions books are not widely lated
circu-
repent. It has long been the devil's policy the in this country,
"
among masses
to Keep the masses of mankind in ignorance and the people do not become religious, I
;
bat finding that they will read, he is doing do not know what is to become of us as a
all in his to poison their books." it. nation. And the is
power thought one to cause

iV. Kirk. solemn reflection on the part of every

in the patriot and Christian. If truth be not fused,
dif-
A good book, language of the sellers,
book-
is salable one in that of the error will be ; if God and his word
a ;
in that are not known and
received, the devil and
curious, a scarce one ; of men of
useful and instructive his works will gain the ascendancy ; if
the
sense, a one. "

Chamber*. evangelical volume does not reach every

books like
hamlet, the
pages of a corrupt and licen-
tious
Bad are intoxicating drinks ; literature will ; if the power of the pel
gos-
they furnish neither nourishment, nor
is not felt through the length and
medicine. Both improperly excite the
"
; breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule,
one the mind ; the other the body. The "

degradation and misery, corruption ana

desire for each increases by being fed. "

Both ruin the the

darkness, will reign without mitigation or
; one intellect ; other the
end." Daniel Webster.
health ; and together, the soul. "
The guard
safe-
Dead counsellors the most tive,
instruc-
against each is the same " total stinence
ab- are

from all that intoxicates either because they are heard with patience
mind Edward*. and reverence. Johnson.
or body. "
Tryon "

In books the A house without books is like

good is one of best guards
safe- a room

from evil. "

Life's first danger has without windows. No man has right to
a

been said to be an
empty mind ; which, bring up his children without surrounding
like for them with books, if he has the to
an unoccupied room, is open base means

The for buv them. It is to his family.

spirits to enter. " taste reading a wrong
Children learn to read by being in the
provides a pleasant and elevating pation.
preoccu-
"
If. W. Grout. presence of books. The love of knowledge
comes with reading and grows upon it.
When a book raises your spirit,and spires
in-
And the love of knowledge, in a young
you with noble and manly thoughts, mind, the
is almost a warrant against
seek for no other test of its excellence. "
It
inferior excitement of passions and vices. "

is good, and made by a good workman. "

H. Mann.
Bruyere.
The constant habit of perusing devout
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
books is so indispensable, that it has been
"
Roscommon.
termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too
In books, it is the chief of all perfections much however, little
reading, and too
to be plain and brief. Butler. meditation, the effect of
"

may produce a

books lamp inverted; which is extinguished by

To use rightly, is to go to them
the very excess of that aliment, whose
for help ; to appeal to them when our own
property is to feed it. H. More.
/knowledge and: power fail ; to be led by "

V them into wider sight and purer conception 'llie books that help you most, are those
than our own, and to receive from them the which make you think the most. "
The est
hard-
united sentence of the judges and councils way of learning is that of easy reading ; U
of all time, against our solitary and stable
un- but a great book that comes from a great
opinions. "
Ruskin. thinker is a shipof thought, deep freighted
with truth and oeauty." Theodore Parker.
The best books for a man are not always
those which the wise recommend, but often There was a time when the world acted
those which the the books books act the world.
meet peculiar wants, on ; now on "

natural thirst of his mind, and therefore Jonbert.

u waken interest and rivet thought. "

Chan- To buy books only because they were

ning. published by an eminent printer,is much

teach the as if a man should buy clothes that did not

Books (says Bacon) can never
learn fit him, only because made by some famous
use of books ; the student must by
reduce his tailor. Pope.
commerce with mankind to "

speculations to practice. No man should If a secret history of books could be

V think so highly of himself as to suppose he written, and the author's private thoughts
can receive but little light from books, nor and meanings noted down alongside of his
to measly as to believe fee can discover story, how many insipid volumes would
4
 BOOKS. 50 BOOKS.

become interesting, and doll tales excite a party, a company by the way, a

house,
the reader !" Thackeray. counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. "
H.

The book to read is not the which W.Beecher.

one
thinks for you, but the one which makes Most books, like their authors, are born
you think. No book in the world equals to die ; of only a few books can it be said
the Bible for that." McCosh. that death hath no dominion over them ;

The they live, and their influence lives ever.

for-
best of a book is not the thought
which it contains, but the J. Swarts.
thought which "

v it suggests ; just as the charm of music Books should to one of these four ends
dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or

our hearts. " O. W. Holmes. use." ZtenAam.

There is a kind of physiognomy in the Deep versed in books, but shallow in

titles of books no less than in the faces of himself." Milton.
men, by which a skillful observer will know
books look
We ought to reverence ; to on
"* well what to expect from the one as the
them as useful and mighty things. "
If they
other. Bp. Butler. they are about
"

are good aud true, whether

Every man is a volume if you know how religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or
to read him. " Channing. medicine, they are the message of Christ,

When book I read the maker of all things" the teacher of all
a new comes out an

old truth." C. Kingsley.

one. "
Rogers.
Thou well Books are the best of things if well used ;
mayst as expect to grow
stronger by always eating as wiser by if abused, among the worst." They are good " ^

always reading. Too much overcharges for nothiug but to inspire. I had " better

I Nature, and turns more into disease than never see a book than be warped by its

nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion attraction clean out of my own orbit, and
which make books serviceable, and made satellite instead of a system.
give a "

health and vigor to the mind. FuUer. "

Emerson.

That is good book which is with The colleges, while they provide ns with
a opened
expectation, and closed with delight and libraries, furnish no professorsof books ;

profit." A. B. AlcoU. and I think no chair is so much needed."

Emerson.
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind
of leaky boat the of wisdom The books that help you most are those
on sea ; some
of the wisdom will that make think the most." Theodore
get in anyhow." O. W. you
Holme*. Parker.

The The last thing that we discover in writing

books of Nature and of Revelation
a book, is to know what to put at the ginning."
be-
equallyelevate our conceptions and invite
Pascal.
our piety ; they are both by the written
finger of the one eternal, incomprehensible After all manner of professors have done
God." T. Watson. their best for ns. get the place we are to
-y
v
knowledge is in books." The true univer-
Books are men of higher stature the
;
that
sity of these days is a collection of books. "

only men speak aloud for future times

hear.
Carlyle.
to " Barrett.
Many books require no thought from
The society of dead authors has this vantage
ad-
those who read them, and for a very simple
over that of the living : they never
reason ; they made no such demand upon
flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind
those who wrote them. Those works, there-
fore,
backs, intrude
our nor
upon our privacy, are the most valuable, that set our
nor quit their shelves until we take them
thinking faculties in the fullest ope ratio u.
down. "
Cotton.
" Cotton.
A man who writes an immoral but mortal
im-
He that loves not books before he comes
book may be tracked into eternity
to thirty years of age, will hardly love them
by a procession of lost souls from every
enough afterward to understand them. "

generation,
im the
every
at
judgment,
one to be
to
a

show
witness
to
against
him and
Clarendon.

to the universe the immeasurableness of

As well almost kill a man, as kill a good
book the life of the is but few
his iniquity." G. B. Cheever. ; for one a

short years,while that of the other may be

Master books, but do not let them master for ages." Who kills a man kills a able
reason-
you." Read to live, not live to read." Bul- who
creature, God's image ; but he
wer.
destroys a good book, kills reason itself ;
A book is a garden, an orchard, a store- kills as it were, the image of God." Jftilo*.
 BORES. 51 BREVITY.

No book can be so good as to be able

profit- No man can be brave who considers pain
when negligently read." Seneca. the greatest evil of life ; or temperate, who
Upon books the collective education of regards pleasure as the highest good. "

the Cicero.
race depends ; they are the nolo ment*
instru-
of registering, perpetuating, and A true kuight is fuller of bravery in the
transmitting thought."//. Roger*. midst, thau in the beginuiug of danger. "

Sir P. Sidney.
BORES* "
Few men are more to be
Some one praising a man for his fool-
hardy
shunned than those who have time, but
know not how
bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There
improve so spendto it, and
is a wide difference between true courage
it in wasting the time of their neighbors,
and a mere contempt of life." Plutarch.
talking forever they have
"

though nothing
to say. Tryon Edwards.
"
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery
that appears in the world, there lurks a
The secret of making one's self tiresome, miserable cowardice. Men will face powder
is, not to know when to stop. "
Voltaire.
and steel because they have not the courage
There are some kinds of men who cannot
to face public opinion. E. H. Chapin. "

pass their time alone ; they are the flails of

True bravery is shown by performing
occupied people. "
Ronald.
without witnesses what one might be cap-
able
There are few wild beasts more to be of doing before all the world. "
foucauld.
Roche-
dreaded than a talking man having nothing
to say." di0t/L
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble
O, he is as tedious as is a tired horse, or
hearts in weak bosoms bless
; of tenest, Qod
a railing wife ; worse than a smoky house.
in woman's Dickens.
her, breast. "

"Shakespeare.
The bravery founded
on hope of recom-
pense,
It is hoped that, with all modern improve-
ments, fear punishment,
of experience of
a way will be discovered of getting
success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger,
rid of bores ; for it is too bad that a poor is but common bravery, and does not serve
de-
wretch can be punished for stealing your the name. "
True bravery proposes a
handkerchief or gloves,and that no ment
punish-
just end ; measures the dangers, ana meets
can be inflicted on those who steal
the result with calmness and unyielding
your time, and with it
temper and
vour
decision. "
La None.
patience, as well as the bright thoughts that
All brave men love for he only is brave
;
might have entered your mind, if they had
who has affectious fight for, whether
to in
not been frightened away by the bore. "

Byron.
the daily battle of life, or in physical con-
tests.

"
Hawthorne.
We are almost always wearied in the

company of persons with whom we are not BREVITY." Brevity is the soul of wit."
permitted to be weary." Rochefoucauld. Shakespeare.
Have something to say ; sav it ; and stop
BORROWING ."Borrowing is not
when you've done. " Tryon Edwards.
much better than begging." Leasing.
Genuine good taste consists in saying
If you would know the value of money, v
/

much in few words, in choosing among our

go and
try to borrow some. " He that goes
thoughts, in having order and arrangement
a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Franklin.
with
"

in what we say, and in speaking posure.

com-
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be ; for Feneion.
"

loan oft loses both itself and friend ; and

When one has no design but to speak
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
great deal
"

plain truth, he may say a in a

Shakespeare. narrow Steele.
very compass. "

Getting into debt, is getting into a tangle- The one prudence of life is concentra-
tion.
some net. " Frahkhn.
"
Emerson.
The borrower runs in his own debt.
strange virtue in speeches, and
"

One rare,
Emerson.
the secret of their mastery, is, that they are
He that would have a short Lent, let him short." Halleck.
borrow money to be repaid at Easter. "

Brevity is the best recommendation of

Franklin.
speech, whether in a senator or an orator. "

No remedy against this consumption of

Cicero.
the purse ; borrowing only lingers it out,
Talk to the point, and stop when you
but the disease is incvinhle." Shakespeare.
have reached it. " Be comprehensive in all

BRAVERY." The best hearts or write. To fill a volume about

are ever yon say "

the bravest. "

Sterne. nothing is a credit to nobody. "
John Heal.
 BRIBERY. 52 BRUTES.

the the sibilityto God."" The present nineteenth

The fewer words, better the
Luther. ssvb, "The brotherhood of man.** " C. L.
prayer. "

like
Thompson.
Words are leaven, and where they
most abound, much fruit of beneath Whoever in prayer can say, "Our
sense
Father," acknowledges and should feel the
is rarely found. Pope. "

brotherhood of the whole race of kind.

man-
If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it
" Tryon Edwards.
is with words as with sunbeams "
the more

the There is brotherhood of without

they are oondensed, deeper they bum. "
no man

the fatherhood of God." H. M. Field.

Southey.
Say all you have to say in the fewest sible
pos-
We must love men ere they will seem to

words, or your reader will be sure us worthy of our love." Shakespeare.

to skip them ; and in the plainest possible If God is thy father, man is thy brother. "

words, or he will oertaiuly misunderstand Lamartine.

them." Rusfcin.
The brotherhood of man is an integral
I saw one excellency within my reach it of Christianity less than the Father*
was brevity, and I determined to obtain
"

Eart
ood of God ; and to
no

deny the one is no less

it." Jay. infidel than to deny the other." Lyman
to is what charity is to Abbott.
Brevity writing
all other virtues ; righteousness is nothing We are members of one great body.
without the authorship without by nature in mutual love, and
the other."
one,

Sydney
nor

Smith.
Slanted
tted for social a life. "
a

We must consider

When introduce moral lesson let it that we vero born for the good of the
you a

be brief. Horace."
whole. "
Seneca.

V/ Never be brief to become obscure. The race of mankind would perish did
so as "

Edwards. they to aid each other. We cannot

Tryon cease "

exist without mutual help. All therefore

BRIBERY." Judges and senators have that need aid have a right to aak it from
been bought with gold." Pope. their fellow-men and no one who has ?h"
;

The universe rich of granting refuse it without

is not enough to buy power can

the of honest guilt." Walter Scott.

vote an man." Gregory.
The universe is but great city,full of
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet one

he is oft led by the nose with Snake' beloved divine and human, by nature
gold. "
ones,
endeared to each other. " Epictetus.
tpeare.
Petitions not sweetened with gold, are However degraded or wretched a fellow
tout unsavory, and often refused ; or if ceived,
re- mortal may be, he is still a member of our

are pocketed, not read." Massin- common species. "

Seneca.

ger. Jesus throws do\/n the dividing preju-

dices
Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, of nationality, and teaches uni rersal
shall find such faith so bought, so sold. "

love, without distinction of race, merit, or

Marston.
rank. "
A man's neighbor is ev^ry one that
A man who is furnished with arguments needs help. All from the slave to
"
men,
from the mint, will convince his antagonist tho highest, are sons of the one father in
much sooner thau one who draws them heaven."/. 0. OeUde.
from philosophy." Gold
reason is aand
bread
Give to the stranger, in the name
wonderful clearer of the understanding *,
of the universal brotherhood which binds
H dissipates every doubt and scruple in an
together all men under the common father-
hood
instan t; accommodates itself to the meanest
of nature." Quiniilian.
capacities; silences the loud and clamorous,
aud cringes over the most obstinate ana
BRUTES. When man is a brute, he
inflexible." Philip of Macedon was a man
"

is the most sensual and loathsome of all

of most invincible reason this way. He
brutes. Hawthorne.
refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; "

confounded their statesmen ; struck their Though natural love in brutes is much
orators dumb ; and at length argued them more violent and intense than in rational
out of all their liberties. " Addison. creatnres, Providence has taken care that
it shall no longer be troublesome to the
BROTHERHOOD.-To live is not to than it is useful to the for
parent young ,
live for one's self alone ; let us help one the
so soon as the wants of the latter cease,
another "Menander. and
mother withdraws her fondness leaves
The sixteenth century said, "Bespocr* them to provide for themselves." Addison*
 BUT. 54 CALUMN V.

bat with design to do. or to be proof, and even then we should not
cerns, a expose
able to ao him a mischief. "
South. them to others. "
Cotton.

Who stabs my name would stab my son

per-
BUT."" Bat "
is a word that cools many
too, did not the hangman's axe lie in
a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly the Crown.
way. "

thought, puts a dead stop to many a

To persevere in one* s dnty, and be silent,
brotherly deed. "
No oue would ever love
is the best answer to calumny. Cecil.
his neighbor as himself if he listened to all "

the "bnts" that oould be said." Bulwer. The calumniator inflicts by slan-
dering
wrong
the absent ;
and he who gives credit
Oh. now comes that bitter word" bat.
said to the calumny before he knows it is true,
whicn makes all nothing that was

before, that smoothes and wounds, that is equally guilty. The "
person traduceJ is
doubly injured; by him who propagate*,
strikes and dashes more than flat denial, or
and by him who credits the slander. rodotus.
He-
a plain disgrace. "
DanieL "

I know of no manner of speaking so

offensive as that of giving praise, and ing

clos- Neglected calumny soon expires: show
that you are hurt, and you give it the pearance
ap-
it with an exception." Steele.
of truth.- Tacitus.
I do not like "
Bat yet." "
It does allay
the Fie Close thine ear against him that opens
good precedence. "
upon "but
his mouth against another. If thou ceive
re-
"But yet" is as jailer, to bring
?et.""
"
a

orth some monstrous malefactor. "

Shake' not his words, they fly back and
wound him. "
If thou receive them, they
spear e.
flee forward and wound ihee."Quarles.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of
There are calumnies against which even
praise is that which speaks well of first a
innocence loses courage. Napoleon.
and then qualifies it with a " but."
"

man, "

H. W. Beecher. Those who ought to be most secure

against calumny, are generally those who
C. least escape it.Stanisiaus.

I think it needful
is man's
never to regard calum-
nies
CALAMITY." Calamity true
they are sparks, which, if you do not
;
touchstone. Beaumont and Fletcher.
"
blow them, will go out of themselves. "

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we Boerhave.

truly see and know ourselves. Davenant. "

Calumny crosses oceans, scales tains,

moun-
When any calamity has been suffered, the ana traverses deserts with greater
first thing to be remembered, is,how much ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like
has been escaped. "
Johnson. him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. "
CoUon.

It is only from the belief of the goodness Never chase a lie ; if you let it alone, it
and wisdom of a supreme being, that our will soon run itself to death." You can
calamities can be borne in the manner work out a good character faster than
which becomes a m*.n." Mackenzie. calumny can destroy it." J?. Nott.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them I am beholden to calumny, that she hath
twice over. "
Porteus. so endeavored to belie me." It shall make

Times of general calamity and confusion me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a

better watch upon my actions. Ben Jon-

have everproductive been
of the greatest "

son.
minds. The purest ore
"
is from the hottest
furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt I never listen to calumnies : because, if
from the darkest cloud. "
Cotton. they are untrue, I run the risk of being
If take sinful to avoid deceived ; and if they are true, of hating
we means calamity,
Wall'. not worth thinking about." Mon-
that very often brings it upon us." SBrsons
squieu.
"
CALUMN Y." (See Scandal," and Calumnv is like the that worries
wasp
"Slakdml") you, which it is not best to try to set rid of
Be thou chaste ice, and
as unless you are sure of slayingit for other-
wise
pure as snow, ;
thou shalt not calumny. speare.
Shake- it returns to the charge furious
escape " more
than ever. "
Chamfort.
Back-wounding calumny the whitest tue
vir- To in one's duty and be
persevere silent,
strikes. Shakespeare. is the best answer calnmny.
"
to "
Washing-
ton.
Calumniators have neither good hearts,
nor good understandings. " We onght not He that lends an easy and credulous ear
to think ill of any one tillwe have palpable to calumny, is either a of ill
man very
 CALVINISM. 55 CANDOR.

morals, or he has no more sense and standing

under- resolute as Calvin to exorcise, tear out, and
than a child." Menander. destroy what was seen to be false " so olute
res-

to establish what was true in its

No might greatness in mortality can
nor

censure 'scape; back wounding calumny place, and to make truth, to the last fibre

the whitest virtue strikes : What king so

of it,the rule of practical tile." Froude.

strong, can tie the

gall up in the slanderous He that will not honor the memory, and
tongue ?" Shakespeare. respect the influence of Calvin, knows but
little of the origin of American iu dence.
depen-
The upright man. if he suffer calumny
"
Bancroft.
to move hiiu,fears the tongue uf man more

the of God." Cotton. Calvin's Institutes, in spite of its fections,

imper-
than eye
is, on the whole, one of the noblest
False
praise can please, and calumny edifices ever erected by the mind of
but the vicious and the man,
affright, none crite.
hypo- and of the mightiest codes
one of moral law
" Horace,
which ever guided him." Guizot.
We cannot control the evil tongues of
"In the centuries after the tion,"
Reforma-
others, but a good life enables us to spise
de-
"
says Froude, Calvinism numbered
thein. " Cato.
among its adherents nearly every man in
To seem disturbed at
calumny, is the Europe who abhorred a lie. It made
" men

way to make it believed, and stabbing your haters of sin and intolerant of evil and
defamer, will not you innocent.
prove "
loathing all wrong. Some "
of its adherents
Live an exemplary life,ana then your good have been deficient in the of
may graces
character wilt and refute the cal-
overcome
society and the amenities of life,but their
nmny." Blair. sternness and intolerance was born of pro-
found
would and die of convictions, and their ideal of social
Calumny soon starve
itself if nobody took it in and it life was lofty, and made in part from
gave a up
the Bible views of heaven.
lodging. "
Leighton.
Believe another but The promulgation of Calvin's theology
nothing against on

what of the longest stew that mankind

good authority ; and never roport was one

hurt it be have taken toward personal freedom. John

may another, unless a greater "

hurt to other to conceal it." Fenn. Fiske.

some

Calvinism is terra
Bancroft, speaking of the great Calvinistio
CALVINISM." a
doctrines embodied in the "
Confession of
used designate, not the opinions of an
to
of religious thought,
Faith," says: "They infused enduring ments
ele-
individual, but a mode into the institutions of and
Geneva,
or a system of religions doctrine, of which made it for the modern world, the impreg-
nable
the person whose name it bears was an
fortress of popular liberty "
the fertile
eminent expounder. " A. A. Hodge,
seed-plot of Democracy.
There is no system which equals Cal-
vinism
in intensifying, to the last degree, CANDOR." The diligent fostering of a
ideas of moral excellence and purity of candid habit of mind, even in trifles,is a

character." It has always worked for erty.

lib- matter high of moment both to character
"
There never was a system since the and opinions. " Howson.
world began, which puts upon man such
I can promise to be candid, though I may
motives to holiness, or builds batteries
not be impartial "
Goethe.
which the whole ground of sin with
sweep
Seedier. Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
such horrible artillery." H. W.
" DisraeU.
Calvinism has produced characters nobler
which Candor is the seal of noble mind, the
and grander than any republican a

Froude. ornament and pride of man, the sweetest

Borne ever produced. "

charm of women, the scorn of rascals, and

Calvinism is a democratic and republican the rarest virtue of sociability." Sternac.
religion." De TocquemUe.
It is great and manly to disdain disguise ;
Wherever Calvinism was established, it
truth but liberty,
it shows our spirit,and proves our strength.
brought with it not only
which these
" Young.
and ail the great developments
with them. Making my breast transparent as pure
two fertile principles carry "

JfAubign*. crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may

see the foulest thought my heart doth hold.
To the Galvinists, more than to any other
"
Buckingham.
class of men, the politicalliberties of land,
Hol-
and America due." Examine what is said, not him who
England, are

Motley. speaks. "

Arabian Proverb.

There was not a reformer in Europe so I make it my rule, to lay hold of light
 CANT. 56 CARE.

and embrace it,wherever I see it,thongh They lose the world who buy it, with
held forth by a child or an enemy." dent
Presi- much esse." Shakespeare.
Edwards. the mothers
Our cares are not only of our

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we charities and virtues, but of our bestjoys,
have great occasion for candor, in order to and most cheering and enduring pleasures.
compare circumstances, and weigh ments
argu- "
Simms.
with impartiality." Emmons.
Put off thy cares with thv clothes : so

shall thy rest strengthen thy labor,and so

CANT. "
Cant is the voluntary charging
over-
thy labor sweeten thy rest." Quarfe*.
or prolongation of a real ment
senti-
To care to bed, is to sleep with a
;hypocrisy is the setting up pretence carry
pack on your back. Hdliburton.
to a feeling you never had, ana nave no
"

wish tor\"HazUU. Providence has given us hope and sleep

double-distilled as a compensation for the many cares o*
Cant is itself properlya
the life. Voltaire.
lie, the materia prima of devil, from "

which all falsehoods, imbecilities, and The cares of to-day are seldom those of
abominations body themselves, and from to-morrow ;
and when we lie down at night
which no true thing can come. Carlyle. " - we may safely say to most of our troubles.

this
"
Ye have done your worst, and we shall
Of all the cants in canting world,
the of be the see you no more." Cowper.
though cant hypocritesmay "

worst, the cant of criticism is the most Only man clogs his happiness with care,

tormenting. "
Sterne. destroying what is, with thoughts of what

is may be." Dryden.

Cant good to provoke common sense.

"
Emerson. Life's cares are comforts ; such by
The affectation of late authors to heaven designed ; he that hath none must
some
introduce and words is the make them, or be wretched cares are
multiplycant :

ruinous in employments; and without employ the

most corruption any language.
soul is on the rack ; the rack rest, to
of
" 8wifL
souls most adverse ; action all their joy. "

CAR DS.-It is very wonderful to see sons

per- Young.
of the best sense passing hours er
togeth- world has
This cares enough to plague
in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards
us ; but he who meditates on others* woe,
with no conversation but what is made up shall, in that lose his
meditation, own. "

of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas Cumberland.

but those of black or red spots ranged gether
to-
We can easily manage, if we will only
in different figures. Would not a

of his
take, each day, the burden appointed for
man laugh to hear any one species it. "
But the load will be too heavy for us if
complaining that life is short ? "
Addison.
we carry yesterday'sburden over again day,
to-
It is quite right that there should be a and then add the burden of the row
mor-

heavy duty on cards ; not only on moral to the weight before we are required to
grounds : not only because they act on a bear it." John Newton.
social party like a torpedo, silencing the
"Many of our cares," says Scott," are
merry voice and numbing the play of the
but a morbid way of looking at our leges."
privi-
features ; not only to fill the hunger of the
We let our blessings get mouldy,
public purse, which is always empty, ever
how-
"

and then call them curses. " H. W. Beecher.

much into it but also
you may put ;

because every pack of cards is a malicious The every-day cares and duties, which
libel courts, and
on on the world, seeing men call weights
drudgery, and are the
that the trumpery with nnmber at the of the clock of time, giving
one
counterpoises
head is the best part of them ; and that it its pendulum a true vibration, and its
gives kings and queens no other ions
compan- hands a regular motion; and when they
than knaves. Southey. " cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendu-
lum
no longer swings, the hands no longer
CARE Care admitted guest, the clock stands still.
"
" as a
move, and fellow.
Long- "

quickly turns to be master. "

Bovee.

Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive Anxious care rests on a basis of heathen
for things that are not to be remedied. "
worldly-mindedness, and of heathen understanding
mis-
Shakespeare. of the character of God. "

throw A. Maclaren.
Cares are often more difficult to
off than sorrows the latter die with time ; He that takes his cares on himself loads
;
the former it. Richter. himself in vain with an uneasy burden." I
grow upon "
 CARICATURE. 57 CEN8URE.

will cast my cares on God ;

he has bidden and do not take things by the point. "

me ; they cannot burden him. " Bp. Mall. Ranee.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's Look before you leap ; see before you go.
eye ;
and wnere care lodges sleep will never "
Tusser.
tie." Shakespeare. When clouds wise
are seen men put on

Men do not avail themselves of the riches their cloaks. " Shakespeare.
of God's They love to nurse their
grace. "
None pities him that's in the snare, who
cares, and seem as uneasy without some warned Defore, would not beware. "
Her-
fret as an old friar would be without his rick.
hair girdle. " They are commanded to cast
Open your mouth and purse cautiously,
their cares on the Lord; but even when
and your stock of wealth and reputation
they attempt it, they do not fail to catch
them think it meritorious shall, at least in repute, be great. merman.
Zim- "

up again, and to
walk burdened."//: W. Beecher.
Whenever our neighbor's house is fire,
on

CARICATURE." Nothing conveys a it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a

more inaccurate idea of a whole truth than little on our own. Better to be despised
a part of a truth so prominently brought for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined
forth as to throw the
parts into shad-
ow. other by too confident security. "
Burke.
This is the art of caricature, by the
"

Trust not him that hath once broken

happy use of which you might caricature
faith ; he betrayed thee
who once, will tray
be-
the Apollo Belvidere. Bulwer.
"
thee again. Shakespeare. "

Take ray advice, and never draw ture.

carica-
He that is over-cautious will accomplish
By the Ions practiceof it I have lost
"
but very little." SchUler.
the enjoyment of oeauty. "
I never see a
Take warning by the misfortunes of
face but distorted, and never have the isfaction
sat-
others, that others may not take example
to behold the human face divine.
from you. "
Saadi.
"
Hogarth.
More firm and sure the hand of courage
CASTLES IN THE AIR.-Charming strikes, when it obeys the watchful of
eye
Alnaschar visions ! It is the happy privi-
lege caution." Thomson.
of youth to construct you !
"
Tltack-
Things done well and with a care, empt
ex-
eray.
themselves from fear. " Shakespeare.
If you have built castles in the air, your
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect
work need not be lost ; there is where they
people, who, in order not to speak wi one,
should be. Now put foundations under
them. Thoreau. never speak at all, and in order not to do
"

wrong, never do anything. "

H. W. Beecher.
We build on the ice, and write on the
waves of the sea. "
The waves roaring, pass CENSURE. "
Censure is the tax a man

the ice melts, and our pays to the public for being eminent.
away; away goes "

palace, like our thoughts." herder. Swift.

Ever the and The of those who opposed to
building to clouds, never censure are

that the basis is the highest commendation that

reflecting poor narrow not
can- us, can

sustain the giddy, tottering column. "

be given us. "
St. Ewemond.
Schiller. He that well and rightly considereth his
works will find little cause to judge
CAUTION." It is well to learn caution own

the misfortunes of others. hardly of another. Thos. " Kempis.

by "
Publius "

Syrus. There are biit three ways for a roan to

All is to be feared where all is to be revenge himself for the censure of the
lost.
world : to despise it ; to return the like ; or
"Byron.
to live so as to avoid it. "
The first of these
Caution in crediting,and reserve in
is usually pretended ; the last is almost possible
im-
speaking, and in revealing one's self to but
; the
universal practice is for the
very few. are the best securities l"oth of a
second. " SwifL
good understanding with tho world, and of
the inward of minds. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."
peace our own "

Thomas d Kempis. Shakespeare.

When The readiest and surest way to get rid of
using a needle you move your gers
fin-
censure, is to correct ourselves. thenes.
Demos-
delicately, and with a wise caution. "
"

Use the same precaution with the inevit-

able
dulneas of life. Give attention ; keep " It isfollyfor an eminent person to think
yourself from imprudent precipitation; of escaping censure, and a weakness to be
 CEREMONY. 58 CHANCE.

affected by it. "

All the illustrious persons are the outworks of manners and decency,
of antiquity, aud indeed of every
age^ have which would too often be broken in upon,
passed through this fiery persecution. " if it were not for that defence which keeps
There is no defence aoainst reproach but the enemy at a proper distance. "
Chester-
obscurity ; it is -a kind of conoomitaut to JieUl
greatness, as satires and iuvectives were an
the
Ceremonv is invention of wise men
essential part of a Roman triumph. son.
Addi-
"
to keep fools at a distance ; as good ing
breed-
isan expedient to make fools and wise
Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes men equals. Steele. "

the doves. Juvenal. To with is the

"

dispense ceremony most

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
prefer censure, which is useful, to praise "
Bulwer.
which deceives them." Rochefoucauld. To our confidence in forms and
repose
Horace appears in good humor while he ceremonies, is superstition ; but not to
and therefore his censure has the submit to them is pride or self-conceit.
censures, "

more weight, as supposed to proceed from Pasco/.

judgment and not from passion." Young. differ
Ceremonies in every country ; they
If
any one speak ill of thee, consider are only artificial helps which ignorance
whether he hath truth on his side ; and if assumes to imitate politeness, which is the
reform thyself,that his censures may result of good sense and good nature.
so, "

not affect thee. " Epictetus. Goldsmith.

The villain's censure is extorted praise. "

If we use no ceremony toward others,
Pope. we shall be treated without any. " People
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain
are soon tired of paying trifling attentions
to those who receive them with coldness,
applause, for this may be done by one great
and return them with neglect. Hazlitt.
or wise action in an age; but to escape
"

man must his whole life Ceremony resembles that base coin which
censure a pass
without saying or doing one ill or foolish circulates through a country by royal date
man-

thing. "
Hume. ; it serves every purpose of real money
at home, but is entirely useless if carried
He is always the severest censor on the
abroad. A person who should attempt to
merits of others who has the least worth of "

circulate his native trash in another country

his own. "
B. L. Magoon.
would be thought either ridiculous or pable.
cul-
It is impossible to indulge in habitual
"
Goldsmith.
severity of opinion upon our fellow-men
Ceremony was devised at first, to set a
without injuring the tenderness and cacy
deli-
gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, and
of our own feelings. " H. W. Beecher.
recanting goodness ; but where there is
Most of our censure of others is only ob-
lique
there Shake-
true friendship, needs none."
praise of self, uttered to show the
speare.
wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It "

To divest either politics or religion of

has all the invidiousness of self-praise,and
ceremony, is the most certain method of
all the ill-desert of falsehood." Tryon wards.
Ed-
bringing either into contempt. "
The weak
must have their inducements to admiration
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and
as well as the wise ; and it is the business
show none ourselves. George EHot. all
"

of a sensible government to impress

The most censorious generally the
are ranks with a sense of subordination,
least judicious, or deserving, who, having whether this be effected by a diamond
nothing to recommend themselves, will be buckle, a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law,
finding fault with others. "
No man envies or a glass necklace. "
Goldsmith.
the merit of another who has enough of his
CHANCE.-r(8ee""AociDwrT.") There
owu. "
Rule of Life.
is no such thing as chance : and what
Our censure of our fellow-men, which we
seems to us the merest accident springs
are prone to think a proof of our superior from the of SchU-
deepest source destiny."
wisdom, is too often only the evidence of
Ver.
the conceit that would magnify self, or of
By the word chance we merely express
the malignity or envy that would detract
our ignorance of the cause of any fact or
from others." Tryon Edwards.
effect" not that we think that chance was

All ceremonies in itself the cause. Henry Fergus.

CEREMONYt" are,
"

themselves, very sillythingB ; but yet a The doctrine of chances is the bible of
man of the world should know them." They the fool.
 CHANGE. 59 CHARACTER.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance ; imperfect to change, is the way to perfect
but I see no reason why Providence should them. " Constancy without knowledge can-
not

not make use of it. "

Simms. be always good ; and in things UL it

What be foolish than think is not virtue but an absolute vice. FeU
can more to "

that all this fabric earth (ham.

rare of heaven and
oonld come by chance, when all the skill of What I possess I would gladly retain. "

art is not able to make an oyster I" Jeremy Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely
Taylor. profits. " Goethe.
Chance is bnt the pseudonym of God for If great change is to be made
a in human
those particular cases which he does not affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to
choose to subscribe openly with his own it ; the general opinions and feelings will
sign-manual. "
Coleridge. draw that way. Every fear and hope will
forward it ; and they who persist in oppos-
ing
The mines
of knowledge are often laid
this mighty current will appear rather
bare by the hazel-wand of chance. " Tapper.
to resist the decrees of Providence itself,
Many shining actions owe their success
than the mere designs of men. " They will
to chance, though the general or statesman not be much resolute and firm
so as verse
per-
runs away with the applause. "
Home.
and obstinate. "
Burke.
Be not too presumptuously sure in any He that will not apply new remedies
business ; for things of this world depend must evils. Bacon,
expect new "

on such a train of unseen chances that if it

in mau*s hands the To-day is not yesterday. We ourselves
tables, still
"

were to set
change. How then, can our works and
he would certain win the game.
X
"

not be to "

thoughts, if they are always to be the test,

fit-
Herbert.
continue always the same. " Change,
How often events, by chance, and pectedly,
unex-
indeed, is painful, yet ever needful ;
and if
come to pass, which you had not
memory have its force and worth, so also
dared even to hope for ! "
Terence. has hope. Carlyle. "

Chance never writ a legible book ; never History fades into fable; fact becomes
built a fair house ; never drew a neat ture
pic- clouded with doubt snd controversy; the
; never did any of these things, nor
inscription moulders from the tablet ; the
ever will ; nor can it,without absurdity, be statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, "

supposed to do them, which are yet works arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps
very and rude, and very easy and
gross of sand, and their epitaphs but characters
feasible, as it were, in comparison to the
written iu the dust ?" Washington Irving.
production of a flower or a tree. " Barrow.
Remember the wheel of Providence is al-
ways
Chance is always powerful." Let your
hook be always in the pool where
in motion ; and the spoke that is
permost
up-
cast ; you will under therefore
be ; ana mix
least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid.
"

trembling always with your joy." Philip

Chance is a word void of sense ; nothing Henry.
can exist without a cause. Voltaire. It is not that loves
"

strange even our

He who distrusts the

security of chance should change with our fortunes." Shake-
takes more pains to effect the safety which speare. .

results from labor, To find what you seek In this world of change paught which 7"
in the road of life, the best proverb of all is lost.
comes stays, and naught which goes
is that which says :
14
Leave no stone un- Mad. Swetchine.
"

turned.'1 "
Bulwer.

There such chance

CHARACTER.-(Soc "Talmttb.")
is no thing as or dent,
acci-
Character is perfectly educated will. "

the words merely signify our rance

igno- NovaHs.
of some real and immediate cause. "

The noblest contribution which an v' man

Adam Clarke.
can make for the benefit of posterity, is that
Chance generally favors the prudent. "

of a good character. The richest bequest

Jbubert.
which any to the youth of man can leave
CHANGE." The world is a scene of land, is that of a shining, spotless
his native
changes : to be constant in nature were example." R. C. Winthrop.
constancy.
in-
Cowley. Let is the architect
not say, Every
"
us man

The circnmstances of the world his

are so of own fortune ; but let us say, Every
variable, that an irrevocable purpose or man is the architect of his own character. "

opinion is almost synonymous with a ish

fool- 0. D. Boardtnan.
one." W. H. Seward. Give character which
us a on we can
Perfection is immutable, but for things thoroughly depend, which we know to be
 CHARACTER. 60 CHARACTER.

based on principle and on the fear of God. ; whose amiability has been built upon

cies
and it is wonderful how many brilliant ana the ruins of ill-temper, and whose osity
gener-
popular and splendidqualities we can safely springs from an over-mastered and
aud gladly dispense with." ^4. P. Stanley, transformed selfishness. Such a character,
best nurtured in solitude built up in the presence of enemies, has
Talents are ;

formed the lows

bil- far more attraction than one which is tively
na-
character is best in stormy
world." pleasing. Dexter.
of the Goethe. "

There is not man or however good character

A is,in all cases, the fruit
a woman,
it in their of personal exertion. It is not inherited V
poor they may be, but have
by the grace of God, to leave behind from parents : it is not created by external
power,
advantages ; it is no appendage
them the grandest thing on earth, char-
and
acter
their children might rise
of
necessary
birth, wealth, talents, or station ; but
/
; up
and that mother it is the result of one's own endeavors
after them thank Qod their "

their the fruit and reward of good principles

was a pious woman, or father a pious
manifested in a course of virtuous and orable
hon-
man." JV. Macleod.
action."./. Hawes.
Only what we have wrought into our acter
char-
As the sun is best seen at his rising and
during life can we take away with
us. "
Humboldt. setting, so men's native dispositions ore

clearest seen when they are children, and

It is not what a man gets, but what a
when they are dying. " Boyle.
man is. that he should thiiik of." He should
As there is much beast and some devil in
think nrst of his character, and then of his
man. so is there some angel and some God
condition: for if he have the former, he
acter
Char- in him. The beast and the devil may be
need have no fears about the latter."
conquered, but in this life never destroyed.
will draw condition after it." stances
Circum-
obey principles. "
H. W. Beecher. " Coleridge.
show Every man, as to character, is the ture
crea-
Men best their character in trifles,
where their It is of the age in which he lives. Very few
they are on not guard. "
"

are able to raise themselves above the ideas

in insignificantmatters, and in the simplest
that often the boundless of their times. Voltaire.
habits, we see
"

egotism which pays no regard to the feelings The great hope of society is in individual
of others, and denies nothing to itself. "
character. "
Channing.
Schopenhauer. The Due de Chartres used to that
say,
He who acts wickedly in private life, can no man could less value character than
never be expected to show himself noble in himself, and yet he would gladly Rive
public conduct. He that is base at home, twenty thousand pounds for a good acter,
char-
will not acquit himself with honor abroad ; because, he could, at once, make
for it is uot the man, but only the place double that sum by it. " Cotton.
that is changed." jEschines. Characters do not change. Opinions "

Character is a diamond that scratches alter, but characters are only developed. "

every other stone. "

Bariol. Disraeli.

Character and personal force are the only The character is like white paper ; if once

investments that are worth auything. " blotted, it can hardly ever be made to pear
ap-
Whitman. white as before. One step often
"
wrong
stains the character for life. It is much
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the "

easier to form a good character and serve

pre-
alphabet by which you may spellcharacters:
it pure, than to purify it after it has
some are mere letters, some contain entire
which become defiled. J. Unices.
words, lines, pages, at once decipher
"

the life of a man. -

One such genuine unin-
terrupted As theytwho for every slight infirmity
page may be yonr Key to all the take physicto repair their health, do rather
rest : but first be certain that he wrote it impair it ; so they, who for every trifle are

all alone, and without thinking of publisher eager to vindicate their character, do rather
or reader." I*avater. weaken it. "
J. Mason,

A man's character is the reality of self.

him- Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous tion
ac-

"
His reputation is the opinion others ; acts
of virtue ripen into habits ;
and
have formed of him. "
Character is in him ;
the goodly and permanent result is, the
"reputation is from other people "
that is formation or establishment of a virtuous

the substance, this is the shadow. "

H. W. character. "
Chalmers,
Beecher.
Our character is but the stamp on our

The best characters made vigorous souls of the free choices of good and evil
are by we

and persistent resistance to evil tenden- have made through life." cfetfcw.
J. G. HOLLAND
 CHARACTER. Gl CHARACTER.

A man is what he is, not what men say Character is built out of circumstances. "

he is. "
His character is what he is before From exactly the same materials one man 1/
God. "
That no man can touch; only he builds palaces, while another builds els.
hov-
himself can damage it. "
His reputation is " G. H. Lewes.
what men say he is. That may be aged.
dam-
"
The shortest and surest way to live with
Reputation is for time; character
"
honor in the world, is to be in reality what
is for eteruity." J". B. Gough. wo would appear to be ; all human virtues
A fair reputation is a plant of delicate increase and strengthen themselves by the
nature, and by no means rapid iu its practice and experience of them. " Socrates.
growth. It will not shoot up, like the
"
The character that needs law to mend it,
of the prophet, in single night} but
f;ourd
ike that gourd in a
a

siugle night it may

is hardly worth the tinkering." Jerrold.

The best part of human character is ten-

derness
perish. "
J. Havoes.
ana delicacy of feeling in little
Every thought willingly contemplated, the desire soothe and
matters, to please
every word meaningly spoken, every tion
ac-
others" miuuti" of the social virtues. "

freely done consolidates itself in the

Emerson.
character, and will project itself onward
As there is nothing in the world great but
continually." if. Giles.
man, there is nothing truly great in man
Truthfuluess is a corner-stone in char-
but character." W. W. Evarts.
^/ acter, and if it be not firmly laid in
youth,
If you would create something, you must
there will ever after be a weak spot in the
foundation.

All the
"
J. Davis.
little vexations of life have their
be

Not
something.
education, but
greatest need and
character, is man's
man's greatest guard.
safe-
"
Goethe.
"/
use as a part of our moral discipline. They
afford the best trial of character. Many a
Spencer. "

man who could bow with resignation, if If I take care of my character, my tation
repu-
told that he was to die, is thrown off his will take care of itself. 2". "L.
guard and out of temper by the slightest Moody.
opposition to his opinions or his projects. There is a broad distinction between
Character is like stock in trade ; the more character and reputation, for one may be
his
of it a man
possesses, the greater ties
facili- destroyed by slander, while the other can

for making' additions to it. Character never be harmed save by its

possessor.
is power "
is influence ; it makes friends ; Reputation is in no man's keeping. You
creates funds ; draws patronage and port;
sup- and I cannot determine what other men

and opens a sure and easy way to shall think and say about us. We can only
wealth, honor, and happiness. "
J. Havoes. determine what they ought to think of us

that the worth and say about us."./. G. Holland.

Experience serves to prove,
and strength of a state depend far less upon A man may be outwardly successful all
the form of its institutions than upon the his life long, and die hollow and worthless
character of its men : for the nation is only as a puff-ball ; and he may be externally de-
feated
the aggregate of individual conditions, and all his life long, and die in the alty
roy-
civilization itself is but a question of sonal
per- of a kingdom estalriished within him. "

improvement. " 8. Smile*. A man's true estate of power and riches, is

find to be in himself not in his dwelling, or
Wherever yon patience, fidelity, ;

spectability,position,
there find or external relations, but in his
honor, kindness, truth, you re-

however obscure and own essential character." realm That is the

lonely
Beecher. in which he is to live, if he is to live as a
men may be."ff. W.
Christian man." H. W. Beecher.
All that makes true, pure, and
men godly,
with them All that makes It is not money, nor is it mere intellect,
goes everywhere.
with that governs the world it is moral ter,
charac-
them false, impure, wicked, abides ;

his and intellect associated with moral cellence."

ex-
them. Every man goes to own place. "

Golden Rule. T. DrWodsey.

it falls, but Character is higher than intellect
A tree will not only lie as it
will fall it leans. And the A great soul will be strong to live as well
as great question
should home himself is to think. Emerson.
every one bring to "

this : "What is the inclination of my soul? Character must stand behind and back
Does affections, lean the the poem, the
it, with all its toward up everything" sermon,
"
God or away from him? "
J. J. Qumey. picture, the play. None of them is worth

is rather to be chosen a straw without it." J*. G. Holland.

good name
A than
great riches, and loving favor rather than To judge human character rightly a man
silver and gold." Solomon. may sometimes have very small experience
 CHARACTER. 62 CHARITY.

provided he has a very large heart." Bui- You cannot dream yourself into a acter
char-
wer.
; you must hammer and forge one fox
Make bat few explanations. The ter
charac- yourself. "
Froude.
that cannot defend itself is not worth
CHARITY.-First daughter to the lore
vindicating.",?. W. Robertson.
of God, is charity to man. "
Drennan.
No more fatal error can be cherished than
The word "
alms "
has no singular, as if
that any character can be complete out
with-
to teach us that a solitary act of charity
the religions element. The essential
scarcely deserves the name.
factors in character building are religion,
and L. Pickard. Charity gives itself rich; covetousness
morality, knowledge."*/.
hoards itself poor. Qtrman Proverb. "

In the destiny of every moral being there

Charity ii never lost : it may meet with
is an object more worthy of God than hap-
piness.
is And the ingratitude, or be of no service to those on
"
It character. " grand
whom it was bestowed, yet it ever does a
aim of man's creation is the development
beauty work of and grace upon the heart of
of grand character
a " and grand character
the giver.
is, by its very nature, the product of pro-
bationary
discipline. "
Austin Phelps, The deeds of charity we have done shall

stay with us forever. Only the wealth we

To be worth anything,character must be "

I J have bestowed do the other is

v / capable of standing firm upon its feet in so we keep ;
not ours. Middleion.
the world of daily work, temptation, and
"

trial ; and ablo to bear the wear and tear of Defer not charities till death. He that
actual life. Cloistered virtue do not count does so is rather liberal of another man's
for much." 8. ?;nti",. substance than his own. "
Stretch.

Th' oing in this world is not Posthumous charities are the very sence
es-
greax so
much where we but in what direction of selfishness when bequeathed by
^re,
we -re moving." 0. W. Holmes. those who, when alive, would part with
nothing." Cotton.
Do what you know and perception is verted
con-

into character. Emerson. I would have none of that rigid and cumspect
cir-
"

charity which is never exercised

We shall never wander from Christ while
without scrutiny, and which always mis-
trusts
we 'make character the end and aim of all
the reality of the necessities laid open
our intellectual discipline; and we shall
to it." Massilon.
never misconceive character while we hold
Beneficence is a duty ; and
he who quently
fre-
fast to Christ, and keep him first in our

motto and hearts." F. Scovel. practices it and sees his benevolent

our a.
intentions realized, at length comes to love
Nothing can work me damage, except self.
my- him to whom he has done good. "
Kant.
"
The harm that I sustain 1 carry about
How often it is difficult to be wisely
me, and never am a real sufferer but by
charitable to do good without multiplying
my own fault. "
St. Bernard. "

the sources of evil. To give alms is noth-

ing
Good character is human nature in its
unless you give thought also. It is
best form. It is moral order embodied in
"
written, not " blessed is he that feedeth the
v the individual. Men of character are not
\
"

poor," but " blessed is he that considereth

only the conscience of but
society, in every
the poor." A little thought and a little
well governed state they are its best motive
kindness are often worth more than a great
power ; for it is moral qualities which, in
deal of money. "
Buskin.
the main, rule the world. "
8. Smiles.
The charities that soothe, and heal, and
Never does a man portray his own acter
char- at the like
bless, lie scattered feet of men
more vividly, than in his manner of flowers. " Wordsworth.
portraying another. "
Richter.
Every Rood act is charity. Tour smiling
8hould tell you that mountain had brother's
one a in your face, is charity ; an hortation
ex-

changed its
place, you are at liberty to of your fellow-man to virtuous
doubt it ; but if any one tells that
you a
deeds, is equal ;
your put-
to ting alms-giving
man has changed his character, do not wanderer right road, is in the
a
believe it. Mahomet.
"

charity ; your assisting the bund, is char-

ity
A good heart, benevolent feelings, and a : your removing stones, and thorns,
balanced mind, lie at the foundation of and other obstructions from the road, is
character. Other things may be deemed charity ; your giving water to the thirsty,
fortuitous and but is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter,
j they may come go ;
character is that which lives and abides, is the good he does in this world to his low-man.
fel-
and is admired long after its possessor has When he dies, people will say.
*
left the earth." John Todd. " What property has he left behind him 7
 CHARITY. 63 CHARITY.

Bat the angels will ask, "

What good deeds spirits diametrically opposed to charity, re-
sentment,
has he sent before him." "
Mahomet. aversion, jealousy, and indiiier
The charity that hastens to proclaim its ences. " Bossuet.

good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is The

place of charity, like that of God, is
only pride and ostentation. "
Htttton. everywhere.
It is an old saying, that charity begins at Proportion thy charity to the strength of
home ;
bnt this no reason that it should not thine estate, lest God proportion thine est*. I e
go abroad : a man shonld live with the to the weakness of thy charity." Let the
world citizen of the world he lips of the be the of
as a ; may poor trumpet thy gin,
have a preference for the particular quar-
ter
lest in seeking applanse,thou lose thy re-
ward.

or square, or even alley in which he " Nothing is more pleasing to God

lives, but he should have a
generous ing
feel- than an open hand, and a closed mouth. "

for the welfare of the whole. land.

Cumber- "
Quarles.
A rich man without charityis a rogue ;
A man should fear when he enjoys only and perhaps it would be no difficult matter
the good publicly. he does
Is it not licity
pub- "

to prove that he is also a tool." Fielding.

rather than charity, which he loves ?
Our true acquisitions lie only in our ities,
char-
Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence,
we gain only as we give." 8imms.
that gives such charities ?"H. W. Beecher.
My poor are my best patients." God pays
In my youth I thought of writing a satire
for them." Boerhaave.
on mankind, but now in my age I think
I should write an apology for them. "
We should give as we would receive,
Walpole. cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation,
for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks
When faith and hope fail, as they do
must which
to the fingers." Seneca.
sometimes, we try charity, is
love in action. We must speculate no more
That charityis bad which takes from dependence
in-
on our duty, but simply do it. When we
its
proper pride, and from
have done it, however blindly, mendicity its proper shame." Southey.
perhaps
Heaven will show why." Mulock. In of thine alms
us giving inquire not so

Pity, forbearance,
long-sufferance, fair much into the person, as his necessity. "

brother, and God looks uot much the merits of him

interpretation, excusing our so on

taking in the best sense, and passing the that requires, as to the manner of him that

gentlest sentence, are certainly our duty ; relieves. "

If the man deserve not, thou hast
and he that does not so is an unjust person. given to humanity. " Quarles.
" Jeremy Taylor. He who has never denied himself for the
Give work rather than alms to the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys
poor.
The former drives out indolence, the latter of charity." Mad. Swetchine.

industry. Be charitable and indulgent to every one

There two kinds of remedial but thyself." Joubert.

are charity,
and preventive. The former is often rious
inju- "
The last, best fruit that comes late to
in its tendency ; the latter is always in the kindliest soul, is
perfection,even
praiseworthy and beneficial. Tryon wards.
Ed- "
tenderness toward the hard, forbearance
toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart
To pitv distress is but human ; to
relieve toward the cold, and philanthropy toward
it is Godlike." H. Mann. the misanthropic" Hiehter.

carries God, ing

fast- The truly generous is trulywise, and he
Prayer us half-way to
the door of his who loves not others, lives unblest." Home.
brings us to palace,
and alms-giving procures ns admission." Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in
Koran. doing good, though the ungrateful subject*
what give of their favors barren in return." Hence.
We are rich only through we ; are

and poor only through what we refuse ana Nothing truly can be termed own, but
my
keep." Mad. Swetchine. what I make my own by nsing well ; tno*e
Public charities and benevolent tions
associa- deeds of charitywhich we have done, shall
for relief of stay forever with us and that wealth which
the gratuitous every ;

to Christian-
ity; have bestowed, only keep; the
species of distress, are peculiar we so we

other of civil religious other is not ours. Middieton.

no system or "

them they form its

policy has originated ; While actions are always to be judged by
highestpraise and characteristic feature. "
the immutable standard of right and wrong,
CoUon. the judgment we pass upon men must be

The spirit of the world has four kinds of qualified

by considerations of age, country,
 CHASTITY. 64 CHEERFULNESS.

situation, and other incidental stances

circum- Wondrous is the strength of ness,
cheerful-
it will then be found, that he
; and and
power of its
endurance" the
who is most charitable in his judgment, is cheerful man will do more in the same time,
generally the least unjust. " Southey. will do it better, will perseve re in it longer,

than the sad or sullen. Cartyle.

Let him who neglects to raise the fallen, "

fear lest,when he falls,no one will stretch Honest good humor is the1 oil and wine
out his hand to lift him up." Saadi. of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial
companionship equal to that where the
I will chide no heathen in the world but
jokes are rather small and the laughter
myself, against whcm I know most faults. "

abundant. " Washington Irving.

Shakespeare.
kindness is than laws
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart
Loving greater :
of a man in strong health, as color to his
and the charities of life are more than all
cheek ;
and wherever there is habitual
ceremonies. "
Talmud.
gloom, there must be either bad air, ui

mind in chaste wholesome food, improperly severe labor,

CHASTITY*" A pure a

body is the mother of wisdom and eration;

delib- or erring habits of life. "
Ruskin.

sober counsels and ingenuous Be cheerful always. There is no path

actions open; deportment and sweet riage
car- but will be easier traveled, no load but will

;
sincere principles and unprejudiced be lighter, no shadow on neart and brain
understanding; love of God and self-denial; but will lift sooner for a person of termined
de-

peace and confidence; holy prayers and cheerfulness.

spiritual comfort ; and a pleasure of spirit into the habit
Get of looking for the sil-
ver
infinitelygreater than the sottish pleasure lining of the cloud, and, when you have
of nnchastity. Jeremy Taylor. found to look at it. rather than
it,continue
"

Chastity enables the soul to breathe a at the leaden gray in the middle. It will

pure air in the foulest places. "

Continence help you over many hard places. "
Willitts.
makes her strong, no matter in what dition
con-
To be free-minded and cheerfully posed
dis-
the body may be Her sway over
"
at hours of meals, and of sleep, and
the senses makes her queenly: her light of exercise, is one of the best precepts of
and peace render her beautiful. Joubert
"

long-lasting. "
Bacon.
A man defines his standing at the court
A light heart lives long. " Shakespeare.
of chastity, by his views of women. " He
Cheerfulness is health : its opposite, mel
cannot be any man's friend, nor his own,
ancholy, is disease." Haabwton.
if not hers." A. B. Aloott.
If my heart were not light, I would die.
There needs not strength to be added to
"
Joanna BailHe.
inviolate chastity; the excellency of the
the P. If the soul be happily disposed every-
thing
mind makes body impregnable."
Sidney. becomes capable of affording tainment,
enter-
and distress will almost want a
That chastity of honor, which feels a
name. "
Goldsmith.
stain like a wound. "
Burke.
The true source of cheerfulness is nevolence.
be-
CHEERFULNESS." I had rather have The soul that
"

perpetuallyover-
flows
a fool make me merry, than experience with kindness and sympathy will
make me sad. " Shakespeare. always be cheerful. "
P. Godwin.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are Climate has much to do with cheerful
to humanity. They are but trifles,to be ness, but nourishing food, a good digestion,
but. scattered along life's pathway, and health much Rhodes.
sure ; good more. " A.
the good they do is inconceivable.
If but their
good people would make
A cheerful
temper joined with innocence smile of
goodness agreeable, and instead
will make beauty attractive, knowledge frowning in their virtue, how many would
delightful,and wit good-natured. It will
they wir. to the good cause. Usher. "

lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction

;
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a
convert ignorance into an amiable plicity,
sim-
pound of sadness to serve God with. "

and render deformity itself agree-

able.
FuUer.
"
Addison.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his God is glorified,not by our groans but
work. " Carlyle. by our thanksgivings; and all good thought
and good action claim a natural alliance
The highest wisdom is continual fulness
cheer-
with good cheer. "
E. P. Whipple.
; such a state, like the region above
the moon, is always clear and serene." I have always preferred cheerfulness to
Montaigne, mirth. The former is an act, the latter a
 CHEERFULNESS. 65 CHILDREN.

habit of the mind. Mirth is short and never allow yourself to say anything
transient cheerfulness, fixed and gloomy." X. M. Child.
; nent.
perma-
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, the
To be happy, temperament must be
that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and cheerful and gay, not gloomy and choly."
melan-
glitters for moment. Cheerfulness keeps
a A propensity to hope and joy, is
a kind daylight in the mind, filling it
of real riches to fear and
up ; one sorrow, is real
with a steady and perpetual serenity. Hume.
"

poverty."
Addison.
To make knowledge valuable, you must
Tou have not fulfilled every duty unless have the cheerfulness of wisdom. ness
Good-
you have fulfilled that of being cheerful the last.
smiles to " Emerson.
and pleasant. "
C Buxton.
Every time smiles, and
a much
man more
If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset
when he lauphs,it adds something to his
into the life of any man or woman, I shall of life. Sterne.
fragment "

feel that I have worked with God. 0. "

Macdonald.
Not having enough sunshine is what ails
the world." Make people happy, and there
Be cheerful: do not brood over fond will half the tenth
not be quarrelling, or a
hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened the wickedness there
part of now is. "
L.
on each thought and wound around the M. Child.
heart. Nature intended you to be the
Cheerfulness is a friend to grace ; it puts
fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social
life, and the of and
the heart in tune topraise God, and so ors
hon-
not monument despair
religion by proclaiming to the world
melancholy. "
A. Helps.
that we serve a good master. " Be serious,
Burdens become light when cheerfully yet cheerful. "
Rejoice in the Lord always.
borne. " Ovid.
" Watson.
The habit of looking on the best side of
Always look out for the sunlight the
every event is worth more than a thousand Lord sends into your days." Hope bell.
Camp-
pounds a year. "
Johnson.

The cheerful live longest in years, and

afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness C H IL D R E N." Many children, many
is the offBhootof goodness. "
Bovee. cares ; no children, no felicity.Bovee. "

The mind that is cheerful at present will Childhood shows the man, as morning
have no solicitude for the future, and will shows the day. "
Milton.
meet the bitter occurrences of life with a The child is father of the man." Words-
smile. Horace.
"
worth.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast and
; I love these little people : it is not a
and it is that which crowns a welcome. fresh
"

slight thing, when they, who are so

Massinger. from God, love us. "
Dickens.
Every one must have felt that a cheerful The clew of our destiny, wander where
friend is like a sunny dav, which sheds its the foot the
we will, lies at of cradle."
brightness on all around ; and most of us
Bidder.
can, as we choose, make of this world either
The interests of childhood and youth are
a palace or a prison." Sir J. Lubbock.
the interests of mankind. " Janes.
There is no greater every-day virtue than
cheerfulness. This quality in man
Never fear spoiling children by making
among
men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle
them too happy. Happiness is the atmos-
phere
iu whicn all good affections grow "

renewing moisture to parched herbs. The

the wholesome warmth necessary to make
light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and
communicates the
the heart-blood circulate healthily and
happy spiritthat inspires
it. The sourest must sweeten in
freely ; unhsppiness "
the chilling pressure
temper
the humor.
which produces here an inflammation,
atmosphere of continuous good
there an excrescence, and, worst of all,
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, ""
" the mind's green and yellow sickness
altogether past calculation its powers of durance.
en-
ill temper." Bray.
Efforts, to be permanently ful,
use-

must be uniformly Children have more need of models

joyous, " spirit
a

all sunshine, from than of critics. Joubert.

graceful very gladness, "

beautiful because bright. Carlyle.

"
If I were asked what single qualification
You find yourself refreshed by the was necessary for one who has the care of
pres-
ence
of cheerful people. "
Why not make children. I should say patience " patience
earnest effort to confer that pleasure on with their tempers, with their ings,
understand-
with their progress. It if not briUUut
 CHILDREN. 66 CHILDREN.

parts greator acquirements which are them earnestly, but not in anger."
reprove
necessary teachers, butfor
patience to go In the forcible language of Scripture. lie "

over first principles again and again ; ily

stead- not bitter against them."" "
Yes" they are
to add little every day ; never to be said kind father. "
I talk
irritated
a

by wilful or accidental hinder-

Sod boys,"
much,
em but
a

I do not beat my dren

chil-
to

anoe. : the world will beat them."" It was

of them a beautiful thought, though not elegantly

Beware fatiguing by ill-judged .

If virtue offers itself to the expressed. Burritt.

exactness. "
"

child under amelancholy and constrained Childhood has no forebodings ; but then
aspect, while liberty and license preseut it is soothed by no memories of outlived
themselves under an agreeable form, all is sorrow." George Eliot.
lost,and your labor is in vain." Feneton.
Children are God's apostles, sent forth,
Children sweeten labors, but they make day by day, to preach of love, and hope and
misfortunes more bitter." The v increase peace."/. R. Lowell.
the of life, but they mitigate the
cares A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard
remembrance of death. Bacon. words bruise the heart of child."
"
a Long*
In bringing up a child, think of its old fellow.
age." Jbuom. Blessed be the hand that a
prepares
Some one says," Boys will be boys "; he pleasure for a child, for there is no saying
forgot to add,44 Boys will be men." when and where it may bloom forth."- Jer-
rold.
The future destinyof the child is always
the work of the mother." Bonaparte. Ton cannot teach a child to take care of
himself unless you will let him try to take
The interests of childhood and youth are
care of himself. He will make mistakes ;
the interests of mankind." Jones.
and out of these mistakes will come his
When parents spoil their children, it is
wisdom." H. W. Beecher.
less to please them than to please them-
selves.
Of nineteen out of twenty things in chil-
dren,
It is the egotism of parental love.
take no special notice ; but if as to
Good Christian people, here lies for you
,
the twentieth, you give a direction or mand,
com-
an inestimable loan ;"
take all heed of,
there-
see that you are obeyed. " Tryon
in all carefulness employ it. With high Edwards.
recompense, or else with heavy penalty,
will it one be back." Car- An infallible way to make your child
day required
lyte. miserable, is to satisfy all his demands."
Passion swells by gratification ; and the
Tour little child is your only true crat."
demo-
impossibility of satisfying every one of his
if r#. Stow.
wishes will oblige you to stop short at last
Call not that man wretched, who. ever
what- after he has become headstrong. Home. "

ills he suffers, has a child to love. "

With children we must mix gentleness

Southey. with firmness." They must not always have
I have often thought what a melancholy their but they must not always
own way,
world this would be without children ; and be thwarted." If we never have headaches
what an inhuman world, without the aged. through rebuking ihem, we shall have
"Coleridge. of heartaches when they
Slenty
le obeyed at all costs ; for if you
up."
yield
grow
What gift has Providence bestowed on np
man that is so dear to him as his children ? your authority once, you will hardly get it
"
CUsero. again. Spurgeon.
"

Children generally hate to be idle." All

God sends children for another purpose
the care then should be, that their busy
'than merely to keep up the race " to en-
large
humor should be constantly employed in
our hearts : and to make us unselfish
something that is of use to wem." Locke.
ana full of kindly sympathies and tions
affec-
: to give our souls higher aims : to call Who is not attracted by bright and
out all our faculties to extended enterprise pleasantchildren, to prattle, to creep, snd
and exertion and to bring round our sides
fire- to play with them?" Epicietus.
;
bright faces, happy smiles, and ing,
lov- The child's grief throbs against its little
tender hearts. My soul blesses the heart the snd
"
as heavily as majrs sorrow :

great Father, every day, that he has glad-

dened the finds much his kite
one as delight in or
the earth with little children." Mary drum, as the other in striking the springs
BowiU. of enterprise, or the wings of
soaring on
with the children God has fame." E H. Chopin.
Be ever gentle .

given Watch them constantly Children are nice observers, and

you." oyer ; very
 CHILDREN. 99 CHRIST.

ihem for an exact and conscientious charge

dis- love them, and they never will till the grave
of their duties in after life. "
Have. closes over those parents, or till they have
lies about in children of their own. Cooke.
Heaven us our infancy. "
"

Wordsworth. Where children are, there is the golden

Novatis.
The plays of natural lively children are age. "

the infancy of art. "

Children live in a Childhood sometimes does pay a second
world of
imagination and feeling. They visit to a man youth never. Mrs. son.
Jame-
;
"

"

invest the most insignificant object with

any form they please, and see in it what-
ever
wisn Oehlenschlager. CHIVALRY.-The age of chivalry has
they to see. "

and one of calculators and economists

As the vexations men receive from their gone,
succeeded.
as "
Burke.
children hasten the approach of age, and
The age of chivalry is past,
double the force of years, so the comforts never so

they reap from them are balm to all their long as there is a wrong left unredressed
the on earth. Charles Kingsley.
sorrows, and disappoint injuries of "

time. Parents repeat their lives in their Collision is as

necessary to produce virtue
offspring ; and their esteem for them is so in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate
great, that they feel their sufferings and matter ; and so chivalry is of the essence of
taste their enjoyments as much as if they virtue. "
RusseU.
were their own. "
R. Palmer.
CHOICE." The measure of choosing
Childhood has no forebodings ; but then
well, is. whether likes and fiuds
a man good
it is soothed by no memories of outlived
in what he has chosen. "
Lamb.
sorrow." George Eliot.
Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge
Children are excellent physiognomists, leads to Beattie.
woe. "

and soon discover their real friends. "

Lut-
Life often presents us with a choice o?
trell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact
evils rather than of good. Cotton.
they are. "
What is childhood but a series "

of happy delusions?" -Sidney Smith. God offers to every mind its choice tween
be-

all if truth and repose. Emerson.

Let children remember, ever they "

are
weary of laboring for their parents, that Choose always the way that seems the
Christ labored for bis ; if impatient of their best, however rough it may be ; custom will
commands, that Christ cheerfully obeyed ; soon render it easy and agreeable. Pytha-
goras. "

if reluctant to provide for their parents,

that Christ forgot himself and provided for Between two evils, choose neither ; tween
be-
his mother amid agonies of the cruci-
the fixion.
two goods, choose both. "
Tryon wards.
Ed-
The affectionate language of this
divine example to every child is, " Go thou
and do likewise."" Dwight. CHRIST. "
All history is ible
incomprehens-
without Christ. Return.
They who have to educate children should "

keep in mind that to become Jesus Christ, the condescension of divin-

ity,
boys are men,
and that girls are to become women. The and the exaltation of humanity." lips
Phil-

neglect of this momentous consideration Brooks.

gives of moral hermaphrodites.

us a race "
In his life,Christ is an example, show-
ing
Hare. in his
us how to live ; death, ne is a

of my sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his

In the long course legal profession, ;

I have met with several sons who had. cumstancesresurrection,

in cir- a conqueror ; in his ascension,
of difficulty, abandoned their a king ; in his intercession, a high priest.
with father Luther.
fathers ; but did I meet a "
never

that would not cheerfully part with his last The nature of Christ's existence is mys-
terious,
shilling bless his David I admit this
; but
to save or son." mystery meets

Daggett. the wants of man." Reject it and the

world is an inexplicable riddle ; believe it,
Whether it be for good or evil, the cation
edu-
and the history of our race is satisfactorily
of the child is principallyderived
from its own observation of the actions, explained. Napoleon. "

words, voice, and looks of those with whom Jesus Christ is a God to whom we can

it lives. "
The friends of the young, then, approach without pride, and before whom
cannot be too circumspect in their presence we mav abase ourselves without despair. "

to avoid every and the least appearance of Pascal.

evil." Jebb. I believe Plato and Socrates. I believe
Children do not know how their parents in Jesus Christ. "
Coleridge.
 CHRISTIAN. 69 CHRISTIAN.

As little as humanity will ever be without facing the cannon's mouth, and ing
encounter-

religion, as little will it be without Christ. the enemy in the field." J?. H. Cha-
"
Strauss. ptn.
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. The devotion to the person of Christ that
Every thought, word, and deed for Him steers clear of the doctrines and precepts
carries you away from discouragement. " of Christ, is but sentimental rhapsody."
T. L. Ctoyler. Berrick Johnson.

The name of Christ" the one great word He who was foretold and foreshadowed
"
well worth all languages in earth or by the holy religion
Judea, which was of
heaven. " Bailey. designed to free the universal aspiration of
mankind from every impure element, he
God never gave man a thing to do, con-
cerning
has come to instruct, to obey, to love, to
which it were irreverent to ponder
how the Son of God wonld have done it. "
die, and by dying to save mankind." Pres-

Macdonald. sense.
G.

of Christ Every occupation, plan, and work of

This is part of the glory as pared
com-

with the chiefest of His servants, that man, to truly successful, must
be be done

He alone stands at the absolute center of under the direction of Christ, in union with

the his will, from love to him, and in dence

depen-
humanity, one completelyharmonious
on his power." M uller.
man, unfolding all which was in humanity,
eaually and fully on all sides,the only one in Christ is the great central fact in the
whom the real and ideal met and were solutely world's
ab- history; to him everything looks
one. "
He is the absolute and fect
per- forward or backward. All the lines of his-
tory
truth, the highest that humanity can converge noon him. All the march of
read) ; at once its perfectimage and preme
su- providence is guided by him. All the great
Lord. "
French. purposes of God culminate in him. The

As the the seal the is greatest and most momentous fact which
print of on wax
the of the seal the history of the world records is the fact
express image itself, so
Christ is the the of his birth. Spurgecm.
express image "
perfect "

representation of God. Ambrose. The Christian faith in a person

"
reposes
Men who rather than a creed. Christ is the personal,
neglect Christ, and try to win "

heaven like sailors living center of theology, around which the

through moralities, are

who the whole Christian system is ensphered.

at sea in a storm, pull,some at "

and the mainmast, but Christ is the personal source of the vidual
indi-
bowsprit, some at
touch the helm." If. W. Beecher. Christian life ; the personal head of
never
the whole Christian church ; the personal
CHRISTIAN." A Christian is the est
high- sovereign of the kingdom of grace." R. B.

style of man. " Young. Welch.

To be a Christian is to believe all that That there should be a Christ, and that I
Christ teaches, and to do all that Christ rects,
di- should be Christless ; that there should be
so far as both are understood. "
It is a cleansing, and that I should remain foul :

to receive all that Christ says as true, and that there should be a Father's love, and I
to treat it as true, and to act it as should be an alien that there should be
upon ;
true, because it is right, and God mands
com- a heaven, and I should be cast into hell,
it,and that we may be saved. " Try- is grief embittered, sorrow aggravated. "

on Edwards. Spurgeon.
Though a great man may, by a rare pos-
sibility, Let it not be imagined that the life
be an infidel,vet an intellect of the of a Christian be life of ancholy
mel-
good must a
highest order must build upon Christianity. and gloominess ; for he only signs
re-
" Be Quincey. some pleasures to enjoy others itely
infin-
The only truly happy men I have ever better." Pascal.

known, were Christians. John Randolph.

"

One truly Christian life will do more to

He is a Christian who is manfully strug- the divine Christianity than
origin of
prove
rlinff to
gling v live a Christian life." If. W. lectures. It is of much greater im-
portance
many
Beecher. to develop Christian character,
The to realize that God's than to exhibit Christian evidences. J.
only way we are
"

children is to let Christ lead us to M. Gibson.

our
Father." Phillips Brooks. It is truth that stands out with ling
start-
a

A man can no more be a Christian out

with- distinctness on the pages of the New

facing evil and conquering it, than he Testament, that God has no sons who are

can be a soldier without going to battle, not servants." "f. 2". Ward.
 CHRISTIAN. 70 CHRISTIANITY.

The Christian life is not merely knowing A Christian in this world is but gold in

nor hearing, bnt doing the will of Christ. "

the ore ; at death, the pure gold is melted
F. W. Robertson. out and separated, and the dross cast away

I have known what the and and consumed. Flavel.

enjoyments "

advantages of this life are, and what are The Christian needs a reminder every
the more refined pleasures which learning hour; some defeat, surprise, adversity,
and intellectual power can bestow ; and peril ; to be agitated, mortified, beaten
with all the experience that more than out of his that all remains of
course, so

three-score years can give, I now, on the self will be sifted out." Horace Bushnell.
eve departure, declare
of my to you, that
The best advertisement of a workshop is
health great blessing ; competence
is a tained
ob-
first-class work. The strongest attraction
by honorable industry is a great to Christianity 1b a well-made Christian
blessing ; and a great blessing it is, to nave character." J. L. Cuyler.
kind, faithful, and loving friends and tives
rela-

;
but that the greatest of all ings,
bless- CH R I STI A N IT Y.-Christianity is
as it is the most ennobling of all leges,
privi- more than history. It is also system of
a

is to be indeed a Christian." C'ote- truths. Every event which its history rec-
ords,

either is truth, suggests or ex-

ridge. a or presses

It is more to the honor of a Christian by truth, which

a man needs assent to

faith to the world, than by mon-

or to put into practice. Noah Porter. "

overcome

astical to retreat from it more for Heathenism was the seeking religion ;
vows ;

the honor of Christ to serve him in the Judaism, the

hoping religion ; Christian-
ity
him in the cell. M. is the realityof what heathenism sought
city, than to serve "

and Judaism hoped for. Luthardt.

Henry. "

He is no good Christian who thinks he Christianity is not a theory or tion,

specula-
without safe with but a life ; not a philosophy of life,but
can be safe God, or not
Henshaw. a life and a living process. Coleridge.
him." "

The distinction between Christianity and

It does not require great learning to be
truth ail other systems of religion consists ly
large-
a Christian and be convinced of the
honest in this, that in these others men are
of the Bible. It requires only an found
heart and a willingness to obey God." seeking after God, while Christian-
ity

Barnes.
is God seeking after men." T. Arnold.
He who shall introduce public affairs into
No man is so happy as the real Christian ;
the principlesof
none rational, so virtuous, so amiable.
so
primitive Christianity,
will revolutionize tne world. Franklin.'
How little vanity does he feel, though he "

believes himself united to God 1 How far Christianity did not come from Heaven

is he from abjectness, though he ranks to be the amusement of an idle hour, or

himself with the worms of the earth." the food of mere imagination : to be *'
as a

Pascal. very lovely

song of one that hath a pleas-
ant
to do good the voice, and playeth well upon an ment.*1
instru-
To good and
be are two
It is intended to be the guide and
great objects set before the Christian ; to
companion of all onr hours "
the serious
develop a perfect character by rendering a
occupation of our whole existence." Bp.
True Christian culture
perfect service. Jebb.
leads to and itself in service,
expresses
while faithful ana lovinff service is the best Christianity is the good man's text ;
his

means of Christian culture. " Washington life, the illustration.

Gladden. Where science speaks of improvement,

A child of God should be a visible tude
beati- Christianity speaks of renovation ; where
science speaks of development, tianity
Chris-
for joy and happiness, and a living
doxology for gratitude and adoration. "
speaks of sanctification
;
where
science speaksprogress, of Christianity
Spurgeon.
speaks of perfection.",/: P. Thompson.
The greatly the advantage
Christian has
So comprehensive are the doctrines of
of the unbeliever, having everything to gain
the Gospel, that they involve all moral
and nothing to lose. Byron, "

truth known by man ; so extensive are the

Faith makes, life proves, trials confirm, that
precepts, they require every virtue,
and death the Christian." Hopfner. and forbid
crowns
every sin. Nothing has been
sinful added either by the labors of philosophy or
A Christian is nothing bnt a man

school Christ for the progress of human knowledge.

who has put himself to to
the honest "f becoming better. Christianity everywhere gives
purpose "

dignityto
B. W. Beecher. labor, sanctity to marriage, and brotner-
 CHRISTIANITY. 71 CHRISTIANITY.

hood to man. "

Where it may not convince, Gospels had been before them. " B. "
it enlightens: where it does not convert, it Storrs.
restrains ;
where it does not renew, it fines
re-
There is no leveler like Christianity, but
;
where it does not sanctify, it sub-
dues it levels by lifting all who receive it to the
and elevates. It is profitable alike
lofty table-land character
"

of a true and of
for this world, and for the world that is to
undying hope both for this world and the
come. "
Lord Lawrence.
next.
Christianity is not a religionof dental
transcen-
Prophecy and miracles the imper*
argue
abstraction, or brilliant speculation ; fection of the state of the church, rather
its children are neither monks, mystics, than its
stoics. It is the religion of
they are means perfection.For
epicureans, nor designed by God "

as a stay or support, or as
loving, speaking, and doing, as well as be-
lieving.
a leading string to the church in its infancy,
It is a life as well as a creed." It
"

rather than as means adapted to it in its full

has a rest for the heart, a word for the
growth. "
Jonathan Edwards.
tongue, a way for the feet, and a work for
the hand. The same Lord who is the dation
foun- Christianity will gain by every step that
is taken in the knowledge of man. Spur*
of our hopes, the object of our faith, "

zheim.
and the
subject of our love, is also the
model of our conduct, for " He went about There never was found in any age of the
doing good, leaving us an example that we world, either philosophy, or sect, or ligion,
re-

should follow his steps. Cumming. "

" or law, or discipline,which did so

highly exalt the

good of the community,
It matters little whether or no anity
Christi-
and increase private and particular good as
makes men richer. But it does make
them nobler. the holy Christian faith. Hence, it clearly
truer, purer, It is not more
"

wealth that the world appears that it was one and the same God
wants, a thousandth
much that gave the Christian law to men, who
part as as it is more character ; not
the laws of nature to the creatures.
investments, but integrity ; not fave
"

more more
but manhood regal palaces, \acon.
money, ; not
but regal souls. "
E. O. Beckwuh. Christianity has no ceremonial." It has

Give Christianity a common law trial ; forms, for forms are essential to order ; but
it disdains the folly of attempting to rein-
force
submit the evidence pro and con to an
the religion of the heart by the antics
impartial jury under the direction of a petent
com-

the verdict will of the body or mind. Croly.

court, and assuredly "

be in its favor. " Chief Justice Gibson. Christianity requires two things from
Christianity is the of every man who believes in it first,to ac-
:
companion liberty v

in all its conflicts "

the cradle of its infancy, quire property by just and righteous means,
and the divine source of its claims. "
be and second, to look not only on his own

things, but also on the things of others."

TocqueviUe.
H. J. Van Dyke.
The religion of Christ has made a public
Re-
With Christianity came a new tion,
civiliza-
like ours possible : and the more
and a new order of ideas. "
Tastes were
we have of this religion the better the public."//.
Re-
M. Field.
cultivated, manners refined, views ened,
broad-
and natures spiritualized. " Asanas.
However much the priestlingsof science
Whatever may be said of the philosophy
may prate against the Bible, the high priests
of Coleridge, his proof of the truth of
of science are in accord with Christianity. "

Christianity was most simple and sive.

conclu-
Prof. Simpson.
"
It consisted in the words, "Try it
Independent of its connection with
for yourself."
human destiny hereafter, the fate of publican
re-
Christianity proves itself,as the sun is
government indissolubly bound
is
with the fate of seen by its own light. Its evidence is in-
volved
up the Christian religion, "

and who will in its existence. Coleridge.

people rejectits holy faith "

find themselves the slaves of their own evil The moral and religious system which
passions and of arbitrary power. " Lewis Jesus Christ has transmitted to us, is the
Cass. best the world has ever seen, or can see. "

the basis Franklin.

Christianity is of republican
government, its bond of cohesion, and its When a man is opposed to Christianity, it
life-giving law. "
More than the Magna is because Christianity is opposed to him.
Charta itself,the Gospels are the roots of Your infidel is usually a person who resents
English liberty." That Magna Charta, and the opposition of Christianity to that in his
the Petition of Right, with our completing nature and life which Jesus came to rebuke
Declaration, was possible only because the and destroy. " Robert HalL
 CHRISTIANITY. 72 CHRISTIANITY.

"
Christianity is intended to be the guide, Learn of me," says the philosopher,
the guardian, the companion of all oar
"
and ye shall find restlessness.1* "
Learn
"
hours: to be the food of our immortal of me," says Christ, and ye shall find
spirits ; to be the serious occupation of our rest. "
"
Drummond.
whole existence. Jebb.
"

Christianity is the only system of faith

The task Christianity is
and triumph of which combines religious beliefs with cor-
responding

x /
to make men and nations true and just and principles of morality. "
It
unright in all their dealings, and to bring builds ethics on religion. " A. Phelps.
all law, as well as all conduct, into tion
subjec- Christianity as an idea begins with ing
think-
and conformity to the law of God. H. of God in the that
"

same way a true son

J. Van Dyke. thinks of his father
Christianity as ; a life,
Christianity works while infidelity talks. begins with feeling and acting toward God
She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, as a true son feels and acts toward his
visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the father." C. H. Parkhurst.
lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles Christ built no church, wrote no book,
"
nonsense and profanity. By their fruits left and erected
no money, no monuments ;
ye shall know them."" if. W. Beecher.
yet show me ten sauare miles in the whole
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached earth without Christianity, where the life

always from his lips, of and the purity of women

as pure as they came man are spected,
re-

the whole civilized world would now have and I will give up Christianity. "

been Christians." Drummond.

-Jefferson.
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Soc-
rates, Christendom is accounted for only by
or Aristotle, we feel that the specific Christianity ; and Christianity burst too
difference between their words and Christ's suddenly into the world to be of the world.
is the difference between an inquiry and a "
F. D. Huntington.
revelation. Joseph Parker. Christianity always suits well
"
us enough
Through its whole history the Christian so long as we suit it. A mere mental culty
diffi-
is not hard to deal with. With most
religionhas developed supreme affinities
for best things. For the noblest culture, of us it is not reason that makes faith hard,
for but life. Jean Ingelow.
purest morals, for magnificent litera-
tures, "

for most finished civilizations, for Christianity is missionary

a religion,con-
verting,
most energetic national temperaments, for advancing, aggressive, passing
encom-
most enterprising races, for the most virile the world church
; a non-missionary
and progressive stock of mind, it has mani-
fested is in the bands of death. " Max Muller.
irresistible sympathies. Judging If ever Christianity appears in its power,
its future by its past, no other
system of
it is when it erects its trophies upon the
human thought has so splendid a destiny. tomb ; when it takes up its votaries where
It is the only system which possesses dying
un-
the world leaves them ; and fills the breast
youth. " A. Phelps.
with immortal hope in dying moments. "

There's not much practical Christianity Robert Hall.

in the man who lives on better terms with
The real security of Christianity is to be
angelB and seraphs, than with his children, found in its benevolent morality ; in its ex-
servants, and neighbors. H. "
W. Beecher.
adaption to the human heart ; in the
Whatever men think of religion,the
?[uisite
acility with which it accommodates itself
may
historic fact is, that in the to the capacity of every human intellect ; in
proportion as
institutions of Christianity lose their hold the consolation which it bears to every

upon the multitudes, the fabric of society house of mourning ; and in the light with
is in peril. "
A. T. Pier son. which it brightens the great mystery of the

The Christian ideas grave. " Macaulay.

tendency of is to
mental growth. The mind must There was law, sect, opinion
"
expand never or or

that takes them in with cordial did much magnify goodness, the
sympathy. so as

The conversion of Saul of Tarsus wrought Christian religion doth. " Bacon.
in him intellectual well moral saved
an as as a Christianity mined emperors, but
revolution. " A. Phelps. peoples. "
It
opened the palaces of Constan-
tinople
has to the barbarians, but it opened the
Christianity its best exponents in the
lives of the saints. It is doors of cottages to the consoling angels
"
only when our

creeds into the iron of the blood that of Christ." Mussel.

pass
they become vital and organic. "
Faith if Christianity is intensely practical." She
not transmuted into
character, has lost its has no trait more striking than her common

power. " C. L. Thompson. sense. " Buxton.

 CHURCH. It CIRCUMSTANCES.

Christianity is the record of a pure and Surely the church is a place where one

holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, day's truce ought to be allowed to the sensions
dis-
a truth-speaker, and bent on serving, teach-
ing, and animosities of mankind. "

and uplifting men. It teaches that to " Burke.

love the Ail-perfect is happiness." son.
Emer- The church of Christ glories in her tory,
his-
in her
brotherhood, in her conquering
Christianity, rightly understood, is iden-
tical march over the world, as being the custo-
dian
with the highest philosophy ; the sential
es- of great ideas, as having furnished a

doctrines of Christianity are cessary

ne- complete account of the moral economy "

and eternal truths of reason. "

explaining sin, interpreting conscience,
Qoieridge. manifesting God, and paving the way for
The true social reformer is the faithful man's return to the Almighty."/. L.

and the Potion.

preacher of Christianity; only ganization
or-

truly potent for the perfection of It is the province of the church not only
Society,is the Christian church. "
I know of to offer salvation in the future, but to

nothing which, as a thought, is more super-

ficial, teach men how they ought to live in the
or which, as a feeling, is better tled
enti- present life. "
F. C. lionfort.
to be called hatred of
men, than that
The church is not a gallery for the bition
exhi-
which disregards the influence of the pel
gos-
of eminent Christians, but a school
in its efforts good, or attempts
for social
for the education of imperfect ones, a sery
nur-
to break its hold by destroying
on mankind
for the care of weak ones, a hospital
their faith in its living power." J. H. Seelye.
for the healing of those who need uous
assid-
Christianity is a religion which is jealous care." H W. Beecher.
in its demand*, but how infinitelyprodigal
I have seen much of the world and of
in its
gifts? If it troubles
"
you for an hour,
men, and if there
truth, purity, sound are
it repays you with immortality. Bulwer. "

morals, and right aims anywhere, you may

A fit abode, wherein appear enshrined find them in the Christian church. J. P. "

our hopes of immortality. " Byron. Thompson.

CHURCH*" The clearest window ever Men the pinnacles of the churches
say
fashioned, if it is barred by spider's webs, point to heaven ; so does every tree that
and hung over with carcasses of dead sects,
in- buds, and every bird that rises and sings. "

so that the sunlight cannot find its Thev say their aisles are good for worship ;
through, is of little use. Now the so is every rough seashore and mountain
way "

church is God" window, and if it is so glen. "

But this they have of distinct and
obscured by errors that its light becomes indisputable glory,that their mighty walls
darkness, how great is that darkness ! " were never raised, and never shall be, but
H. W.Beecher. by men who love and aid each other in their

Christian church is bodv collection weakness, and on the way to heaven.

A a or
"

Buskin.
of persons, voluntarily associated together,
professing to believe what Christ teaches, There ought to be such an atmosphere in
to do what Christ enjoins, to imitate his Christian church, that man going
every a

example, cherish his spirit, and make and sitting there should take the contagion
known his gospel to others. of heaven, and home a fire to kindle
carry
the church- the altar whence he came. H. W. Beecher.
Christ alone is the head of "

by his truth it ; by his authority

to instruct That is the only true church organization
to governby hie grace it ;
to quicken it ; when heads and hearts unite in working
by his providence to protect and guide it ; for the welfare of the human race." Lydia
by his Holy Spirit to sanctify and bless it ; Maria Child.
"
the source of its life, wisdom, unity,
and prosperity, dwelling with CIRCUMSTANCES. -He is happy
peace, power, whose circumstances suit his
it here on earth, and preparingits faithful temper ; out
dwell with him in he is more excellent who can suit nis per
tem-
members to forever
heaven. to any circumstances. "
Hume.

The church is the great uplifting and Men are the sport of circumstances, when

conserving in the world, without the circumstances seem the sport of men.
agency "

which the race would soon relapse into Byron.

barbarism, and press its way to perdition.
It is our relation to circumstances that
"/J. F. Sample. determines their influence over us. "
The
The way to preserve the peace of the samo wind that carries one vessel into port
church is to preserve its purity ."M. Henry. may blow another off shore. "
Bovee,
 CITIES. i*t CIVILITY.

Trivial circumstances, which show the I bless God for cities. " They have been
manners of the age, are often more structiveas
in- lamps of life along the pathways of
as well
entertaining, than
as the humanity and religion. Within them,
"

great transactions wars and of

negotiations, science has given birth to her noblest coveries.
dis-
which are nearly similar in all periods, and "
Behind their walls, freedom has
in all countries of the world. "
Hume. fought her noblest battles. " They have
stood on the surface of the earth like great
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak ;
hut the instruments of the wise." breakwaters, rolling back or turning aside
they are
the swelling tide of oppression. Cities, in-
deed, "

Samuel Loner.
have been the cradles of human erty.
lib-
Circumstances form the character ; but
"
They have been the active sentries of
like petrifying waters they harden while almost all church and state reformation. "

they form. "

L. E. London. Guthrie.
Men are not altered by their stances,
circum-
If you would know and not be known,
but give them ties
opportuni-
as they live in a CoUon.
city. "

of exerting what they are in themselves ;

and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the Men, by associating in large masses, as

which he in camps and cities, improve their talents,

most ugly form in can possibly
appear." Steele. but impair their virtues ; and strengthen
their minds, but weaken their morals. "

Occasions do not make a man either

Cotton.
strong or weak, but they show what he is. "

Thomas d Kempis. The conditions of city life may be made

Circumstances !" I make circumstances ! healthy, so far as the physical constitution

is concerned. "
But there is connected with
" Napoleon.
the business of the city so much tion,
competi-
CITIES*" The city is an epitome of the so much rivalry, so much necessity for
social world." All the belts of civilisation industry, that I think it is a perpetual,
intersect along its avenues. It contains " chronic, wholesale violation of natural law.
the products of every moral zone, and is "
There are ten men that can succeed in
cosmopolitan, not only in a nationahbut in the
country, where there is one that can

a moral and spiritual sense. E. H. Chapitu "

succeed in the city." H. W. Beecher.

Cities force growth, and make men tive

talka- Whatever makes men good Christians,
and entertaining, but they make them makes them good citizens." Daniel ster.
Web-
artificial." Emerson.

The union of men in large masses dispensable There

is in- is no solitude more dreadful for a

to the development and rapid stranger, an isolated man, than a great city.
growth of their higher faculties. "
Cities "
So many thousands of men, and not one
have always been the fireplaces of tion,
civiliza- friend. "
Boiste.
whence light and heat radiated out into
In the man's mind is free and
country, a
the dark, cold world. Theodore Parker.
"

easy, and at his own disposal ; but in the

God the first garden made, and Cain the city, the persons acquaint-
ance, of friends and
first city. " Cowley. one s own and other people'sbusiness,
foolish auarrelB, ceremonies, visits, imper-
tinent
I have found by experience, that they
discourses, and a thousand other
who have spent all their lives in cities, con-
tract
fopperies and diversions steal away the
not only an effeminacy of habit, but
greatest part of our time, and leave no sure
lei-
of thinking. "
Goldsmith.
for better and more necessary ment.
employ-
If you suppress the exorbitant love of
Great towns are but a larger sort of
pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniqui-
tous
prison to the soul, like cages to birds, or
purpose, and wanton mirth, what a
pounds to beasts. "
Charron.
stillness would there be in the greatest
cities. " Bruyere. C IV I L IT Y." (See "
Coubtmy.") vility
Ci-
is a charm that attracts the love of all
The city has always been the decisive tle
bat-
ground of civilization and It men ; and too much is better than to show
religion.
all the natural of
too little." Bp. Home.
intensifies tendencies
man. From its fomented energies, as well The general principles of urbanity, po-
liteness,
as -from its greater weight of numbers, the or civility,have been the same in
city controls. Ancient civilizations rose all nations ; but the mode in which they
an 1 fell with their
leading cities. In mod-
ern are dressed is continually varying. The
times, it is hardly too much to say,4 'as generalidea of showing respect is by ing
mak-
the city so goes the world." 8. J. Mc-
pherson. yourself less ; but the manner, whether
5oes
"

by bowing the body, kneeling, prostration,

 CLEANLINESS. 76 COMMANDERS.

CLEANLINESS." CleanlineM of body In general, indulgence for those we know,

was ever esteemed to proceed from a due is rarer than pity for those we know not."
reverence to God. "
Bacon. Rivarol.

Certainly, this is a duty" not a sin. " Clemency is profitable for all ; mischiefs
Cleanliness is, indeed, next to Godliness." contemned lose their force. "
Stretch.
John Wesley.
CLOUDS. "
Those playful fancies of the
Let thy mind's sweetness have its
tion
opera- mighty sky. "
Albert Smith,
npon thy body, thy clothes, ana thy
That looked as though an angel, in his
habitation. "Herbert.
upward flight, had left nis mantle floating
The consciousness of clean linen is, in, in mid-air. "
Joanna Baiilie,
and of itself,a source of moral strength,
My God, there go the chariots in which
second only to that of a clean conscience. "

thou rides t forth inspect thy fields,gar-

to dens,
A well-ironed collar fresh glove has
or a
meadows, forests, and plains. They "

carried many a man through an emergency are the curtains, which, atthy good pleas-
ure,
in which a wrinkle or a rip would have feated
de-
thou drawest as a covering over the
him." E. S. Phelps. that they not be withered and
Even from the purity the
body's mind
Slants,
estroyed by the
may
heat ; and not seldom are

receives a secret sympathetic aid. "

son.
Thom- they the arsenal in which thou keenest
thine artillery of thuuder and lightning,
So cleanliness at times to strike the children of meu with
great is the effect of upon
that it extends his moral reverential awe, or inflict on them some
man, even to
character. Virtue dwelt with great punishment. OoUhold.
"
never long "

filth nor do I believe there ever was per-

son a
; COMFORT." Of all created comforts,
scrupulously attentive to cleanliness is the lender: the
God
you are borrower,
who was a consummate villain. Rumford. the
"
not owner." Rutherford.
Beauty commonly produces love, but It little
is a thins; to speak a phrase of
cleanliness it." Age itself is not which has
preserves common comfort, by daily use
unamiable while it is preserved clean and lost of
almost its sense ; and yet, on the ear
unsullied like piece of metal constantly him die mourned, it will
" a who thought to un

kept smooth and bright, which we look on fall like the choicest music. " Talfourd.
with more pleasure than on a new vessel
I have enjoyed many of the comforts of
cankered with rust. "
Addison.
life,none of which I wish to esteem ly
light-
Cleanliness be recommended
may as a
; yet I confess any joy that is I know not
mark of politeness,as
produces affection, it so dear to fully satisfies the
me, that so

and as it bears analogy to purity of mind. " inmost desires of my mind, that so enli-
vens,
As it renders us agreeable to others, so it refines, and elevates my whole nature,
makes us easy to ourselves. "
It is an lent
excel- as that whicn I derive from religion" from
preservative of health ; and several faith in God." May this God be thy God,
"ices, destructive both to body and mind, thy refuge, thy comfort, as he has been
are inconsistent with the habit of it. " dison.
Ad- mine. "
Lavater.

Most of our comforts grow up between

CLEMENCY. " Clemency is not only our crosses. " Young.

the privilege, the honor, ana the duty of a The comforts we enjoy here below, are

prince, but it is also his

security, and better not like the anchor in the bottom of the
than all his garrisons, forts, and guards that holds fast in storm, but like the
sea, a
to preserve himself and his dominions in flag the top of the mast, that turns
upon
safety. It is the b lightest jewel in a arch's
mon- with wind. C. Love.
"

every "

crown. Stretch.
"

Giving comfort under affliction requires

Lenity will operate with greater force, in that penetration into the human mind,
some instances, than rigor. It is, there-
fore, "
joined to that experience which knows how
my first wish, to have whole to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridi-
cule,
my duct
con-

distinguished by it." Washington. taking the utmost care not to apply

those arts improperly. Fielding,
Clemency, which "

we make a virtue of,

proceedssometimes from vanity, sometimes COMMANDERS" He who rules must
from indolence, often from fear, and almost humor full as much as he commands."
always from a mixture of all three." foucauld.
Roche- George Eliot.
It is better to have a lion at the head of
As meekness moderates ency
clem- of the head
anger, so an army sheep, than a sheep at
moderates punishment. Stretch. of an of lions." /to Foe.
army
 COMMERCE. " i
COrfMOlT SENSE.

The right of commanding is no longer Commerce defies every wind, outrides

an advantage transmitted by nature ; like every tempest, and invades every zone."

an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the Bancroft.

price of courage. VoUaire.
"
Commerce is no missionary to carry more
A bravecaptain is as a root, out of which, or better than you have at home. "
But
as branches, the courage of his soldiers what you have at home, be it gospel,or
doth spring. Sir "
P. Sidney. be it drunkenness, commerce carries the
world over." E. E. Hale.
A man must require just and reasonable
things if he would the scales of dience
obe- COMMON 8EN8E.-(See
see "Sense.")
properly trimmed. From "
orders
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most
which are improper, springs resistance
uncommon. " It implies good judgment,
which is not easily overcome. "
Basil.
sound discretion, and true and practical
COMMERCE." I am wonderfully de-
lighted wisdom applied to common life. "
Tryon
to see body ofa men thriving in Edwards.
their own fortunes, and at the same time Fine and exalted not
sense, sense, are
promoting the public stock or, in; other half as useful as common sense. "
There are

words, rainingestates for their own lies

fami- of
forty men of wit to one man sense. " He
by bringing into their country ever
what- that will carry nothing about him but gold,
is wanting, and carrying out of it will be loss for readier
every day at a
whatever is superfluous. Addison.
"
change. "
Pope.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the To act with common sense according to
health and vigor of commerce, as it is to the moment, is the best wisdom I know ;
the health and vigor of citizenship. Pat-
rick "
and the best philosophy is to do one's
Henry. duties, take the world as it comes, submit

respectfully
to one's lot bless the goodness
Commerce tends to wear off those dices
preju- ;
that has given us so much happiness with
which maintain destruction and mosity
ani-
and it,whatever it is ; and despise affectation.
between nations. "
It softens "

polishes the manners of men. "

It unites Walpole.
them by one of the strongest of all ties "
the Common sense is the knack of seeing
desire of supplying their mutual wants. "
things as they are, and doing things as
It disposes them to peace by establishing in they ought to be done. "
C. E. Stowe.

every state an order of citizens bound by

"Knowledge, sense,", without common
their interest to be the guardians of public
says Lee, "is folly ; without method, it is
tranquillity." F. W. Robertson.
waste ; without kindness, it is fanaticism ;
Commerce has made all winds her sengers
mes- without religion, it is death." But with
all climes her tributaries all peo- is wisdom with method,
; : ples common
sense? it j
her servants. " Tryon Edwards. it is power ; with charity, it is beneficence :

Commerce well be termed the

with religion, it is virtue, and life, ana
may ger
youn-
peace. "
Farrar.
sister, for, in all emergencies, she looks
to agriculture both for defence and for sup- If a man can have only one kind of sense,
ply."
Cotton. let him have common sense. " If he has that
and uncommon sense too, he is not far
Every dollar spent for missions has
from genius." H. W. Beecher.
added hundreds to the commerce of the
world." JV". 0. Clark. He was one of those men who possess v

that the of almost gift, except the gift of the

It
may almost be held hope every
commercial has done nearly much power to use them. C. Kingsley.
gain as
"

for the cause of truth, as even the love of The of all faculties is common
crown
truth itself." Bovee.
sense. "
It is not enough to do the right
A well
regulated commerce is not like thing, it must be done at the right time and
law. physic,or divinity, to be over-stocked place. "
Talent knows what to do : tact knows
with Lands : but, on the contrary, flourishes when and how to do it." W. Matthews.

by multitudes, and gives employment to

The figure which a man makes in life,the
all its professors. Addison. with in company,
reception which he meets
"

A statesman may do much for commerce the esteem paid him by his acquaintance "

"
most, by leaving it alone. "
A river never all these depend as much upon his good
flows so smoothly as when it follows its serse and judgment, as upon any other
own course, without either aid or check. "
part of his character. A man of the best
intentions, and farthest removed from all
Let it make its own bed ; it will do so bet-
ter than you can. injustice and violence, would never be ablo
 COMMUNISM. IB COMPASSION.

to make himself much regarded, without a What is companionship where nothing

moderate share of parts and ing.
understand- that improves the intellect is cated,
communi-
" Hume. and where the larger heart contracts
itself to the model and dimension of the
Common sense is only a modification of
smaller 1"Landor.
talent." Genius is an exaltation of it. "
The
difference is, therefore, iu degree, not ture."
na- Wicked companions invite and lure us to

Buhoer. hell. " Fielding.

is Each has vein No man can possibly improve in any
No man quite sane. "
a

mination
deter- company for which he has not respect
of follyin his composition" a slight
of blood to the head, to make sure enough to be nnder some degree of re*

of holding him hard to some one point strain t. " Chesterfield.

which he has taken to heart." Emerson. No man can be provident of his time,
has not the brilliancy who is not prudent in the choice of his com-
pany.
If common sense

of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars." " Jeretny Taylor.
CabaUei-o. Evil companions are the devil's agents
whom he sends abroad into the world to
)ne pound of learning requires ten
Per' debauch virtue, and to advance his dom
king-
v pounds of common sense to apply it."
sian Proverb. ; and by these ambassadors he effects
more than he could in his own person. "

If you haven't grace, the Lord can give

Anthony Horneck.
it to you. "
If you haven't learning, 1*11 help
if you haven't Take rather than give the tone of the
you to get it." But common

Lord in. If have parts,

V sense, neither L nor the give it can compauv you are "

you
to John Brown (of Haddington, to you will show them, more or less, upon
you."
his every subject ; and if you have not, you
students).
had better talk sillily upon a subject of
COMMUNISM." What is a ist?"
commun- other people'schoosing than of your own. "

One who has yearnings for equal Chesterfield.

division of unequal earnings." Idler or The most agreeable of all companions is
bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny a simple, frank man, without any high pre-
tensions
and pocket your shilling. "
Ebeneter Elliott. to an oppressive greatness ; one
Your levelers wish to level down as far as who loves life, and understands the use of
themselves. "
But
they cannot bear leveling it ; obliging, alike, at all hours : above all,
to themselves. They would all have of a goideu temper, and steadfast as an
up "

some people under them. Why not then "

anchor. "
For snch an one we gladly change
ex-

have some people above them ?" Johnson, the greatest genius, the most liant
bril-
wit, the profoundest thinker. "
ing.
Leas-
Communism possesses a language which

every people can understand." Its elements

are hunger, envy, and death. "
Heine. COMPARISON.-If we rightly esti-
mate
what we call good and evil, we shall
COMPANION8HIP.-(8ee n
Associ- find it lies much in comparison. Locke. "

ATM.") The of is
superiority some men merely
Good company, and good discourse are local." They are great because their ates
associ-
the very sinews of virtue." Izaak Walton. are little. "
Johnson.

It is good discretion not to make too When the moon shone we did not see the
much of any man at the first,because one candle : so doth the greater glory dim the
cannot hold out in that proportion. Bacon. "
less. " A substitute shines lightly as a king
until a king be by, and then nis state ties
emp-
It is expedient to have an acquaintance
iteelf, as doth an inland brook into the
with those who have looked into the world ;
main of waters. " Shakespeare.
who know men, understand business, and
can give you good intelligence and good COM PASSION ""There never was any
advice when they are wanted. Bp. Home. heart truly great and that was
"
generous,
not also tender and compassionate."
Be cautious with whom you associate,
8outh.
and never give your company or your fidence
con-

to those of whose good principles It is the crown of justice and the glory,
you are not sure. "
Bp. Coleridge. where it may kill with right, to save with
pity. " Beaumont and Fletcher.
No company is preferable to bad, because
The dew of compassion is tear."
we are more apt to catch the vices of others a

than their virtues, as disease is far more Byron.

contagious than heaJtK" Cotton, Compassion to an offender who has
 COMPENSATION. 79 COMPLAINING.

i
ly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty alile, and an inferior acceptable. It
to the peaceable subject who lius observed smooths distinction, sweetens conversation,
them. Junius. and makes every one in the
"
company
dismiss from his pleased with himself. It produces good
Man may compassion
God nature and mutual benevolence, encour-
heart, but will never. " Cowper. ages
the timorous, soothes the turbulent,
COMPENSATION.-There is wisdom humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a
the that
in saying of Feltham, the whole society of civilized persons from a sion
confu-
creation is kept in order by cuWord, and of savages." Addison.
that vicissitude maintains the world. "

Complacency is a coin by the aid of which

Many evils briup many blessing*." Manna
alf the world can. for want of essential
drops in the wilderness. "
Corn grows in
means, pay its club bill in society." It ia
Canaan." W"mott.
necessary, however, that it may lose noth-
ing
Ail advantages are attended with vantages.
disad- of its merits, to associate judgment and
A universal compensation vails
pre-
"

prudence with it." Voltaire.

in all conditions of being and exis-
tence.
Hume.
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce
"

reckoned in the number of moral virtues,

No evil is without its compensation. "
is that which gives a luster to every talent
The less money, the less trouble. The less
"

a man can be possessed of." I would advise

favor, the less envy. "
Even in those cases
every man of learning, who would not
pear
ap-
which put us out of our wits, it is not the
scholar
the of the loss that
a mere or philosopher,to make
loss itself,but estimate himself master of this social virtue. " dison.
Ad-
troubles us." Seneca,

Whatever difference may appear in the

Complaisance pleases all : prejudices
fortunes of mankind,
is,nevertheless, there
none adorns wit renders humor
of good and
; ; able
agree-
a certain compensation evil
; augments friendship ; redoubles
which makes them equal." If. Rochefou-
cauld. love ; and united with justice and osity,
gener-
becomes the secret chain of the ciety
so-
If the poor man cannot always get meat, of mankind." If. de Scuderi.
the rich man cannot always digest it."
Giles. COMPLAININQ.-We do not wisely
makes he when we vent complaint and censure." We
If poverty man groan, yawns
When cry out for a little pain, when we do but
in opulence. "
fortune exempts us

overwhelms with smile for a great deal of contentment."

from labor, nature us
Feltham.
time. "
Rivarol.

When disposed to be vain of Everyone must see daily instances of

you are your
mental acquirements, look up to those who people who complain from a mere habit of

are more accomplished than yourself, that complaining ; and make their friends easy,
un-

when and strangers merry, by murmuring

yon may be fired with emulation ; but
stances,
circum- at evils that do not exist, and repining at
yon feel dissatisfied with your
look down on those beneath you,
grievances which they do not reallyfeel. "

that learn contentment." H. Graves.

you may
More. I will chide no brother in the world but
myself, against whom I know most faults.
When fate has allowed to any man more

than one great gift, accident or necessity " Shakespeare.

usually to contrive that shall The who is fond of
seems one man
complaining,
encumber and impede the other." burne.
Swin- likes to remain amid the objects of his
vexation. " It is at the moment that he clares
de-
without them insupportable that he will most
As there is no worldly gain some

loss, so there is no worldly loss without strongly revolt against every means posed
pro-
some gain." If thou hast lost thy wealth, for his deliverance." This is what
thou hast lost trouble with it "If thou suits him. "
He asks nothing better than to
some

thou art wise

like- sigh over his position and to remain in it.
art degraded from thy honor,
freed from the stroke of If "
Gvizol.
envy."
sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath I will not be as those who spend the day
delivered thee from pride. Set the allow-
ance in
"

complaining of headache, and the night

against the loss and thou shalt find no in drinking the wine that gives it. "
Goethe.
loss great." He loses little or nothing who
Murmur at nothing : if our ills are irre-
reserves himself ."Quarles.
it is ungrateful if remediless, it
COMPLACEN -Complaisance CY.
1"arable,
vain.
s A Christian builds
;
his fortitude
renders a superior amiable, an equal agree- on a better foundation than stoicism ; he
 COMPLIMENTS. 60 CONCEIT.

is pleased with everything that happens, It is vanity driven from all other shifts,
because he knows it could not happen un-
less and forced to appeal to itself for tion.
admira-
it had first pleased God and that which "
Hazlilt.
pleases Him must be the best. Colton.
"
It is wonderful how near conceit is to sanity
in-
The usual fortune of complaint is to ! "
Jerrold.
excite contempt more than pity. Johnson, Wind
"

puffs up empty bladders ; opinion,

I have alwayB despised the whining yelp fools. " Socrates.
of complaint, and the cowardly feeble He who gives himself airs of importance,
resolve. Burns. exhibits the credentials of
"

impotence."
Lavater.
COMPLIMENTS." Compliments are

clothes. The overweening self-respectof conceited

only lies in court "
Sterling.
men relieves others from the duty of specting
re-
A deserved and discriminating ment
compli-
them at all." if. W. Beecher.
is often one of the strongest couragements
en-
and incentives to the dent
diffi- Conceit is nature, what
to paint is to
and self-distrustful. " Tryon Edwards. beauty : it is only needless, but it im-
not pairs
wnat it would improve. Pope. "

A compliment is usually accompanied

with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying The more one speaks of himself, the lest
it." Hart. he likes to hear another talked of ."Lavater,

Compliments of congratulation are ways

al- They say that every one of us believe*
kindly taken, and cost nothing but in his heart, or would like to have others
ink, and paper. I consider them as believe, that he is something which he if
pen,
draughts upon good breeding, where the not. " Thackeray.
exchange is always greatly in favor of the Conceit and confidence are both of them
drawer. Chesterfield. cheats. The first always itself
"

" imposes on :

Compliments which we think are served,

de- the second frequently deceives others."
we accept only as debts, with ference
indif- Zimmerman.
; but tnose which conscience forms
in-
A man "
poet, prophet, or whatever he
us we do not merit, we receive with
may be " readily persuades himself of his
the gratitude that do favors given
same we
right to all the worship that is voluntarily
away." Goldsmith. tendered. Hawthorne.
"

COMPROMISE." Compromise is bnt None are so seldom found alone, or are

the sacrifice of one right or good in the so soon tired of their own as
company,
hope of retaining another," too often ing
end- those coxcombs who are on the best terms
in the loss ox both. "
Tryon Edwards. with themselves. "
Colton.
From the beginning of our history the No man was ever so much deceived by
country has been afflicted with compro-
mise. another, as by himself. " OreviUe.
It is by compromise that human
Every man, however makes
little, a figure
rights have been abandoned. I insist that
in his own eyes. "
Home.
this shall cease. The country needs
repose
It is the admirer of himself, and not the
after all its trials : it deserves repose. And
admirer of virtue, that thinks himself
repose can only be found in everlasting perior
su-

to others. Plutarch.
principles." Charles Sumner. "

The weakest spot in every man is where

CONCEALMENT.- (See "Crime.") he thinks himself to be the wisest. mons.
Em-
"

To conceal anything from those to whom I

am attached, is not in my nature. "
I can
The best of lessons, for a good many
never close my lips where I have opened
ople, would be, to listen at a key-hole."
my heart. "
Dickens.
ff
t is a pityfor such that the practice is dis-
honorable.
He who can conceal his joys, is greater "
Mad. Swetchine
than he who can hide his griefs. "
Lavater,
If he could only see how small a vacancy
It is great cleverness to know how to ceal
con-
his death would leave, the proud man
our cleverness. Rochefoucauld
"

would think less of the

place ne occupies
"Thou shalt not get found out" is not in his life-time. " Legouve.
one of God's commandments ; and no man
One's self-satisfaction is sn untaxed kind
can be saved by trying to keep it. nard
Leo-
"
of property, which it is very unpleasant te
Bacon.
find depreciated. " George Eliot.
"
CONCEIT. " (See Self-conceit.) If its colors were but fast colors, self-con
Conceit is the most contemptible,and one oeit would be a most comfortable quality."
of the most odious qualitiesin the world." Bat life is so bumbling, mortifying, dis^p-
"'" "'

i.~

R "%
s
 CONDUCT. 81 CONFIDENCE. .

pointing to vanity, that a great man's idea that he is wiser to-day than he was day.
yester-
of himself gets washed oat of him by the " Pope. "

time he is forty. "

C. Buxton. The confession of evil works is the first
I've never any pity for conceited people, beginning of good works. " Augustine.
because I think they carry their comfort
Why does no man confess his vices? "

about with them. " QeorgeJStiot. because he is yet in them. "

It is for a ing
wak-
Conceit may pnff a man up, but can never man to tell his dream. "
/Seneca.

prop liim up. Ruskin. ashamed have

"
Be not to confess that you

We uniformly think too well of ourselves. been in the wrong. It is but owning what
But self-conceit is the
specially mark of a you need not be ashamed of" that you now

small and narrow mind. Great and noble have more sense than you had before, to
natures most free from it. error ; more humility to acknowl-
edge
are see your
it, more grace to correct it. "
Seed.
CONDUCT* "
Conduct is the great pro-
fession.
Behavior is the
If thou
wouldst justified,acknowledge be
perpetual reveal-
ing
that confesses
thine injustice. He his- sin,"

of us. What does, tells us what

a man
begins his journey toward salvation. He "

he is. "
F. D. Huntington.
that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He "

If we do not weigh and consider to what

it, is at his journey's end.
-
that forsakes "

end life is thereupon order

given us, and
Quarles.
and dispose it aright, pretend what we will actions it
It is not our wrong which re*
as to arithmetic, we do not, and cannot
quires courage to confess, so much as those
number our days in the narrowest and
which are ridiculous and foolish. "
Jtous~
most limited signification. "
Clarendon.
seau.
It is not enough that yon form, and even
Confession of sin comes from the offer
follow the most excellent rules for conduct-
ing
yourself in the world ; you must, also,
of mercy. "
Mercy displayed causes fession
con-

to flow, and confession flowing opens

know when to deviate from them, and
the for mercy. If I have not a trite
con-
where lies the exception. "
Oreville. way "

heart, God's mercy will never be

Fools measure actions, after they are
if God had not manifested his
mine ; but
done, by the event ; wise men beforehand, in Christ, I could never have had a '
mercy
by the rules of reason and right. The
contrite heart. AmoU
"

former look to the end, to judge of the act.

Let me look to the act, and leave the end CONFIDENCE." Trust men and they
with God." Bp. Hall. will be true to ; treat them greatly and
you
is to be measured they will show themselves great. Emerson.
The integrity of by
"

men
their conduct, not by their professions. " Trust not him that hath once broken
Junius. faith." Shakespeare.
I will govern my life and my thoughts as He that does not respect confidence will
if the whole world were to see the one and never find happiness in his path. " The lief
be-
read the other. " For what does it signify in virtue vanishes from his heart ; the
to make anything secret to neighbor, source of nobler actions becomes extinct
a my
when to God, who is the searcher of our in him." A.uffenberg.
hearts, all our privacies are open. "
Seneca. Confidence is a plant of slow growth ;
whatever especially in aged bosom. Johnson.
Every one of us, our tive
specula- an "

opinions, knows better than he tices,

prac- Trust him with little, who, without
and recognizes better law than he with everything, when
a
proofs,trusts you or

obeys. " Froude. he has proved you, with nothing. "

Lavater.

In all the affairs of life let it be your When we trust ourselves too
young,
great care, not to hurt vonr mind, or offend much and we trust others too little when
;
your judgment. And this rule, if observed " old." Bashness is the error of youth ; timid
carefully in all your deportment, will be a caution of age. "
Manhood is the isthmus
mighty security to you in your ings.
undertak- between the two extremes "
the ripe and
Epietetus.
" fertile season of action when, only, we can
thou to find the head to contrive, united
All the while that livest ill,thou hope
hast iences
inconven- with the hand to execute." Colton.
the trouble, distraction, and
of life, but not the sweet and true is built trust, and trust
Society upon
use of it." Fuller. confidence in one another's integrity.
upon
should "South.
CONFESSION^ "
A man never

be ashamed to own he has been in the All confidence Is dangerous, if it is not

entire; ought most occasions to
wrong) which is but saying, in other words, we on

0
 CONFIDENCE. 82 CONSCIENCE.

"peak all. or conceal all. We have already but where a man ought either to say

sions
too much disclosed our secrets to a
man, all, or conceal all ; for, how little soever

from whom we think any one single stance

circum- you have revealed of
your secret to a friend,
is to be concealed. Bruyere. have already said too much if you think
"
yon
Let us have a care not to disclose our
it not safe to make him privy to all par-
ticulars.
hearts who shut theirs Beaumont.
to those up against "

n a. Beaumont,
CONSCIENCE*
"

"
Conscience ! science
con-
Fields are won by those who believe in ! man's most faithful friend !"

winning. "
T. W. Higginson. Crabbe.

They can conquer who believe they can. "

Man's conscience is the oracle of God. "

Dryden. Byron.
Confidence imparts a wondrous tion
inspira- Conscience is the reason, employed about
its possessor.
to It "
bears him on in questions of right and wrong, and panied
accom-

security, either to meet no danger, or to with the sentimentB of approbation

find matter of glorious trial. "
Mxllon. or condemnation. "
WheweU.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens A tender conscience is an inestimable
only to the heart tnat opens in return. "
blessing ;
that is, a conscience only
not
Maria Edgeworth. quick to discern what is evil, but instantly
Confidence in one's self,though the chief to shun it,as the eyelid closes itself against

doth leave the the mote." N. Adams.

nurse of magnanimity, not

care of necessary furniture for it : of all The truth is not so much that man has
the Grecians, Homer doth make Achilles that conscience has
conscience, as man "

the best armed. "

Sir P. Sidney. Dorner.
I could never pour out my inmost soul
It is far more important to me to preserve
without reserve to any human
being, out
with-
an unblemished conscience than to compass
danger of one day repenting my fidence.
con-
any object however great. " Channing.
" Burns.
He will easily be content and at peace,
There are cases in which a man would be
whose conscience is pure. "
Thomas d
ashamed not to have been imposed upon. Kempis.
There is a confidence necessary to human
Conscience is God's vicegerent on earth,
intercourse, and without which men are

often more injured bv their own suspi-

cions, and, within the limited jurisdiction given
to it, it partakesof his infinite wisdom and
than they could be by the perfidy of
speaks in his tone of absolute command.
others. "
Burke.
It is a revelation of the being of a God, a
Self -trust is the essence of heroism. "

divine voice in the human aonL making

Emerson.
known the presence of its rightful eign,
sover-
Confidence, in conversation, has a greater the author of the law of holiness and
share than wit. " Rochefoucauld. truth. Bowen.
"

Confidence in another man's virtue, is no I feel within above all earthly

me a peace
slight evidence of one's own. " Montaigne. dignities, a .still and quiet conscience. "

If we are truly prudent we shall cherish Shakespeare.

those noblest and happiest of our dencies
ten- If conscience smite thee it is an
once,
to love and to confide. Buhner. condemnation.
" "

admonition ; if twice, it is a

Trust him little who praisesall him less other is dark one's
; What dungeon so as
who censures all : and nim least who is in-
different heart ! What inexorable
own jailer so as
to all. Lavater. self \" Hawthorne.
"
one's
To confide, even though to be betrayed, mas.
Christ-
A good conscience is a continual
is much better than to learn only to ceal.
con-
"
Franklin.
"
In the one case your neighbor wrongs
but in the other are perpetually
Conscience is merely our own judgment
you ;"

yon
Simms.
of the right or wrong of our actions, and
doing injustice to yourself. "

so can never be a safe guide unless lightened

en-
Never put much confidence in such as
by the word of God." Tryon
confidence in others. A
Sut
suspect
j
no

evil is mostly looking

man prone
in his
Edfrards.

We cannot live better than in seeking to

neighbor for what he sees in himself. As
to the all things are even so to become better, nor more agreeably than in
pure pure,
the all having a clear conscience. Socrates.
impure things are impure." Hare. "

All confidence which is not absolute and The voice of conscience is so delicate
entire, is dangerous. "
There are few occa- that it is easy to stifle it ; but it is also so
 CONSCIENCE. 83 CONSCIENCE.

clear that it is impossible to mistake it. "

fearful realities of the life to come." E. B.
Mad. de Stael. GilleU.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, as He that is conscious of crime, however

the passions are the voice of the body. "
bold by nature, becomes a coward. "
Menan-
No wonder they often contradict each der.
other. "
Rousseau. Conscience friend before it
warns ub as a

A conscience void of
offence, before God punishes as a judge. "
Stanislaus.
and man, is an inheritance for eternity. "
Conscience tells us that we ought to do
Daniel Webster. it does tell what
right, but not us right is"
A good conscience is the palace of Christ ; that we are taught by God's word." H. C.
the temple of the Holy Ghost ; the paradise Trumbull.
of delight; the standing Sabbath of the
That conscience approves of given
any
saints. Augustine. of
"
course action, is, of itself,an obligation.
To eudeavor to domineer over conscience, " Bp. Butler.
is to invade the citadel of heaven. "
Conscience has notliing to do as lawgiver
Charles V.
or judge, but is a witness against me if 1
Conscience is the true vicar of Christ in do and which if I do
wrong, approves right.
the soul prophet in its information
; a ; a "
To act against conscience is to act against
monarch peremptoriness ; a priest in
in its reason and God's law.
its blessings or anathemas, according as we Conscience is not law. "
No. "
God has
obey or disobey it. J. Newman.
"
made and reason recognizes the law, and
Conscience, in most men, is bnt the pation
antici- conscience is placed within us to prompt
of the opinions of others. " Tay lor. to the right, and warn against the wrong.
No man ever offended his own conscience, A disciplinedconscience is a man's best
bnt first or last it was revenged npon him friend. It not be his most amiable,
"
may
for it" South. but it is his most faithful monitor. " A.

Conscience, honor, and credit, are all in Phelps.

our interest ; and without the concurrence What conscience dictates to be done, or

of the former, the latter are but tions

imposi- warns me not to do, this teach me more

upon ourselves and others. "

Steele. than hell to shun, that more than heaven

There is no 'future can deal that pursue. " Pope.

pang
the self -condemned, he deals A good conscience is to the soul what
justiceon on

his own soul. " Byron. health is to the body ; it preserves constant
ease and serenity within us, and more
If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thine
heart than countervails all the calamities and flictions
af-
own conscience, and examine thine :
which can befall us without. Adr
if thou be guilty, it is a just correction ; if "

dison.
not guilty, it is a fair instruction. Make
use of bcth " so shalt thou distil honey out Labor to keep alive in your heart that
of gall, and out of an open enemy make a little spark of celestial fire called science.
con-

secret friend. " Quarles. Washington.

"

We never do evil so thoroughly and ily

heart- There is no class of men so difficult to
as when led to it by an honest but verted,
per- be managed in a state as those whose tentions
in-
because mistaken, conscience. " are honest, but whose consciences
Tryon Edwards. are bewitched. "
Napoleon.
Conscience is a great ledger book in Preserve conscience always soft and
your
which all our offences are written and istered,
reg- sensitive. If but one sin force its way iuto
and which time reveals to the sense that tender part of the soul and is suffered
and feeling of the offender." Burton. to dwell there, the road is paved for a sand
thou-

Our conscience is fire within and iniquities. Watts.

a us, "

our sins as the fuel : instead of warming, Tenderness of conscience is always to be

it will scorch unless the fuel be moved,
re- from The
us, distinguished scrupulousness.
the heat of it be allayed by peni-
tential be too sensitive
or conscience cannot kept
tears." J. M. Mason. from
and tender ; but scrupulousnessarises
There is no witness so terrible " no cuser
ac- bodily or mental infirmity, and discovers

so powerful as conscience which itself in a multitude of ridiculous, stitious,

super-
dwells within us. " Sophocles. and painful feelings." Cecil.

Conscience, true as the needle to the pole The men who succeed best in public life

points steadily to the pole-star of God's h re those who take the risk of Hta tiding by
eternal justice, reminding the soul of the their own convictions."/. A. Garjield,
 CONSCIENCE. 84 CONSERVATISM.

Cowardice asks. Is it safe? Expediency otherwise, what does it signify to hav6

asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popu-
lar? nobody else know it{so long as I know it
bat Conscience askB, Is it right? "
mvself ? "
Miserable is he who Blights that
Punshon. witness. "
Seneca.

A wounded conscience is able to unpara- Conscience is not given to a man to struct

in-
dise paradise itself. "
Fuller. him in the light, but to prompt him

clear and cided

de- to choose the right instead of the wrong
Were conscience always
could when he is instructed as to what is light.
in its awards, we scarcely
It tells man that he ought to do right, Dut
remain unconsoled for the resignationof a

him what
does not tell is right. And if a
any delight, however delightful. "
It is
is the real malicious man has made up his mind that a certain
doubt in all cases, that
devil. Mrs. Alexander. wrong course is the right one, the more he
"

follows his conscience the more hopeless he

The torture of a bad conscience is the
is as a wrong-doer. One is pretty far gone
hell of a living soul. Calvin.
"

in an evil way when he serves the devil

Keep your conduct abreast of your science
con- conscientiously. "
H. C. Trumbull.
and very soon your conscience
What we call conscience, is, in many
will be illumined by the radiance of God."
instances, only a wholesome fear of the
W. M. Taylor. constable. "
Booee.
A man of integrity will never listen to
Conscience, though ever so small a worm
any reason against conscience. "
Home.
while we live,grows suddenly into a serpent
In the of evil, fear
commission
no man
on our death-bed. " Jerrold.
so much thyself. Another is but
as one "

I am more afraid of my own heart, than

witness against thee ; thou art a thousand. all his cardinals. I have
of the Pope and "

"
Another thou mayst avoid, thyself thou
Wickedness is its
within me the great Pope, self. " Luther.
canst not " own ment."
punish-
Quarles. Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in
awe of none more than of tnine own science.
con-
My dominion ends where that of science
con-
"
There is a Cato in every man "
a
begins. " Napoleon.
severe censor of his manners. "
And he that
Many a lash in the dark, doth conscience
reverences this judge will seldom do thing
any-
give the wicked. Boston.
"
he need repent of. Burton. "

Trust that man in nothing who has not a

Conscience is justice'sbest minister. "
It
conscience in everything. Sterne. "

and
threatens, promises, rewards, pun-
ishes,
He who commits a wrong will himself evitably
in- and keeps all under its control."
see the writing on the wall, though The busy must attend to its remonstrances ;
the world may not count him guilty. " the most powerful submit to its reproof,
Tapper, and the
angry endure its upbraidings. "

Some persona follow the dictates of their While conscience is our friend, all is peace ;
conscience, only in the same sense in which but if once offended, farewell to the quil
tran-

a coachman be said to follow the hones mind." Mary Worttey Montague.

may
he is driving. " Whately. astonishing how
It is soon the whole science
con-
Conscience doth make cowards of ub alL" begins to unravel if a single stitch
Shakespeare. drops. One single sin indulged in makes
"
a

hole you could put your head through.

The foundation of true joy is in the con*
"

science. Seneca. C. Buxton.

"

A quiet conscience makes one so serene." CONSERVATISM." A conservative is

Byron. a man who will not look at the new moon,
A clean and sensitive conscience, a stead-
fast out of respect for that "ancient tion,"
institu-
and the old Jerrold.
scrupulous integrity in small one. "

things as well as great, is the most valuable We are reformers in spring and mer.
sum-
of all possessions, to a nation as to an vidual
indi- "
In autumn and winter we stand
"
H. J. Van Dyke. by the old. Reformers in the morning
"
;
Conscience "
that vicegerent of God in conservatives night." Reform at is s tive
norma-
the human heart, whose still, small voice ; conservatism, negative. "
tism
Conserva-
the loudest revelry cannot drown. "
W. H. goes for comfort ; reform for truth."
Harrison, Emerson.

A good conscience fears no witness, but Conservatism, in its place, is good, snd
a guilty conscience is solicitous even in so is
gravitation. But if there were no "

solitude. "
If we do nothing but what is upspringing and renovating force, where
honest, let all the world know it." But if would be the growth of the flowers and
 CONSIDERATION. 85 CONSTANCY.

fruits? "
Centripetalforces are well anced
bal- God has commanded time to console the
centrifugal ;" and
by only thus are unhappy. "
Jonbert.
the planets kept to their orbits. " Tryon For bad there might be a worse
every ;
Edwards. and when one breaks his
leg let hiin be
The highest function of conservatism is thankful it was not his neck. Bp. Sail. "

to keep what progressiveness has plished."

accom-
Consolation, indiscreetly pressed upon
R. U. Fulton. when
ns we are suffering under affliction,
A conservative yonng man has wound up only serves to increase our pain and to ren-
der

his life before it was unreeled. "

We expect our grief more poignant." Rousseau.
old men to be conservative, but when a
Nothing does so establish the mind amidst
nation's young men are so, its funeral bell the rollings and turbulences of present
is already tolled." H. W. Beecher.
things, as to look above them and beyond
The conservative may clamor against re-
form, them "
above them, to the stead v and good
but he might as well clamor against hand by which they are ruled, and yond
be-
the centrifugal force. "
He sighs for'4 the them, to the sweet and beautiful
good old times." "
He might as well wish end to which, by that hand, they will be
the oak back into the acorn. "
E. H. Chapin. brought. Jeremy Taylor. "

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the

CONSIDER ATION.-Betteritisto the
most welcome and efficient consolation to
right conduct of life to consider what will
the afflicted. "
Said a wise man to one in
be the end of a thing, than what is the ginning
be-
deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort
of it ; for what promises fair at
you ; God only can do that ; but I did come
first, may prove ill,and what seems at first
tageous.
advan-
to
say how deeply and tenderly I feel for
a disadvantage, may prove very
affliction."
Wells. you in your " Tryon Edwards.
"

The powers of lime as a comforter can

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom
hardly be overstated ; but the agency by
may be expected to grow, and strength be
which he works is exhaustion. " L. E. don.
Lon-
given to every upspringing plant of duty. "

Emerson.

CONSISTENCY." (See tency.")

"Inconsis- CONSPIRACY." Conspiracy" a game
invented for the amusement of unoccupied
men of rank.
With consistencv a great soul has simply
do." fie may well Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
nothing to as concern

himself with his shadow the wall. than executed. "

Addison.
on "

Emerson. Combinations of wickedness would over*

is far from whelm the world

by the advantage which
Intellectual consistency being
the first want of and is seldom licentious principles afford, did not those
our nature,
in minds of who have long practiced perfidy grow less
faith-
a primary want great per-
suasive,
from to each other. Johnson.
as distinguished convincing "

power. "
Strahan. Conspiracies, like thunder clouds, should
Inconsistency with past views or conduct in a moment form and strike like lightning,
of the sound is heard. Dow.
may be but a mark increasing knowledge ere "

ana wisdom. Tryon Edwards. is the

"
CONSTANCY." Constancy com-

Those who honestly to be true of all other human virtues."

themselves more
mean

rarely than
tradict
con-
those
Slement
fasOnni.
who try to be consistent. 0. W. Holmes. The
"
secret of success is constancy of pur-
pose.
Without consistency there is no moral "
DisraeU.
strength Owen. A it is not mine Could
."
good man to see.

Either take Christ into your lives, or cast I see a man possessed of
constancy, that
him ont of your lips. "
Either be what thou would satisfy me. " Confucius.
seemest, or else be what thou art. " Dyer. It is often constancy to change the mind.
He who prays as he ought, will endeavor "
Hbole.
to live as he prays. Owen. Without there is neither love,
"

constancy
friendship, nor virtue in the world. "
son.
Addi-
CONSOLATION." Before an tion
afflic-
is digested, consolation comes too soon ;
and after it is digested, it comes too late I am constant Northern
as star, of the
;
but there is a mark between these two, as
whose true-fixed resting quality there
and

almost for comforter is no fellow in the firmanent. Shakespeare.

fine as a hair, a to "

take aim at." Sterne. Constancy to truth and principle may

 CONTEMPLATION. 80 CONTENTMENT.

sometimes lead to what the world calls constancyAnd

in- man hath sting, which he
every a may,
in conduct. " Tryon Edwards. if provoked too far, dart out at one time
or another. Burton.
0 heaven ! were man bnt constant, he "

were perfect." Shakespeare. Despise not any man, and do not spurn
anything ; for there is no man that hath
CONTEMPLATION.-Thereisasweet his there
not hour, nor is anything that
pleasure in contemplation ; and when a
hath not its place. "
Rabbi Ben Azai.
man hath run through a set of vanities in
The basest and of all human
meanest
the declension of his age, he knows not
beinps are generally the most forward to
what to do with himself u he cannot think.
despise others. So that the most contempt-
ible
"BlounL
"

are generally the must contemptuous.

J In order to improve the mind, we ought "
Fielding.
less to learn, than to contemplate. "
cartes.
Des-
Contempt is commonly taken by the
for an evidence of understanding
young ;
Contemplation is to knowledge, what di- but it is neither difficult to acquire, nor
v gestion is to food" the way to get life out
meritorious when acquired. To discover
of it. Tryon Edwards. the
"

imperfections penetration ; of others is

A contemplative life has more the ance
appear- to hate them for their fan Its is contempt.
of piety than any other; but the We may be clear-sighted without being ma-
levolent,

divine plan is to bring faith into activity and make use of the errors we
and exercise. "
Cecil. discover, to learn caution, not to gratify
Let unite with action. satire." byttnvy Smith.
us contemplation "

In the harmony of the two, lies the tion

perfec- Christ saw much in this world to weep
character. and much he
They ; but
of " are not dictory
contra- over, to pray over saw
and incompatible, but mutually nothing in it to look upon with contempt. "

v
helpful to each other. Contemplation will "
E. H. Chapin.
strengthen for action, and action sends ns

back to contemplation, and thus the inner CONTENTION." Weakness on both

and outer life will be Harmoniously oped.

devel- sides, is, as we know, the trait of all rels.
quar-
Foote.
Voltaire.
"
"

Contention is like fire, for both burn so

CONTEMPT." There is not in human
long as there is any exhaustible matter
nature a more odious disposition than a
to contend within." Only herein it scends
tran-
pronenes8 to contempt, which is a mixture
fire, for fire begets not matter, but
of pride and ill-nature. "
Nor is there any
consumes it: debates beget matter, but
which more certainly denotes a bad sition
dispo- consume it not. "
T. Adams.
;
for in a good and benign temper,
there be It is thing to maintain
as hard
a sound a
can no room for it. " It is the truest

symptom of a base and bad heart. "

Fielding. understanding, a tender conscience, a

lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an

It is often more to conceal tempt
con-
necessary upright life in the midst of contention, as
than resentment, the former being to keep your candle lighted in the greatest
never forgiven, but the latter sometimes
storms. " Baxter.
forgot. Wrongs are often forgiven ; con-
tempt
Religions contention is the devil's har-
vest.
never. "
Chesterfield.
"Fontaine.
None but the contemptible are apprehen-
sive
of contempt. Rochefoucauld.
"
Never contend with one that is foolish,
proud, positive, testy, or with a superior,
Contempt is the only way to triumph or a clown, in matter of argument." Fuller.
over calumny. " Mad. de Mainlenon.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one
1 have unlearned contempt. It is a sin
rises, he is the wise who lets the
"

man test
con-
that is engendered earliest in the soul, fall. "
Plutarch.
and doth beset it like a poison-worm, ing
feed-
all its P. Willis. I never love those salamanders that are
on beauty. "
N.
never well but when they are in the fire of
Contempt naturally implies a man's teeming
es-
contention. I rather sand
thou-
"
will suffer a
himself greater than person the
wrongs than offer one." I have always
whom he contemns. " He, therefore, that
found that to strive with a superior, is in-
jurious
slights and contemns affront, is properly
an
with with
it. ; an equal, doubtful : an
superior to "
Socrates, being kicked by
inferior, sordid full of
did not think it
and base ; with any.
an ass, revenge
a
proper unqnietness. " Bp. Hall.
for him to kick the ass again. South. "

Speak with contempt of m man. Every " CONTENTMENT.-A contented mind

one hath a tender sense of reputation. "
is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in
 CONTRADICTION. 88 CONTROVERSY.

to others ;
with poverty for not having though it is well founded. "
Hearts are like
t
much to care for ;
and with obscurity, for flowers they remain open to the softly
;
being unenvied. " Plutarch. falling dew, but shut up in the violent

that deserve should be down-pour of raiu. "Richter.

They nothing
content with anything. Bless God for what Assertion is not argument ; to contradict
yon have, and trust God for what you want. the statement of an opponent is not proof
If we cannot bring our condition to our that you are correct." Johnson.
xniud, we must bring our iniud to our dition
con-
CONTRAST." The lustre of diamonds
; if a man is not content in the state
is invigorated by the interposition of darker
he is in, he will not be content in the state
bodies ; the lights of a picture are created
he would be in. "Erskine Mason.
by the shades ;
the highest pleasure which
Yon traverse the world in Bearch of piness,
hap- nature has iudulged to sensitive perception
which is within the reach of every is that of rest after fatigue." Johnson.
man: a contented mind confers it all."
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and
Horace.
gladness are linked together. " SaadL
Contentment is a pearlof great price, and
whoever it at the of ten
Where there is much light,the shadow is
procures expense
deep." Goethe.
thousand desires makes a wise and a happy
Balguy. If there be light, then there is darkness
purchase." ;
if cold, then heat ; if height, depth also ; if
It is a great blessing to possess what
solicL then fluid ;
hardness and softness ;
one wishes, said one to an ancient philos-
opher."
the
roughness and smoothness ; calm and tem-
It is a greater still,was reply,
prosperity and adversity life and
not to desire what oue does not possess. Sest
eath.
;

Pythagoras."
;

Contentment with the divine will is the

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the
to misfortunes.
"

best remedy we can apply "

same street the shutters of oue house are

Sir W. Temple.
closed, while the curtains of the next are
Contentment produces, in some measure, brushed by the shadows of the dance. A "

all those effects which the alchymist cribes

as-
wedding party returns from the church;
to what he calls the philosopher's and a funeral winds to its door." The smiles
stone and if it does bring riches, it not
; and sadnesses of life are the tragi-comedy of
does the same thing by banishing the desire Gladness and sighs brighten
Shakespeare. "

of them. If it cannot remove the quietudes

dis-
and dim the mirror he beholds. "
WittmoU.
aiining from a man's mind, body,
It is a very poor, though common tence
pre-
or fortune, it makes him easy under tnem. "

Addison.
to merit, to make it appear by the
faults of other men ; a mean wit or beauty
He that is never satisfied with anything,
may pass in a room where the rest of the
satisfies no one. have
company are allowed to none ; it is
A man who finds no satisfaction in him-
self, something to sparkle among diamonds ; but
seeks for it in vain elsewhere. "
foucauld.
Roche- to shine among pebbles is neither credit
nor value worth the pretending. "
Sir W.

Content has a kindly influence on the Temple.

soul of man, in respect of every being to CONTROVER8Y.-There is no
whom he stands related. It extinguishes learned but will confess he hath much
man
all repining, and
murmuring, ingratitude profited by reading controversies ; his
toward Using who has allotted
that us 01 r
senses awakened, hie judgment sharpened,
part to act in the world. It destroys all and the truth wnich he holds more firmly /
inordinate ambition ; gives sweetuess to established. In logic they teach that con-
the conversation, and serenity to all the traries laid together more evidently appear :

thoughts ; and if it does not bring riches^it and being permitted, falsehood
controversy
does the thing by banishing the desire truth
same will
appear more false, and more

of them. "
Addison. true. "
Milton.

The noblest mind the best contentment Most controversies would soon be ended,
(
has." if those engaged in them would first l
Spenser. accu-

rately define their terms, and then adhere

CONTRADICTION. -We muBt not to their definitions. " Tryon Edwards.
contradict, but instruct him that dicts
contra-
Disagreement is refreshing when two
us ; for a madman is not cured by
men lovingly desire to compare their views
another running mad also. AnHsthenes.
"

to find out truth. "

Controversy is wretched
We take contradiction more easily than when it is only an attempt to prove another
is supposed, if not violently given, even wrong. "
Boligious controversy does onbr
 CONVERSATION. 89 CONVERSATION.

harm. "
It destroys humble inquiry after than of what others are saying ; and we

truth, and throws all the energies into an never listen when we are planning to speak.
attempt to prove ourselves right" a spirit " Rochefoucauld.
in which no man gets at truth. F. W.
"
I don't like to talk much with people who
Robertson. with is
always agree me. It amusing to
The evils of controversy are transitory, coquette with an echo for a little while, but
while its benefits are permanent. "
Robert one soon tires of it. " Carlyle.
Mall.
He sedulously attends, pointedly
who
What Cicero says of war may be applied asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ]/
to disputing, it should always be so aged
man- when be has no to is in
"
ceases more say,
as to remember that the only true end possession of some of the best requisites of
of it is peace. "
But generally, disputants conversation." Lavaier.
are like sportsmen " their whole delightis Never hold by the button, or the
anyone
in the pursuit ; and
disputant no more a
hand, in order to be heard out ; for if
for the truth, than the sportsman for
peo-
cares had
unwilling to boar you, you net-
the hare." Pope. Sle
hold
?r
are

your tongue than them. " field.

Chester-

CONVERSATION." It is good to rub

brain that of others. Silence is one great art of conversation.
and polish our against
-Hazlitt.
"Montaigne.
The first in conversation is Conversation is an art in which a man
ingredient
truth the the has all mankind for competitors. Emer*
; next, good sense ; third, "

humor and the fourth, wit. son.

good ; "
Sir w.
Temple. In conversation, humor is more than wit,
One of the best rules in conversation is, and easiness more than knowledge." Few
which of the desire to learn, or think they need it.
never to say a thing any pany
com-
"

wish had been left All desire to be pleased, or at least to be

can reasonably
unsaid." Swift. easy." Sir W. Temple.
mutual erence
def- The tone of good conversation is brilliant
Among well-bred people, a

Is of others and natural." It is neither tedious nor olous.

friv-
affected ; contempt
It is instructive without pedantry ;
disguised authorityconcealed attention "

; ;
and gay, without tnmultuousness ; polished,
given to each in his turn ; an easy
stream of conversation ismaintained, with-
out without affectation ; gallant, without pidity
insi-

without out
with- ; waggish, without equivocation.
vehemence, interruption, "

without 'Rousseau.
eagerness for victory, and any
airs of superiority. "
Hume. As it is the characteristic of great wits to

say much in few words, so it is of small

To listen well, is powerful a
as means of
wits to talk much, and say nothing.
influence as to talk well,and is as essential "

to all true conversation. Rochefoucauld.

Not only to say the right thing in the
A single conversation across the table
right place,but far more difficult,
to leave
with a wise man is worth a mouth's study
v unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
of books." Chinese Proverb.
moment. "
Sala.
Know how to listen, and you will profit
/ It is a secretfew, yet of noknown to but
v even from those who talk badly." Plutarch.
small use life, that when
in the conduct of
Great talent for conversation should be
you fall into a man's conversation, the first
accompanied with great politeness. He
thing you should consider, is, whether he
who eclipses others owes them great civili-
ties has a greater inclination to hear you, or

; and,
whatever mistaken vanity may that should hear him. Steele.
you "

tell us, it is better to please in tion

conversa-
Our companions please us less from the
than to shine in it.
charms we find in their conversation, than
The art of conversation consists much
as from those they find in ours. "
Greville.
in listening politely,
as in talking agree- There cannot be a greater rudeness than
My."AtwelL to interrupt another in the current of his
No one will ever shine in conversation discourse. "
Locke.
who thinks of saying fine things ; to please. The most talent in of
necessary a man
one must say many things indifferent,and conversation is good judgment." He that
many very bad. Francis Lockier.
hath in perfectionis of his
"

this master
The why so
reason few people are agree-
able companion without letting him see it. "
He
in conversation, is,that each is think-
ing has the same advantage over men of any
more of what he is intending to Bay, other qualifications, as one that can see
 CONVERSATION. 00 CONVERSATION.

would have over a blind man of ten times Repose is as necessary in conversation as
his strength. "
Steele. in a picture. "
HaiHU.

\/ The less men think, the more they talk. "

If a man accosts you, and talks to you

Montesquieu. ever so dully or frivolously, it is worse than

The of in rudeness, it is brutality, to show him, by

secret pleasing conversation
if a manifest inattention to what he says,
not explain too much."
to To say half,
and little for divination, is a mark that you think him a fool or a blockhead,
leave a

of the good have of and not worth hearing." Chesterfield.

opinion we others,
and nothing flatters their self-love Conversation derives its
more. "
greatest charm,
Rochefoucauld. not from the multitude of ideas, but from
The secret of tiring is, to say everything their application.
that can be said on subject. Voltaire.
a "
Conversation opens our views, and gives
The extreme pleasure we take in talking our faculties a more vigorous play ; it puts
notions
of ourselves should make us fear that we us
upon turning our on every Bide,
give little t those that bear and holds them up to a light that discovers
very ) us. "

Rochefoucauld. those latent flaws which would probably

have lain concealed in the gloom of unagi-
In table talk, I prefer the pleasant and
tated abstraction." Melmoth.
witty, before the learned and grave. "
taigne.
Mon-
Thepith of conversation does not consist

It is when you come close to a man in in exhibitingyour own superior knowledge

conversation that discover what his on of small
matters importance, but in en-
larging,
yon
real abilities are. "
To make a speech in a
improving, and correcting the in-
public assembly is a knack. "
Johnson. forraationyou possess, by the authority of
others." Wetter Scott.
That is the
happiest conversation where
\ there is no competition, no vanity, but only One reason why so few people are able
reason-
and agreeable in conversation is, that
a calm, quiet interchange of sentiment. "

Johnson. there is scarce anybody who does not think

more of what he has to say than of answer-
ing
Were we eloquent as angels, yet we should what is said to him. To be studious of
lease some people more by listening than
Sy talking." Colton.
pleasing one's self is but a poor way of
pleasing or convincing others ; and to near
Conversation is traffic. If enter the
a "
you patiently, and answer precisely, are
into it without stock knowledge to
of foucauld.
Roche-
some
great perfections of conversation."
balance the account perpetually betwixt
you and another, the trade drops at once. "

In private conversation between intimate

Sterne.
friends the wisest men very often talk like
I would establish but general rule to the
one the weakest ; for. indeed, talking
be observed in all conversation, which is nothing else but
with a friend is thinking
this, that men should not talk to please aloud. Addison.
"

themselves, but those that hear them. "

Conversation should be pleasant without

Steele.
scurrility,witty without affectation, free
When in the company of sensible men, without indecency, learned without conceit-
we ought to be doubly cautious of talking edness, novel without falsehood. " speare.
Shake-
too much, lest we lose two good things "

their good opinion and our own improve-

ment
One would think that the larger the pany
com-
; for what we have to say we know,
what have
is,the greater variety of thoughts and
but they to say we know not.
subjects would be started
"

in discourse ;
but
Cotton.
instead of this, we find that conversation is
Take as many half minutes as you can much straitened and confined
never so as
get. but talk than half minute
never more a in large assemblies. "
Addison.
without pausing and giving others an portunity
op-
In company it is a very great fault to be
to strike in." Swift.
more forward in setting off one's self, and
Those who have the true taste of sation
conver-
talking to show one's parts, than to learn
enjoy themselves in communicating the worth, and be truly acquainted with
each other's excellences, and not ing
triumph- the abilities of men. "
He that makes it his
over their imperfections." Addison.
business not to know, but to be known, is
'Tis a task indeed to learn to hear ; in like a foolish tradesman, who makes all the
that the skill of conversation lies ; that haste he can to sell off his old stock, but
shows or makes you both polite and wise." takes no thought of laying in any new "

Young. Charron.
 CONVERSION. 91 COQUETTE.

Conversation warms the mind, enlivens The time when I was converted was when
the imagination^and is
continually starting religion became no longer a mere duty, but
fresh game that is immediately pursued and a pleasure. " Prof. Lincoln.
taken, which would never have occurred in
Conversion is no repairing of the old
the duller intercourse of epistolary spondence.
corre-

"Franklin.
building ; but it takes all down and erects
a new structure. The sincere Christian
It is not necessary to be garrnlous in is quite a new fabric, from the foundation
order to be entertaining. "
To be a judicious to the top-stone all new." AUeine.
and sympathetic listener will go far toward
making an agreeable companion, self- CONVIVIALITY." There arefew tables
you
where convivial talents will not
forgetful, self-possessed, but not selfish pass in pay-
ment,
especially where the nost wants
enough to monopolize the conversation. "

A. L. Jack. brains, or the guest has money. "

man.
Zimmer-

It is wonderful that so many shall tain

enter-
with whom The dangers of a convivial spirit are,
those they converse by giv-
ing
them the their that it may lead to excess in that which, in
history of pains and
aches and such narrations their moderation, is good." Excessive indulgence
; imagine
the has made many a young man prematurely
quota of conversation. This is, of all
other, the meanest help to discourse, and a
old, and changed a noble nature to that of

think himself the beast. Armstrong.

man must not at all,or think "

very insignificant when he finds an account

his headache answered
COQUETTE." A coquette is a young
of by another's
lady of more beauty than sense, more complishments
ac-
asking what is the news in the last mail. "
than learning,more charms
Steele.
of person than graces of mind, more mirers
ad-

CONVERSION" As to the value of thau friends, more fools than wise

alone for attendants." Longfellow.
conversions, God only can judge. "
He men

can know how wide are the steps which the A is without
coquette a woman any heart,
soul has to take before it can approach to a who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got
community with him, to the dwelling of the head.
any
perfect, or to the intercourse and ship
friend-
Heartlessness and fascination, in about
of higher natures." Gfaethe.
equal quantities, constitute the receipt for
In what
way, or by what manner of work-
ing
forming the character of a court coquette.
changes a soul from
God evil to good "
"Mad. Dehtzy.
how he impregnates the barren rock with
An accomplished coquette excites the
priceless gems aud gold* is, to the man
hu- "

mind, an impenetrable mystery. "

passions of others, in proportion as she
feels none herself." Hazlut.
Coleridge.
The characteristic of coquettes is tation
affec-
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for
governed by whim." Their life is one
thev exist already; but giving them a
constant lie ; and the only rule by which
riant direction, which they have not. "

can form any judgment of them, is,

you
that they are never wnat they seem."
Conversion is but the first step in the
Fielding.
divine life. "
As long as we live we should
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant,
more and more be turning from all that is
always on the lookout for fresh victims. "

evil, and to all that is good." Tryon ward*.

Ed-
Jerrold.

There is one antidote onlv for coquetry,

We are born with our backs upon God
and that is true love. "
Mad. Deluzy.
and heaven, and our faces upon sin and
hell, till grace oomes, and that converts " The adoration of his heart had been to
turns u*."PfiiHp Henry. her only perfume
as of a wild theflower,
which she had carelessly crushed with her
Conversion deep work" a heart-
is a
foot in passing." Longfellow.
work." It goes throughout the man,
throughout the mind, throughout the The most effective coquetry is innocence.

members, throughout the entire life." Air "

Lamartine.
heme. She who only finds her self-esteem in
Where there is a sound conversion, then admiration, depends on others for her

a is wholly given unto God, body, soul, daily food and Is the very servant of her
man
sin his slaves. Over she exert childish
and spirit. He regards not in " men may a

heart, but hath a respect to all God's mandments.

com- which not ennobles, but degrades
"
BoUon.
Eower,
state."
er Joanna BatiUe.
 CORRUPTION. 02 COUNTRY.

A coquette is one that is never to be suaded

per- counsel but his own, and for the very reason
out of the please, passion she has to that it is his own. " Balguy.
nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty,
"'lime and she regards as things that COUNTENANCE.-(8ee "Face.")
years
wrinkle and decay only other women It is hard for the face to conceal the
: for-

that is written in the face thoughts of the heart the true character
; and
Sets
"

age
aat the same dress which became her when of the soul. "
The look without is an index

now only makes her look the older. of what is within.

young,
Affectation to her in ness
sick- The cheek
"
cleaves even is
apterthan the tongue to tell
and pa in, and she dies in a high head an errand. "
Sfiatcespcare.
and colored ribbons. " Fielding. A cheerful, easy, open countenance will
God created the coquette as soon as he make fools think good-natured
you a man,
had made the fool." Victor Hugo. and make designing men think an un-
you

grees,
de-
designing one." Chesterfield.
CORRUPTION." O that estates,
and offices not derived Alas ! how few of nature's faces there are
were ruptly,
cor-

and that clear honor to gladden with

beauty !" The their
were purchased us

merit of and and hnngerings of the

by the the wearer. " Shakespeare. cares, sorrows,
world change them, as they change hearts ;
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial
and it is only when the passions sleep
spring of all prodigality, and of all disor-
der
and have lost their hold forever that the
; it loads us more than millions of debt ; troubled clouds pass off, and leave heaven's
takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom
surface clear. "
It is a common thing for the
from our councils, and every shadow of au-
thority
of the in that fixed
and credit front the most venerable
countenances dead? even
and rigid state, to subside into the long
parts of our constitution. "
Burke.
forgotten expression of infancy, and settle
The corruptions of the country are closely into the very look of early life. 80 calm, "

allied to those of the town, with no ence

differ- so peaceful do they grow again, that those
but what is made by another mode of who knew them in their happy childhood,
thought and living." Swift. kneel by the coffin's side in awe. and see

the angel even upon earth. "

Dickens.
COUNSEL. "
Consult your friend on

all things, especially

on those which respect COUNTRY^" If you would be known
yourself. " His counsel may then be useful and not know, vegetate in a village." If
where your own self-love might impair your you would know and not be known, live in
judgment. "
/Seneca. a city." Colton.
Thekingdom of Israel was first rent and The country is both the philosopher's
broken by ill counsel ; upon which ihere garden and his library, in which he reads
are set, for our instruction, the two marks and contemplates the power, wisdom, and
whereby bad counsel is ever best discerned goodness of God. Penn. "

that it was young counsel for the persons, Not rural but rural
"

sights alone, sounds,

and violent couusel for the matter. Bacon. exhilarate
"

the spirit, and restore the tone

In counsel it is good to see dangers but of languid nature. Cowper. "

;
in execution, not to them unless they There is virtue in
see
country houses, in
be very great. "
Bacon. gardens and orchards, in fields, streams,
There is as much difference between the and groves, in rustic recreations and plain
counsel that a friend giveth, and that man manners,
that neither cities nor ties
universi-
a

giveth himself, as there is between the enjoy." A. B. Alcott.

counsel of a friend and a flatterer. "
Bacon. Men are taught virtue and a love of inde-
pendence,

Good counsels chains by living in the country. Men-

observed, are to "

halters ander.
place, which, neglected, prove to

strange, undutifnl children. "

Fuller. If country life be healthful to the body,
it is no less so to the mind. Ruffini.
Counsel and conversation are a second "

education, which improve all the virtue, In those vernal seasons of the year when
and correct all the vice of the first,and of the air is calm and pleasant, it were an

nature itself." Clarendon. injury and sullenness against nature not to

and go out and see her riches, and partake ir

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect
her rejoicing xwith heaven and earth.-
be diffident of himself, and npon that count
ac-
MUlon.
is willing to hearken unto counsel ;
whereas the foolish man, being, in propor-
tion I consider it the best part of an tion
educa-
to his folly,full of himself, and lowed
swal- to have been born and brought up n

in conceit, will seldom take any the country. A. B. Alcott.

up "
 COURAGE. 93 COURTESY.

God made the

country, and man made Physical which despises all dan-
ger,
courage
the town. What wonder, then, that health will make a man brave in one
"

way ;
and virtue should most abound, and least moral which
ana courage, despisesall opin-
ion,
be threatened in the fields an J will make brave another.
groves. "
a man in "

Cowper. The former would seem most necessary for

I fancy the for the ; the latter for the council ; but
proper means increasing camp
the love bear to native to constitute a great man both are sary.
neces-
we our country, is,
to reside time in Cotton.
some a foreign one. "
"

Shenstone. To what is it, is

see right and not to do
Let want of Confucius.
our objectbe our country, our whole courage. "

country, and nothing but our country. True is the result of reasoning.
"
courage
Daniel Webster. "
Resolution lies more in the head than in
Our country, however bounded or
the veins
scribed"still
de- ; and a just sense of honor aud of
our country, to be cherished infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry
in all our hearts" to be defended by all our us farther than all the force of mechanism.
hands. "
B. C. Winthrop. "Collier.

If we survive danger it steels our courage

QOURACE. Courage consists, not in "

more than anything else. Niebuhr.

blindly overlooking danger, but iu seeing "

and conquering it." Richter. A great deal of talent is lost in this world
for the want of a little courage. Sydney
frue courage is cool and calm." The "

bravest have of men

the least of a brutal, Smith.

bullying insolence, and in the very time of Women and men of retiring timidity are
danger are found the most serene aud free. cowardly only in dangers which affect
" Shaftsbury. themselves, but are the first to rescue when
others are endangered. Bichter.
The truest courage is always mixed with "

circumspection this being the quality Courage guided

ought by skill, to be
;
which distinguishes the courage of the wise and by courage.
skill armed Hardiness "

from the hardiness of the rash and foolish. should not darken wit, nor wit cool ness.
hardi-
"
Jones of Nay land. Be valiant
" as men despisingdeath,
but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
It is an error to suppose that courage
"Sir P. Sidney.
in everything. Most
means courage "
people
are brave only in the dangers to which tliey Courage consists not in hazarding out
with-
accustom themselves, either in imagination fear, but being resolutely minded in a

or practice. Bulwer. "

just cause. "
Plutarch,

Courage that from constitution, That courage is poorly housed which

grows
often forsakes the man when he has sion
occa-
dwells in numbers. "
The lion never counts

for it which arises from the herd that is about him. nor weighs
; courage a

sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner. "

how many flocks he has to scatter. "
Bill.
Addison. By how much unexpected, by so much
Courage from hearts and not from bers
num- we must awake, and endeavor for fence
de-
Dry den. ; for courage monnteth with occasion.
grows. "

all hands,
"
Shakespeare.
Courage is, on considered as

an essential of high character. "

Froude. Thte brave man is not he who feels no

fear, for that were stupid and irrational ;

Conscience is the root of all true age
cour-
but he whose noble soul subdues its fear,
; if a man would be brave let him obey
and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks
his conscience. "
J. F. Clarke.
from." Joanna Baillie.
Courage in danger is half the battle. "

"
Plautus. COURTESY. " (8ee Civility.")
True is not the brutal force of When saluted with a salutation, salute the
courage
vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of vir-
tue person with a better salutation, or at least
and reason. " Whitehead, return same, the
for Ood taketh account

his of all things. Koran.

No man can answer for courage who "

has never been in danger. "

Rochefoucauld. The small courtesies sweeten life ; the

Moral
courage higher cast is a virtue of greater, ennoble it, " Bovee.

and nobler origin than physical. It springs " Hail ! ye small sweet courtesies of life ;
from a consciousness of virtue, and renders for smooth do ye make the road of it,like
a man, in the pursuit or defence of right, grace and beauty, which beget inclinations
superior to the rear of reproach, opposition, to love at firstsight ; it is ye who open the
or contempt." 5. Q. Goodrich, door and let the stranger in. Sterne. "
 COUNTS AND COURTIERS. 94 COVETOUSNESS.

There is a courtesy of the heart ; it is Bred in camps, trained in the gallant

allied to love." From it springs the purest of truth that best becomes a dier,
sol-
openness
courtesy in the outward behavior. "
Goethe. thou art happily a stranger to the
baseness and infamy of courts. Mallet.
Life is not so short but that there is al-
ways "

time for courtesy. "

Emerson. The court is like a palace built of marble

As the sword of the best tempered metal "

made up of very hard, and very polished
materials. Bruyere.
is most flexible,so the truly generous are
"

most pliant and courteous m their havior

be- The chief requisites for a courtier are a

to their inferiors." Fuller. flexible conscience and an inflexible ness."

polite-
Lady Blessington.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small
considerations, habitually practised In our With the people of courts the tongue is
social intercourse, give a greater charm to the artery of their withered life,the spiral
the character than the display of great spring and flag-feather of their souls. "

talents and accomplishments. M. "

A. Kelty. Kiehter.

There outward See how he sets his countenance for ceit,

de-
is no sign of true courtesy
and promises lie before he speaks."
that does not rest on a deep moral tion.
founda- a

"
Goethe. Dryden.
A churlish but Poor wretches, that depend great-
courtesy rarely comes on

either for gain or falsehood. "

Sir P. Sidney. ness*s favor, dream, as I nave done, and
should
wake and find nothing." Shakespeare.
We be as courteous to a man as

we are to a which
picture, we are willing to COURTSHIP." Courtship consists in a
give the advantage of the best light. number of
"
quiet attentions, not so pointed
Emerson. to be un-
as to alarm, nor so vague as not derstood.

Courtesy is a scienoe of the highest portance."

im- "
Sterne,
It is like and beauty in The of man's life is
grace pleasantestpart a
the body, which charm at first sight, and which
senerallT that
passes in courtship,
lead to further intimacy and friendship. his passion
on
provided oe sincere, and the
" Montaigne. party beloved, kind, with discretion. Love,
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of

courtesy." A man of fine manners shall the soul, rise in the pursuit. Addison. "

with all the

pronounce your name ment
orna- She half consents, who silently denies."
that titles of nobility could add. "
Ovid.
Emerson.
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed *
The courtesies of a small and trivial acter
char- she is therefore be won.
a woman, may "

are the ones which strike deepest to Shakespeare.

the grateful and appreciating heart. It is
If you cannot inspire a woman with love
the picayuue compliments which are the
of the brim with
yourself, fill her above
most appreciated ; far more than the double
love of herself : all that runs over will be
ones we sometimes pay. " Henry Clay. Cotton.
yours. "

Approved valor is made precious by natu-

ral
Men are April when they woo ; December
courtesy." Sir P. Sidney. when they wed." Shakespeare.
COURTS AND COURTIERS. -A With women worth being won, the softest
court is an assemblage of noble and tinguishedlover
dis- ever best succeeds " A. HUL
beggars." TatteyrancL to know how women's hearts
I profess not
The court is a golden, but fatal circle, s re wooed and won. "
To me they have ways
al-
upon whose magic skirts a thousand devils been matters of riddle and admiration.
sit tempting innocence, and beckon early " Washington Irving.
virtue from its center. " N. Lee.
The man that has a tongue, I say, is no

An old courtier, with veracity, good sense, roan, if with his tongue he cannot win a
and a faithful memory, is an inestimable woman. " Shakespeare.
treasure; he is full of transactions and
Let a woman once give vou a task and
maxims ; in him one may find the history of
yon are hers, heart and soul ; all your care
the age, enriched with a great many ous
curi-
and trouble lend new charms to her for
circumstances which we never meet
whose sake they are taken "To rescue, to
with in books ; from him we may learn
revenge, to instruct, or to protect a woman,
rules for our conduct and manners, of the
is all the same as to love her. "
JUohter.
more weight, because founded on facts,
and illustrated by striking examples. "
COVETOUSNESS.-Desire of having
Bruyere. is the sin of oovetousness." Shakespeare,
 CREDITOR. 96 CREED.

Too large a credit has made many a rupt

bank- It is a curious paradox that precisely il

; taking even less than a man can proportion to our own intellectual ness,
weak-
answer with ease, is a sure fund for ing
extend- will be our credulity as to the terious
mys-
it whenever his occasions require. "
powers assumed by others. "
CoUon.
The Guardian.
You believe easily that which you hope
Nothing so cements and holds together for earnestly. "
Terence.
all the parts of society as faith or credit,
a
The the
most positive men are most
which can never be
kept up unless men are
credulous, since they most believe them*
under some force or necessity of honestly advise with their falsest
selves, and most
paying what they owe to one another. "

flatterer and worst their self-

enemy, " jwn
Cicero.
love. " Pope.
CREDITOR ""Creditors have better Generous souls are still most subject tc
memories than debtors they are a credulity "Davenant.
; stitious
super- .

sect, great observers of set day* Some men are bigoted in politics,who
and times." Franklin. infidels Ridiculous
are in religion. "
lity
credu-
The creditor whose appearance dens
glad- !"
Junius.
the heart of a debtor may hold his lieve
be-
We believe at once in evil,we only
head in sunbeams, and his foot on 8 tonus. this
"
in good upon reflection." Is not
Lavater.
sad?" Mad. Detuzy.
CREDULITY." O credulity, thou hast More the whole, are bugged
hum-
persons, on
as many ears as fame has tongues, open to by believing in nothing, than by
every sound of truth, as falsehood. vard.
Har-
"
believing too much. "
P. T. Bamum.

Your noblest natures are moat credulous.

Credulity is belief
slight evidence, on " Chapman.
with no evidence, or against evidence. In
To take for granted as truth all that
this sense it is the infidel, not the believer,
is alleged against the fame of others, is a
who is credulous. "The simple," says species of credulity thaf men would blush
"
Solomon, belie veth every word." Try on "

at on any other subject. "

Jane Porter.
Edwards.
Beyond all credulity is the crednlousness
The more gross the fraud, the more
of atheists, who believe that chance could
glibly will it go down and the
greedily more
make the world, when it cannot build a
will it be swallowed. -"ince folly will always
house. "
Clarke.
find faith wherever impostors will find im-
pudence."
Bovee. The remedy for the present threatened
decay of faith is not a more stalwart creed
The only disadvantage of an honest heart
or a more unflinchingacceptance of it, but
is credulity. "
Sir P. Sidney.
a profonndly spiritual life. " Lyman Abbott
Credulity is the common failing of perienced
inex-
Charles the Second, hearing Vossius, a
virtue ; and he who is neously
sponta-
celebrated free-thinker, repeating some credible
in-
suspicious may justly be charged
stories about the Chinese, said,
with radical corruption." Johnson.
"
This is a very strange man. He believes
Credulity is perhaps weakness, almost but the Bible !"
a eve 17 thing
inseparable from eminently truthful acters.
char-
"
Tuckerman. CREED." (See "Belief.")
A good creed is a gate to the city that
As credulity is a more peaceful sion
posses-
of the mind than curiosity, so able
prefer-
hath misleading creed
foundations ; a may
wisdom be a road to destruction, or if both leading
mis-
is that which converses about
that and alluring it may become what
the surface, to pretended philosophy
Shakespeare calls a primrose path to the
which enters into the depth of things, and
then comes back gravely with the informa-
tions
eternal bonfire. Joseph Cook. "

and discoveries that in the inside they In politics,as iu religion, we have less
are good for nothing. "
Stcift. charity for those who believe the half of
our creed, than for those who deny the
I cannot spare the luxury of believing
whole of it. Colton.
that all things beautiful are what they
"

seem. "
Halleck. If you have a Bible creed, it is well ; but

which is it filled out and inspired by Christian

The goodness
general is nour-
ished
noble love?" J. F. Brodie.
in heart*, makes every one
think that strength of virtue to be in an- other Though I do not like creeds in religions
whereof they find assured foundation matters, I verily believe that creeds had
in themselves." Sir P. Sidney. something to do with our Revolution. " in
 CRIME. 97 CRITICISM.

their religious controversies the people of We easily forget crimes that are known
New England had always been accustomed only to ourselves. " Rochefoucauld.
to Btand on points ; aiid when Lord North Crimes lead iuto one another. "
They who
undertook to tax them, then they stood arc capable of being forgers, are capable of
on points also. It so happened, nately,
fortu- "

being lucendi* ries." Burke.

that their opposition to Lord North
which all united.
Crime is not puniahed as an offence
was a point on they were
Daniel Webster.
against God, but asprejudicial to society. "

"

Froude.
The weakest is that
part of a man's creed
The villainyyou teach me I will execute ;
which he holds for himself alone ;
the
and it shall go hard but I will better the struction.
in-
strongest is thatwhic' beholds in common
with all Christendom. Viokar.
" Shakespeare.
"
Mc
For the credit of virtue it must be mitted
ad-
CRIME." (See ""
Cokckalmeht.") that the greatest evils which befall
Society prepares the crime the nal
crimi- mankind are caused by their crimes. "

;
commits it. Roofiefoucauld.
Heaven will permit no man to secure CRITICISM." Criticism, as it was first
happiness by crime. " AJfieri. instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a

Whenever man commits a crime heaven standard of judging well. "

Johnson.
finds i witness. "
Bulwer. Criticism is the child and handmaid of
Of all the adult male criminals in London, reflection. "
It works by censure, and sure
cen-

not two in a hundred have entered upon implies a standard. "

R. 0. White.

a course of crime who have lived an honest It is ridiculous for man to criticise
any
life up t" the age of twenty. "
Aim st all the works of another if he has not guished
distin-
who enter of crime do between himself
on a course so by his own performances. "

the ages of eight and Binteeu"Shaftes- Addison.

bury. Criticism is as often trade as science
a a ;
Crimes sometimes shock too much; health than wit, labor
us
requiring more more
rices almost always too little. Hare.
"
than capacity, more practice than genius. "

Small crimes always precede great ones. Bruytre.

Never have we seen timid innocence pass Criticism often takes from the tree pillars
cater-
suddenly to extreme licentiousness. "
Ra- and blossoms together. "
Richter.
vme.
It is easy to criticise an author, but diffi-
cult
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. to appreciate him. " Vauvenargues.
Voltaire.
"

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes

contagion of crime is like that of the
The amiss. " Pope.
plague. Criminal*; collected
" together cor-
rupt
Silence is sometimes the severest cism.
criti-
each other." They are worse than ever
"
Charles Buxton.
when, at the termination of their punish-
ment,
Neither praise nor blame is the object
they return to society. Napoleon. "

of truo criticism. " Justly to discriminate,

Those who themselves incapable of
are
firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and
great crimes, are ever backward to suspect the aims
honestly to award" these are true
others. Rochefoucauld. Simms.
"
and duties of criticism. "

It is supposable that in the eyes of an- It is maxim with that no

a me, man was
eels, struggle down dark lane and
a a a ever written out of a reputation but by
battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in himself. " Bentley.
degree of wickedness. " Willnwtt.
Of all the cants in this canting world,
There is no den in the wide world to hide deliver me from the cant of criticism. "

a rogue." Commit a crime and the earth is Sterne.

made of glass. Commit a crime, and it
"
Doubtless criticism was originally nignant,
be-
seems as if a coat of snow fell on the of
pointing out the beauties a
ground, such as reveals in the woods the
work rather than its defects. "
The passions
track of every partridge, and fox, and
of men have made it malignant, as the bad
squirrel .
" Emerson.
heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want symbol of into an instrument of
repose,
of sense is the father of them." Bruyere, torture. "
Longfellow.
Man's crimes are his worst enemies, lowing
fol- The most noble criticism is that in which
him shadows, till they
like drive his the critic is not the antagonist so murb *a

step* iuto the pit he dug. Creori. " the rival of the author." JHsraeH
7
 CRITICS 08 CROSS

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot house, as if they had built it. " fellow.
Long-
wander through his regions of ment
enchant-
without having a critic, forever,
like the old man of the sea. upon his The critical
faculty has its value in
back. " Moore. correcting reforming
errors, abuses, and
demolishing superstitions. But the structive
con- "

Get your enemies to read your works in

faculty is much nobler in itself,
order to mend them ; for your friend is so
and immeasurably more valuable in its
much your second self that he will Judge results, for the obvious reason that it is
too much like you. " Pope.
a much nobler and better thing to build

Is in up than to pull down. It requires skill

it destroying and pulling down "

and labor to erect a building, but

that skill la displayed? "
The shallowest any
idle tramp can burn it down. Only God
understanding, the rudest hand, is more
"

can form and paint a flower, but

than equal to that task. " Burke. any
foolish child can pull It to pieces. J. M. "

Thepleasure of criticism takes from us Gibson.

that of being deeply moved by very beau-
tiful things. Bruyere. "
It behooves the minor critic, who hunts
for blemishes, to be a little distrustful of
It is a barren kind of criticism which
his own sagacity." -Junius.
tells you what a thing is not. " B. W.
Oriswold. To be a mere verbal critic is what no

man of genius would be if he could ; but

The legitimate aim of criticism Is to
to be a critic of true taste and feeling,
direct attention to the excellent. " The
is what no man without genius could be
bad will dig its own grave, and the perfect
im-
if he would. " Colton.
may safely be left to that final
neglect from which no amount of present Critics are a kind of freebooters in the
undeserved popularity can rescue it "

republic of letters, who, like deer, goats,

Bovee. diverse other
and graminivorous animals,
The gain subsistence by gorging upon buds
opinion of the great body of the
and leaves of the young shrubs of the
reading public is very materially enced
influ-
the forest, thereby robbing them of their
even by unsupported assertions
of those verdure and retarding their progress to
who assume a right to criticise.
" Macaulay. maturity. " Waehington Irving.

The strength of criticism lies only in He, whose first emotion on the view of
the weakness of the thing criticised. " an excellent production is to undervalue

Longfellow. it, will never have one of his own to

show. " Aikin.
CRITICS." Critics are sentinels in the
grand army of letters, stationed at the The severest critics are always those
corners of newspapers and reviews, to who have either never attempted, or who
challenge every new author. " Longfellow. have failed in original composition. "

Hazlitt.
There is scarcely a good critic of books
born in our age, and yet every fool thinks Of all mortals a critic is the silliest;
himself Justified In criticising persons. "
for, inuring himself to examine all things,
Bulwer. whether they are of consequence or not, he
never looks upon anything but with a sign
de-
Critics must excuse me if I compare
of passing sentence upon It; by
them to certain animals called asses, who,
which means he is never a companion,
by gnawing vines, originally taught the
but always a censor. " Steele.
great advantage of pruning them. 8hen- "

etone.
There are some critics who change
whether in everything that comes under their hands
The eyes of
critics, mending
com-
to gold ; but to this privilege of Midas
or carping, are both on one side,
turbot. Landor. they Join sometimes his ears. /. P. Benn.
like those of a "
"

if CROSS. The is the only ladder

A spirit of criticism, indulged in, " cross

leads to a censoriousness of disposition high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

that is destructive of all nobler feeling. 7. D. Boardman.
The man who lives to And fault has a
The greatest of all crosses Is self. "
If
miserable mission.
we die In part every day, we shall have
Some critics are like chimney-sweep-
ers; v,ut little to do on the last " These little

they put out the fire below, and daily deaths will destroy the power of

frighten the swallows from their nests the final dying. " Fenelon.
above; they scrape a long time in the
themselves with soot, and Carry the cross patiently, and with
chimney, cover

but bag of cinders, perfect submission ; and in the end it

bring nothing away a

and then sing out from the top of the shall carry you. "
Thomas a Kempis.
 CRUELTY. 99 CUNNING.

While to the reluctant the cross is too heavy That is true cultivation which gives us synv
to be borne, it stows light to the heart of ling
wil- pathy with every form of human life, and
trust. enables us to work most successfully for its
advancement. Refinement that carries us
The cross of Christ, on which he was ex-
a way from our fellow-men is not God's ment."
refine-
tended, points, in the length of it, to heaven
It.
and earth, reconciling them together; and in *""

the breadth of it, to former and following As the soil, however rich It may be, cannot
y
as being equally salvation to both. be productive without culture, so the mind. IS

without cultivation, can never produce good

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden
fruit." Seneca.
that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings
bird, sails I am vary sure that any man of common derstanding
un-
are to a or to a ship, to carry me

forward to my harbor." Rutherford, may, by culture, care, attention,

and labor, make himself whatever he pleases,
CRUELTY." AD cruelty springs from except a great post." CAefterJIefd .

hard-heartodness and weakness. "

flswecfl.
Whatever expands the affections, or enlarges
I would not enter on my list of friends the the sphere of our sympathies whatever makes

man who needlessly sets foot us feel our relation to the universe and all that
upon a worm."

it inherits in time and in eternity, and to the

great and beneficent cause of all, must questionably
un-
Cruelty and fear shake hands together." refine our nature, and elevate us

in the scale of being." CKanning.

Man's inhumanity to man, makes countless
thousands mourn." Burn*. CUNNING.-(See ')

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no Cunning* is the ape of wisdom* "
Locke*
motive outside of itself; it only requires tunity."
oppor- Cunning signifies, especially, a habit or gift
Georps EMot. of overreaching, with
accompanied enjoyment
One of the 111 effects of is that and a sense of superiority." It is associated
cruelty it
with small and dull conceit, and with an lute
abso-
makes the by-standers cruel. " Buxton.
want of sympathy or affection." It is the
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the tinguishing
dis- intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and
vices of the lowest and basest of Buskin.
utter."
the people." Wherever it is found, it is a tain
cer-
Cleverness and cunning are incompatible.
mark of ignorance and meanness." Jones
of Nay land. I never saw them united." The latter is the

resource of the weak, and is only natural to

Detested sport, that owes its pleasure to an- fools
them." Children and are always cunning,
but clever people never." Byron.

CULTIVATION .-The highest Cunning is none of the best nor worst quali-
purpose
of intellectual cultivation is, to give a man
it floats between virtue and vice; there is
a
^
perfect knowledge and of his where it may not, and
mastery own

inner self." NovaU*. perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

"Bruyere.
Virtue and talents, though allowed their due
consideration, Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and la but
yet are not enough to procure a

welcome wherever he the low mimic of wisdom." Bolingbroke.

man a comes. Nobody
contents himself with rough diamonds, or The greatest of all cunning is to seem blind
'

wears them so. When polished and set, then to the snares which we know are laid for us;

they give a lustre." Locke. men are never so easily deceived as while they
are endeavoring to deceive others." -Bocae-
It matters little whether a man be mathe-
foucauid.
s/ matically. or philologically, or artistically tivated*
cul-

so he be but cultivated." Goethe. The certain way to be cheated is to fancy

one's self more cunning than others." Caot-
yj Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme
ron.
culture to simplicity." Bovee,
A cunning man is never a firm man, but an
It is retry rare to find ground which produces
honest man is; a double-minded man is always
nothing." If it is not covered with flowers, unstable: a man of faith is firm as a rock.
fruit trees, and grains, it produces briars and There is a sacred connection between honesty
pines." It is the same with man; if he is not
and faith; honesty is faith applied to worldly
virtuous, he becomes vicious." Bruyere.
things, and faith is honesty quickened by the
Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as Spirit to the use of heavenly things," Sdtoard
fpo* to the body.-Ctyero Irving.
 CURI08ITY. 100 CURIOSITY.

Canning has effect from the credulity of Curiosity in children is but an appetite
others. It 'requires no extraordinary ents
tal- for knowledge. why One great reason

to lie and deceive." Johnson. children abandon

silly themselves wholly to

cunning do pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly

We should do by our as we

always have it ready to is, because they find their curiosity balked,
by our courage,"
and their inquiries neglected. Locke.
defend ourselves, never to offend other*. "
"

Qrerrille. Men are more inclined to ask curious

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, questions, than to obtain necessary tion
instruc-

ind weak as vivacity Quesnel. "

may pass upon men,

is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for The over curious are not over wise. "

wisdom. " Addison. Massinger.

Cunning leads to knavery." It is but a Curiosity is as much the parent of atten-
tion,

step from one to the other, and that very as attention is of memory. "
Whale ly.
slippery. Only lying makes the difference ;
"

No heart is
empty of the humor of curi-
osity,
%dd that to cunning, and it is knavery. the attentive, in his
beggar being
"

as
Bruyere. station, to an increase of knowledge, as the
We cnnningtakefor a sinister or crooked prince. "
Osborn.
wisdom, and certainly there is a great dif-ference
How a noble art, now widely known,
many
between a cunuiug man and a wise
this
owes its young impulse to power alone.
man, not only in point of honesty, but in " Sprague.
point of ability." Bacon.
Eve, with all the fruits of Eden blest,
The common practice of cnnning is the
save only one, rather than leave that one
sign of a small genius. It almost always lost all the rest." Moore.
"

unknown,
happens that those who use it to cover selves
them-
Avoid him who, for mere curiosity, asks
in one place, lay themselves open in
another.
three questions running about a thing that
"Rochefoucauld.
cannot interest him. "
Lavater.
In a great business there is nothing so
Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden
fatal as cunning management. "
Junius.
fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a
The cnnning
very conceal their cunning ; natural man, sometimes to the danger of
the indifferently shrewd boast of it. Bovee. "

his choking." Fuller.

A cunning man overreaches no one half
There are different kinds of curiosity ;
as much as himself. H. W. Beecher.
"

one of interest, which causes uk to learn

The
most sure way of subjecting yourself that which would lie useful to us and the
;
to deceived, is to consider
be yourself more other of
pride,which springs from a desire
cunning than others. Rochefoucauld. " to know tliat of which others are ignorant. "

Discretion is the perfection of reason, Rochefoucauld.

and a guide to us in all the duties of life ; Curiosity is one of the
permanent and
cunning is a kind of instinct, that only certain characteristics of vigorous intel-
a lect.
looks out after our immediate interests and Every advance into knowledge
"

opens
welfare. Discretion isonly found in men and produces incite-
ments
new prospects new
of strong sense and good understanding ; to further Johnson.
progress. "

cunning is often to be met with in brutes

The curiosity of an honorable mind ingly
will-
themselves, and in persons who are but the
of does
rests where the love truth
fewest removes from them " Bruytre. not urge it further onward and the love of
All my own experienceof life teaches me its neighbor bids it stop." In other words,
the contempt of cunning, not the fear. the
it willingly stops at tne point where
"
The phrase "profound cunning has ways
al- interests of truth do beckon it
not onward,
seemed to me a contradiction in terms. and "
Halt.""
charity cries Coleridge.
I never knew cunning
a mind which was
Inquixitive people are the funnels of versation
con-
not either shallow, or, on some points, eased.
dis-
Mrs. Jameson. ; thev ao not take anything for
"

their own use,

but merely to pass it on to

CURIOSITY." The first and others. Steele.

simplest "

emotion which we discover in the human The gratification of curiosity rather frees
mind, is curiosity. " Burke. us from uneasiness, than confers pleas-
ure.
Seize the of excited We are more pained by ignorance,
moment curiosity on
"

than delighted by instruction." Curiosity

any subject, to solve your doubts ; for if
let it pass, the desire kb the thirst of the soul." Johnson.
you may never return,
and yon may remain in ignorance .--W. A who is too nice an observer of
person
WlrL the business of the crowd, like one who is
 CURSES. 101 DANCING.

too carious in observing the labor of bees, reasons underneath for customs thai"ppear
will often be stung for his curiosity. "
Pope. to us absurd." C. Bronte.

I loathe that low vice, curiosity/ " Byron. Custom, is the law of one description of
fools, fashion another
Curiosity is ana of ; bnt the two
looking over other people's
affairs, and overlooking our own. "
a. L. partiesoften clash, for precedent is the

Way land. legislator of the first, and novelty of the

last. " Cotton.
What a vast deal of time and ease that
Be not so bigoted to custom to
man gains who is not troubled with the any as

worship it at the expense of truth." Zim-

spirit of impertinent curiosity about others;
merman.
who lets his neighbor's thoughts and be-
havior alone who confines his The custom and fashion of to-day will
; inspections
to himself, and cares chiefly for bis own be the awkwardness and outrage of morrow
to-

duty and conscience. "

so arbitrary are these transient
laws." Dumas.
CU RSESt" Dinna curse him, sir; I have Custom governs the world ; it is the
heard it said that a curse was like a stone
tyrant of our feelings and our manners and
flung up to the heavens, and most likely to
rules the world with the hand of a despot. "

retnrn on the head of him that sent it. "

J. BartleU.
WaUer Scott.
To follow foolish precedents, and wink
Curses are like young chickens, and still
with both our eyes, is easier than to think."
come home to roost. Bulwer. "

Cowper.
Immemorial custom is transcendent
CUSTOM." (See "Fashion.")
law. "
Menu.
Custom is the universal sovereign."
Pindar. The despotism of custom is on the
wane. " We are not content to know that
The way of the world is to make laws, things are ; we ask whether they ought to
but follow customs. "
Montaigne. be." J. S. Mill.
Custom is often only the antiquity of
Man yields to custom, as he bows to
error. " Cyprian.
fate " in all things ruled, mind, body, and
Custom may lead a man into many errors, Crabbe.
estate. "

but it justifies none." Fielding.

CYNICS." It will generally be found
Custom is the law of fools. " Vanbrugh.
that those who sneer habitually at human
Choose alwayB the way that seems best, and
nature, affect to despise it, are among
however rough it may be, and custom will its worst and least pleasant samples. "

soon render it easy and agreeable." Py- Dickens.

ihagoras.
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and moan.
be-
Custom doth make dotards of us all. Omit
"

"
negative propositions.
the "

Carlyle. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark

There is no tyrant like custom, and no against the bad, but chant the beauty of
freedom where its edicts are not resisted. "
the good." Set down nothing that will help
Bovee. somebody. Emerson. "

As the world leads, we follow. "

Seneca, The cynic is one who never sees a good
quality in a man, and never fails to see a
Men commonly according think to their
bad one. " He is the human owl, vigilant in
inclinations, speak according to their learn-
ing
darkness and blind to light, mousing for
and imbibed opinions, but generally
vermin, and never seeing noble game." H.
act according to custom. Bacon. "

W. Beecher.
In this great society wide lying around
To admire nothing is the motto which
as, a critical analysis would find very few
men of the world always affect. " They
spontaneous actions. It is almost all tom
cus-
think it vulgar to wonder or be siastic"They
enthu-
and gross sense. "
Emerson.
have so much corruptionand
The influence of custom is incalculable ; charlatanism, that they think the credit
dress a boy as a man. and he will at once of high
all qualities must be delusive. "

change his conception of himself. "

B. St. Brydges.
John.
D.
New customs, though they be never bo

ridicnlous. nay. let them be unmanly, yet DANCING." The of

gymnasium ning,
run-
are followed." Shakespeare. stilts, climbing,
walking on etc..
There are not unfregugntly substantial steels and makes hardy single powers ana
 DANCING. 102 DANGER.

muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poe-

sy, Well was it said, by a man of sagacity,
embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all that dancing was a sort of privileged and
the muscles at once. " Richter. reputable folly,and that the best way to

Those be convinced of this to close the ears

move easiest, who have learned to was,
dance. and Judge of it by the eyes alone. Qott-
" Pope. "

hold.
A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing,
For children and youth, dancing in the
quaffing, and unthiuking time. Dryden. "

parlor or on the green may be a very ant

pleas-
Dancing is amusement which has been
an healthful amusement,
and but when we
discouraged in our country by many of the
see older
people dancing we are ready to
best people, and not without some reason. "
ask with the Chinese, "
Why don't have
you
It is associated in their mind with balls :
your servants do it for your'*
and this is one of the worst forms of social
All the gestures of children are graceful ;
pleasure."The time consumed in preparing
for a ball, the waste of thought upon it, the
the reign of distortion and unnatural tudes
atti-
with the introduction of
extravagance of dress, the late hours, the commences
the dancing master." Sir Joshua Reynolds.
exhaustion of strength, the exposure of
health, and the languor of the succeeding Where wildness and disorder are visible
dav "
these and other evils connected with in the dance, there Satan, death, and all
this
amusement, are strong reasons for kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
banishing it from the community. But "Gotthold. "

dancing ought not, therefore, to be

scribed. DANDY."
pro- A dandy is a clothes-wearing
On the contrary, bails should
" be
for this among other man, a man whose trade, office,and exis-
tence "

discouraged reasons,
consist in the wearing of clothes. "

that dancing, instead of being a rare ure,

pleas-
elaborate Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person,
requiring preparation, may
this
and purse is heroically consecrated to
become an everyday amusement, and mix
one object"the wearing of clothes wisely
with our common intercourse. "
This cise
exer-
and well ; so that as others dress to live,he
is among the most healthful." The
lives to dress. " Cartyle.
body as well as the mind feels its ing
gladden-
influence. No amusement seems A fool may have his coat embroidered
"
more
to have a foundation in our nature, "
The with gold, but it is a fool's coat still."
animation of youth overflows RivartL
ously
spontane-
in harmonious movements." The trne
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally
idea of dancing entitles it to favor. Its end Buhoer,
"

very agreeable men. "

is to realize perfectgrace in motion and

; The has
that
all-importance of clothes
sprung
who does not know a sense of the
up in the intellect of the dandy, without
graceful is one of the higher faculties of
effort, like an instinct of genius : he is in-
spired
our nature. " Charming. with cloth" of
a poet clothing
The chief benefit of dancing is to learn Uarlyle.
one how to sit still. "
Johnson.
DANCER. " Danger levels man and
Learn to dance, not so much for the sake
brute, and all are fellows in their need."
of dancing, as for coming into a room and
Byron.
presenting yourself genteely and gracefully.
whom We should never so entirely avoid danger
" Women, you ought to endeavor to
as to irresolute and cowardly ; but,
please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awk-
ward appear
air and at the same time, we should avoid sarily
unneces-
gestures. " Chesterfield.
exposing ourselves to danger, than
In ancient times dancing as a religions
which nothing can be more foolish. "
Cioero.
service, was before and to the Lord; in
modern it is often A timid is frightened before
days too a dissipating person a

amusement for and to the devil. danger ; a

coward during the time ; and a

courageous person afterward. "

Richier.
ball-room
A is nothing more or less than
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to
a great market place of beauty. For my "

part, were I a buyer, I should like making prevent it ; he that fears not, gives advan-
tage

less to the danger." Quarles.

my purohases in a public mart. "

Burner. It is better to meet danger than to wait

You be invited ball dinner for it. He that is on a lee shore, and sees
fore-
may to a or
"

because you dance or tell a good story; a hurricane, stands out to sea an J counters
en-

but since the time, beth

Eliza- a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
no one of Queen
lias been made cabinet minister Cotton.
a or

a lord chancellor for such reasons. " JF. A man's opinion of danger varies at dif-
ferent
PierreponU times according to his animal spiritst
 DEATH. 104 DEATH.

comfortable to ourselves, and profitable to at the same time, teach them to live."
others ; and after all this, to' take away the Montaigne.
bitterness and sting of death, throngh Jesus dislike of death is of the want
A no proof
Christ our Lord. Sir M. Hale. shrink
"

of religion. The instincts of nature

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a from it, for no creature can like its own

magistrate ; bnt he must die a man. The dissolution. "

But though death is not sired,
de-
bed of death brings every human being to the result of it may be, for dying to
his pure individuality, to the intense templation
con- the Christian is the way to life eternal. "

of that deepest and most solemn W. Jay.

of all relations the relation between the A when said,
"

good man, dying, once

creature and his Creator. Daniel Webster. d* ath like wide
"

Formerly appeared to me a

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare river, but now it has dwindled to a little rill ;
to entertain nim if as an and my comforts, which were as the rill,
; enemy, prepare
to overcome him. "
Death has no advantage have become the broad and deep river.

except when he stranger.

comes as a "
He whom the gods love, dies young. "

Quarles. Menander.
What superlatively grand and consoling
a Is death the last sleep ? No, it is the last
idea is that of death ! Without this radiant and Walter Scott.
final awakening. "

idea "
this delightful morning star, cating
indi-
The air is full of farewells to the dving,
that the luminary of eternity is
and mournings for the dead. " Lotigfeuow.
going to rise, life would, to my view, darken
midnight melancholy. The The good die first ; and they whose
into tion
expecta-
hearts dry as dust, burn to the
of living here, and living thus always, are summer

would be indeed a prospect of overwhelming socket." Wordsworth.

despair. But thanks to that fatal decree Cullen, in his last moments, whispered,
that dooms us to die ; thanks to that gospel "I wish I had the of writing or
power
which opens the visions of an endless life : speaking, for then I would describe to you
and thanks above all to that Saviour f riend how pleasant a thing it is to die." Derby.
who has promised to conduct the faithful
The darkness of death is like the evening
through the sacred trance of
death, into
twilight ; it makes all objectsappear more
scenes of Paradise and everlasting light."
de-
t/b/m Foster.
lovely to the dying. Richter. "

Men may live fools,but fools they cannot

Death is the golden key that opens the
die. Young.
palace of eternity. Milton. "
"

Death is the liberator of him whom dom

free-
Death expecteth thee everywhere : be
cannot release ; the physician of him
wise, therefore, and expect death where."
every-
whom medicine cannot cure ; the comforter
Quarles.
of him whom time cannot console. "
Colton.
The ancients feared death ; we, thanks to
fear Guesses Let death be daily before and
Christianity, only dying. " at your eyes,
Truth. you will never entertain abject thought,
any

Death is the of life. Were death

nor too eagerly covet anything. Epictetus. "

crown "

denied, poor man would live in vain ; to On death and judgment, heaven and hell,
live would not be life ; even fools would who oft doth think, must needs die well."
wish to die." Young. Sir W. Raleigh.
Death the gate of fame, and shuts It matters not at what hour the righteous
opens
the gate or envy after it. "
It unloosens the fall asleep. "
Death cannot come untimely
chain of the carptive, and puts the man's
bonds- to him who is fit to die. "
The less of this
task in another's hands. "
Sterne. cold world the more of heaven ; the briefer

Be still prepared for death : and death or

life,the earlier immortality. "
Milman.

life shall thereby be the speare.

Shake-
sweeter. "
There is no better armor against the
shafts of death than to be busiea in God's

time, preparation for service. Fuller.

To neglect, at any "

death, is to sleep on our post at a siege ; to He who always waits upon God, is ready
omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack. " whensoever he calls. "
He is a happy man

Johnson, who so lives that death at all times find

may
One of the fathers ''There is but him at leisure to die. "
Feltham.
says,
this difference between the death of old Let dissolution come when it will, it can
and that old to death, do the Christian
men young ; men go no harm, for it will be but
"tid death to the young." of
comes a passage out a prison into a palace ; out
He who should teach men to die, would. of a sea of troubles, into a haven of rest :
 DEATH. 105 DEATH.

oat of a crowd of
enemies, to an able
innumer- There is no death ! What seems so is

company true, loving, and faithful

of transition ; this life of mortal breath is but
friends ont of shame, reproach, and tempt,
con- a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal
j
into exceeding great and eternal we call death. " Longfellow.
glory. " Bunyan. When I am dying I want to know that I
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at have a similarity to God, so that my will is
the moment of waking from a troubled the same as his will, and that I love and
dream; it may be so the moment after hate and wish what be does. "
J. Cook.
death. Hawthorne. death is horror but the
"
The bad man's ;
Death and lore are the two wines that just does but ascend to glory from the
bear the good man to heaven. "
Michael dust. " Habbington.
Angela. When the sun goes below the horizon, he
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus is not set ;
the heavens glow for a full hout
Christ died like a God. "
Rousseau. after his departure. "
And when a great
Each friend is that and good man sets, the sky of this world is
departed a magnet
luminous long after he is out of sight-
attracts us to the next world. "
Richter.
Such a man cannot die out of this world. "

Living is death ; dying is life. On this

"

When he goes he leaves behind much of

side of the grave we are exiles, on that, himself. " Being dead he speaks. "
H. W.
citizens ; on this side orphons, on that, Beecher.
children ; on this side captives,on that,
Death is but the dropping of the flower
freemen ; on this side disguised, unknown,
that the fruit may swell." H. W. Beecher.
on that dieclosed and proclaimed as the
sons of God. "
H. W. Beecher. Alexander the Great, seeing Diogenes
looking attentively at a parcel of human
It is as natural to man to die, as to be
bones, asked the philosopher what he was
born ; and to * little infant, perhaps the one
looking for. "
That which I cannot find,"
is as painful m the other. "
Bacon.
was the reply; "the difference between
Death stamps the characters and ditions
con-
those
your father s bones and of his slaves."
of men for eternity. "
As death finds
A good man being asked during his last
them in this world, so will they be in the
illness, whether he thought himself dying,
next. "
Emmons.
"
Really, friend, I care not whether I am
Ah ! what a sum it is of evil life, when
or not ; for if I die I shall be with God ; if
death's approach is seen so terrible ! will be with me."
"
I live, He
Shakespeare. mournful chants
Not by lamentations and
shocking
How must thy summons be, O ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good
death, to him that is at ease in his posses-
sions! for in be
man, but by hymns, ceasing to
who, counting on long years of numbered with mortals he enteiB the
upon
pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the of diviner life." Plutarch.
heritage a
world to come. "
Blair.
Leaves have their time to fall,and flowers
I love of my to think
little children whom North-wind's
to wither at the breath, and
God has called to himself as away at school all
"
stars to set" but all, thou hast seasons
at the best school in the universe, under the
thine death ! Mrs. Hemans.
for own, O "

best teachers, learning the best things, in

The sense of death is most in sion,
apprehen-
the best possible manner.
and the poor beetle that we tread
Readiness for death is that character,
of feels a as great as when a giant
upon pang
rather than of occupation. It is right liv-
ing dies. " Shakespeare.
which prepares for safe or even joyous The chamber where the good man meets
dying.
his fate is privileged beyond the common

0 death ! We thank thee for the light walk of virtuous life, quite on the verge of
that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance. " heaven. " Young.
Bossuet.
As long as we are living, God will give
1 believe that a family lives but a half life us living grace, and he wont give us dying
until it has sent its forerunners into the grace till it's time to die. What's the use

heavenly world, unti1 those who linger here of trying to feel like dying when you
can cross the river, and fold transfigured a aint dying, nor anywhere near it ? "
H. W.
glorious form in the embrace of an endless Beecher.
life. Bridgman. know of but remedy the
"

I one against
I never think he is quite ready for other
an- fear of death that is effectual and that will
world wbc is altogether weary of stand the test either of a sick-be1, or of a
this." if. J Hamitkn. sound mind" that is, a good life,a clear
 DEBT. 106 DECEIT.

conscience, an honest heart, and a well- nor afraid to see or speak to any man living,
ordered conversation; to carry the thoughts but poverty often deprives a man of all
hard
of dying men about
nst and so to live before spirit and virtue. It is for an empty
we die as we shall wish we had when we bag to stand upright. "
Franklin.
come to it. "
Norris. The first step in debt is like the first step
Man's highest triumph, man's pro- in falsehood, involving the necessityof
fonndest fall,the death-bed of the Just is going on in the same course, debt ing
follow-
yet undrawn by mortal baud ; it merits a debt, as lie follows lie." " Smiles.
divine : angels should paint it, angels ever Youth is in danger until it learns to look
there; there, on a post of honor and of Bulwer.
upon debts as furies, "

joy." Young.
Paying is, next to the grace
of of
debts
Be of good cheer about death, and know
God, the of delivering you
best from
means
this of truth, that evil happen to
a no can
a thousand temptations to vanity and sin.
good either in life after death. will not have
a man, or "

" P*7 7OVLT debts, and yon

Socrates. wherewithal to buy costly tovs or perni-
cious
Death did not first strike Adam, the first pleasures. Pay vour debts, and you "

sinful the will not have what to lose to a gamester.

man, nor Cain, first
hypocrite, "

but Abel, the innocent and Pay your debts, and will of necessity
righteous." The yon
first soul that met death overcame death ; abstain from many indulgences that war

the first soul parted from earth went to against the spirit and bring you into tivity
cap-
heaven. Death to sin, and cannot fail to end in
"
argues not displeasure, vour

because he whom God loved best cues first, utter destruction, both of soul and body. "

and the murderer is punished with living. " DeUmy.

Bp. Hall. like
"Out of debt, out of danger,** is,
many other proverbs, full of wisdom ; bnt
DEBTi I have discovered the philoso-
pher's
danger does not sufficientlyex-
"

the word press

stone, that turns everything into all .that the warning demands. "
For
gold: it is, "Pay as you go." John Ran-
dolph.
"

a state of debt and embarrassment is a state

of positive misery, and the sufferer is as
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice one haunted bv an evil spirit,and his heart
and idleness are its open foes. The "
debt- can know neither rest nor peace till it it
habit is the twin brother of poverty. "
T. i9
cast out. " Bridges.
Manger. A man who owes a little can dear it off in
Bun not into debt, either for wares sold, a little time, and, if he is prudent, he will :

or money borrowed ; be content to want whereas a man, who, by long negligence,

things that are not of absolute necessity, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being
rather than to run up the score : such a able to pay, and therefore never looks int~
man pays, at the latter end, a third part his accounts at all." Chesterfield.
more than the principal, and is in perpetual small debt
A produces a debtor ; a large
servitude to his creditors ; lives fortably;
uncom-
one, an enemy. "
Publius Syrvs.
is necessitated to increase his
Debt is to a man what the serpent is to
debts to his creditors' mouths and
stop ;
the bird its eye fascinates, its breath sons,
poi-
;
many times falls into desperate courses. "

its coil crushes sinew and bone, its

Sir k. Hale.
jaw is the pitiless grave. "
Bulwer.
Do not accustom yourself to consider
debt DECEIT." There is wickedness
only as an inconvenience ; you will no so

find it a calamity." Johnson. desperateor deceptive " we can never see

fore-
its consequences.
Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible." A
man might as well have a smoky house and Of all the evil spiritsabroad in the world,
a

scolding wife, which are said to be the two insincerity is the most dangerous. "
Froude.

worst evils of our life. "

Spurgeon. Deceivers are the most dangerous bers
mem-
of society. They trifle with the best
Think what yon do when you run in debt
"

;
affections of our nature, and violate the
you give to another power over your liberty.
most sacred obligations. Crabbe.
If yon cannot pay at the time, you will be
"

ashamed to see creditor will be in No man, for any considerable period,

your ;
fear when him will one face to himself and another
von speak to ; make can wear

to the multitude, without finally getting

poor, pitiful,sneaking and
excuses, by de-
grees
to lose bewildered as to which be true. Hau"-
come yonr veracity, and sink may "

base, downright thorne.

into lying ; for the second
vice is lying, the first is running in debt. Idiots only may be cozened twice."
A freeborn man ought not to be auhamed Dryden.
 DECEIT. 107 DECISION.

There is less misery in being cheated we are, we might appear like ourselves
than In that kind of wisdom which per- without being at the trouble of any guise
dis-
eeives, or thinks it perceives, that ail kind
man- at all." Rochefoucauld.
are cheats." E H. Cfutpin, It many times falls out that we deem selves
our-
It is as easy to deceive one's self without much deceived in others, because we

perceiving it,as it is difficult to deceive first deceived ourselves." Sir P. Sidney.

others without their finding it ont." foucauld.
Roche-
DECENCY." Virtue and decency are
so nearly related that it is difficult to arate
sep-
We never deceive for a rood purpose ; them from each other but in our

knavery adds malice to falsehood. Bru-

" imagination." Cicero.
ytre. Want of decency is want of sense. "
Rom-
Our doable dealing generally comes down common.

upon ourselves. "

To speak or act a lie, is Decency of behavior in our lives obtains
auke contemptible in the sight of God and the approbation of all with whom we verse,
con-
man. "Evertnn. from the order, consistency, and
The surest way of making a dupe "* to moderation of our words and actions. "

let your victim suppose you are his. " Steele.

Buhoer. is the least all laws,
Decency of but yet
No man was ever so much deceived by it is the law which is most strictlyobserved.
another as by himself. "
Oreville. " Rochefoucauld.
Deceit is the false road to happiness ; DECISION." There is nothing more to
and all the joys we travel through to vice,
be esteemed than firmness and cision
de-
like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch
a manly
of character." I like a person who
them." A. RUl.
knows, his own mind and sticks to it ; who
Who dares think one thing and another at what, in
sees once given circumstances,
telL heart detests him the gates of
my as is to be done, and does it." HaxtiU.
hell" Pope.
When we can say "no," not only to
The first and worst of all frauds is to
things that are and sinful, but also
wrong
cheat one's self." All sin is easy after that. to things pleasant,profitable, and good
"BaUey. which would hinder and olog our grand
He that has no real esteem for any of the duties and our chief work, we shall derstand
un-

virtues, can best assume the appearance of more fully what life is worth,
them ail." Cotton. and how to make the most of it. " C. A

has Stoddard.
When once a concealment or a deceit
been practicedin matters where all should I hate to see things done by halves. " If
be fair and open as day, confidence can it be right, do it boldly," if it be wrong
never be restored, any more than you can leave it undone. " Gilpin.
restore the white bloom to the grape or
Decision of character will often give to .

plum that you once pressed in your hand. ^

an inferior mind, command over a superior.
"H. W. Beecher. W. Wirt
"

O, what tangled web we weave, when demand

a When desperate ills a speedy
first practice to deceive." Walter Scott. distrust is and
we
cure, cowardice, prudence
Many an honest man practices on self
him- folly. Johnson. "

an amount of deceit, sufficient, if prac-

ticed Men must be decided on what they will
y
another, and in little different able with
on a do, and
not then they are to act
to send him to the State prison." they ought to do."Mencius.
way, vigor in what
Some.
The granite which was
block of an cle
obsta-
Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping ster,
mon- in the pathwsv of the weak becomes a
that loves deceived, and
to be has dom
sel- thrf
stepping stone in the pathway of strong.
been disappointed." Mackenzie. " Carlyle.
All deception in the course of life is in-
deed All the world it is true that a double-
over
nothing else but a lie reduced to prac-
tice, minded is unstable in all his ways, like
man
falsehood
and passing from words the tossed hither and
a wave on streamlet,
into things." South. thither with every eddy of its tide." A terminate
de-
There three should never purpose in life and steady a
are persons you
deceive : your physician, your confessor, adhesion to it through all disadvantages,
and Walpole. indispensable conditions of success.
your lawyer." '
are "

W. M. Punshon.
Were we to take as much pains to be
what we ought, as we do to disguise what The souls of men of undecided and fee*
^
 DEEDS. 108 DEFINITION.

ble purpose are the graveyards of good tentions.overwhelm

in- them, to men's eyes." Shake'
speare.
It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to Good deeds ring clear through heaven
be able to reply, with some degree of tainty,
cer- like a bell. "
Richier.
to the simple questions, What "
will
A noble deed is a step toward God."
you be ? What will you do V ""John Foster. J. O. Holland.
He that decidedly "ay cannot
"
No," when A life spent worthily should be measured
tempted evil, is on the highway
to to ruin. "

by deeds, not years. Sheridan. "

He loses the respect even of those who

would tempt him, and becomes but the DEFEAT." What is defeat ?" Nothing
pliant tool and victim of their evil designs. but education nothing but the first
; step
"
/. Howes. to something better." Wendell Phillips.
The who has not learned to Defeat in school in which truth
man say a always
"
No," will be a weak if not a wretched man strong." H. W. Beecher.
grows
as long as he lives. " A. Maclaren.
No man is defeated without some ment,
resent-

DEEDS. Our deeds determine as

which will be continued with acy
obstin-
"
us,
deeds. while he believes himself in the right,
much as we determine our "
Qeorge
Eliot. and asserted with bitterness, if even to his
own conscience he is detected in the wrong.
We are our own fates. "
Our deeds are
"
Johnson.
our own doomsmen. "
Man's life was made
not for creeds, but actions. "
Meredith. It is defeat that turns bone to flint, and
do ill deeds gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible,
How oft the sight of means to
h" roic
and formed those natures that are
makes ill deeds done !" Shakespeare.
now in ascen icncy in the world. "
Do not
Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on
then be afraid of defeat. "
You are never
earth, but bringing forth their harvest in
so near to victory as when defeated in a
eternity."O. I). Boardman.
good H. W. Beecher.
cause."
The flighty purpose never is overtook, less
un-

the deed go with it. "

Shakespeare. DEFERENCE." Deference is the most

Our deeds follow and what we have delicate, the most indirect, and the most
us,
been makes us what we are. -
elegant of all compliments, and before com-
pany

is the genteelest kind of flattery. "

It is our own past which has made us

Shenstone.
what we are. We are the children of our
Deference is the instinctive respect which
own deeds. Conduct has created character ;
we pay to the great and good. The scious
uncon-
have into habits, each year has "

acts grown
acknowledgment of the superiority
pressed into us a deeper moral print ;
the
or excellence of others. Tryon Edwards,
lives we have led have left us such as we
"

are to-day. " Dykes. Deference often shrinks and withers as

word that has been said be unsaid much the approach of intimacy, as
A may upon
"it is but air. "
But when a deed is done, the sensitive plant does upon the touch of

it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts one's finger. "

Shenstone.
reach out to all the mischiefs that may low
fol-
DEFINITION." All arts acknowledge
" Longfellow.
that then only we know certainly, when we
Look on little deeds as great, on account
can define ; for definition is that which fines
re-
of Christ, who dwells in us, and watches
the pure essence of things from the
our life ; look on great deeds as easy, on
circumstance. " Milton.
account of His great power. Pascal. "

Just definitions either prevent or pat an

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the
end to disputes. "
Emmons.
eons of our own deeds. "
Cervantes.

We should believe in deeds

A large part of the discussions of tants
dispu-
only ; words
come from the want of accurate nition.
defi-
go for nothing everywhere. " Bojas.
" Let one define his terms and then
No matter what man's aims, or resolu-
tions, stick to the
a
definition, and half the ences
differ-
or profensionsmay be, it is by one's in philosophy and theology would
deeds that he is to be judged, both by God come to an end. and be to have real
seen no
and man. H. W. Beecher. foundation. Edwards.
"

" Tryon
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, I am apt to think that men find their
and though a late,a sure reward succeeds.
simple ideas agree, though in discourse
"
Congreve. they confound one another with differ***
Foul deeds will rise,though all the earth names." Locke.
 DEFORMITY. 109 DELICACY.

DEFORMITY. "
Many a man has risen period nowhere to be found in all the hoary
to eminence under the powerful reaction registers of time, unless perchauce in the
of his against mind tne scorn of the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the
unworthy, daily evoked by his pergonal word, holds
society with those that own
nor

defects, who, with a handsome person, it. "Pis fancy's child, and folly is its father:
won Id have sunk into the luxury of a less
care- wrought on such stuff as dreams are ; and
life under the tranquilizing smiles of baseless as the fantastic virions of the ing."
even-

continual admiration. "

De Quinoey. Cotton,

Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's To-morrow I will live, the fool does say :
"
deformity ?" He said to himself, If my to-day itself s too late ; the wise lived terday.
yes-
person be crooked, my verses shall be "Martial.
straight."" HazlUt.
To-moiTOw, and to-morrow, and row,
to-mor-

Deformity is daring ; it is its essence to

creeps in this petty pace from day to
overtake mankind by heart and soul and day, to the last syllable of recorded time ;
make itself the equal, aye, the superior of and all our yesterdays have lighted fools
others. " Byron. the way to dusty death. "
Shakespeare.
Deformity of heart I call the worst formity
de- is
Every delay hateful, but it gives dom."
wis-
of all ; for what is form, or face, Publius 8yiws.
but the sours index, or its case ? "
Cotton.
Some one speaks admirably of the well*
"
DELAY." (8ee "
Procrastination, and fruit Balzac.
ripened of sage delay. "

"Inactivity.") Shun breed take

delays, .they remorse ;
Delay has always been injurious to those while thee.
thy time time is lent Creeping
"

who are prepared. Lucan. snails have weakest force

"

; fly their fault,

Defer no time delays have dangerous lest thou repent thee. Good is best when
; "

en ds. "
Shakespeare. soonest wrought ; lingering labors come to

nought. SouthwtU.
of illusions, that the present
"

It is one the
hour is not the critical, decisive hour." Where duty is plain delay is both foolish

Write it on heart that every day is the and hazardous ;

where it is not, delay may
your
best in the No has learned be both wisdom and safety. Tryon wards.
Ed-
day year." man "

anything rightly until he knows and feels

that everyday is doomsday. " Carlyle. Time drinketh up the essence of every
O, how deeds of deathless virtue great and noble action which onght to be
many
and immortal crime the world had wanted performed but is delayed in the tion.
execu-

had the actor said, "

I will do this to-mor- "
Veeshtioo Sarma.

row ! "
"
Lord John Russell. The surest method of arriving at alui owl-

from "It is too late." edge of God's eternal purposes about us is

God keep you
to be found in the right use of the present
When the fool has made
up his mind the
moment. Each hour comes with some little
market lias gone by." Spanish Proverb.
fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. "

No man ever served God by doing things

F. W.Faber.
to-morrow. If we honor Christ, and are

blessed, it is by the things which we do DELICACY." Delicacy is to the tions

affec-
to-day. what grace is to beauty. " Degerando.
Procrastination is the thief of time ; year True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-
after year it steals till all are fled, and to leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most nificantly
sig-
the mercies of a moment leaves the vast in little things." Mary Howitt.
concerns of an eternal scene. Young.
qualities of nature, like the
"

The finest our

He that takes time to resolve, gives leisure bloom on fruits, can preserved only by
be
to deny, and warning to prepare. Quarles. " the most delicate handling." Thoreau.
The procrastinator is not only indolent If destroy delicacy and a sense of
you
and weak but commonly false too ; most of shame in a young girl you deprave her very
the weak are false. " Lavater. fast. "Mrs. Stowe.

In delay we waste our lights in vain ; Weak often, frommen,the very ciple
prin-
Shakespeare. of
weakness, derive
their certain
like lamps by day." a

? Go to I will susceptibility, delicacy, and taste, which

To-morrow, didst thou say "

not hear sharper

of it To-morrow ! 'tis a
render them, in these particulars, much
"

superior to men of stronger and more sistent

con-
who stakes his pennry against thy plenty "

minds, who laugh at them." GreviUe.

who takes thy ready cash, and pays thee
Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be
nought but wishes, hopes, and promises,
the currency of idiots. To-morrow ! it is a handled with a sort of mysterious secresy.^
 DELIGHT. 110 DEMOCRACY.

in the guilty of disasters, the the

They ought to be spoken of only rare our sun. moon,
moments of perfect confidence " to be tually
mu-
and tbe stars : as if we were villains by ne-
cessity

understood in silence. " Many things ; fools, by heavenly compulsion:

'
are too delicate to be thought ; many more knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical
to be spoken. Novalis. ^dominance ; drunkards, liars,and adul-
"

S rers, by an enforced obedience of tary

plane-
An appearand" of and
delicacy, even of
infi jence and all that we are evil in,
fragility, is almost essential to beauty." ,

by a divine thrusting on "Shakespeare.

Burke.
Mankind in tbe is a gaping
gross ster,
mon-
Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance that loves be
deceived, and
to has
is to the fruit." A. PoinceloL
seldom been disappointed. Mackenzie. "

DELIGHT." What more felicity can fall Hope tells a flatteringtale, delusive, vain,
to man than to enjoy delight with liberty ?" and hollow. "
Wrother.

8p"fl9"T. Tbe disappointment of manhood ceeds

suc-

As high as we have mounted in delight, the delusion of youih."JHsraeU.

in our dejection do we sink as low. "
Words-
DEMOCRACY." The love of racy
democ-
xoorth.
is that of equality. " Montesquieu.
These violent delights have violent ends, there will arise
In every village some
and in their triumph dief like fire ana miscreant, to establish the most grinding
powder, which, as they kiss, consume."
tyranny by calling himself the people." 8ir
Shakespeare. Robert Peel.
I am convinced that we have a decree of
small in the real
The history of the gospel has been the
delight, and that no one,
history of the development and growth of
misfortunes and pains of others. Burke.
"

Christian democratic Ideas. " H. W. Beecher.

Sensual delights soon end in loathing, little child is your
Your only true crat."
demo-
quickly bring a glutting surfeit, and generate
de-
Mrs. Stowe.
into torments when they are tinued
con-

and unintermitted. John Howe. It is the most beautiful truth in morals

"

that we have no such thing as a distinct or

DELUSION." No man is happy without
divided interest from our race. "
In their
a delusion of some kind. "
Delusions are as
welfare is ours; and by choosing the
necessary to our happiness as realities. "

broadest paths to effect their happiness, we

Bovee.
choose the surest and shortest to our own."
The worst deluded are the self-deluded. "
Bulwer.
Bovee.
Knowledge and goodness "
these make
Were perfectly acquainted with the
we degrees in heaven, and they must be the
object, we should never passionately desire graduating scale of a true democracy."
ii." Rochefoucauld. Miss Sedgwick.
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from Lyonrgus being asked why he, who in
ourselves as from others, and always with other respects appeared to be so zealous for
more success ; for in deciding upon our the equal rights of men, did not make his
own case we are both judpe,jury, and cutioner,
exe- government democratic rather than an
and where sophistry cannot come
over- oligarchy, replied, "Go you, and try a mocracy
de-
the first, or flatterythe second, self- in your own house.** "
Plutarch.
love is
always ready to defeat the sentence If there of gods,
were people consisting
a

by bribing the third." Cotton.

they would be governed democratically ; so
You think a man to be dupe." If perfect a government is not suitable to
your
he pretends to be so, who is the greatest men. "
Rousseau.

dupe he or you?" Bray ere. Intellectual is far from

"

superiority so

It many times falls out that we deem selves

our- conciliating confidence that it is the very
much deceived in others^because we spirit of a democracy, as in France, to scribe
pro-
are first deceived ourselves. " 8vr P. Sidney. the aristocracy of talents. To be the

When vices flatter

favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man
our quit us{ we selves
our-
must descend to their level ; he must desire
with the belief that A is we who quit
what they desire, and detest all they do not
them. " Rochefoucauld.
approve : he must yield to their prejudices,
O thoughts of men accurst. Past and to
"

and substitute them for principles. In-

stead
come seem best ; things present, worst. "

of enlightening their he must

errors,
Shakespeare. adopt them, and must furnish the sophistry
This is the exoellent foppery of the world ! '

that will propagate and defend them."

that, when we are sick in fortune, we make Fisher Ames.
 DESIRE. 112 DESIRE.

that in falling in with strangers we almost heart ; producing good, if moderately dulged
in-
always reckon on their being irreligious,till but certain destruction, if suffered
;
we discover some specific indication of the to become inordinate. "
Burton.
contrary." J. Foster.
By annihilating the desires, you late
annihi-
It is not occasionally that the human the mind. Every without
" man passions
sonl is under the influence of depravity ; has within hi in no principle of action, nor

but this is its habit and state till the soul is motive to act. "
Helvetius.
renewed by grace. Dick. desire bears
"
Every its death in its very
gratification. Curiosity languishes " under
DESIREt Desires are the pulses of the
"

repeated stimulants, and novelties cease

soul :" as physicians judge by the appetite, to excite sui prise, until at length we do not
so may you by desires. " Manton.
wonder at miracle.
even a "
Washington
The thirst of desire is never filled,nor Irving.
fully satisfied. "
Cicero.
We trifle when we assign limits to our

It is much easier to suppress a first de-

sire desires, since nature hath set none. " Bovee.
than to satisfy those that follow. desires
"
Inordinate commonly produce
Rochefoucauld. irregular endeavors. If our wishes be not
The reason that so many want their sires,
de- kept in submission to God's providence,
is, that their desires want reason. " our pursuits will scarcely be lcept under
He may do what he will,who will do but the restraints of his precepts. " M. Henry.
what he may. Warwick. Our is
"

nature inseparable from desires,

Every one would have something, such and the very craving word desire " the for
perhaps as we are ashamed to utter. The something not possessed implies that "
our

proud man would have honor ; the tous

cove- present felicityis not complete. Hobbes. "

man, wealth and abundance ; the licious,

ma- rich
However or elevated we may be, a
revenge on his enemies ; the cure,
epi- nameless something is always wanting to
pleasure and long life ;
the barren,
our imperfect fortune. "
Horace.
children ;
the wanton, beauty ; each would
Unlawful desires are punished after the
be humored in his own desire, though in
opposition both to God's will,and his own
effect of
enjoying ; but impossible desires
Hall.
are punished in the desire itself. " Sir P.
good." Bp.
Sidney.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in
Before we passionately desire anything
motion ; he whose real wants are supplied,
which another enjoys, we should examine
must admit those of fancy. "
Johnson.
as to the happiness of its possessor." foucauld.
Roche-
Those things that are not practicable are

not desirable. There is nothing in the

He who can wait for what he desires,
world really beneficial that does not lie
takes the course not to be exceedingly
within the reach of an informed ing
understand-
grieved if he fails of it ; he on the contrary
well-protected pursuit.
and a There is
who labors after a thing too impatiently,
nothing God has that
judged good for
thinks the success- when it comes is not a
us that he has not given us the means to
recompense equal to all the pains he has
accomplish, both in the natural and the
been at about it. Bruyere.
moral world. If wecry, like children, for
"

tiie moon, like children we must on."

There is capriciousin nature;
nothing
cry
Burke. and the implanting of a desire indicates
that its gratification is in the constitution
Where necessity ends, desire and osity
curi-
of the creature that feels it. "
Emerson.
bepiu ; no sooner are we suppliedwith
eve 17 thing nature can demand, than we In moderating, not in satisfying desires,
ait down to contrive artificial appetites. "
lies peace. "
Heber.
Johnson.
The soul of man is infinite in what it
The stoical schemes of supplying our covets. " Ben Jonson.
wants by lopping off our desires, is like cut-
ting When man's desires boundless, his
a are
off our feet when want shoes.
we "
labors are endless. " They will set him a

Swift. task he can never through, and cut him

go
A wise man will desire no more than he outwork he can never finish. "
The tion
satisfac-

may get justly, use soberly, distribute he seeks is always absent, and the piness
hap-
cheerfully, and leave contentedly. he aiuis at is ever at a distance. "

The passions and desires, like the two Balguy.

twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the It should be an indispensable rule in life
Other, and twine inextricably round the to contract our desires to oar present con-
 DESOLATION. 113 DESPONDENCY.

dition, and whatever may be our tions

expecta- day, live till to-morrow, will have passed
to live within the
compass of what we away. "
Cowper.
actually possess. It will be time enough to He that
"

despairs degrades the

Deity, and
enjoy an estate when it comes into our intimate that
seems to He iB
insufficient,
bands ; but if we anticipate our good tune
for- his
or not just to word ; in vain hath he
we shall lose the pleasure of it when it read the Scriptures, the world, and man "

arrives, and may possibly never possess FeUham.

what we have so foolishlycounted on. "

He who despairs wants love and faith, for

Addison.
faith, hope, and love are three torches wnich
DESOLATION." No one is so utterly blend their light together, nor does the one
desolate, but some heart, though unknown, shine without the other. "
Metastasio.
responds unto his own." Longfellow. Despair gives the shocking ease to the
None are so desolate but something mind that mortification gives to the body. "

dear," dearer than self, "

possesses or is pos-
sessed. Greville.
" Byron. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the
No soul is desolate as long as there is a serenity of heaven. "
Donne.
human being for whom it can feel trust The fact that God has prohibited spair
de-
and reverence. Qeorge Eliot.
"

gives misfortune the right to hope all

My desolation begins to make a better things, and leaves hope free to dare all
life." Shakespeare. things. " Mad. Swetchine.

What is the worsf of woes that wait on Religion converts despair, which stroys,
de-
age ? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on into resignation, whicn submits. "

the brow? "

To view each loved one blotted Lady Blessingion.
from life's and be alone on earth.
page, "

DESPONDENCY." To despond is to
Byron.
be ungrateful beforehand." Be not looking
Unhappy he, who from the first of joys" for evil. "
Often thou drainest the gall of
society cut off, is left alone, amid this
"
fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. "

worid of death !" Thomson.

Tupper.
DESPAIR." What we call despair is Life is warfare he
a ; and who easily de-
sponds
often only the painful eagerness of unfed deserts double he
a duty "
betrays
hope. Qeorge Eliot.
"
the noblest property of man, which is
He that Providence dauntless resolution; and rejects the he
despairsmeasures
by his own little contracted model and providence of that all-gracious Being
limits infinite power to finite sions.
apprehen- who guides and rules the universe." Jane
"
South. Porter.

Considering the unforeseen events of this To believe a business impossible is the

world, we should taught be that no human way to make it so." How feasible
niauy
condition should inspire,men with absolute have miscarried through despon-
despair. "
Fielding.
Srojects
ency, and been strangledin their birth
It is for that by a cowardly imagination. Collier.
impossible man to despair
"

who remembers that his Helper is omnipo-

tent." In the lottery of life there are more prizes
Jeremy Taylor. drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune

is like froward there are fifty advantages. Despondency

Despair children, who,
when you take one of their playthings,
is the most unprofitable feeling a man can
away
throw the rest into the fire for madness. indulge in." De Witt Talmage.
It growB angry with itself,turns its own Despondency is not a state of humility. "

executioner, and revenges its misfortunes On the contrary, it is the vexation and
on its own head. Charron. "
despair of a cowardly pride ; nothing is

Despair is the offspring of fear, of lazi-

ness, worse. "
Whether we stumble, or whether
and impatience ; it argues a defect of we fall, we must only think of rising again
and going on in our course. Fenelon.
spiritand resolution, and often of honesty "

too. 1 would not despair unless I saw my Despondency is ingratitude ; hope Is

misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and God's worship. "
H. W. Beecher.
signed and sealed by necessity. CoUver.
"
Some persons depress their own minds,
Despair gives courage to the weak. "
despond at the difficulty,and conclude
first
Resolved to die, he fears no more, but that making any progress in knowledge,
rushes on his foes, and deals his deaths further than serves their ordinary business,
vronnd"SomerviUe. is above their capacity." Locke.

darkest As to feel that do thing is often

*% ware of desperatesteps." The we can a
 DESPOTISM. 114 DESTINY.

success, so to doubt and despond is a sure when we have no wish to strive agalnsi

cible
step to failure. it." Balfour.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the
DESPOTISM." I will believe in the
next." Eastern Proverb.
right of oae man to govern a nation de-
spotically
when I find a man born into tHe That which God writes on thy forehead,
with and nation thou wilt come to it. Koran.
world boots and spurs, a
"

born with saddles on their backs. "

Alger- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak hn~
non Sidney. man heart "
the dark apology for every
exist in nation error. The strong and virtuous admit no
Despotism can ao more a
"

until the liberty of the be destroyed, destiny. "

On earth conscience guides : in
press
heaven God watches. And destiny is but
than the night tan happen before the sun
"

the phantom we invoke to silence the one

is set." Cotton.
and dethrone the other. "
Buhoer:
It is odd to consider the connection tween
be-
Philosophers never stood in need of
despotism and barbarity, and how
Homer or the Pharisees to be convinced
the making one person more than man
that everything is done by immutable
makes the rest less. Addison.
"

laws that everything is settled :

that
;
In times of anarchy one may seem a
everything is the necessary effect of some
despot in order to be a savior. Mirabeau.
"

previous cause. "

VoUaire.
Despots govern by terror. " They know
The clew of wander where
our destiny,
that he who fears God fears nothing else,
we will,lies at the cradle foot. "
Riehter.
and therefore they eradicate from the
to pass but what God
mind, through their Voltaire and Helvetius, Nothing comes points."
ap-
and the rest of that infamous that Our fate is decreed, and things ao
gang,
which not happen by chance, but every man's tion
por-
only sort of fear generates true
of joy or sorrow is predetermined.
courage. "
Burke. "

Seneca.
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and
honor is what That which is not allotted the hand
in a monarchy, fear is quired
re- not
can-

in As for it is reach and what is allotted will

a despotism. "
virtue, ; you
not at all and honor would be find wherever you may be. "
SaadL
necessary,
dangerous there. Montesquieu. Man that he directs his life and
"

supposes
All is bad but the is governs his actions, when his existence
despotism ; worst
that which works with the of is irretrievably under the control of tiny.
des-
machinery
freedom. Junius. "
Goethe.
"

It is difficult avoid If the course of human affairs be

for power to ism.
despot- sidered,
con-

The of rude health the it will be seen that many things

"
possessors "

characters never strained by a doubt "

the arise against which heaven does not allow
minds that no questions disturb and no
us to gu"Td."MachiavelU.
aspirations put out of breath there, the Death and life have their
"

determined
strong, are also the tyrants. Oasparin. riches honors
"

appointments ; and depend

When the savages wish to have fruit they upon heaven. "
Confucius.
cut down the tree and gather it." That is
The wheels of nature are not made to
exactly a despotic government. " quieu.
Montes-
roll backward: everything presses on ward
to-
eternity : from the birth of time an
There something among is men more impetuous current has net in. which bears
capable of shaking despotic power than all the sons of men toward that able
intermin-
ligntning, whirlwind, or earthquake ;
that ocean .
Meanwhile heaven is attracting
is, the threatened indignationof the whole to itself whatever is congenial to its nature,
civilized world. Daniel Webster. is
"
enriching itself by the spoils of earth,
and collecting within its capacious bosoi*
DESTINY." Man
proposes, but God whatever is pure, permanent, and divine. "

disposes. Thomas d Kempis.

"
Robert Hall
We are but the instruments of heaven I do not to ideas genious
in-
; mean expose my to
our work is not design, but destiny. Owen ridicule
"
by maintaining that every,
Meredith.
thing happens to every man for the best ;
No man of woman born, coward or brave, but I will contend, that be who makes the
can shun his destiny. " Homer. best use of it,fulfills the part of a wise and
good man. Cumberland.
Destiny is the scape-goat which we make
"

responsible for all our crimes and follies ; Thoughts lead on to purposes ; purposes
a necessity which we set down lor invin- go forth in actions ; actions form haute ;
 DETRACTION. 115 DEVIL.

habits decide character; and character would win us far more honor than seeking
fixes our destiny." Tryon Edwards. to disparage it. "
That would show we loved
what we commended, while this tells the
DETRACTION." (See "Slamdwl") world what
we grudge at we want selves.
our-

The detractor and often FeUham.

may, does, pall "

down others, but by so doing he never, as There is readier for to

no way a man
he seems to
suppose, elevates himself to bring his own worth into question, than by
their position." The most he do in,
can endeavoring to detract from the worth of
maliciously to tear from them the blessings other men. "
Tillotson.
which he cannot enjoy himself.
Unjustifiable detraction always proves
To be traduced by ignorant tongues, is the weakness well of the
as as meanness one
the rough brake that virtue must who it." To be constantly
go employs carping
through." Shakespeare. at, and exaggerating petty blemishes in the
Those who propagate evil quently
fre- characters of others, putting an able
unfavor-
reports
invent them and it is no breach construction on their language, or
;
"
of charity to suppose this to be always the damning with faint praise" their deeds,
because who betrays, the part of the detractor, a
case, no man spreads detrac-
tion on

would have scrupled to produce it,as conscious inability to maintain a able

reput-
he who should diffuse poison in a brook standing on legitimate and honorable
would scarce be acquitted of a malicious ground. " E. L. Magoon,
design, though he should allege that he
DEVIATION." When people once gin
be-
received it of another who is doing the same
to deviate, they do not know where to
elsewhere. "
Adoenturer.
stop. "
George III.
To make beads of the faults of others,
Ah ! to what gulfs a single deviation from
and tell them over every dav, is infernal."
the track of human duties leads ! Byron.
If you want to know how devils feel, you "

do know if you are such an one." if. W, Deviation from either truth or duty is a

Beecher. downward path, and none can say where

"
the descent will end. He that despise th
Happy are they that hear their tions,
detrac- "

and them
small things shall fall by little and little.""
can put to mending. "

Tryon Edwards.
Shakespeare.
In some dispositions there is such an vious
en- DEVIL." The devil is no idle spirit,but
kind of pride that they cannot endure a vagrant, runagate walker, that never

that themselves rests in place. The motive, cause, and

any but should be set forth one "

for excellent so that when they hear one main intention of his walking is to ruin
;
justly praised, they will either seek to dis-
mount man." T. Adams.
his virtues, or. if they be like clear
a No sooner is a temple built to God, but
light, they will stab him with "but" of
a the devil builds a chapel hard by. Herbert. "

detraction. "
Feliham.
As no good is done, or spoken, or thought
Much depends a man's courage without the assistance of God,
upon by any man
when he is slanderea and traduced. Weak in and with those that believe in
working
men crushed by detraction but the is evil
are ; him, so there no done, or spoken, or
brave hold on and succeed.
thought without the assistance of the devil,
He whose first emotion, on the view of an who worketh with strong though secret

excellent work, is to undervalue ciate

depre- in the children of unbelief. All the
or power "

it,will never have one of his own to works of our evil nature are the work of the
show. "
Aikin. devil." J". Wesley.
hard What, ! Defy the devil ! Consider
Base natures joy to see hap happen man

to them they deem happy. "

Sir P. Sidney. he's an enemy to mankind. " Shakespeare.
Whoever feels He who would fight the devil with his own
pain in hearing a good
must not wonder if he finds him
character of his neighb ir, will feel pleasure weapons,
in the and those who overmatch. South.
reverse ; despair to an "

rise to distinction by their virtues are The devil knoweth his and is a
own, ticularly
par-
happy if others can be depressed to a level bad paymaster." J\ M. Crawford.
with themselves. J. Barker.
devil has least good quality,
"

The at one
The man that makes a character, makes that be will flee if we resist him. "
Though
foes. " Young. cowardly in him, it is safety for us." Tryon
If considered detraction to be bred of Edwards.
we

envy, nested only in deficient

and minds, Talk of devils being confined to hell, or

we should find that the applauding of virtue hidden by inrisiblUtyVWe nave them by
 DEVOTION. 116 DIET.

shoals in the crowded towns and cities of God gives they are on to his people when
the world." Talk of raising the devil !" their knees Prayer, if not in the closet. "

What need for that, when he is constantly the very gate of heaven, is the key to let us
to and fro in streets, seeking into its holiness and joys. T. Brooks.
walking our "

whom he devour. Anon. I time and for tude

soli-
may "
Once sought a place
All is where tion
devo-
and prayer ; but now where'er I find
DEVOTION t" holy
thy face I find a closet there.
kneels." 0. W. Holmes,

The most illiterate man who is touched DEW. "

The dews of evening "
those
with devotion, and uses frequent exercises tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. "

of it, contracts a certain greatness of mind, Chesterfield.

mingled with noble simplicity, that raises
a Stars of the morning " dew-drops "
which
him above others of the same condition. the leaf and flower.
sun impearls on every
By this, a mau in the lowest condition will "Mitton.
not appear mean, or in the most splendid
Dew-drops "
nature's tears, which she
fortune insolent. "
Johnson,
sheds on her own breast for tne fair which
The private devotions and secret offices die. "
The sun insists on gladness ; but at
of religion are like the refreshing of gar-
den
a night, wheu he is gone, poor nature loves
with the distilling and petty drops of to weep." Bailey.
a waterpot but addressed from the ple,
tem-
the but
; Dew-drops are gems of morning,
they are like rain from heaven. " Jeremy the tears of mournful eve." Coleridge.
Taylor, of the
Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought
Satan rocks the cradle when we sleep at air." Bailey.
our devotions. " Bp. HalL
It is of the utmost DICE. I look upon every man as a cide
sui-
importance to season "

the with from the moment he takes the dice-

the passions of young devotion,
whicn seldom dies in the mind that has box desperately in his hand ; all that follows
ceived
re-

of in his career from that fatal time is onlv

an early tincture it. Though it
for while sharpening the dagger before he strikes it
may seem extinguished a bv the
of the world, the youth, or heats of to his heart. "
Cumberland.
cares

the allurements of vice, it generally breaks I never hear the rattling of dice that it
out and discovers itself again as soon as does not sound to me like the funeral bell
discretion, consideration, age, or tunes
misfor- of the whole family. "
JerroUL
have brought th: man to himself.
The best throw with the dice, is to throw
The fire may be covered and overlaid but
them away. "
Old Proverb.
cannot be entirely quenched and ered.
smoth-
Addison. DIET. is better than
"
" Regimen physic.
All the duties of religion are eminently Every one should be his own physician "

solemn and venerable in the eyes of dren.

chil- We should assist, not force nature. "
Eat
But none will so strongly prove the with moderation what you know by expe-
rience
sincerity of the parent none powerfully constitution.
agrees with
; so your "

awaken the reverence of the child

j none Nothing is good for the body but what we

so happily recommend the instruction he can digest. What can procure digestion?
"

receives, as family devotions, particularly "

Exercise. What will recruit strength."
"

those in which
petitions for the children Sleep. "
What will alleviate incurable evils?

occupy a distinguished place. Duright. " "

Patience." Voltaire.

The secret heart is devotion's temple In general, mankind, since the ment
improve-
;
there the saint lights the flame of purest of cookery, eat twice as much as ture
na-

sacrifice, which burns unseen but not accepted.

un- requires. "
Franklin.
"
Hannah More. All animals
courageous are carnivorous,
The inward sighs of humble penitence and greater courage is to be
expected in a
rise to the ear of heaven, when pealed people whose food is strong and hearty,
hymns are scattered to the common air. " than in the half -starved of other countries.
Joanna Baillie, " Sir W. Temple.
Solid devotions resemble the rivers which Food improperly taken, not only produ-
ces
run unier the earth " they steal from the diseases, but affords those that are ready
al-
eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God ; engendered both matter and nance
suste-
and it often happens that those of whom we ; so that, let the father of disease be
speak least on earth, are best known in what it may, intemperance is its mother. "

heaven." Caussin. Burton,

The best and sweetest flowers in paradise, Simple diet is best; for dishes
many
 DIFFERENCE. 117 DIFFIDENCE.

bring many diseases ; and rich sauces are amid the consciousness of earthly

ment,
worse than even heaping several meats frailty and the crumbling tombstones of
npon each other. " Pliny. mortality." J?. H. Chapm.
The chief pleasure in eating does not It is not every calamity that is a curse,
consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite and early adversity is often blessing.a "

flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for 8urmounted difficulties not only teach, but
sauce by labor ? " Horace. hearten us in our future struggles." Sharp.
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, Difficulty is the soil in which all manly
use fasting and walking ; if a healthful and womanly qualities best flourish ; and
soul, fasting and praying. " Walking cises
exer- the true worker, in any sphere, is con-
tinually

the body ; praying exercises the soul ; coping with difficulties. His very
fasting cleanses both. " Quarles. failures, throwing him upon his own sources,
re-

One meal is for cultivate and resolution

a day enough a lion, and energy ;
his hardships teach him fortitude
it ought to be for a man. "
O. Fordyce. ; his suc-
cesses

inspire self-reliance.
A fig for your bill of fare ; show me your
bill of company. It cannot be too often repeated that it is
"
Swift.
not helps, but obstacles, not facilities,but
DIFFERENCE." It is remarkable that difficulties that make men. " W. Mathews.
men, when
they differ in what they think
Difficulties are God's errands ; and when
considerable, are apt to differ in almost
sent them should esteem it
we are upon we
everything else. Tneir difference begets
a proof of God's confidence " as a ment
compli-
contradiction ; contradiction begets heat ;
from him. "
H. W. Beecher.
heat rises into resentment, and ill-
rape, Difficulties
will." Thns they differ in affection, as they strengthen the mind, as labor
differ in and the contention does the body. Seneca.
judgment, "

which began in pride, ends in anger. Caio. "

There is no merit where there is no trial :

In all differences consider that both and till experience stamps the mark of
you
and opponent are mortal, strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and
your or enemy
and that memories will faith for falsehood."^. Hill.
ere long your very
be extinguished." Aurel. The greater the obstacle, the more glory
If would consider not much we have in overcoming it ; the difficulties
men so

wherein with which we are met are the maids of

wherein they differ,as they agree,
would be charitableness honor which set off virtue." Moliere.
there far less of nn

and angry feeling in the world. "

Addison. Difficulties show men what they are. "
In
case of any difficultyGod has pitted you
DIFFICULTY." What is difficulty?" against a rough antagonist that you be
may
Only a word indicating the degree of and this cannot be without
a conqueror,
strength requisite for accomplishing par-
ticular toU."kpictehis.
objects ; a mere notice of the neces-
sity
Our energy is in proportion to the sistance
re-
for exertion; a bugbear to children it meets. " We attempt nothing
and fools ; only a stimulus to men. Samuel "

from of the difficulties

Warren. Seatbutencounter
ve to
a sense

; we persevere in ing
noth-
we

It has been the glory of the great masters but from in

great a pride overcoming
in all the arts to confront and to overcome ; ihem.-HazliU.
and when they had overcome the first diffi-
culty,
There are difficulties in your path. "
Be
to turn it into an instrument for new
thankful for them. " They will test your
conquests over new difficulties ; thus to
of
capabilities resistance ; you will be im-
pelled
enable them to extend the empire of science.
to from the energy
persevere very
Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over of the opposition. "
But what of him that
us by the Supreme guardian and legislator, fails?" What does he gain ?" Strength for
who knows us better than we know selves,
our- real is not in the
life. "
The merit success,
and loves ns better too. He that
"
but in the endeavor ; and win or lose, he will
wrestles with us strengthens our nerves be honored and crowned." W. M. Punslwn,
and sharpens our skill." Our antagonist is
our helper. Burke. Persons
"
DIFFIDENCE. " extremely served
re-

The greatest difficulties lie where we are and diffident are like the old elled
enam-

not looking for them." Goethe. watches, which had painted covers

The weak their that hindered you from seeing what time
sinews become strong by
conflict with difficulties. is born in it was." Walpole.
"
Hope
the long night of watching and tears. "
We are as often duped by diffidence a*

Faith visits us in defeat and disappoint- by confidence." Cftester/ieM.

 DIGNITY. 118 DISAPPOINTMENT.

Diffidence may check resolution, and struct

ob- Who makes quick use of the moment, is
performance, but it compensates its a genius of prudence. "
Laoater.
embarrassments by more important advan-
tages.
He who labors diligently need never spair
de-
It conciliates the proud, and softens all
"

; for things are accomplished by

the severe; averts envy from excellence, and labor. Menander.
diligence "

and censure from miscarriage. "

Johnson.
In all departments of activity, to have
Nothing sinks a young man into low pany,
com-
one thing to do, and then to do it,is the
both of men ana women, so mi rely secret of success.
as timidity and diffidence of himself. "
If he
thinks he shall not please, he may depend DINNER*" A dinner lubricates ness."
busi-
it that he will not. But with proper SlowelL
upon "

endeavors to please, and a degree of per-

suasion Before dinner, men meet with great ine-
quality
that he shall, it is almost certain of
understanding, and those who
that he will." Chesterfield. are conscious of their inferiority have the

One with more of soul in his face than modesty not to talk : when they have drunk

words his Wordsworth. wine, every man feels himself happy, and
on tongue. "

loses that modesty, and growB impudent

Have self-respect and think less
a
proper and vociferous
of you, and it will think ; but he is not improved ;
of what others may he is only not sensible of his defects. "

aid you to overcome diffidence, and help you

Johnson,
to self-possession and self-reliance.
A good dinner sharpens wit, while it
DIGNITY." True digraity is never softens the heart. Boron.
"

gained by place, and never lost when honors

The pleasant talk of the dinner table
are withdrawn." Massinger.
promotes digestion, and prevents the mind
Dignity of position adds to dignity of of the
from dwelling on the grinding tive
diges-
character, as well as to dignity of riage.
car- mill that is within The
going on us."
"
Give us a proud position, and we satisfaction and repose that follow a full
are impelled to act up to it. -Bovee. meal tend to check a disposition to splenetic
in possessing honors, argument, much zeal in supporting
Dignityconsists not or too
but in the consciousness that we deserve an opinion, while the freedom ana don
aban-
them. "
AristotL. of the intercourse kept up is eminently
conducive to the feelings of general benevo-
lence.
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were as
Jerdan.
much actors as Garrick or Talma." An posing
im- "

air should
always be taken as dence
evi-
DIRT." "Ignorance,*' says Ajax, "is a
of imposition. Dignity is often a veil
painless evil.** So, I should think, is dirt,
"

"

between us and the real truth of things. considering the merry

"

faces that go along

E. P. Whipple. with it. Eliot.
" George
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor
Dirt is not dirt, but only something in
do they continue long together. Ovid.
"
the wrong place. "
Lord Pcumerston.
Most of the men of dignity, who awe or

bore their genial brethren, are simply

more DISAPPOINTMENT.-The appointment
dis-
of manhood succeeds to the
men who
possess the art of passing off their
insensibility for wisdom, their dullness for delusion of youth. Disraeli. "

depth, and of concealing imbecility of in- tellect No man, with a man's heart in him, gets
under haughtiness of manner. E. far on his way without some bitter, soul- "

P. Whipple. searching disappointment. Happy he who "

is brave enough to pnsh on another stage

DILIGENCE." What we hope ever to
of the journey, and rest where there are
do with ease, we must learn first to do with "
living springs of water, and three-score
dili gence. "Johnson.
and ten palms." "
Brown.
The expectations of life depend upon The best enjoyment is half ment
disappoint-
diligence ; the mechanic that would perfect
to what we intend or would nave in
his work must first sharpen his tools. "

this world. " Bailey.

Confucius.
Oft expectation fails,and most oft where
Diligence is the mother of good luck, most it promises ; and oft it hits where
and God gives all things to industry.
hope is coldest, and despair most sits. "

Work while it is called to-day, for you know

how much
Shakespeare.
not you may be hindered morrow.
to-
How disappointment tracts the steps of
One to-day is worth two rows
to-mor-

; never leave that till to-morrow which hope "

L. E. London.
you can do to-day. " FrankHn. He who expects much will be often dis-
 DISCOVERY. 120 DISCUSSION.

and purest inspiration that visits and stirs It is the modest, not the presumptuous
the soul. All the discontent which inquirer, who makes real and safe
"
grows a
ress
prog-
from dissatisfaction with present ments,
attain- in the discovery of divine truths."
or springs from a desire for higher He follows God in his works and in his
usefulness, that impels to the worthy word.
or "
Bolingbrohe.
achievement of an honorable name or place,
visited with DISCRETION.-The greatest parts,
is a noble discontent, and to be
without discretion, may be fatal to their
blessings. "
But the discontent that comes

from below "

from a soul disgusted with its owner. Polyphemus,
"
deprived of his eye,
lot, and faithless God, and
to out of mony
har- was only the more exposed on account of
his enormous strength and stature." Hume.
with the arrangements and tions
opera-
of providence, is evil, and only evil Be discreet in all things, and so render
continually. "
One tends to the ment
develop- it unnecessary to be mysterious about
of a symmetrical, strong, and monious
har- any. "
Wellington.
character; the other to evil There in
an are many shining qualities the
temper, and a complaining spirit, aud a mind of man but useful cretion.
dis-
; tone so as
rebellious heart. One is of heaven the It is this w^ich value
"
; gives a to
other of hell." U. W.Beecher. all the rest, and sets them at work in their
That which makes people dissatisfied with proper places, and turns them to the vantage
ad-
their condition, is the chimerical idea they of their
possessor. Without it,
form of the happiness of others. Thornton. "
learning is pedantry ; wit. impertinence ;
virtue itself looks like weakness ; aud the
Discontents are sometimes the better part
beetparts only qualify a man to be more
of our life. "
I know not which is the most
useful." Joy I choose for pleasure:
sprightlyin errors, and active to his own
may
prejudice. Though a man has all other
but adversities are the best forprofit : and
do far perfections and wants discretion, he will be
sometimes these so help me, tnat I
of no great consequence in the world ;
but
should, without them, want much of the
if he nas this single talent in
perfection,
joy I have. FeUham. "

and but a common share of others, he may

A good man and a wise man may, at
do what he pleases in his station of life."
times, be with the world, and at times
angry Addison.
grieved for it ; but no man was ever contented
dis-
with the world if he did his duty
Discretion in speech, is more than quence.
elo-
"
Bacon.
in it." Southey.
Open your month and purse cautiously,
Save me from impious discontent at
and your stock of wealth and reputation
aught thy wisdom has denied or thy good*
shall, at least in repute, be great. 21im- "

ne8s has lent. " Pope.

tnerman.

DISCOVERY." A new principle is an A sound discretion is not so much cated

indi-
inexhaustible source of new viewB. "
Vau-
by never making a mistake, as by
venargues. never repeating it. Bovee. "

It Is mortifying truth, and ought to is discretion,

a The part of valor
better
teach the wisest of humility, that
us many in the which part I have saved
better my
of the most valuable discoveries have been life. " Shakespeare.
the result of chance rather than of templation,
con-
Discretion is the perfection of reason,
and of accident rather than of
and guide to us in all the duties
a of life."
design." Colton.
It is only found in men of sound sense and
If I have ever made valuable dis-
any good understanding. Bruyere. "

coveries, it has been owing more to patient the

v Discretion is salt, and fancy the
attention, than to any other talent. " Sir
sugar of life ; the one preserves, the other
Isaac Newton.
sweetens it. Bovee. "

It is a profound mistake to think that

well
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind
everything has been discovered ; as
,

if a servant, sometimes deaf. "

Fuller.
think the horizon the boundary of the
world. "Lemierre.
DISCUSSION." Free and fair sion
discus-
He who sins against may fear
men, covery
dis- will ever be found the firmest friend
; but he who sins against God is sure to truth." O. CampbeJL
of it It is excellent
an rule to be observed in
Through every rift of discovery some all discussions, that men should give soft \/
seeming anomaly drops out of the dark-
ness, words and hard arguments; that they
and falls,as a golden link, into the should not so much strive to silence or vex,
great chain of order." E. H. Chopin. as to convince their opponents. " WWdns
\ .
I
 DISCOVERY. 120 DISCUSSION.

and purest inspiration that visits and stirs It is the modest, not the presumptuous
the soul. All the discontent which grows inquirer, who makes a real and safe
"

ress
prog-
from dissatisfaction with present ments,
attain- in the discovery of divine truths."
or springs from a desire for higher He follows God in his works and in his
usefulness, or that impels to the worthy word. "
Bolingbroke.
achievement of an honorable name or place,
visited with DISC RET ION. -The greatest parts,
is a noble discontent, and to be
without discretion, may be fatal to their
blessings. "
But the discontent that comes

from below disgusted with its

"
from a soul owner. Polyphemus, " deprived of his eye,
faithless was only the more exposed on account of
lot, and God, and out of mony
har- to
his enormous strength and stature." Hume,
with the arrangements and tions
opera-
of providence, is evil, and only evil Be discreet in all things, and so render
continually. One tends to the ment
develop-
"
it unnecessary to be mysterious about
of a symmetrical, strong, and monious
har- any. "
Wellington.
character; the other to evil There shining in the
an are many qualities
temper, and a complaining spirit, and a mind of man ; but tone so useful as cretion.
dis-
rebellious heart. One is of heaven the It is this w^ich value
"
; gives a to
other of hell." if. W.Beecher. all the rest, and sets them at work in their
That which makes people dissatisfied with proper places, and turns them to the vantage
ad-
their condition, is the chimerical idea they of their
possessor. Without it,
form of the happiness of others. "
Thomson. learning is pedantry ; wit. impertinence ;
virtue weakness ; and
itself looks
the like
Discontents are sometimes the better part
best to be
of our life. "
I know not which is the most parts only qualify a man more

useful." I choose for

sprightly in errors, and active to his own
Joy may pleasure: has
prejudice. Though a man all other
but adversities are the best for profit : and
far I perfections and wants discretion, he will be
sometimes these do so help me, tnat
of no great consequence in the world ; but
should, without them, want much of the
if he has this single talent in
perfection,
Joy I have." Feliham.
and but a common share of others, he may
A good man and a wise man may, at he in his station of life."
do what pleases
times, be with the world, and at times
angry Addison.
grieved for it ; but no man was ever contented
dis-
Discretion in speech, is more than quence.
elo-
with the world if he did his duty
"
Bacon.
in it." Southey.
discontent at Open your mouth and purse cautiously,
Save me from impious
and your stock of wealth and reputation
aught thy wisdom has denied or thy good*
shall, at least in repute, be great. merman.
Zim- "

ness has lent. " Pope.

DISCOVERY." A new principle is an A sound discretion is not so much cated

indi-
inexhaustible source of new views. "
Vau-
by never making a mistake, as by
venargues. never repeating it. Bovee. "

It mortifying truth, and ought to

Is a The part of valor
better is discretion,
teach the wisest of us humility, that many in the which part I have
better saved my
of the most valuable discoveries have been life. " Shakespeare.
the result of chance rather than of templation,
con-
Discretion is the perfection of reason,
and of accident rather than of
and guide to us in all the duties
a of life."
design." Cotton.
It is only found in men of sound sense and
If I have ever made any valuable dis-
good understanding. Bruyere. "

coveries, it has been owing more to patient

v Discretion is the salt, and fancy the
attention, than to any other talent. "
Sir
of life ; the one the other
sugar preserves,
Isaac Newton.
sweetens it. Bovee. "

It is a profound mistake to think that

If thou a master, be sometimes
art blind
has been discovered well ,
everything ; as
if a servant, sometimes deaf. Fuller. "

think the horizon the boundary of the

world. "Lemierre.
DISCUSSION." Free and fair sion
discus-
He who sine against may fear
men, covery
dis- will ever be found the firmest friend
; but he who sins against God is sure to truth." G. Campbell.
of it It is an excellent rule to be observed in
Through rift of discovery some all discussions, that men should give soft \y
every
seeming anomaly drops out of the ness,
dark- words and hard arguments; that they
and falls,as a golden link, into the should not so much strive to silence or vex,
great chain of order." E. H. Chopin, as to convince their opponents." WWdn"
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
 DISCUSSION 121 DISGUISE

He who knows only his own side of the makes a great noise to make the enemy
y
case, knows little of that " J. Stuart Mill, believe them more numerous and strong
than they really are. " Swift.
He that is not open to conviction, is
not qualified for discussion. Whately.
"

DISEASE. "
The disease and its cine
medi-
Whosoever Is afraid of submitting are like two factions in a besieged
any
civil the of town ; they tear one another to pieces,
question, or religious, to test
love but both unite against their common
free discussion, is more in with his
than with truth. T. son.
Wat- enemy Nature. Jeffrey.
own opinion "
" "

Diseases are the penalties we pay for

,
Understand your antagonist before you over-indulgence, or for our neglect of
answer him. the means of health.

The more discussion the better, if pas-

sion In these days half our diseases come
and personality be eschewed. " cussion,
Dis-
from the neglect of the body, and the
even if stormy, often winnows
overwork of the brain. " In this railway
truth from error "
good a never to be
age the wear and tear of labor and tellect
in-
expected in an unlnqulrlng age. " Chan-
go on without pause or self-pity.
ning. We live
" longer than our forefathers ;
There is no dispute managed without but we suffer more, from a thousand ficial
arti-
passion, and yet there is scarce a pute
dis- anxieties and cares. " They fatigued
worth a passion. " Sherlock. only the muscles ; we exhaust the finer
strength of the nerves. " Bulioer.
There is nothing displays the quickness
of genius more than a dispute" two Taking medicine is often only
as making a
diamonds, encountering, contribute to new disease to cure or hide the old one.
each other's lustre. " But perhaps the odds
la against the man of taste in this ticular.
par- It Is with diseases of the mind, as

" Shenstone. with those of the body: we are half dead

before we understand our disorder, and
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much,
half cured when we do." Cotton.
its utility. " All disputation makes the
mind deaf, and when people are deaf I
Sickness and disease are in weak
am dumb. Joubert. minds the
"

sources of melancholy ; but

Gratuitous violence in trays
be- that which is painful to the body, may be
argument
a conscious weakness of the cause, profitable to the soul. Sickness puts us

and is usually in mind of mortality,

our and, while
a signal of despair. "
we

Junius. drive on heedlessly in the full career of

worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us
Men are never so likely to settle a
by the ear, and brings us to a proper
V question rightly, as when they discuss it
Burton.
sense of our duty. "

freely. " Macaulay.

In debate, rather pull to pieces the DISGRACE." Disgrace is not in the
argument of thine antagonist, than offer punishment, but in the crime. " Al/leri.
him any of thine own ; for thus thou wilt
fight him In his own country. " Fielding. Among the numberless contradictions
in our nature hardly any is more glaring
If thou take delight In idle tion,
argumenta- than this, between our sensitiveness to
thou mayest be qualified to combat the slightest disgrace which we fancy
with the sophists, but will never know
cast upon us from without and our lousness
cal-
how to live with men. Socrates.
"
to the grossest which we bring
and with down on ourselves. In truth, they who
Reply with wit to gravity,
are the most sensitive to the one are
gravity to wit. "
Make a full concession
often the most callous to the other.
to your adversary ; give him every credit "

Guesses at Truth.
for the ^arguments you know you can

answer, and slur over those you feel you

Do not talk about disgrace from a
cannot. " But above all, if he have the
thing being known, when the disgrace is,
privilege of making his reply, take pecial
es-
that the thing should exist. "
Falconer.
care that the strongest thing you
have to urge be the last.-" Cotton. Whatever disgrace have served
de-
we may

thyself or incurred, it is almost always

Do not use to dispute against
in our power to re-establish our ter.
charac-
thine own judgment to show thy wit,
lest It thee to be indifferent " Rochefoucauld.
prepare
about what Is right ; nor against another
DISGUISE." Men would not live long
man to vex him, or for mere trial skill,
of
Informed to society,
in were they not the mutual
since to Inform or be ought
be the end of all conferences. " Penn. dupes of each other. " Rochefoucauld.

It is In disputes, as in armies, where Disguise yourself as you may to your low-men,

fel-
the weaker side sets up false lights, and If you are honest with yourself
 DISHONESTY. 122 DISPOSITION.

conscience will make known your real acter,

char- thought and noble feeling. We should "

ous
and the heart-searching one always cherish kind wishes, for a time may come
knows it. " Pay son. when we
may be able to put them in prac-
tice.
Were to take much Miss MUford.
we as pains to be "

what we ought to be, as we do to disguise Love thyselflast. "

Cherish the hearts
what we really are, we might appear like that hate thee." Be just and fear not. "
Let
ourselves without being at the trouble of all the euds thou aimest at be thy try's,
coun-

any disguise whatever. " Rochefoucauld. thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou
fallest, thou fallest a blessed martyr. "

DISHONESTY." Dishonesty is a saking

for-
Shakespeare.
of permanent for temporary vantages.
ad-
"
Bovee. DISOBEDIENCE." Wherever there is

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense authority, there is a natural inclination to

disobedience. Haliburton.
talked about bad men not looking you in "

the face. "

Dou't trust that idea." esty
Dishon- Rogues differ little. Each begun first as

honesty out of countenance

will stare a disobedient son. "
Chinese Proverb.

any day in the week, if there is anything to That raeu so universally disobey God
be got by it. Dickens. alienation
"

bespeaks and enmity of mind,

He who purposely cheats his friend, for as obedieuce proceeds from love so obedience
dis-
would cheat nis God. "
Lavater. proceeds from enmity." John

that his Howe.

Every man takes care neighl"or
"hall not cheat him. But a day comes Disobedient children, if preserved from
when he begins to care that he do not the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. tortured by their own posterity. One " plaining,
com-

He has changed his market-cart into a that never father had so undutifnl
chariot of the sun. " Emerson. a child as he had, yes. said his son, with
less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
That which is won ill,will never wear
Fuller.
well, for there is a curse attends it which "

will waste it. "

The same corrupt disposi-
tions DISPATCH." Dispatch is the soul of
which incline men to sinful of business. Chesterfield.
ways "

getting, will incline them to the like sinful

True dispatch is a rich thing, for time is
ways of spending. "
M. Henry. the measure of business, as money is of
If you attempt to beat a man down and wares and business is bought at a dear
;

so get his goods for less than a fair price, hand where there is small dispatch. " Bacon.
you are attempting to commit burglary as Use dispatch." Remember that the world
much as though you broke into his shop
only took six days for its creation." Ask
to take the things without paying for them.
"There is cheating on both sides of the
me for whatever
you please except time ;
that is the only thing which is beyond my
counter, and generally less behind it than
power. " Xapoleon.
before. "
H. W. Beecher.
To choose time is to save time. "
There
So grasp:ng is dishonesty,that it is no
be three parts of business the preparation, "

respecter of persons ; it will cheat friends

the debate or examination, and the fection
per-
as well as foes ; and were it possible, would if yon look for dispatch,
; whereof,
cheat even God himself. Bancroft. let middle only be the work of
"

the many,
I could never draw the line between ness
mean- and the first and last the work of few. "

and dishonesty. "

What is mean, so far Bacon,
as I can see, slides by indistinguishable If it were done when it is done, then it
gradations into what is dishonest. " G. Mac-
were well it were done quickly. Shake-
speare. "

donald.

DISINTER ESTEDNESS.-Men of the

Our only safe rule is, "Whatsoever our
world hold that it is impossible to do a
hand findeth to do, to do it with all our
benevolent action, except from an ested
inter-
might." "
Let it be subject of daily prayer,
a
motive ; for the sake admiration,
of
as well as an object of daily endeavor, to
if for no grosser and more tangible gain. do our right work at the right time. "
N.
Doubtless they are also convinced, that,
Macleod.
when sun showering
the light from the is
there to be stared Measure not dispatch by the times of sit-
ting,
sky, he is only standing
at. "
Anon. but by the advancement of business."
Bacon.
disinterested
'

The slightest emotion of

kindness that passes through the mind proves
im- DISPOSITION." A good disposition is

and refreshes it,producing gener- more valuable than gold ; for the latter is
 DISTRUST. 124 DOGMATISM.

of nobility, and these it is which make the recreations please them best, provided they
bright immortal names to which our dren,
chil- be followed with discretion." Burton.
as well as others, may aspire." Miss
DOCILITY." A docile disposition will,
Sedgwick.
with application,
surmount every difficulty.
All our distinctions are accidental. "

" Manuius.
Beauty and deformity, though personal
neither entitled to praise Willingness to be taught what we do not
qualities, are or

it that they color know, is the sure pledge of growth both

censure ; yet so happens
in knowledge and wisdom. Blair.
our opinionof those qualities to which kind
man- "

have attached importance." man.

Zimmer-
DOCT R IN E," Doctrine is the necessary
foundation of duty ; if the theory is not
How men lqng for celebrity! "
Some
correct, the practice cannot be right." Tell
would willingly sacrifice their lives for
me what a man believes, and I will tell you
fame, and not a few would rather be known
what he will do." Tryon Edwards.
by their crimes than not known at all. "

Say what men may, it is doctrine that

Sinclair,
moves the world. He who takes no tion
posi-
DISTRUST. " A certain amount of trust
dis- will not the human intellect.
sway "

is wholesome, but not so much of W. O. T. Shedd.

others as of ourselves. "
Neither vanity nor
The question is not whether a doctrine
conceit can exist in the same atmosphere is beautiful but whether it is true. "
When
with it." Mad. Neckar.
we wish to go to a place, we do not ask
Excessive distrust of others is not less whether the road leads through a pretty
hurtful than its opposite." Most men come
be- but whether
country, it is the light road. "

useless to him who is unwilling to Hare.

risk being deceived."
Vauvenargttes.
Doctrine is the framework of life "
the
The feeling of distrust is always the last
skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded
which a great mind acquires. Racine. "
out by the living grace of a holy life. " A.
Nothing is more certain of destroying J. Gordon.
any pood feeling that may be cherished ward
to-
The doctrine that rectifies the conscience,
us, than to show distrust. On the
purifies the heart, and
produces love to God
"

contrary confidence leads us naturally to

and man, is necessarily true, whether men
act kindly ; we are affected by the good can comprehend all its depths and relations
opinion others entertain of us, and are not
or not. " If it destroys sin, and makes hap-
easily induced to lose it." Mad. Sevigne'. out of right living and right
As health lies in labor, and there is no
{)ine8851-0
oving, it is the truth
w

of God. "
J. B. Walker.
royal road to it but through toil, so there Pure doctrine bears fruit in pure
always
is no republican road to safety but in stant
con- benefits. " Emerson.
distrust." Wendell Phillips.
He that shall broach any doctrine that
What loneliness is more lonely than trust?"
dis- cometh not from God, whatsoever he say
George Eliot, what he set upon
for it, or gloss soever it,is
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our a traitor to God though he were an angel
failures. In the assurance of strength, from heaven. "
Boston.
there is strength, and they are the weakest,
however have DOG MAT ISM ""Nothing be
strong, who no faith in them-
selves can more

or their own Bovee. nnphilosophical than to be positive or matical

dog-
powers. "

To think and feel is often

on any subject." when men are
we are able, to
the most sure and arrogant, they are monly
com-
be so. J. Hawes.
have
"

the most mistaken and there

""
DIVERSION.-(See Amusement.") given reins to passion without that proper
Diversions most deliberation and suspense which alone can
are properly applied to
and relieve those who secure them from the grossest absurdities,
ease are oppressed
much Those Hume.
by being too employed. that "

are idle have of them, and yet

no neea A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be
they, above all others, give themselves up censorious of his neighbors. "
Every one of
to them. To unbend our thoughts when his him written with
"

opinions appears to as
they are too much stretched by our and he that
cares, sunbeams, grows angry his
is not more natural than it is necessary it in the same
;
neighbors do not see light. "

but to turn our whole life into holiday is to disdain

a He is tempted his correspondents
not only ridiculous, but destroys pleasure as men of low and dark understandings cause
be-
instead of increasing it." Saville. believe
they do not what he does."
Let the world have whatever sports and Watts.
 DOING well: m DOUBT.

It has been said dogmatism, that it is

of In contemplation, if a man begins with
only puppyism come its fall growth, and
to certainties he shall end in doubts ; but if
certaiuly the worst form this quality can he be content to begin with doubts, he shall
assume is that of opinionativeness and gance."
arro- end in certainties. "
Bacon.
S. Smiles. and cherished, is in
Doubt, indulged
Those who differ most from the opinions danger of becoming denial ; but if honest,
of their fellow-men are the most confident and bent on thorough investigation, it
of the truth of their own. " Mackintosh.
may soon lead to full establishment in the

Those who refuse the long drudgery of truth. " Tryon Edwards.

thought, and think with the heart rather When doubt, abstain. Zoroaster.
you "

than the head, are ever most fiercelydog-

matic. is the of
Human knowledge parent
" Bayne. doubt." Oreville.

DOING WELL. "

Whatever is worth Man was not made to question, but
*/ doing at all,is worth doing well." Chester" adore. " Young.
field. We know accurately only when we know
We do not choose our own parts in life, little ; with knowledge doubt increases. "

and have nothing to do with those parts." Goethe.

Our duty is confined to playing them well. When a doubt is propounded, learn to
" Epictetus. distinguish, and show wherein a thing J/
Best satisfied with doing well, and leave holds, and wherein it doth not hold. The
v
others to talk of you as they please. Py- not distinguishing
thagoras. "
where things should be
distingnisned, and the confounding,
not
well is wise where things should be confounded, is the
Thinking ; planning well, all the
1 well wisest best of alL cause of mistakes in the world.
wiser ; doing
"

ana "

Persian Proverb. Selden.

The doubter's dissatisfaction with his

DOMESTIC^ Domestic happiness doubt is and the
" "

as great widespread as
thou only bliss of paradise that has vived
sur- doubt itself. "
J. Dewitt.
the fall. " Cowper.
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive,
Domestic happiness is the end of almost restless age." It is the price we pay for our
all our pursuits, and the common reward advanced intelligenceand civilization" the
of all our pains. When men find selves
them- dim But
"
night of our resplendent day. " as
forever barred from this delightful the most beautiful light is born of darkness,
fruition, they are lost to all industry, and the faith that from conflict is
so springs
grow careless of their worldly affairs." Thus often the best." JR. TurnbuU.
strongest and
they become bad subjects, bad relations,
There is no moral power in doubt, or in
bad friends, and bad men. "
Fielding.
of truth, and human soul
the denial any
A prince wants onlv the pleasures of pri-
vate that tries to live on it will die, both morally
life to complete his happiness. Bruy- "
and spiritually. "
It is negative,*and there is
ere. no life in it.
Domestic worth "
that shuns too strong a The vain man is generally a doubter. " It
Hghte" LyWeton. is Newton who sees himself as a child on

Our notion of the perfect society em- the seashore, and his discoveries in the
braces the family as its center and ment.
orna- colored shells. "
Willmott.
Nor is there paradise planted till
" a Our are traitors, and
doubts make us
the children in the foreground to
appear lose good we oft might win by fearing
the '

animate and complete the picture. A. B.

"
to attempt. Shakespeare. "

AlcoU.
Doubt is an incentive to search for truth, y/
No
money is better spent than what is and leads the to it.
patient inquiry way
laid out for domestic satisfaction. "
A man
Who never doubted, never half lieved."
be-
is pleased that his wife is dressed as well
Where doubt is, there truth is" it v
as other people, and the wife is pleased that
is her shadow. " Bailey.
she is so dressed." JbAnson.
In the hands of unbelief half-truths are

DOUBT. "
A bitter and perplexed, made to do the work of whole falsehoods. "

44
What shall I do?" is worse to man than The sowing of doubts is the
sowing of
worse necessity. " Coleridge. dragon's teeth, which ere long will sprout
of the up into armed and hostile men. E. B. nurr.
Modest doubt is called the beacon "

wise "
the tent that searches to the bottom There is no weariness like that which
of the worst." Shakespeare rises from doubting" from the perpetual
 DOUBT. 126 DRESS.

jogging of unfixed reason. "

The torment faith of people under a worldly yoke."
of suspense is very great ; bat as soon as Doudan.
the wavering, perplexed mind begins to the
The end of doubt is beginning of
determine, be the determination which way
repose. "
Petrarch.
soever it may be, it will find itself at ease."
r* Doubt is hell in the human soulu" Qob~
South.
parin.
Beware of doubt "
faith is the subtle
chain that binds to the infinite. E. 0. of
us "
DREAMS." Children the night, of
Smith. bred. Churchill.
indigestion "

Misgive, that you may not mistake. "

A world of the dead in the hues of life. "

Whalely. Mrs. Hemans.

Doubt is almost a natural
phase of life ; Dreams full oft found of real events
are
but as certainly as natural, it is also
it is the forms and shadows. "
Joanna Bcrillie.
temporary, unless it is unwisely wrought We have in dreams no true perceptionof
into conduct. T. T.Munger.
"

time " property of mind

a ! for if
strange "

Doubt comes in at the window when quiry

in- such be also its property when entered iuto
is denied at the door." Jowett. the eternal disembodied state, time will ap-pear
Uncertain unsafest and doubt to us eternity ! The relations of
wave are, space "

a greater mischief than despair. " Denham. as well as of time are also annihilated, so

that while almost an eternity is compressed

It is never worth while to suggest doubts
into a moment, infinite space is traversed
in order to show how cleverly we can swer
an-

them. more swiftly than by real thought. Win*

Whately.
"

"

slow.
The man who speaks his positive victions
con-
We are somewhat more than ourselves in
its worth a regiment of men who
our sleeps, and the slumber of the body
are always proclaiming their doubts and
seems to be but the waking of the soul. It
suspicions. "

is the litigation of sense, but the liberty of

v/ Never do anything concerning the recti-
reason ; and our waking conceptions do
- tude of which you have a doubt. Pliny.
"

not match the fancies of our sleeps. Sir "

J.
Doubt is the vestibule which all must Browne.
pass before they can enter the temple of As dreams are the fancies of those that
wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle
"

sleep,so fancies are but the dreams of those

out the
by our own exertions, we have
truth
awake. " Blount.
gained something that will stay by us and
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination,
will serve us again. But if to avoid the "

trouble of the search avail ourselves of attesting in all men a creative power, which,
y we
available wonld make
the such if it were in waking,
superior information of a friend,
with every man a Dante or a Snakespeare.
knowledge will not remain us ; we
"

have not bought, but borrowed it. "

Cotton. Hedge.
Doubt is brother devil to despair."
Let not our babbling dreams affright our
O'BeiUy.
souls. " Shakespeare.
Nothing so much convinces me of the
"It in doubt,** rand,
Talley-
* you
"whether
are

to write a
says
letter or not"
boundlessness of the human mind as its

!" the advice operations in dreaming. Clulow.

don't "
And appliesto many
"

doubts in life besides that of letter writing. lias moral

DRESSi "
Dress a effect upon
Bulwer.
"

the conduct of mankind. "

Let any man
gentle-
Knowledge and personality make -doubt find himself with dirty boots, old sur-
possible, but knowledge is also the cure tout, Moiled neckcloth, and a general negli- gence
of doubt ; and when we get a full and quate
ade- of dress, and he will, in all proba-
bility,
sense of personality we are lifted into find a corresponding disposition in
a region where doubt is almost impossible, negligence of address. Sir J. Barrington. "

for no man can know himself as he is, ana As

you treat your body, so your house,
all the fulness of his
nature, without also
your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
knowing God." T. T. Munger.
"
Dress is the table of your contents. "

Give me the benefit of convictions, Lavater.

your
if you have but keep doubts to Out of clothes, out of countenance
any, your ; out
yourself, for I have enough of my of out of wit. Ben Jonson.
own. "
countenance, "

Goethe.
A becoming decency of exterior may not
The doubts of an honest man contain be for ourselves, but is agreeable
necessary
more moral truth than the profession of to others ; and while it may render a fool
 DRESS. 127 DRESS.

more contemptible,it serves to embellish ornament, and good sense the best page.
equi-
inherent worth." It is like the polish of the "
O. fiaville.
diamond, taking something perhaps from
Beauty gains little,and homeliness and
its weight, but adding mucn to its liancy."
bril-
deformity lose much by gaudy attire. " merman.
Zim-
David Paul Brown.

The body is the shell of the soul, and A fine coat is but a livery when the per-
" " son
dress the brisk of that shell but the husk it discovers
; who wears no higher sense
often tells what the kernel is." Anon. than that of footman. Addison.
a "

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please No is esteemed for

man gay garments,
others." FrankUn. but by fools and women." 8tr W. Raleigh.
An in his night-cap would not
emperor vanity of loving fine clothes
The and new
meet with half the respect of an emperor fashions, and valuing ourselves by them,
with Goldsmith. is of the childish of
a crown." one most pieces folly. "

If honor be clothing, the suit will Sir M. Hale.

your
last a lifetime ; but if clothing be your Be neither too early in the fashion, nor
honor, it will be threadbare. of
soon worn "
too long out it, nor too precisely in it. "

Arnot. What custom hath civilized, is become cent

de-
Cicero himself of till then, ridiculous. Where the eye
Had pronounced one ; "

his orations with a blanket about his is the jury, thine apparel is the evidence. "

shoulders, more people would have laughed Quarles.

at his dress than admired his eloquence. " Dress yourself fine, where others are fine,
Addison. and plain, where others are plain ; but take
index tells the of the care always that your clothes are well made
As the contents
book, and directs to the particular chapter, and fit you, for otherwise they will give you
even so do the outward habit and garments, a very awkward air. " Chesterfield.
in give taste of the in dress, is, upon
man or woman, us a A gentleman's taste
spirit,and point to the internal quality of
principle,the avoidance of allthings ex-travagant."

tne soul : and there cannot be a more dent

evi- It consists in the quiet simplic-
ity
and gross manifestation of poor, generate,
de- of exquisite neatness ; but as the ness
neat-
breeding,
dunghilly blood and must be a neatness in fashion, employ
than a rude, unpolished, disordered, ana the best tailor ; pay
him ready money ;
and
slovenly outside." Massinger. on the whole you will find him the cheapest.

of I would Bulwer.
As to matters drew, mend
recom- "

one never to be first in the fashion A rich dress adds but little to the beauty
the last out of it. J. Wesley. possiblycreate a defer-
ence,
nor " of a person ; it may
but that is rather to love.
The medium between a fop and a sloven an enemy "

is what a man of sense would endeavor to Shenstone.

keep ; yet one well advises his son to appear, It is not every man that can afford to
in nis habit, rather above than below his wear a worldly wisdom
shabby coat ; and
fortune : and tells him he will find a some
hand- dictates the proprietyof dressing somewhat
suit of clothes always procures some beyond one s but of living within
means,
additional respect. My banker ever bows them, for every one sees how we dress, but
lowest to me wnen I wear my full-bottomed none see how we live unless we choose to let
wig ; and writes me
'* Mr.,f or "Esq." ac-
cording them. "
Cotton.
as he sees me dressed. " BudgelL We sacrifice to dress till household joys
perfection of
The dress is in the union of and comf brts cease. Dress drains our cellar
three requisites in "
its being comfortable, dry, and keeps our larder clean ; puts out

cheap, and tasteful. " Bovee. our fires, ana introduces hunger, frost, and
Next to clothes being fine, they should woe, where peace and hospitality might
be well made, and worn easily : for a man reign. " Cotoper.
is only the leas genteel for a fine coat, if. in In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind

wearing it,he snows a regard for it, and is of youth with which age should surround
not as in it as if it were a plain one. itself." JouberL
easy "

Chesterfield. Too great carelessness, equally with ex-

cess

in dress, multiplies wrinkles of old

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, tne
but not expressed in fancy ; rich, but not age, and makes its decay more conspicuous.
gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaims the " Bruyere.
man." Shakespeare. In the indications of female poverty there
The plainer the dress with greater lustre can be no disguise. "
No woman dresses be"
does beauty Virtue is the greatest low herself from caprice." Zosno.
appear."
 DRINKING. 128 DRUNKENNESS.

In civilized society external advantages "

and lose it ; your children's happiness

trol
make us more respected." A man with a "
and lose it ; your own soul "
and lose it.
good coat on his back meets with a better
Every moderate drinker could abandon
reception than he who has a bad one. "
You the intoxicating if he would
cup, : every
may analyze this and say, what is there in inebriate would if he could. "
J. B. Gough.
it ? "
But that will avail yon nothing, for it
is Whisky is a good thing in its place.
a part of a general system. "
Johnson,
There is nothing like it for preserving a
Persons are often misled in regard to
man when he is dead. If you want to keep
their choice of dress by attending to the
a dead man, put him in whisky ; if you
beauty of colors, rather than selecting such want to kill alive man put whisky in him.
colors as may increase their own beauty. "
Guthrie.
"

Shenstone.
In the bottle, discontent seeks for com*
The only medicine which does women fort for
; cowardice, courage ; bashfulness.
more good than harm, is dress." Richter.
for confidence sadness, for joy and all
; ;
Those who think that in order to dress find ruin !
well it is necessary to dress extravagantly Strong drink is not only the devil's way
or grandly, make a great mistake. "
ing
Noth-
.into a man. but man's to the devil.
way "

well becomes true feminine beauty

so
Adam Clarke.
as simplicity. "
G. D. Prentice.

Two things in apparel I will chiefly DRUNKENNESS." (See "Intbmpeb-

my
aim atr-commodionsness and decency ; ANCE.")
than these is not commendable Drunkenness is nothing else but tary
volun-
more ; yet I a

hate an effeminate sprnceness, as -much as a madness. "

Seneca.
fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness All is ill ; but drunkenness
"
excess is of
is the best ornament. "
Anon. the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts
A loose and dress contributes much the mind, and unmans It reveals
easy men.
to give to both sexes those fine proportions secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impu-
dent,
of body that are observable in the Grecian dangerous, and mad. He that is
statues, and which serve as models to our drunk is not a man, because he is void of
present artists. "
Rousseau. reason that distinguishes a man from a

beast. Penn.
The consciousness of clean linen is, in
"

and of itself,a sonrce of moral strength, Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet

second only to that of a clean conscience. poison, a pleasant sin. which whosoever
nath, nath not himself, which whosoever
"
DRINKING. " (See Intemperance n
doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he
and "
Wink.") himself is wholly sin. "
Augustine.
The first dranght serveth for health, the Intoxicating drinks have produced evils
second for pleasure, the third for shame, more deadly, because more continuous,
and the fourth for madness. " Anacharsis. than all those caused to mankind by the
great historic scourges of war, famine, and
The Japanese say :
"
A man takes a drink,
pestilence combined. "
Gladstone.
then the drink takes a drink, and the next
drink takes the man." Drunkenness is the vice of a good stitution,
con-
or of a bad memory : of a stitution
con-
Some one commending Philip of Macedon so treacherously good, that it
for drinking freely, "That," said thenes,
Demos-
never bends till it breaks, or of a memory
"is a good quality in a sponge, but
that recollects the pleasures of getting in-
toxicated,
not in a king." but forgets the pains of getting
The maxim, "
in vino Veritas" that a man sober. Cotton.
"

who is well warmed with wine speak will

Some of the domestic evils of ness
drunken-
truth," may be an argument for
drinking,
are houses
windows, gardens without
if you men in general to be
suppose without fences, fields without tillage,barns
liars ; but, sir, I would not keep company without
with
roofs, children without clothing,
a fellow, who lies as long as he is
principles, morals, or manrrrs. Frankhn. "

sober, and whom you must make drunk fore

be-
word of truth out of him. All the armies on earth do not destroy so
von can get a

"
Johnson. manv of the human race, nor alienate so

much property, as drunkenness. " Bacon.

The bar-room as a bank : Yon deposit
and lose it time" and Habitual intoxication is the epitome of
jrour money" : your
lose it ; your character and lose it ; every crime. "
Jerrold.
"
your
manly independence " and lose it : your Let there be an entire abstinence from
bome comfort"Mid lose it ; your self-con- intoxicatingdrinks throughout this country
 DRUNKENNE88. 129 DUTY.

during the period of a tingle generation, DUELS." A duellist is only a Cain in

and a mob would be as impossible as com-
bustion high Ule.-JrrroUL
without oxygen. Horace Mann.
"

Duelling makes a virtue of pride and

A drunkard is the
annoyance of modesty ; revenge ; and, in defiance of the laws, both
the trouble of civility ; the spoil of wealth ; of God and man, assumes to itself the right
the distraction of reason. He is the brewer* s of avenging its own and exults
wrongs, even

agent ;
the tavern and alehouse benefactor ; in the Mood of its murdered victim." J.
the beggar's companion; the constable's Haws.
trouble his wife's woe ; his
children's row
sor-
; If all seconds were as averse to duel** a"
; his neighbor's scoff : his own shame.
their principals,
very little blood would be
In short he is a tub of twill,a spirit of un-
rest,
shed in that Cotton.
way."
a thing below a beast, and a monster
of a man." T. Adam*. Duelling,though barbarous in civilized,
is highly civilizing
a institution among
Drunkenness places man as much below
barbarous people ; and compared to when
the level of the brutes, as reason elevates
assassination is a prodigious victory Rained
him above them. Sinclair.
"

over human passions." Sydney Smith.

Beware of drunkenness, lest all good Duelling, as punishment,
a is absurd,
men beware of thee." Where drunkenness
because it is an equal chance whether the
reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a
falls
is
punishment upon the offender, or the
stranger, and God enemy an ; blasphemy offended. Nor is it much better
person " as
wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are lamations."
proc- a reparation, it being difficult to explain in
Quartet. what the satisfaction consists, or how it
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's tends to nndo an injury, or to afford a

trinmpn. "
Zimmerman. compensation for the damage already tained.
sus-

There is scarcely a crime before me that "

Patey.
is not, directly or indirectly, caused by DULLNESS." A dull man is so near a
strong drink." Judge Coleridge. dead man that
he is hardly to be ranked in
*
Call things by their right names." "
Glass the list of the living : and as he is not to be
of brandy and water !'r That Is the rent
cur- buried whilst half alive, so he is as little to
but not the appropriate name ; ask be employed whilst he is half dead." SarriJk.
for, "A glass of liquid fire and distilled
There are some heads that have no dows,
win-
damnation."" Robert HaU.
and the day can never strike from
It were better for a man to be subjectto above ; nothing enters from heavenward. "

vice, than to drunkenness: for all Joubert.

any
other vanities and sins are recovered, but a
What a comfort a dull but kindly man is,
drunkard will never shake off the delight to be sure, at times ! Aground glass shade
of beastliness ; for the longer it possesseth over a gas-light does not bring more solace
the more he will delight in it, and
a man, to our dazzled than such an one to our
eyes
the older he groweth the more he shall be
Holmes.
minds. " 0. W.
subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits,and
the body ivy doth the old DUTY." There is not moment without
destroyeth as a

tree as the worm that engendereth in some duty. Cicero.

; or
"

the kernel of the nut." Sir W. Raleigh. Dutv is carrying on promptly and fully
faith-
the affairs now before yon. It is to
What is a drunken man like? Like a
"

fulfill the claims of to-day." Goethe.

drown'd man, a fool, and a madman s one

draught above heat makes him a fool : the Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee ! "
,

"
second mads him ;
and a third drowns nim. Thy second duty will already have become
"Shakespeare. clearer." Thomae Cartyte.
The of .a drunkard
sight is a better mon
ser- Duty is a power that rises with us in the

against that vice than the best that morning, and goes to rest with uh at night.
preached on that subject. Savtile. It is co-extensive with the action of our
was ever "

intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness."
to us, go where we wilL "
Gladstone.
Other vices are but the fruits of disordered
Every dutv which we omit, obscures
affections ; this disorders, nay banishes,
soul some truth which we should have known.
iiupairthe
"

reason. "
Other vices but ;
Buskin.
this demolishes her two chief faculties, the
understanding and the will. "
Other vices Duties are ours, events are God's. This
makes for all infinite burden from the ders
shoul-
make their ; this removes an
own way way
vices." He that is a drunkard is qualified of a miserable, tempted, dying crea*

for all vice." Quarlet. tore. On this consideration only can h*

 DUTY. 130 DUTY.

securely lav down his head and oIom his Let men laugh, if they will, when you
eyes. "
CectL lacrifioe desire to duty." Ton have time and

Duty performed gives clearness and ness

firm- eternity to rejoice in." Theodore Parker.
to faith, and faith thus strengthened Do the duty that lies nearest to thee."
through duty become* the more assured and Goethe.
satisfying to the soul. " Tryon Edwards. I find the doing of the will of God leaves
Duty is .the grandest of. ideas, because it me no time for disputing about His plans.
implies the idea of God, of the soul, of erty,
lib- "
G. MaodonaUL
of responsibility, of immortality." To what gulfs a single deviation from
Lacordaire. the of tinman
path duties leads ! Byron. "

partsin life,
"
We do not choose our own Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. " Theo-
and have nothing with selecting those
to do dore Parker.
parts. Our simple duty is confined to play-
ing
I believe that we are conforming to the
them well." Epictetus.
"

divine order and the will of Providence

The brave man wants no charms to courage
en- when we are doing even indifferent things
him duty, and
to the good man that belong to our condition. "
Fenekm.
scorns all warnings that would deter him
Whether your time calls to live or die
from doing it. " Bulicer. you
do both like a prince." Sir P. Sidney.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's tempta-
tion,
Exactness in little duties is a wonderful
and do not weaken and distract self
your-
source of cheerfulness. Faber.
laylooking forward to things which yon
"

There is evil cannot face flyfrom,

cannot see, and could not understand if you no we or

saw them." Charles Kingsley. but the consciousness of duty disregarded.

Daniel Webster.
l/ The reward of one duty done is the power
"

to fulfill another." George EHoi. Men do less than they ought* unless they
do all that they can." Cartyle.
Know thyself and do thine own work,
Plato; and each includes the other Be not diverted from yonr duty by any
says
and covers the whole duty of man. "
taigne.
Mon- idle reflections the silly world may 'make
upon you, for their censures are not in your
power and should not be at all yonr concern.
The best things are nearest : light in your
flowers at feet, duties at
"Epictetus.
eyes, your your
hand, the path of Qod just before yon.
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose
Then do not at the stars, but do life's that there is any path of safety except that
grasp
common work as it comes, certain that of duty." Wm. Nevins.

daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes
things of life. back with seven fresh duties at its back. "

God always has an angel of help for those Charles Kingsley.

who are willingto do their duty. " T. L. There
is no mean work, save that which
/
Cuyler. is sordidly selfish ; no irreligious work, save \ ij
The truth is,one's vocation is never some
that which is morally wrong ; in every]/
far-off possibility. "
It is always the simple sphere of life the post of honor is the post
round of duties which the passing hour ox duty. "
E. H. uhapin.
brings." J*. W. Dulles. Perish discretion when it interferes with
Let in duty." H. More.
us never forget that every station

.
life is necessary ; that each deserves our No
man's spirits were ever hurt by doing
V 1 respect : that not the station itself,but the his duty. On the contrary, one
"
good ac- .

Worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor tion, one temptation resisted and overcome,
to sacrifice of desire interest
man. one or purely for
There is nothing in the universe that I conscience's sake, will prove a cordial for
fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, weak and low spiritsfar beyond what either
or shall fail to do it. "
Mary Lyon. indulgence, or diversion, or company can
do for them. "
Paley.
We are apt to mistake our vocation by
of the performed is moral tonic if lected,
Jlookinggreat out
and rare
way for
virtues,
occasions
and by step-
ping
to ercise
ex- Duty
the tone and
a

strength of both
; neg-
mind "
over the ordinary ones that lie directly and heart are weakened, and the spiritual
In the road before us. " H. More. health undermined. "
Tryon Edwards.

Duties
in general, like that class of them Do right, and God's recompense to yon
yj called debts, give more trouble the longer will be the powe* of doing more right." J*.
they remain undischarged. W. Rob*rt*m.
 EARLY RISING. 132 EARTH.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing,

ardent, and sincere earnestness." Dickens. "

RISING.-Whoeverbas
EARLY tasted
A man in earnest finds means, or if he y
the breath of morning, kuows that the moat
cannot find, creates them. "
Channing,
invigorating and delightful hours of the
Do you wish to become rich ? You may
day are commonly spent in bed, though it
"

intention of that become so if you desire it in no half-way,

is the evident nature we

should them. but thoroughly. Do you wish to master an v

profitby " Southey. "

science or accomplishment? "

Give yourself
When one begins to turn in bed, it is it and it lies beneath feet." This
to your
time to turn out. " Wellington. world is given as the prize for the men in
The difference between rising at five and earnest ; and that which is true of this
seven o'clock in the morning, for forty world, is truer still of the world to come. "

to to bed at
years, supposing a man go F. W. Robertson.
the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent Earnestness is the devotion of all the
to the addition of ten years to a man's life.
faculties." It is the cause of patience ; gives
"Doddridge. V
endurance ; overcomes pain ; strengthens
It is well to be
up before daybreak, for weakness braves
dangers ; sustains
: nope ;
such habits contribute to health, wealth, and makes lightof difficulties,and lessens the
wisdom. "
Aristotle. sense of weariness in overcoming them. "

Early rising not only gives us more life Bovee.

in the same number of years, but adds, Earnestness commands the respect of
likewise, to their number ; and not only mankind. A wavering, vacillating, dead-
enables us to enjoy more of existence in and-alive Christian does not set the respect
the same time, but increases also the ure."
meas- of the Church or of the world." John Hall.
CoUon.
There are important cases in which the
The early morning hath gold in its mouth. difference between half a heart and a whole
Franklin. heart makes just the difference between rig-
""
"

nal defeat and a splendid victory.-

Next to temperance, quiet conscience,
a

and I K. Boyd.
a cheerful mind, active habits, place
early rising as a means of health and piness." Without
hap- earnestness no man is ever great
Flint. or does really great things. He
may be
v
Few lived to old and fewer still the cleverest of men ; he may be brilliant,
ever age,
who in entertaining, popular; but he will want
ever became distinguished, were not
the habit of early rising." J, Todd, weight." Bayne.
in charm the To impress others we must be earnest ;
Is there aught sleep can

wise to lie in dead oblivion, losing half the to amuse them, it is only necessary to be
kindly and fanciful. Tucberman,
fleeting moments of too short a life? "
"

Thomson. The superior man is slow in his words

it inscribed the curtains and earnest in his conduct. Confucius.

I would have on
"

of your bed and the walls of your chamber :

" Earnestness gives intellect," says a

"
If you do not rise early you can make maxim of the Jesuits'; and so says Solomon,
in nothing.'* Lord Chatham. in various expressions in the book of Prov-
erbs.
progress "

"
all and And says Bulwer, Earnestness is
He who rises maylate
trot day, "

lin.
frank- the best source of mental power : and ciency
defi-
not overtake his business at night. "

of heart is the cause of many men

never becoming great.*'

I never knew a man come greatness or
to
late in the morning. Man should trust in God ss if God did
eminence who lay abed
all, and yet labor as earnestly as if he self
him-
" Swift.
did all." Chalmers.
Every night I make up my mind to rise
early the next morning, but every morning EARTH." The waters deluge man with
make up my body to lie still. rain, oppress him with hail, and drown

be wide awake him with inundations the air rushes in

Better to get up late and ;
storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up
then, than to get up early and be asleep
the volcano : but the earth, gentle and dulgent,
in-
all day.
ever subservient to the wants of
Those who wouldbring great things to
man, spreads his walks with flowers, and
ass must rise early." Love not sleep, lest
8ion come to poverty. M. Henry, "
his table with plenty ; returns, with est,
inter-
every good: committed to her care ; and
EARNESTNESS." Earnestness is thusiasm
en- though she produces the poison, she still
tempered by reason." Pascal. suppliesthe andidote ; though constantly
 EATING. 1.33 ECONOMY.

teased more to furnish the luxuries of man and blemishes." The man of true genius
than his necessities, yet even to the last she will be ashamed of them, or, at least,will
continues her kind indulgence, and, when never affect to be distinguished by them. "

life is over, she piously covers his remains 8ir W. Temple.

in her bosom. " Pliny. Even beauty cannot palliateeccentricity,
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her Balzac.
tomb." Shakespeare. Eccentricity has always abounded when
I believe the earth on which we stand is and where strength of character has
but the vestibule to glorious mansions, to abounded. "
And the amount of eccentricity
which a moving crowd is forever pressing. in a society has been proportional to the
"Joanna Baiuie. amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral

Where is the dust that has not been courage it contained. "
J. S. MUX.

alive ?" The spade and the plough disturb He that will keep a monkey, should pay
our ancestors. " From human mold we reap for the glasses he breaks. "
Selden.
our daily bread. " Young.
ECHO. That tuneful nymph, the bab-
"
bling
The earth's a stage which God and nature
echo, who has not learned to conceal
do with actors fill. Heywood. what is told
"

her, nor yet is able to speak

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises till another speaks. "
Ovid.
God." Coleridge. The shadow of a sound ; a voice without
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, a mouth, and words without a tongue. "

who reigns on hiffh ; thou fruitful source of Horace Smith.

all our raiment, life, and food : our house, The babbling gossip of the sdr." speare.
Shake-
our parent, and our nurse. Waits. "

EATING." The chief pleasure in eating Where we find echoes we generally find
does not consist in costly seasoning or ex? emptiness and hollow ness ; it is the trary
con-

quisite flavor, but in yourself. "

Do you seek with the echoes of the heart. "
Boyes.
sauce by labor? "
Horace.
E CO N O M Y." If you know how spend to .,
The turnpike road to most people's hearts, less than get,
you you have the philosopher's
I find, lies through their months, or I mis-
take Franklin.
stone. "

mankind." Wolcott.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of
Simple diet is best, for many dishes bring liberty, and of ease; and the beauteous
many diseases, and rich sauces are worse sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and
than even heaping several meats each health and is a cruel and
upon : prof use ness
other. " Pliny. crafty demon, that gradually involves her
Go to banquet, then, but use light,
de- followers in dependence ana debts, and so
your
so as to rise still with an appetite. "
fetters them with irons that enter into their
Herrick. inmost souls. "
Hawkesworth.

For the sake of health, medicines are Economy is in itself a source of great
taken by weight and measure so ought revenue. " Seneca.
;
food to be, or by some similar rule. "
Sketton. Large enterprises make the few rich,
The difference between a rich man and a
but the majority prosper only through the
is this the former eats when he carefulness and detail of thrift. He is al-
ready
poor man, "

poverty-stricken whose habits are not

leases, and the latter when he can get it.
Sir
"

thrifty." T. T.Munger.
W. Raleigh.
should live A sound economy is a sound ing
understand-
One eat to live, not to eat. "

Franklin. brought into action. It is calculation

realized : it is the doctrine of proportion
By eating what is sufficient man is abled
en-
reduced to practice ; it is foreseeing con-
tingencies
to work ; be is hindered from working and providing against them : it
and becomes heavy, idle, and stupid if he is expecting contingencies and being pared
pre-
takes too much. " As to bodilv distempers for them. "
Hannah More.
occasioned by excess, there is no end of
To make three guineas do the work of
them. "
Jones.
five. "
Burns.
They are as sick that surfeit with too

much, as they that starve with nothing." Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty,
wit and sprighthness ; but after seven years
Shakespeare.
of union, not one of them is to be compared
ECCENTRICITY." Oddities and sin- to good family management, which is seen
of behavior attend genius, at meal, and felt every hour in the
falarities
when
ut the* do, they
may
are its misfortunes
every
husband's purse. WUherspoon. "
 ECONOMY. 184 EDUCATION.

The shows is like Not to be is not to be

regard one economy, covetous, money ;
that we snow an old aunt, who is to leave a purchaser, is a revenue. "
Cicero.
ns something at last. Shenstone. Let and industry be thy constant
"

honesty
Waste cannot be accurately told, though companions, and spend one penny less than
we are sensible how destructive it is. thy clear gains ; then
shall thy pocket begin
Economy on the one hand, by which a tain
cer- to thrive ; creditors will not insult, nor

income is made to maintain a man want nor hunger bite, nor ness
naked-
oppress,
genteely; and waste on the other, by freeze thee. "
Franklin.
which, on the same income, another man the
Proportion and propriety are among
lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a wisdom there
best secrets of domestic ; and
very nice thing ; as one man wears his coat of integrity than well-
is no surer test a
out much sooner than another, we cannot Hannah More.
proportioned expenditure. "

tell how. "

Johnson.
The man who will live above his present
Without economy none can be rich, and circumstances, is in great danger of soon
with it few will be poor." Johnson: beneath Italian
living much them ; or as the
It is no small commendation to manage a proverb says, " The man that lives by hope,
little well." To live well in abundance is the will die by despair."" Addison.
praise of the estate,* not of the person. I how
"
A man may, if he knows not to save
will study more how to give a good account all his life to the
as gets, keep his nose
he
of my little,than how to make it more. "

grindstone ana die not worth a groat after

Bp.HaU. all." Franklin.
There is no gain so certain as that which is half the battle of life ; it is
Economy
arises from sparing what have. Pub-
you "
not so hard to earn money, as to spend it
lius gyrus. well. " Spurgeon.
No is rich whose expenditures ceed
ex- consult consult
man Ere you fancy, your
his means ; and no is poor
one whose Franklin.
purse."
incomings exceed his outgoings. Halibur- "

The world abhors closeness, and all but

ton.
admires extravagance ; yet a slack hand
Economy, whether public or private, shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
means the wise management of labor, Buxton.
/ mainly in three senses ; applying labor ra-
The back door robs the house." Herbert.
V tionaliy, preserving its produce carefully,
and distributingits produce seasonably. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds
Buskin. will take care of themselves. Franmn. "
/

A man's ordinary expenses ought to be There are but two ways of paying a debt ; /
but to the half of his receipts, and if he increase of industry in raising income, or
think to wax rich, but to the third part " increase of thrift in laying out." Carlyle.
Bacon.
""
EDUCATION.-(See Teachihg.")
Economy before competence is meanness

after it ; therefore economy is for the Education is the apprenticeship of life."

poor ;
the rich may dispense with it. "
Bovee. WiUmott.

A human being is not, in any proper

He who is taught to live upon little owes
a human being till he is educated;
more to his father's wisdom than he that sense, "

has to his father's H. Mann.

a great deal left him does
care. "
Penn. What sculpture is to a block of marble,
which is education is to the human soul. The osopher,
phil-
Nothing is cheap superfluous,
for what one. does not need, is dear at a
saint, the hero, the wise, and
the

Plutarch. the good, or the great, very often lie hid

penny. "

and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper

The art of living easily as to money is to and
education might nave disinterred
pitch your scale of living one degree below
brought to light. Addison. "

your means. "

H. Taylor. :
The great end of education is, to disci-
Take care to be an economist in perity
pros- pline rather than to furnish the mind : to v

; there is no fear of your not being train it to the of its own rather '.
use powers,
one in adversity." Zimmerman. than fill it with the accumulations of others. !
;
The habit Tryon Edwards. -N""
of saving is itself an education ;
"

it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, / The aim of education should be to teach
w cultivates the sense of order, trains to fore- jus rather how to think, than what to think \
v
thought, and so broadens the mind. " T. T. "rather to improve our minds, so as to
1 enable think than /
Munger. us to for ourselves, to
 EDUCATION. 135 EDUCATION.

load the memory with the thought* of other It is a great art in the education of youth
wen." Beattie. to find out peculiar aptitudes,or where
Education does not mean teaching peo-
ple
none exist, to create inclinations which may
serve as substitutes. IX. M. Moir.
to know what they do not know ; it
"

1/ | means teaching them to behave as they do Education is a companion which no fortune

mis-
not behave. "
Buskin. can depress" no crime destroy " no

enemy alienate no despotismenslave. At

Education begins with life. Before we
"

are aware the foundations of character are hoiueta friend : abroad, an introduction ;
in solitude, solace in
laid, aud subsequent, teaching avails but a ; and society,an nament.
or-
Without it, what is man?" a
little to remove or alter them.
splendid slave, a reasoning savage. "
Varle.
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him. An vestment
in- Education, briefly,is the leading human i

in knowledge 'always pays the

minds and souls to what is right and best, 1
best interest. "
Franklin.
and to making what is best out of them. !
"
And these two objectsare always attain- ;
Educate your children to self-control, to
able together,and by the same means. "

the habit of holding passion and prejudice The training which makes men happiest in
and " evil tendencies subject to an upright themselves, also makes them most able
service-
and reasoning will, and you have done
toothers. "
Buskin.
much to abolish misery from their future
He is to be educated not because he is to
lives and crimes from society.
make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he*
Knowledge does not comprise all which
is a man. " Chaining.
is contained in the large term of education.
To know the laws of God in nature and
The feelings are to be disciplined ; the sions
pas-
revelation, and then to fashion the tions
affec-
are to be restrained ; true and
worthy
is and will into harmony with those
motives are to be inspired; a profound re-
ligions
laws this is education. 8. F. SooveL
feeling is to be instilled, and
" "

pure mo-

i rality
inculcated under all circumstances. The greatest evil of modern education is
\ All this is comprised in education." Dan- the evil which it inflicts on health." 0. 8.
k
iei Webster. Fowler.

We speak of educating our children. Do "

The greatest and noblest work in the
we know that our children also educate us? world, and an effect of the greatest dence
pru-
" Mrs. Sigourney. and care, is to rear and build np a

man, and to form and fashiou him to piety,

Promote, as an object of primary tance,
impor-
institutions for the general diffusion justice, temperance, and all kinds of est
hon-
and worthy actions. TWotson.
of knowledge. In proportion as the struc-
ture
"

of a government gives force to public Modern education too often covers the
opinion, it is essential that public opinion fingers with lings, and at the same time
should be enlightened. " Washington. cuts the sinews at the wrists." Sterling.
Observation than books, experience Education is only like good culture ; it
more

rather than persons, are the prime educa-

tors." changes the size, but not the sort." H. W.
A. B. AlcotL Beecher.

Planting colleges and filling them with A true education" what is it? It is
studious young men and women is planting awakening a love for truth giving a just
;
seed corn for the world. Judson. sense of
auty ; opening the of the
"
eyes
I
call,therefore, a complete and generous soul great purpose
to theand end of life.

education, that which fits a man to perform It is not so much giving words, as thoughts ;
skillfully,and
justly, magnanimously, all or mere maxims, as living principles. It
the offices,both private and is not teaching to be honest, because " esty
hon-
public, of peace
and war." Mitton. is the best policy," but because it is
right. It is teaching the individual to love
We all have two educations, one from
the for the sake of the be
good, good ; to
others, and another, and the most valuable, virtuous in action, because so in heart ; to
which we give ourselves. It is this last
love and serve God
supremely, not from
which fixes our grade in society, and event-
ually
fear, but from delight in his perfect acter.
char-
our actual condition in this life, and
the color of our fate hereafter. All the
professors and teachers in the world would Universal suffrage, without universal ucation,
ed-
would be a curse." if. L. Way-
not make you a wise or good man without
land.
your co-operation ; and
own if such you
are determined to be, the want of them will A true education aims to implant a love \
not prevail." John Bandoiph. of knowledge ; an adherence to truth be- "
 EDUCATION. 136 EDUCATION.

it is truth for cause

be- them
cause ; a reverence man spirit.Make consider every vice as
v he is a liberty;
man ; an enthusiasm for shameful and unmanly. Fire them with
a spiritof candor, of breadth, of sympathy ; ambition to be useful. Make them disdain
above all, a supreme regard for duty. to be destitute of
ana, any useful knowledge. "

" H. L. Wayland. John Adams to his wife.

Educate men without religion, and you Of ten infants, destined for different cations.
vo-
make them but clever devils. Wellington, I should that the
"
prefer one who is
Next in importance to freedom and tice
jus- to study through life should be the least
which learned at the of twelve." 2?ssot.
is popular education, without age
neither justice nor freedom can be nently
perma- For their learning be liberal. Spare no
maintained. Garfield. cost ; for by such parsimony all is lost that
"

The public mind is educated quickly by is saved ; but let it be useful knowledge,
events " slowly by arguments. such as is consistent with truth and liness,
god-
Capacity without education is
deplorable, cherishing a vain conversation
not

or idle mind; ingenuity mixed with dustry

in-
and education without capacity is thrown
is good for the body and the mind
away." 8aadi.
too. Penn " to his wife.
The parent who sends his son out into
the world uneducated, defrauds the t Education is the cheap defense of tions."
na-
munity
com-
of a useful citizen, and bequeaths Burke.
a nuisance. James Kent. The education of children
"
should not be
The true object of education should be forced, like the growth of plants in the hot-
house.
to train one to think clearly and act The more haste in this matter, the
rightly." H. J. Van Dyke. less speed in the end. It is from too early
Education is a better safeguard of liberty forcing the intellect, from premature, pre-
cocious
than If we meutal growth, that we see in
a standing army. retrench the
modern times, so many cases of wilted, and
wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise
those of the recruiting sergeant. Everett. "
feeble, and sickly children ; or of remark-
able,
wonderful children, who grow up to
An industrious and virtuous education of
be prodigiesby their second or third year,
children is a better inheritance for them
and die by the next." Tryon Edwards.
.
than a great estate. "
Addison.

The real object of education is to give Intellectual effort in the early years of
children resources that will endure as long life,is very injurious. All labor of mind

as life endures ; habits that time will liorate,

ame- required of cnildren before the seventh
\ is in opposition to the laws of nature,
not occupations that will
destroy ; year
sickness and will injurious to the physical
render tolerable, solitude ant,
pleas- prove
venerable, life more digniflea and organization, and prevent its proper and
age
'
useful, and death less terrible. " Sidney mature development. Hufelana. "

I Smith.
The college, appealing immediately to [
The secret of education lies in respecting the mental part, is yet to train every part.
the pupil. " Emerson. It is
doing its duty only when causes i it
V
He that has found a way to keep a child's man regulate appetite, to crush passion, ;
to

spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the to guide desires, to quicken affections,! :

same time to restrain him from to prevent wrong, and to stimulate right
many
things he has a mind to, and to draw him choices. C. F. Thwing.
"
j\
to things that are uneasy to him, has, in It should be the aim of education to \

my opinion, got the true secret of tion."

educa- make first,and discoveries
men afterward ; 1
Locke. to regard mere learning as subordinate to I
I I call education, not that which is made the development of a well-rounded, solid, !
j up of shreds and patches of useless arts moral, and intellectual character ; as the
;
but that which inculcates principles, pol- first and great thing, to supply vigorous,
ishes
taste, regulates temper, cultivates intelligent, God-fearing citizens for the

reason, subdues the passions, directs the welfare of the land." H. J. Vandyke.
I feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to
Experience demonstrates that of
1 any
self-denial, and, more especially,that which
number of children of equal intellectual
refers all actions, feelings, sentiments,
powers, those who receive no particular
tastes, and passions, to the love and fear
,
care in infancy, and who do not begin to
of God. Hannah More.
"

study till the constitution begins to be solidated,

con-
The education of our children is never but who enjoy the benefit of a

out of mind. Train them to virtue, physical education,

habituate
my
them to industry, activity, ana
f?ood
their
n studies those
very
who
soon surpass
commenced
 EDUCATION. 137 EDUCATION.

earlier, and who read numerous books Education is not learning ; it is the cise
exer-
when very young. Spuraheim. and development of the of the
"
powers
Instruction ends in the school-room, but
mind ; and the two great methods by which
this end may be accomplished in the
education ends only with life. A child is are

the halls of learning, or in toe conflicts of life.

given to universe to be educated. "
F.
W. Robertson. "
Princeton Review.

Neither Don't fall into the vulgar idea that mind

piety, virtue, nor liberty can long
flourish ain
community where the tion
educa- is a warehouse, and education but a cess
pro-
of of stuffing it full of goods.
youth is neglected. Cooper. "

Education is the of how The aim of education should be to convert

knowledge to use
the of the mind into a living fountain, and not a
whole oneself. Many men use but u
faculties the reservoir. That which filled by merely
is
one or two out of score with
which pumping in, will be emptied by pumping
they are endowed. A man is edu-
cated
who knows how to make tool of out. " John M. Mason.
a

every faculty how to it, how to keep Every day's experience shows how much
"
open
it sharp, and how to applyit to all practical more actively education goes on out of the

purposes." "T. W.Beecher. school-room, than in it.

The worst education that teaches self- Men are every day saying and doing,
denial is better than the best that teaches from the power of education, habit, ana
everything else and not that." J7. Sterling. imitation, what has no root whatever in

The best the their serious convictions. Channing.

education in world is that "

got by struggling to get a living." Wen- The best school of is

discipline home "

family life is God's own method of training

has the young and homes are very much what
He seen but little of life who does :

women
make them. 8. Smiles.
not discern everywhere the effect of early "

education men's habits There is moral well intellectual

on opinionsand of a as as an

thinking. Children bring out of the sery

nur- objection to the custom, frequent in these
that which displays itself throughout times, of making education consist in a
their lives. "
Cecil mere smattering of twenty different things,
The education that teaches self- instead of in the mastery of five or six.
poorest "

is better than the best that Chadwick.

control, lects
neg-
it. " Anon. It depends on education to open the gates
/ which lead virtue
It makes little difference what fhe trade, to or to vice, to ness
happi-
branch or to misery." Jane Porter.
business, or of learning, in mechan-
ical
labor, or intellectual effort, the educat-
ed That call
education, which
not decries
man is always superior to the common God and his truth, content the seed to
laborer. One who is in the habit of ing
apply- strew of mora] maxims, and the mind imbue
his in the right way will carry with elements which form the worldly wise ;
powers
system into any occupation,and it will help so call the training, which can duly prize
him as much to handle a rope as to write a such lighter lore, but chiefly holds to view

poem. "
F. M. Crawford, what God requires us to believe and do,
The sure foundations of the State are
and notes man's end, and shapes him for

laid in and the skies." Bp. Mant.

in knowledge, not ignorance ;

every sneer at education, at culture, and at The true order of learning should be,
book-learning which is the recorded wisdom first,what is second, what is
necessary ;
of the experience mankind,
of is the dema-
gogue's useful third, what is ornamental."
; and
sneer at intelligentliberty, inviting To reverse this arrangement, is like begin-
ning
national degeneracy and ruin. "
O. W. to build at the top of the edifice."
Curtis. Mrs. Sigoumey.
You demand universal suffrage." I de-
mand Education commences at the mother's
universal education to go with it. "
knee, and word spoken in the ing
hear-
every
W. E. Forster. of little children tends toward the mation
for-
Education in its widest sense includes of character. "
Let parents always
everything that exerts a formative influence, bear this in mind. "
H. Baltou.
and causes

what
a young
he is.
person
Mark
to be, at a given That which we are we are all the while K
point, " Hopkins. teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
I
Education is a debt due from the present " Emerson.
to future generations. " George Peaoody. The wisest man may always learn thing
some-

The education of the human mind from the humblest peasant." J*. P.
in the cradle." T. Cogan.
mences
com-
I Senn.
 EDUCATION. 138 EDUCATION.

Public instruction should be the first ob-

ject if we work immortal minds, and bue
im-
upon
of government." Napoleon. them with principles,with the just
who fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we
No woman is educated is not equal
on those something tablets
that will
to the successful management of a family. engrave
brighten to all eternity." Daniel Webster.
"Burnap.
The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten Never educate a child to be a gentleman
himself in or lady only, but to be a man, a woman.
who beats nature a boy for a
"

whether all the Herbert Spencer.

fault. And I question
whippings in the world can make their It is on the sound education of the people
parts which are natually sluggish rise one that the security and destiny of every tion
na-

minute before the hour nature hath pointed."

ap- chiefly rest. "
Kossuth.
.

FuUer.
Nothing so good as a university eduoa-J
All who have meditated on the art of tion, nor worse than a university without!
mankind have been convinced its education." Bulvoer. I1
Sverniug
at the fate of empires depends on the cation
edu- education and order of
Family are some
of youth. Aristotle. the chief of grace if these
"
means ; are duty
It is bv education I learn to do by choice, maintained, all the means of grace are

what other men do by the constraint of likely to prosper and become effectual."
tear." Aristotle. Jonathan Edwards.

Jails and prisons are the complement of A college education shows a man how
schools so many less as you have of the little other people know. HaWmrton.
; "

latter, so many more must you have of the the mind

TiB education forms common ;
former. H. Mann. the is bent the tree is
"

just as twig clined.

in-
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust " Pope.
him. armed with his primer, against the /Education does not consist in mastering
soldier in full military Brougham. |
array. "

in that moral train-

l languages, but is found
Schoolhouses the republican line of schoolroom I
are
) ing which extends beyond the
fortifications. Horace Mann. and the an'/
" *~
to the playground street,
The education of the presentrace of males
fe- which teaches that a meaner thing caul
"
is not very favorable to domestic piness. ;be done
hap- than to fail in recitation." Chad- j
"
For my own part, I call education, bourne.
not that which smothers a woman with complishments,
ac-
No part of education is more important
but that which tends to
'to young woman than society of the
the
consolidate a firm and regular system of
other sex of her own age. It is only by "

character. "
That which tends to form a

and Hannah
this association that they acquire that in-
sight
friend, a companion, a wife. "

into character which is almost their

More.
only defence. " Burnap.
Do not ask if man
a has been through
Education does not commence with the
college ; ask if a college has been through
alphabet: it begins with a mother's look,
him" if he is a walking university." " H.
with a father's nod of approbation, or a
Chapin.
sign of reproof ; with a sister's gentle pre*
An class
intelligent can scarce be,ever
sure of the hand, or a brothers noble act
as a class,vicious, and never, as class,a
of forbearance with handfuls of flowers
;
indolent. "
The excited mental activity op-
erates in green dells, on hills,and daisy meadows ;
as a counterpoise to the stimulus of
witn birds' nests admired, but not touched ;
sense and appetite. Everett "

with creeping ants, and almost tible

impercep-
Early instruction in truth will best keep emmets; with humming-bees and
out error. Some one has well said, " Fill beehives: with pleasant walks in shady
the bushel with wheat, and you may defy
Elassand
uies. witn thoughts directed in sweet
the devil to fill it with tares/'" Tryon wards.
Ed- and kindly tones and words to nature, to

beauty, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of

Education gives fecundity of thought, virtue, and to the source of all good "
to

copiousness of illustration,quickness, vig- or, God Himself I" Anon.

fancy, words, images, ana illustrations : Thelwall thought it very unfair to fluence
in-
it decorates every common thing{and gives child's mind
a by inculcating any
the power of trifling without being undig-
nified of dis-
cretion
opinions before it had come to years
and absurd. Sydney Smith. I showed him
"
to choose for itself. "

If we work upon marble, it will perish ; my garden, and I told him it was my ical
botan-
If on brass, time will efface it ; if we rear garden." "How so?" said he; "it is
temples, they will crumble into dust ; but covered with weeds."" "0," I replied.
 ELOQUENCE. 1*0 EMOTION.

tion, than on the wholesomeness of a cine

medi- each, by radiating on him the feeiing of
without knowing for whom it is tended." all.
in- "
Emerson,
Whately. Great is the of eloquence; but
power
The truest eloquence is that which holds never is it so great as when it pleads alone
us too mute for applause. "
Buhner, with nature, and the culprit is a child
strayed from his duty, ana returned to it
Those who would make us feel, must
Churchill. again with tears." Stem*.
feel themselves."

No man ever did, or ever will become Honesty is one part of eloquence. We
persuade others by being in earnest
most truly eloquent without being a stant
con- selves."
our-

the HazHU.
reader of Bible, and an admirer
of the purity and sublimity of its language. EMINENCE." Every man ought to aim
"Fisher Ames.
at eminence, by pulling others
not down,
It is of eloquence of flame ; it requires but by
as a
raising himself; and enjoy the
matter to feed it, and motion to excite it ; pleasuresof his whether
own superiority,
and it brightens as it burns. "
Tacitus. imaginary or real, without interrupting
the others in the same felicity. Johnson.
Eloquence is in assembly, not merely "

in the speaker. William Pitt. The road to eminence and from

"

power
is obscure condition ought not to be made too
Eloquence logic on fire. " Lyman
Beecher. easy, nor a thing too much of course. If
rare merit be the rarest of all rare things,
Eloquence is vehement simplicity" Cecil.
it ought to pass through some sort of bation.
pro-
There is eloquence without The honor
no a man temple of ought to be
behind it." Emerson, seated on an eminence. If it be
open
Eloquence is the transference of thought through virtue, let it be remembered, too,
emotion from heart that virtue is tried but by ficulty
dif-
and one to another, no never some

bow it is done. John B. and struggle. Burke.

matter " Gough. some "

There is not less eloquence in the It is folly for eminent to think of

voice, an man

the the gesture, than in words. escaping censure, and a weakness for him
eye, "

Bochefoucauld. to be affected by it." All the illustrious

persons of antiquity, and indeed of every

If any thine I have ever said or written
age in the
world, have passed through this
deserves the feeblest encomiums of my low
fel-
I have hesitation in fiery persecution. Adaison, "

countrymen, no

declaring that for their partiality I am debted,

in- EMOTION. All loving emotions, "
like
solely indebted, to the daily and plants, shoot up most rapidly in the pestuous
tem-
attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures, atmosphere of life. Richler. "

the source of all true poetry and eloquence, The taste for emotion become a
may
as well as of all good and all comfort. "

dangerous taste ; we should be very cautious

Daniel Webster. how we attempt to squeeze out of human
8peech is the bodv ; thought,
the soul, life more ecstasy and paroxysm than it can
and: suitable action the life of eloquence. " well afford." Sydney Smith.
C. Simmons. Emotion has value in the Christian
no

Talking and
eloquence are not the same. system save as it is connected with right
"
To speak and to speak well are two things. conduct. "
It is the bud. not the flower, and
"A fool may talk,but a wise man speaks. "
is of no value until it expands into the
Ben. Jonson. flower. " Every religious sentiment, every
consist in speech. act of devotion which does not produce
True eloquence does not a

"It be from far." Labor corresponding elevation of life, is worse

cannot brought
toil for it in vain. than useless it is absolutely pernicious,
and learning may " ;

marshalled in because it ministers to self-deception, ana

Words and phrases may be
but they cannot it tends to lower the tone of personal morals.
every way, compass "

It must consist in the man, in the subject, "

Murray.
and in the occasion. "
Daniel Webster. Emotion turning back itself,and
on not
The manner of speaking is full as portant
im- leading on tothought or action, is the ment
ele-

as the matter, as more peoplehave of madness. "

J. Sterling.
ears to be tickled than understandings to Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or
judge." Chesterfield. sorrow, whether raised at a puppet-show,
The pleasure of eloquence is, in greatest a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of

part, owing often to the stimulus of the levelers. "

The man who would be always
occasion which produces it " to the magic superior should be always apathetic"
of sympathy which exalts the feeling of Bulwer.
 EMPIRE. 141 EMULATION.

Emotion which does not lead to and flow alone, we have our thoughts to watch in
;
oat in right action is not only useless, bnt the family, our tempers ; and in company,
it weakens character, and becomes an ex- our tongues. "
Hannah More.
cose for neglect of effort." Tryon Edwards. The wise and the foolish confess,
prove,
EMPIRE. As a general troth, nothing
"
by their conduct, that a life of employment
is more opposed to the well-being and dom
free- is the only life worth leading. Paley. "

of men, than vast empires." Zte Too Life's cares are comforts, such by heaven
queviUe. designed: he that has none must make
Extended them be wretched. Cares ments,
employ-
empire, like expanded gold, or "
are

exchanges solid for feeble and without employ the soul Is

strength dor.
splen- on

"
Johnson. a rack "
the rack of rest to souls most verse
ad-
:
"
action all their joy. "

Young.
It is not their long reigns^nor their quent
fre-
changes which occasion the fall of Occupation is one great source *of ment.
enjoy-
No properly occupied,
empires, bat their abase of power. "
Crabbe. man, was

ever miserable. "

L. E. London.
EMPLOYMENT.-(See tion,"
"Occupa-
and "Tunc") EMPTINESS." Four thinm are ously
griev-
emptv : a head without brains, a wit
Employment is nature's physician, and without heart without
is essential to human judgment, a honesty,
happiness. Oaten. "

and a purse without money. "

Earle.
Be
always employed about some rational
thing, that the devil find thee not idle." EMULATION." Emulation is a noble
Jerome. passion. "
It is enterprising, but lust withal.
It keeps within the terms of honor, and
Life is
hardly respectableif it has no "

makes the contest for glory lust and erous

gen-
generous tank, no duties or affections that
constitute necessity of existing." Every ; striving to excel,not by depressing
a

man's task is his others, but by raising itself. " Beaumont.

life-preserver." O. B.
Emerson. Emulation admires and strives to imitate

"I have," says Richter, '" great actions j envy is only moved to malice.
fire-proof,per-
ennial
"Balzac.
enjoyments, called employments ";
and Emulation is the devil-shadow of tion."
aspira-
says Burton, So essential to human
"

happinessis employment, that indolence is To excite it

worthy only of the
is

justly considered the mother of misery." commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose

ambition is to show what fine scholars he
He that does not bring up his son to some
can tarn out that he may get the more
honest calling and employment, brings him
pupils." O. Macdonald.
up to be a thief. "
Jewish Maxim.
Emulation, in the sense of a laudable
Employment gives health, sobriety and
,
ambition, is fonnded on humility, for it
morals." Constant employment and well-
paid labor country produce, in a like implies that we have a low opinion of our
ours,
general prosperity, content, and cheerful-
ness. present, and think it necessary to advance
and make improvement. Bp. Bail.
Daniel Webster.
"
"

The devil whom he Where there emulation, there

is will be
tempted a man
never
found judiciously employed." Spurgeon. vanity ; where there is vanity, there will be
folly." Johnson.
The safe and general antidote against
The emulation of a man of genius is sel-
dom
sorrow, is employment. It is commonly
with his cotemporaries. The petitors
com-
observed, that among soldiers and seamen,
with whom tiis secret ambition
though there is much kindness, there is
seeks to vie are the dead. Bultoer.
little grief ; they see their friend fall with-
out "

that lamentation which is in Emulation has been termed to

indulged a spur
security and idleness, because they have no
virtue, and assumes to be a
spur gold."
of
leisure to from the care of selves
them- But it is
a spur composed of baser materials,
spare
and whoever shall keep his thoughts and if tried in the furnace will be found
;
wanting. Cotton.
equally busy, will find himself equally un-affected "

by irretrievable losses. Johnson. " Emulation looks out for merits, that she
exalt herself by victory spies
Not to enjoy life, but to employ life, may a ; envy
ought to be our aim and inspiration. "
out blemishes, that she may nave another
by defeat. Cotton.
Macduff. a "

There is long and wearisome step be-

tween
Employment and ennui are simply incom- patible." a

Mad. Deluzy. admiration and imitation. "

BidUer.
We have employments assigned to us for Without emulation we sink into ness,
mean-

every circumstance in life. When we are or mediocrity, for nothing great or

 ENCOURAGEMENT. U" ENEMIES.

excellent can be done without it." Beau-

mont. If we could read the secret history of our

enemies, we should find in each man's life

sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
ENCOURAGEMENT.-Faintnot; the
hostility." Longfellow.
miles to heaven are but few and short. "

There is no little enemy. Franklin.

Rutherford. "

does but Those get through who the world out

with-
Correction much, ment
encourage-
enemies are commonly of three classes
does more. " Encouragement after :

is the after shower. the supple, the adroit, the phlegmatic.

censure as snn a "

Goethe. The leaden rule surmounts obstacles by

yielding to them ;
the oiled wheel escapes
We onght not to raise expectations
friction ; the cotton sack escapes damage
which it is not in onr power to satisfy. "
It
by its impenetrable elasticity. " Whately.
is more pleasing to see smoke brightening
flame into smoke. It is much safer to reconcile an
into flame, than sinking enemy
" Johnson. than to
conquer him ; victory mav deprive
him of his poison, but reconciliation of his
All may do what has by man been done. "

wm.-Fcltham.
Young.
However rich or powerful a man may be
E N D." Let the end try the man." speare.
Shake- it is the height of folly to make personal
enemies ;
for one unguarded moment may
If well thou hast begun, on it is the yield you to the revenge of the most able
despic-
go ;
end that crowns not the fight. Her- of mankind. LytUeton.
us, "
"

rick. We should never make enemies, if for no

The end crowns all, and that old mon

com- other reason, because it is so hard to have
be-
will day end it. toward them ought. Palmer.
arbitrator, time, one "
as we "

Shakespeare. Some men are more beholden to their

All's well that ends well still the finis is bitterest enemies than to friends who pear
ap-
;
the crown. " Shakespeare. to be sweetness itself. The former
frequently tell the truth, but the latter
ENDURANCE." Not in the ment,
achieve-
never. " Goto.
but in the endurance of the human
Observe your enemies, for they first find*
soul, does it show its divine grandeur, and
its alliance with the infinite God." J?. H.
out jouTt"ults."AnHsthenes.
Ghapin. To love an enemy is the distinguished
The
characteristic of a religion which is not of
greater the difficulty, the more glory
man but of God. It could be delivered as
in surmounting it." Skilful pilots gain
their " precept, only by him who lived and died
reputation from storms and tempests.
to establish it by his example.
" Epicurus.
It is the enemy whom we do not suspect
The palm-tree grows best beneath a derous
pon-
who is the most dangerous. Rajas.
weight, and even so the character "

of man. "
Tne petty pangs of small daily Our worst enemies are those we carry
cares have often bent the character of men, about with us in onr own hearts. Adam
but great misfortunes seldom." Kossuth. fell in Paradise and Lucifer in heaven,
while Lot continued righteous in Sodom.
There is nothing in the world so much
admired as a man who knows how to bear Let us carefully observe those good
uuhappiness with Seneca. qualities wherein our enemies excel us,
courage. "

and endeavor to excel them by avoiding

Onr strength often increases in propor-
tion
what is faulty, and imitating what is cellent
ex-
to the obstacles imposed upon it. "It is
in them. Plutarch.
thus we enter upon the most perilous plans
"

after having had the shame of failing in I am persuaded that he who is capable of
more simple ones. " Rapin. being a bitter enemy can never possess the
necessary virtues that constitute a true
He conquers who endures. "
Persius.
friend. "
Fitxosborne.
By bravelv enduring, an evil which not
can-
Men of sense often learn from their mies.
ene-
be avoided is overcome. "
Old Proverb.
"
It is from their foes, not their
ENEMIES." Make no enemies. "
He is friends, that cities learn the lesson of
insignificant indeed who can do thee no building high walls and ships of war ; and
harm." Cotton, this lesson saves their children, their homes,
?" it is not and their properties. Aristophanes.
Have you fifty friends enough. "

"
Have von one enemy? "
it is too much. " Be assured those will be thy worst mies,
ene-
Italian Proverb. not to whom thou hast done evil,but
 ENEMIES. 143 ENERGY

who hire done evil to thee." And those Is in relation. "

His leading quality is a
will be thy best friends, not to whom thou reckless imprudence, and a selfish pursuit of
hast done good, but who have done good selfish enjoyments, independent of all sequences.
con-

to thee." Lavater. rapidly through his

"
He runs

means ; calls, in a friendly way. on his

Did a person but know the value of an
friends, for bonds, bail, and securities ; in-
volves
enemy, he would purchase him with pore his nearest kin ; leaves his wife a
gold. "
Bound.
beggar, and quarters his orphans on the
Plutarch has written the public; and after enjoying himself to his
an essay on
benefits which a receive from his last guinea, entails a life of dependence
man may
enemies and the of his and dies in the stood
ill-under-
; among good fruits upon progeny,
enmity, mentions this in particular, that reputation of harmless folly which
is more injurious to society than
by the reproaches which it casts upon us some

we see the worst side of ourselves. Addi*

"
positive crimes. Mrs. Jameson. "

sow.
ENERGY." The longer I live,the more
Our enemies are our outward consciences. deeply am I convinced that that which
"Shakespeare. makes the difference between one man and
In order to have most be another" between the weak and powerful,
an enemy, one

somebody. "
One must be a force before he the mat and insignificant,is energy" visible
in-
be resisted another force. determination
can by " A licious
ma-
" a purpose once

is better than formed, and then death or victory. This

enemv a clumsy "

friend." Mad. Swetchme. quality will do anything that is to be done

in the world ; and no talents,no circum-
stances,
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, no opportunities will make one a
but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. man without it. "
Buxton.
" Schiller.
This world belongs to the energetic"
Whatever the number of a man's friends, Emerson.
there will be times in his life when he has will do anything that be done
Energy can
one too few ; but if he has only one enemy, in this world ; talents, no
and no stances,
circum-
he is lucky indeed if he has not one too no opportunities will make a two-

many. "
Bulwer. legged animal a man without it." Goethe.

Heat not a furnace for your foe hot To think we are able, is almost to be so
so ;
that it do singe yourself." Shakespeare. to determine on attaiument, is frequently
attainment itself. "
Earnest resolution has
If you want enemies, excel others ; if often seemed to have about it almost a savor
friends, let others excel you. Cotton. of S. Smiles.
"

omnipotence. "

Though all things do to harm him what Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
they can, no greater enemy to himself than which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky
Sari of Stirling. gives us free ; only, doth backward
man. "
scope
pull our slow designs, when we ourselves
Our enemies come nearer the truth in
are dull. Shakespeare.
the opinions they form of us than we do in "

our opinion of ourselves. " Rochefoucauld. The truest wisdom, in general, is a lute
reso-
determination. " Napoleon.
The fine and noble destroy to a foe,
way The wise and active difficulties
is not to kill him : with kindness you may
conquer
so change him that he shall cease to be so ;
by daring to attempt them." Sloth and

then he's slain. Aleyn. "

folly shiver and shrink at sight of toil and
hazard, and make the impossibility they
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our
fear. "
Bowe.
own hands." Satan could not hurt us. if
He alone has energy who cannot be prived
de-
our own corruption betrayed us not. "
tions
Afflic-
without of it. Lavater.
cannot hurt us our own patience,"
im- "

Temptations cannot hurt us. Toil, feel,think, hope ; you will be sure

without our yieldance.

own Death could "
to dream enough before vou die, without
hurt the sting of our arranging for ii."J. Sterling.
not us, without own
sins. Sins could not hurt without There is in life like
"
us, our no genius the genius
own impenitence. " Bp. HaJL of energy and activity." D. G. Mitchell.
O wise man, wash your hands of that Resolution is Determine
omnipotent. " to
friend who associates with your enemies. be in the
something world- and you will be
"SaadL Aim at excellence, and lence
excel-
something. "

"
No one's enemy but his own." is ally
gener- will be attained." This is the great
the enemy of everybody with whom he secret of effort and eminence. "
"
I cannot
 ENJOYMENT. 144 ENNUL

do it," never accomplished anything; "I All solitary enjoyments quickly pal], or
will try/' has wrought wonders."./. Hawes. become painful. Sharp. "

The reward of a thing well done, is to Whatever enjoyment advantage

we or

have done it. "

Emerson. snatch beyond
portion allotted the certain
us by nature, is like money spent before it
ENJOYMENT.-Thosewbo would joyment
en-
is due, which at the time o* regular pay-
ment
gain must find it in the purpose will be missed and regretted." John-
they pursue. "
Mrs. Hale.
son.
No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, The enjoyments of this present short
is confined to the present moment. A man
life,which are indeed but puerile amuse-
ments,
is the happier for life from having made
must disappear when placed in com-
petition
once an agreeable tour, or lived for any with the greatness and durability
length of time with pleasant people, or joyed
en-
of the glory which is to come. "
Haller.
any considerable iuterval of innocent
Sydney tonith. Sleep, riches, health, so every ing,
bless- and
pleasure."
heart:
are not truly and fully enjoyed till
Gratitude is the memory of the
after they have been interrupted. Richter. "

therefore forget not to say often, I have all

I have ever enjoyed. "
Mrs. L. M. Child. What we have, we prize, not to the worth
while we enjoy it ; but being lacked and
Restraint is the golder rule of enjoyment. lost, why then we rack the value ;
then we
" L. E. London.
find the virtue that possession would not
He scatters enjoyment, Lavater, who show while it
says us was ours. Shakespeare.
"

that he
enjoys much : and it is equally true
will enjoy much who scatters enjoyments ENNUI." Ennui is the desire of activity
without the fit means of gratifying the sire.
de-
to others.
with
"
Bancroft.
Temper your enjoyments prudence,
lest there be written heart that Ennui is one of our greatest enemies ; re-
munerative
on your
fearful word "
satiety." "
Quarles. labor, our most lasting friend.
"
Moser.
True enjoyment comes from activity of
the mind and exercise of the the I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy
body ; two
united. Humboldt. d"y." Falkland,
are ever "

is with The victims of ennui paralyze all the

Imperfect enjoyment attended
regret : a surfeit of pleasure with disgust. grosser feelings by excess, an J torpefy all

There is certain nick of certain the finer by disuse and inactivity. gusted
Dis-
a time, a

be which with this world aiid indifferent about

medium to observed, with few
people are acquainted. Evreinond. "
another, they at last lay violent hands upon
themselves, and assume no small credit for
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed
the sangfroid with which they meet death.
to m"n."Blair.
But alas ! such beings can scarcely be said
I have told you of tho Spaniard who to die, for they have never truly lived."
always put on his spectacles wnen about to Cotton.
eat cherries, that they might look bigger Ennui has, perhaps, made more gamblers
and more tompting. In like manner I
than avarice drunkards than thirst ;
make the of ; more
most my enjoyments; and
and perhaps as many suicides as despair. "

though I do not cast my cares away, I pack CoUon.

them in as little as I can. and
compass carry
Ennui is word which the French vented,
In-
them as convenientlyas I can for myself, a

and let them others. Sou they. though of all nations in Europe
never annoy "

they know the least of it." Bancroft.

Whatever can lead an intelligent being
the exercise habit of mental That which renders life burdensome to
to or ment,
enjoy-
contributes his us, generally arises from the abuse of it."
more to happiness
the sensual Bousseau.
than highest or mere bodily
pleasures. The one feeds the soul, while As gout seems privilegedto attack the
the other, for the most part, only exhausts bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to ert
ex-

the frame, and too often injures the im-

mortal a similar prerogative over their minds.
part. Cotton.

Let all seen enjoyments lead to the seen

un- Ambition itself is not so reckless of man
hu-
fountain from whence they flow. " life as ennui. " Clemency is a favorite
HaHburton. attribute of the former, but ennui has the

The less you the taste of a cannibal." Bancroft.

can enjoy, poorer and
scantier yourself ; the more can enjoy, you There is nothing so insupportable to man
the richer and more vigorous." Xatxtfer. as to be in entire repose, without passion,
 ENTERPRISE. 145 ENVY.

occupation, amusement, or application. Truth is never to be expected from thors

au-
Then it is that
nothing-
ness, he feels his own whose understandings are warped
isolation, insignificance, dependent with enthusiasm : for they judge all actions
nature, powerlessneas,emptiness. diately
Imme- and their causes by their own perverse
tnere issue from his soul ennui, sad-
ness, principles,and a crooked line can never be
chagrin, vexation, despair. Pascal. "
the measure of a straight one. " Dryden.
ENTERPRISE." The method of the Nothing is
contagious so as enthusiasm.
with and It is the real
allegory of the tale of
enterprisingis to plan audacity, "

execute with vigor ;

to sketch out a map Orpheus ; it moves stones, and charms
then them brutes. It is the genius of siucerity, and
of possibilities,and to treat as
"

truth accomplishes victories without it.

probabilities.
Bovee. "
no

" Bulwer.
To do anything doing, in this world worth
stand back Enlist the interests of ster morality and
we must not shivering ana n

thinking of the cold and danger, but jump religious enthusiasm in the cause of cal
politi-
in, and scramble through as well as we can. liberty,
as in the time of the old tans,
Puri-
and it will be irresistible. Coleridge.
Sydney Smith. "

Before
undertaking design weigh the All noble enthusiasms pass through a
any
the danger feverish stage, and wiser and
atory thy action
of with of the grow more

attempt." If the glory outweigh the danger serene." Charming.

it is cowardice to neglect it ; if the danger Every
production of genius must be the
exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt
production of enthusiasm. Disraeli. "

it ; if the balances stand poised, let thine

Let us recognize the beauty and power
vwn genius cast them. " Quartos. of true enthusiasm ; and whatever we may
Kites rise against, not with the wind. " do enlighten ourselves
to or others, guard
No worked his anywhere against checking chilling
man ever passage or a single earn-
in a dead calm. "
John NeaL est sentiment." Tuckernian.
Attempt the end, and never stand to The enthusiasm of old men is singularly
dpubt ; nothing so hard but search will like that of infancy. "
Nerval.
And it out. "
Herrick.
Great designs are not accomplished out
with-
ENTHUSIASM." Every great and manding
com- enthusiasm of some sort. "
It is the spiration
in-
movement in the annals of the of everything great. "
Without it
world is the triumph of enthusiasm. "
ing
Noth- no man is to be feared, and with it none

great was ever achieved without it. " despised. " Bovee.
Emerson. Enthusiasm is evil much less to be
an

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met dreaded than superstition. Superstition is "

with in seasons of calm and unruffled the disease of nations ; enthusiasm, that ot
perity.
pros-
"
It flourishes in adversity, kindles individuals. "
The former grows inveterate
in the hour of danger, and awakens to by time : the latter is cured by it. " Robert
deeds of renown. " The terrors of tion
persecu- Hail.
only serve to quicken the energy of its Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
purposes. It swells in
proud integrity,
"
" Irving.
and, great in the purity or its cause, it can
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.-
till half mankind were, like himself, pos-
Chalmers.
aest." Cowper.
The sense of this word among the Greeks
affords the noblest definition or it ; siasm
enthu- ENVY." Envy has no other quality but
signifies "God in us.
"" M ad. De that of detracting from virtue. " Livy.
StaH. Envy is a passion so full of cowardice
Opposition always inflames the siast,
enthu- and shame, that nobody ever had the fidence
con-

never converts him." SchiUer. to own it. " Rochester.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. A man that hath no virtue in himself
"
Sedey. ever envieth virtue in others; for men's

of minds will either feed their own good,

An excess excitement, and a deficiency upon
or upon others' evil and who wanteth tho
of enthusiasm, may easily characterize the ;

Enthusiasm one will prey upon the other and whoso is

same person or period. is ;

grave, inward, self -con trofled mere citement

ex-
out of -hope to attain to another's virtue,
;
will seek to come at even hand by depress-
ing
is outward, fantastic, hysterical,
in another's fortune. Bacon.
and passing a moment from tears to "

laughter ; from one aim to its very site."

oppo- Whoever feels pain in hearing a rood
J. Sterling. character of his neighbor, will feel a plea*
10
 ENVY. 146 ENVY.

are in the reverse. And those who despair them, and which seem to content and isfy
sat-
rise in distinction by their virtues, them for while. There is
to are
power in a "

happy if others can be depressed to a ievei ambition, pleasure in luxury, ana pelf in
with themselves." Franklin, covetousne88 ;
but envy can gain nothing
the desert if but vexation. Montaigne.
Envy sets stronger seal on :
"

he have no enemies, I should esteem nis There is no surer mark of the absence of
fortune most wretched. "
Ben Jonson. the highest moral and intellectual qualities
than a cold reception of excellence."
Fools mav our scorn, not envy raise, lor
is a kind of praise. Gay. Bailey.
envy "

If our credit be so well built, so firm that rivals,who true wit and merit hate,
Base

it is not to be shaken by calnmuy or

maliciously aspire to gain renown, by
easy
insinuation, envy then commends us, and
standing up, and pulling others down. "

extols us beyond reason to those upon whom Dryden.

we depend, till they grow jealous, and so Base envy withers at another's joy, and
blow us up when they cannot throw ns hates the excellence it cannot reach."
down. " Clarendon, Thomson.

All is proportionate to desire we Envv, like the worm, never runs but to
envy :

are uneasy at the attainments of another, the fairest fruit; like a cunning hound,
blood-
according as we think our own happiness it singles ont the fattest deer in the
would be advanced by the addition of that flock." Abraham's riches were the tines*
Philis-
which he withholds from us ; and fore
there- envy, and Jacob's blessings had
whatever depresses immoderate wishes, Esau's hatred. Beaumont. "

will, at the same time, set the heart free

Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
from the corrosion of and
envy, exempt ns ascending still against the fortunate. "

from that vice which is,above most others, Brooke.

tormenting to ourselves, hateful to the
Envy always implies conscious inferiority
world, and productive of meau artifices
sordid wherever it resides. Pliny.
and projects. Johnson. "
"

did little No crime is so great to envy as daring

If we but know how some enjoy
of the that thev there to excel. Churchul.
great things possess,
"

would not be much envy in the world. " We are often vain of even the most
Young, criminal of our passions; but envy is so

The truest mark of being born with great shameful a passion that we never dare to

qualities, is being born without envy. "

acknowledge it." Rochefoucauld.

Rochefoucauld. The envious praise only that which they

Every other sin hath some pleasure nexed
an- can that which them
surpass ; surpasses
to it, or will admit of some excuse, they censure." Colton.
but wants both. We should strive
envy "

Men of noble birth are noted to be ous

envi-
against it, for if indulged in it will be to
toward new men when they rise : for
us as a foretaste of hell upon earth. "

the distance is altered : it is like a deceit of

Burton.
the eye, that when others come on they
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, but, think themselves back. Bacon.
go "

like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it
"Pope.
in the heart of man ; for the Roods of this
Many men profess to hate another, but
present world are so vile and Tow that they
no man owns envy, as being an enmity or
are beneath it ; and those of the future
displeasure for no cause but another's
world are so vast aud exalted that they are
goodness or felicity. Jeremy " Taylor,
above it. "
Colton.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she
If envy, like anger, did not burn itxelf
may exalt herself by a victorv envy
; spies
in its own fire, and consume and destroy
out blemishes, that she may lower another
those it possesses before it can stroy
de-
l"y a defeat. " Colton. persons
those it wishes worst to, it would set
Envy fly that passes all a body's
is like a the whole world on fire, and leave the
sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. excellent the miserable.
most persons most
"Chapman. "
Clarendon.
Envy feels not its own happiness but
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the
when it may be compared with the misery brightness of another's prosperity,like the
of others. --Johnson. confined within circle of fire,
Hwrpion a

Other passions have objects to flatter will stiug itself to death." Colton.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
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 EPITAPHS. 147 EQUALITY.

Envy makes us see what will serve to but variable service ; two dishes, but to one

accuse others, and not perceive what may table ; that is the end. "
Shakespeare.
justify them. Bp. Wilton. their
"

Kings and subjects,masters and

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth slaves, find a common level in two places "

envy consume a man. "

Vhrysostorn. at the foot of the cross and in the grave."
Cotton.
The envious man grows lean at the sue*

cess of his neighbor. "

Horace. It is not true that equality is a law of

The benevolent have the nature. Nature has no equality. Its ereign
sov-
advantage of " "

the this law is subordination and ence.

depend-
envious, even in present life : for
the envious is tormented not only by all the "
Vauoenargues.
ill that befalls himself, but by all the good If by saying that all men are born free
that happens to another ; whereas the nevolent and
be- equal, you mean that they are all
man is the better prepared to bear equally born, it is true, but true in no other
his own calamities unruffled, from the placency
com- sense ; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and
and serenity he has secured from providence, are forever making differences.
contemplating the prosperity of all around "Eugene Edwards.
him." Cotton. Let them their hearts with
ease prate of
EPITAPHS." Thev are the abstract and equal rights, which man never knew. "

brief chronicles of the time after Byron.

; your
death you were better have a bad epitaph So far is it from being true that men are

than their ill report while you live" speare.

Shake- naturally equal, that no two people can be
half an hour together but one shall acquire
Some an evident superiority over the other.
persons make their own epitaphs, "

and the Johnson.

bespeak reader's good-will. It
were, indeed, to be wished, that every man Society is a more level surface than we

would early learn in this manner to make imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are

his own, and that he would draw it up in hard to be met with and there are few
;
terms as nattering as possible, and that he giants or dwarfs. " HazUtU
would make it the employment of his whole
They who say all men are equal speak an
life to deserve it. Goldsmith.
"
undoubted truth, if they mean that all have
Do not laugh, O, listening friends, an equal right to liberty,to their property,
ye
when men praise those dead whose virtues and to their protection of the laws. "
But

they discovered not when living? "

It takes they are mistaken if they think men are

much marble to build the sepulchre. "

How equal in their station and employments,
little of lath and plaster would have paired
re- since they are not so by their talents. "

the garret ! "

Bulwer. Voltaire.

If all would kindly of the living Equality is of the most consummate

speak as one

in do of the dead, der

slan- scoundrels that crept from the brain
as epitaphs they ever

ana censorious gossip would soon be of a politicaljuggler " a fellow who thrusts
in the world. his hand into the pocket of honest industry
strangers
or enterprising talent, and squanders their
EQUALITY*" All men are by nature
hard-earned profits ou profligateidleness
equalsmade, all, of the same eartn by the
or indolent stupidity." Paulding,
same Creator, and however we deceive selves,
our-
Men are by nature unequal. It is vain,
is the
"

as dear to God poor peasant

therefore, to treat them as if they were
as the mighty prince. "
Plato.
equal." Froude.
By the law of God, given bv him to manity,
hu-
and
Some must follow, and some command,
all men are free, are brothers, made
though all are of clay. "
Longfellow.
are equals." Maakd.
The eauality of conditions is more plete
com-
In the gates of eternity the black hand
in tne Christian countries of the ent
pres-
and the white hold each other with an equal
day, than it has been at anytime, or
clasp." Mrs. Stowe.
in any part of the world. "
Its gradual de-
velopment
Equality is the share of every one at tlieir is a providential fact, and it
advent upon earth ;
and equality is also all the characteristics of a divine
possesses
theirs when placed beneath it. Encto*. decree it is durable, and
; it is universal, it
"

Liberty, eauality" bad principles!. The constantly eludes all human interference ;
and all events, as well as all men, contribute
only true principlefor humanity is justice;
ana justice to the feeble is protection and to its progress." De Tocqueville.
kindness." AmieL Whatever difference there to
.
may appear
Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is I be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain
 EQUANIMITY. 148 ERROR.

compensation of good aud ill in all, thai When thou art obliged to speak, be sure
makes them equal. "
Charron. to speak the truth ; for equivocation is half

When the political power of clergythe way to lying, and lying is the whole way to

and hell. Penn.

was founded began to exert itself, and "

they opened their ranks to all classes, to He who is guilty of equivocation, may
the poor and the rich, the villaiu and the well be suspected of hypocrisy." M aunder.
lord, equality penetrated into the ment
govern- We must speak by the card, or tion
equivoca-
through the church ; and the being wiU undo us. "
Shakespeare.
who as a serf must have vegetated in petual
per- There for
took his
is no possible excuse a guarded
bondage, place, as a priest,
lie." Enthusiastic people will
and impulsive
in the midst ox nobles, and not unfrequently
above the head of kings." De
sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivo-
cation
Tocqueville.
is malice prepense." II. BaUou.
EQUANIMITr.-In this thing one man The lie indirect is often as bad, and
is superior to another, that he is better able than
always meaner and more cowardly
to bear prosperity or adversity. "
Philemon. the lie direct.
The excellence of equanimity is beyond ERROR.-(See "Tbuth.")
all praise. "
One of this disposition is not

dejected in Find earth where weed, and

adversity, nor elated in perity
pros- grows no

he is affable to others, and find ,a heart wherein no error

: tented
con- you may
in himself. "
Buck. grows. "
Knowles.
Men err from selfishness : women because
EQU IT Y," Equity is a roguish thing. "

they are weak." Mad. De Stael,

For law we have a measure, and know wnat
to trust to ; equity is according to the science
con- There are errors which no wise man will
of him that is chancellor, and as treat with rudeness, while there is a proba-
bility
that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "
that they may be the refraction of
It is all one as if they should make the some great truth still below the horizon. "

standard for the measure we call a foot, Coleridge.

a chancellor's foot. What uncertain
" an Our understandings are always liable to
measure would this be !" One chancellor Nature and hard
error. " certainty are very
'
has a long foot ; another, short foot to
a ; a
come at, and is
infallibility mere vanity
third, an indifferent foot. "
It is the same and pretence. "
Marcus Antoninus.
thing with the chancellor's conscience. "

Men are apt to

prefera prosperous error
Selden.
to an afflicted truth." Jeremy Taylor.
Equity is that exact rule of righteousness
A man should never be ashamed to own
or justice which is to be observed between
he has been in the
wrong, which is but
man and man. "
It is beautifully and com-

the
saying, in other words, that he is wiser day
to-
expressedin the words of
Srehensivelv
aviour, "All things whatsoever would
than he was yesterday. " Pope.
ye
that men should do to do so
The copy-books tell us that "to err is
you, ye even
to them, for this is the law and the human." That is To err is inhu-
man,
ets.""
proph- wron".
Buck. to be holy is to live in the straight
line of duty and of truth to God's life in
Equity in law is the same that the spirit intrinsic existence. Phillips Brooks.
every "

is in religion, what one pleases to

every
My principal method for defeating error
make it : sometimes they go according to
and heresy, is, by establishing the truth.
conscience, sometimes according to law,
One purposes to fill a bushel with tares ;
sometimes according to the rule of court. "

but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may

Selden
defy his attempts. "
John Newton.
EQUIVOCATION." I doubt the ocation
equiv- Wrong conduct is far more powerfnl to
of the fiend that lies like truth."
produce erroneous thinking, than neous
erro-
Shakespeare. thinking to produce conduct.
wrong
A sudden lie sometimes be J. S. Kieffer.
may only "

manslaughter upon truth ; but by a fully

care- Error commonly has some truth in what
constructed enui vocation truth is it affirms, is wrong generally in what it
always, with malice aforethought, ately
deliber- denies. "
F. L. Patton.
murdered." Morley. Half the truth will very often amount to

these believed, absolute falsehood. Whately.

Be juggling fiends no more
"

that palter with us in a double sense ; that No tempting form of error is without
keep the word of promise to our ear, and some latent charm derived from truth "

break it to our hope." Shakespeare. Keith.

 ERROR 149 ERROR

It is only an error of Judgment to make Error 1b not a fault of our knowledge,

a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of but a mistake of our Judgment giving
character to adhere to it when discovered. assent to that which is not true. " Locke.
The Chinese say, "The glory is not in
Sometimes we may learn more from a
never falling, but in rising every time
man's errors, than from his virtues.
you fall." " Bovee. "

Longfellow.
It Is almost -as difficult to make a man

unlearn his his

From the errors of others a wise man
errors as knowledge. Mai-
information corrects his own. Publius Syr us.
is more hopeless than non-
"

information ; for error Ls always more False doctrine does not necessarily
busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank make the but
man a heretic, an evil
sheet, on which we may write ; but error heart can make doctrine heretical.
any "

is a scribbled one, from which we must

Coleridge.
first erase. Ignorance is contented to
stand still with her back to the truth ; To make no mistakes is not In the
but error Is more presumptuous, and ceeds
pro- power of man ; but from their errors and
in the wrong direction. Ignorance mistakes the wise and good learn dom
wis-
has no light, but error follows a false for the future. "
Plutarch.
one. The consequence is, that error,
The least error should humble, but we
when she retraces her steps, has farther
should never permit even the greatest to
to go before she can arrive at truth,
discourage us. Potter.
"

than ignorance. " Colton.

Few
Honest error Is to pitied, not ridiculed.
practical errors in the world are

embraced conviction, but tion

inclina-
" Chesterfield.
on on

; for though the Judgment may err Errors of theory or doctrine are not so
on account of weakness, yet, where one much false statements, as partial ments.
state-
error enters at this door, ten are let Half truth received, while the
" a
Into it through the will ; that, for the half is unknown
corresponding or jected.
re-
iLOst part, being set upon those things Is a practical falsehood. " Tryon
which truth is a direct obstacle to Edwards.
the
enjoyment of; and where both cannot
be had, a man will be sure to buy his There Is nothing so true that the damps
enjoyment, though he pays down truth of error have not warped it " Tupper.
for the purchase. South. "

The consistency of great error with

In all science error precedes the truth,
great virtue, is one of the lessons of
and it is better It should go first than
universal history. But error is not made "

last. " Walpole. associations. False

harmless by such "

Errors to be dangerous must have a theories, though held by the greatest and

great deal of truth mingled with* them. best of men, and though not thoroughly
from alliance they believed, have wrought much evil.
" It is only this that "

oan ever obtain an extensive circulation. Channing.

" From pure extravagance, and genuine,
All errors spring up in the hood
neighbor-
unmingled falsehood, the world never has,
of some truth ; they grow round
and never can sustain any mischief. "

about it, and, for the most part, derive

Sydney Smith.
their strength from such contiguity. "

Our greatest glory Is not in never ing,

fall- T. Binney.
but in rising every time we fall. "
Whatever is only almost true is quite
Confucius. false, and among the most dangerous of

errors, (because being so near truth, it is

If any one sincerely, candidly, ishly
unself-
the more likely to lead astray. " Precise
tries to understand and to obey the
voice divine he will knowledge is the only true knowledge,
of wisdom, not go
and he who does not teach exactly, does
fatally astray. " H. L. Way land.
not teach at all. "
H. W. Beecher.
There 1b no error so crooked but It
In its Influence on the soul, error baa
hath in it some lines of truth, nor is any
been compared to a magnet concealed
poison so deadly that It serveth not some
near the ship's compass. "
As in the latter
wholesome use. " Spurn not a seeming
the more favorable the winds, and
but below Its surface for the case,
error, dig
the greater the diligence and skill in
truth. " Tupper.
working the ship, the more rapidly will
Error Is sometimes so nearly allied to it be speeded on in a wrong course; and
truth that it blends with it as ceptibly
imper- so in the former, the greater the struggle
as the colors of the rainbow fade for safety, the more speedy the progress
Into each other. " Clulow. to ruin. " Tryon Edwards.

Error of opinion may be tolerated There will be mistakes in divinity while

where reason is left free to combat it. " men preach, and errors in governments
Jefferson. while men govern. " Dudley Carleto*.
 ESTfifiM. 150 ETERNITY.

The little I have seen of the world teaches No man can pass into eternity, for he li
to look the errors of others in row.
sor- already in it." Farrar.
me upon
Dot in anger. When I take the history and
This is the world of seeds,of causes,
of one poor heart that has sinned and fered,
suf- of tendencies the other the world of
; is
and think of the struggles and tations
temp- results of and
harvests and and perfected
it has passed through, the brief eternal consequences.
pulsations joy, the feverishof inquietude
of want, the Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought 1
of hope and fear, the pressure
through what variety of untried being I
desertion of friends, I would fain leave the
with Him
through what new scenes and changes must
erring soul of my fellow-man
hands it
we pass ! The wide, the unbounded pect
pros-
from whose came. " Longfellow. but
lies before me ; shadows, clouds,
and darkness rest upon it. Addison.
E 8T E E M ."The chief ingredients in the "

composition of those qualities that gain He that will often put eternity and the
esteem and praise, are good natnre, truth, world before htm, and will dare to look

good and gooJ breeding. Addison. steadfastly at both of them, will find that
sense, "

the more he contemplates them, the former

The esteem of wise and good men is the
will grow greater and the latter leas. "

greatest of all temporal encouragements to

Cotton.
virtue ; and it is a mark of an abandoned
spirit to have no regard to it. "
Burke. The wish falls often, warm upon my
heart, that I may learn nothing here that I
Esteem has more engaging charms than
cannot continue in the other world ;
that
friendship and even love. It captivates "

hearts
I may do nothing here but deeds that will
better, and never makes ingrates. "

bear fruit in heaven. Richter.

Rochefoucauld. "

The most momentous concern of man is

Esteem cannot be where there is no fidence:
con-
the state he shall enter upon after this
and there can be no confidence
short transitory life
and is ended : and in
where tnere is no respect. "
Giles.
proportion as eternity is of greater impor-
tance
We have so exalted a notion of the human than time, so ought men to be solici-
tous
soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or what grounds their tions
expecta-
upon
even not to be esteemed by it." -Man, in with regard to that durable state are

fact,place* oil his happiness in this esteem. built, and on what assurances their hopes
"
Pascal or their fears stand. "
Clarke.

All true love is founded on esteem." How vast is eternity !" It will swallow up
Buckingham. all the human race ; it will collect all the
intelligent universe; it will open scenes
ESTIMATION." A life spent worthily and prospects wide enough, great enough,
should be measured by deeds, not and various
years. "
enough to fix the attention,
Sheridan. and absorb the minds of all intelligent
To judge of the real of beings forever." Emmons.
importance an
individual, we should think of the effect
Every natural longing has its natural
his death would produce. Levis.
"
satisfaction. If we thirst,God has created
It is seldom that labors well in his liquids to gratify thirst. If we are
a man suscep-
tible
minor department unless he overrates it." "
of attachment, there are beings to
It is lucky for us that the bee does not look gratify that love. If we thirst for life and

upon the honeycomb in the same light we

love eternal, it is likely that there are an

do." Whately. eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy

that craving. F. W. Robertson.
Men judge us by the success of our forts.
ef-
"

God looks at the efforts themselves. Eternity invests every state, whether of
"Charlotte Elizabeth. bliss or suffering, with a mysterious and
awful importance entirely its own. It gives "

ETERNITY.-(See "Futube State.-) weight and moment to whatever it attaches,

compared to which all interests that know
What is eternity? was asked of a deaf
a period fade into absolute insignificance.
and dumb pupil, and the beautiful and
"Robert Hall
striking answer was,
" It is the lifetime of
the Almighty." The sum and substance of the tion
prepara-
needed for coming eternity is, that
Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a
a

we believe what the Bible tells us, and do

positive name." It supposes, in that to
which it is what the Bible bids us. Chalmers.
applied,a present existence, and
"

is the negation of beginning end of There

a or an is, I know not how, in the minds
thi"* existence. Paley, of certain as it were, of
"

men, a presage, a
 ETERNITY. 151 EVENTS.

future existence, and ibis takes the deepest ETIQUETTE." A man may with more

root, and is most discoverable in the greatest impunity be guilty of an actual breach,
geniuses and most exalted souls. "
Cicero. eitner of real good breeding or good morals,
than appear ignorant of the most minute
Eternity looks grander and kinder if
points of fashionable etiquette. "
Walter
time grows meaner and more hostile. "

Carlyle.
We must conform, to a certain extent, to
All
great natures delight in stability; all the conventionalities of society, for they
great men find eternity affirmed in the very
are the ripened results of a varied and long
promise of their faculties. "
Emerson.
experience. A. " A Hodge.
The grand difficulty is so to feel the Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it
reality of both worlds as to five each its treats little things as little things, and is
due placein our thoughts ana feelings" to not hurt by them." Fenelon.
keep our mind's eye, and our heart's eye,
ever fixed on -the land of Promise, without EVASION. "
Evasions are the common
looking away from the road along which shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and
we are to travel toward it. Hare, the impotent when called to assist
"
upon ;
the real great, alone plan instantaneous
The eternal world is not merely a world
help, even when their looks or words sage
pre-
beyond time and the grave. It embraces
difficulties." Lavater.
time ; it
is
ready to realize itself under all
the forms of temporal Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always
things. Its light and
latent the intimate of equivocation. Balzac.
are everywhere, waiting for "

Eower
uman souls to welcome it,ready to break Evasion, like equivocation, comes erally
gen-
through the transparent veil of earthly from a cowardly or a deceiving
things and to suffuse with its ineffable spirit, or from both ; afrafcl to speak out
radiance the common life of man." John its sentiments, or from guile concealing
Caird. them.
The thought of eternity consoles for the
E V E N INC" Now came still evening on,
shortness of life." Malesherbes.
and twilight gray had in her sober livery
The disappointed man turns his thoughts all things clad." Milton.
toward a state of existence where his wiser A paler shadow strews its mantle over the
desires be fixed with the certainty of dies like the phin,
dol-
may mountains ; parting day
faith." The successful man feels that the whom each imbues with a new
pang
objects he has ardently pursued fail to color as it gasps away. " Byron.
satisfy the craving of an immortal spirit. The evening came." The setting sun
The wicked man tnrneth away from his
stretched his celestial rods of light across
wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.
the level landscape, and like the miracle in
Southey. the rivers, the brooks, and
Egypt, smote
Eternity stands always fronting God ; a the ponds, and they became as blood."
stern colossal image, with blind eyes, and Longfellow.
grand dim lips, that murmur evermore, is the of virtuous
r*
Evening delight age ;
God" God" God ! "" E. B. Browning. it seems an tranquil close of
emblem of the

object in life should

Our be to accumulate a busy life" serene, placid, and mild, with
a great number of grand questions to be the impress of the great Creator stamped
asked and resolved in eternity. Now it ; it spreads its quiet wings over the
we " upon
the the and to promise that all shall
ask the
sage, genius, philosopher, grave, seems

the divine, but none can tell ; but we will be peace beyond it." Bulwer.
open our queries to other respondents "
we There is an evening twilight of the heart,
will ask angels, redeemed spirits,and God. when its wild passion waves are lulled to
"Foster. rest" Halleck.
What we call eternity may be but an less
end-
EVENTS." Events of all sorts creep or
series of the transitions which men call
fly exactly as God pleases." Cowper.
deaths, abandonments of homet going ever
their shadows before.
to fairer scenes and loftier
heights. Age "
Coming events cast

after the spirit that glorious nomad " Campbell

age, " "

shift its tent, carrying with it ever- Often do the spiritsof great events stride
may more

its elements, activity and desire. " on before the events, ana in to-day already
Buhner. walks to-morrow. " Coleridge.
Let me dream that love with us to There is little peace or comfort in life if
goes
the shore unknown. " Mrs. Hemans. we are always anxious as to future events.
 EVIL8. 153 EVIL SPEAKING.

disguise ; and we should not quarrel rashly With every exertion the best of men can

with adversities not yet understood, nor do but a moderate amount of good ; but it
overlook the mercies often bound up in seems in the power of the most contemptible
them." Sir T. Browne. individual to do incalculable mischief. "

proof of our
It is anatuial bias to eviL Washington Irving.
that in ail things good, gain is harder ana All evils natural, are moral goods ;
all dis-
cipline,
slower than loss ; but in all things bad or indulgence on the whole. "
Young.
evil, getting is quicker and easier than get-
ting In the history of man it has been very
rid of them. Hare.
"

generally the
case, that when evils have
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, grown insufferable they have touched the
is inexplicable till we refer to the hood
father- point of cure." E. H. Chopin.
of God." It hangs a huge blot in the Evil is wrought by want of thought, as
universe till the orb of divine love rises hind
be- well as by want of heart." Hood.
it. "
In that we detect its meaning."
As surely as God is good, so surely there
It appears to us but a finite shadow, as it
is no such thing as necessary evil. Southey.
passes across the disk of infinite light. "
"

E. H. Chapin. Not to return one good office for another

is inhuman ; but to return evil for good is
The evil that men do lives after them ;
diabolical. There are too many even of
the good is oft interred with their bones."
this sort, who. the more they owe, the more
Shakespeare.
they hate." Seneca.
Never let a man imagine that he can pur-
sue
a good end by evil means, without ning
sin- EVIL SPEAK ING.-A good word is an

against his own soul. The evil "

effect easy obligation ; but not to speak ill,re-quires

on himself is certain. " Southey. only our silence, which costs us

The definition of evil is that which

nothing. Tillotson. "

truest
it something to It is safer to affront people than to
represents as contrary ture.
na- some

"
Evil is evil because it is unnatural. oblige them : for the better a man deserves
the they will hira
"
A vine which should bear olive-berries "
worse
speak of ; as if the

an eye to which blue seems yellow, would possessingof open hatred to their factors
bene-
be diseased. " An unnatural mother, an were an argument that they lie
unnatural an unnatural act, are the under no obligation. Seneca.
son, "

strongest terms of condemnation."^. W. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. "

Robertson. Shakespeare.
Evils in the journey of life are like the How much better it is that he should
hills which alarm travelers on their road. "
speak ill of me to all the world, than all the
Both appear great at a distance, but when world speak ill of me to him." Tasso.
we approach them we find they are far less
It may be asked." whether the veniences
incon-
insurmountable than we had conceived."
and ill-effects which the world
Colton.
feels from the licentiousness of this tice,
prac-
There is some soul of
goodness in things
are not sufficiently counterbalanced
evil, would men observingly distil it out." the
by real influence it has upon men's
Shakespeare. lives and conduct? " for if there was no

For every evil there is a remedy, or there evil-speaking in the world, thousands would
is not ; if
there is one I try to find it ; and be encouraged to do ills,and would rush
if there is not, I never mind it. "
Miss into many indecorums, like a horse into the
Mulock. battle, were they sure to escape the tongues
evil which do succumb of men. Sterne.
Every to we not "

is a benefactor. " As the Sandwich Islander Evil report, like the Italian stiletto,is an

believes that the strength and valor of the assassin's weapon. "
Mad. de Maintenon.

enemy he kills passes into himself, so we It is not evil of all whom

good to speak
gain 'the strength of the temptation we
know be bad it is
we to ; worse judge to
resist. Emerson. evil of any who To
"

may prove good. "

speak
There are thousands hacking at the ill upon knowledge shows a waut of charity ;
branches of evil to one who is striking at to speak ill upon suspicion shows a want of
the root. "
Thoreau. honesty. "
To know evil of others and not

the ills speak It is sometimes discretion to speak

There are three modes of bearing ;
evil of others and not know it, is always
of life : by indifference, which is the most
which is the most dishonesty. A. Warwick.
; by philosophy,
"

common

religion, which is the Where the speech is corrupted, the mind

ostentations ; and bv
most effectual." -Cto8on. is also. " Seneca.
 EXAGGERATION. 154 EXAMPLE.

When will talkers refrain from evil ing?"

speak- Some men can never state an ordinary
When listeners refrain from evil fact in ordinary terms." All their geese are

hearing." Hat e. swans, till you see the birds. "

J. B. Owen.

There is no strength in exaggeration ;

E X ACQ ERATION." Some persons are
even the truth is weakened by being ex-pressed
exaggeratory by temperament. " They do
too strongly.
not mean untruth, but their feelings are
strong, and their imaginations vivid, so EXAMPLE." There is a transcendent
that their statements are largely discounted power in example. We reform others consciously,
un-

by those of calm judgment and cooler when we walk uprightly. "

temperament. " They do not realize that Mad. Swetckine.

"
we always weaken what we exaggerate." "

Men trust rather to their eyes than to

Tryon Edwards.
their ears. "
The effect of precepts is,there-
fore,
Exaggeration is a blood relation to false-
hood, slow and tedious, while that of amples
ex-

and nearly as blameable. "

H. Ballou. is summary and effectual. "
Seneca.

Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a

Example is more forcible than precept. "

vast force to lift a feather ; as to morals People look at my six days in the week to
and character, it is using falsehood to lift see what I mean on the seventh. "
CeciL
one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-
People seldom improve when they have
men. model themselves after.
no but to copy "

There are some persons who would not Goldsmith.

for their lives tell a direct and wilful lie,
Nothing is so infectious as example."
but who so exaggerate that it seems as if
Charles Kingsley.
for their lives they could not tell the exact
truth." Paget.
We can do more good by being good,
than in any other w"y."Bowland HUL
Never speak by superlatives ; for in so
Though " the words of the wise be as
doing you will be likely to wound either
truih Exaggeration is neither nails fastened by the masters of assemblies/*
or prudence. the
thoughtful, wise, nor safe. It is a proof of yet their examples are hammer to drive
them in to take the deeper hold. A father
the weakness of the understanding, or the
that whipped swearing, andhis son for
want of discernment of him that utters it,
swore himself whilst he whipped him, did
so that even when he speaks the truth, he
more harm by his example than good by
soon fiuds it is received with partial, or
his correction. Fuller.
even utter unbelief. "

There is a sort of harmless liars, fre-

quently Example is the school of mankind ; they
will learn at no other. Burke.
to be met with in who "

company,
deal much in the marvellous. Their usual Noble examples stir us up to noble tions,
ac-
intention is to please and entertain : but as and the very history of large and
men are most delighted with what they con-
ceive public souls inspires a man with generous
to be truth, these people mistake the thoughts." Seneca,
means of pleasing, and incur universal satisfied that less convinced
I am we are
blame. Hume.
"

by what we hear than by what we see. "

Her'

The habit of exaggeration becomes, in oaotus.

time, a slavish necessity, and thev who The first great gift we can bestow on

practise it pass their lives in a kind of others is a good example." MoreU.

mental telescope through whose magnifying So act that yonr of
principle action might
medium they look upon themselves, and
safely be made a law for the whole world.-'
everything around them. " J. B. Owen.
Kant.

Perfectly truthful men of vivid tion

imagina- It is certain, that either wise bearing or
and great force of sentiment often feel torant carriage
canght, as men take is
warmly, and themselves fiseases one let them
disc of another ; therefore,
so express so

strongly, as to give what they say a greeable

disa- take heed of their company. Shakespeare. "

air of exaggeration and almost of

No man is so insignificant as to be sure
falsehood. "
J. F. Boyes.
his example can do no hurt. " Lord Clarenx

Exaggerated language employed on triv-

ial don.
occasions spoils that simplicity and The innocence of the intention abates
singleness of mind to a right mischief of the
so necessary nothing of the example.^
judgment of ourselves and others. Robert Hall.

Those who exaggerate in their statements One watch set right will do to set many
belittle themselves. " 0. Simmon*. by ; one that goes wrong maybe the means
 EXAMPLE. 15ft EXAMPLE.

of misleading a whole neighborhood and sand. The tide flows over it,and the record
j "

(he lame may be said of example." Dtlurin. is gone. " Example is graven on the
rock,
then all will and the lesson is not soon lost. Channing.
Be a pattern to others, and "

well whole city is infected world

; for as a by A of mischief may be done by a
S" e licentious passions and vices of great single example of avarice or luxury." One

men, so it is likewise reformed by their voluptuous palate makes many more. "

moderation." 'Cicero. Seneca.

Alexander received more bravery of mind Whatever parent gives his children good
by the pattern of Achilles, than by hear-
ing instruction, and sets them at the same time
the definition of fortitude." Sir P. bad example, be considered
a may as ing
bring-
Sidney. them food in one hand, and poison in

wise and will the other. Balguy.

A good man turn examples "

of all sorts to his own advantage. The There are bad examples that are worse

good he will make his patterns, and strive than crimes ; and more states have perished
to equal or excel them. The bad he will from the violation of morality than from
t
by all meaiis avoid. " Thomas "1 Kempis. the violation of law. " Montesquieu.
In early life I had nearlv been betrayed Not the cry, but the flight of the wild
into the principles of infidelity: but there duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. "

was one argument in favor of Christianity Chinese Proverb.

that I could not refute, and that was the It is divine that follows his
a good own
consistent character and example of my instructions. easier
I can teach tweuty
own father. what to be than
men were good done, to be
Thou canst not rebuke in children what one of
twenty to follow mine own teaching.
they see practised in thee. "
Till reason be " Shakespeare.
ripe, examples direct more than precepts. The teaches
to be honest, the mar-
pulpit ket-place
"Such as is thy behavior before thy overreaching and trains
fraud. to
children's faces, such is theirs behind thy has not a tithe of the efficacy of
" Teaching
back." Quarles. example and training. H. Mann. "

Live with wolves, and you will learn to

Example dangerous lure ; where
is a the
hovrl."8pamsh Proverb.
wasp pot through, the gnat sticks fast. "

My advice is to consult the lives of other Fontaine.

men, as one would a and

looking-glass, Example teaches better than precept.
from thence fetch examples for imitation." character
It is the best modeler of the of
Terence. To is
men and women. set a lofty example
Example has more followers than reason. the richest bequest a man can leave behind
" We unconsciously imitate what pleases him. " 8. Smiles.

us, and approximate to the characters we

which
There is no part of history seems
most admire." A
generous habit of thought either instruction tainment,
enter-
and action carries with it an incalculable
capableof more or

than that which offers to us the

influence. Bovee. lives and virtuous who have
"
of great men
Yon can preach a better sermon with made an eminent figure on the public stage
your life than with your lips. of the world. In these we see what the

the annate of a whole age can afford that is

Allured to brighter worlds and led
worthy of notice and in the wide field of
way." Goldsmith. ;
universal history gather all its flowers, and
Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only
possess ourselves of all that is good in it. "

win ourselves good names, but do to others

Middleton.
give matter for virtuous deeds, by which
Preaching is of much avail, but practise
we live. " Chapman.
is far more effective. "
A godly life is the
The conscience of children is formed by
strougest argument you can offer to the
the influences that surround them ; their No reproof denunciation is
skeptic. " or so
notions of good and evil are the result of
the silent influence of good
potent as a ample."
ex-
the moral atmosphere they breathe. "

M. Ballon.
Richter.
Nothing is so contagious as example."
Of all commentaries upon the Scriptures,
Never was any considerable good or evil
good examples are the best and the liveliest.
done without producing its like. We tate
imi- "

"
Donne.
good actions through emulation ;
and
None preaches better than the ant, and bad ones through the evil of our nature,
she says nothing. "
Franklin. shame
which conceals, but example sets at

Precept is instruction written in the | liberty." Rochefoucauld.

 EXCELLENCE. 156 EXCES8.

We are all of us more or less echoes, peating

re- What we truly and earnestly aspire to
involuntarily the virtues, the fects,
de- be, that in some sense we are. "
The mere

the movements, and the characters aspiration, by changing the frame and
of those whom we live. Joubert. spirit of the mind, for the moment realize*
among "

itself." Mrs. Jameson.

Every great example takes hold of us

miracle, and It is but a base, ignoble mind that mounts

with the authority of a says
higher than bird Shake-
to ns,
"
If ye had but faith, ye, also, could no a can soar. "

do the same things." "

Jacobi. speare.
While we converse with what is above us,
Examples of vicious courses, practised in
we do not grow old, but grow young.
a domestic circle, corrupt more readily "

behold them in Emerson.

atid more deeply, wheu we

of authority. Juvenal. Who shoots at the midday sun, though

persons "

and sure he shall never hit the mark, yet sure

No life can pure be in its purpose,
he is that he shall shoot higher than he
strong in its strife, and all life not be purer
Meredith, who aims but at a bush. Sir P. Sidney.
and stronger thereby." Owen "

is Lift up thyself, look around, and see

Much more gracious and profitable
than by rule. something higher and brighter than earth,
doctrine by ensainple, "

earth worms, and earthly darkness. "

Spenser.
Richter.
EXCELLENCE." One that desires to
Fearless minds climb soonest unto
excel should endeavor it in those things
crowns." Shakespeare.
that are in themselves most excellent."
Epictetus.
Beside the pleasurederived from acauired
knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man,
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves
and tinged with a Hhade of sadness, an satisfactory
un-
speak what no words can utter. "
speare.
Shake-
longing for something beyond
the present "
a striving toward regions yet
Human excellence, from God, is
apart unknown and unopened. "
Humboldt.
like tlie fabled flower which, according to
Happy those who here on earth have
the Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out
dreamt of will the
a higher viaion ! They
of paradise; severed from its native root
sooner be able to endure the glories of the
it is only the touching memorial of a lost
world to come. " Novalis.
Eden" sad while charming and beautiful,
dead." The little done vanishes from the sight
but Stanford.
of him who looks forward to what is still to
Those who attain to any excellence monly
com-
do. "
Goethe.
spend life in some one single pur-
suit,
for excellence Too low they build who build beneath
is not often gained upon
easier terms. Johnson. the stars. "

Young.
"

is such obstacle the O sacred hunger of ambitions minds !"

Nothing an to duction
pro-
of excellence as the power of ducing
pro-
Spenser.
what is good with ease and rapidity. The hunger and thirst of immortality is
" AUan. upon the human soul, filling it with rations
aspi-
There is a moral excellence attainable and desires for higher and better
who will things than the world give. We
by all have the to strive for it ;
can "
can

but there is an intellectual and physical never be fully satisfied but in God. " Tryon
reach Edwards.
superiority which is above the of our

wishes, and is granted to only a few. " As plants take hold, not for the sake of
Crabbe. staying, but only that they climb
may
Excellence is higher, so it is with men. By part
never granted to man bnt "

every
the reward of labor. It argues small of our nature we clasp things above us,
as no

strength of mind to habits of one after another, not for the snke of re-
persevere in maining

where we take hold, but that we

indiiHtry without the pleasure of perceiv-
ing
those may go higher ."H. W. Reecher.
advances, which, like the hand
of a clock, whilst they make hourly ap-
proaches Desires and inspirations sfter the holy
to their point, yet proceed so are the only ones as to which the human
slowly as to escape observation. Sir J. soul can ever be assured that they will
"

Reynolds. never meet with disappointment. Miss "

Macintosh.
EXCELSIOR." People never improve
unless they look to some standard or ample
ex- EXCESS." Let ub teach ourselves that
higher and better than themselves. honorable step, not to outdo discretion."
" Tryon Edwards. Shakespeare.
 EXCESS. 157 EXERCISE.

All thiogB that are pernicious in tbeir shorta discourse obscures our knowledge
progress must be evil in their birth, for no of a subject ; too
much of truth stuns us.

looner is tbe government of reason thrown "Pascal.

off, than they rush forward of their own Excess generally causes reaction and
accord weakness takes pleasure to in-
dulge
a in the
; change opposite diiec-
itself; and having imperceptibly Sroduces
whether it be
a

in the or in in-
dividuals,
on, seasons,
launched out into the main ocean, can find in government."
or Plato.
no place where to stop. "
Cicero.

He who indulges his sense in any cesses,

ex- EXCITEMENT. "Excitement is so graven
en-

renders himself obnoxious to his on our nature that it may be re-

garded

own reason and to gratify the brute in as an appetite ; and like all other
;

him, displeases the man, and sets his two appetites it is not sinful unless indulged
natures at variance. "
W. Scott. unlawfully, or to excess." Outhrie.

The body oppressed by excesses, bears It is the passionsthat wear the

"

tites
appe-
down the mina, and depresses to the earth that grind out the force of life. "
citement
Ex-
any portion of the divine Spirit we had in the higher realm of thought
been endowed with." Ho face. and feeling does not wear out or waste

The of drafts men. The moral sentiments nourish and

excesses our youth are
"

old feed us." H. W. Beecher.

upon our age, payable with interest, /

aoout thirty years after date. " Colton. Violent excitement exhausts the mind,
Pleasures and leavesit withered and sterile. Fenelon.
bring effeminacy, and nacy
effemi- "

foreruns rum such conquests, with-

out The excitement best
; language of is at
blood or sweat, do sufficiently revenge but You be calm
picturesque merely. " must
themselves upon their intemperate querors.
con- before utter oracles. Thoreau.
you can "

" Quarles.
Never be afraid because the community
delights have
Violent violent ends, and
teems with excitement." 8ilence and death
in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, are dreadful." The rush of life, the vigor
which, as they kiss, consume. Tney are "

of earnest men, and the conflict of ties,

reali-
as sick that surfeit with too much, as they
invigorate, cleanse, and establish the
that starve with nothing." Shakespeare. truth." H. W. Beecher.
Pliability and when
liberality, not strained
re-
Religious excitement is to the steady fluence
in-
within due bounds, must ever turn
of Christian flush
Tacitus.
principle
as is the
to the ruin of their possessor. the of health."
"

of fever to uniform glow -

The best if pushed

principles, to excess, N. Murray.
degenerate into fatal vices. Generosity is "

Excitement is of impulse, while ness

earnest-
nearly allied to extravagance ; charity glow, the
is of principle ; the one a
itself may lead to ruin and the sternness
; other a fire : the one common, the other
of justice is but one step removed from the
rare the one theorizes, the other acts ;
;
severity of oppression. Alison. "
the needs the other can live
one company,
The desire power ofexcess in caused alone. The two are oftener found in sepa-
"
ration
angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in than in union, though neither is
excess caused mau to fall ; but in charity incompatible with the other. " Merry.
is no excess, neither can man or angels
come into danger by it. " Bacon. EXCUSES." Of all vain things excuses

the are the vainest. Buxton.

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, "

excess is always criminal. "

Evremona. He that is good for making excuses, is
seldom good for anything else." Franklin.
There can be no excess to love, to knowl-
edge,
to beauty, when these attributes are Uncalled for excuses are practical fessions.
con-

considered in the purest sense. "

Emerson. "
C. Simmons.

All excess brings on its own punishment, Oftentimes excusing of a fault, doth
even here." By certain fixed, settled, and make a fault the worse by the excuse. "

established laws of him who is the God of Shakespeare.

nature, excess of every kind destroys that
constitution which temperance would serve.
pre- EXERCISE." Health is the vital ple
princi-
"
The debauchee offers up his body of bliss ; and exercise, 'of health. "

a living sacrifice to sin. "

CoUon. Thomson.

Too much noise deafens us ; too much Inactivity, supineness. and effeminacy
light blinds us ; too great a distance, or too have ruined more constitutions than were

much of promixity equally prevents us ever destroyed by excessive labors. rate

Mode-
from being able to see ; too long or too exercise and toil, so far from pre-
 EXERTION. 158 EXPENSE

Jodicing,strengthen and consolidate the wish for : and the reason of it is, that what
body. "
Dr. Bush. we expect is always greater than what we

There troubles which enjoy.

are many yon not
can-

cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
bnt which you can cure by a good perspira-
tion where most it promises. Shakespeare. "

and a breath of fresh air. Many a is it

"

Nothing so pood as seems hand.

before-
man. by the help of the Bible and the dle,
sad-
George
"
Eliot.
nas gone to heaven with comparative
'Tie expectation makes a blessing dear ;
ease, who would not have gone there very
heaven were not heaven if we knew what
easilyby the help of either alone. U. w. "

it were" Suckling.
Beecner.

I take the true definition of exercise to

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys
without weariness. Johnson.
of life. Security is an insipidthing, though
be, labor "

the overtaking and possessingof a wish dis-

covers
The only way for a rich man to be healthy the folly of tne chase. "
Congreve.
is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if We love and when
to expect, expectation
he was which are esteemed the worst
poor ; is either disappointed or gratified, we want
parts of poverty." Sir W. Temple. Johnson.
to be again expecting. "

The wise, for cure, on exercise depend. "

Our have travelled the iron

ancestors
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought the is before vlb."SI. Pierre.
age ; golden
than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
With what a heavy and retarding weight
^-Dryden.
does expectation load the wing of time. "

Such is the constitution of man, that

W. Mason.
labor may styled own be its reward. "
Nor
will any external incitements be requisite EXPEDIENCY." Many things lawful
if it be considered how much happiness is are not expedient, but nothing can be truly
and how much misery escaped, by expedient which unlawful sinful. 0.
?;ained,
requent and violent agitation of the body. Simmons.
is or "

Johnson.
"

Expedients are for an hour, but ciples

prin-
are for the ages." Just because the
EXERTION." Every man's task is his
rains descend, and the winds blow, we can-
not
life-preserver. "
Emerson.
afford to build on the shifting sands. "

Never live iu hope or expectation, while H. W. Beecher.

"our arms are folded. God helps those
that themselves. When private virtue is hazarded on the
help Providence smiles
those who their shoulders the perilouscast of expediency, the of
pillars
on put to
wheel that the republic, however apparent tneir bility,
sta-
propels to wealth and happiness.
are infected with decay at the very
It is only the constant exertion and ing
work-
centre. " E. H. Chapin.
of
sensitive, intellectual, moral,
our

and physicalmachinery that keeps us from EXPENSE.-(See "Extbayaoakcb.")

rusting, and so becoming useless. 0. Sim' "

What maintains one vice would bring up

mens.
two children. You may think, perhaps,
Experience shows that success is due less that a little tea. or a littlepunch now ana
to ability than to zeal. The winner is he
then, diet little clothes
a more costly, a
who gives himself to his work, body and little finer, and a little entertainment now
soul. Charles Buxton.
"
and then, can be no great matter ; but member,
re-
'"
EXPECT ATION.-In Many a little makes a mickle."
our pursuit of
the of this Beware of little expenses. A small leak
things world, we usually prevent
will sink a great ship. FrankUn.
enjoyment by expectation ; we anticipate "

our happiness,and eat out the heart and Riches are for spending, snd spending
sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful for honor and good actions ; therefore traordinary
ex-

forethoughts of them ; so that when we expense must be limited by the

come to possess them, they do not answer worth of tne occasion. "
Bacon.
the expectation, nor satisfy the desires what
Buy thou hast no need of, and
which were raised about them, and they ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. "

vanish into nothing. Tillotson.

"
J^YankUn.
By expectation every day beguiled ; dupe No is better than what is
money spent
of to-morrow even from a child. smith.
Gold- laid
"
out for domestic satisfaction. A man

is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as

We part more easily with what we sess,
pos- other people,and the wife is pleased that
than with the expectation of what we she is so dressed." Johnson.
 EXPERIENCE. 159 EXPERIENCE.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain ; is by industry achieved, and perfectedby

bat ever while you live, expense is stant
con- the swift course of time. " Shakespeare.
and certain : and it is easier to build
No endowed with
man was ever a ment
judg-
two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. "

so correct and
judicious, but that
Franklin.
circumstances, time, and experience, would
The vices, and follies,and sins of men, teach him something new, and apprise
cost more than everything else ; and the him that of those things with which he
useless and expenditures of na-
abominable tions thought himself the beat acquainted, he
are a weight on their prosperity, and knew nothing ; and that those ideas which
crush the spirits,benight the minds, and in theory appeared the roost advantageous
well nigh enslave the bodies of their people. were founa, when brought into practice,
"
-C. Simmon*. to be altogether impracticable. Terence. "

He that what he does not will When I I of

buys want, was young was sure every-
thing
want what he cannot buy. ;
in a few years, having been taken
mis-
#oon
a thousand times, I was not half so

EXPERIENCE." is the of most things as I before at ent.

Experience sure was ; pres-
extract of suffering." A. Helps. I am hardly sure of anything but what
God has revealed to me. John Wesley.
Experience is the name men give to their
"

follies or their Mussel. To wilful men, the injuries that thev

sorrows. "

themselves procure must be their masters.

school-
All is but lip-wisdom which wants ence."
experi-
Sir P.
" Shakespeare.
Sidney.
Adversity is the first path to truth. He
Experience is the successive ment
disenchant-
who hath proved war, storui, or woman's
of the things of life. "
It is reason
rage, whether his winters be eighteen or
enriched by the spoils of the heart." -J. P.
eighty, hath won the experience wnich is
Senn.
deemed so weighty. " Byron.
Experience is the shroud of illusions. "

It is foolish to try to live on past expe-

Finod. rience.
It is a very dangerous, if not a
This is one of the sad conditions of life, fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe
that experience is not transmissible. No because of something that we felt or did
will learn from the suffering of
man other
an-
twenty years ago. "
Spurgeon.
; he must suffer himself.
It may serve as a comfort to us in all our
To most men experience is like the stern calamities and afflictions, that he who loses
lights of a ship, which illumine only the anything and gets wisdom by it,is a gainer
track it has passed. Coleridge. "
by the loss. "
V Estrange.

However learned or eloquent, man knows Nobody will use other people's experi-
ence,
nothing truly that he has not learned from nor has any of his own till it is too

experience. Wieland. "

late to use it. "
Hawthorne.
That man is wise to some purpose who
Experience is the Lord's school, and they
his wisdom at the
and from
who are taught by Him usually learn by Sains
tie experience of another."
expense
P/aufus.
the mistakes they make that in themselves
thev have wisdom Experience is jewel, and it had need be
; and by their a
no slips
and falls, that they have no strength. "
so, for it is often purchased at an infinite
John Newton. rate. "Shakespeare.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of
Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools
will in that which went before it." PuMtus Syrut.
learn no other, and scarce in that ;
for it is true, we may give advice, but we Experience, if wisdom's friend, her best ;
cannot give conduct." FrankHn. if not, her foe. "
Young.
No man was ever so completely skilled in Every man's experience of to-day, is that
the conduct of life,as not to receive new
he was a fool yesterday and the day be-
fore
information from and yesterday. To-morrow he will most
age experience. "
"

Terence. likelybe of exactly the same opinion. "

The rules which

MarJcay.
experience suggests are

better than those which theorists elaborate Experience takes dreadfully high school-
in their libraries." J*. 8. Storrs. wages, but he teaches like no other. " Car'
lyle.
Experience joined with common sense,
He hazardeth much who depends for his
to mortals is a providence. "
Qreen.
learning on experience." An unhappy ter
mas-

He cannot be a pei-fect man, not being is he who is made wise only, dv many
tried and tutor"'3 in the world." experience shipwrecks; a miserable merchant,* who is
 EYE. 161 EYE.

praised, and, on the other hand, to show mals look for man's intentions right into
undue indulgence where we have shown his eyes. " Even a rat, when you hunt and
undue rigor. " Macaulay. bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. "

Too Hiram Powers.

austere a philosophymakes few wise
men ; too rigorous politics,few good sub- jects A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent ;
; too hard a religion, few persons a kind eye makes contradiction an assent ;
whose devotion is of long continuance. St, " an enraged eye make beauty deformed."
Eeremond. This little member gives life to every other
No violent extremes endure; a sober part about us. " Addison.
moderation stands secure. Aleyn.
" The eye of the master will do more work

Extremes vicious than both his hands." Franklin.

are and proceed from
men ; compensation is just, and proceeds Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat,
from God." Bruyere. thank, appoint, and finally speak all things
by their eyes. " Montaigne.
EYE." That fine part of our tion,
constitu-
the
eye, seems as much
receptacle the The things in the world
dearest are

and seat of our passions, appetites, and onr neighbor's eves ; they cost everybody
inclinations, as the mind itself ; at least it more than anything else in housekeeping. "

is the Smith.
outward portalto introduce them to
the house within, or rather the common Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects,
thoroughfare to let our affections pass in are out of their calling, and ont of God's
and out. Love, anger, pride, and avarice, keeping. "Fuller.
all visibly move in those little orbs. dison.
Ad- "

is the of
A wanton eye messenger an chaste
un-
heart. " Augustine.
One of the most wonderful things in ture
na-
The eye observes only what the mind,
is a glance of the eye ; it transcends
speech the bodily symbol
the heart, the imagination are gifted to
; it is of identity. be reinforced by insight
see ; and sight must
"Emerson.
before souls can be discerned as well as
It is the of other people that ruin
eyes manners; ideas as well as objects ; realities
us. If all but myself were blind I should and relations well and
as as appearances
neither want a fine house nor fine ture.
furni- it. p.
accidental connections." Whipple.
"
Franklin.
"Eyes are bold as lions,roving, running,
The balls of sight are so formed, that one
leaping, here and there, far and near. "

man's eyes are spectaclesto another, to troduction

in-
They speak all languages ; wait for no
read his heart witn. Johnson. "
ask leave of or rank
; no age ;
The curious questioning eye, that plucks respect neither poverty riches, neither
nor
the heart of every mystery. "
MeUen. learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but
Men are born with two but only one
intrude, and come again, and go through
eyes,
of time.
tongue, in order that they should see twice
and through you in a moment "

much as they Oolion.

What inundation of life and thought is dis-
charged
as say. "

from one soul into another through

The eve* are the pioneers that first nounce
an-
them \" Emerson.
the soft tale of love. " Propertius.
Men of cold passions have quick eyes."
The eye eloquence and
speaks with an
Hawthorne.
truthfulness surpassingspeech. It is the "

Twas but for a moment" and yet in that

window out of which the winged thoughts
time she crowded the impressions of many
often fly unwittingly." It is the tiny magic
an hour ; her eve had a slow, like the sun
mirror on whose crystal surface the moods
of her clime, which waked every feeling at
of feeling fitfullyplay, like the sunlight
once into flower ! "
Moore.
and shadow on a quiet stream. " Tucfer-
The of women are Promethean fires.
man. eyes
The is the pulse of the soul; as
" Shakespeare.
eye
physicians judge the heart the Eyes will not when the heart wishes
by pulse, so see

we by the eye." T. Adams. them to be blind. "

Desire conceals truth,
as darkness does the earth. Seneca.
Who has a daring eve, tells
downright "

truths and downright he"."Lavater. Faster than his tongue did make offence,
Where is any author in the world teaches his eye did heal it up." Shakespeare.
such beauty as a woman's eye? " speare.
Shake- The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark

eye." L. E. London.

The is the window of the soul ; the The intelligence of affection is carried on
eye
intellect and will art seen in it." The ani- by the eye only." Good breeding has made
U
 FABLES. 162 PACE.

"
the tongue falsify the heart and act a part FACE." (See a
Physiognomy. and
of continued restraint, while Nature has "Eye.""
preserved the eyes to herself, that she may
There is in human
be disguised dison.
Ad- every countenance,
not or misrepresented. "

either history which

a or a prophecy, must
sadden, or at least softeu every reflecting
Eyes raised toward heaven are always observer. "
Coleridge.
beautiful, whatever they may be. "
Joubert.
A face is the best letter
good of mendation.
recom-
Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. " Queen Elisabeth.
"
DavenanL
Look in the face of the to whom
person
An eye can threaten like a loaded and if wish his
you are speaking you to know
levelled pistol,or can insult, like hissing or real sentimentstfor he can command his
kicking; its altered mood, by words
or in can, easily than
more his countenance. "

beams of kindness, make the heart dance

Chesterfield.
with joy. "
Some eyes have no more sion
expres- A cheerful face is nearly as good for an
than blueberries, while others are as
invalid as healthy weather. " Franklin.
deep as a well which you can fall into. "

Emerson. Your face is a book, where men may read

Her homes of silent

strange matters. " Shakespeare.
eyes are prayer. "

We are all sculptors and painters, and

Tennyson.
our material is our own flesh and blood and
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. "

bones. " Any nobleness begins, at once,

Shakespeare. to refine man's features
a ; any meanness
Whatever of goodness emanates from the or sensuality to imbrute them. " Thoreau.
soul gathers its soft halo in the eyes ; and
The cheek is apter than the tongue to tell
if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the
an errand." Shakespeare.
eyes are sure to betray the secret." .F.
Saunders. I am persuaded that there is not a single
is slow sentiment, whether tending to good or evil
Language ; the
mastery of wants
doth teach it to the
in the human soul, that has not its distinct
infant, drop by drop,
interpreter in the glance of the eye, and
as brooklets gather. Tet there is a love,
"

that
in the muscling of the countenance. When
simple and sure, asks no discipline of
weary the
language of the souljtold
nature express herself by
is permitted to
years, this language of the face, she is understood
through the The stammering
eye." Up oft
by all people, and those who were never
mars the perfectthought ; but the heart's
letter her
lightning nath no obstacle. " Quick glances,
taught a can instantlyread natures
sig-
and impressions, whether they be
like the thrilling wires, transfuse the graphic
tele-
look. Mrs.
of wrath, hatred, envy, pride, jealousy,
" Sigourney.
vexation, contempt, pain, fear, horror, and
dismay ; or of attention, respect, wonder,
P. surprise, pleasure, transport, complacence,
affection, desire, peace, lowliness, and love.
FABLES." Fables, like parables, are
"Brooke.
more ancient than formal arguments and
All men's facesare true, whatsoever their
are often the most effective means of pre-
senting
truth hands are." Shakespeare.
and impressing both and
duty." Tryon Edwards. Truth makes the face of that shine
person
who speaks and owns it. "
South.
Fables take off from the severity of in-
struction,
and enforce at the time There are faces so fluid with sion,
expres-
same
that conceal it. Addison. flushed and rippledby the play of
they "
so

thought, that we can hardly find what the

The fable
allegorical; its actions is are
mere features really are. "
When the cious
deli-
natural, but its agents imaginary." The
beauty of lineaments loses its power,
tale is fictitious,but not imaginary, for
it is because a more delicious beauty has
both its agents and actions are drawn from
appeared "
that an interior and durable
the passing scenes of life. "
Tales are ten
writ-
form has been disclosed. "
Emerson.
mainly for amusement : fables for in-
struction.
"
Crabbe. Faces are legible as books, with this
as in
their favor, that
.they may be perused in
The virtue which we gather from a fable
much less time, and *re less liable to be
or an allegory, is like the health we get misunderstood." .F. Saunders.
by hunting,as we are engaged in an able
agree-
that draws with
The faces which have charmed us the
pursuit us on pleasure,
and makes insensible of the most escape us the soonest." Walter Soott.
us fatigues
that accompany it." Addison. The countenance is the title-page which
 FACE. 163 FAILINGS.

heralds the contents of the human volume, mischief, and -intent only on destroying
bat like other title-pages
it sometimes whatever its progress. Woe to that
opposes "

puzzles, often misleaas, and often says state in which it has found an entrance. "

nothing to the purpose." W. Matthews. Crabbe.

Features are the visible expression of A feeble government produces more

the soul "
the outward manifestation of the factions than an oppressive one." Fisher
feeling and character within." Tryon ward*.
Ed- Ames.

Faction is the excess and abuse of party.

I more and more see this, that we judge " It
begins when the first idea of private
men's abilities less from what they say or interest, preferred to public good, gets
do, than from what they look. Tis the footing in the heart." It is always danger-
ous,
man's face that gives him weight. His yet always contemptible." Ghenevix.
doings help, but not more than his brow. "

Seldom is faction's ire in haughty minds

Charles Buxton.
extinguished but by death ; it oft, like
I never knew a genius yet who did not flame suppressed,breaks forth again, and
carry about him, either in face or person, blazes higher. May. "

or in a certain inexplicable grace of man-

ner,
which heaven FACTS." Any fact is better established
the patent of nobility
has bestowed him." The by two or three good testimonies, than by
upon Ogilvies.
a thousand arguments. "
Emmons.
There is a garden in her face, where roses
Facts are to the mind, what food is to the
and white lillies show" a heavenly paradise
body. On the due digestion of the former
wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. "
B. "

depend the strength and wisdom of the one,

Alison.
just as vigor and health depend on the
In thy see face
map I the of honor, truth, other. "
The wisest in council, the ablest in
and loyalty." Shakespeare. debate, and the most agreeable companion
A beautiful face is a silent tion."
commenda- in the commerce of human life,is that man
Bacon. who has assimilated to his understanding
That face of looks like the the greatest number of facts." Burke.
same yours
title-page to a whole volume of roguery. " From principlesis derived probability,
Cibber. but trutn or certainty is obtained only
loveliest faces to be from facts.
The are seen by light,
moon-
when one sees half with the eye, and Every day of my life makes me feel more
half with the fancy. "
Bovee. and more how seldom a fact is accurately
the fluence
in- stated how almost invariably when a story
A countenance habitually under ;
of amiable has passed through the mind of a third
feelings acquires a

the order it becomes, so far as regards the

beauty of highest from the quency
fre- person
with which such impressionit makes in further repetitions,
feelings stamp
their character it." Mrs. 8. O. Hate. little better than a falsehood ; and this,
upon
too. though the narrator be the most truth-
He had a face like a benediction." Oer-
seeking person in existence. "
Hawthorne.
vanies.
There should always be some foundation
If we could but read it. every human
of fact for the most airy fabric ; pure vention
in-
being carries his life in nis face, and is
is but the talent of a deceiver. "

good-looking, or the reverse, as that life

Byron. "....-"
has been good or evil. On pur features
Facts are. God's arguments -r we should
the fine chisels of thought and emotion are

work. Alexander Smith. be careful never to misunderstand or per"

eternally at "

vert them." Tryon Edwards.

In the faces of women who are naturally
and and of those rendered FAILINGS." The finest composition of
serene peaceful,
so by religion, there remains an after- human nature, as well as the finest china,
spring, and later, an after-summer, the may have flaws in it, though the pattern
reflex of their most beautiful bloom. "
may be of the highest value.
Rkhter. has wallet behind for his
Every one a

As the language of the face is universal, own failings, and one before for the failings
it is It is the hand
short- of others. La Fontaine.
so
very comprehensive. " "

of the mind, and crowds a great deal If we had no failings ourselves we should
in little A man may look a tence
sen-
a room."
not take so much pleasure in finding out
as soon as speak a word." CoWer. of others."
those Rochefoucauld.
FACTION." Faction is the demon of Such is the force of envy and ill-nature,
discord arme4 with power to do endless that the failings of good men are mora
 FAILURE. 164 FAITH.

to the world than their good Faith is certain image of eternity. All
Sublished
eeds and fault of well-deserving things
a

present to it" things

; one a are past, and
man shall meet with more reproaches than things to come ; it converses with angels,
all his virtues will with praise." N. P. and antedates the hymns of glory. Every
WUUm. man that hath this is as certain there
grace
are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty,
FA ILU R Et "
We mount to heaven mostly
as if he had heard and: sung the giving
thanks-
on the ruins of our cherished schemes,
song for the blessed sentence of
finding our failures were successes. "
A. B.
Alcott.
doomsday." Jeremy Taylor.
Never yet did there exist a full faith in
Every failure is a step to success ; every the divine word which did not expand the
detection of what is false directs us toward
intellect while it purified the heart ; which
what is true ; every trial exhausts some
did notmultiplythe aims and objects of
tempting form of error. Not only so, but the understanding,while it fixed and plified
sim-
scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure ; those of the desires and passions. "

scarcely any theory, the result of steady

Coleridge.
thought, is altogether false ; no tempting
form of is without latent All the scholastic scaffolding falls,as a
error some cnarm
derived from truth. WhewelL ruined edifice, before one single word-
"

faith " Napoleon.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the
.

world There is a limit where the intellect fails

as faithfully as a distinguished cess.
suc-

Dowden. and breaks down, and this limit is where

"

the questions concerning God, and will,

free-
Failure is often God's own tool for carving and immortality arise." Kant.
some of the finest outlines in the cliaracter
of his children Faith marches at the head of the of
: and, even in this life,bitter army
regress." It is found beside the most
and crushing failures have often in them
S re-

the germs of new and quite unimagined

ned life, the freest government, the pro-
foundest philosophy, the noblest poetry,
happiness." T. Hodgkin.
the purest humanity." T. T. Munger.
He only is exempt from failures who
efforts. Faith must have
adequate evidence, else
makes no " whatdy.
it is mere superstition. A. A, Hodge. "

Failure is, in -a sense, the highway to

inasmuch Under the influence of the blessed
success, as every discovery of Spirit,
what is false leads us to seek earnestly after faith holiness, and
produces holiness
what is true, and every fresh experience strengthens faith. Faith, like a fruitful
points out some form of error which we parent, is plenteous in all good works ; and
shall afterward carefully avoid. "
Keats. good works, like dutiful children, confirm
and add to the support of faith.
It is an awful condemnation for a man to
be brought by God's providence face to Faith in an all-seeing and personal God,
face with a great possibilityof service and elevates the soult purifies the emotions,
of blessing, and then to show himself such sustains human dignity, and lends poetry,
that God has to put him aside, and look for nobility, and holiness to the commonest
other instrument*." McLaren. state, condition, and manner of life." Juan
Valero.
In the lexicon youth, which offate serves
re-
We cannot live
for a bright manhood, there is no on probabilities.The
such word as fail." BuUoer. faith in which we can live
bravely and die
in peace must be a certainty, so far as it
They never fail who die in a great cause.
professes to be a faith at all,or it is nothing.
"
Byron,
Jroude.
There only is one real failure in life that
Some wish they did, but no man believes."
dis-
is possible, and that is, not to be true to
the best one knows." Farrar.
Young.
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with
Only the astrologer and the empyric
fail." WtilmoU.
divinely pictured windows." Standing with-
out,
never
you can see no glory, nor can imagine
A failure establishes only this, that but
our
any, standing within every ray of light
determination to succeed was not strong reveals harmony of unspeakable
a dors.
splen-
enough." Bovee. "
Hawthorne.

FAITH" Faith affirms many things specting

re- Epochs of faith, are epochs of fruitfnl-
which the senses are silent, but ness; but epochs of unbelief, however
nothing which they deny." It is
superior to glittering, are barren of all permanent
their testimony, but never opposed to it." good." Goethe.
faicaL In actual life every great enterprise be-
 FAITH. 165 FAITH.

sins with and takes its first forward step in Despotism may govern without faith,
faith." 8chlegel. but Liberty cannot." JDe Tocqueville.
Faith is not only a means of obeying, but Faith is the that sees Him, the hand
eye
a principal act of obedience ; not only an that clings to Him. the receiving power
altar which to sacrifice, but sacrifice that appropriates Him."
on a Woodbriage.
itself,and perhaps, of all,the greatest. It
Faith is to the
believe, on word of God,
is a submission of our understandings : an what we do not see, and its reward is to see
oblation of our idolized reason to God, and enjoy what we believe." Augustine.
which he requires so indispensably, that
Faith evermore looks upward and scribes
de-
our whole will and affections, though seem-
ingly

larger sacrifice, will not, without objects remote : but reason can cover
dis-
a
at his hands. things only near" sees nothing that's
it, be received "
Young.
above her." Quarles.
The saddest thing that can befall a soul
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all
is when it loses faith in God and woman. "

Alexander Smith. good better ; unbelief makes all

good evil,
and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the
The Calvinistic peopleof Scotland. erland,
Switz-
shaking of the spear ; unbelief trembles at
Holland, and New England, have
the shaking of a leaf : unbelief starves the
been more moral than the same classes
soul ;
faith finds food in famine, and a table
other nations. Those who
among preached in the wilderness.greatest danger, In the
faith, or in other words a pure mind, have faith save, "
I have a great God." When
always produced more popular virtue than
outward strength is broken, faith rests on
those who preached good acts, or the mere the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith
regulation of outward works." Air James draws the sting out of every trouble, and
Macintosh,
takes out the bitterness from every tion.
afflic-
Things of God that are marvellous are "
Cecil.
to be believed on a principle of faith, not Faith in order, which is the basis of sci-
ence,
to be pried into by reason. For if reason
cannot reasonably be separated from
set them before our they would
open eyes, faith in an ordainer, which is the basis of
no longer dc marvellous. "
8. Gregory.
religion." Asa Gray.
Man is not made to question, but adore.
Science has sometimes been ssid to be
" Young.
opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it.
Naturally, men are
prone to spin them-
selves " But all science, in fact, rests on a basis
a wen of opinions out of their own of faith,for it assumes the and
permanence
brain, and to have religion that may
a be uniformity of natural laws" a thing which
called their own. They are far readier to can never be demonstrated. "
Tryon wards.
Ed-
make themselves a faith, than to receive
that which God hath formed to their hands ; The of faith fall the seeming
far readier to receive a doctrine that
steps on
are
void, but find the rook beneath." Whittier.
tends to their carnal commodity, or honor,
delight, than one that tends to self-de- When men cease to be faithful to their
or
nial." Baxter. God, he who expects to find them so to each
other will be much disappointed." 2?p.
Faith and works are
necessary to our
as
Home.
spirituallife as Christians, as soul and body
To believe is to be strong. Doubt
are to our life as men ; for faith is the soul
cramps energy. Belief is power. F. W.
of religion, and works, the body. " Cotton. "

Robertson.
Faith is not reason's labor, but repose. "

Faith is the root of all good works ; a

Young.
root that produces nothing is dead. " Bp.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God, Wilson.
if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor ; I As the flower is before the fruit, so is
think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor,
faith before good works. " Whately.
if thou wantest faith in God. "
Where they
are not both together, thev are both ing
want- Faith and works are like the light and
they ; are both dead if once divided. "
heat of a candle ; they cannot be separated.
Quarks. Faith without works is like a bird without
There found in any of the wings though she may hop about on earth,
never was age :

world, either philosopher or sect, or law, she will never fiy to heaven. "
But when

discipline which did so highly exalt the both are joined together, then doth the
or

public good as the Christian faith." Bacon. soul mount up to her eternal rest. "
Beau*
monL
Faith makes the discords of the present
the harmonies of the future." CoUyer. What I admire in Columbus is not hit
 FAITH. 166 FALSEHOOD.

having discovered a world, but his having Faith is the root of all
blessings. Believe,
to search for it on the faith of an and you shall be saved ; believe, and
gone you
opinion. TurgoL must needs be satisfied ; believe, and
"
you
Faith is the the soul that cannot but be comforted and happy.
pencil of tures
pic- "

heavenly things." T. Burbridge. Jeremy Taylor.

All I have teaches to trust the Faith does nothing alone" nothing of
seen me
Creator for all I have not seen. " Emerson. itself,
but everything under God, by God,
The of faith better than the
through God." Stoughton.
errors are
best unbelief. sell.
Out- Much knowledge of divine things is lost
thoughts of " Thomas
to us through want of Udth."HeracHhts.

The experience of life nearly always I prefer a firm religious faith to every
works toward the confirmation of faith. "
other blessing." For it makes life a cipline
dis-
It is the total significance of life that it veals
re- of goodness ; creates new hopes,
God to man and life only can do when those of the world vanish throws
: ;
this thought, the decay of life the most of
; neither demonstration, over
nor gorgeous
life, weaving its all lights ; and awakens life in death."
nor miracle, but only even

of daily toil and trial Sir H. Davy.

threads and joy into
a pattern on which, at last, is inscribed the Faith is like love : it cannot be forced."
name of "God."" T. T. Munger. As
trying to force love begets hatred, so
All the strength and force of man comes trying to compel religious belief leads to
from his In things unseen.
faith He who unbelief. Schopenhauer. "

believes is strong ; he who doubts is weak.

Strong convictions precede great actions. "
FALSEHOOD.-(See "Liabs.")
J. F. Clarke. Dishonor waits A should
on perfidy. " man
Faith lights us through the dark to Deity : blush to think a falsehood it is the crime
;
faith builds a bridge across the gulf of of cowards." C. Johnson.
death, to break the shock that nature not
can- Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie.
snnn, and lands thought smoothly on
"
Herbert.
the further shore. " Young. The lie of fear is the refugeof cowardice,
Christian faith is nothing else but the and the lie of fraud the device of the cheat.
bouI^ venture. It ventures to Christ, in " The inequalitiesof men and the lust
opposition to all legal terrors. It ventures of acquisition are a constant premium on
on Christ opposition in
to our guiltiness. Edward
lying. " Bellamy.
It ventures for Christ, in opposition to
A lie has always a certain amount of
all difficulties and discouragements. W. "

weight with those who wish to beliqve it."

Bridges.
E. W. IHce.
While reason is puzzling herself about
the If falsehood had, like truth, but face
mystery, faith is turning it into her one

only, should be better

daily bread and feeding on it thankfully in we upon terms ; for
her heart of hearts." F. D. we should then take the contrary to what
Huntington.
the liar says for certain truth; but the
Strike from mankind the principle of
reverse of truth hath a hundred figures,
faith, and men would have no more history
and is a field indefinite without bound or
than a flock of sheep. " Buhner.
limit. " Montaigne.
It is faith among men that holds the
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
moral elements of society together, as it is
but usually quarrel among themselves. "

faith in God that binds the world to his

Daniel Webster.
throne." W. M. Kvarts.
There is criterion of
The gain of lying is nothing else but not
one sure judgment
to be trusted of any, nor to be believed
as to religions faith in doctrinal matters ;
when we say the truth. " Sir W. Raleigh.
can you reduce it to practice ? " If not, have
none of it." H. Ballon. Some men relate what they think, as
what they know some men of confused
Ignorance as to nnrevealed mysteries is :

and habitual
the mother of a saving faith ; and standing
under- memories, inaccuracy,ascribe
in revealed truths is the to one man what belongs to another ; and
mother
of Understand some talk on without thought or care. A
a sacred knowledge." not
therefore that thou few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods,
mayest believe, but
believe that thou understand." which are afterwards innocently diffused
mayest
Understanding is the of a livelyfaith, by successive relaters. " Johnson.
wages
and faith is the reward of an humble rance."
igno- A liar begins with making falsehood pear
ap-
Quarles. like truth, and ends with making
 FAL8EH00D. 167 FAME.

truth itself appear like falsehood." flA^n- slight, and another as unintended. Cast
stone. them all aside: they may be light and

cowards lie. accidental, but they are nglv soot from the
None but " Murphy.
smoke of the pit, and it is better that our
He who tells a lie is not sensible how
hearts should be swept clean of them,
great a task he undertakes ; for he must
without one care as to which is largest or
invent twenty more to maintain that one. "

blackest. "
Buskin,
Pope,
Bound dealingis the honor of man's ture
na-
No species of falsehood is more frequent
; and a mixture of falsehood is like
than flattery; to which the coward is trayed
be-
alloy in gold and silver, which may make
by fear, the dependent by interest, the
the metal work better, but it embaseth
and the friend by tenderness. it." Bacon.
Falsehood is never so successful as when
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship
she baits her hook with truth, and no
as detecting another in an untruth. "
It
opinions fatally mislead
so us, as those that
strikes at the root of our confidence ever
are not wholly wrong ; as no watches so
after." HazHU.
effectually deceive the wearer as those that
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of
are sometimes right. Cotton. "

him, who, by self-praise,seeks to enhance

It is more from carelessness about the
his value in the eyes of others. " G. J. Ben-
nett.
truth, than from intentional lying, that
there is so much falsehood in the world. "

Johnson. Let falsehood be

thy lips. a stranger to "

Shame on the began to

policy that first
Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the
the heart, to hide its thoughts.
tamper with
more in proportion as air and light are cluded."
ex-
"
And doubly shame on that inglorious
Wftafety. that sold its honesty, and told a lie.
tongue
When Aristotle was asked what a man "
Hazard.
could gain by tellinga falsehood, he replied Half fact is whole falsehood. He who
a a "
"
Never to be credited when he speaks the
gives the truth a false coloring by his false
truth."
manner of tellingit,is the worst of liars. "

Although the devil be the father of lies, E. L. Magoon.

he seems, like other great inventors, to have
Every lie,great or small, is the brink of
lost much of his reputation by the continual
a the depth of which
precipice, nothing but
improvements that have been made upon Omniscience can fathom." C. Beade.
him." Swift.
This above all ; to thine own self be true ;
The telling of a falsehood is like the cut
and it must follow, as the night the day,
of a sabre; for though the wound may thou canst not then be false to any man. "

heal, the scar of it will remain. "

Saadi.
Shakespeare.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult !
Examine your words well and you will find F A M E ."What is fame ?" The advantage
that even when you have no motive to be of being known by
people of whom you
false it is very hard to say the exact truth, yourself know nothing, and for whom you
even about your own immediate feelings " care as little." Stanislaus.
much harder than tosay something fine The is like the
way to fame way to heaven,
about them which is not the exact truth. "

through much tribulation. "

Sterne.
George EHoL
Fame, to the ambitious, is like salt water
Nut the least misfortune in a prominent to the thirsty "
the more one gets, the more
falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to he wants. Ebers.
"

repeat it for truth. "

H. Ballou.
Human life is too short to recompense
Falsehood, like poison,will generally be the which attend the
cares most private
rejected when administered alone ; but condition therefore
is, that our
: souls it
when blended with wholesome ingredients, are made, as it were, too big for it ; and ex-
tend

may be swallowed unperceived. " Whately. themselves in the prospect of a longer

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ; existence, in good fame, and memory of
a goodly apple rotten at the heart ! "
speare.
Shake- worthy actions, after our decease." Steele.

Fame is no sure test of merit, but only a

Falsehood has an infinity of tions,
combina- probability of such ; it is an accident, not
but truth has only one mode of being. a property of man. " Carlyle.
Rousseau. That is the universal
"
fame passion is by
Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of nothing more discovered than by epitaphs.
one falsity as harmless, and another as The generality of mankind are not content
 FAME. 169 FAMILY.

and blood to warm it" If lie taste of her granted, and Is at last unwillingly bestowed.
lip, there is no more nectar in it than there " Johnson*
are sunbeams in a cucumber. Every ras-
cal
"
Time has a doomsday book, on whose
who has been bold and fearless enough, illustrious
pages he is continually recording
Nimrod, Oataline, and Tom Paine, all have But often is writ-
names. " as as a new name
had a smack at her before him They have :
ton there, an old one disappears. Only " a
all more or less become famous, and will few stand in illuminated onaraoters never
be remembered much longer than better to be effaced." Longfellow,
men." Daniel Webster.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet
Milton neither aspired to present fame, and blossom in the dust" Shirley.
nor even expected it. "
His high ambition
his Men's evil manners live in brass their
was (to use own words), "To leave ;
virtues write in water." Shakespeare,
something so written, to after ages, that we

they should willingly let it die.'*" And No true and fame be

not permanent can

Oato finally observed, he would much founded except in labors which promote
rather posterity should ask why no statues the happiness of mankind." Charles Sum*
were erected to him, than why they were. ner.
"Cotton.

Those who seldom deserve

FAMILIARITY.-A11 objects loseby too
despise fame
view.
it." We
familiar a "
Dryden,
are apt to undervalue the purchase
we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the Make not thy friends too oheap to thee,
better." It is a spark that kindles upon the nor thyself to thy friend." Fuller.

best fuel, and burns brightest in the Though familiarity may not breed con*
bravest breast." Jeremy Collier. tempt, Ft takes off the edge of admiration.
It is an indiscreet and troublesome bition
am- "HatlitL
that much about fame
cares so ; The confidant of my vices is my master,
about what the world says of us ; to be though he were my
valet. Goethe, "

always looking in the faces of others for

Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
approval ; to be always anxious about the
as to be hated, needs but to be seen : but
effect of what we do or say ; tc ta always
seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first
shouting to hear the echoes ol our own
endure, then pity, then embrace. " Pope,
voices. "
Longfellow,
Be not too familiar with thy servants."
Good fame Is like fire ; when you have
At first it may beget love, but in the end it
kindled
may easily preserve it ; but if
you will breed contempt. "
Fuller.
von extinguish it,you will not easilykindle
it again." Baoon. Familiarities are the aphides that ceptibly
imper-
suck out the juices intended for
He who would acquire fame mr* t not
the germ of love." Lanaor.
show himself afraid of censure. "
The dread
of censure is the death of genius. "
Simms, When a man becomes familiar with his
goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman."
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows
Addison,
after they are dead, and with just as little
use to them. " Vilhers.
FAMILY." The family was ordained of
Fame is payable only to for
a revenue our God that children might be trained up
ghosts and to deny ourselves all present the
; himself : it was before church, or

satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so rather the first form of the church on

much hazard for this, were as great ness
mad- earth.
as to starve ourselves or fight perately
des-
Civilization varies with the family, and
for food to be laid on our tombs
the family with civilization." Its highest
after our death. "
Mackenzie.
and most complete realization is found
Common fame is the only liar that serves
de-
where enlightened Christianity prevails ;
to have some respect. " though she where is exalted to her true and
woman
tells many untruth, she often hits right, ; where
an with the
loftyplace as equal man
and most especially when she speaks ill of husband and wire are one in honor, ence,
influ-
men." SaviUe, and where children
affection ; and
Of all the possessions of this life fame is are a common bond of care and love. "
This
the noblest : when the body has sunk into is the idea of a perfect family." W. Aik-
the dust the great name still lives." ScJiifler. man,

to few Happy the families where the

To get a name can happen but ; it are govern,
is one of the few things that cannot be ment of parents is the reign of affection,
bought." It is the free gift of mankind, and obedienoe of the children the sion
submis-
which must be deserved before it will be of love.
 FANATICISM. 170 FANCY.

If I might control the literature of the The

downright fanatic is nearer to the
household. I would guarantee the well- heart things than
of the cool and slippery
being of the church and state. "
Bacon, disputant." E. H. Chapin.
If God has taught us all truth in teach-
ing Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated
ua to love, then he has given us an mind."
terpretation
in- Cowper.
of our whole doty to our
Everybody knows that fanaticism is ligion
re-
households." -We are not born as the tridge
par- caricatured, and yet, with many,
in the wood, or the ostrich of the
contempt of fanaticism is regarded as a
desert, to be scattered
everywhere : but we sign of hostilityto religion." E. P. Whipple.
are to be grouped together, and brooded
The blind fanaticism of one foolish est
hon-
by love, and reared day by day in that first evil than
of churches, the family man may cause more the
J5T. W. Beecher. ."
united efforts of twenty rogues. "
Grimm.
As are families, so is society. " If well
The weakness of human nature has wavs
al-
ordered, well instructed, and well governed,
they are the springs from which forth appeared in times of great revivals of
go
religion, by a disposition to run into tremes,
ex-
the streams of national greatness and
perity"
pros- three
of civil order and public happiness. especially in these things:
enthusiasm, superstition, and intemperate
"Thayer.
zeaL" Jonathan Edward*.
The ties of family and of country were
Fanatic faith, onoe wedded fast to some
never intended to circumscribe the soul. "

dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Moore.

If allowed to become exclusive, engrossing,
"

clannish, so as to shut out the general Of all things wisdom is the most terrified
claims of the human race, the highest end with epidemicalfanaticism, because, of all
of Providence is frustrated, and home, stead
in- enemies, it is that against which she is the
of being the becomes the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
nursery, "

grave of the heart. " Channing. Burke.

is but earlier We often want of anthropy

phil-
A happy family an heaven. excuse our own

by giving the of fanaticism

"
Bowrtng. name

to the more ardent zeal of others." Long-

A house without a roof would scarcely
be a more different home, than a family feUow.
unshelted by God's friendship, and the
FANCY." Fancy rules over two thirds
sense of being alwavs rested in His dential
provi- of the universe, the past and future, while
care and guidance. Horace Bushr
to the present."
"

reality is confined inciter.

neU.
Fancy and humor, early and constantly
"
The last'word '*
is the most dangerous
indulged, may expect an old age overrun
of infernal machines, and the husband and Wait.
withfollies."
wife should no more fight to get it than
Most marvellous and enviable is that
they would struggle for the possession of a

lighted bombshell. Douglas Jerrold. "

fecundity fancy which
of can adorn ever
what-
it touches, which can invest naked
""
A family without government," says fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for
Matthew Henry, "is like a house without a
beauty, make flowers bloom even on the
roof, exposed to every wind that blows.** "

brow of the precipice, and turn even the

He might better have said, like a house in
itself into and lichens." This
rock moss
flames, a scene of confusion, and monly
com-
faculty is most important for the vivid and
too hot to live in.
attractive exhibition of truth to the minds
Woman is the salvation or the destruc-
tion of Fuller.
men."
of the family. 8he carries its destiny
"

Fancy has an extensive influence in

In the folds of her mantle. Amiel. "

morals. "
Some of the most powerful and

dangerous feelings, as ambition and envy,

FAN ATICISM Fanaticism is the child
-

derive their principal nourishment from a

of false zeal and superstition, the father of
source so trivial. "
Its effects on the mon
com-
Intolerance and persecution. Fletcher. be
"

affairs of life is greater than might

What is fanaticism to-day is the ionable
fash- supposed." Naked reality would scarcely
creed to-morrow, and trite as the keep the world in motion." Clukno.

multiplication table a week after. Wendell

"

Fancy, when once brought into religion,

Phillips. knows not where to stop. "
It is like one of
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming pression
im- those fiends in old stories which any one

of the ideas relating to the future could raise, but which, when raised, could
world as disqualifiesfor the duties of this. never be kept within the magic circle."
" Robert HaU. Whaiely.
 FAREWELL. 171 FASHION.

Every fancy that we would substitute for Fashion is a word which knaves and fools
a reality,is, if we saw aright, and saw the
may use to excuse their knavery and folly.
whole, not only false, but every way less "
Churchill.
beautiful and excellent than that which we
The mere leader of fashion has no genu-
ine
sacrifice to it." J. Sterling, claim to supremacy ; at least, no ing
abid-
assurance of it. He has embroidered
FAREWELL -In that fatal word,- his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his
howe'er we promise, hope, believe, there
worth in his watch chain; and if he is
breathes despair." Byron. allowed real precedence for this, it is
any
I never spoke that word "farewell," but almost a moral swindle a way of obtain-
ing "

with an utterance faint and broken ; a goods under false pretences. "
E. H.
heart-sick yearning for the time when it Chapin.
should never more be spoken. Caroline Fashion is from which
"
a tyrant nothing
Boxoles. frees us. We must suit ourselves to its
"

That bitter which closed all fantastic tastes." But

being compelled to
word, earthly
live under its foolish laws, the wise man
friendships, and finished every feast of
is never the first to follow, nor the last to
love "
farewell !
"
Pollok.
keep them. " Pascal.
Pass-word of memory" of by-gone days "

Fashion seldom interferes with nature

thou everlasting epitaph" is there a land
without diminishing her grace and ciency.
effi-
in which thou hast no dwelling place? "

"
Tuckerman.
There is, O God, a world where human lips
"
Farewell !" ! Thus grows fashion, an
up equivocal
may say no more

Like low and mournful

semblance; the puissant, the most
most
some spell, we
that
fantastic and frivolous, the moat feared
whisper sad word, "farewell." " P.
and followed, and which morals and lence
vio-
Benjamin. assault in vain. Emerson.
"

FASHION.-(8ee "Custom.") The fashion doth wear out more apparel

the man." Shakespeare.
It is the rule of rules, and the general
law of all laws, that should He alone is a man, who can resist the
every person
observe the fashions of the place where he genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with
is. vigorous simplicity and modest courage."
" Montaigne.
Lavater.
Fashion is the science of appearances,
and it inspires one with the desire to seem Avoid singularity. There may often be "

rather than to be." J?. H. Chapin. less vanity in following the new modes, than
in adhering to the old ones. It is true that
Every generation laughs at the old fash-
ions, "

but follows religiously the new. "

the foolish invent them, but the wise may
conform to, instead of contradicting them.
Thoreau.
"Joubert.
Fashion is, for the most part, nothing
the
Those who seem to lead the public taste,
but ostentation of riches. "
Locke.
are, in general, merely outrunning it in the
Without depth of thought, or earnestness
direction it is spontaneously pursuing."
of feeling, or strength of purpose, living an Macaulay.
unreal life,sacrificing substance to show,
substituting the fictitious for the natural, Fashion is only the attempt to realize art

mistaking a crowd for society, finding its in living forms and social intercourse. "

chief pleasure in ridicule, and exhausting 0. W. Holmes.

its ingenuity in expedients for killing time,
Fashion is the great governor of the
fashion is among the last influences under
world." It presides not only in matters of
which a human being who respects himself, dress and
amusement, but in law. physic,
or who comprehends the great end of life,
politics, religion, and all other things of
would desire to be placed. Channing. the gravest kind." Indeed, the wisest men
"

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, would be puzzled to give

any better reason
the tailor's fool,and his own toe."Lavater. why particular forms in all these have been

Change of fashions is the tax which dustry

in- at certain times universallyreceived, and at

of other times rejected, than

universally that
imposes on the vanity the rich. "

they in, or out of fashion. Fielding.

Chamfort. were "

Fashion is
gentility running away from It is as absurd to suppose that everything
vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by fashionable bad, as it would
is be to pose
sup-
it." It is a sign the two things are not far that everything unfashionable is good.
asunder." Hazlitt. " Momerie.
 FASTIDIOUSNESS. 172 FAULTS.

To be happy is of far less consequence to Whatever may happen to thee, it -"

than to appear thee

8herepared
the worshipper! of fashion for from all eternity ; and
so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to implication of causes was, from nity,
eter-
parade, and enjoyment to ostentation. "
spinning the thread of thy being,and
CoUon. of that which is incident to it." Marcus

be Antoninus.
Fashion mast forever new, or she comes
be-
insipid." "T. R, Lowell. God overrules all mutinous accidents,
brings them under his laws of fate, ana
Oast an eye on the gay and fashionable
makes them all serviceable to his
world, and what for the most purpose.
see we part, Marcus Antoninus.
"

but a set of querulous,emaciated, flattering "

fantastical beings, oat in the keen Whosoever quarrels with his fate does
worn
that not understand it,**says Bettine and
parsait of pleasure" creatures know, ;
condemn, deplore, and yet among all her sayings she spoke none wiser.
own, pursue
their own infelicity? The decayed ments
monu- "
Mrs. L. M. Child.
of error ! The thin remains of what Heaven from all creatures hides the book
is called delight !" Young. of fate." Shakespeare.
We should conform to the manners of the If you believe in fate, believe in it, at
greater number, and so behave as not to least,for your good." Emerson.
draw attention to ourselves. Excess either Fate is the friend of the the guide
"
good,
way shocks, and wise should of the the
every man
wise, the tyrant of foolish, the
attend to this in his dress as well as guage
lan- of the bad. W. R.
enemy " Alger.
; never
be affected in anything, but A strict belief in fate is the worst kind of
follow, without being in too great haste, the
the hand there
slavery : on other is comfort
changes of fashion." MoUere.
in the that God will be
thought moved by
Be not too early in the fashion, nor too our prayers." Epicurus.
long out of it ; nor at any time in the tremes
ex-
Thought presides over all. " Fate, that
of it. Lavater. dead phantom, shall vanish from
"

action,
Custom is the law of one description of and providence alone be visible in heaven
fools, and fashion of another but the two and on earth. " Bulwer.
;
partiesoften clash, for precedent is the All things are ordered by God, but his
legislatorof the first,and novelty of the providence takes in our free agency, as

last !" Cotton. well as his own sovereignty. " Jryon Ed'
wards.
FASTIDIOUSNESS. -Fastidiousness
and all All is created and goes according to
is only another form of egotism :

who know not where to look for truth, order, yet o'er our lifetime rules an tain
uncer-
men
in the of self, will find
well fate." Goethe.
save narrow
their own image at the bottom, and mistake Our wills and fates do so contrary run,
it for what they are seeking." v. R. Lowell that our devices still are overthrown ; our
thoughts are ours, their ends none of our
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indeli-
cacy."
HaHburton. own." Shakespeare.
Fate ! there is no fate. "
Between the
Like other spurious things, fastidious-
ness
thought and the success God is the only
is often
inconsistent with itself,the
agent." Buhoer.
coarsest things are done, and the crudest
things said by the most fastidious people. FAULTS." "
Imfserotiohb.**)
"
(See
Mrs. Kirkland.
He will be immortal who liveth till he
FATE." There is a divinity that shapes be stoned by one without fault. "
Fuller.

our ends, rough-hew them as we will. "

If the best man's faults were written on
Shakespeare. his forehead, he would draw his hat over

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of his eyes. Oray. "

Providence. "
Bulwer. We should correct our own faults by ing
see-
What must be shall be ; and
that which how uncomely they appear in others. "

is a necessity to him that struggles,is little Beaumont.

more than choice to him that is willing. I always
"
This religiouslyobserved, as a
Seneca.
rule, never to chide
my husband before pany
com-
All things
by fate, but poor blind
are nor to prattle abroad of miscarriages
man sees chain, the near-
but a
est part of the at home. What passes between two people
link, his eyes not reaching to that equal is much easier made up than when once it
beam which poisesall above." Dryden. has taken air.
 FAULTS. 173 FEAR.

We confess small faults, in order to in-

sinuate while those of the other are known to the
that we have no great ones. " foucauld.
Roche- world, and concealed from himself. "
J.
Mason,

Yon will find it less easy to uproot faults, Think of own faults the first part of
your
than to choke them by gaining virtues. "
the night when you are awake, and of the
faults of others the latter part of the night
when asleep." Chinese Proverb.
No one sees the wallet on his own back, you are

though every one carries two packs, one Men are almost always cruel on their
before, staffed with the faults of his neigh-
bors neighbors* faults, and make the overthrow

; the other behind, filled with his own. of others the badge of their own ill-masked
"
Old Proverb. virtue. "
Sir P. Sidney.
To reprove small faults with undue hemence,
ve- Faults of the head are punished in this
is as absurd as if a man should world, those of the heart in another ; but
take a great hammer to kill a fly on his as most of our vices are compound, so also
friend's forehead. " Anon, is their punishment." Colion.

People are oommonly so employed in The greatest of faults is to be conscious

pointing out faults in those before them, as of none." Carlyle.
to forget that some behind may at the same
If
yon are pleased at finding faults, you
time be descanting on their own. Dilwyn.
displeased at finding perfections."
"

are
It is not so much the being exempt from Lavater.
faults, as having overcome them, that is Bad men excuse their faults ; good men
an advantage to us ; it being with the fol-
lies will leave them." Ben Jonson.
of the mind as with the weeds of a field,
The fault-finder" it is his nature's plague
which if
destroyed and consumed upon the
to into abuses and oft his
jealousy
place of their birth, enrich and improve it spy ;

more than if none had ever there. shapes faults that are not." Shakespeare.
sprung
"
Pope. Ten thousand of the greatest faults in

our neighbors are of less consequence to

If thou wouldst bear thy neighbors faults,
us than one of the smallest in ourselves.
cast thine eyes upon thine own." Jfoifoos. "

WhaieLy.
He who exhibits no faults is a fool or a

hypocrite whom we should distrust." Jou- The lowest people are generally the first
to find fault with show equipage ; espe-
or cially
beri.
that of a person latelyemerged from
We easily forget our faults when they consider
his obscurity. They never once
are known only to ourselves." cauld.
Rochefou- that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
"Shenstone.
Observe your enemies for they first find
To find fault is easy ; to do better may
out your faults. Antisthenes.
"

be difficult." Plutarch.
If we were faultless we should not be so

much annoyed by the defects of those with FEAR." Fear is the tax that conscience
whom we associate." Fendon. pays to guilt." SeweU.

Every one is eagle-eyed to see another's Fear is implanted in us as a preservative

faults and deformity." Dryden. from evil ; but its duty, like that of other

To acknowledge our faults when we are

passions, is not to overbear reason, but to
assist It should it."
not be suffered to
blamed, is modesty ; to discover them to
one's friends, in ingenuousness,
is dence
confi- tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phan-
toms
of horror, or to beset life with numerary
super-
; but to proclaim them to the world,
distresses." Johnson.
if one does not take care, is pride." Con*
fueius. Present fears are less than horrible im-
aginings."

Endeavor to always be patient of the Shakespeare.

faults and imperfections of others ; for We often pretend to fear what we really
thou hast many- faults and imperfections of despise,and more often to despise what we

thine own that require forbearance. If thou really fear. "

Cotton.
art not able to make thyself that which to duty than gratitude.
Fear guides more
thou wiahest, how canst thou expect to For who is virtuous from the
"
one man
mold another in conformity to thy will ?" love of virtue, or from obligation he
the
Thomas a Kempis. thinks he lies under to the giver of all,
The wise man has his foibles as well as there are thousands who are good only from
the fool." Those of the one are known to their apprehension of punishment. "
Gold'
himself, and concealed from the world; smith.
 J

FEAR. 174 FEELING8.

In time we hate that which we often Fear, either as a principleor a motive, if

fear. "
Shakespeare, the beginning of all evil. " Mrs. Jameson.

God Fear is two-fold; a fear of solicitous

planted fear in the soul as truly as
he planted It is a kind anxiety, such as makes let go our
hope or courage. "
us fidence
con-
which in God's providence,and a fear of
of bell or gong rings the mind into
quick life and avoidance on the approach prudential caution, whereby, from a due
of danger." It is the soul's signal for rally-
ing. estimate of approaching evil,we endeavor
H. W. Bencher.
"
our own security." The former is wrong and
forbidden ; the latter not only lawful, but
Fear on guiltattends,and deeds of dark-
ness
laudable. South,
"

; the virtuous breast ne'er knows it. "

Haoard. Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full,

Fear nothing but what thine industry weak and unmanly, loosens every power."
prevent, and be oonfldent of nothing Thomson.
may
but what fortune cannot defeat. It is no " No one loves the man whom he fears."
less follyto fear what cannot be avoided Aristotle.
than to be secure when there is a possibility
of preventing. Quarks. "
FEASTINQ.-(8ee "Hospitality")
is the mother of
It is not the quantity of the meat, but
Fear foresight. H. "

the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes

Taylor. the feast. " Clarendon.
Nothingis so rash as fear ; its counsels He who feasts everyday, feasts no day."
very rarefy
put off,whilst they are always C. Simmons.
sure to aggravate the evils from which it
would fly. Burke.
"
The turnpike road to people'shearts. I
than find,lies through their mouths, or I mis-
take
Fear is more painful to cowardice mankind." Peter Pindar.
death to true courage. Sir P. Sidney. "

To pamper the body is a miserable pression

ex-
All fear is and
painful, when it conduces
of kindness and courtesy ; the
not to safety,is painfulwithout use. Every "

most sumptuous repast is "the feast of

consideration, therefore, by which ground-
less reason and the flow of soul"- an lectual
intel-
terrors may be removed, adds some-
thing
and moral treat. " C. Simmons.
to human happiness. "
Johnson.
He that feasts his body with banquets
Good men have the fewest fears. He "
his soul for
and delicate fare, and starves
who fears to do wrong has but one great want of spiritual food, is like him that
fear ; he has a thousand who has overcome his wife.
feasts his slave and starves
it. Bovee.
"

When I behold a fashionable table set out

He who fears
being conquered is sure
in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see of
defeat." Napoleon. gouts and dropsies,fevers and lethargies,
Early and provident fear Is the mother with other innumerable distempers,lying
of safety. Burke. " in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature

Fear manifested invites danger; con- cealed delightsin the most plainand simple diet.
cowards insult known ones. terfield. Every animal, but man,
Ches- keeps to one dish.
"

Herbs are the food of this species, fish of

that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon
It is only the fear of God that can deliver in his way ; not the
us from the fear of man.
everythingthat comes
WUherspoon. "

smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth,

There is great beauty in going through berry or a mushroom can
scarce a escape
life without anxiety or fear." Half our him." Addison.
fears are baseless, a nd the other half creditable."
dis-
Bovee. FEELINGS ." (See "Sensibility.")
There is a -virtuous fear which is the Our feelings were given us to excite to
effect of faith,and a vicious fear which is action, and when they end in themselves,
the product of doubt and distrust." The they are cherished to no good purpose. "

former leads to hope as relying on God, in 8andfor"L

whom we believe ; the latter inclines to de-spair, Feeling in the young precedesphilosophy,
as not relying upon God, in whom and often acts with a better ana more tain
cer-

we do not believe. Persons of the one" aim." Carleton.

character fear to lose God : those of the
Strong feelings do not make
necessarily
other character fear to find nim. Pascal. The
"
a strong character. strengthof a man

In morals, what begins in fear usually is to be measured by the power of the feel-
ings
ends in wickedness ; m religion,what be-
gins he subdue*, not by the JK"WfC Qt tbOff
in fear usuallyends in fanaticism. which subdue him*
 PEELINGS. 175 FICTION.

Cultivate consideration for the feelings nobleness and baseness lies in the question,
of other people if you would not have your whether the feeling begins from below or
own injured. Those who complain most above. "
F. W. Robertson.
of ill-usage are those who abuse others the
In religion faith does not spring out of
oftenest.
feeling, but feeling out of faith." The less
The last,best fruit which comes to late we feel the more we should trust. "
We not
can-
perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is, feel till we have believed. Bonar.
right "

tenderness toward the hard, forbearance

The heart has often been compared to
toward the
unforbearing, warmth of heart
the needle of the compass for its constancy *
toward the cold, philanthropy toward the
has it ever been so for its variations ?" Yet
misanthropic. Richter. "

were any man to keep minutes of his ings

feel-
The heart of man is older than his head. from youth to what a table of
age,
The first-born is sensitive, but blind his variations would how
"
they present " rous,
nume-

younger brother has a cold, but all-corn- how diverse, how ! Hare.
strange "

prehensiye glance. The blind must sent

con-
FICKLENESS." Fickleness has its rise
to be led- by the clear-sighted, if he
in our experience of the fallaciousness of
would avoid falling. Ziegler. "

present pleasure, and in our ignorance of

Some people carry thoir hearts in their the vanity of that which is absent." Pascal.
heads; very many their heads in
carry uncertain of
their hearts. The them
The glory an April day. "

difficultyis to keep
and yet both actively working gether.
to-
Shakespeare.
apart,
They are the weakest-minded and the
hardest-hearted men that most love change.
A word" a look, which at one time
would
" Buskin.
make no impression" at another
time wounds the
heart; and like a shaft Everything by starts, and nothing long
flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, "
Dryden.
with its own natural force, would scarce He wears his faith but as the fashion of
have reached the object aimed at. "
Sterne. his hat: it changes
ever with the next

human block." Shakespeare.

Every feeling is greater and
larger than its exciting cause " a proof, I A fickle memory is bad ; a fickle course
think, that is designed for higher of conduct is worse fickle heart and
; but
man a a

state of existence. Coleridge. worst of all. C. Simmons.

"

purposes, "

The heart that is soonest awake to the

FICTION." Man is a poetical animal
flowers is always the first to be touched by and delights in fiction. "
Haxlitt.
the thorns." Moore,
Fiction allures to the severe task by a
Feelings come and go, like light troops
preface." Embellished truths are the
following the victory of the present ; but Syer
uminated alphabet of larger children. "

like
principles, troops of the line, are disturbed
un-
WiUmoU.
and stand fast. " Richter.
I have often maintained that fiction may
Feeling does not become stronger in the
be much more instructive than real tory.
his-
religious life by waiting, but by using it. "

John Foster.
"

H. W. Beeoher.
Every fiction that has ever laid strong
He who looks upon Christ through frames hold on human belief is the mistaken image
and feelings is like one who sees the sun on
of some great truth." M artineau.
the water, and so sees it quivering and
moving as the water moves. "
But he that Fiction is no longer a mere amusement ;

looks him in the class of his word by but transcendent genius, accommodating
upon
him forever Nottidge. itself to the character of the age, has seized
faith, sees tne same. "

upon this province of literature, and turned

Thought is deeper than all speech ; feel-
ing
than all to souk
fiction from a toy into a mighty engine."
deeper thought ; soul
teach what unto themselves
Channing.
can never was
Cranch. The most influential books and the truest
taught. "

in influence, are
their works of fiction."
Feeling hearts, touch them but rightly,
They repeat, rearrange, clarifythe les-
and sons
pour a thousand melodies unheard before.
of life,disengage ourselves,
us from
" Rogere. constrain us to the acquaintance of others,
Our higher feelings move our animal and show us the web of experience, but
nature : and our animal nature, irritated, with a single change." thai monstrous,
may call back a semblance of those tions
emo- consuming ego of ours struck out. " Jfc L,
but the whole difference between Stevenson.
;
 WiAtTfcRY. M FLATTEftY.

Of all wild beasts me from a speech shall be a warning, a humbling

preserve
tyrant and of all tame, from a flatterer. and a guide; for wherein thou laokest
;
"Ben Jonson. most, there chiefly will the sycophant mend
com-

The flatterers is to take

thee."Tuppgr.
art of advantage
of the foibles of the to foster their No man flatters the woman he truly
great,
and to give advice which loves." Tuckermau,
errors, never may
annoy." Jfoftlre. Adulation is the death of virtue." Who
If we would not flatter ourselves, the flatten, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save

harm he who courts the flattery." H More,

flattery of others could not us. " .

Rochefoucauld, Ton play the spaniel, and think with

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors : wagging of your tongue to win me." speare.
Shake-
for they will strengthen thy imperfections,
enoonrage thee in all evils,correct thee in Nothing is so great an instance of ill*
nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy manners as flattery. If you natter all the
vices and follies as thou shalt never, by company, you please none; if you natter
their will, discern good from evil, or vice only one or two, you affront the rest."
from virtue." Sir W. Raleigh. Swift.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and Flattery is a base coin which gains cur-
rency

the giver ; and adulation is not of more only from our vanity." cauld,
Rochefou-
service to the people than to kings. "

Burke. Imitation is the sinoerest flattery."

There is an oblique of reproof, Cot ion.
way
which takes off the sharpness of it, and an It is better to fall among crows than terers;
flat-
address in
flattery,which makes it able,
agree- for those devour only the dead"
though never so gross ; but of all these the living." Antisthenes.
flatterers,the most skilful is he who can do
We sometimes think we hate flattery,
what you like, without saying anything when we only hate the manner in which we
which argues ne does it for your sake." have been flattered." Rochefoucauld.
Pope.
Some there are who profess to despise all
He that is much flattered soon learns to
flattery, but even these are, nevertheless,
flatter himself ."We are commonly taught to be flattered, by told that
being they do
our duty by fear or shame, but how can
despise it." Colt on.
they act upon a man who hears nothing
but his The rich man despises those who flatter
own praises ?" Johnson,
him too much, and hates those who do not
Deference before is the
company gen- natter him at all." Talleyrand.
teelest kind of flattery. The flattery of
A death-bed flattery is the worst of
epistles affects one less,as they cannot be
shown without treacheries. Ceremonies of mode and oom-
an of vanity.
appearance of
mightily out when
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In Eliment
fe and salvation
are

come to be
season

at stake."
short, applause is of too coarse a nature to
V Estrange.
be swallowed in the gross, though the tract
ex-
of tincture be ever so agreeable." There is scarcely any man, how muoh
Shenstone. soever he may despise the character of a flat-
* terer, but will oondesoend in the meanest
To be flattered grateful, even it we when
manner to natter himself ."Fielding.
know that praises are not believed
our by
those who pronounce them ; for they prove Allow no man to be so free with you as to
at least our power, and show that our favor praise you to your face." Your vanity, by
vi valued, since it is purchased by the this means, foods but
will want its at the
meanness of falsehood." Johnson. same time passion
your for esteem will be
more fully gratified; men will praise yon
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our
in their actions; where you now receive
blind side ; commend a fool for his wit, or
one compliment, you will then receive
a knave for his honesty, and they will re-
ceive
twenty civilities." Steele,
you into their bosom. "
Fielding.
The lie that flatters I abhor the most"
Flattery, though a base coin, is the cessary
ne-

by
Cowper.
pocket-money at court ; where,
custom and consent, it has obtained such There is no detraction worse than to praise
over-

a currency, that it is no longer a lent,

fraudu- a man; for if his worth prove short
but a legal payment." Chesterfield. of what report doth speak of him, his own

actions are ever giving the lie to his honor,

Know thrself, thine evil as well as thy
"Feltham.
good, and flatteryshall not harm thee ;
her
12
 FLOWERS. 178 FLOWERS.

'iiiaTf is no touguc that flatters like a give thoughts that do often lie too deep foe
"over's ; and yet in the exaggeration of hii tears. " Wordsworth.
feelings, flattery aeema to him common- Whata pity flowers can utter no sound }
place." Buhner. "A singing rose, a whispering violet, a
There is no flatteryso adroit or effectual murmuring honeysuckle," oh, what a rare
as that of implicit assent." IftuKtt. and exquisite miracle would these be!"

Flatterers the kind U. W. Beecher.

are worst of enemies.
"
Tacitus. The flowers are nature's jewels, with
The most skilful whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
flatteryis to let a son
per-
talk on. and be a listener." Addison. "Croty.
The instinctive and universal taste of
The most snbtle flattery a woman can
mankind selects flowers for the expression
receive is that conveyed by actions, not by
of its finest sympathies, their beauty and
words." Jfad. Necker,
fleetingness servingto make them the most
Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. "

fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments

Rochefoucauld. for which language seems almost too gross
fool flatters himself medium. BUlard.
A ; the wise man ters
flat- a "

the fool. Buhoer. Flowers love's

"

are truest language." P.

It is a dangerous crisis when a proud Benjamin.
heart meets with flattering lips. Ftdvel. "
To analyze the charms of flowers is like
When flatterers meet the devil goes to dissecting music : it is one of those things
dinner. "
Be Foe. which it is far oetter to enjoy, than to
attempt fully to understand. Tuckerman.
We love flattery, even when we see
"

through it, and are not deceivedby it, for In eastern lands they talk in flowers, and
it shows that we are of importance enongh tell in a garland their loves and cares. "

to be courted." Emerson. Percwal.

Adroit observers will And that some who How the universal heart of man blesses
affect to dislike flatterymay yet be flattered flowers! " They are wreathed round the
indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse and cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. "

ridicule of their rivals." CoUon. They should deck the brow of the youthful
bride, for they are in themselves a lovely
Is has well been said that the arch-
flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers tvpe of marriage. They should twine round
"

the tomb, for their perpetually renewed

have intelligence,is a man's self. "
Bacon.
beauty is a symbol or the resurrection. "

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual ness,

mean-
They should festoon the altar, for their
where, although both parties intend fragrance and beauty ascend in perpetual
deception, neither deceived. CoUon. before the
are "
worship most high." Mrs. L. M.
The onlv benefit of flattery is that by Child.

hearing what we are not, we maybe structed

in- It is with flowers with moral
as qualities j
what we ought to be.Surift. the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I
"Hs an old maxim in the schools, that believe never the sweet. " Hare.

flattery is the food of fools." Yet now and Your voiceless lips, O, flowers, are living
then of wit will condescend to
your men
preachers"each cup a pulpit, and each
take a bit." Swift. leaf book." Horace 9mm.
a

FLOWERS ."Flowers are God's Stars of earth, these golden flowers ; em-
blems

thoughts of beauty taking form to gladden of our own great resurrection ; blems
em-

mortal gaze. of the bright snd better land. "

Long-
Lovely flowers are the smiles of God'b feUow.
goodness. " WUberforce. Every rose is an autograph from the
hand of God on this world about us. He
Flowers are the sweetest things that God "

has inscribed his thoughts in these lous

marvel-
ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
H. W.Beecher. hieroglyphics which cense and science
have, these many thousand
years, been
What a desolate place would be a world
Parker.
seeking to understand." Theodore
without flowers ? "
It would be a face out
with-
a smile a feast without a welcome." A passion for flowers, is. I think, the only
;
Are not flowers the stars of the earth ?" one which long sickness leaves untouched
And are not our stars the flowers of heaven ? | with its chilling influence. Mrs. Hemans. "

-Mrs. Batfowr. To cultivate a garden is to walk wits)

To me the meanest flower that blows can i Qod."Bovee.
 FOLLY. 170 FOOLS.

There is not the least flower hut seems to People have no right to make fool* of
hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, themselves, unless they have no relation!
in the secret sense of the goodness of its to blush for them. "
Ualiburton.
heavenly Maker." South. fool bv six things : an- be known
A may ger,

God's of beauty, without speech, without profit ;

Flowers are thoughts cause ;

taking form to gladden mortal gaze ;"

change, without progress; inquiry, with-
out
of earth, in object \ putting trust in a stranger,
bright gems which, perchance,
what Eden was what Paradise and mistaking foes for friends. Arabian
we see "
"

Proverb.
maybe!
There are many more fools in the world
FOLLY. Folly consists in drawing of than there the
"
are knaves, otherwise knaves
false conclusions from just principles, by could not exist. Buheer.
"

which it is distinguished from madness, m

Nothing is more intolerable than a perous

pros-
which draws just conclusions from false
fool ; and hence we who, see men
principles. Locke. "

at one time, were affable agreeable,

and
There is foolish in the
a corner even
completely changed by prosperity, despis-
ing
brain of the sage. Aristotle. old friends
"
and clinging to new. "

peculiar ill property has

ThiB folly,that Cicero,
it enlarges men's desires while it lessens fool finds
A always some greater fool to
their capacities." South. admire him." Boileau.
Men of all ages have the same tions
inclina- There is fool than he that
no greater
which reason exercises no trol.
con- "There is
over
says, no God," unless it be the
Thus wherever men are found there who he does not know whether
one says
are follies,aye, and the aame follies. Fon- there is Bismarck.
"
one or not. "

teneUe.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. " Young.
The wise man has his follies no less than
None but a fool is always right." Hare.
the fool ; but herein lies the difference "

the follies of the fool known to the To be a man's own fool is bad enough ;
are

hidden from himself the but the vain man is everybody's." Perm.
world, but are ;
follies of the wise man are known to him- The greatest of fools is he who imposes
Belf, but hidden from the world." Cotton. on himself, and thinks
certainly he knows
and the that that which he has least studied, and of
Want sorrow are wages
which he is most profoundly ignorant"
folly earns for itself,and they are generally
paid." Schubart. Shaftesbury.
lives without A fool may have his coat embroidered
He who folly is not so wise
with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
as he imagines." Rochefoucauld. "

Rivarol.

FOOLS." The world is full of fools; There are more fools than wise men ;
and he who would not wish to must and in
see one, even wise men, more folly than dom.
wis-
not only shut himself alone, but must
up " Chamfort.
also break his looking-glass. "
Boiteau.
Men may live fools, but fools they not
can-
What the fool does in
end, the wise
the die. " Young.
man does in the beginning. Spanish "

A man may be as much a fool from the

maxim.
want of sensibility, as from the want of
A fool in a high station is like a man on sense. "
Mrs. Jameson.
the top of a high mountain " everything fool his
A can no more see own folly than
appears small to him and he appears small
he can see his ears." Thackeray.
to everybody.
Young men think old men fools, and old
In all companies there are more fools
men know young men to be so. Melcalf.
"

than wise men. and the greater part ways

al-
Where liveB the man that has not tried
gets the better of the wiser. "
lais.
Rabe-
how mirth can into folly glide, and folly
into sin !" Walter Scott.
If any young man expects without faith,
Fools are often united in the strictest timacies,
in-
without thought, without study, without
as the
lighter kinds of woods arc
patient, persevering labor, in the midst of
the most closely glued together. Shen"
and in spite of discouragement, to attain "

stone.
anything in this world that is worth ing,
attain-
he will simply wake up, by-and-by, Fools with bookish knowledge, are dren
chil-
ana find that he has been playing the part with edged weapons ; they
hurt selves,
them-
of KtooL"M. J. Savage, and put others in pain. The "
half*
 FOPPERY. 180 FORETHOUGHT.

learned is more dangerous than the pleton.

sim- FORCE. "
Who overcomes by force,
"
Zimmerman. hath overcome but half his foe. "
Milton.

To pursue trifles is the lot of humanity ; Force rules the wor^d" not opinion but
;
and whether we bustle in a pantomime, or opinion which makes use of force. "
Pascal.
strut at a coronation, or shout at a bonnre,

or harangue in a senate-house ;
whatever FOREBODING." A heavy summons
lies like lead Shakespeare.
object we follow, it will at last conduct us upon me. "

to futility and disappointment. The wise

Half our forebodings of our neighbors,
bustle and laugh as they walk in the geant,
pa- are but our wishes, which we are ashamed
but fools bustle and are important ; to utter in any other form." L. E. London.
and this probably, is all the difference tween
be-
them. "
Goldsmith. FORETHOUGHT.-T0 fear the worst,
I am always afraid of a fool one cannot oft cures the worst. " Shakespeare.
;

be sure he is not a knave." Haxlitl. To have too much forethought is the

part of a wretch ; to have too little is the
FOPPERY." (See "Coxcomb.")
part of a fool." Cecil.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes."

Asa man without forethought scarcely
Victor Hugo. deserves the of
name man, so forethought
Foppery is never cured ; it
is of the bad without reflection is but a phrase for the
stamina of the mind, which, like those of instinct of the beast." Coleridge.
the body, are never rectified. " Once a comb,
cox-
It is only the surprise and newness of
always a coxcomb. "
Johnson.
the thing which makes terrible that fortune,
mis-
The soul of this is in his clothes.
man "
which, by premeditation might be
Shakespeare. made easy to us ; for what some people
Fops take a world of pains, to prove that make light by sufferance, others do by
bodies can exist without brains ;
the former foresight. Seneca. "

so fantastically drest, that the latter's ab-

sence
Happy those who knowing they are ject
sub-
may be safely guessed. Churchill. "

to uncertain changes, are prepared

and armed for either fortune ciple,
prin-
Puppets, who, though on idiotism's dark ; a rare

and with much labor learned in dom's

wis-
brink, because they've heads, dare fancy
think !" Wolcott. school. Massinger.
they can "

A shallow brain, behind a serious mask ; He that foretells his own calamity, and
an oracle within an empty cask" the emn
sol- makes events before they come, doth twice
fop I" Cowper. endnre the pains of evil destiny. "
Dave-
nant.
FORBEARANCE.- If thou would'st
Human foresight often leaves its proudest
be borne with, then bear with others. "

possessor only a choice of evils. "

uoUon.
Fuller.
If a man take no thought about what is
The kindest and the happiest pair, will
find occasion to forbear : find something distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. "

pity, and Confucius.

every day they live, to perhaps
forgive. Cowper. " In life,as in chess, forethought wins. "

Cultivate forbearance till heart Buxton.

your
yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short Whatever is foretold bv God will be done
memory as to all unkindnesses. " Spurgeon. by man ; nothing will
but berlone by man

noble the and because it is foretold by God. Wordsworth.

It is great thing to cover
a
"

blemishes and excuse the failings of a Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of
friend ; to draw a curtain before his stains, life by pmdent forethought, mnst submit
and to display his perfection : to bury his to the course of destiny. "
Schiller.
weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his
Accustom yourself to submit on every
virtues on the house-top. "
South.
occasion to a small present evil, to obtain
Use every man after his deserts, and who
a greater distant good. This will give de-
cision,
shall escape whipping I"Shakespeare. tone, and energy to the mind, which,
To bear injuries, or annoying and tious
vexa- thus disciplined, will often reap victory
events, meekly, patiently, prayer-
fully, from defeat, and honor from repulse. "

and with self-control, is more than Cotton.

taking a city. " Q. Simmons. Few thingsbrought to a successful
are

There is a. limit at which forbearance issue by impetuousdesire, but most bv calm

ceases to be a Yirtue." Burke. and prudent forethought." Thucydiaes.
 FOfcGfiTFtJLKESS. 181 FORGIVENESS.

FORQ ET FU LN ESS.-Though the past and found means to make the other do him
haunt me as a spirit,I do not ask to forget. equal wrong. " Bruyere.
"Mr$, Hemans.
Never does the human soul appear so
There is a noble forgetf alness "
that which strong and noble as when it foregoes venge,
re-
does not remember injuries. "
C. 8knmon8. aud dares to forgive an injury." #.
H. Chopin.
When out of sight, quickly also out of
"nd."Thos.
mind. " Kempis. It is more easy to forgive the weak who
have injured us, than the powerful whom
FORQIVENESS.-(See "Pardon.") we have injured. That conduct will be
To err is human to forgive, divine. continued by our fears which commenced
; "

Pope. in our resentment. He that has gone so

far as to cut the claws of the lion will not

His heart was as great as the world, but
feel himself quite secure until he has also
there was no room in it to hold the memory
drawn his teeth." CoWon.
of a wrong. "
Emerson.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the Little, vicious minds abound with anger
and revenge, and incapable of feeling
are
bridge over which he himself must pass if
the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
he would ever reach heaven ; for every one
"

has need to be forgiven." -Herbert. Chesterfield.

It is easier for the generous to forgive,
Said General Oglethorpe Wesley,
to "I
than for the offender to ask forgiveness. "

never forgive." "Then I hope, sir, said

Thomson.
Wesley, "you never sin."
They never pardon who commit the
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and
wrong. "Vryden.
show none ourselves. " George Etiot.
The sun should not set on our anger;
Forgiveness is the most necessary and neither should it rise confidence.
on our "

work of for, though, should

proper every man ; We forgive freely, but forget rarely.
when I do not a just thing, or a charitable, "
I will not be revenged ;
this I owe to my
or a wise, another man may do it for me, enemy." I will remember this I to
; owe
yet no man can forgive my enemy but self."
my- myself. "
Cotton.
Lord Herbert.
To be able to bear provocation is an gument
ar-

A brave man thinks no one his superior of great reason, and to forgive it
who does him an injury ; for he has it then of a great mind. "
Tillotson.
in his power to make himself superior to The soul the
narrow knows not godlike
the other by forgiving it." Pope. of
glory forgiving. "
Rowe.
Life that ever needs forgiveness has for the brave know how it
Only to forgive ;
its first duty to forgive. Bulwer. is the refined and of
"

most generous pitch

A more glorious victory cannot be gained virtue human natute can arrive at." Sterne.
over another man, than this,that wheu the
May I tell yon whv it to me good
seems a
injury began on his part, the kindness
thing for us to remember wrong that has
should begin on ours. "
TiUoteon.
been done us? That we may forgive it."
It has been a maxim with me to admit of Dickens.
easy reconciliation with a person whose
We pardon as long as we love. "
Roche*
offence proceeded from no depravity of
fouoauld.
heart ; but where I was convinced it did
We forgive too little ; forget too much.
so, to forego, for my own sake, all oppor-
tunities
"

Mcul. Swetchine.
of revenge. I have derived no

small share of happiness from this ciple."

prin- Humanity is never so beautiful as when
Shenstone. praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving
another. Richter.
The heart has always the pardoning "

Mad. Swetchine. When thou forgivest. the man who has

power."
thy heart stands to thee in the
A wise man will make haste to forgive, Eierced
of the sea-worm, that perforates
gion
re-

the
because he knows the full value of time
shell of the mussel, which straightway
and will not suffer it to pass away in cessary
unne-
closes the wound with a pearl. Richter.
pain. "
Rambler. "

He who has not forgiven an enemy has

It is hard for a haughty man ever to give
for-
never yet tasted one of the most sublime
one that has caught him in a fault,
has enjoyments of life. La voter.
and whom he knows reason to complain
"

of him : his resentment never subsides till A Christian will find cheaper to pardon
it
fee has regained the advantage he has lost, than to resent. Forgiveness saves the ex"
 FORMALISM. 182 FORTUNE.

of the cost of hatred, the FORTITUDE." Fortitude I take to be

pense anger,
waste of spirits. Hannah "
More, the quiet possession of a man's self, and an
Hath thee? Be bravely
undisturbed doing his duty whatever evils
wronged
any "

beset, or dangers lie in the way. In itself

is be-
"

revenged." Slight it, and the work

an essential virtue, it is a guard to every
forgive, and it is finished. He is
En:
low himself that is not above an
"

injury. "
other virtue." Locke.

Quarles. The human race are sons of sorrow born ;

and each must have its portion. Vulgar
Who from crimes wonld pardoned be, in
minds refuse, or crouch beneath their load ;
mercy should set others free. " Shakespeare.
the brave bear theirs without repining. "

44
1 can forgive, but I cannot forget," is
Mallet.
only another way of saying, "1 will not
True fortitude is Been in great exploits
forgive." Forgiveness "
ought to be like a
that justice warrants and that wisdom
cancelled note" torn in two, and burned
guides. A ddtson.
up, so that it never can be shown against
"

one." If. W. Beeeher. There is a strength of quiet endurance as

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is significant of courage as the most daring

feats of prowess. Tuckerman.
required that he forgive." On this great
"

duty eternity is suspended aud to him Who fights with passions and overcomes,
;
that refuses to practice it the throne of that man is armed with the best virtue "

is inaccessible, and the Saviour of passive fortitude. J. Webster.

mercy "

the world has been born in yaui." Johnson. The fortitude of the Christian consists in
It is in vain for to expect, it is im-
pudent patience, not in which
enterprises the poets
yon
yon for
to ask of God forgiveness call heroic and which are commonly the
for yourself if you refuse to exercise this effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.

forgiving temper as to others. " Hoadly. " Dryden.

Pardon, not wrath, is God's best tribute."
at- FORTUNE. The wheel of fortune
"

B. Taylor. turns round

incessantly, and who can
say
The more we know, the better we give.
for- to himself, "I shall tonlay be uppermost/'
"Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that " Confucius.
live." Mad. de Stdel. Fortune is ever seen accompanying dustry,
in-
Forgive many things in others ; nothing and is as often trundling in a barrow
wheel-
in yourself. Ausonius. " as lolling in a coach and six."
Goldsmith.
FORMALISM.-It is the tendency, if
the of formalism It cannot be denied that outward dents
acci-
not essence to set the ward
out-
institutions conduce much to fortune favor, portunity,
op-
of religion above its ward
in- ;

truths be death of others, occasion fitting

; to punctilious in the round
ceremonial virtue : but chiefly, the mold of a man's
of observances, while neglect-
ful
of those fortune is in his own hands. Bacon.
spiritual sacrifices with which "

God is well pleased; to substitute means We make our fortunes, and we call them
in the room of ends, and to rest in the type fate. "
Alroy.
and symbol without rising to the glorious Fortune is like the market, where manv
reality." Pearson. times if yon can stay a little the price will
What are all the forms of religion, com-
pared fall again, it is sometimes
and. like a
;
with the true and holy life of the voted
de- Sibyl's offer, which at first offereth the
Christian ?" Bp. Thomson. commodity at full, then consumeth part
The house of the formalist is as empty of and part, and still holdeth up the price."
religion as the white of an is of Bacon.
egg savor.

"Bunyan. May I always have a heart superior, with

FORMS." Forms but economy suitable, to my fortune. Shen-

symbols
"

are : we
stone.
should never rest in them, but make them
the stepping stones to the good to which Human life is more governed by fortune
they point. than by reason. "
Hume.

The more men have multiplied the forms Fortune does not change men it only
;
of religion, the more vital Godliness has unmasks them. " Biccobom.
declined. Emmons. The of fortune is like the
"

way milky-way
Of what use are forms, seeing at times in the sky ; which is a number of small
they are empty ? Of the "
same use as rels,
bar- stars, not seen asunder, but giving light
which, at times, are empty too." together : so it is a number of little and
Mare. scarce discerned virtues, or rather facul-
 FORTUNE 183 FREEDOM.

lies and that make fortunate.

custom*, men and display an energy of which they wert
"Bacon. previously unsusceptible." Franklin.
We should manage our fortune as we do Fortune gives too much to many, but to
our enjoy it when
health good, be patient
" none enough. "
Martial.
when it is bad, and never apply violent It is a madness to make fortune the mis*
remedies except in an extreme necessity. "
tress of events, because in herself she if
Rochefoucauld. nothing, but is ruled by prudence. " Dry-
Ovid
finely compares a broken fortune den.
to falling column
a ; the lower it sinks, the
We are sure to get the better of fortune
greater weight it is obliged to sustain.
if we do but grapple with her. " 8eneca.
When a man s circumstances are such that
Fortune is ever seen accompanying dustry.
in-
he has no occasion to borrow, he finds bers
num- *

Goldsmith. t
willing to lend him ; but should his "

wants be such that he sues for a trifle,it Many have been ruined by their fortunes,
Is two to one whether he will be trusted and many have escaped ruinby the want
with the smallest sum. "
Goldsmith. of fortune." To obtain it the great have
become little,and the little great." Zim-
There is no one, says another,whom tune
for-
does not visit in his life but mermann.
once :

when she does not find him

ready to receive The power of fortune is confessed only
her. she walks in at the
door, and flies out by the miserable, for the happy impute all "Nf-
At the window. " Montesquieu. their success to prudence or merit. Swift. "

**
Fortune knocks at every man's door
FRAUD*" For the most part fraud in
once in a life," but in a good many cases the end secures for its companions pentance
re-
the man is in a neighboring saloon and Simmons.
and shame. "
C.
does not hear her. "
Mark Twain.
frauds, like the wall' daubed
All with
Every man is the maker of his own tune."
for-
un tempered mortar, with which men think
Tattler. to buttress up an edifice, always tend to
We do not know what is really good or the decay of what they are devised to port."
sup-
bad fortune." Rousseau. Whately.
The bad fortune of the good turns their The more gross the fraud the more glibly
will it go down, and the
faces
up to heaven ;
the good fortune of more
greedilybe
the bad dowb their heads down to the earth. swallowed, since follywill always find faith
"Saadi. where impostors will find impudence."
Cotton.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the
staff of the brave. "
J. R. Lowell. The first and worst of all frauds is to
cheat oneself. Bailey.
HI fortune never crushed that man whom "

good fortune deceived not. " Ben Jonson. Fraud generally lights a candle for justice
The fortunate circumstances of our lives to get a look at it ; and a rogue's pen indite*

be the warrant for his own arrest.

are generally found, at last,to of our

own producing. Goldsmith. " v

FREEDOM." To have freedom is only
High fortune makes both our virtues and to have that which is absolutely necessary
vices stand out objects that are brought
as to*enable us to be what we ought to be,
clearly to view by the light. Rochefoucauld. " and to possess what we ought to possess."
to show her and abate Rahel.
Fortune, us power,
our presumption, seeing she could not make No man is free who is not master of him-
self.
fools wise, has made them fortunate. " " Epictetus.
Montaigne. Countries are w)U cultivated, not as they
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct are fertile, but as they are free. Montes-
quieu. "

"
Publius Syrus.
It requires greater virtues to
support The of freedom is identified with
cause
good than bad fortune." Rochefoucauld. the destinies of humanity, and in whatever
There is nothing keeps longer than a dling
mid- part of the world it gains ground, by and
fortune, atyl nothing melts away oy it will be a common gain to all who sire
de-

sooner than^sMVe"t one. Poverty treads it." Kossuth.

upon tha heels* of great and unexpected The only freedom worth possessing is
riches." B^yere. that which gives enlargement to a people's

T$be thrown upon one's own resources, is energy, intellect,

and virtues. The savage
the very lap of fortune makes his boast of freedom. But what
to be r"ast into ; for 11

our faculties then undergo a development its worth? He is, indeed, free from wh"t
 FRIENDSHIP. 185 FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship is the only thing in the world Let friendshipcreep gently to a height ;

concerning the usefulness of which all if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself
mankind are agreed. "
Cicero, out of breath." Fuller.

A faithful and friend is

living If thy friends be of better
true a qualitythan
treasure, inestimable in possession, and thyself, thou mavest be sure of two things ;
deeply to be lamented when gone,
froth- the first,they will be more careful to keep

ing is more common than to talk of a thy counsel, because they have more to
y
" friend nothing more
; difficult than to find lose than thou hast ; the second, they will
one ; -nothing morri iT"rfrtirnn^Tm~ffffYfrftT esteem thee for thyself, and not for that
one as we ought. which thou dost possess. " Sir W. Raleigh.
A friend should be one in whose standing
under- It is best to live as friends with those in
and virtue we can equally confide, time with whom we would be to all eter-
nity."
and whose opinion we can value at once for Fuller.
its justness and its sincerity. By friendship you mean the greatest
He who has made acquisition of the a love, the greatest usefulness, the most open
judicious and sympathizing friend, may be communication, the noblest sufferings, the
said to have doubled his mental resources. severest truth, the heartiest oounsel, and
"Robert Hall the greatest union of minds of which brave
men and women are capable." Jeremy
There is nothing more becoming anv wise
man, than to make choice of friends, for Taylor.
by them thou shalt be judged what thou If a man does not make new ances
acquaint-
art: let them therefore be wise and tuous,
vir- as he passes through life,he will soon
and none of those that follow thee find himself left alone. A man should
for gain ;
but make election rather of thy keep hiB friendships in constant repair."
betters than thy inferiors, shunning always Johnson.
such as are poor and needy ; for if thou The love of roan to woman is a thing
ffivest twenty gifts, and refuse to do the
common and of course, and at first par-
takes
fike but once, all that thou hast done will
more of instinct and passion than of
be lost, and such men will become thy choice but between
; true friendship man
mortal enemies. "
Sir W. Raleigh. and is infinite and immortal." Plato.
man

Friendship improves happiness, and Life has like

no blessing a prudent friend.
abates misery, by doubling our joy, and
" Euripides.
dividing our grief. "
Addison.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in
Old friends are best. King James used than in Ch.Uo.
adversity prosperity. "

to call for his old shoes ; they were the

easiest for his feet. "
Selden.
The most powerful and the most lasting
friendships are usually those of the early
Those friends are weak and worthless, season of our lives, when we are most ceptible
sus-
that will not use the privilege of ship
friend- of and affectionate
warm sions.
impres-
in admonishing their friends with The connections which
into we enter
freedom and confidence, as well of their
in any after-period decrease in strength
errors as of their danger. Bacon, heat
passions abate in ; and there is
"

as our

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, not, I believe, a single instance of a ous
vigor-
true friends are a sure refuge. "
The young friendship that ever struck root in a

they keep out of mischief

they are ; to the old bosom chilled by years. "
FUxosborne.
comfort and aid in their weakness, and the child
a Be careful to make friendship
those in the prime of life they incite to and not the father of virtue, for many are
noble deeds. Aristotle. than
"
rather good friends good men ; so,
Thou mayest be sure that he* that will although they do not like the evil their
in private tell thee of thy faults, is thy friend does, yet they like him who does the
friend, for he adventures thy dislike, ana evil ; and tnongh njBjfMnselorsof the of- fence,
doth hazard thy hatred ;
there are few they Yet^s^s^v the offender. Sir "

men that can endure it, every man for the P. Sidney.^
most part delighfl^fm self-praise,
which
BecaujB^^^^Ki is always predominant
is of the most universal follies that
one in tiss^l^HVup^it works and prevails
bewitcheth mankind." Sir W. Raleigh. Pools. Wicked often
men are

He that hath no frien y it, weak men seldom. "

Clar*
is one of the vulgar
powers, or energy, men have their frailties ; and whoever
Be not the fou ooks for a friend without imperfections,
three before and will never find what he seeks. We love
 FRIENDSHIP. 186 FRIENDSHIP.

ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and The friends thou hast and their adoption
we ought to love onr friends in like manner. tried, grapple them to thy soul with nooks
" Cyrus. of tteel." Shakespeare.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy
ruins the walls it embraces ; but true ship
friend- soul : he'll be sure to aggravate thy adver-
sity,

(rives new life and animation to the and lessen thv prosperity. He goes
object it supports. "
Burton. always heavy loaded ; and: thou must bear
half. He's never in a good hnmor ; and
We take care of our health, we lay up
may easily get into a bad one, and fall out
money, we make our tight and
roof our
with thee. "Fuller.
clothing sufficient, but who
provides wisely
be Hake not thy friends too cheap to thee,
that he shall not wanting in the best
property of all" friends? "
Emerson. nor thyself to thy friend." FuUer.

Nothing more dangerous than a friend

No one can lay himself under obligation
without discretion ; even a prudent enemy
to do a wrong thins. Pericles, when one
is preferable." La Fontaine.
of his friends asked his services in an just
un-

excused "
I The
light of friendship is like the light ef
cause, himself, saying, am

a friend only as far as the altar. ""Fuller. phosphorus, seen plainest when all around
is dark. "
CrotoeU.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening,
False friends are like our shadow, keep-
which strengthens with the setting sun of
ins;close to us while we wait in the shine,
sun-
life. "
La Fontaine.
but leaving us the instant we cross
Purchase not friends by gifts ; when thou
shade."
into the B"oee.
ceasest to give, such will cease to love. "
_

Fuller.
Tne amily that wisdom knits not, folly
may easily untie. " Shakespeare.
You'll find the friendship of the world
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships
mere outward show !
"
Tis Eke the harlot's
as often as kindred virtues." Bovee.
tears, the statesman's promise, or the false
fair but Heaven gives ns friends, to bless the
zeal, full of seeming, de-
Kbtriot's
sion bAL" Savage. present scene ; resumes them to prepare us

for the next. "

Young.
Friendship with the evil is like the
Life is to be fortified by ships.
friend-
shadow in tne morning, decreasing every many
hour but with the good is like To love and to be loved is the
; friendship "

greatest happiness of existenoe." Sydney

the evening shadows, increasing till the sun
of life sets." Herder. Smith.

the world He that doth a base thing in zeal for his

The friendships of are oft federacies
con-

of friend burns the

golden thread that ties
in vice, or leagues pleasure.
their hearts together. Jeremy Taylor.
"Addison. "

That friendship will not continue to the

Friendship must accompanied with vir-
be tue,
end which is begun for an end. Quarles.
lodged in great and gener-
"

and always ous

minds." Trap. He is our friend who loves more than
admires us, and would aid us in our great
Real friendship is a slow grower, and
work Charming.
never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock .
"

and What argument in favor of social

of known reciprocal merit. "
Chester- an

field. connections is the observation, that by

communicating our grief we have less, and
Get not your friends by bare ments,
compli-
by communicating our pleasure we have
but by giving them sensible tokens
more. "
Oreville.
of your love. It is well worth while to
learn how to win the heart of a man the The firmest friendships have been formed

right way. Force is of to make in mutual adversity : as iron is most

no use or

preserve a friend, who is an animal that is strongly united by* tne fiercest flame. "

tamed but by kindness Colton.

never caught nor

and pleasure. Excite them by ties,

civili-
your Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and
and show them that
you desire nothing must undergo ana withstand the shocks of
more than their satisfaction ; oblige with adversity before it is entitled to the lation.
appel-
all your soul that friend who has made you " Washington.
a present of his own. " Socrates.
Friendship hath the skill and observation
The attachments of mere mirth are but of the best physician, the diligence and
the shadows of that true friendship of which vigilance of tne nest and the ness
tender-
nurse,
the sincere affections of the heart are the and patience of the best mother."
substance. "
Burton. Clarendon.
 FRIENDSHIP. 187 FRUGALITY.

Friend* should not be chosen to flatter." That is a choice friend who conceals our
The quality we prize is that rectitude faults from the view of others, and covers
dis-
which will shrink from no truth." timacies
In- them to onr own. "
Seeker.
which increase vanity destroy J Two persons cannot long be friends if
friendship." Charming. they cannot forgive each other's little fail*
Be slow to fall into friendship ; but when ings. "
Bruyere.
thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Never friendshipwith
"

contract a man
Socrates. that is not better than thyself."Confucius,
" The loss of a friend is like that of a limb ; No man can expect to find a friend out
with-
time may heal the rnguish of the wound, himself
faults, nor can he propose to
but the loss cannot be repaired." Sovthey.
be so to another. "
Everv man will have

^j It is one of the severest tests of friend- something to do for his friend, and some*

Trtiip to tell vonr friend his faults. "

So to thing to bear with in him. "
Only the sobei
love a man that yon cannot bear to see a man can do the first ; and for the latter,
stain upon him, and
to speak painfultruth patience is requisite. It "
is better for a

through loving words, that is friendship. "

man to depend on himself than to be noyed
an-
H. W. Beecher. with either a madman or a fool."

One the evidences of O. Feltham.

j of surest friendship
that one can display to another, is telling The only way to have a friend is to be
him gently of a fault. " If any other can one. "
Emerson.
excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure
Friendship is the privilege of private
with gratitude, and amending the error. "

men : for wretched greatness knows no

Buhner.
blessing so substantial. "
Tate.
There is nothing so great that I fear to
FRUGALITY. -Frugality may be
do it for mv friend ; nothing so small that
termed the danghter of prudence, the
I will disdain to do it for him." Sir P. ney.
Sid-
sister of temperance, and the parent of
liberty. He
that is extravagant will quickly
\ We learn our virtues from the friends
become poor, and poverty will enforce pendence
de-
iwho love us ; our faults from the enemy ana invite corruption. Johnson. "

who hates us." We cannot easily discover

Frugality is founded on the principle
onr real character from a friend. "
He is a

which that all riches have limits. Burke.

mirror, on the warmth of our breath "

impedes the clearness of the reflection. "

If frugality were established in the
Richter. state, if our were laid out rather
expenses
A friend that yon have to buy won't be in the necessaries than the superfluitiesof
life, there might be fewer wants, and even
worth what you pay for him, no matter
*hat that be. G. D. Prentice. fewer pleasures, but infinitelymore piness.
hap-
may "

"
Goldsmith.
Take heed how you place good will
your
He seldom lives frugally who lives by
upon any other ground than
proof of vir-
tue.
Neither chance. Hope always liberal, and
is they
"
length of acquaintance, tual
mu-
that trust her promises make little scruple
secrecies, nor height of benefits can
of revelling to-day on the profits of morrow.
to-
bind a vicious heart ; no man being good
Johnson.
to others who is not good in himself." Sir "

P.Sidney. Frugality is a fair fortune ; and habits

There three of industry a good estate. Franklin.

are friendshipswhich are
"

advantageous : friendship.witn the upright, The way to wealth is as plain as the way
with the sincere, snd with the man of much to market." It depends chiefly on two
observation." Friendship with the man is, of words, industry and frugality; that
specious airs, with
insinuatingly soft, waste theneither time nor money, but make
and with the glib-tongued, these are jurious. the
in- best use of both." Without industry
Confucius. " and frugality nothing will do ; with them,
everything. Franklin.
A true friend is the gift of God, and he "

only who made hearts can unite them. He that spareth in everything is an "

South. inexcusable niggard." He that spareth in

The nothing is an inexcusable madman." The
difficultyis not so great to die for a
friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. mean is to spare in what is least necessary,
"
Home. and to lay out more liberally in what if

Poor is the friendless master of a world most required. Halifax. "

;
a world in purchase of a friend is gain. "
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a

Young. golden harvest." Agesilaus.

 FUTURtTY. 1$8 FtJTttRE STATE.

Frugality is good
if liberalitybe joined The
future, only, is our goal." We are
with it. "
The first is
leaving off superfluous never living, but only hoping to live ; and
expenses ; the last is bestowing them for looking forward always to being happy, it
the benefit of those who need." The first, is inevitable that we never are so." Pascal.
without the last,begets covetousness ; the We always live prospectively, never trospectively,
re-
last without the first begets prodigality." and there is no abiding mo-
ment.
Perm.
"
Jacobi.
With parsimony a little is sufficient; the !
Oh, blindness to future kindly given,
without it nothing is sufficient but gality
fru- that each fill the circle marked
;
may by
makes a poor man rich." Seneca. heaven." Pope,
Nature is avariciously frugal. In matter has
"

Every to-morrow two handles. We

it allows no atom to elude its in the handle
grasp ; can take hold of it with of
mind, no thought or feeling to perish. "
It
anxiety or the handle of faith.
thers up the fragments that nothing be
G it." Thomas.
We should live for the future, and yet
should find our life in the fidelities of the
FUTURITY." looks the last is the only method of
the future elevates
Everything
human
that
life
to
8resent;
le first." H. W. Beecher.
nature ; for
is never so low or bo little as when pied
occu-
FUTURE 3TATE.-(8ee "Eternity.")
with the present. "
L. E. Lattdm.

We the There is, I know not how, in the minds

are always looking to future ; the
does of a certain as it were, of
present not satisfy us." Our ideal, men, presage, a

whatever it may future existence, and this takes the est

deep-
be, lies further on." QilleU.
root, and is most discoverable, in the
Trust no future however pleasant let
;
the dead its dead.
greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. "

past bury Act" act in

Cicero.
the living present heart within, and God
o'erhead." Why will any man be so impertinently
Longfellow.
officious as to tell me all prospect of a
How narrow our souls become when sorbed
ab-
future state is fancy and
only delusion?
in any present good or ill ! It is
"

Is there anv merit in being the messenger

only the thought of the future that makes
of ill news? If it is a dream, let me enjoy
them great." Richter.
it, since it makes me both the happier and
The veil which covers the face of futurity better man. "
Addison.
is woven by the hand of mercy. Buhner.
"

If there were no future life, our souls

What is already passed is not more fixed would not thirst for it. "
Richter.
than the certainty that what is future will We are born for a higher destiny than
grow out of what has already passed, or is that of earth. "
There is a realm where the
now passing." O. B. Cheever. rainbow never fades, where the stars will
The future is always a fairy land to the be spread before us like islands that ber
slum-
young." 8ala. on the ocean, and where the beings
and have the that now pass over before us like shadows,
Age sorrow gift of reading
the the will stay in our presence forever. Buhner.
future by past. "
Farrar. "

The golden age is not in the past, but in It is the divinity that stirs within us. "

the in the *Tis heaven itself that points out an after,

here-
future; not origin of human
and intimates eternity to man." Ad-
experience, but in its consummate flower ;
not Geth- dison.
opening in Eden, but out from
aemane. E. H. Ctiapin.
" Belief in a future life is the appetite of

Look not to the it reason." Landor.

mournfully past "

comes not back again ; wiselv improve the I feel

my immortality o'ersweep all pains,
present " it is thine go ; forth to meet the all tears, all time, all fears, and like the
shadowy future without
fear, and with a eternal thunders of the deep, peal to my
manly heart. "
Longfellow. ears this truth" "Thou livest forever." "

God will not suffer man to have a edge

knowl- Byron.
of things to come ; for if he had science
pre- A voice within us speaks that startling
of his prosperity, he would be less
care- word, "Man, thou snalt never die!" "

; and if understanding of his adversity, Celestial hymn

voices it to our souls ; ac-
cording

he would be despairing and senseless. "

harps, by angel fingers touched, do
Augustme. sound forth still the song of our great im-
mortality.
The best Dana.
preparationfor the future, is "

the present well seen to, and the last duty There's none but fears a future state ;
done." 0. Maodonald. and when the most obdurate swear they do
 GAIN. 789 GAMBLING.

not, their trembling hearts belie their Gallantry to women "

the sure road to
boasting tongues." Vrydtn. their favor "
is nothing but the appearance
mind take hold the of extreme devotion to all their wants and
.
My can no on present
world rest in it bat wishes, a delight in their satisfaction,and
nor a moment, my
whole nature rushes onward with irre-
sistible a confidence in yourself as being able to
force toward future and better contribute toward it." HaiiiU.
a

atate of being. "Fichte, Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere

To there is of the court." Mad. NecJeer.
me something thrilling and
oialting in the thought that we are ing
drift- The gallantry of the mind consists in
forward into a splendid mystery" into agreeableflattery." Rochefoucauld.
something that no mortal eye hath yet seen,
Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is
and intelligence
no has yet declared." E
a very detestable one. "
The wretch who
H. Chapin.
pilfers from us in the hour of distress is in-
nocent
The dead carry our thoughts to another compared to the plunderer who robs
and a nobler existence." They teach us, us of happiness and reputation. Kelley. "

and especially by all the strange and ingly

seem-
Conscience has no more to do with gal"
untoward circumstances of their parture
de-
lantry, than it has with politics." Sheridan
from this life,that they and we shall
lire in a future state forever." 0. Dewey. GAMBLING.- Gambling is the chili
of avarice, but the parent of prodigality."
We believe that we shall know each
Cotton.
other's forms hereafter, and, in the bright
fields of the better land, shall call the lost Gambling is a kind of tacit confessio?
" dead to us." N. P. WUU8. that those engaged therein do, general,
in
exceed the bounds of their respective for*
Divine wisdom, intending to detain us
tunes ; and therefore they cast lots to termine
de-
some time
earth, has done well to cover
on
on whom the ruin shall at present
with a veil the prospect of the life to come ;
for if our sight could fall,that the rest may be saved a little
clearlydistinguish
the opposite bank, who would remain on
longor. "
Blackstone.

this tempestuous coast of time? "

Mad. De Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks,
8tdd. is all one thing ; it is money getting out
with-

The
grand difficultyis to feel the reality
giving an equivalent for it." H. W.
Beecher.
of both
worlds, so as to give each its due
place in our thoughts and feelings : to keep By gambling we lose both our time and
our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever treasure, two things most precious to the
fixed on the land of promise, without ing
look- life of man. " Fettham.

away from the road along which It is

we are possible that a wise and good man
to travel toward it. Hare. "
be prevailed on to gamble ; but it is
may
Another life, if it were not better than impossible that a professed gamester should
this, would be less a promise than a threat. be a wise and good man. Lavater. "

^"J. P. Senn. Some for time others

play gain ; to pass
What a world were this ; how able
unendur- play ; both play the fool ; who gets by play
its weight, if they whom death had is loser in the end. "
Heath.
sundered did not meet again ! Sou they.
"
I look upon every man as a suicide from
You ask if we shall know our friends in the moment he takes the dice-box perately
des-
heaven. " Do you suppose we are greater in his hand. "
All that follows in
fools there than here?" Emmons. bis fatal from that time, is
career, only
sharpening the dagger before he strikes it
to his heart." Cumber land.
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a
QAIN." The true way to gain much, is
vice, who ventures life and soul upon the
never to desire to gain too much." He is
dice." Horace.
not rich that possesses much, but he that
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his
covets no more ; and he is not poor that
profession, is doubly ruined ; he adds his
enjoys but
little, he that wants too mnoh. "

Beaumont
soul to every other loss, and by the act of
suicide renounces earth to forfeit heaven.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. "

"Cotton.
Herbert.
All gaming, since it implies a desire Id
QALLANTRY.-Gallantry consists in at the of others, involves
faying the most empty things in an able
agree-
Eroflt
reach of the
expense
tenth commandment."
a

m*nik6t.~Bochefoucaula\ Whately.
 GAMBLING. 190 GENEROSITY.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from the habits of others they are ruined when

gaming. "Franklin, the habit becomes their own. "

Bulwer.

Gambling is the child of avarice, the Bets, at the first,were fool-traps, where
brother of iniquity, and the father of chief.
mis- the wise, like spiders, lay in ambush for
" Washington. the flies." Dryaen.

Gambling houses are temples where the The best throw with the dice is to throw
most sordid and turbulent passions tend
con- them away." C. Himmons.

; there no spectator can be indifferent.

GAYETY." (8ee "Good Humor/')
A card or a small square of ivoryinterests
more than the loss of an empire, or the Gayety is to good humor, as animal fumes
per-
ruin of an unoffending of infants to vegetable fragrance the
group : one
and their nearest relatives. Zwumermann. weak
"
overpowers spirits,the other recreates
There is and revives them." Johnson.
nothing that wears out a fine
face like vigils of the card-table,
the and Gayety is not proof that the heart is at
a
those cutting passions which naturally at-
tend ease, for often in the midst of laughter the
them. Holiow eyes, haggard looks, heart is sad." Mad. De Genlis.
and palecomplexions are the natural dications
in-
The gayety of the wicked is like the
of a female gamester. Her ing
morn-
flowery surface of Mount ")Ana, beneath
sleeps are not able to repay her night
mid-
which materials are gathering for an
Steele. tion
erup-
watohings. "

that will one dav reduce all its beau-

ties
Although men of eminent genius have to ruin and desolation.
been guilty of all other
vices, none worthy Leaves seem light, useless, idle,waver-
ing,
of more than a secondary name has ever
and changeable" they even dance ;
been a gamester. Either an excess of
yet God has made thempart of the oak. "

avarice, or a deficiency of excitability, is So he has

the
given us a lesson, not to deny
cause of it ; neither of which can exist
stout-heartednesB within, because we see
in the same bosom with genius, patriotism,
lightsomeness without. " Leigh Hunt.
or virtue. "
Landor.
Gayety is often the reckless ripple over
assembly of the
An states or a court of
depths of despair. "
E. H. Chopin.
justice, shows nothing so serious and grave
as a table of gamesters playing very high ; Q EMS." How very beautiful these gems
a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks ; are !
It is strange how deeply colors seem

andagitate their minds while penetrate one like scent.

suppose that
envy rancor to I "

the meeting lasts, without regard to friend-

ship, is the reason why gems are usea as ual
spirit-
alliances, birth, or distinctions. "
emblems in Revelations. They"
look
Bruyere. like fragments of heaven." George Eliot.
Games of chance are traps to catch school-
boy
GENEROSITY." Men of the noblest
novices and gaping country squires, dispositions think themselves happiest
who begin with a guinea and end with a when others share their happiness with
mortgage. " Cutnberumd. them Duncan.
"
.

Play not for gain, but sport who plays is

; True generosity a duty as bly
indispensa-
for more than ne can lose with pleasure those
necessary as imposed on us bv
stakes his heart. Herbert. law. It is a rule imposed
"
" by reason, which
If thou desire
thy fortunes by to raise should be the sovereign law of a rational
the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest being." Goldsmith.
thou repent too late. What thou winnest, "
Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a
is prodigally spent." What thou losest, is vice ; a princely mind will undo a private
prodigally lost." It is an evil trade that
family." Fuller.
prodigality drives, and a bad voyage where
True generosity
not consist in obey-
ing does
the pilotis blind. Quarlea. "

every humanity, impulse

in following of
Gaming finds a man a cully, and leaves blind passion for our guide, and impairing
him a knave. Cumberland.
"

our circumstances by present benefactions,

Sports and gaming, whether pursued so as to render us incapable of future ones.

from a desire of gain or the love of ure,

pleas- "
Goldsmith.
are as ruinous to the temper and position
dis- There wisdom
is in generosity, as in
of the one addicted to them, as
everything else." A friend to everybody is
they are to his fame and fortune. Burton.
"
often a friend to nobody ; or else, in his
Gambling, in all countries, is the vice of simplicity, he robs his family to help
the aristocracy. The young find it estab-
lished "
strangers, and so becomes brother to a
in the best circles, and enticed by beggar." Spurgeon.
 GENEROSITY. 101 GENIUS,

For his bounty, there was no winter in't ; If there be any truer measure of a mas
an autumn 'twas that grew the more by than by what he does, it must be by what
reaping." Shakespeare. he gives. South. "

As the sword of the best tempered metal I would have a man to his
generous
is most flexible, the truly generous his
so are
country, neighbors, his kindred, his
most pliant aud courteous in their havior
be- friends, and most of all his friends.
poor
to their inferiors. "
Fuller. Not like some who are most lavish with
The who is always lust, and the those who are able to give most to them.
generous "

the just who is always generous, may, un- Pliny.

annonmed, approach the throne of heaven. All my experience of the world teaches
"
IjOvatT. me that in ninety-nine cases ont of a dred,
hun-
He that gives all,though but little,gives the safe aud just side of a questi""u
much because God looks not to the is the generous and merciful side. Mrs.
; quan-
tity "

of the gift, but to the quality of the Jameson.

givers." Quarles. It is not enough to help the feeble up,

Oenerosity during life is a very different but to support him after. " Shakespeare.
thing from generosity in the hour of death ; He gives whatwhohe would as readily
one proceeds from genuine liberality and throw gives without
away, generosity ; for
'

benevolence, the other from pride or fear. the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
"
Horace Mann. " H. Taylor.
A
generous man places the benefits he
confers beneath his feet he GENIUS." Genius is infinite painstak
; those receives,
nearest his heart. ing. Longfellow.
"

Genius is nothing but continued atten*

One great reason why men practise erosity
gen-
tion. Helvetius.
so little in the world is, their finding "

so little there :generosity is catching ; and Genius is a superior aptitude to patience.

ifmany so men escape it, it is in a great "Buffon.
degree from the same reason that country-
men I know such
no thing as genius ; it is
escape the small-pox, because they "
nothing but labor and diligence. Hogarth. "

meet with no one to give it them. Greoille. "

Genius is but a mind of large general

The truly generous is the truly wise, and
powers accidentally determined in a ticular
par-
he who loves not others, lives unblest. "
direction. Johnson.
"

Borne.
Genius is supposed to be a power of ducing
pro-
Generosity is the accompaniment of high excellencies which are out of the
birth pity and gratitude are its ants.
attend-
; reach of the rules of art ; a power which uo
Corneille. and which
"

precepts can teach, no iudustry

Some are unwisely liberal, and more light
de- can acquire. "
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
to give presents than to pay debts. "
A man's geuins is always, in the ning
begin-
9tr P. Sidney. of life,as much unknown to himself
A man there was, and they called him as to others ; and it is only after frequent
mad ; the more he gave, the more he had. " trials, attended with success, that he dares
Bunyan. think himself equal to those undertakings
What I gave, I have what I spent, I had in which those who have succeeded have
; ;
I lost." Ota fixed the admiration of mankind. Hume.
what I kept, Epitaph,. "

credit The popular notion of genius is" of one

When give, take
you to yourself no

for generosity, unless deny yourself

who can do almost everything "
except make
you
something in order that may give. a living.
you "

H. Taylor. Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

is Ruskin,
The secret pleasure of a generous act "

the great mind's bribe. " Dryden. The greatest genius 1b never so great a"
What to be is often when it is chastised and subdued by the
seems generosity no

more than disguised ambition, which looks

over- highest reason. "
Cotton.

a small interest in order to secure a There is no genius in life like the genius
great one." Rochefoucauld. of energy and industry. D. O. Mitchell. "

Almost always the most indigent are tha We meet with few utterly dull and stupid
inert generous. "
Stanislaus. souls; the sublime and transcendent are

How much easier it is to be generous still fewer; the generality of mankind

.

than Just t Men are sometimes bountiful stand between these two extremes ; the terval
in-
who are not honent." Junius. is filled with multitude! of ordinary
 GENTLEMAN. 193 GENTLENESS.

How weak a thing it gentility,if it wants constructions, aims, desires. He ought

virtue MWter. therefore mild, calm, quiet, even,
to be
temperate," not hasty in judgment, not
GENTLEMAN. Whoever is exorbitant in ambition,
"
open, not overbearing,
loyal, true; of humane and affable meanor
de- not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive ;
; honorable himself, and in his ment
judg- for these thingsare contrary to gentleness.
of others ; faithful to his word as to "
Hare.
law. and faithful alike to God and man "

such
We sometimes meet an original man,
gentle-
a man is a true gentleman.
who, if manners had not existed,
The flowering of civilization is the ished
fin- would have invented them. "
Emerson.
man "
the man of sense, of grace, of
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the
accomplishment, of social power the gen-
tleman.
"

great, and on no occasion by disgust them

" Emerson.
familiarity, or by servility,
disgrace himself
Education begins the gentleman, but
roves that he is as perfect a gentleman
reading, good company, and reflection must Cy nature, as his companions are by rank.
finish him. Locke.
"

"CoUon.
The taste of beauty, and the relish of
Gentleman is a term that does not apply
what is decent, just,an"t amiable, perfect to any station, but to the mmd and ings
reel-
the character of the gentleman and the
iu every station. " Talfourd.
philosopher. And the study of such a taste
It is difficult to believe that true
or
relish will be ever the great employment a gen-
tleman
will ever become a gamester, a ertine,
lib-
and concern of him who covets as well to
be wise and good as agreeable and polite. or a sot. "
E. H. Chapin.
" Shaftesbury. Perhaps a gentleman iB a rarer man than
some of us think for. Which of us can
Thonghtfulness others, for generosity, such in his circle
the
point out many ; men
modesty, and self-respect are qualities
which make a real gentleman or lady, as
whose aims are
generous^ whose truth is
not only constant in its kind, but elevated
distinguished from the veneered article
that
in its degree ; whose want of meanness
which commonly goes by name."
look
makes them simple, who can the world
Huxley.
honestly in the face with an equal manly
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge the and the small."
sympathy for great
of the gentleman repose in energy.
" "

Thackeray.
Emerson.
To be a gentleman iB to be honest, to be
It is grand old that of man,
gentle- be
a name, gentle, to be -rous, to be
gen brave, to
and has been
recognized rank all those
as a
wise, and possessing qualities to
and in all stages of society. To
power sess
pos- exercise them in the most graceful outward
this character dignity of itself,
is a
manner." Thackeray.
commanding the instinctive homage of
every generous mind, and those who will GENTLENESS." We are indebted to
not bow to titular rank will yet do homage Christianity for gentleness, especially ward
to-
to the gentleman. His qualities depend women. " C. Simmons.
not upon fashion or manners, but upon
True gentleness is love in society, hold-
ing
moral worth ; not on personalpossessions, intercourse with those around it. " It is
but on personal qualities. " 8. Smiles,
considerateness ; it is tenderness of ing
feel-
You may depend upon it, religion is,in ; it is promptitude of sympathy ; it is
its essence, the most gentlemaulv thing in love in all its
depths, and in all jta delicacy.
the world. "
It will,alone, geutillze,
if mixed
un- "
It is everything included in that match-
less
with cant : and nothing else,
I know grace, "the gentleness of Christ." "

which, alone, will. " Coleridge. J. Hamilton.

is word
Perhaps propriety as near a as True gentleness is founded on a sense of
to denote the of the man.
gentle- him who made us, and to
any manners what to
we owe

Elegance is necessary to the fine the nature which all share.

"
common we "

gentleman ; dignity is proper to noblemen ; It arises from reflection on our own ings
fail-
and majesty to kings." Hazlitt. and wants, and from just views of the
Men of men of and men condition duty of and men." It is native
courage, sense,
of letters are frequent : but a true man
gentle- feeling heightened and improved by prin-
ciple.
is what one seldom sees. "
Steele. "
Blair.

The real gentleman should be gentle in Nothing is so strong as gentleness ; noth-

ing

in everything
least that pends
de- gentle real strength. Francis dt
everything, at so as "

on himself," in carriage, temper, Sales.

IS
 GEOLOGY. 194 GLORY.

What thou wilt thou i halt rather enforce the gift of the lover, but the love of the
with thy smile than hew to it with thy giver. " Thomas d Kempis.
sword." Shakespeare. One be to know the
must poor luxury of
giving." George Eliot.
QEOLOQY." (See "Soixkcb.")
Examples are few of men ruined by giv-
ing.
So long phenomena as the
(of geology) "
Men are spending" heroes in cravens
are simply recorded, and only the natural in what they give."Bovee.
and obvious causes inferred from them,
When a friend asks, there is no row.
to-mor-
there can be no fear that the results of the
Herbert.
study will prove hostile to religion." If the "

representations they give of nature are the "

When thou makest presents, let them be
fictionsof men, they cannot stand
against of such things as will last long ; to the end
the progress of scienoe : and if they truly they may be in some sort immortal, and
picture the works of God, they must be may frequently refresh the memory of the
easily reconcilable with his revealed festations. receiver.
mani- "
Fuller.
Wiseman. The best
"

thing to give to your enemy if

Geology gives us a key to the patience of forgiveness ; to an opponent, tolerance ; to
God." J. G. Holland. a friend, your heart ; to your child, a good
example ; to a father, deference ; to your
GIFTS." It is the will, and not the gift conduct that will her
mother, make proud
that makes the giver." Leasing. of you ; to yourself, respect ; to all men,
The manner of giving shows the ter
charac- charity." Batfour.
of the giver, more than the gift itself."
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a
Lavoter. favor with a bad grace. "
How little does a
There is a gift that is almost a blow, and smile cost !" Bruyere.
there is a kind word that is munifl oence ;
Every though
(rift, it be small, is in ity
real-
so much is there in the way of doing things.
great if given with affection. "Pindar.
"A. Haps.
The secret of giving affectionately is
Give what you have. To some one it
great and rare ;
it requires address to do
may be better than you dare to think. "

It well ; otherwise we lose instead of deriv-

ing
Longfellow. benefit from it." CorneUU:
We should give as we would receive,
Independence is of more value than any
cheerfully, quickly, and without tion
hesita-
gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. "

; for there isgrace in

no a be; lefit that
Men most commonly seek to oblige thee
sticks to the fingers." Seneca.
only that they may engage thee to serve
To reveal its complacenoe by gifts,is one them. Saadx.
"

of the native dialects of love." Mrs. Sig- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove
ourney.
unkind. " Shakespeare.
Serving God with our little,is the way The heart of the giver makes the gift
to make it more ; and we must never think
dear and precious. "
Luther.
that wasted with which God is honored, or

blest. Gifts are as the gold which adorns the

men are

temple ; grace is like the temple that tifies

sanc-
Give according to your means, or God
the gold." Burkilt
will make vour means according to your
John Who gives trifle meanly is than
giving. "
Hall. a meaner
the trifle. "
Lavoter.
A gift, its
and kind, its value,
ance
appear-
That which is given with pride and tation
osten-
; the pomp silence
that attends or the
it ; the style in which it reaches is rather an ambition than a bounty.
you, may
decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. " Seneca.

"
Lavoter. He gives not best who gives most but he
;
Presents which our love for the donor gives give best." If I cannot
most who give
has rendered precious are ever the most bountifully, ye'tI will give freely, and what
I want in hand, I will supply by
acceptable. "
Odd. my my
heart. "
Warwick.
People do not care to give alms without
for their Gifts weigh like mountains sensitive
some security money; and a on a

wooden heart." To they are oftener ments

punish-
leg or a withered arm is a sort of me

draft heaven for those who choose to than pleasures. Mad. Fee.
upon "

have their money placed to account there."

Q LOR Yt" True glory consists in doing
Mackenzie.
what deserves to be written : in writing
He who loves with purity considers pot what deserves to be read and in
; so living
 GLORY. 195 GOD.

m to make the world happier and better always the work of a small number of great
for our living in it. Pliny. and disappears with them. Grimm,
"
men, "

True glory takes root, and even spread* ;

GLUTTONY." Swinish gluttony ne'er
all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the
looks to heaven amid his gorgeous feast,
ground ; nor can any counterfeit last long.
but with besotted,base ingratitude, crams
"
Oicero.
and blasphemes his feeder. "
Milton.
It is bv what we ourselves have done,
and not what others have done for They whose sole bliss is eating, can give
by us,
that we shall be remembered by after ages.
but that one brutish reason why they five.
Juvenal
It is by thought that has aroused the intel-
lect "

from its slumbers, which has given Some men are born to feast, and not to
luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by fight ; whose slujrgish minds, even in fair
those examples which have inflamed the honor's field, still on their dinner turn."
soul with the love of goodness, and not by Joanna Baillie.
means of sculptured marble, that I hold Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook
communion with Shakespeare and Milton,
their priest,the table their altar, and their
with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and
belly their God." Buck.
WilberfoTce." Francis Wayland.
Gluttony is the source of all our mities
infir-
Real glory springsfrom the silent quest
con- and the fountain of all diseases.
our
of ourselves. Without that, the
" queror
con- As a lamp is choked by a superabundance
is nought but the foist slave. of
"
of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess
Thomson. health
fuel, so is the natural of the body
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of destroyed by intemperate diet. Burton. "

the divine nature, to be so to the utmost

I have come to the conclusion that kind
man-
of our abilities is the glory of man. "
dison.
Ad-
consume too much food. "
Sydney
Smith.
Our greatest glory consists not in never
As houses well stored with provisions are
falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of

Goldsmith.
those who eat much are full of diseases. "

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame Diogenes.

and gnilt." Cotcper. The pleasures of the palate deal with us
Like madness is the glory of this life. " like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle
Shakespeare. those whom they embrace. "
Seneca,

He that first likened glory to a shadow, He who is a slave to his belly seldom
did better than he was aware of ; they are worships God. "
Saadi.
both vain." Glory, also, like the shadow,
I am a great eater of beef, snd I believe
goes sometimes before the body, and some-
times
that does narm to my wit." Shakespeare.
in length infinitelyexceeds it. "
taigne.
Mon-

QOD. "
This is one of the names which
By skillful conduct and artificial means we give to that eternal, infinite, and comprehensi
in-
a may make a sort of name for self
him- being, the creator of alf
person
; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all things, who preserves and governs every
is vanity, and will not last." Goethe. thing by his almighty power and wisdom,
think and who is the only object of our worship.
Two things ought to teach us to
but of hnman that the Oruden.
meanly glory "
very
"

best have nail th"ir calumniators, and the God is a infinite,

spirit, eternal, and changeable
un-

very worst their panegyrists. "

Cotton. in his
being, wisdom, power,
holiness, justice, goodness, and truth."
Let us not disdain glory too much;
Catechism,
nothing finer, except is virtue. "
The height
of happiness would be to unite both in this We know God easily, if we do not con*
life. "
Chateaubriand. strain ourselves to define him. "
Joubert,

The shortest to glory is to be guided The Mohammedans have ninety-ninf

way
by conscience." Home. names for God. but among them all they
"
have not our Father."
Those great actions whose luster dazzleB
us are represented by politicians as the We should give God the same place in
effects of deep design, whereas they are our hearts that he holds in the universe.

commonly the effects of caprice and sion.

pas- If have God in all things while thel
we
" Rochefoucauld. are ours, we shall have all things in Go}
Tbe glory of ft people,and of au age, is when they are taken away.
 GOD. 196 GOD.

the dim distances

There is something in the nature of as they roll into ot

ries,
which the mind of which departed time, perpetually chanting "Te
things man, son,
rea-

which human cannot effect, Deum Laudamns," with all the choral voices
power
and certainly that which produces this of the countless congregations of the age.
must be better than man. What can this " Bancroft.
be but God?" Cicero. It is impossible to govern the world out
with-

in the God. He must be worse than an fidel

in-
There is a beauty name appro-
that lacks
faith, and more than wicked
that has not gratitude enough to acknowl-
edge
his obligation. Washington. "

44
God," which is literally "The Good God is and therefore he will be
great,
The word thus
signifying the Deity he is and therefore will
same sought : good, he
and His most endearing quality." Turner. be found.

The demand of the human ing

understand- If in the of God's
i
day sorrow We own
for causation requires but the one old shall
presence in cloud, we
the find him
and only God. Dexter. also
answer, "
in the pillar of fire, brightening and

Let the chain of second causes be ever cheering our way as the night comes on.

so long, the first link is always in God's

In all his
dispensations God is at work
hand." Lamngton. for our In prosperity he tries our
good. "

God is a circle whose center is where,

every- gratitude ; in mediocrity, our ment
content-
and its circumference nowhere. "
; in misfortune, our submission ; in
Empedocles. darkness, our faith ; under temptation,
man's onr steadfastness, and at all times, our
They that deny a God, destroy bility
no-

is of Kin the obedience and trust in him.

; for clearly man to
beasts by his body, and if he be not of kin God the have
governs world, and we only
to God by his spirit,he is a base and noble
ig- leave
to do our duty wisely, and the issue
creature. Bacon. him." John
"
to Jay.
The ancient hieroglyphic for God was
When the mind of man looketh upon
the figure of an eye upon a sceptre,to note
de-
second causes scattered- it may sometimes
that he sees and rules all things.
them, and further.
"

rest in go no But when

Barker.
it beholdeth the chain of them confederate
It were better to have no opinion of God and linked together, it must fly to dence
Provi-
at all than such an one as is nnworthy of and Deity. Bacon. "

him ;
for the one is only unbelief "
the other
There is a God in science, a God in tory,
his-
is contempt. "
Plutarch.
and a God in
conscience, and these
I had rather believe all the fables in the three are one. " Joseph Cook,
Talmud and the Koran, than that this versal
uni-
How often we look upon God as onr last
frame is without a mind. "
Bacon.
and feeblest resource ! We go to him cause
be-
In all the vast and the minute, we see the have nowhere else to And
we go.
unambiguous footsteps of the God, who then we learn that the storms of life have
gives its luster to the insect's wing, and driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the
wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Ow. Macdonald.
desired haven."
"Cowper.
I have read np many queer religions ;
If God did not exist it would be necessary like the
and there is nothing old tiling,
to invent him. " Voltaire. after all. I havo looked into the most
Nature is too thin a screen *, the glory of philosophical systems, and have found
the omnipresent God bursts through where.
every- none that will work without a God." J. (7.
" Emernon. Maxwell.

The very word "God" suggests care,

kindness, goodness ; and the idea of God

in his 1b
infinity, infinite care, infinite
kindness, infinite goodness. "
We
give God may reverse the proposition, and say the
the name of good : it is only by shortening soul is a never ending sigh after God."
it that it becomes God." if. w. Beecher. Christlieb.
At the foot of every page in the annuls of The world we inhabit must have had an

nations be written, "God reigns." origin \ that origin must hate consisted in
may
Events as they pass away proclaim their a cause'; that dense must hate been ligent
intel-
original ; and if /on will but listen erently,
rev- ; thai intelligence mnit mvrf* bfcen
ytm mtf hear the receding centu- itipreme j and that "tffjf"m*"whflffl always
 GOD. 197 GOLD.

was and is supreme, we know by the name the end of all our actions, the prin-
ciple

sires,
of God. of all our affections, and the governing
Two power of our whole souls. MasnUon.
men please God "
who serves Him "

with all his heart because he knows Him; In all thine actions think that God sees
who seeks Him with all his heart because thee, and in all his actions labor to see him.
he knows Him not, "
Panin. "
That will make thee fear him, and this
will move thee to love him. The fear of
He who bridles the fury of the billows, "

God is the beginning of knowledge, and

snows also to
put a stop to the secret plans
wicked. the knowledge of God is the perfection of
"f the " Submitting to His holy
God have love. Quarles.
will, I fear ; I no other fear. "
"

Racine. If we look closely at this world, where

God seems utterly forgotten, we
so shall
It is one of my favorite thoughts, that
God himself mankind in all find that it is he, who*, after all. commands
manifests to
the most fidelity and the most love. Mad.
wise, good, humble, generous, great and "

Swetchine.
magnanimous men. "
Lavater.
What is there in man so worthy of honor
There is nothing on earth worth being
and reverence as this, that he capable
is
known but God and our own souls. "

Bailey.
of contemplating something higher than
his own reason, more sublime than the
A foe to God was never a true friend to
whole universe" that Spiritwhich alone is
man. "
Young. self-snbsistent,from wnich all truth pro-
ceeds,
There is something very sublime, though without which is no truth ? "
Jacobi.
very fanciful in Plato's description of Grod To escape from evil we must be made, as
"That truth is his body, and light his
"

far as possible, like God ; and this resem-

blance
shadow."" A ddison.
consists in becoming just, and holy,
If God were not a necessary being of and wise." Plato.
himself, he might almost seem to be made
4"
for the and benefit of Tillotson. GOLD." (See "
Money," and Miser.")
use men."

We cannot too often think, that there is Gold is the fool's which hides
curtain,
a never sleeping eye that reads the heart, all his defects from the world. Fellkam.
"

and registers our thoughts. "

Bacon.
The Inst of gold, unfeeling and less;
remorse-

I fear G d, and next to God I chiefly fear the last corruption of degenerate
him who fears him not. "
Saadi. man. "
Johnson.
Th very impossibility which I find to It is much better to have gold in the
your
prove that God not, discovers
is to me his hand than in the heart. "
Fuller.
existence. " Bruyire. like the which melts but
Gold, sun, wax,
Amid all the war and contest and variety harden 8 clay, expands great souls and tracts
con-

of human opinion, you will find one senting

con- bad hearts. "
Rivarol.
conviction in every land, that there
It is observed of old
gold, in an epigram,
Is one God, th king and father of all. "
that to have it is to be in fear, and to want
Maximus Tyrius. it is to be in sorrow. "
Johnson.
Live near t God, and so all things will
To purchase heaven has gold the power?
appear o yon little in comparison with
can gold remove the mortal hour ? in life
etermJ realities. R. M. McCneyne. love bought with gold? arc friend-
be ship's
"

can

The whole world is u phylactery,and pleasures to be sold ? no" all that's

everything we sec : ; an item of the wisdom, worth a wish" a thought, fair virtue gives
power, r goodness of God. " Sir Thomas unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash
Browne. thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage
is made beautiful thy mind. Johnson.
As a countenance by "

the soul's shining through it, so the world There is no place so high that an nsp

is beautified by tn: shining through it of laden with gold cannot reach it. " Rojas.
God." Jacobi. Midas longed for gold. "
He got it,so that
God's thoughts, his will, his love, his whatever he touched became gold, and he,
judgments are all man's home. To think with his long ears, was little the better for
his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his it. "
Carlyle.
loves, to judge hk judgments, and thus to
of which is
There are two metals, one
know that he is in us, is "o be at home. "

omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in

Qeirge MacdonaUL the camp," gold and iron. Hethatkno*.
God should be the object of all our de- how to apply them both, may indeed attain
 GOOD-BREEDING. 198 GOOD-BREEDING.

the highest station,but he must know thing

some- Nothing can constitute good-breeding
more to keep it." Cotton. which has not good nature for its founda-
tion.

him Bulwer.
Give him gold enough, marry and to "

a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or au old trot Good-breeding is the result of much

with ne'er a tooth iu her head, though she good sense, some good nature, and a little
have as many diseases as two and fifty self-denial for the sake of others, and with
horses ; why, nothing comes amiss, so a view to obtain the same indulgence from

money comes withal. " Shakespeare. them. " Chesterfield.

A mask of gold hides all deformities. "
A man endowed with great perfections,
Dekker. without good-breeding, is like one who has
his pockets full of gold, but always wants
How quickly nature falls to revolt when
gold becomes her object." Shakespeare. change for his ordinary occasions. "
Steele.

O cursed lust of gold! when, for thy Good-breeding is not confined to nals,
exter-

his interest in both much less to particular dress or

sake, the fool throws up any
attitude of the body ; it is the art of ing
pleas-
worlds, first starved in this, then damned
in that to come I" Blair. or contributing as much as possible to
the ease and happiness of those with whom
few, like Daniel, have
How God and gold
you converse. " i
together." Bp. Villiers.
Good qualities are the substantial riches
Gold ! in all ages the curse of mankind !
of the mind ; but it is
good-breeding that
" To gain thee, men yield honor, affection, them off to
thee the
sets advantage. Locke. "

and lasting renown, and for barter

P. The scholar,
good-breeding, is without
crown of eternity. " Benjamin.
a pedant the
philosopher, a cynic ; the
;
A vain man's motto is, "Win gold and
" "
soldier, a brute ; and every man able."
disagree-
wear it ; a
generous, Win gold and share
Chesterfield.
it"; a miser\ "Win
gold and hoard it";
A man's own good-breeding is the best
a profligate's." gold and spend it"; a Win
broker's, " win gold and lend it"; a gam-
bler's,
security against other people's ill-manners.
It carries along with it dignitythat is
"Wiu gold and lose it"; a wise a

man's, " Win gold and use it." respected by the most petulant. ing
Ill-breed-
invites and authorizes the familiarity
They who worship gold in a world so
of the most timid. No man ever said a
corrupt as this, have at least one thing to
thing to the Duke of Marlborough,
plead in defence of their idolatry "
the S3rt o man ever said a civil one to Sir Robert
of their idol. This idol can boast of
power "

Walpole." Chesterfield.
two peculiarities ; it is worshipped in all
Among well-bred people, a mutual erence
def-
elimates, without a single temple, and by
affected; contempt of others
all classes, without a single hypocrite. "
is

Cotton. disguised ; authorityconcealed ; attention

given to each in his turn ;
and an easy
Mammon has enriched his thousands, stream of conversation maintained, without
and has damned his ten thousands. South,
"

vehemence, without interruption,without

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries for victory, and without airs
eagerness any
men. "
ChUo. of superiority. Hume. "

"Mah- Good-breeding shows itself most, where

GCOD-BREEDING.-(8ee
xbbs" and " to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
Politeness.") "

Addison.
Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, Virtue itself often offends, when coupled
or the preferenceof others to ourselves in with bad manners. "
Middleton.
the daily occurrences of life. "
Lord ham.
Chat-
The of
summary good breeding may be
reduced to this rule :
"
Behave to all others
Good-breeding is surface Christianity. as would they should behave to you."
"

you "

0. W.Holmes. Fielding.
Good-breeding is the art of
showing men, There are few defects in our nature so

by external signs, the internal regard we glaring as not to be veiled from tion
observa-
have for them. It arises from good sense, by politeness and good-breeding. "

improved by conversing with good pany.

com- Stanislaus.
Cato. The
"

highest point of good-breeding is to

One principal point of pood-breeding is show"a very nice regard to your own nity,
dig-
to suit our behavior to the three several and with that in your own heart, to
degrees of men " our superiors, our equals, express your value for toe man above you.
and those below us. " SwifL
 GOOD HUMOR. 199 GOODNESS.

One may know a man that never versed

con- original signification of virtue" I mean
in the world, by his excess of good- good nature" are of daily use ; they are

breeding."^ ddison. the bread of mankind and the staff of life.

As ceremonv is the invention of wise " Dryden.

men keep fools at a distance,
to so good- Good is the beauty of tne mind,
nature

breeding is an expedient to make fools and and like

personal beauty, wins almost out
with-
wise men equal. Steele. " auvtning else" sometimes, indeed, in
Wisdom, valor, justice, and learning, spite of positivedeficiencies. Hanway. "

cannot keep a man in countenance that is A shrewd observer once said, that in
possessed with these excellencies, if he walking the streets of a slippery morning,
wants that inferior art of life and iour;
behav- one might see where the good natnred ple
peo-
called good breeding. "
Steele. lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice
before the doors. "
Franklin.
GOOD HUMOR.-(8ee "Humor.") Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
Good humor is the health of the soul "
Emerson.
;
sadness is its poison. Stanislaus. Good is
" nature more agreeable in versation
con-

Honestgood humor is the oil find wine than wit, and fives a certain air
is no to the countenance which is amiable
of a merry meeting, and there jovial more

than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest

companionship equal to that where the "

the light ; takes off. in some from the

jokes are rather small, and laughter measure,
abundant." Washington Irving, deformity of vice ; and makes even folly
and impertinence supportable. "
Addison.
This portable quality of good humor sons
sea-
all the parts and occurrences we meet Good nature is often a mere matter of
with ill such a manner that there are no
health." With good digestion we are apt
lost, but all pass to be good natured: with bad digestion,
moments they with so

much satisfaction that the heaviest of H. W. Beecher,

loads, morose. "

when it is a load, that of time, is never Good sense and good nature are never
felt by us." Steele. separated ; and good nature is the product

for of right reason. It makes allowance for

Some people are commended a giddy "

which is the failings of others by considering that

kind of good humor, no more a

drunkenness." there is nothing perfect in mankind ; and

virtue than Pope,
will sometimes ill
by distinguishing that which comes nearest
Good humor conquer
to excellence, ~gh not absolutely free "*..

humor, but ill humor will conquer it oft-

mor
hu-
from faults, will certainly produce candor
ener ; and for this plain reason, good in judging. Dryden, "

must operate on generosity; ill mor

hu-
on meanness. "
GreviUe. GOODNESS" (See "
Bikxficewc*.")
QOOD NATURE." Good nature is the There are two perfectly good men : one

very air of a good mind ;

the sign of a dead, and the other unborn. "
Chinese verb,
Pro-
large and generous soul, and the peculiar
soil in which virtue prospers. Goodman, Be be
"
not merely good ; good for thing.
some-
The current of tenderness widens as it "
Thoreau,
proceeds and two imperceptibly find In
; men
nothing do men approach so nearly to
their hearts filled with good nature for the gods as in doing good to men. "
Cicero,
each other, when they were at first only
There may be a certain pleasure in vice,
in pursuitof mirth and relaxation. smith.
Gold-
"

but there is a higher in purity and virtue.

" The most commanding of all delights is
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the delight in goodness. The beauty of "

the most precious gifts of heaven, ing

spread- holiness is but one beauty, but it is the
itself like oil over the troubled sea of highest. " It is the loss of tne sense of sin
thought, and keeping the mind smooth and and shame that
destroys both men and
equable in the roughest weather. "
ington
Wash- states. " Independent,
Irving. He that is a good man, is three quarters
Good nature, like a bee, collects honey of his way toward the being a gooa tian,
Chris-
from every herb. Ill nature, like the spider, wheresoever he lives,or whatsoever
sucks poison from the sweetest flower. he is called. " South.
Good nature is one of the richest fruits We be as good as we please, if we
may
of true Christianity." H, W. Beecher. please to be good. "
Barrow.

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a Real goodness does not attach itself
word which I would fain bring back to its merely to this life "
it points to another
JOHN WESLEY
 GOODNESS. 201 GOSPEL.

A good deed is never lost. "

He who sows Nothing is rarer than real goodness."
oonrtesy, reaps friendship ; he who plants Bochefoucauld.
kindness, gathers love ; pleasure bestowed Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.
upon a grateful mind was never sterile, "
Milton.
but generally gratitude begets reward." To honest
an mind, the best perquisites
BasU.
of a place are the advantages it gives for
It to me it is only noble to be good.
seems doing good. "
Addison.
"
Kind*hearts are more than coronets."

Tennyson, GOOD S E N S E .-(See "

Common
Sense.")
There never law, or sect,
was or opinion
did so much magnify goodness as the tian
Chris-
GOSPEL." My heart has always as-
sured
religion doth. Bacon. and reassured that the gospel of
"

me

As I know more of mankind I expect less Christ must be a Divine reality." The mon
ser-

of them, and am ready to call a man a good on the mount cannot be merely a man
hu-

man upon easier terms than I was formerly. production." This belief enters into
Johnson. the very depth of conscience." The
" my
whole history of man proves it." Daniel
To love the public, to study universal
and to the interest of the Waster.
good, promote
whole world, far it lies in our All the gospels, in my judgment, date
as as power,
is the height of goodness, and makes that back to the first century, and are tially
substan-

temper which we call divine." Shaftesbury. by the authors to whom they are tributed.
at-
"
Renan.
Goodness is love in action, love with its
hand the love with the burden The shifting systems of false religion are
to plow, on

its back, love following his footsteps who continually changing their places ; but the
went about continually doing good." J, gospel of Christ is the same forever. While
other false lights are extinguished, this
Hamilton.
true light ever shin eth."T. L. Cuykr.
He is a good man whose intimate friends
all and whose enemies cidedly
de- 80 comprehensive the doctrines of
are pood, are are

Dad." Lavater. the gospel,that they involve all moral truth

known t"y man ; so extensive are the
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, cepts,
pre-
that they require every virtue, and
goodness is the greatest, being the acter
char-
forbid
is every sin. Nothing has been added,
; and
Deity of the without it, man a
either by the labors of philosophy or the
busy, mischievous, wretched thing. "
Bacon.
progress of human knowledge.
Tour actions, in passing, pass not away, Did you ever notice that while the gospel
for every good work is a grain of seed for
fife. Bernard.
sets before us a higher and more blessed
eternal "

heaven than any other religion, its hell is

His daily prayer, far better understood also and darker
deeper than any other ?"
in acts thsn in words,, was simply doing Warren,
good. "
WhiUier.
I search in vain in history to find the
Live for something. Bo good, and leave similar Jesus Christ,
"
to anything which or
that the
behind you a monument of virtue can approach the gospel. Neither history, "

storms of time can never destroy. "

Write nor humanity, nor the nature,
a^es, nor
your name in kindness, love, and mercy offer me anything with which I am able to
the hearts of thousands in
on you come
compare or explain it. "
There is nothing
contact with year by year, and you will there which is not beyond the march of
never be forgotten. "
Your name and your events and above the human mind. What
"

good deeds will shine the stars of heaven. it those

as happiness gives to who believe it !
"
Chalmers. What marvels there which those admire
That is which doth Venning. who reflect it !" Napoleon.
good good. " upon

all the in all the God writes the gospel not in the Bible
Do good you can, ways
can, to all the souls yon can, in every alone, but on tret 3, and flowers, and clouds,
you
and stars. Luther.
place you can, at all the times you can,
"

with all the zeal vou can, as long as ever The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes,
you can. " J. Wesley. the perfection of all
philosophy, the preter
inter-
Whatever the creases
in- of all revelations, and a key to all
mitigates woes, or
the seeming contradictions of truth in the
the happiness of others, is a just
of and whatever jures
in- physical and moral world." Hugh Miller.
criterion goodness ;
society at large, or any individual in We can learn nothing of the gospel ex*

it, is a criterion of iniquity. " Goldsmith. cept by feeling its truths. There are some
 GOSSIP. 202 GOVERNMENT.

sciences that be learned by the head, lievest,lest the greatest part of what thou
may
but the science of Christ crucified can only believest be the part of what
least is true.
be learned by the he"ri."Spurgeon. Where lies are easily admitted, the father
The in all its doctrines of lies will not easilybe kept out. Quarks.
gospel and duties "

appears infinitely superior to any human Gossip is the henchman of rumor and
composition. It has no "
mark of human norance,
ig- scandal. "
FeuilleL
imperfection, or sinfulness, but
Gossip is always a personal confession
bears the signature of divine wisdom, thority,
au-
either of malice or imbecility, and the
and importance, and is most worthy
young should not only shun it, but by the
of the supreme attention and regard of all
most thorough culture relieve themselves
intelligent creatures. Emmons, "

from all temptation to it. "

It is a low, friv-
olous,
There is not a book on earth so favorable and too often a dirty business. "
J.
to all the kind, and to all the sublime tions,
affec- G. Holland.
or so unfriendly to hatred, persecu-
tion, Tale bearers are just as bad as tale
tyranny, injustice, and every sort of
makers." Sheridan.
malevolence as the gospel." It breathes,
Narrow-minded and ignorant persons
throughout, only mercy, benevolence, ana
Beattie.
talk about persons and things ; benoe
not
peace. "

gossip is the bane and disgrace of so large

GOSSIP." (See "
Tattliho.") a portion of society.
As to people saying a few idle words about
Gossip has been well defined as putting
us, we must not mind that auy more than
two and two together, and making it five.
the old church steeple minds the rooks ing
caw-
I hold it to be a fact, that if all persons Eliot.
about it."Gwrge
knew what each said of the other, there
COVERNMENT.-49ee " Statehmah-
would not be four friends in the world. "

Pascal. BHIP.'*)

NewB-hunters have great leisure, with They that govern most make least noise.
little
thought ; much ambition to be In rowing a barge, they that do drudgery
petty
thought intelligent, without any other tension
pre- work, slash, puff, and sweat ; but he that
than being able to communicate governs, sits quietly at the stern, and
what they have just learned. "
Zimmer- scarce is seen to stir. "
Selden.

mann. No matter what theory of the origin of

When of asked government adopt, if yon follow it out
a gossippingcircle it was you
" What are they doing?" the to its legitimate conclnsions it will bring
answer was,
" lies.*1 face to face with the moral law. H. J.
Swapping you "

There set of
Van Dyke.
is a malicious, prating, pru-
dent
gossips, both male ana female, who The less government we have the better
murder characters to kill time will "the fewer laws and the less confided
; ana
rob fellow of his good name before power. The antidote to this abuse of mal
for-
a young
he has years to know the value of it. " government is the influence of private
Sheridan. character, the growth of the individual. "

Emerson. ~

Fire and sword are but slow engines of

destruction in comparison with the bler.
bab- Men well governed should seek after no

"
Steele. other liberty, for there can be no greater
liberty than a good government." Sir W.
Truth is not exciting enough to those
who depend on the characters and lives of Raleigh.
for all their and in
their neighbors amusement. " When men put their trust in God
Bancroft. knowledge, government of
tne the jority
ma-

brain and is, in the end. the government of the

An empty a tattling tonjpe
the wise and good. Spalding.
are very apt to go together : most silly "

and trivial items of news scandal fill the

or While protects all in
just government
former and retailed by the latter. their religion affords
are religions rites, true
Gossip, pretending to have the eves of government its surest support. Washing- "

an Argus, nas all the blindness of a bat. "

Ouida. The best of all is that which

governments
In private life I never knew any one fere
inter- teaches us to govern ourselves. " Ooethe.
with other people'sdisputes but that exist for the
No government ought to
he heartily repentedof it. Varlyle. "

purpose of checking the prosperity of its

part of the thou allow such principle in its
Let the greatest news people or to a

nearest be the least part of what thou be- policy. "

Burke.
 GOVERNMENT. 203 GOVERNMENT.

The less of government the better, if whole range of authority be best

governs
society be kept in peace and prosperity. " who governs least. " A. Phelps.
Channing. Refined has been the
policy ever parent
That is the most perfect government of confusion, and will be
ever so, as long
nnder which a wron? to the humblest is as the world eudures. Plain good tion,
inten-
an affront to all. "
Solon. which is as easily discovered at the
Government is not mere advice it is first view as fraud is surely detected at
;
authority, with power to enforce its lawB. "
last, is of no mean force in the government
of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart
Washington.
is a healing and cementing principle.
The principal foundation of all states is
"

Burke.
in good la wb and good anns." Jfacfauroettt.
The repose of nations cannot be secure
The punishment suffered by the wise who
without arms; armies cannot be tained
main-
refuse to take part in the government, is
without pay ; nor can the pay be
to live under the government of bad men.
" Plato. produced except by taxes." Tacitus.

The 8ii rest way to prevent seditions is to

Government is only a
necessary evil, like
take away the matter of them ; for if there
other go-carts and crutches. Our "
need of
it shows exactly how far we are still chil-
dren.
be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence
the spark shall come that shall set it on
"
All overmuch governing kills the
fire." Bacon.
self-help and energy of the governed. "

Wendell Phillips. It is necessary for a senator to be oughly

thor-
acquainted with the constitution ;
A man must first govern himself ere be
and this is a knowledge of the most extensive
is fit to govern a family ; and his familv ere
he l"e fit to bear the government of the nature ; a matter of science, of diligence,
of reflection,without which no senator can
commonwealth. " Sir W. Haleigh.
possibly be fit for his office." Cicero.
In all governments, there must of sity
neces-

be both the law and the sword laws He who forms the mind of a prince, and
:

without arms would give us not liberty, implants in him good principles,may see

but licentiousness and without laws the precepts he had inculcated extend
; arms

would but through a. large portion of his subjects.

produce not subjection, slavery. "

"CoUon. Antigonus.
The proper function of a government is This
nation, under God, shall have a new
to make it easy for the to do birth freedom,
of that government of the
people good,
and difficult for them to ao evil." stone.
Glad- people, by the people, for the people,shall
not perish from the earth." Abraham coln.
Lin-

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw ;

but if he Politics resemble religion attempting to
serves to enemies,
frighten our ;

and divest either of is the most tain

cer-
secure our property, it is well enough ; cerer^ny
a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it pro-
tects
method of brining either into tempt.
con-

the The weak must have their ments

induce-
corn. " Pope.
to admiration as well as the wise ;
It is a dangerous thing to try new ments
experi- and it is the business of a sensible ment
govern-
in a government ; men do not see
fore-
to impress all ranks with a sense of
the ill consequences that must happen,
subordination, whether this be effected by
when they seek to alter the essential parts
a diamond, or a virtuous edict, a sumptuary
of it upon which the whole frame depends ;
law, or a glass necklace. Goldsmith. "

for all governments are artificial things,

and every part of them has a dependence God demands of those who manage the
one upon another. affairs of government that they should be

It is work to wise courageously true to the interests of the

an easy govern men.
but to fools continual people, and the Ruler of the universe will
govern or madmen, a

It is from the zeal and require of them strict account of their

slavery. blind pidity
stu- a

stewardship." Grover Cleveland.

cleaving to superstition, it is from
the ignorance, rashness, and rage attending Government is a contrivance of human
faction, that so many mad and sanguinary wisdom to provide for human wants. "

evils have destroyed men, dissolved the best Burke.

governments, and thinned the greatest na-
tions."
No government can be free that does not
CoUon. the
allow all its citizens to participate in
Other things that formation and execution of her lawB.
being equal, is the "

best government which most liberally lets Every other government is a despotism. "

its subjector citizen alone. "

Through the Thaddeus Stevens.
 GOVERNMENT. 204 GOVERNMENT.

Of all governments, that of the mob is He that would govern others, first should
the most sanguinary ; that of soldiers the be the master of himself, richly endued
most expensive ; and that of civilians the with depth of understanding and height of
most vexatious. "
Cotton. knowledge." Massinger.
The culminating point of administration All government and exercise of power,
is to know well bow mnch matter in what form, which is not based
power, great or no

small, we ought to use in allcircumstanoes. on love, and directed by knowledge, is anny.

tyr-
" Montesquieu. "
Mrs. Jameson.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling A government for the people mnst pend
de-

power upon will and appetite be placed for its success on the intelligence, the
somewhere and the less of it there is morality, the justice, and the interest of
;
within, the more there must be without. "
the people themselves." Orover Cleveland.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution has seldom
Power exercised with violence
of things, that men of intemperate minds
been duration,
of but long temper and
cannot oe free. "
Their passions forge their moderation generally produce permanence
fetters. "
Burke.
in all things." Seneca.
The world is governed by three things" The of society, which
aggregate happiness
wisdom, authority, and appearance. dom
Wis-
is best by the practise of a vir%
promoted
for thoughtful people, authority for
tuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of
rough people, and appearances for the
all government. Washington. "

great mass of superficial people who can

No government is respectable which la
look only at the outside.

Government owes its birth to the

not lust." Without unspotted purity of
sity
neces-
public faith, without sacred public prin-
ciple,
of preventing and 'repressingthe juries
in-
fidelity, and honor, no mere forms of
wnich associated individuals have to
government, no machinery of laws, can
fear from one another. It is the sentinel
give dignity to political society." Vaniel
"

who watches, in order that the common

Webster.
laborer be not disturbed. " Raynal.
A mercantile democracy may govern long
It is to self-government, the great ciple
prin- and mercantile
widely ; a aristocracy not
can-
of popular representation ana ad-
ministration, stand. Landor.
"

the system that lets in all to

in its
The worst of governments are always
participate counsels, that we owe
what and what be.
the most changeable,and cost the people
we are, we hope to "

dearest. Butler.
"

Daniel Webster.
The only choice which Providence has
A republican government is in a hundred
graciously left to a vicious government is
pointsweaker than one that is autocratic :
either to fall by the people if they become
but in this one point it is the strongest
that existed it has educated of
enlightened, or with them, if they are kept
ever " a race
that
enslaved and ignorant." Coleridge.
men are men." H. W. Beecher.
The surest way of governing, both in a
All good government must begin in the
family and kingdom, is, for the
home." It is useless to make good laws for Erivate
usband and the
a

prince sometimes to drop

bad people. "
Public sentiment is more
their prerogatives. Hughes.
than law. " H. R. Haweis. "

There be three sorts of Tho administration of government, like

government,
monarchical, guardianship, ought to be directed to the
aristocratical,and democrat- a

good of those who confer, not of those who

ical, and they are to fall three different
into ruin the first,by tyranny receive the trust. Cicero.
; the
"

ways :

second, by ambition ; the last, by tumults. It seems to me great truth, that human
a
"
A commonwealth, grounded on any one
things cannot on selfishness, me-
stand chanical
of these, is not of long continuance but and law
; utilities, economics,
wisely mingled, each guards the other and courts that if there be not a religions
;
makes government exact. Quarles. in relations of men, such tions
rela-
"
element the
is well miserable, and doomed to ruin."
Society governed when the people are

obey the magistrates, and the magistrates Carlyk.

obey the laws. Solon. not
"
It is among the evils, and perhaps
The very idea of the power and right of the smallest, of governments, democratic
the people to establish government supposes
pre- that the people must feel before they will
the duty of every individual to see. "
When this happens, they are roused
obey the established government. "
ington.
Wash- to action. " Hence it is that those kinds of
government are too slow. " Washington.
 GRACE. 205 GRACEFULNESS.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real
was the best mode of
governing a con- worth, like the loadstone, never lose their
city, he replied only by beating These the true which
Suered
with
own nifl staff all the tallest poppies
power.
\re linked hand
are

in hand,
graces,
because it is by
in his garden. " Livy. their influence that human hearts are so

for be firmly united to each other. Burton.

It is better a city to governed by a
"

good man than even by good laws. "

totle.
Aris- Grace is but glory begun, and glory is
but grace perfected. Jonathan "
Edwards.

Nothing will rain the country if the God appoints our graces to be nurses to
people themselves will undertake its safety ; other men's weaknesses. "
H. W. Beecher.
and nothing can save it if they leave that
The growth of grace is like the polishing
safety in any hands but their own. "
Daniel
of metals. There is first an opaque face
sur-
Webster.
; by and by you see a spark darting
For forms of government let fools test.
con-
out, then a strong light ; till at length it
That which is best administered is
" sends back a perfectimage of the sun that
best. Pope. shines
"

upon it." Payson.

It may for a maxim in state, that There is such to attain to greater
pass no way
the administration cannot be placedin too
measure of grace as for a man to live up
few hands, nor the legislation in too many. to the little grace he has. "
Brooks.
"
Swift. the the
Grace comes into soul, as ing
morn-

Few consider how mnch indebted the world

into ; first dawning
we are a
sun :
to government, because few represent and at last the in his full
can then a light; sun

how wretched mankind would be without and excellent brightness." T. Adams.

it. "
Addison.
Ton pray for the graces of faith and hope
When any of the four pillarsof ment,
govern- alone will not bring
and love; but praver
religion, justice, counsel, and ure,
treas- them." Tney must be wrought in you
are mainly shaken or weakened, men through labor and patience and suffering.
had need to pray for fair weather." Itacon.
"They are not kept put up in bottles for
All free governments, whatever their us, to be had for the mere asking ; they
are in reality governments by public must be the outgrowth of the life. Prayer "

name,
it is the this for them will be answered, but God will
opinion ; and on quality of
that their pends."
de- have work out each in the of
public opinion prosperity us one way
J. B. Lowell. duty." H. W. Beecher.
The of grace
being must go before the
G RACE." "What is grace?" was
asked of old for
increase of it ; for there is no growth out
with-
an colored man, who. over

had " life,and no building without a dation."

foun-
forty years, been a slave. " Grace,"
he "
is what I should call Lavington.
replied, giving
for As is first from God, so it is
something nothing." grace tinually
con-

from him, as much as light is all

The king-becoming graces justice, are
day long from the sun, as well as at first
verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, Jonathan wards.
Ed-
dawn or at sun-rising. "

perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion,

patience, courage, fortitude. " Shake-
speare. As heat is opposed to cold, and light to
darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. "
Fire
Let
grace and goodness be the principal and water as well agree in the same
loadstone of thv affections. For love which may
vessel, as grace and sin in the same hqart.
hath ends, will have an end ; whereas that
T. Brooks.
which is founded on true virtue, will always
"

continue." Dryden. GRACEFULNESS." Grace is to the

Whatever is
graceful is virtuous, and bodv, what good sense is to the mind.
whatever is virtuous is graceful." Cicero. Bocnefoucautd.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a petual
per-
The Christian graces are like perfumes,
letter of recommendation. Bacon.
the more they are pressed, the sweeter
"

they smell : like stars that shine brightest Gracefulness has been defined to be the
in the dark; like trees which, the more outward expression of the inward harmony
thev are shaken, the deeper root they take, of the Boxxh"Bailiti.
%nd the more fruit they bear. " mont.
Beau- All the actions and attitudes of children
are gracefulbecause they are the
offspring
That word "
Grace." in an ungracious of the moment, without affeotatto*^ *na
mouth, it profane.^flta"wfpeore. free from all pretense*" Jtoett.
 GRAVITY. 207 GRAVITY.

throb that he should have warred with the Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
handful of dust moldering that lies "Lavater.
poor
before him." Washington, Irving. Those wanting rrit affect gravity, and
It is sadness to sense to look to the grave, . go by the name of solid men. " Dryden.
but gladness to faith to look beyond It. of the
Gravity is a mysterious carriage
body, invented to the defects of the
A Christian graveyard is cradle, where,
a cover

in the quiet motions of the globe. Jesus mind." Rochefoucauld,

rooks his sleeping children. By ana
" by he The very essence of assumed gravity is
will wake them from their slumber, and in design, and deceit taught
consequently ; a
the arms of angels they shall be translated trick to gain credit with the world for
to the skies." Q. B. Cheever. more sense and knowledge than a man is
An angeFs arm can't snatch me from the worth. "
Sterne.

; legions of angels can't confine

Sve me There is a gravitywhich is not austere nor
re. " Young. captious, which belongs not melancholy
to

The disciples found dwells in contraction of heart, but

angels at the grave nor

of him they loved, and we should arises from tenderness and hangs on reflec-
tion.
always
Lander.
find them, too, but that our eyes are too full
"

of tears for seeing. H. W, Beecher. All

"
the sobriety religion needs or requires
All along the pathway of life are stones,
tomb- is that which real earnestness produces. "

by the side of which have When men say

'*
be sober,
"
tney usually
we ised
prom-
"
to strive for Heaven. mean be stupid.*'When "
the Bible says
"
"be sober,*1 it means rouse up to the
The churchyard is the market-place where
earnestness and vivacity of life." The old
all things are rated at their true value, and
"

scriptural sobriety was effectual doing ;

those who it talk of the
are approaching ascetic sobriety is effectual dullness." 27.
world and its vanities with a wisdom known
un-
W. Beecher*
before. "
Baxter.

When I look the tombs of the As in a man's life,so studies, it isin his
upon great,
emotion of dies within the most beautiful and thing in humane
every envy me ;
when I read the the world so to mingle gravity with ure,
pleas-
epitaphs of the beautiful,
inordinate desire Addison. that the one may not sink into choly,
melan-
every goes out."
nor the other rise up into ness.
wanton-
We go to the grave of a friend, saying,
"
" Pliny.
A man is dead, but angels throng about
him, "A is born."" H. W. There is false gravity that is ill
saying, man a a very
symntom; and as rivers which run very
We the of infants and
slowly have always most mud at the tom,
bot-
weep over
graves so a solid stiffness in the constant
the little ones taken from us by death ; but
course of a man's life,is the sign of a thick
an early grave may be the shortest way to
bed of mud at the bottom of his brain."
heaven. "
Tryon Edwards. Saville.
Of all the pulpits from which the human
voice is there is from
Gravity is but the rind of wisdom
; but
ever sent forth, none
it is a preservative rind. Joubert.
which it reaches so far as from the
"

grave. "

Buskin. Gravity is the very essence of ture:

impos-
0 only mistakes it not other things,
how small a portion of earth will hold
but is apt perpetually to mistake itself."
us when we are dead, who ambitiouslyseek
after the whole world while we are living. Shaftesbury.
"Phfhp ofMaoedon. Gravity must be natural and simple;
there must be
The ancients feared death ; we,
thanks urbanity and tenderness in
it. A man must not formalize
to Christianity, fear only djing."Quesses
"
on every-
thing."
at Truth. He who does so is a fool ; and a

grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than

1 like that ancient Saxon phrase which
a light fooL" Cecil.
calls the burial ground "
God's acre ! "
It
is Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which
just ; it consecrates each grave within its
walls, and breathes a benison over the keeps the mind steady." Fuller.

sleeping dust." Longfellow. There is a care for trifles which proceeds

from love and conscience, and which is
Only the actions of the just smell sweet
and blossom in the dust." Shirley.
most holy ; and there is a care for trifles
which comes of idleness and frivolity,and
OR A VITY." Gravity is only the bark of is most base. "
And so, also, there is a gr"v"
wisdom ; but it preserves it. Confucius.
" ity proceeding from thought, which is moil
 GREATNESS. 208 GREATNESS.

istole, and a gravity proceeding from dull- There never was any heart truly great
^stw and mere incapability for enjoyment, and gracious, that was not also tender and
which is most base. "
Buskin. compassionate. South. "

Gravity "
the body's wisdom to conceal The superiority of some men is merely
the mind. " Young. local. They are great because their ciates
asso-

are little. Johnson.

As iu lives, so also in onr
onr studies, it "

is most becoming and most wise to temper A nation's greatness resides not in her
gravity with cheerfulness, that the former material resources, but in her will, faith,
may not imbue our minds with melancholy, intelligence, and moral forces. "
J. M.
uor the latter degenerate into ness.
licentious- Hoppin.
" Pliny. Not a day passes over the earth but men
and women of no note do great deeds,
GREATNESS." really great mm
A is
speak gTeat words, and suffer noble rows.
sor-
known by three signs" generosity in the
design, humanity in the execution, tion
modera-
Of these obscure heroes, phers,
philoso-
in success. "
Bismarck.
and martyrs the greater part will
never be known till that hour wheti many
The greatest man is he who chooses the
that were great shall be small, and the
right with invincible resolution ; who sists
re-
small great." Charles Reade.
the sorest temptations from within
A great man may be the personification
and without ; who bears the heaviest dens
bur-
cheerfully and tvpe of the epoch for which God tines
des-
; who is calmest in storms,
and most fearless under menace and "him, but he is never its creator. "

frowns and whose reliance truth,

on on
lTAubigne'.
;
virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. " No man has come to true greatness who

Charming. has not felt in some degreo that bis life

belongs to his race, and that what God
only is great who
He has the habits of
him he gives him for mankind.
greatness; who, after performing what ?'ves
hUlips Brooks.
"

none in ten thousand could accomplish,

on like Samson, and "
tells neither The greatest men in all ages have been
passes
father nor mother of it." "
Larmier. lovers of their kind. "
All true leaders of

The men have it. Faith in men and love to

true test of a great man" that, at "

least, which must secure his place men are unfailing marks of true greatness.
among
the highest order of great men" is, his If I am asked who is the greatest man ?
having been in advance of his age. "
I answer the best ; and if I am required to
Brougham. say who is the best ? I reply he that haa
A of God's deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Sir
contemplation works, a ous
gener-
"

concern for the good of mankind, and William Jones.

the unfeigned exercise of humility these It is in the world to live after the
"

easy
only, denominate men great and glorious. world's opinion " it is easy in solitude to
Addison. the great man is
live after ; but
"

your own

The
study of God's word, for the he who, in the midst of the
world, keeps
pose
pur-
of discovering God's will,is the secret with perfect sweetness the independence of

discipline which has formed the greatest solitu de. "Emerson.

characters. J. W. Alexander.
"

In estimating greatness of great men, the

Greatnesslies, not in being strong, but the inverted the physical stands
law for of
in the right uning of strength ; and strength the intellectual and spiritual nature the "

is not used rightly when it serves only to former is lessened by distance, the latter
carry a man above his fellows for his own increased." Schopenhauer.
solitary glory. He is the greatest whose Great men are the commissioned guides
strength carries up the most hearts by the of mankind, who rule their fellows because
attraction of his own.
tbey are wiser. "
Carlyfe.
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness "
a harsh The theory that a great man is merely
nurse, who rocks her foster children the product of his age, is rejected by the
roughly, but rocks
strength and them into observation of
common sense and common
athletic proportions.
mind, grappling The
"

mankind. "
The power that guides large
with great aims and wrestling with mighty manses of men, and shapes the channels in
impediments, grows by a certain necessity which energiesthe of a great people flow,
to the stature of greatness. Bryant. "
is something more than a mere aggregate
If any man seeks for greatness, let him of derivative forces. It is a compound
forget greatness and ask for truth, and he product, in which the genius of the man is
Inll find both." Horace Mann. one element, and the sphere opened to him
 GREATNESS. 209 GREATNESS.

by the character of his age and the tions

institu- dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox,
of his country, iB another. "
0. 8. or to talk of bullocks, and glory in the
Millard. goad." Sydney Smith,
Nothing can be truly great which is not The reason why great men meet with so

right. Johnson.
"
little pity or attachment in adversity, would
Great often obtain their seem to be this: the friends of a great
men ends by
beyond the man were made by his fortune, his enemies
means grasp of vulgar intellect,
diametrically opposite by himself, and revenge is a much more
and even by methods
to those which the multitude would punctual paymaster than gratitude. "

pursue.
effect Colton.
But, to this,bespeaks as profound a

knowledge of mind as that philosopher Great men never make bad use of their
evinced of matter, who first produced ice superiority ; they see it, and feel it, and
by the agency of heat. " Cotton, are not less modest. The more they have,
If the be the more they know their own deficiencies.
title of great man ought to
reserved for him Rousseau.
who cannot be charged "

with an indiscretion or a vice ; who spent He who is great when he falls is great in
his life in establishing the independence, his prostration, and is no more an object
the glory, and durable of his of contempt than when tread the
prosperity men on

country ;
who succeeded in all that he dertook,
un- ruins of sacred buildings, which men of
and whose successes were never piety venerate no less than if they stood. "

won at the expense of honor, justice, Seneca.

integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single Times of general calamity and confusion
principle this title will not be denied to
"
have ever productive of the greatest
been
Washington. " Sparks.
m
minds. The purest ore is produced from
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind the hottest furnace, and the brighest derbolt
thun-
of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the is elicited from the darkest storm.
blessing of a slave as well as of a prince : "Colton.
it came from heaven, and to heaven it must
truly great consider
The first,how they
return ; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity,
which and virtuous mind in
may gain the approbation of God ; and
a pure enjoys, secondly, that of their own conscience;
some degree, even upon earth. Seneca,
"

having done this, they would then willingly

In life we shall find many men that are conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-
great, and some men that are good, but men." Colton.
very few men that are both great and good. Great souls are not those which have less
"Colton,
passion and more virtue than common
The great of the earth but soals, but those which have greater
men are
only
marking stones on the road of humanity ; designs." Rochefoucauld.
they are the priests of its religion." Maz- A great mind may change its objects,
tint. them it must
bnt it cannot relinquish ;
Subtract from the great all that he have to variety is its
man
something pursue ;
owes to opportunity,all that he owes to relaxation, ana amusement its repose. "

chance, and all that he has gained by the CoUon.

wisdom of his friends and the folly of his
Men in great place are thrice servants ;
enemies, and the giant will often be seen
servants of the sovereign or state, servants
to be a pigmy. CoUon. that
"

of fame, and servants of business : so

Distinction is the consequence, never the they have no freedom, neither in tneir per-
sons,
object, of a great mind. " Washington AU- in their actions, nor in their times.- It
ston. is a strange desire to seek power over others,
brilliant it and to lose power over a man's self."
However an action be,
may
ought not to for when it is not Bacon,
pass great
the result of a great design. " cauld.
Rochefou- He is great who can do what he wishes ;

he is wise who wishes to do what he can."

Nothing can make a man truly great but Jfland.

being trulyRood, and partaking of God's A solemn and religions regard to spirit-
ual
holiness. " M. Henry. and eternal things is an indispensable
element of all true greatness. Daniel
Everything great is not always good, but "

all good things are greht." Demosthenes. Webster.

and that is The difference between and

There is but one method, one man

hard labor and who will not another is by no means so great as the
; a man pay
luperstitiouscrowd Bat the
that price for greatness had bitter at once supposes."
 GREATNESS. 210 GRIEF.

lame feelings which in ancient Rome greatness, must always have had a very
duced
pro-
the popular emperor, low standard of it in his mind. Buskin.
apotheosis of a "

and in modern times the canonization of his

The man who does work, any work,
devout prelate,lead to cherish
a men an
conscientiously, must always be in one
illusion wnich furnishes them with thing
some-
sense a great m"n."Mulock.
to adore. " Macaulay.
In the truly great, virtue governs with a
He isgreat enough that is his own ter."
mas- and wisdom." Sir P.
scepter of knowledge
Bp. HaU. Sidney.
Great minds, like heaven, pleased in
are Greatness lies not in being strong, bnt
doing good, though the ungrateful jects
sub- in the right using of strength." a. W.
of their favors are barren in return. "
Beecher.
Bovoe.

What millions died QRIEFt Never does a man know the

that Caesar might be "

force that is in him till some mighty tion

affec-
great. " Campbell.
or grief has humanized the soul. "
F.
High stations tumult, not bliss create."
W. Robertson.
None think the great unhappy, but the
great. " Young. There is no greater grief than to remem-
ber

days of joy when misery is at hand. "

The most substantial glory of a country Dante.

is in its virtuous great men. "
Its perity
pros-
will its 8orrow*8 crown of Borrow is remembering
depend on docility to learn
from their example. "
Fisher Ames. happier things. " Tennyson.
Great is he who his earthenware Great grief makes sacred those upon
enjoys
if it whom its hand is laid." Joy may elevate,
as were plate, and not leas great is the
to whom all nis is than ambition glorify but only sorrow can secrate."
con-
man plate no more
earthenware. "
Seneca. Horace Greeley.
Some are born great ; some achieve Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones

have are dumb. Seneca.

greatness ; and greatness thrust "
some

upon them. " Shakespeare. Every one can master a grief but he that
Since hath it." Shakespeare.
by your greatness you are nearer

heaven in place, De nearer it in goodness. No grief is so acute but that time iorates
amel-

There it. Cioero.

never was yet a truly great man
"

that was not at the same time truly virtu-

ous. Time is the great comforter of grief, but
" Franklin. the agency by which it works is exhaustion.

It is to be lamented that "X. E. London.

great characters
are seldom withont a blot. " Washington Moderate lamentation is the right of the
dead; excessive grief the enemy of the
The world cannot do without great men,
but great men are troublesome to the living." Shakespeare.
very
world." Goethe. If the internal griefs of every man could
be read, written on his forehead, how
He is not great, who is not greatly good.
many who now excite envy, would appear
"
Shakespeare.
Great
to be objects of pity ?"Metastasio.
men lose somewhat of their great-
ness
by being ordinary Who fails to grieve when just occasion
near us ; men gain
much. "
Lander. calls, grieves too much,
or deserves not to
be blest: inhuman, or effeminate, his
Speaking generally, no man appears
heart. Young. "

great to his cotemporaries, for the same

reason that no man is great to his servants Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate,
"
both know too much of him. " Colton. confirming, cleansing, equable, making
free, strong to consume small troubles, to
There never was a great institution or a

great man, that did not, sooner or later,

command great thoughts, grave thoughts,
receive the mankind. thoughts lasting to the end. De Vere.
reverence of " dore
Theo- "

Parker. Well has it been said that there is no

Great minds must be ready not only to grief like the grief which does not speak.
take opportunities, but to make them. "
"
Longfellow.
Colton.
Some grief shows much of love; but
Great men undertake great things cause
be- much grief shows
of still some want of wit.
they are great ; fools, because they " Shakespeare.
think them easy. Vauvenargues.
"
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
He who comes up to his own idea of than happiness ever can suffer*
; common
 GRUMBLING. 211 GUILT.

iogi are far stronger links than common take less pleasure in complaining of others.
joys." Lamartine. "
FeneUm.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness ; GUESTS." True friendship's laws are
for it is an injury to the
living, and the
by this rule
expressed : welcome the ing,
com-
dead know it not. " Xenophon. speed the parting guest. "Pope.
Why destroy present happiness by a tant
dis- Be bright and jovial among your guests
misery which may never come at all, to-night Shakespeare..
"

or yon may never live to see it ? " Every

The first day, a guest ; tbe second, a
substantial grief has twenty shadows, and
burden the third, a pest. Laboulaye.
most of them shadows of your own making. ; "

"Sydney Smith, Unbidden guests are often welcomest

when they are gone. " Shakespeare.
While grief fresh, every is attempt to
divert only irritates. You must "
wait till it Let the one you would welcome to your
be digested, and then amusement will sipate
dis- hospitality, be one can welcome to
you
the remains of it. "
Johnson. your respect and esteem, if not to your

Grief hallows hearts even while it ages personal friendship.

heads. " Bailey. QUI DANCE. "
A sound head, an honest
Sorrow's best antidote is employment. heart, and an humble the three
"
spirit are
Young. best guides through time and to eternity.
Give sorrow words. The grief that does That man safely venture his way,
"
may on

not speak, whispers the o'erf raught heart, who is that he

bo guided cannot stray. -*"

and bids it break." Shakespeare. Walter ScoU.

Bion, seeing a who was tearing the He that takes truth for his guide, and
person
hair off his head for said, "Does duty for his eud, may to God's
sorrow, safelytrust
this think that baldness is remedy to lead him aright. Pascal.
man a providence "

for grief ?" Ifacknowledge

we God in all our ways,
he has promised safely to direct
GRUMBLING." Every one may see
our steps,
and in our experience we shall find the
"tally instances of people who complain
the habit of promise fulfilled. Payson. "

torn mere complaining. "

droves. QUILT." (Bee "Rsmobbx.**)

There is an unfortunate disposition in Guilt is the of
very nerve sorrow.--
man to attend much more to the faults of Horace BushneU.
his companions that offend him, than to
God hath yoked to guilt, her pale mentor,
tor-
their perfections which please him. "
Ore-
ville.
misery. " Bryant.
Let no man trust the first false
step of
Just as you pleased at finding faults,
are
guilt : it hangs upon a precipice,whose
you are displeased at finding perfections. descent in lost ends."
Lavater.
steep perdition
"

Young.
Grumblers are commonly an idle set."
Adversity, how blunt are all the arrowr
Having no disposition to work themselves,
of thy quiver in comparison with those oi
they spend tneir time in whining and
complaining both about their affairs
guilt." Blair.
own
and those of their neighbors. The mind of guilt is full of scorpicas. "

Shakespeare.
Those who complain most are most to
be of. It is the inevitable end of guilt that it
complained " M. Henry.
places its own punishment on a chance
There is large and
a very very knowing which is sure to occur. "
L. E. London.
class of misanthropes who rejoice in the
From the body of one guilty deed a
name of grumblers, persons who are so
thousand ghostly fears and haunting
sure that the world is going to ruin that
they resent
thoughts proceed. " Wordsworth.
every attempt to comfort them
as an insult to their sagacity, and ingly
accord- Better it were, that all the miseries
seek their chief consolation
being in which nature owns were ours at once,
inconsolable, and their chief pleasure in than guilt. " Shakespeare.
being displeased. "
E. P. Whipple. To what deep gulfs a single deviation

I the who travel from from the track of human duties leads.-'
pity man can

Dan to Beersheba, and cry it is all barren. Byron.

Sterne.
"

He who is conscious of secret and dark

Had we not faults of our own, we should designs, which, if known, would blast him,
 GUILT. 212 HABIT.

isperpetuallyshrinking and dodging from in the dark, dreading ray of light,

every
public observation, and is afraid of all lest it should discover him, and give him
around, and much more of all above him. "
up to shame and punishment. Fielding. "

W. Wirt.
They who
engage in iniquitous designs
The guilty mind debases the great image miserably deceive themselves when they
that it wears, and levels us with brutes. think they will
go so far and no farther
"
;
Havard. one fault begets another ; one crime ders
ren-

whose another necessary ; and thus they are

They guilt within their bosom lies,
imagine every eye beholds their blame. "
impelled continually downward into a

Shakespeare. depth of guilt,which at the commencement

of their career they would have died rather
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon than have incurred. "
Sou they.
iron, both defiles and consumes it,gnawing
The sin lessens in the guilty one's mation,
esti-
and creeping into it, as that does which at
only as the guilt increases.
last eats out the very heart and substance "

Schiller.
of the metal. "
South.

The guilt that feels not its own shame is QYMNASTICS.-The exercise of ail
incurable. It the the musclesbody in their due pro- of the
wholly " was redeeming portion
promise in the fault of Adam, that with is one great secret of health and
the commission of his crime came the sense comfort as well as of strength, and the full
of his nakedness. "
Simms. development of manly vigor. W. Hall. "

Though it sleep long, the vemon of great Gymnastics open the chest, exercise the
guilt, when death, or danger, or detection limbs, and give a man all the pleasure of
comes, will bite the spirit fiercely." Shake- boxing, without the blows. I could wish
$peare. that learned men would lay out the time

Guilt once harbored in the conscious they emplov in controversies and disputes
about nothing, in this method of fignting
breast, iutimidates the brave, degrades the
with their own shadows. It might duce
con-
great. " Johnson.
very much to evaporate the spleen,
Guilt is the source of sorrow, the aveng-
ing which makes them uneasy to the public as
fiend, that follows us behind with
well as to themselves. Addison. "

whips and stings. "

Howe.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still

exceed." Shakespeare.
HABIT. "
How use doth breed a habit
The
greatest incitement to guilt is the in a man. " Shakespeare.
hope of sinning with impunity." Cicero. forms
Any act often repeated soon a
Guiltiness will speak though tongues were habit
; and habit allowed, steadily gains in
out of use. " Shakespeare. strength." At first it may be but as the
Oh. that where more than ness
mad- spider's web. easily broken through, but if
pang,
lies, the worm that will not sleep, and not resisted it soon binds us with chains of

never dies." Byron. steel. " Tryon 'Edwards.

Oh, what a state is guilt ! how wild, how We first make our habits, and then our

wretched, when appreheusion can form habits make us.

nought but fears, and we distrust security All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as
itself. Havard. brooks make
"
rivers, rivers,run to seas. "

The consequences of our crimes long Dryden.

survive their commission, and, like the Habit is cable." We thread of
a weave a

ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the break

it every day, and at last we cannot
steps of the malefactor." Walter Scott. it. H. Mann.
"

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; If an idiot were to tell you the same story
the thief doth fear each bush officer. end lieving
be-
an "

every day for a year, you would by

Shakespeare. him. "
Burke.
Beside one deed of guilt, how blest iB of human
Habit is the deepest law nature.
guileless woe !"
Bulioer.
" Carlyle.
Let wickedness escape, as it may at the Habit is either the best of servants, or

bar, it never fails of doing justice upon the worst of masters. "
Emmons.
itself ; for every guilty person is his own
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in
hangman " Seneca.
the closet habits formed by acts
.

; good are

Fraud and falsehood are his weak and of reason in a persevering struggle with
treacherous allies,and he lurks trembling temptation." B. Gilpin,
 HABIT. 213 HABIT.

In a majority of things habit is a greater rushing into an element in which he eau"

than afflicted Egypt." In not breathe, as of lying, or cheating, or
Elague
character
ever

it is a grand felicity.
gions
re-

"
stealing. Brougham. "

John Foster. It would know who is the most graded

de-
we

Charity should be the habit of our mates

esti- and wretched of human beings,
: kindness of our feelings ; lence
benevo- look for a' man who has
practised a vice so
of our affections : cheerfulness of our long that he curses yet clings to it ;
it and
social intercourse ; generosity of our ing
liv- that he pursues it because he feels a great

; improvement progress of our

; prayer law of his nature driving him on toward
of our desires ; fidelity of our
tion
self-examina- it ; reaching it. knows
but that it will gnaw

; being and doing good of our entire his heart, and make him roll himself in the
/
life. dust with anguish.
When we have practised Rood actions There are habits, not only of drinking,
awhile, they become easy : when they are swearing, and lying, but of every tion
modifica-

easy, we take pleasure in tnem ; when they of action, speech, and thought. Man
please us. we do them frequently ; and is a bundle of habits ; in a word, there is
then, by frequency of act, they grow into a not a quality or function, either of body or

habit." Tillotson. mind, which does not feel the influence of

The chains of habit are generally too this great law of animated nature. Paley. "

small to be felt until they are too strong Habit, to which all of us are more or less
to be broken. "
Johnson. slaves. "
Fontaine.

As character eternity must to be used for In early childhood you

may lay the foun-
dation
be formed good time, so
in time and in of poverty or riches, industry or

good habits to be used for happiness in this idleness, good or evil, by the habits to
life must be formed early : and then they which train your children. Teach
you
will be a treasure to be desired in the house them right habits then, and their future
of the wise, and an oil of life in their lings.
dwel- life is safe.
O.B. Cheever. their
"

Habits, though in commencement

We are all the time following the ences
influ- like filmy line of the spider,trembling
the
which presently be our
will rulers ; at every breeze, may, in the end, prove as

j
we are making own aestiny.
our We are links of tempered steel,binding a deathless
v\ choosing our habits, our associates, our being to eternal felicity or woe. Mrs. Sig- "

traits, our homes. In time these acquire a ourney.

power over us which enslaves our will, and There is one feature in the law of habit
from them we neither will nor can break uniformly
which is
important, so so sure in
loose." H. L. Wayland. its bearings
its operation, and in some of
Habits to the soul what the veins and it should be
are so almost fearful, that bered
remem-

arteries are to the blood, the courses in by all." It is this, that our power of
which it Horace Bushnell. is weakened the repe-
moves. "
passive sensation by tition
if not becomes of impressions that, just as cer- and
tainly,
Habit, resisted, soon cessity.
ne- ;

" Augustine. our active propensities are ened

strength-
dv the repetition of actions." Tryon
The phrases that men hear or repeat tinually,
con-
Edwards.
end by becoming convictions and
ossify the of intelligence." Goethe. Bad habits are as infectious by example
organs
as the plague itself is by contact." Fielding.
I trust everything, under habit,
God, to

upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver as Habit is ten times nature." Wellington.
well as the schoolmaster has mainly placed A large part of Christian virtue consists
his reliance ; habit which makes everything in good habits. "Paley.
and casts all difficulties upon the de-
viation
easy, Habits are the peiref action of feelings."
from the wonted course. Make
L. E. London.
sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be
Habits work more constantlyand with
hateful and hard : make prudence a habit,
will be greater force than reason, which, when we
and reckless profligacy as contrary
have most need of it, is seldom fairly con*
to the nature of the child, grown to be
suited, and more rarely obeyed. "
Locke.
an adult, as the most atrocious crimes are

child the Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a

to any of your lordships. Give a
habit of sacredly regarding the truth, of kind of easiness to the next abstinence;
the next for almost
carefully respecting the property of others, more easy ; use can

of scrupulously abstaining from all acts change the stamp of nature, and either
of which involve him in curb the devil throw him out with won*
improvidence can or

distress, and he will just as likely think of drons potency." Shakespeare.

 HAPPINESS. 215 HAPPINESS.

we ask. promise, invoke, dismiss, threaten, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
entreat, deprecate. By them we express " alight upon you.
fear, joy, grief, our doubts, assent, or pen-
itence in this world, when it comes,
Happiness
show moderation or profusion, it the
; we comes incidentally. "
Make object of
and mark number and time." Quintilian. pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,
The hand is the mind's only perfect vas-
sal and is never attained. "
Hawthorne.

; and when, through or illness, the

age If one only wished to be happy, this
connection between them is interrupted, could be easily accomplished but we wish
;
there are few more affecting tokens of hu-man to be happier than other people, and this
decay. "
Tuckerman. is always difficult,for we believe others to
be happier than they are. " Montesquieu.
HAPPINESS. -(See "Occupation.")
Happiness consists in the attainment of
Happiness be built only virtue,
can on our desires, and in our having only right
and must of necesssity have truth for its desires. Augustine.
"

foundation." Coleridge. The strength and the happiness of a man

No man iB happy who does not think consists in finding out the in which
way
himself so. "
Marcus Antoninus. God is going, and going in that way, too. "

Happiness is neither within us only, or

H. W.Beecher.
without ub ; it is the union of ourselves Few things are needful to make the wise
with God." Pascal. nothing satisfies the fool
man happy, but ;

The world would be both better and "and this is the reason why so many of
mankind miserable." Rochefoucauld.
brighter if we would dwell on the duty of are

happiness, as well the happiness of Bible shows

as on What happiness is, the alone
duty." Sir J. Lubbock. clearlv ana certainly, and points out the
consists in way that leads to the attainment of it.
piness being perfectly "

n~"sd with what we have got and with "In Cicero Plato, and other
and such
writers." Augustine, "
I meet with
what we haven't got. says
many things acutelysaid, and things that
It is not how much we have, but how excite a certain warmth of emotion, out in
much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

none of them do I find these words, ' Come

Spurgeon. unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy
I and convinced that our
laden, and I will rest.* "
Cole*
am more more
give you "

happiness or unhappiness depends far

ridge.
mote on the way we meet the events of
Gall no man happy till yon know the end
life, than on the nature of those events
themselves.
of his life. Till then, at most, he can only
"
Humboldt.
be counted fortunate. " Herodotus.
Happiness is like manna; It is to be
The ravs of happiness, like those of light,
in grains, and day.
fathered
t will not keep ; it cannot be accumulated
enjoyed every
;
are colorless when unbroken. " Longfellow.
Happiness is dependent on the taste, and
nor have we got to go out of ourselves or
not on things." It is by having what we
into remote places to gather it, since it has
rained down like that we are made happy, not by hav-
ing
from Heaven, at our very
doors.
what others think desirable. " Roche*
foucauld.
Seek happinessfor its own sake, and yon
Human to consist in
will not find* it ; seek for duty, and ness
happi- happiness seems

will follow as the shadow comes with

three ingredients; action, pleasure, and
the sunshine.
indolence. And though these ingredients
" Try on Edwards.
ought to be mixed indifferent proportions,
In vain do they talk of happiness who
_ according to the disposition of the person,
never subdued an impulse in obedience to
vet no one ingredient can be entirely want-ing
a principle. He who never sacrificed a
without destroying in some measure
present to a future good, or personal to
a
the relish of the whole composition. "
Hume.
a general one, can speak of happiness only
Happiness is not the end of life ; acter
char-
as the blind do of colors. "
Horace Mann.
is." H. W. Beecher.
Men of the noblest dispositionsthink which the
themselves Happiness is like a sunbeam,
happiestwhen others share their
adversity is
least shadow intercepts, while
happiness with them. " Jeremy Taylor.
often as the rain of spring. "
Chinese Prov-
All who would win joy, must share it ; erb.
happiness was born a twin. Byron.
"

Happiness is the legitimate fruitage of

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when love and service. It never comes and never

pursued, is always just beyond your can come by making it an end, and it is
grasp,
 HAPPINE8S. 816 HAPPINESS.

because bo many persons mistake here and these is the greatest disappointment. Our
seek for it directly, instead loving and
of hopes are usually bigger than the ment
enjoy-
serving God, and thus obtaining it, that can satisfy ; ana an evil long feared,
there is so much dissatisfaction and row.
sor- besides that it may never come, is many
times more painfuland troublesome than
the evil itself when it comes. TiUotson.
Set happiness before you as an end, no "

matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, The chief secret of comfort lies in not
or oblivion even, and you will not attain it. suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently
"
But renounce it and seek the pleasure of cultivating our undergrowth of small ures,
pleas-
God, and that instant is the birth of your since very few great ones, alas ! are
own. " A. 8. Hardy. let on long leases. Sharp. "

It is only a poor sort of happiness that Pound St. Paul's church into atoms, and
could ever come by caring very much about consider any single atom; it is good for
our own narrow pleasures. We can only nothing ; but put all these atoms together,
have the highest happiness, such as goes and you have St. Paul's church. So it is with
along with true greatness, by having wide human felicity, which is made up of many
thoughts and much feeling for the rest of ingredients, each of which may be very
the world as well as ourselves ; and this insignificant. Johnson. "

sort of happiness often brings so much pain There is nothing substantial and factory
satis-
with it. that we can only tell it from pain the Good it, the
but Supreme ; in
by its being what we would choose before
deeper we go ana the more largely we
everything else, because our souls see it is
drink, the better and happier we are ;
good. George Eliot. "

whereas, in outward acquirements, if we

Happiness is like the statue of Isis,whose could attain to the summit and perfection
veil no mortal ever raised. "
L. E. Landon. of them, the very possession of the enjoy-
ment
If von cannot be happy in one way, be in palls.
another ; this facility disposition
of wants The fountain of content must spring up
but little aid from philosophy, for health in the and he who has little
mind; so
and good hnmor are almost the whole affair. knowledge of human nature as to seek piness
hap-
Many about after felicity, like sent
ab- but his
run an
by changing anything own

hunting for his hat, while it is in his fruitless

man
disposition, will waste life in
his hand his head. Sharp.
or on "

efforts, and multiply the griefs which he

There is this difference between ness
happi- purposes to remove. "
Johnson.
and wisdom, that he that thinks self
him- the world in search of
You traverse piness,
hap-
the happiest man, really is so ; but he which is within the reach of every
that thinks himself the wisest, is generally contented mind confers it on all."
man ; a
the greatest fool. "
CoUon. Horace.
No person is either so happy or so happy
un-
M the of contentment
principles are
as he imagines." Rochefoucauld. within the of station and
not us, height
We take greater pains to persuade others worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit
that we are happy, than in endeavoring to to a man's stature as to his happiness. "

be so ourselves. "
Goldsmith. Sterne.
I see in this world two heaps" one of hap- Know then this truth, enough for man
and the other of misery. Now, if
finess,
take but
can the smallest bit from the
to know,
Pope.
virtue alone is happiness below. "

second, and add it to the first, I carry a

If happiness has not her seat and center
point. I should be glad indeed to do great
in the breast, we may be wise, or rich, or
things ;
but I will not neglect such little
great, but never can be blest." Burns.
ones as this. "
John Newton.
The spider's most attenuated thread is
False happiness is like false money ; it
cord, is cable to man's tender tie on earthly
passes for a time as well as the true, and
bliss it breaks at every breeze. " Young,
serves some ordinary occasions : but when "

Life is made not of great sacrifices

it is brought to the touch, we find the ness
light- up,
and feel loss." duties, but of little things, in which
alloy, and tne Pope. or

Man courts happiness in a thousand smiles and kindness and small obligations,
given habitually, are what win and serve
pre-
shapes; and the faster he follows it the
swifter it flies him.
the heart and secure comfort. Sir
from Almost every-
thing
"

L-"th at a dis-
tance, H. Davy.
proi
-

happiness to us

but when we come either we Beware what earth calls happiness ware
be-
nearer, ;
fall short of it, or it falls short of our pectation
ex- all joysbut joys that never can expire;
; and it is hard to aay which of who builds on less than an immortal base,
 HAPPINESS. 217 "
HAPPINESS.

fond m he seems, condemns his joys to others. She flourishes in courts and pal*
death." Young. aces, theatres and assemblies, and has no

is 'tis existence but when she is looked upon."

Fixed to no spot happiness ; where
no-
Addison.
to be found, or everywhere. " Pope.
mnoh attain Happiness and virtue rest each
It is not so by what we in upon
this life that we are to be made happy, as
other; the best are not only the happiest,
the shall but the happiest are usually the best.
by enlivening hope of what we
"

reach in the world to While Bulwer.

come. a man

is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not The sunshine of life is made up of very
for marie, but for construction. When it little beams that are bright all the time.
is finished it shall be played for melodies. To give up something, when giving up will
Ood is fashioning the human heart for prevent unhappiness ; to yield, when per-
sisting
future joy. He only sounds a string here will chafe and fret others ; to go a

and there to see how far his work has gressed." little around
pro- rather than come against other
an-

H. W. Beecher. ; to take an ill look or a cross word

be is quietly, rather than resent or return it,

Don't try to happy. "
Happiness a
"

if you chase her will these are the ways in which clouds and
shy nymph, and vou

but storms are kept off, and a pleasant and

never catch her ; just aro quietly on in
the of and she will steady sunshine secured. Aikin.
way duty come to you. "
"

EliphaletNoU. True happiness renders men kind and

said in their sensible; and that happiness is always
The Greeks grandly tragic
"Let be called till shared with others." Montesquieu.
Ehrase, no one happy
'*
is death "; to which I would add. Let no No thoroughly occupied man was ever

one, till his death, be called unhappy." "

yet very miserable." ". E. Landon.

E. B. Browning.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I
It is inevitable law that cannot
an a man
were but little happy if I could say how
be happy if he does not live for something much." Shakespeare.
higher than his own happiness. " He cannot
The most happy man is he who knows
live in or for himself. " Every desire he has
how to bring into relation the end and the
links him with others. "
Bulwer.
beginning of his lite." Goethe.
To communicate happiness is worthy the
There is one way of attaining what we
ambition of beings superior to man ; for it
may term, if not utter, at least mortal piness
hap-
is a first principle of action with the author
; it is by a sincere and unrelaxing
of all existence. It was God that taught it
activity for the happiness of others. wer.
Bul- "

as a virtue ; and it is God that gives the

example. " Langhome.
The haunts of happiness are varied, but
That all who equally happy
are happy are
I have more often found her among little
is not true. A a philosopher
peasant and
children, home firesides, and country nouses
may be equally satisfied, but not equally Smith.
than anywhere else. Sydney
A small drinking
"

happy. glass and a large

one may be equally full, but a large one Happiness is a sunbeam which
may pass
holds more than the small. "
Johnson. through a thousand bosoms without losing
The grand essentials to happiness in this a particle of its original ray ; nay, when it

life are, something to do, something to love, strikes on a kindred heart, like the con-
verged

and to for. light on a mirror, it reflects itself

something nope
with redoubled brightness. " It is not fected
per-
The true happiness is of a retired nature,
till it is shared." Jane Porter.
and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises,
in the first place, from the enjoyment of He only is happy as well as great who
one's self ; and in the next, from the ship
friend- needs neither obey to nor command in der
or-

and conversation of a few select panions

com- to be something. "
Goethe.
it loves shade and solitude, and where
; That state of life is most happy
naturally haunts groves and fountains, superfluities are not required, ana saries
neces-
fields and meadows; in short, it feels are not wanting. "
Plutarch.
everything it wants within itself, and ceives
re-

addition from multitudes of wit-

nesses
There is in all of ns an impediment to
no
perfect happiness, namely, weariness of
and spectators. On the contrary,
what and desire for what we
false loves to be in crowd, and we possess, a
happiness a
Rieux.
have not. Mad.
to draw the eyes of the world upon her. "

It is not the the condition, but

She does not receive satisfaction from the place,nor
applauses which she gives herself, but the mind alone that can make any one happy
from the admiration which she raises in or miserable." Ly Estrange.
 HAPPINESS. 218 HARDSHIP.

The happiest life is that which stantly

con- man, place not thy confidence in this pros*
exercises and educates what is best ent world \"The Caliph Abdalraham.
hi XLU."Hamerton. Human happiness has no perfect security
There is little pleasure in the world that but freedom ;
freedom none but virtue ;
is sincere and true beside that of doing our virtue none but
knowledge ; and neither
duty and doing good. "
No other is compar-
able freedom, virtue, nor knowledge has any
to this." TUlotaon. vigor or immortal hope, except in the
of the Christian faith, and in
less
Do not
fortunate
speak
than
of your happiness
Plutarch.
to one
Snnciples
sanctions
le of the Christian religion.
yourself. "
"

Josiah Quincy.
The common course of things is in favor
of is the If I may speak of myself, my happy hours
happiness. Happiness " rule, mis-
ery
the exception. --Were the order have far exceeded* and far exceed, the
versed,
re-

attention would be called scanty numbers of the Caliph of Spain

our to ;
of health and and I shall not scruple to ado, that many
examples competency, instead
disease and of them are due to the pleasing labor of
of want."- Paley.
composing my history. "
Gibbon.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little
when of The best advice on the art of being happy
happiness gained ; most our ures
pleas-
from bert
Her- is about as easy to follow as advice to be
come unexpected sources. "

well when one is sick. Mad. Swetchine.

Spencer. "

To be is not the of Happiness consists in activity. Such is

happy purpose our
"

but deserve the constitution of our nature. It is a ning

run-
being, to happiness. "
FicfUe. "

stream, and not a stagnant pooL-V.

The great high-road of human welfare
M. Good.
and happiness ues along the highway of
steadfast well-doing, and they who are the The question, "Which is the happiest
most persistent and work in the truest son of life,"being referred to an aged man,
he replied "When spring comes, and in the
spirit,will invariably be the most ful."
success-
:

soft air the buds are breaking on the trees,

S. Smiles.
and they are covered with blossoms, I think,
Whether happiness may come or not, And
How beautiful is Spring ! when the
one should try and one's self to do
prepare summer comes, and covers the trees with
without it. George Eliot.
foliage, and singing birds
"

its heavy are

There is but of
way to tranquillity
one
among the branches, I fhink, How ful
beauti-
mind and happiness : let this, therefore, is Summer ! When autumn loads them
be always ready at hand with thee, both with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the
when thou wakest early in the morning, gorgeous tint of frost, I think, How tiful
beau-
and all the day long, and when thou goest is Autumn ! And when it is sere
late to sleep, to account no external things winter, and there is neither foliagenor
thine but commit all these to God.
own, "
fruit, then I look up through the leafless
Epictetus. branches, as I never could until now, and
All mankind are happier for having been see the stars shine."
happy, so that if you make them happy The world owes all its onward impulses
now, you make them happy twenty years to men ill at ease. The happy man tably
inevi-
hence by the memory of it. " Sydney Smith. confines himself within ancient limits.
To be happy yon must forget yourself. "

The true felicity of life is to be free from

Learn benevolence ; it is the only cure of a understand
morbid Bultoer.
anxieties and perturbations; to
temper. "

and do our
duties to God and man, and
Philosophical happiness is to want little ; the without serious
to enjoy present any
civil or vulgar happiness is to want much dependence on the future. "
Seneca.
and enjoy much. Burke.
whole pleasure, all the joys of
"

Reason's
The happiest like the happiest
women, sense, lie in three words, health, peace, and
nations, have no history. " George JBhot.
competence. " Pope.
I have reigned above fifty years in
now I questioned death" the grisly shade laxed
re-
victory or peace, subjects, Deloved by my and-""!
his brow severe " am piness."
hap-
dreaded by my enemies, and respected by he "if virtue guides thee
said,
my allies. Riches and honors, power and here."" Heber.
pleasure, have waited on my call,nor does

any earthlyblessing appear to have been HARDSHIP. "

The difficulties,hard-
ships,
wanting to my felicity.In this situation, and trials of life,the obstacles one

I have diligently numbered the days of pure encounters on the road to fortune, are

and genuine happiness which have fallen positive blessings." They knit the muscles
to lot; they amount to fourteen. O more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril
my "
 HARLOT. 219 HATRED.

if the element in which power is developed. and hurry is akin to waste. "
The old fable
W. Mathews. of the hare and the tortoise is good
"
just as

Ability and necessity dwell each now, and just as true, as when it was first
near
other. " Pythagoras. written." C. A. Stoddard.

He who has battled with and Stay awhile to make end the
poverty an sooner."

hard toil will be fonnd Paulet.

stronger and more

expert than he who could stay at home from Fraud and deceit in
are ever a hurry. "

the battle,concealed among the

provision Take time for all things. "
Great haste
wagons, or unwatohfnlly abiding by the makes great waste. "
Franklin.
stuff. " Carlyle. Whoever is in shows that the
a hurry
It is not helps,but obstacles, not ties
facili- thing he is about is too big for him. "
Haste
bnt difficulties,
that make men, " W. and hurry are very different things. "
terfield.
Ches-

Mathews.

Kites rise with the wind. Manners require time, and nothing is
against, not "

No worked his more vulgar than haste. Emerson.

man ever passage anywhere* "

in a dead calm. "

John Ileal. Modest wisdom plucks me from over-
credulous haste. " Shakespeare.
HARLOT." She weaves the winding-
sheet of lays them the Hurry and cunning are the two
souls, and in urn of tices
appren-
everlasting death. "
Pollok. of despatch and skill,but neither of
them ever learns the master's trade. " Col-
It is the strumpet's plague to beguile
ton.
many, and be beguiled by one. " Snake"
speare.
HATRED." Malice can always find a
HASTE." Though I am always in haste, mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
I am never in a hurry. "
John Wesley. C. Simmons.

The more haste ever the worse speed. Hatred is the vice of narrow souls they
"
;
Churchill. feed it with all their littlenesses,and make

differ than
it the pretext of base tyrannies. Bahac.
No two things more hurry "

and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a If I wanted to punish an enemy it should

weak mind despatch of a strong one. be by fastening on him the trouble of stantly
con-
; "

Colton. hating somebody." H. More.

Haste is of the devil. "

Koran. I will tell you what to hate. Hate risy
hypoc-
Wisely and slow they stumble that run ; hate cant "h*te intolerance, sion,
oppres-
;
"

fast.
Pharisaism
injustice. ; hate them as
" Shakespeare.
Christ hated them" with a deep, abiding,
Hurry is only good for catching flies. "

God-like hatred." F. W. Robertson.

Russian Proverb.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us
Haste and rashness are storms and pests,
tem-
even beneath those we hate. cauld.
Rochefou- "

breaking and wrecking business ;

but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing
Hate no one hate their vices, not selves.
them-
it with speed to the haven." Fuller. ;
"
J. O. C. Brainard.
The longest way round is the shortest
If there is any person whom you dislike,
way home.
that is the one of whom yon should never
Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and
speak. "
Cecil.
stops itself. "
Seneca.
Hatred is the madness of the heart."
Haste is not always "peed. We must
Byron.
learn to work and wait. This is like God,
who perfects his works through beautiful Thousands are hated, while none are
loved without a real cause." Lavater.
gradations.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to Hatred is active, and envy passive like
dis-

error." MoHere. ; there is but one step from envy to

hate. "
Goethe.
Haste usually turns upon being late, and
be avoided bv habit like that of Lord Dislike what deserves it,but never hate,
mav a

to which he ascribed his in for that is of the nature of malice, which

Nelson, success

is applied to persons, not to things. Penn.

life, of always being ten minutes too early. "

" Bovee. It is human nature to hate him whom

It is of no use running; to set out times
be- you have injured. " Tacitus.
is the main point." Za Fontaine. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only
Bapidity does not always mean progress, by love ; this is the eternal rule. " Buddha,
 ttfiAD. 220 HEALTfl.

We hate some because we do not in all things if unwell, starve yourself till
persons ;
know them ; and we will not know them you are well again, and you may throw
because we hate them. "
Cotton. care to the winds, and physic to the dogs."
W. Hall.
The hatred of those who are most nearly
connected is the most inveterate." Tacitus. Health is the soul that animates all the

Heaven has no like love to hatred enjoyments of life, which fade and are
rage
tasteless without it." Sir W. Temple.
turned. " Congreve.
hate will mind, that rules the bodyt ever
If the so
If you your enemies, vou tract
con-

such a vicious habit of mind as by

far forgets itself as to trample on its slave,
the slave is never generous enough to for-
give
degrees will break out upon those who are
the injury, but will rise and smite the
"our friends, or those who are indifferent
to you. " Plutarch. oppressor. "
Longfellow.
The durable Regularity in the hours of rising and tiring,
re-
passionof hatred is so and
in
inveterate, that the of perseverance exercise, adaptation
so surest prognostic
of dress to the variations of climate, simple
death in a sick man is a wish for ciliation."
recon- .

and nutritious aliment, and temperance in

Bruyere.
all things are
necessary branches of the
There are glances of hatred that stab, regimen of health. Mrs. " Sigourney.
and raise no cry of murder. "
George Eliot.
The morality of clean blood ought to be
Malice and hatred are very fretting, and
one of the first lessons taught us bv our
make our own minds sore and uneasy. "

pastors and teachers. The

physical is the
"

TiUotson.
substratum of the spiritual ; and this fact
ought give to to the food we eat, and the
HEADt" The head, truly enlightened,
will have wonderful influence in purifying
air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
a
" Tyndale.
the heart; and the heart really affected
with goodness will much conduce to the Wet feet are some of the most effective
directing of the head. " Sprat agents death has in the field. It has peopled
that more graves than all the gory engines of
Such is man's unhappy condition,
the weakness of the heart has war. Those who neglect keep to their feet
though a

the dry are suicides. Abernethy.

prevailingpower over the strength of "

head, yet the strength of the head has but Men that look no further than their out-
small force against the weakness of the health
sides, think an appurtenance unto
heart." Tatter. with
life,and quarrel their constitutions
A woman's head is always influenced by for being sick ; but I that have examined

heart; but a man's heart by his head. "

the parts of man, and know upon what

Lady Blessington. tender filaments that fabric hangs, do der

won-

that we are not always so ; and sidering

con-
HEALTH." A sound mind in a sound the thousand doors that lead to
body; if the former be the glory of the
death, do thank my God that we can die
latter, the latter is indispensable to the
but once. " Sir T. Browne.
former. " Tryon Edwards.
To preserve health is a moral and ligious
re-
The building of a perfect body crowned
duty, for health is the basis of all
by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest social virtues." We can no longer be ful
use-
earthly problem and grandest hope of the when not well. " Johnson.
race. " Dio Lewis.
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stom-
ach.
A wise physician is a John Baptist,who " A. Kerr.
recognizes that his only mission is to
pare
pre- Health is certainly more valuable than
the way for a greater than himself"
money, because it is by health that money
Nature." A. 8. Hardy.
is procured ; but thousands and millions
Half the spiritual difficulties that men
are of small avail to alleviate the tortures
and women suffer arise from a morbid state
the
of gout, to repair the broken organs of
of health." H. W. Beecher.
sense, or resuscitate the of diges-
tion.
powers
Without health life is not life ; it is only Poverty is, indeed, an evil from
a state of languor and suffering" an image which we naturally fly : but let us not run

of death. "
Rabelais. from one enemy to another, nor take ter
shel-
in the arms of sickness. Johnson.
Take of
your health have "
care ; you no

right to neglect it, and thus become a den

bur- If men gave three times as much tion
atten-
to perhaps to others.
yourself, and as they now do toventilation, ablution,
Let food simple : never eat too and exercise in the and only one
your oe
open air,
much ; take exercise enough ; be systematic third as much to eating, luxury, and late
 HEALTH. 221 HEALTH.

hours, the number of doctors, dentists, and the health of the body, although both aire

apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia, deserving of much more attention than
dyspepsia, gout, fever, and consumption, either receives. "
Collon.
would be changed in a corresponding ratio.
People who are always taking care of
Never hurry ;
take plenty of exercise theii health
misers, who are are like ing
hoard-
;
always be cheerful, and take all the sleep ~p a treasure which they have never

you need, and you may expect to be well spiritenough to enjoy." Sterne.
J. F. Clarke. these half diseases
"
In days, our come
Life is not to live, but to be well. "
tial.
Mar- from the neglect of the body in the work
over-

of the brain. In this railway age,

There is this difference between the the wear and tear of labor and intellect go
two
on without pause or self-pity. We live
temporal blessings money; "
health and
longer than our forefathers but we suffer
money is the most envied, but the least en- ;
more from a thousand artificial anxieties
; health is the most enjoyed, but the
Joyed envied this superiority of the and cares. They fatigued only the mus-
cles,
east ; and
we exhaust the finer strength of the
latter is still more obvious when we reflect
that the nerves. Bulwer.
would not part with
"

poorest man

health for money, but that the richest Health is so necessary to all the duties,
would gladly part with all his money for as well as pleasures of life,that the crime
health." Cotton. of squandering it is equal to the folly. "

The wealth is health. Sickness is Johnson.

first

poor-spirited,and cannot serve any one ; Health is the greatest of all possessions ;
it must husband its resources to live. But a pale cobbler is better than a sick king."
health answers its own ends, and has to Bickerstaff.
spare ; runs over, and inundates the borhoods
neigh- Regimen is better than physio. Every
and creeks of other men's sities.
neces- should his We
one be own physician.
Emerson.
"

ought to assisttand not to force natu re. Eat

To become a thoroughly good man is the with moderation what agrees with your
best prescription for keeping a sound mind constitution. Nothing is good for the
iu a sound body. "
Bowen. body but what we can digest. What cine
medi-

The ingredients of health and long life, can procure digestion? Exercise.

are great temperance, air, easy labor,

What will recruit strength ? Sleep. What
open
will alleviate incurable evils ? Patience."
and little care." Sir P. Sidney.
Voltaire.
Youth will never live to age unless they
What a searching preacher of mand
self-com-
keep themselves in health with exercise,
and in heart with joyf uluess." Sir P. ney.
Sid-
is the varying phenomenon of health.
"
Emerson.

health if you have it,

The only for a rich to be Look to your ; and
way man
praise God and value it next to a rood science
con-
healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live
: for health is the second blessing
as if he were poor. "
Sir W. Temple.
that we mortals are capable of" a blessing
It is the opinion who stand
under- of those best
that money cannot buy ; therefore value it,
the
physical system, that if the phys- ical and be thankful for it. "
Itaak Walton.
laws were strictly observed from eration
gen-
to generation, there would be an end The first sure symptoms of a mind in

to the frightful diseases that cut life short, health are rest of heart and pleasure found
and of the list of maladies that make at home." Young.
long
life a torment or atrial,and that this derful
won- Man subsists the air,more than
upon upon
machine, the body," this "
goodly his meat and drink and no one can exist
;

temple/'would gradually decay, and men for an hour without a copious supply of
would at last die as if gently falling asleep. air. The atmosphere which some breathe
"Mrs. Sedgwick. is contaminated and adulterated, and %ttft
its vital principlesso diminished, that it
With stupidity and Bound digestion man
cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor
may fret much ; but what in these dull
fully excite the nervous system. eray.
Thack-
unimaginative days are the terrors of science
con-
"

to the diseases of the liver." Car-

lyle. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you
are ill ; never own it to yourself. Illness
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to
is one of those things which a man should
suicide; anguish of body, none. This
that the health of the mind is of
resist on principle at the onset. "
Bulwer.
proves
far more to our happiness than A good digestion is as truly obligatory
consequence
 HEART. 223 HEAVEN.

the heart ; to procure a hundred flowers to meal, yet great in capacity so nite
indefi-
; yea,
adorn a knot, than one grace to beautify in desire that the round globe of the
the souL world cannot fill the three corners of it. "

The heart better I When it desires more and cries.

"Give,
never crows by age ;
give,** I will set it over to the infinite good,
fear rather worse ; always harder. A young
old where the more it hath, it may desire
liar will be an one ; and a young knave more,
will only be a neater knave as he grows
and see more to be desired. " Bp. Hail.
older." Chester field. Want and wealth equally harden the man
hu-

and sinful heart does heart, as frost and fire are both alien
The depraved not
of itself from bad to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony
grow better, but goes on
"

heart alike drive away nature from the heart of

to worse ;
bnt the renewed by divine
ness
like- man." Theodore Parker.
grace, grows steadily in the divine
;
its path is that of the just, that A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its
shineth more and more to the perfect day. greatest countenance in its lowest estate. "

To human character Mr P. Sidney.

judge rightly, a man
may sometimes have very small experience, The heart of a good man is the sanctuary
provided he has a very large heart." Bul- of God in this world." Mad. Necker.
wer. Ton fill a with wisdom,
may as soon bag
Hind is the
partial side of man; the a chest with virtue, or a circle with a angle,
tri-
heart is everything. Rivarol. " as the heart of man with anything
The heart of wise should resemble here below." A may have
man enough of
a man

a mirror, which reflects object with-

out the world to sinkhim, but he can never
every
have enough to satisfy him." T. Brooke.
being sullied by any. Confucius. "

find all When the heart is won, the understan 1-

Each heart is a world." Ton
within yourself that find without." To ing is easily convinced- "
C. Simmons.
you
know yourself you have only to set down a The heart is an astrologer that always
true statement of those that ever loved or divines the truth. " Calderon.
hated you." Laoaier. well
Men. as as women, are oftener led
What the heart has once owned and had, by their hearts than their understandings.
it shall never lose. "
H. W. Beecher. "
The way to the heart is through the

What sad faces one always sees in the senses ; please the eyes and ears, and the
is fatal work is half done." Chesterfield.
asylum for orphans !"
It more to
neglect the heart than the head." Theodore Something the heart must have to ish
cher-
Parker. ; must love, and joy, and sorrow learn t

than the something with passion clasp, or perish,

Nothing is less in our power
heart, and far from commanding we are
and in itself to ashes bura."LongfeUoto.
forced to obey it. "
Rousseau.
H E A V E Nt" hath many
Heaven tongues
nice, calm, cold thought, which
The in
to talk of it,more eyes to behold it^but few
women shapes itself so rapidly that they hearts that rightly affect it." Bp. HaU.
hardly know it as thought, should always
He that studies to know duty, and labors
travel to the lips by way of the heart." It
in all things to do it,will have two heavens
does so in those women whom all love and
"one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth,
admire. " 0. W. Holmes.
and the other of glory and happiness beyond
The human heart is like the millstone in
the grave.
a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it
There is a land where everlasting suns
turns and grinds the wheat into flour. "
If
put no wheat in, it still grinds but shed everlasting brightness ; where the soul
yon on,
drinks from the living streams of love that
then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears
roll by God's high throne !" myriads of
away." Luther.

but glorious ones bring their acceptedoffering.

Many flowers open to the sun, only "h ! how blest to look from this dark prison
one follows him constantly. Heart, be
"

to that shrine, to inhale one breath of Para-

dise
thou the sunflower, not only open to re-
ceive
divine, and enter into that eternal rest
God's blessing, but constant in look-
ing
which waits the sons of God \"Bowring.
to him." Richter.
If I ever reach heaven I expect to And
The hardest trial of the heart is,whether three wonders there : first, to meet some I
it can bear a rival's failure without triumph. had not thought to see there ; second, to
Aucin. there and
"

miss some I had expected to see ;

The heart of man is a short word, a small third, the greatest wonder of all, to find
substance, scarce enough to give a kite a myself there." John Newton,
 HEAVEN. 224 HEAVEN.

There are treasures laid up in the heart, " Every saint in heaven is as a flower in
treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and the garden of God, and holy love is the
soberness. These treasures a man takes fragrance and sweet odor that they all send
with him beyond death when he leaves this forth, and with which they fill the bowers
world. "
Buddhist Scriptures. of that paradise above. Every soul there

the all that is as a note in some concert of delightful

Heaven's perfectionof can be
that sweetly harmonizes with
said or thought riches, " delight, mony,
har- music, every
these other note, and all together blend in the
health, beauty ; and all not

subject to the waste of time, but in their most rapturous strains in praisingGod and
the Lamb forever." Jonathan Edwards.
height eternal." Shirley.
To that state all the earth Heaven will be the endless portion of
pious on are

Heaven is attracting itself man who has heaven in his soul. H.

tending. to every "

whatever is
congenial to its nature is en-
riching
W.Beecher.
;
the spoils of the earth, and
itself bv Heaven must be in me before I can be in
collecting within its capacious bosom ever
what- heaven." Stanford.
is pure, permanent, and divine, leaving One sweetly solemn thought comes to me
nothing for tne last fire to consume but the
o'er and o'er; I'm nearer to my home day
to-
objects and slaves of concupiscence ; while
than I've ever been before ; nearer my
everything which grace has prepared and
Father's house, where the many mansions
beautified: shall be gathered and selected
be ; nearer the great white throne, nearer
from the ruins of the world to adorn that
the jasper sea ; nearer the bound of life,
eternal city "which hath no need of the
where I lay my burden down ; nearer ing
leav-
sun or moon to shine in it ; for the glory of
cross wearing crown !"
my ; nearer my
God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the
Phabe Cory.
light thereof."" B. Hall.
Heaven is truth now received in love, and
My gems are falling away ; but it is be-
cause
duty now performed in faith on Christ and
God is making up his jewels. " Wolfe.
in humble dependence on the Holy Spirit.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
My chief conception of heaven, said
Shakespeare. Robert Hall, is rest." Mine, said wilber-
It is heaven upon earth to have a man's
force, is love. " Southey looked to it as a
mind move in charity, rest in providence, place of intellectual activity and ment
enjoy-
and turn upon the poles of truth. Bacon. "

; Foster, as unfolding all the mys-

teries
" Do you think we shall know each other of truth and providence ; Leighton,
in heaven?" said one friend to another. as the world of perfect spirituality and
"Tea," was the answer. "Do you think holiness Payson, as where he should see
;
"
shall be greater fools there than here ? Christ, and be with, and and
we serve, enjoy
"
Boons. him forever. "
Unite them all, and add all
Where is heaven ? I cannot tell. Even that heart can wish, or thought conceive,
to the of faith, heaven looks much like or we receive for and
eternity, is not this
eye
star to the of flesh. Bet there on the heaven? Tryon Edwards.
a eye "

brow of night, it shines most bright, most If God hath made this world so fair,
beautiful ; l"ut
it is separated from us by where sin and death abound, how beautiful,
so great a distance as to be raised almost beyond compare, will paradise be found. "

as high above our investigations as above Montgomery.

the storms and clouds of earth. Guthrie.
"

All the truly great and good, all the pure

Few, without the hope of another life, and holy and excellent from this world, and
would think it worth their while to live it may be from part of the universe,
every
above the allurements of sense. " Atterbury. are constantly tending toward heaven. As
The who is always just, and the the streams tend to the ocean, so all these
generous
who is always tending to the great of infinite
just generous, may, nounced,
unan- are ocean

the throne of heaven. and bliss. The of time

Lavater.
approach "

Surity
but bear
oes them on
progress
to its blessedness ;

There are two unalterable prerequisites

and us, if we are holv, to be united to them
there. which
Every death rudely tears Kem
to man's being happy in the world to come.
away from
here, is a glorious jewel for-
us ever
His sins must pardoned be and his nature
must be changed. He must have a title to shining there. Every Christian friend
that goes before us from this world, is a
heaven and a fitness for heaven. These two
ransomed spirit,waiting to welcome us in
ideas underlie the whole of Christ's work,
heaven. Jonathan Edwards.
and without the title to, and the fitness for, "

no man can enter the kingdom of God. " Heaven, the treasury of everlasting Joy.
deeley. "tihakespearei
 HEAVEN. 225 HELL.

purity, fulness of joy,everlasting

Perfect its dwellings. No funeral darkens alon%
freedom, perfect rest, health, and fruition. any of its ways. No sepulcher of the

complete security, substantial and eternal honest relics gleams among the everlasting
H. More. hills. "
Violence is not heard in the land.
gooo. "

''
There is no more death.1* Its very name
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot
has perished. *'Is swallowed up in tory/'"
vic-
heal. "
Moore.
J*. W. Hamilton.
The song of heaven is ever new ; for
To us who are Christians, is it not a
daily thus, and nightly, new discoveries are

made of God's unbounded wisdom, love, solemn, but a delightful thought, that per*
haps nothing but the opaque bodily eye
and power, which give the understanding
swell the hymn with prevents us from beholding the gate which
larger room, and ever

PoUok. is open just before us; and nothing but the

growing praise. "

dull ear prevents us from hearing the ring-

ing
It is heaven only that is given away- of those bells of joy which welcome us to
only God may be had for the asking. "
J.
the heavenly land ?" H. W. Beecher.
R. Lowell.
No man will go to heaven when he dies
I would not give one moment of heaven
who has not sent his heart thither while he
for all the joy and riches of the world, even
lives. Our greatest security is to be de- rived
if it lasted for thousands and thousands of
from duty, and our only confidence
years. "
Luther.
from the mercy of God through Jesus
Heaven is a place of restless activity,the Christ." Bp. Wilson.
abode of never-tiring thought. David and
Here must be the heir, if yonder his in-
heritance
Isaiah sweep will nobler and loftier strains
; here the laborer, if yonder his
in eternity, and the minds of the saints, rest ; here the candidate, if yonder his ward.
re-
unclogged by cumbersome clay, will for-
ever
As he adds excellence to lence,
excel-
" now
feast on the banquet of rich atid ous
glori- as he is now not barren nor ful,
unfruit-
thought." H. W. Beecher.
so shall an entrance be ministered to
Nothing is farther than the earth from him the everlasting king-
dom
abundantly into
heaven ; nothing is nearer than heaven to of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
earth. " Hare. "R. W. Hamilton.
If the
way to heaven be narrow, it is not We are as near to heaven as we are far
long and if the gate be strait,it opens
; into from self, and far from the love of a sinful
endless life. Beveridge. " world. Rutherford. "

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not

HEIRS." (See "Ikhxbitavoe.")
likely to get there ; the only way to hit the
mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. " Bp. HELL." (See "Intentions.")
Home.
Hell is truth seen too late " duty neglected
Every man is received in heaven who ceives
re-
in its season. " Try on Edwards.
heaven in himself while in the world,
and he is excluded who does not. Sweden" Hell is as ubiquitous as condemning science.
con-
"

F. W. Robertson.
borg. "

heaven will Hell is but the collected ruins of the

The joys of begin as soon as

attain the character of heaven and do moral world, and sin is the principle that
we

that has made them.

its duties. " Try and prove its truth. "

Aa much goodness and piety, so much When the world dissolves,all places will
heaven." Theodore Parker. be hell that are not heaven. "
Marlowe.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the In the utmost solitudes of nature the istence
ex-

dawn, the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is of hell seems to me as legibly de-
clared,
the lovely flower ; the inner
shrine of that by a thousand spiritual utterances,
most glorious temple to which grace forma as that of heaven. "
Buskin.
the approach and outer court. Guthrie.
"
The mind is its own place,and in itself
It is not talking but walking that will can make a heaven of hell,a hell of heaven.
bring us to heaven. "
M. Henry. " Milton.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like Hell is full of good meanings and wish-
wind and sails to the soul. "
Rutherford, ings. "
Herbert.

The city which God has prepared is as

Character is not changed bypassing into
imperishablein its inhabitants as its terials.
ma- eternity, except in degree." The wilfully
wicked earth will continue so in the
Its pearl, its jasper, its pure gold, on

immortal frame the abode of other world.

are only to
immortals. No cry of death is in any of Men might go to heaven with half ths
16
 HELP. 226 HEROISM.

!abor they put forth to go to hell, if they There are heroes in evil as well as in
would but venture their industry in the good. "
Rochefoucauld.
right way. " Ben Jonson. The prudent see only the difficulties,the
Hell is the full knowledge of the truth, bold only the advantages, of a great enter*
when truth, resisted long, ib foe, the hero both diminishes the
sworn our prize; sees ;
and calls eternity to do her right. " Young. former and makes the latter preponderate,
talk and so conquers. Lavater.
Divines and dying men may of hell, "

but in my heart her several torments dwell. In analyzing the character of heroes it is
Shakespeare. hardly possible to separate altogether the

If there be share of fortune from their own. Hallam.

a paradise for virtues, there "

must be a hell for crimes." Caussin. A light supper, a good night's sleep, and
conscience is hell and a fine morning have often made a hero of
A guilty a on earth,
the same man who, by indigestion, a rest'
points to one beyond.
less night, and a rainy morning, would
Tell me not of the fire and the
worm, and
have proved a coward. " Chesterfield.
the blackness and darkness of hell. To my "

is hell enough
We cannot think too highly of our ture,
na-
terrified conscience there in
nor too humbly of ourselves. When
this representation of it,that it is the mon
com-

all we see the

virtue, subject as he is
martyr to
sewer of that is abominable and
reckless to the a infirmities
man, yet suffering of
abandoned and as to principle, and
depraved as to morals, the one common
the tortures of a demon, and bearing them
where with the magnanimity of a God, do we not
eddy all things that are polluted and
wretched and behold a heroism that angels may indeed
filthyare gathered together.
"Beaumont. surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and
must admire. "
Colton.

HELP." Help thyself,and God will help Fear nothing much as sin, and
so your
thee." Herbert. moral heroism is complete. "
C. Simmons.
When is down in the world, Mankind is not to look narrowly
a person an disposed
ounce of help is better than a pound of into the conduct of great victors when their
preaching. Bulwer. right side.
"
victory is on the George Eliot. "

God helps them that help themselves. " Heroes are not known by the loftiness
OldProoerb. their
of carriage ; the greatest braggarts
Light is the task where share the are generally the merest cowards. "
seau.
Rous-
many
toil. "
Homer.

'Tis the feeble but To live well in the quiet routine of life,
not enough to help up,
to after. to fill little because God wills it, to
support him "
Shakespeare. a
space
go on cheerfully with a petty round of little
It is one of the most beautiful tions
compensa-
duties and little avocations ; to
smile for
of this life, that no man can sincerely
the ioys of others when the heart is aching
try to help another without helping himself.
"
who does this, his works will follow him.
God praised, who,
be believing souls,
to He is one of God's heroes. "
Farrar.
gives light in darkness, comfort in aespair.
The literary history have
heroes ofbeen
"Shakespeare.
no less remarkable for what they have fered,
suf-
God has ordered that being in achieved.
so men. than for what they have "

need of each other, should learn to* love Johnson.

each other, and bear each other's burdens.
which
However great the advantages ture
na-
"Sato.
bestowB on us, it is not she alone, but
fortune in conjunction with her, which
HEROISM." Nobody, they say. is a
makes heroes. "
Rochefoucauld.
hero to his valet. Of course not ; for one

must be a hero to understand hero. The Self-trust is the essence of heroism,"

a "

Emerson.
valet, I dare say, has great respect for some

person of his own stamp. "

Goethe. The grandest of heroic deeds are those
which performed within
are four walls and
Worship your heroes from afar ; contact
withers them. " Mad. Necker.
in domestic privacy." Richter.
The man who rules his spirit,saith the
Of two heroes, he is the greatest who
voice that cannot err, is greater than the
esteems his rivals most. "
BeaumeUe.
one who takes a city. "
If each would have
Heroes in history seem to us poetic cause
be- dominion of himself, would govern wisely,
they are there. "
But if we should tell and thus show true courage, knowledge,
the simple truth of some of our neighbors, power, benevolence, all the princely soul
It would sound like poetry." O. W. Curtis. of private virtues, then each would be ft
 HISTORY. 227 HISTORY.

prince " a hero" a man in likeness of his is in the march of the seasons, the tions
revolu-
maker." Ifrs. S. J. Bale. of the planets, or the architecture of

is hero and oraele the worlds." J. Lanahan.

Every man a an to
somebody, and to that person, whatever he This I hold to be the chief office of his-
tory,
says, has an enhanced value." Emerson. to rescue virtuous actions from the

Dream not that helm and harness oblivion to which a want of records would
are

signs of valor true. "

Peace hath higher them, and that men
consign should feel a

than battle dread being considered

of infamous in the
tests of manhood ever knew."
opinions of posterity, from their depraved
Whiltier.

and and
expressions and base actions. Tacuus. "

Take away ambition vanity,

An historian ought to be exact, sincere,
where will be your heroes and patriots? "

Seneca. and impartial passion, unbiased ; free from

by interest, fear, resentment, or affection ;
The greatest obstacle to being heroio is
and faithful the
to truth, which is the
the doubt whether one may not be going mother of history, the preserver of great
to prove one's self a fool. The truest ism
hero-
actions, the enemy
"

of oblivion, the witness

is to resist the doubt ; and the pro- of the past, the director of the future.
fonndest wiBdom to know when it ought to
be and when Hawthorne. What is history but a fable agreed upon
resisted obeyed. "

"Kapoleon.
Unbounded courage and compassion
What are all histories but God festing
mani-
joined proclaim him good and great, and
the man himself, shaking down and ling
tramp-
make toe hero and complete."
under foot whatsoever he hath not
Addison.
planted. "
CromwelL
One murder makes a villain ; millions a
Truth is very liable to be left-handed in
hero." 5p. Porteus.
history. " A. Dumas.
The world's battlefields have been in the
History is neither more nor less than raphy
biog-
heart chiefly : more heroism has been played
dis-
in the household the than dn a large scale. Lamartine.
and closet, "

on the most memorable battlefields of tory."

his- The beat thing which we derive from tory
his-
H. W.Beecher. is the enthusiasm that it raises in us.
"Goethe.
The heroes of mankind are the tains,
moun-
the highlands of the moral world." Grecian history is a ; Latin history,
poem
A. P. Stanley. a picture; modern history a chronicle. "

CMUeauJbriand.
HISTORY ."History is philosophy
teaching by example, and also by warning
If men could learn from history, what
;
its two eyes are geography and chronology.
lessons it might teach us !" But passion and
party blind our eyes, and the light which
History is but the unrolled scroll of pro-
phecy. is a lantern the stern
experience gives on
Garfield. "

the behind
which shines only on waves us.
All history is lie." Sir B. Walpole.
a " Coleridge.
History is a voice forever sounding across The men who make history, have not
the centuries the laws of right and wrong. time to write it." Mettemich.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds
We must consider how very little history
rise and fall,but the moral law is written
there is ; I mean real, authentic history."
on the tablets of eternity." Froude.
That certain kings reigned, and certain
When Frederic the Great would have his battles were fought, we can depend on as

secretary read history to him, he would true but all the coloring, all trie phy
philoso-
;
say,
"
Bring me my liar." of history is conjecture. "
Johnson.

History is little more than the register of that of

The impartiality of history is not
the crimes, follies,and misfortunes of kind.
man- the mirror, which merely reflects objects,
Gibbon, but of the who listens, and cides.
de-
"

judge sees,
History is but a kind of Newgate dar,
calen- " Lamartine.
a register of the crimes and miseries
Violent natures make history." The struments
in-
that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. "

they use almost always kill. "

Washington Irving. and philosophy have their ments

vest-
Religion
History is but the development and lation
reve- covered with innocent blood. "
Dou-
of providence. "
Kossuth. dan.
We read history through our prejudices. As in every human character so in every
" Wendell Phillips. transaction there is a mixture of goo.1
God is in the facts of history as truly as he and evil : a little exaggeration, a little sup-
 HISTORY. 228 HISTORY.

pression. a judicious use of epithets, a There is nothing that solidifies and

watchful and searching skepticism with re- spect strengthens a nation like reading the tion's
na-

to the evidence on one side, a conven- history, whether that history is corded
re-

ient credulity with respect to every report in books, or embodied in customs,

or tradition on the other, may easily make institutions, and monuments." J. Ander-
son.
a saint of Laud, or a tyrant of Henry the
Fourth. Macaulay.
"

It is when the hour of conflict is over,

An old courtier, with veracity, good sense, that history comes to a right ing
understand-
and a faithful memory, is an inestimable of the strife, and is ready to exclaim,
treasure ;
he is full of transactions and '*
Lo, God is here, and we knew it not !" "

maiims ; in him one may find the history Bancroft.

of the age, enriched with a great many rious
cu-
Providence conceals itself in the details
circumstances, which we never meet
of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in
with in books. Bruyire. "
the generalities of history. Lamar tine. "

History has its foreground and its back* is writer of

Every great writer a history,
ground, and it is principally in the manage-
ment let him what he He
treat on subject may."
of its perspective that one artist Hf-
carries with him{ for thousands of years,
fers from another. Borne events must be
a portion of his times. "
Lander.
represented on a large scale, others ished
dimin-
Many historians pleasure in putting
take
; the great majority will be lost in
into the mouths of princes what they have
the dimness ofgeneral the horizon, and a
neither said nor ought to have said. taire.
Vol-
idea of their joint effect will be given by a "

few slight touohes. Macaulay. "

We find but few historians who have been

Each generation gathers together the
diligent enough in their search for truth.
imperishable children of the past, and creases
in-
them It is their common method to take on trust
by new sons of light, alike
with what they distribute to the public ; by
radiant immortality. "
Bancroft.
which means, falsehood,
a once received
Out of monuments, names, words, pro-
verbs, from a famed writer, becomes traditional
traditions, private records and dences,
evi-
Dryden.
to posterity. "

fragments of stories,passages of
The present state of things is the sequence
con-
books, and the like, we do save and cover
re-

somewhat from the deluge of time." of the past ; and it is natural to

inquire as to the sources of the good we
Bacon,
or the evils we suffer. If we act
He alone enjoy
reads history aright, who, serving
ob-
how
only for ourselves, to neglect the study of
powerfully circumstances fluence
in-
history is intrusted with
not prudent ; if
the feelings and opinions of men, the care of others, it is not just. "
Johnson.
how often vices pass into virtues, and doxes
para-
History is not, as it was once regarded,
into axioms, learns to distinguish
merely a liberal pursuit in which men
what is accidental and transitory in human
found wholesome food for the imagination
nature from what is essential and table,
immu-
and sympathies ; but now is a department
"if acaulay.
of serious scientific
investigation. We "

history is bat a romance,

All unless it is
it in the hope of giving new
study pre-
cision,
studied as an example. Croty. "

definitenes8, and solidity to the

To be entirely just in onr estimate of Jl R.
principles of politicalscience." Seeley.
other ages is not only difficult,
but is possible.
im-
Even
The history of the past is a mere puppet
what is passing in our
show. "
A little man comes out and blows a
presence we see but through a glass darkly.
little trumpet, and goes in again. You "
look
In historical inquiries the most instructed
for something new, and lo I another